Kevin Anderson
Biography: Kevin Anderson (born January 13, 1960) is an American theater, film and TV actor, as well as a singer and drummer. He is best known for his roles as Ben Woodward in Sleeping with the Enemy (1991), Robert G. Kennedy in Hoffa (1992), Bob Richmond in Rising Sun alongside Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes, Peter Lewis in A Thousand Acres (1997), Frank Gifford in Monday Night Mayhem (2002), Mr. Parable in Charlotte's Web (2006), and Father Ray in the ABC series Nothing Sacred (for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe for this role). He belongs to the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, which has also featured John Malkovich, Gary Sinise, and Laurie Metcalf. He has won a Theatre World Award and Joseph Jefferson Award for his performance in Lyle Kessler's play Orphans . In 1993, he created the role of Joe Gillis in the original London production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard opposite Patti LuPone who originated the role of Norma Desmond. Both Anderson and LuPone were subsequently fired from the production without warning, having been told that they would be reprising their roles in the original Broadway production of the show. Anderson won the 1999 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play and was nominated for a Tony Award for the revival of Death of a Salesman. In January 2008 he opened on Broadway in Come Back, Little Sheba. Since September 2009, he has started as Andy Dufresne in "Shawshank Redemption" at the Wyndhams Theatre in London.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 13, 1960
Deathday: N/A
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Sleeping with the Enemy
1991-01-13
Sleeping with the Enemy
Overview: A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-13
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Rising Sun
1993-07-30
Rising Sun
Overview: When a prostitute is found dead in a Los Angeles skyscraper occupied by a large Japanese corporation, detectives John Connor and Web Smith are called in to investigate. Although Connor has previous experience working in Japan, cultural differences make their progress difficult until a security disc showing the murder turns up. Close scrutiny proves the disc has been doctored, and the detectives realize they're dealing with a cover-up as well.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-07-30
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In Country
1989-09-15
In Country
Overview: Samantha Hughes, a teenaged Kentucky girl, never knew her father, who died in Vietnam before her birth. Samantha lives with her uncle Emmett, who also served in Vietnam. Emmett hangs around with Tom, Earl, and Pete, three other Vietnam vets who, like Emmett, all have problems of one kind or another that relate to their war experiences. Samantha becomes obsessed with finding out about her father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-15
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Charlotte's Web
2006-12-07
Charlotte's Web
Overview: Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-12-07
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The Wrong Man
1993-09-05
The Wrong Man
Overview: US merchant sailor Alex Walker is stranded in Mexico, penniless and wanted by the police. He meets and joins up with an unlikely couple - ageing but likeable shit Phillip Mills and young sexy, frustated wife Missy. The three develop a curiously inter-dependent relationship. Meanwhile, Police Captain Diaz and Detective Ortega are closing in and the plot circle is closed at Tapachula rail station amidst a stack of mistakes and wrong decisions.
Genres: Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-05
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Liebestraum
1991-09-13
Liebestraum
Overview: A man returns to his hometown and a series of dark secrets are revealed.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-13
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Eye of God
1997-10-17
Eye of God
Overview: A small Oklahoma town is stripped of its innocence when one of its boys turns up mute and bloodied by the lakeside. Unable to tell his story, the local sheriff embarks on a quest to uncover the roots of a gruesome crime. He's led to Ainsley DuPree and her new husband, Jack, a man whose interest in family may very well outweigh his morals.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-17
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Father's Day
2011-06-19
Father's Day
Overview: Ahab, a man obsessed with exacting a brutal, violent revenge on the man who murdered his dad, joins John, an eager priest, and Twink, a hot-headed street hustler, on an epic quest to find and defeat this mythical monster known as Chris Fuchman AKA The Father's Day Killer.
Genres: Action Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-19
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Firelight
1998-05-27
Firelight
Overview: In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth agrees to bear a child of anonymous English landowner, and he will in return pay her father's debt. At birth she, as agreed, gives up the child. Seven years later she is hired as governess to a girl on a remote Sussex estate. The father of the girl, Charles Godwin, turns out to be that anonymous landowner. So Elisabeth has to be her own daughter's governess, and she can't reveal the secret of her tie with little Louisa.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-27
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A Thousand Acres
1997-09-19
A Thousand Acres
Overview: The lives of an Iowa farmer's three daughters are shattered when he suddenly decides to bequeath them the family's fertile farm.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-19
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Miles from Home
1988-09-16
Miles from Home
Overview: Two brothers who are forced off their farm in the debt stricken mid-west become folk heroes when they begin robbing the banks that have been foreclosing on farmers.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-16
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Wilde Salomé
2013-12-20
Wilde Salomé
Overview: Pacino takes us on a journey as he unravels and re-interprets Oscar Wilde's once banned and most controversial work SALOME, a scintillating tale of lust, greed and one woman's scorn.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-20
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Carry Me Home
2004-12-13
Carry Me Home
Overview: A widow named Harriet and her two children Carrie and Brian are living in rural New York in 1947 and are still recovering from the death of Harriet's husband killed in World War II. Carrie is a tomboy and hangs around with boys and they have their own clubhouse. Carrie and her friends make mischief and taunt their mentally challenged neighbor Charlie by stealing one of his puppies. Harriet meets a man named Bernard and begin a courtship, but Carrie is furious that her mother is dating Bernard and wants it to stop. The jealousy and anger of Carrie raises to a fever pitch when Carrie and her friends destroy their neighbor Mr. Grizzle's garden and pour sugar into his tractor. Grizzle then takes Charlie's other puppies away from him and then Grizzle's barn is destroyed by fire. Carrie learns it's time for her to grow up and make amends with her mother and her neighbors for the grief and pain she caused them.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-13
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The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
1999-05-09
The Hunt for the Unicorn Killer
Overview: An account of early 1970s social activist Ira Einhorn, who allegedly murdered his girlfriend and then fled the country.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-09
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Ruby's Bucket of Blood
2001-12-01
Ruby's Bucket of Blood
Overview: A Louisiana juke joint owner loses her star entertainer and hires a white singer to fill in.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-01
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Monday Night Mayhem
2002-01-14
Monday Night Mayhem
Overview: The early years of a television sports powerhouse are chronicled as ABC becomes a player in the NFL coverage by putting their full resources into a major showcase. Executive Roone Arledge recruits former Dallas Cowboys quarterback 'Dandy' Don Meredith, Keith Jackson, and the combative Howard Cosell as commentators for the broadcasts, which become funny, odd trio events to millions of viewers. Jackson departs the show after the first year to take over the network's focus on college football, and former New York Giants star Frank Gifford takes his place, ruffling Cosell's feathers. Then things get really crazy!
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-14
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Salomé
2013-08-10
Salomé
Overview: One of Al Pacino's directory experiments, the stage elements of the film were filmed over 5 days in 2011. Initially part of the documentary "Wilde Salomé", the two pieces make up a thrilling tribute and rumination on Wilde's original stage play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-08-10
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Orpheus Descending
1990-06-01
Orpheus Descending
Overview: Val Xavier is a drifter in 1940's Mississippi who brings new life to an Italian immigrant woman trapped in a loveless marriage.
Genres: TV Movie Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-01
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The Doe Boy
2001-01-25
The Doe Boy
Overview: A Cherokee boy is a haemophiliac in a culture obsessed with blood identity.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-25
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The Change-Up Kid
The Change-Up Kid
Overview: Baseball pitching phenom Dean Fosh has a dream - he wants to play the game like no one's ever played it before. Who says some wishes don't come true?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
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A Walk on the Moon
1987-01-01
A Walk on the Moon
Overview: A Peace Corps volunteer, bubbling o'er with idealism, learns to his delight that he has been assigned to a remote, backward Colombian village. When he arrives, he is confused by the cynical attitude of his predecessor
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Hoffa
1992-12-25
Hoffa
Overview: A portrait of union leader James R. Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend, Bobby Ciaro. The film follows Hoffa through his countless battles with the RTA and President Roosevelt.
Genres: Crime History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-25
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Orphans
1987-09-18
Orphans
Overview: Brothers Treat and Philip have only had each other since they were kids, when a small-time criminal abruptly upends their routine lives.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-18
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The Night We Never Met
1993-04-30
The Night We Never Met
Overview: Sam has a problem with his roommates: they are disgusting, and don't seem to share his views on responsibility, privacy, and basic hygine. Such is his discomfort with his living arrangements that he agrees to share the occupancy of another flat: he gets two nights a week, the owner (a sleazy frat-boy yuppie named Brian, soon to be married) and Ellen (a would-be painter seeking relief from her boring marriage) each get their seperate nights in the flat. Things go extremely well until Sam and Brian swap nights without telling Ellen, who attributes the "nice" things that happen around the place to the slob Brian, while berating the responsible Sam for his hedonistic lifestyle.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-30
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Risky Business
1983-08-05
Risky Business
Overview: Meet Joel Goodson, an industrious, college-bound 17-year-old and a responsible, trustworthy son. However, when his parents go away and leave him home alone in the wealthy Chicago suburbs with the Porsche at his disposal he quickly decides he has been good for too long and it is time to enjoy himself. After an unfortunate incident with the Porsche Joel must raise some cash, in a risky way.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-08-05
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Pink Nights
1985-09-30
Pink Nights
Overview: Danny is shy and always astonished how his friend Jeff can just walk up to a total stranger and say "Hi!". Even more astonishing that Danny meets three girls the next week and when his mother goes on vacation, one after the other shows up on his doorstep and they move in with him! However that's rather a problem for Danny, because, in love, he's just with one of them.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-30
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Gregory's Two Girls
1999-10-15
Gregory's Two Girls
Overview: Twenty years after his teenage crush on a football-mad schoolgirl, Gregory is back at his old school, teaching English. When two of his pupils uncover evil practices at a local factory they want their teacher to help them expose the wrong-doer, who happens to be Greg's old schoolfriend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-15
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Kurt Weill: Street Scene
1993-01-01
Kurt Weill: Street Scene
Overview: The opera takes place on the doorstep of a tenement on the East Side of Manhattan on two brutally hot days in 1946. The story focuses on two plotlines: the romance between Rose Maurrant and her neighbor Sam Kaplan; and on the extramarital affair of Rose's mother, Anna, which is eventually discovered by Rose's irritable father, Frank. The show portrays the ordinary romances, squabbles and gossips of the neighbors, as the mounting tensions involving the Maurrant family eventually build into a tragedy of epic proportions. Broadcast on BBC Two on New Years Day, 1993, this production was performed by the English National Opera and conducted by James Holmes.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Starring Austin Pendleton
2016-04-01
Starring Austin Pendleton
Overview: A quirky and inspirational documentary film on the philosophical approach to the life and work of character actor, Austin Pendleton.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-01
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When Strangers Appear
2001-02-01
When Strangers Appear
Overview: A man enters a roadside diner run by a young woman and claims he is being chased by murderers.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-02-01
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Power and Beauty
2002-07-21
Power and Beauty
Overview: A woman claims she had an affair with John F. Kennedy.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-07-21
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