Eddie Jones
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Eddie Jones (born 1937 Washington, Pennsylvania) is an American actor known for playing Clark Kent's father Jonathan Kent in the ABC television series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, and Charles Broden (a.k.a. The Official), head of The Agency, in the Sci-Fi television series The Invisible Man. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eddie Jones (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 18, 1934
Deathday: July 06, 2019
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The Terminal
2004-06-17
The Terminal
Overview: Viktor Navorski is a man without a country; his plane took off just as a coup d'etat exploded in his homeland, leaving it in shambles, and now he's stranded at Kennedy Airport, where he's holding a passport that nobody recognizes. While quarantined in the transit lounge until authorities can figure out what to do with him, Viktor simply goes on living – and courts romance with a beautiful flight attendant.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-06-17
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Sneakers
1992-09-09
Sneakers
Overview: When shadowy U.S. intelligence agents blackmail a reformed computer hacker and his eccentric team of security experts into stealing a code-breaking 'black box' from a Soviet-funded genius, they uncover a bigger conspiracy. Now, he and his 'sneakers' must save themselves and the world economy by retrieving the box from their blackmailers.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-09
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Seabiscuit
2003-07-22
Seabiscuit
Overview: True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-22
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Year of the Dragon
1985-08-16
Year of the Dragon
Overview: In New York, racist Capt. Stanley White becomes obsessed with destroying a Chinese-American drug ring run by Joey Tai, an up-and-coming young gangster as ambitious as he is ruthless. While pursuing an unauthorized investigation, White grows increasingly willing to violate police protocol, resorting to progressively violent measures -- even as his concerned wife, Connie, and his superiors beg him to consider the consequences of his actions.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-16
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The First Deadly Sin
1980-10-03
The First Deadly Sin
Overview: A serial killer is stalking New York. Inspector Edward X. Delaney is an NYPD detective, nearing retirement, who is trying to put together the pieces of the case. Are the victims somehow linked? What does the brutal method of death signify?
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-03
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Body Language
1995-07-22
Body Language
Overview: A lawyer, defending a Mafia boss, falls for a beautiful woman with a sad story to tell. She says she's being abused by her brutal husband and she needs his help.
Genres: Thriller Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-07-22
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Fighting Tommy Riley
2005-05-06
Fighting Tommy Riley
Overview: An aging trainer and a young fighter, both in need of a second chance, team-up to overcome the demons of their past...and chase the dreams of their future.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-06
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The Grifters
1990-08-08
The Grifters
Overview: A small-time conman has his loyalties torn between his estranged mother and his new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-08
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Dancer, Texas Pop. 81
1998-05-01
Dancer, Texas Pop. 81
Overview: Four guys, best friends, have grown up together in DANCER, TEXAS POP. 81, a tiny town in West Texas. Years ago, they made a solemn vow to leave town together as soon as they graduate. Now, it's that weekend and the time has come to "put up or shut up." The clock is ticking and as all 81 people in the town watch, comment, offer advice and place bets, these four very different boys with unique backgrounds struggle with the biggest decision of their lives... whether to stay or leave home.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-01
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The Day Lincoln Was Shot
1998-04-12
The Day Lincoln Was Shot
Overview: A dramatization of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Based on the book by Jim Bishop.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-12
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Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Lightning
1995-03-19
Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Lightning
Overview: In New York two detectives of the 87th precinct are initially baffled by the brutal, ritualistic slayings of several young women. Through good detective work and clues left at the crime scenes by the psychopathic killer, they are able to deduce who the killer's next victim will be. A tense chase ensues as they try to prevent him from continuing his bloody rampage
Genres: Drama TV Movie Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-19
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Doubletake
1985-11-24
Doubletake
Overview: Two corpses are found in different locations with their heads severed and exchanged. Frank Janek is called on to head the team of detectives investigating. Meanwhile, Janek is trying to find out why an old friend and colleague committed suicide, which eventually leads to a romantic situation with photographer Caroline Wallace and the discovery of some major corruption among his superiors, all of which has little or nothing to do with the murder story.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-24
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Case Closed
1988-04-19
Case Closed
Overview: As an action packed thriller, it has it's own good moments. Best of all is Charles Durning, a man who knows a lot about acting. He steals the movie as the retired Les Kabowski, who wants to cooperate with Det. Brockman, an eager man trying to solve an unsolved case. Both actors seem to have hit it off well, as it shows in the finished product.
Genres: Crime Action Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-19
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True Friends
1998-01-30
True Friends
Overview: New York, The Bronx, 1980. Two Italian boys Joey Esposito and Louie Mazerino jump to the defence of a smaller Puerto Rican boy, J.J. Lopez, when J.J. is threatened by six schoolyard bullies. The three boys soon become best friends, and they always look out for each other. However, their innocence is shattered when they witness Big Tony, the local Mob boss kill a man. The three boys vow to each other to keep it a secret. Fifteen years later, the three boys, now in their late twenties are still the best of friends and still living in The Bronx. They dream of opening their own bar. Desperate to better themselves, Joey devises a scheme to steal money from Big Tony and open their own Joint.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-30
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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 Return of Ironside
1993-05-04
The Return of Ironside
Overview: After forty years of good and faithful services, Robert T. Ironside, reprocessed police force of San Francisco, is finally on the point of tasting with the joys of a rest deserved well with Katherine, his wife, in their vineyard recently bought. However, a few days after his official departure, he is contacted by persons in charge for the police force of Denver, which offers the post of general manager temporarily to him their services, following the assassination for preceding occupying of the station in question. Initially reticent, Ironside ends up yielding and, with the agreement of his wife, agrees to take up the challenge, the more so as he has pleasure to find Susan, the girl of the one of her former assistants.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-04
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Bloodbrothers
1978-09-27
Bloodbrothers
Overview: A young man is torn between following in his brothers' footsteps or striking out on his own.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-27
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Mercy
2014-10-07
Mercy
Overview: A single mom and her two boys help take care of their grandmother with mystical powers.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-07
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Stranger in My House
1999-01-01
Stranger in My House
Overview: A middle-aged woman takes on a young female tenant to help pay her debts, but gets a lot more than she bargains for when the girl starts to act very strangely indeed . . .
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Disconnect
2010-08-06
Disconnect
Overview: A distraught college student finds a phone that enables her to talk to her deceased mother in the past. Instead of a heart attack, she learns that her mother was murdered. She tries to use the phone to stop the murder from occurring before the killer finds and kills her too.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-06
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Invasion U.S.A.
1985-09-27
Invasion U.S.A.
Overview: A one-man army comes to the rescue of the United States when a spy attempts an invasion.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-27
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Return to Me
2000-04-07
Return to Me
Overview: It took a lot of cajoling to get Bob, a recently widowed architect, to go on a blind date at a quirky Irish-Italian eatery. Once there, he's smitten instantly not with his date but with the sharp-witted waitress. Everything seems to be going great until an unbelievable truth is revealed, one that could easily break both of their hearts for good.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-07
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The New Kids
1985-01-18
The New Kids
Overview: A brother and his young sister come to a small town to find out a local gang terrorizes the population.
Genres: Drama Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-18
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Us
1991-09-20
Us
Overview: When the police finds a necklace with some criminal, a detective remembers that it was missing evidence in a murderer case many years ago. So it turns out that Jeff Hayes, sentenced to life-long prison, was innocent. After 18 years in jail he's finally released - but has problems finding back into normal life. There's his father who believed him guilty and his ex-wife Ellen, who told their son Kerry and her new husband Paul Kramer his father had died.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-20
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Act Your Age
2011-01-11
Act Your Age
Overview: Lake, a young theater actor with no respect for the elderly, is forced to make himself look old, in order to land a part in a Broadway-bound play. His ego drives his girlfriend away, and when research for the play requires him to spend a week in a nursing home, he is forced to review his life choices. Lake eventually learns to abandon his preconceptions and rid himself of the anger that has been holding him back, in pursuit of his dreams.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-11
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C.H.U.D.
1984-08-31
C.H.U.D.
Overview: A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers. A courageous policeman, a photojournalist and his girlfriend, and a nutty bum, who seems to know a lot about the creatures, band together to try and determine what the creatures are and how to stop them.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-31
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She Was Marked for Murder
1988-12-18
She Was Marked for Murder
Overview: While jogging in New York Central Park, the rich widow Elena meets Eric. Although he's 10 years younger, she falls in love with him and they marry shortly after. Soon she discovers that he has a long-going affair with her secretary Claire. Elena suspects they're after her money.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-18
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Apprentice to Murder
1988-02-26
Apprentice to Murder
Overview: Pennsylvania, 1928. Billy Kelly, a sixteen-year old boy, meets a mysterious traveler claiming he's the messenger of God. Falling under under the spell of this "doctor" Reese, he will soon discover Reese has murderous plans for his future. Based on a true story.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-26
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Tales from the Darkside
1990-11-29
Tales from the Darkside
Overview: A compilation of episodes from the classic '80s horror anthology TV series "Tales From The Darkside" for the VHS market.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-29
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The Believers
1987-06-09
The Believers
Overview: Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two youths.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-09
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Letter to My Killer
1995-08-09
Letter to My Killer
Overview: A letter is found by a demolition worker that reveals a cover up and a murder that is over 30 years old. The victim is the author of the letter that also contains evidence that leads to the killers. The demolition worker and his wife complicate things when they decide to blackmail the killers, who are wealthy and upstanding citizens of the community, of course.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-09
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Q
1982-09-08
Q
Overview: New York police are bemused by reports of a giant flying lizard that has been spotted around the rooftops of New York, until the lizard starts to eat people. An out-of-work ex-con is the only person who knows the location of the monster's nest and is determined to turn the knowledge to his advantage, but will his gamble pay off or will he end up as lizard food?
Genres: Crime Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-08
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Cadillac Man
1990-05-18
Cadillac Man
Overview: Joe's a car salesman with a problem—he has two days to sell 12 cars or he loses his job. This would be a difficult task at the best of times but Joe has to contend with his girlfriends (he's two-timing), a missing teenage daughter and an ex-wife.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-18
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Trading Places
1983-06-07
Trading Places
Overview: A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-07
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On the Yard
1978-09-16
On the Yard
Overview: Chilly is "top con" on the yard, a title that gives him absolute power. Power to make the rules. Power to kill. When a young con confronts Chilly's power, he learns the vicious price of defiance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-16
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The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
1993-04-10
The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
Overview: A Texas housewife plots hire a hit man to kill the girl who beat out her daughter for a place on the cheerleading squad.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-10
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A League of Their Own
1992-07-01
A League of Their Own
Overview: As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female baseball league springs up in the Midwest, funded by publicity-hungry candy maker Walter Harvey. Competitive sisters Dottie Hinson and Kit Keller spar with each other, scout Ernie Capadino and grumpy has-been coach Jimmy Dugan on their way to fame.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-01
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Prince of the City
1981-08-19
Prince of the City
Overview: New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice help eliminate corruption in the police department, as long as he will not have to turn in any close friends. In doing so, Ciello uncovers a conspiracy within the force to smuggle drugs to street informants.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-19
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Kojak: Flowers For Matty
1990-01-04
Kojak: Flowers For Matty
Overview: Kojak charms his way into high society to investigate art thefts that are tied to munitions smuggling and murder.
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-04
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Stanley & Iris
1990-02-09
Stanley & Iris
Overview: An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inability to read. When he is fired, she takes on trying to teach him to read in her kitchen each night.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-09
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The Invisible Man
2000-09-06
The Invisible Man
Overview: A thief is given the means to become invisible and ends up working for a government agency.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-06
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