Norbert Weisser
Biography: Norbert Weisser (born July 9, 1946) is a German-born American film and theatre actor, probably most known for his many roles in Albert Pyun-directed movies (15 and counting). Weisser is a founding member of the Odyssey Theater and the Padua Hills Playwrights Festival, where he developed the role of Trickster in Murray Mednick's epic seven-hour The Coyote Cycle. He has played roles in theaters throughout Europe and the US, including Broadway, where he played Rode opposite Ed Harris in Ronald Harwood's Taking Sides at the Brooks Atkinson Theater. Most recently he played Oskar in John O'Keefe's Times Like These in San Francisco, Albany, New York and Los Angeles, where he received an Ovation Award, an LA Weekly Theater Award and an LA Drama Critics Circle nomination for his performance. Weisser has directed plays at the Magic Theater in San Francisco and at the Mark Taper Forum's New Playwrights Festival in Los Angeles. Recently he produced two Albert Pyun films, Infection and Cool Air. He is the father of fellow actor Morgan Weisser, who starred in both movies. Weisser's television credits include: Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight, Riders of the Purple Sage, My Antonia, From the Earth to the Moon, Alias, The Agency, NCIS, ER, and Ghost Whisperer.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 09, 1946
Deathday: N/A
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Schindler's List
1993-12-15
Schindler's List
Overview: The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-15
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Hocus Pocus
1993-07-16
Hocus Pocus
Overview: After 300 years of slumber, three sister witches are accidentally resurrected in Salem on Halloween night, and it is up to three kids and their newfound feline friend to put an end to the witches' reign of terror once and for all.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-07-16
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¡Three Amigos!
1986-12-12
¡Three Amigos!
Overview: A trio of unemployed silent film actors are mistaken for real heroes by a small Mexican village in search of someone to stop a malevolent bandit.
Genres: Comedy Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-12
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Angels & Demons
2009-04-23
Angels & Demons
Overview: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is recruited by the Vatican to investigate the apparent return of the Illuminati – a secret, underground organization – after four cardinals are kidnapped on the night of the papal conclave.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-23
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Captain America
1990-12-14
Captain America
Overview: During World War II, a brave, patriotic American Soldier undergoes experiments to become a new supersoldier, "Captain America". Racing to Germany to sabotage the rockets of Nazi baddie "Red Skull", Captain America winds up frozen until the 1990s. He reawakens to find that the Red Skull has changed identities and is now planning to kidnap the President of the United States.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-14
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Nemesis 4: Death Angel
1996-12-23
Nemesis 4: Death Angel
Overview: Alex shoots again. She has to kill a man, but shoots the wrong one. A high ransom is set on her, so she is visited by some head hunters. Well, she only could sit and wait and hope for a friend's help.
Genres: Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-23
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Infection
2005-09-05
Infection
Overview: A meteor carrying an unknown infection, lands outside a Small Californian community, bringing terror and death. Just after midnight, a local rancher named Larry Jenkins discovers the meteor and calls the police. Inspector Bardo is sent to the scene to investigate. The small Lawton police department is short-handed, as it is the night of the high school prom. Arriving at a desolate forest road miles out of town, Bardo discovers that Jenkins has been infected by the alien organism. The officer is savagely attacked and infected. Both men head towards Lawton, terrorizing and contaminating everyone they encounter. Meanwhile, Cheryl and Timmy have left the prom and are parked atop Lover's Lane. Bardo comes upon the lovebirds and attacks them, infecting Timmy. Now Cheryl must run for her life through the pitch-black forest, escaping her pursuers and trying to reach the authorities before the infection spreads to L.A.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-05
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Around the Bend
2004-10-08
Around the Bend
Overview: A tale of four generations of men, all of whom have had their offspring at a young age: a great-grandfather, a grandfather, a father in his twenties and a son who is about 7 years old. When the oldest member passes away, the trio heads out on the road together in the Southwest to search out an old family secret that connects to their past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-08
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Chaplin
1992-12-17
Chaplin
Overview: An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent personal life and his run-ins with the FBI.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-17
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Android
1982-10-15
Android
Overview: Eccentric scientist Dr. Daniel and his shy assistant Max lead a quiet life on their space station, carrying out illegal research on androids, until they receive an unwelcome visit from three fugitives one of whom is female. Both Dr. Daniel and Max show an interest in her, but one of the other visitors has more sinister intentions.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-15
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Radioactive Dreams
1986-09-19
Radioactive Dreams
Overview: After an atomic war Phillip Hammer and Marlowe Chandler have spent 15 years on their own in an bunker, stuffed with junk from the 40s and old detective novels. Now, 19 years old, they leave their shelter to find a world full of mutants, freaks and cannibals. They become famous detectives in the struggle for the two keys that could fire the last nuclear weapon.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-19
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Omega Doom
1996-10-21
Omega Doom
Overview: After earth is taken over by an army of robots, the small number of humans left are forced into hiding. In the nuclear winter, only droids walk the face of the earth, in fear of the rumored human resurgence, and in search of a hidden cache of weapons. One robot, his evil circuits destroyed, enters a small town where a robot civil war is taking place.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-21
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Adrenalin: Fear the Rush
1996-11-29
Adrenalin: Fear the Rush
Overview: In a not-too-distant future, a lethal virus sweeps across Europe, prompting the creation of quarantine refugee camps in the United States. Police officers Delon and Lemieux learn of a grisly murder in the Boston camp and team up to investigate. Suspecting the ruthless killer is infected with the virus, the pair have just hours to stop him before he becomes contagious and infects the entire population.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-29
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Down Twisted
1987-03-01
Down Twisted
Overview: A naive, good-hearted Los Angeles waitress does not think twice about helping her troubled roommate. Unfortunately, her help lands her in Central America fleeing for her life with a grungy mercenary.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1987-03-01
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Nemesis 3: Time Lapse
1996-06-18
Nemesis 3: Time Lapse
Overview: In this wasteland of despair the path to redemption is not clear. But Alex – a mutant created with super human DNA – carries the seed of hope for all mankind. In a struggle for domination that will never end, the Cyborg enemy – designed by humans as weapons without a soul – will not stop until this divine spark of humanity is eliminated. The Cyborgs are back, here and now, and stronger than ever. The terror has returned and we must face what they bring…
Genres: Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-18
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Cool Air
2006-11-03
Cool Air
Overview: Charlie Baxter, a struggling screenwriter, is searching for accommodation in a rundown mansion somewhere in the isolated mountains above Malibu. An expressionless and creatively bankrupt young man who rewrites exploitation sci-fi / horror scripts for a living, he takes a room in the mansion and learns of the mysterious doctor residing in the room above his own who dabbles in strange experiments. As he learns more about the circumstances of the doctor and the history of his landlady, her autistic daughter and the strange lodger across the hall, Baxter is inspired to write his long blocked "great American Screenplay". Working furiously, Baxter suffers a heart attack, and staggers up to see the doctor for treatment. He passes out immediately, but awakens a cured man. But at a terrible price.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-03
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Keefer
1978-03-16
Keefer
Overview: An U.S. Army colonel leads a crack group of secret agents operating behind enemy lines in occupied France during World War II.
Genres: TV Movie War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-16
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Sweet Lies
1987-12-18
Sweet Lies
Overview: An insurance investigator is visiting Paris on assignment. He is soon made the object of a seduction bet amongst three ladies. Problems arise when the girls realize they are really falling for him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-18
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Heatseeker
1995-06-27
Heatseeker
Overview: A kickboxing champion is forced to fight cyborgs in a tournament when the company kidnaps his fiancee.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-27
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She's In Portland
2020-01-16
She's In Portland
Overview: Two college friends, now in their thirties, admire each others' lives and feel trapped in their own. Wes, tied to a demanding career and responsibilities to family, extends a work trip to drag his dispirited artist friend Luke to find Luke's "one that got away."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-16
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Riders of the Purple Sage
1996-01-21
Riders of the Purple Sage
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Genres: TV Movie Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-21
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Crazy Six
1997-11-01
Crazy Six
Overview: In a crumbling Europe, powerful mafia families have emerged from the anarchy to vie for control of the lucrative arms trade.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-01
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Seeds of Tragedy
1991-06-15
Seeds of Tragedy
Overview: Coca leaves making their way from Peru to Downtown Los Angeles.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-15
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Keeping Secrets
1991-01-01
Keeping Secrets
Overview: Based on Suzanne Somer's autobiography, the film tells of her troubled childhood, her affairs, her abortion and her arrest for writing bad cheques and posing nude.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Twilight Zone: The Movie
1983-06-24
Twilight Zone: The Movie
Overview: An anthology film presenting remakes of three episodes from the "Twilight Zone" TV series—"Kick the Can", "It's a Good Life" and "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"—and one original story, "Time Out."
Genres: Horror Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-24
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The Radicals
1989-12-08
The Radicals
Overview: The story of the Anabaptist movement and two of its first leaders, Michael and Margaretha Sattler.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-12-08
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Sorcerers
1998-03-01
Sorcerers
Overview: Sorcerers is an unfinished animated fantasy film that would have combined live actors with CG backgrounds and characters in a story inspired by The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-01
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Deceit
1992-08-21
Deceit
Overview: Two outer-space aliens visit Earth with the intention of blowing it up, but they meet a hot blonde and decide to postpone the planet's destruction in order to try to score with her.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-21
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The Rocketeer
1991-06-21
The Rocketeer
Overview: A stunt pilot comes across a prototype jetpack that gives him the ability to fly. However, evil forces of the world also want this jetpack at any cost.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-21
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The Secret of the Ice Cave
1989-01-01
The Secret of the Ice Cave
Overview: A group of treasure-seekers embark on a expedition into high adventure as they race to discover what's really located in the mysterious ice cave.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Blast
1997-03-13
Blast
Overview: Terrorists attempt to disrupt the Atlanta Olympics by kidnapping the U.S. women's swim team. If their demands are not met, the team will be executed. Only janitor Jack Bryant, a former Olympic gymnast champion of Tae Kwon Do felled by injuries and alcoholism knows of their real plans. And only he, with the guidance of former terrorist-fighter Leo, can stop them.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-13
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Walker
1987-12-04
Walker
Overview: William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat.
Genres: Drama History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-04
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Albert Pyun: King of Cult Movies
2023-11-26
Albert Pyun: King of Cult Movies
Overview: Albert Pyun: King of Cult Movies tells the story of a true renegade and his love for filmmaking, a free spirit who always did Hollywood his way despite the odds. The documentary follows Albert after his diagnosis of multiple sclerosis and dementia. Fighting rapidly declining health, hallucinations, and memory loss, he is on a mission to make his final film, Cyborg Overture - Bad Ass Angels and Demons, the prequel to one of his most famous films, the post-apocalyptic classic Cyborg.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-26
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Stark
1985-04-10
Stark
Overview: Wichita policeman, Evan Stark, goes to Las Vegas in search of his missing sister, Laura.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-04-10
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In the Line of Duty: Siege at Marion
1992-02-10
In the Line of Duty: Siege at Marion
Overview: Adam Swapp and his brother Jonathan are suspects in the bombing of Mormon Center in Utah. The brothers and their families hold-up on their farm with provisions and enough ammunition to withstand the governments siege. They are devout in their beliefs and purposes and are determined to stand up for their rights.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-02-10
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Bad Bizness
2003-11-11
Bad Bizness
Overview: After three women get killed, a policewoman gets involved in the underworld of drugs and pornographic movies, when she starts investigating the case.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-11
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Midnight Cabaret
1990-01-01
Midnight Cabaret
Overview: A Broadway producer puts on a play with a Devil character in it. Soon the actors begin having nightmares, and events that are mentioned in the play really start happening.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Pollock
2000-09-06
Pollock
Overview: In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has fittingly been called "an artist dedicated to concealment, a celebrity who nobody knew." As he struggled with self-doubt, engaging in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the world out, Pollock began a downward spiral.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-06
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The Killers Within
1995-01-01
The Killers Within
Overview: A man must track down the reasons behind his brother's mysterious death, and uncovers a secret neo-Nazi group headed by a powerful congressman.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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The Incident
1990-03-04
The Incident
Overview: Small town lawyer, Harmon Cobb, defends a Nazi prisoner of war against murder charges. Set during World War II, Cobb has to contend with the difficulties of defending the devil when the town's only doctor (Barnard Hughes) dies while at "Camp Bremen" in the fictitious town of Bremen, Colorado.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-04
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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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Arcade
1993-07-20
Arcade
Overview: Alex Manning and her friends decide to visit the local video arcade known as "Dante's Inferno" where a new virtual reality arcade game called "Arcade" is being test marketed by a computer company CEO. However, it soon becomes clear that the teenagers who lose are being imprisoned inside the virtual reality world by the central villain "Arcade" and takes over their minds.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-07-20
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The Thing
1982-06-25
The Thing
Overview: In the winter of 1982, a twelve-man research team at a remote Antarctic research station discovers an alien buried in the snow for over 100,000 years. Soon unfrozen, the form-changing creature wreaks havoc, creates terror... and becomes one of them.
Genres: Horror Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-25
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The Road to Wellville
1994-10-28
The Road to Wellville
Overview: An unhappy young couple visit the infamous Kellogg spa in Battle Creek, Michigan while a young hustler tries get into the breakfast-cereal business and compete against John Kellogg's corn flakes.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-28
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Midnight Express
1978-08-31
Midnight Express
Overview: Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-31
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My Antonia
1995-03-29
My Antonia
Overview: After the death of his parents, Jimmy uproots his life to live with his grandparents in Black Hawk, Nebraska.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-29
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From Hollywood to Deadwood
1989-10-13
From Hollywood to Deadwood
Overview: When actress Lana Dark (Barbara Schock) disappears in the middle of a film shoot, putting an expensive stop to production, the studio hires gumshoes Raymond Savage (Scott Paulin) and Jack Haines (Jim Haynie) to track down the fleeing femme fatale in this thriller. The trail leads to Deadwood, S.D., where Haines and a smitten Savage find Lana restlessly lying low. But knowledge proves dangerous when Savage discovers the scam behind Lana's walkout.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-13
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Ticker
2001-06-23
Ticker
Overview: Ray Nettles, a detective of San Francisco, and his partner Fuzzy must take up to one of the most dangerous terrorist gangs of the city. When one of the terrorists, the beautiful scientist Claire Manning is arrested, Swan, the leader of the terrorists, claims he will detonate bombs throughout the city if she is not released. Because of the possible bloodshed, Nettles calls for the help of explosive expert Frank Glass...
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-23
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Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight
1994-06-12
Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight
Overview: In 1928, Amelia Earhart gains fame by undertaking a transatlantic flight as a passenger. In 1937, she and her navigator Fred Noonan undertake her longest flight: a round-the-world attempt. However, the plane disappears in the process.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-12
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The Deadly Triangle
1977-05-19
The Deadly Triangle
Overview: A former Olympic ski champion, now the sheriff of a ski-resort town, investigates the murder of the member of a skiing team that came to the resort to train.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-19
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