Bill Henderson
Biography: Bill Henderson was born on March 19, 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Clue (1985), City Slickers (1991) and The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984).
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 09, 1926
Deathday: April 03, 2016
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Fire Sale
1977-06-09
Fire Sale
Overview: Benny and his wife Ruthie are getting set to drive down to Florida, but Benny needs someone to look after his department store while he's gone. Though he doesn't think much of him, Benny hands the responsibility over to his son, Russell. While Russell doesn't get much respect from his parents, he's better off than his brother, Ezra, whom Benny has gone so far as to disown. Ezra is currently battling with his work (coach of a high school basketball team that hasn't won in ages) and his wife (who keeps nagging him that she wants to have a baby as soon as possible) at the same time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-09
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Murphy's Law
1986-04-18
Murphy's Law
Overview: A tough police detective escapes from custody after being framed and arrested for the murder of his ex-wife, and must now find the real killer and prove his innocence.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-18
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Who Done It: The Clue Documentary
2022-11-03
Who Done It: The Clue Documentary
Overview: Clue (1985) has become a cult classic film and is loved by multiple generations. Yet there has never been a documentary created to tell the behind the scenes stories...until now.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-03
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Fletch
1985-05-31
Fletch
Overview: When investigative reporter Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher goes undercover to write a piece on the drug trade at a local beach, he's approached by wealthy businessman Alan Stanwyk, who offers him $50,000 to murder him. With sarcastic wit and a knack for disguises, Fletch sets out to uncover Stanwyk's story.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-31
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Maverick
1994-05-20
Maverick
Overview: Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional three thousand dollars in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game that begins in a few days, so he joins forces with a woman gambler with a marvellous southern accent, and the two try and enter the game.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-20
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Hard Ground
2003-07-12
Hard Ground
Overview: Billy Bucklin escapes while being transported to Yuma prison and plans to form an army of desperadoes to control the Mexican border...
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-12
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Get Crazy
1983-08-05
Get Crazy
Overview: Mega-promoter Colin Beverly plans to sabotage the New Year's 1983 concert of small-time operator Max Wolfe. Wolfe's assistants Neil Allen and Willie Loman find romance while trying to save the drugs, violence, and rock and roll from Beverly's schemes.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-08-05
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Clue
1985-12-13
Clue
Overview: Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, the guests and Boddy's chatty butler must suss out the culprit before the body count rises.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-13
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Fear City
1984-07-18
Fear City
Overview: Strippers in Manhattan are being stalked and murdered by a psycho. A hard-nosed police detective and a conflicted ex-boxer-turned-private-eye, hired by the strip club owners, set out to find him before he strikes again.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-07-18
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Hoodlum
1997-08-27
Hoodlum
Overview: In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem—is arrested, Ellsworth 'Bumpy' Johnson takes over the business and must resist an invasion from a merciless mobster.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-27
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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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'Weird Al' Yankovic: (There's No) Going Home
1996-12-16
'Weird Al' Yankovic: (There's No) Going Home
Overview: Parody of The Disney Channel's "Going Home" music series. Features "Weird Al" Yankovic in concert from Vancouver's Orpheum Theatre performing spoofs of many popular songs, Al travelling on the bus with his band and in their hotel room as well as tongue-in-cheek interviews with Al and his family.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-16
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Wisdom
1986-12-31
Wisdom
Overview: Unable to find work after a past felony, graduate John Wisdom and his girlfriend embark on a cross-country bank-robbing spree in order to aid American farmers.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-31
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Shadow in the Street
1975-01-28
Shadow in the Street
Overview: An ex-convict trying to straighten his life out takes a job as a parole agent in an experimental project to help former inmates.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-28
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Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid
1977-09-12
Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid
Overview: A young ghetto kid despairs of ever getting out of that environment and making something of himself, until one day he gets a job as an assistant in a veterinarian's office, and working with all the animals begins to affect his outlook on life.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-12
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Mother, Jugs & Speed
1976-05-26
Mother, Jugs & Speed
Overview: To beat out competing ambulance services, an ace driver, an office secretary/paramedic and a suspended cop resort to some outrageous behavior to help people in distress. They're a crew whose condition is even more critical than their clients!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-26
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The Kid from Left Field
1979-09-30
The Kid from Left Field
Overview: A bat boy guides the San Diego Padres to the World Series with the secret help of his dad, a baseball has-been who now sells refreshments in the stands.
Genres: Comedy Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-30
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Flesh & Blood
1979-10-14
Flesh & Blood
Overview: A young street-tough-turned-boxer struggles to reach the top while finding his romance with an attractive TV reporter is complicated by an incestuous relationship with his mother.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-14
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Smart Alec
1986-04-01
Smart Alec
Overview: A young filmmaker arrives in Hollywood and tries to get his first movie financed.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-01
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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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White Men Can't Jump
1992-03-27
White Men Can't Jump
Overview: Two street basketball hustlers try to con each other, then team up for a bigger score.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-27
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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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How I Got Into College
1989-05-19
How I Got Into College
Overview: High school senior Marlon Bowne is smitten with overachieving classmate Jessica Kailo. But, if he wants to have a shot with her, he'll have to find a way to get into Ramsey College, Jessica's top choice of schools. It won't be easy, since the college is highly selective and Marlon's grades are hardly impressive. That means the lovelorn teen will have to find a way to score high on the SATs and win over the college admissions committee.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-19
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
1984-08-10
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Overview: Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-10
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Inside Moves
1980-12-19
Inside Moves
Overview: After a failed suicide attempt leaves him partially crippled, Rory begins spending a lot of time at a neighborhood bar full of interesting misfits. When Jerry the bartender suddenly finds himself playing basketball for the Golden State Warriors, Rory and the rest of the bar regulars hope his success will provide a lift to their sagging spirits. Will Jerry forget his friends? What about his junkie hooker girlfriend and her pimp?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-19
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Cousins
1989-02-10
Cousins
Overview: Two couples go to a mutual friend's wedding and end up swapping partners.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-10
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One Shoe Makes it Murder
1982-11-06
One Shoe Makes it Murder
Overview: Robert Mitchum stars as a down-and-out ex-cop whose entanglement with a shady casino owner leaves him one step behind a killer.
Genres: Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-06
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Kiss of a Stranger
1999-11-01
Kiss of a Stranger
Overview: Nova, a rising TV personality, after declaring that all handsome men in L.A. are gay, falls for a hunky stranger who is totally smitten with her - so she thinks. Her sexy stranger disappears without a trace. Her grief over unexplained deaths in her social circle is only made worse when we find that she is carrying the stranger's baby. The plot thickens and the anxiety is great as Nova struggles to find out who this stranger is and why he is stalking her.
Genres: Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-01
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City Slickers
1991-06-07
City Slickers
Overview: Three New York businessmen decide to take a "Wild West" vacation that turns out not to be the relaxing vacation they had envisioned.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-07
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Get Christie Love!
1974-01-22
Get Christie Love!
Overview: Get Christie Love! is a 1974 made-for-television film starring Teresa Graves as an undercover female police detective who is determined to overthrow a drug ring. This film is based on Dorothy Uhnak's crime-thriller novel, The Ledger.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-22
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No Holds Barred
1989-06-02
No Holds Barred
Overview: Rip is the World Wrestling Federation champion who is faithful to his fans and the network he wrestles for, but Brell, the new head of the World Television Network, wants Rip to wrestle for his network.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-02
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The George McKenna Story
1988-08-01
The George McKenna Story
Overview: Washington plays a school principal in a tough inner city Los Angeles high school out to rid it of drugs, gangs, low moral of teachers, and restore educational values.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-01
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Do You Remember Love
1985-05-21
Do You Remember Love
Overview: Barbara Wyatt-Hollis is an English professor who begins to experience the effects of Alzheimer's. The film documents her decline and the emotional turmoil it causes for her. It also shows how the changes impact her husband, George, and their children. The film also looks at the process by which families can be educated and supported to deal with the impact of the disease, as well as what is done for those afflicted.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-21
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Louis Armstrong - Chicago Style
1976-01-25
Louis Armstrong - Chicago Style
Overview: The story of how jazz great Louis Armstrong got his start playing in Chicago clubs, how he was framed on a drug charge, and his travels throughout Europe, where he first gained worldwide fame.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-25
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Ghosts of Mississippi
1996-12-20
Ghosts of Mississippi
Overview: A Mississippi district attorney and the widow of Medgar Evers struggle to bring a white supremacist to justice for the 1963 murder of the civil rights leader.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-20
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