Ron Dean
Biography: Ron Dean (born August 15, 1938) is an American film and television actor. He appeared in films including Rudy, Risky Business, The Breakfast Club, Cocktail, The Babe, The Fugitive, The Client, and The Dark Knight. He is known for often playing detectives and other law-enforcement characters, most notably Det. Marion Zeke Crumb in the television show Early Edition.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 15, 1938
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The Dark Knight
2008-07-16
The Dark Knight
Overview: Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as the Joker.
Genres: Drama Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-07-16
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The Breakfast Club
1985-02-15
The Breakfast Club
Overview: Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal. The disparate group includes rebel John, princess Claire, outcast Allison, brainy Brian and Andrew, the jock. Each has a chance to tell his or her story, making the others see them a little differently -- and when the day ends, they question whether school will ever be the same.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-15
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Code of Silence
1985-05-03
Code of Silence
Overview: A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-03
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The Package
1989-01-25
The Package
Overview: Experienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Boyette, back to the US, but Boyette escapes and Gallagher must risk life and limb to catch him.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-25
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The Color of Money
1986-10-17
The Color of Money
Overview: Former pool hustler "Fast Eddie" Felson decides he wants to return to the game by taking a pupil. He meets talented but green Vincent Lauria and proposes a partnership. As they tour pool halls, Eddie teaches Vincent the tricks of scamming, but he eventually grows frustrated with Vincent's showboat antics, leading to an argument and a falling-out. Eddie takes up playing again and soon crosses paths with Vincent as an opponent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-17
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Light of Day
1987-02-06
Light of Day
Overview: Cleveland siblings rise with a rock band while coping with personal problems.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-06
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Above the Law
1988-04-08
Above the Law
Overview: Nico Toscani is an Italian immigrant, American patriot, ex-CIA agent, aikido specialist and unorthodox Chicago policeman. He is as committed to his job as he is to his personalized brand of justice—expert and thorough bone-crushing.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-08
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Voices from the Graves
2006-01-01
Voices from the Graves
Overview: A police detective is investigated when he claims to see ghosts.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Nothing in Common
1986-07-29
Nothing in Common
Overview: A successful advertising executive finds his freewheeling life crashing to a halt when his parents end their longtime marriage.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-29
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Dream Breakers
1989-09-02
Dream Breakers
Overview: A movie about a Chicago family -- a building contractor and his two sons who have opposing ideologies. One brother works for a power-hungry builder with underworld connections; the younger son, a priest in one of the city's poor parishes, is fighting the forces for which his brother works.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-02
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Lana's Rain
2002-10-01
Lana's Rain
Overview: This powerful, hard-edged crime drama explores the dark side of the American immigrant experience and dares to ask, "How far would you go to survive?" Lana’s only chance to escape the war-torn Balkans is her long-lost brother, Darko, a street-smart gangster with enemies intent on revenge. Isolated at first by her inability to speak English, Lana desperately hopes that she and her brother can achieve the American dream that she can only glimpse. But her illusions are shattered as she is forced to survive by any means possible on the mean streets of Chicago. As she gets pulled deeper and deeper into her brother’s criminal world while a steely determination grows in her heart, Lana must risk her own life to overcome Darko and his pursuers if she hopes to finally realize her dream.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-01
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Chicago Cab
1998-09-18
Chicago Cab
Overview: A day in the life of a Chicago cab driver is examined as he picks up fares from the good and bad parts of the city and emotionally connects to many of his passengers.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-18
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Cold Justice
1992-01-01
Cold Justice
Overview: When a washed-up boxer invites a British priest to minister in his South Chicago neighborhood, he never suspects that the priest is not who he says he is.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Teachers
1984-10-05
Teachers
Overview: A teacher reconnects with an old student who is now an attorney representing a family who is suing the school for graduating their son who still cannot read or write. Amid the daily chaos of teaching in an inner city school, Alex Jurel tries to decide if he will lie at his deposition to protect the school or tell the truth and risk throwing away his career.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-05
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Chain Reaction
1996-08-02
Chain Reaction
Overview: At the University of Chicago, a research team that includes brilliant student machinist Eddie Kasalivich experiences a breakthrough: a stable form of fusion that may lead to a waste-free energy source. However, a private company wants to exploit the technology, so Kasalivich and physicist Dr. Lily Sinclair are framed for murder, and the fusion device is stolen. On the run from the FBI, they must recover the technology and exonerate themselves.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-02
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Cocktail
1988-07-29
Cocktail
Overview: After being discharged from the Army, Brian Flanagan moves back to Queens and takes a job in a bar run by Doug Coughlin, who teaches Brian the fine art of bar-tending. Brian quickly becomes a patron favorite with his flashy drink-mixing style, and Brian adopts his mentor's cynical philosophy on life and goes for the money.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-07-29
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The Fugitive
1993-08-06
The Fugitive
Overview: Wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find the real killer and clear his name.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-06
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Sam Steele and the Crystal Chalice
2011-11-21
Sam Steele and the Crystal Chalice
Overview: When Sam Steele Junior gets a term paper assignment on a visit by the Soviet Premier to the Midwest in the late 1950s he's less than enthused. But when he learns it may lead to treasure, the Junior Detective Agency is on the adventure of a lifetime.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-11-21
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The Naked Face
1984-06-01
The Naked Face
Overview: Chicago psychiatrist Judd Stevens is suspected of murdering one of his patients when the man turns up stabbed to death in the middle of the city. After repeated attempts to convince the cops of his innocence, Dr. Stevens is forced to go after the real villains himself.
Genres: Thriller Action Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-01
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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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Continental Divide
1981-09-18
Continental Divide
Overview: A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-18
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Heart of Steel
1983-12-04
Heart of Steel
Overview: A steel factory that employs most of the town shuts down, leaving a man desperate to keep his family and friends together while alcohol consumes him in this depressing drama.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-04
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Rudy
1993-09-17
Rudy
Overview: Rudy grew up in a steel mill town where most people ended up working, but wanted to play football at Notre Dame instead. There were only a couple of problems. His grades were a little low, his athletic skills were poor, and he was only half the size of the other players. But he had the drive and the spirit of 5 people and has set his sights upon joining the team.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-17
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The Toughest Man in the World
1984-11-07
The Toughest Man in the World
Overview: Mr. T's first starring made-for-TV movie role has him playing a tough and scowling, but softhearted, nightclub bouncer who finds himself involved with a bunch of kids after being conned into taking over a youth center.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-07
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Night of the Lawyers
1997-10-30
Night of the Lawyers
Overview: They are armed. They are dangerous. They are lawyers. A hard working emergency room doctor is being harassed by a firm on nasty lawyers. An encounter with a friendly alien gives the doctor the power to vaporize people and to take on this firm of unscrupulous lawyers.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-30
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Vegetable House
1985-01-01
Vegetable House
Overview: Vegetable House is no garden variety comedy. When actor/writers Joe Doyle, Ron Dean (Code of Silence), and Aaron Freeman (America's Political Satirist) team up, nothing is sacred. The Vegetable House players include some Chicago's brightest comedy stars drawn largely from the famed "Second City" comedy troupe. At Vegetable House, Brussels sprouts shiver in their sheets while above lurks the menace of the Vegomatic. Suburban housewives submit to weekly games of bondage bridge. Meet Tokai Lokoto, the 3rd World's funniest man, and Gordon, whose nailbiting has gotten out of hand. Follow the adventures of "Kaa Kaa of the City" who was abandoned at birth and raised by pigeons in Grant Park. And the Veggie Video, don't forget the Veggie Video. Hot Pop. Hot Veggies. Hot Video.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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The Client
1994-07-20
The Client
Overview: A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a Mafia hit-man. Before Jerome shoots himself, he tells Mark where the body of a Senator is buried. Clifford shoots himself and Mark is found at the scene, and both the FBI and the Mafia quickly realize that Mark probably knows more than he says.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-20
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One Small Hitch
2013-02-14
One Small Hitch
Overview: On a flight home to Chicago for a family wedding, childhood friends Josh and Molly innocently agree to fake a wedding engagement to make Josh's dying father happy. Things quickly get out of hand with their two boisterous families, and a series of events causes them to pretend to be a couple and start planning a phony wedding. When the playacting begins to foster real feelings, the two must make some serious decisions: Split up and return to their lives in LA, or make a life as a couple back in Chicago?
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-02-14
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The Last Affair
1976-09-01
The Last Affair
Overview: The wife of a sterile man steps outside the marriage with a gigolo in order to conceive.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-01
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Hammer, Slammer, & Slade
1990-12-15
Hammer, Slammer, & Slade
Overview: After he retires from the police force, a veteran cop is framed for robbery but his friends, a rookie and three ex-cops, come to his rescue.
Genres: Comedy Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-15
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House of Angels: The Second Summer
1994-12-25
House of Angels: The Second Summer
Overview: Fanny and Zack is back, after she inherited Änglagård last year. Everytone looks forward to their new stay. Axel has told Fanny he is her father, but who else? Ivar also thinks he is her father. Be ready for expectations and confusions.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1994-12-25
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Wild Things 2
2004-02-19
Wild Things 2
Overview: Two Florida high school vixens hatch a murderous plan to win an inheritance, but they hadn't bargained for an escalating whirlpool of blackmail and sexual games with a sleazy insurance investigator who has his own plans for the money.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-19
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The Wild Card
2004-05-27
The Wild Card
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-05-27
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Crime Story: Pilot
1986-09-18
Crime Story: Pilot
Overview: One former cop goes against the whole Mafia. The feature-length pilot for the cult 80s show.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-18
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