Stefan Gierasch
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Stefan Gierasch (February 5, 1926 – September 6, 2014) was an American film and television actor. Gierasch made over 100 screen appearances, mostly in American television, beginning in 1951. In the mid-60s, he performed with the Trinity Square Players in Providence, Rhode Island. He appeared in dozens of films including in The Hustler, Jeremiah Johnson, What's Up Doc? High Plains Drifter, and Carrie. In 1994 he appeared in the Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito film Junior as 'Edward Sawyer', and in 1995'sMurder in the First as Warden James Humson'. Gierasch has made many TV appearances, as in Starsky and Hutch, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and ER.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 05, 1926
Deathday: September 06, 2014
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Victory at Entebbe
1976-12-22
Victory at Entebbe
Overview: The film is based on an actual event: Operation Entebbe and the freeing of Israeli hostages at Entebbe Airport (now Entebbe International Airport) in Uganda.
Genres: Action Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-22
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Dave
1993-05-07
Dave
Overview: A sweet-natured Temp Agency operator and amateur Presidential look-alike is recruited by the Secret Service to become a temporary stand-in for the President of the United States.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-07
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Carrie
1976-11-03
Carrie
Overview: Withdrawn and sensitive teen Carrie White faces taunting from classmates at school and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When strange occurrences start happening around Carrie, she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-03
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What's Up, Doc?
1972-03-09
What's Up, Doc?
Overview: The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-09
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Jeremiah Johnson
1972-09-10
Jeremiah Johnson
Overview: A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by Indians when he proves to be the match of their warriors in one-to-one combat on the early frontier.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-10
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High Plains Drifter
1973-04-19
High Plains Drifter
Overview: A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen who tried to kill him, the townsfolk decide to hire the Stranger to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.
Genres: Western Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-19
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Blue Sunshine
1977-12-02
Blue Sunshine
Overview: At a party, someone goes insane and murders three women. Falsely accused of the brutal killings, Jerry is on the run. More bizarre homicides continue with alarming frequency all over town. Trying to clear his name, Jerry discovers the shocking truth...people are losing their hair and turning into violent psychopaths and the connection may be some LSD all the murderers took a decade before.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-02
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Perfect
1985-05-15
Perfect
Overview: A female aerobics instructor meets a male reporter doing a story on health clubs, but it isn't love at first sight.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-15
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The Traveling Executioner
1970-10-01
The Traveling Executioner
Overview: Jonas Candide performs his job as state executioner in early 20th century Mississippi like a combination preacher and carnival barker, persuading condemned men to accept their deaths before electrocuting them on his electric chair. After he's assigned his first woman to execute, however, Jonas' sense of purpose is shaken.
Genres: Comedy Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-01
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Cover-Up '62
2004-10-16
Cover-Up '62
Overview: Cover-up '62 is based on the final days and tragic death of screen legend Marilyn Monroe. In an attempt to calm her down after a sudden argument, RFK and Dr. Greenson administer a fatal dose of Nembutal. Instead of calling the authorities with the help of Peter Lawford and the Secret Service her death is covered up as a suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-16
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That Kind of Woman
1959-09-11
That Kind of Woman
Overview: A young G.I. falls in love with a kept woman on a train to New York.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-09-11
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My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn
1985-01-21
My Wicked, Wicked Ways: The Legend of Errol Flynn
Overview: The life and wanton times of Errol Flynn
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-21
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Enemies
1974-01-23
Enemies
Overview: In a sun-dappled garden in provincial Russia in 1905, some factory owners and their wives discuss the unrest among the workers. Rather than submit to a strike, they decide to close down the factory. When an owner is slain in a scuffle with a workman, the ensuing investigation uncovers the socialist fervor that is sweeping the countryside.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-23
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Cornbread, Earl and Me
1975-05-21
Cornbread, Earl and Me
Overview: The unintentional shooting by police of a star basketball player has profound personal, political and community repercussions in this acclaimed adaptation of the novel Hog Butcher by Ronald Fair. This was one of the more thoughtful urban dramas produced at the height of the "blaxploitation" craze. Also released under the title Hit the Open Man, it features the screen debut of Laurence Fishburne, who was barely a teenager at the time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-21
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The New Centurions
1972-08-03
The New Centurions
Overview: An idealistic rookie cop joins the LAPD to make ends meet while finishing law school, and is indoctrinated by a seasoned veteran. As time goes on, he loses his ambitions and family as police work becomes his entire life.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-08-03
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Silver Streak
1976-12-03
Silver Streak
Overview: A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his own. But all that accomplishes is to get the killer after him.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-03
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Kate McShane
1975-04-11
Kate McShane
Overview: A flamboyant Denver lady lawyer, with the help of her father, a retired cop who does the legwork for her investigations, and her brother, a Jesuit priest and university law professor, unravels a murder case of a society woman who allegedly stabbed her husband. This was the pilot for Anne Meara's short-lived TV series.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-11
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This Is the West That Was
1974-12-17
This Is the West That Was
Overview: A lighthearted look at the saga of Wild Bill Hickok and his relationship with Calamity Jane as he is targeted for revenge by some tough gunfighters.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-17
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Jack the Bear
1993-04-02
Jack the Bear
Overview: Story of the relationships between two sons and their father, who moves the family to California and becomes a tv horror show host after the death of his wife.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-02
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Junior
1994-11-22
Junior
Overview: A research scientist becomes the world's first pregnant man in order to test a drug he and a colleague have designed for expectant women. To carry out the trial, he has an embryo implant, believing that he will only carry the baby for three months – hardly expecting to face the prospect of giving birth.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-22
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Megaville
1990-01-22
Megaville
Overview: In the future, national boundaries have been broken down and two giant super-states remain—the bleak, oppressive, and totalitarian "Hemisphere," and the sprawling and futuristic "Megaville." Megaville has an elected president, but the entire system is rife with corruption. All forms of media are encouraged in Megaville, but this freedom has aided moral decay with the distribution of pornography and violent movies. Outside Megaville lies the Hemisphere; whereas Megaville is clean and ordered, the Hemisphere is in a state of decay. Travel from the Hemisphere to Megaville is restricted with few exceptions to the powerful. An outwardly totalitarian regime governs the daily life of civilians in the Hemisphere and the people live in fear of the "CKS" (the secret police). All forms of media are illegal in the Hemisphere. CC wikipedia.org
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-22
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The Hustler
1961-09-25
The Hustler
Overview: Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary Minnesota Fats to a high-stakes match.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-09-25
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Crime of the Century
1996-09-14
Crime of the Century
Overview: In 1932, the nation was shocked when the 14-month-old son of Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped, held for ransom, and murdered. Two years later, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested, convicted, and executed. This film dramatizes the investigation against Hauptmann, the trial, and the execution, painting a picture of a corrupt police force under pressure to finger a killer framing an innocent man by manufacturing evidence, paying-off and blackmailing witnesses, and covering up exculpatory evidence.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1996-09-14
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Blood Beach
1980-09-01
Blood Beach
Overview: Something or someone is attacking people one by one on the beach. Some of them are mutilated, but most of them are sucked into the sand, disappearing without a trace. What is the creature responsible? Where does it live, and where did it come from? And is there any chance of it reproducing? Meanwhile, David Huffman and Mariana Hill are once-almost-married old friends, reunited over the death of her mother on the beach, and searching for clues in the abandoned buildings where they used to play when they were young.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-01
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The Champ
1979-07-07
The Champ
Overview: Billy used to be a great boxer, but he's settled into a hardscrabble life that revolves around drinking, training horses, and the one bright spot in his existence — his young son, T.J. Although Billy has had custody of T.J. since his wife, Annie, left the family years ago, her return prompts a new struggle for the former fighter. Determined to hold on to his son, Billy gets back into the ring to try and recapture his past success.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-07
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The Million Dollar Face
1981-03-12
The Million Dollar Face
Overview: Tony Curtis is the ruthless head of a cosmetics firm, Kiss of Gold, locked in fierce competition with his arch-rival, Glamour, Inc., that happens to be run by his former lover (Lee Grant), and finds his company in the grip of a power struggle among his executives (one of whom, unbeknownst to him, is the son he'd never met) when he is severely injured in a helicopter accident. This pilot to a prospective primetime soap opera failed to generate network interest.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-12
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The Great Texas Dynamite Chase
1976-07-01
The Great Texas Dynamite Chase
Overview: Candy and Ellie Jo are a pair of sexy bank robbers who blast their way into small-town banks with a carload of dynamite! When they take Slim hostage, it begins a thrill-packed crime spree across the state of Texas.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-01
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Legend of the Phantom Rider
2003-02-11
Legend of the Phantom Rider
Overview: Two ancient entities reincarnated through the centuries face off time and again for an innocent soul.
Genres: Action Fantasy Horror Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-11
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Particular Men
1972-04-15
Particular Men
Overview: A fictitious but powerful look at the dawn of the nuclear age, this stage performance follows several government scientists as they develop the atomic bomb, grapple with the morality of their work, and confront major problems with their superiors. Written by award-winning playwright Loring Mandel, this riveting production stars Stacy Keach, Alice Drummond, Lois Smith, Clifton James and Verna Bloom.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-04-15
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Stunts Unlimited
1980-01-04
Stunts Unlimited
Overview: A group of Hollywood stunt performers are recruited by former U.S. Intelligence agent Dirk Macauley to retrieve a stolen laser gun from a notorious arms dealer in this pilot to a proposed TV series.
Genres: Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-04
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Starry Night
1999-01-01
Starry Night
Overview: Vincent Van Gogh comes back to life after being the recipient of a magic potion. He finds that his work has become quite valuable, and begins stealing his works. At the same time, he has a hard time getting anyone to believe he's really Van Gogh.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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The Rockford Files: Friends and Foul Play
1996-04-25
The Rockford Files: Friends and Foul Play
Overview: An friend of Jim's continues to seek his help for her murdered son, but when she winds up dead not long after an altercation with the mafia man, Jim must must do what it takes to put both her soul and her son's, at rest, himself.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-25
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Tartuffe
1978-05-31
Tartuffe
Overview: Donald Moffat stars in Moliere's classic comedy about lovable scoundrel Tartuffe, who befriends the wealthy Orgon and then attempts to seduce both his new friend's wife and daughter in this TV presentation from the Broadway Theatre Archive. Tartuffe pretends to be a pious man whose faith convinces Orgon and his family to succumb to his influence, but he's undone when his womanizing ways make it clear that his piety is a charade.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-31
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Spellbinder
1988-09-23
Spellbinder
Overview: After leaving work one night, Los Angeles attorney Jeff Mills and his colleague rescue a young, beautiful woman from an abusive boyfriend. Jeff soon becomes romantically involved with her and embroiled in the web of intrigue that follows her, despite a string of ominous happenstances and repeated warnings from his secretary.
Genres: Horror Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-23
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Beggarman, Thief
1979-11-26
Beggarman, Thief
Overview: In this sequel to "Rich Man, Poor Man," moviemaker Gretchen Jordache, the until-now unseen sister, strives to pull the family together after the murder of brother Tom and the disappearance of brother Rudy by first reestablishing contact with her soldier son, and then patching things up with her sister-in-law, Kate, Tom's widow.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-26
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The Young Don't Cry
1957-07-26
The Young Don't Cry
Overview: An orphaned teen gets involved with some chain-gang convicts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-26
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The Dybbuk
1960-10-03
The Dybbuk
Overview: The Dybbuk is a made for TV film adaptation of a classic Jewish folktale. The story is about a young Jewish man, Sender (Theodore Bikel) who loves a young Jewish woman, Leah (Carol Lawrence) but her father arranges her marriage with another man. The grief of this causes Sender to die, but his spirit passes into the body of his beloved on her wedding day. Rabbi Azrael (Ludwig Donath), who serves as our narrator through the beginning of the film, is charged with the task of exercising Sender’s Dybbuk (sometimes defined as a malicious spirit or demon who possesses the living) from Leah’s body.
Genres: Horror Drama Fantasy History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-03
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Return to Earth
1976-05-14
Return to Earth
Overview: The story of Buzz Aldrin, the second astronaut to walk on the moon, and the problems he had after his return to Earth, including the breakup of his marriage, a nervous breakdown and his hospitalization for psychiatric problems.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-14
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Murder in the First
1995-01-20
Murder in the First
Overview: A young, inexperienced public defender is assigned to defend an inmate accused of committing murder while behind bars.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-20
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Claudine
1974-04-22
Claudine
Overview: Claudine is a single mother in New York City who endures an exhausting commute to the suburbs where she works as a maid for wealthy families. In one carefully tended white community, she meets Roop, a charismatic but irresponsible garbage collector. Romance quickly ensues, but Claudine doubts that their relationship is good for her six children, and Rupert, despite his good nature, is reluctant to take on fatherhood.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-22
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The Rosary Murders
1987-08-28
The Rosary Murders
Overview: A priest is put in a dilemma when the serial killer who has been murdering priests and nuns confesses to him.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-28
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