Joe Penny
Also Known As: جو پنی
Biography: Joseph Edward Penny Jr. is an English-born American actor best known for his roles as Nick Ryder on the detective series Riptide from 1984 to 1986, and as Jake Styles in the television series Jake and the Fatman from 1987 to 1992. Starting with a minor role on Forever Fernwood in 1977, Penny has appeared in numerous TV films and television series, including major roles on Riptide and Jake and the Fatman. He has also made many guest appearances on television shows, including Touched by an Angel, T. J. Hooker, Vega$, Matt Houston, Lou Grant, CHiPs, Flamingo Road, The Sopranos, Diagnosis: Murder, Matlock, Walker, Texas Ranger, Archie Bunker's Place, 7th Heaven, Tucker's Witch, Boomtown, The Gangster Chronicles, and CSI. In 2005, he co-starred with Lea Thompson in the mystery series Jane Doe on the Hallmark Channel.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England
Birthday: June 24, 1956
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Gender: Male
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Young at Heart
Overview: A matriarch of three generations born and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey, discovers that her recently-deceased husband has lost their bar and home to a gambling debt.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-12
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Reign of the Gargoyles
Overview: During World War 2 a group of brave US Airmen are downed in Nazi controlled Europe, after their aircraft is attacked by Nazi-controlled mythological Gargoyles.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-24
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Our Winning Season
Overview: This teen drama follows high-school senior David Wakefield, a talented runner who is set on leading his track-and-field team to victory. As David continues to hone his running skills, he carries on a romance with his pretty sweetheart, Alice Baker, and struggles with other issues that come with the transition to adulthood. Also factoring into David's life is the Vietnam War, with the draft fully underway and young men being regularly called into service.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-01
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The Little Unicorn
Overview: After her favorite mare dies while giving birth on her grandfather's farm, Polly's spirits are lifted when she discovers that the foal is a magical baby unicorn. The secret spreads throughout the village, and troublemakers finagle to steal the unicorn for their own gains.
Genres: Family Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-14
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Jane Doe: Now You See It, Now You Don't
Overview: The Declaration Of Independence is stolen while on display in a Los Angeles Bank. The NSA with the assistance of a puzzle slover Code Name Jane Doe becomes involved and solves the mystery.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-18
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Jane Doe: The Wrong Face
Overview: When it comes to crime solving, nobody does it better than Jane Doe.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-19
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Jane Doe: Vanishing Act
Overview: Cathy Davis, one the smartest government agents in the country is urged out of retirement to crack the case of a missing computer file.
Genres: Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-21
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The Prophet's Game
Overview: Moving from city to city, The Prophet lures unsuspecting contestants into solving the riddles it supplies. If the contestants are wrong, somebody dies and somebody is famous.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-06
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Bloody Birthday
Overview: In 1970, three children are born at the height of a total eclipse. Due to the sun and moon blocking Saturn, which controls emotions, they have become heartless killers ten years later, and are able to escape detection because of their youthful and innocent facades. A boy and his teenage sister become endangered when they stumble onto the bloody truth.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-28
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Betrayed at 17
Overview: A mother vows to get justice when her daughter's life is destroyed by a sex video that goes viral.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-09
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Jane Doe: Ties That Bind
Overview: DNA evidence and camera footage places a corrupt CEO as the prime suspect in the murder of a company whistle-blower, but Jane Doe believes the real killer may be a twin sibling.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-03-17
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Jane Doe: Til Death Do Us Part
Overview: When a ruthless arms Kingpin stages an ingenious escape from prison, Jane Doe and Frank Darnell, NSA head, realize he's bent on a vengeance killin. Who the prospective victim is remains to be seen.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-11
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Jane Doe: How to Fire Your Boss
Overview: Jane Doe sets out to track down a killer who is targeting fellow CSA agents.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-09
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Jane Doe: Yes, I Remember It Well
Overview: Jane Doe must solve the kidnapping of a famous mentalist who possesses the names of secret foreign agents.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-01-14
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Jane Doe: The Harder They Fall
Overview: Jane must get to the truth when a breakfast cereal magnate takes a tragic spill from his private yacht and drowns.
Genres: Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-04
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Jane Doe: Eye of the Beholder
Overview: Cathy and Frank partner with a beautiful insurance investigator to recover a stolen masterpiece. Frank is smitten with her, even though it becomes more apparent she may be the mastermind behind the theft. Stars Lea Thompson, Joe Penny and Billy Moses.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-12
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BitterSweet
Overview: A young co-ed who's just been release from prison for a crime she didn't commit plots her revenge against a former lover, who was the real culprit, with the help of a policeman.
Genres: Thriller Romance Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-30
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She Woke Up Pregnant
Overview: A sleazy dentist sexually assaults his patients while they are under heavy sedatives for dental surgery. One woman gets impregnated from such an incident and decides to fight back.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-28
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Two Against Time
Overview: This film finds a mother and her teen daughter both being diagnosed with cancer. This discovery helps to overcome the longtime antagonistic relationship that the two have developed.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-21
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The Danger of Love: The Carolyn Warmus Story
Overview: Michael Carlin, a teacher, has been having an affair with a much younger fellow teacher Carolyn Warmus. When his wife is murdered, the police suspect him due to inconsistencies in his alibi, and no evidence points to anyone else.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-04
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Jack of Hearts
Overview: A cop looking for a chance to redeem himself comes up against a man who has built a fortune out of corruption.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-02
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star
Overview: An actor rigs a fake shooting on TV with the connivance of his friend, the show's host, but the practical joke goes wrong when the gun turns out to contain a live round.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-08
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Roses Are for the Rich
Overview: In a small town in Appalachia, Autumn's young husband is killed in a suspicious mine explosion. She vows vengeance on mine owner Douglas Osborne and dedicates her life to destroying him, even at the cost of her own happiness. When her attempts at financial ruin fail, she manipulates Osborne into marriage by claiming she is carrying his child. After Osborne dies from cyanide poisoning, Autumn is arrested for his murder, but she professes her innocence.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-17
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S.O.B.
Overview: A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-01
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Stranger in My Home
Overview: A famous female lawyer suspects that her client, a homeless transient, may in fact be a brother she lost many years ago.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-11
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The Red Phone: Checkmate
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Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2004-04-01
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The Operation
Overview: Duplicity reigns supreme as a doctor in a messy, emotional divorce from his wife, who is also his partner in a medical clinic, is suddenly slapped with a $7 million malpractice suit by a patient who claims he performed an unnecessary hysterectomy on her.
Genres: Thriller Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-21
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Richard Lewis: I'm In Pain
Overview: A live performance by "neurotic" stand-up comedian Richard Lewis. Includes tongue-in-cheek interviews with fellow comedians.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-16
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The Disappearance of Vonnie
Overview: Corrine Kaczmarek is seeking desperately for the truth in the case of the mysterious disappearance of her sister Vonnie.
Genres: Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-27
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Double Jeopardy
Overview: A naive 16 year old waitress falls for a corrupt, married police officer. When she falls pregnant, her lover plots her murder.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-30
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Samurai
Overview: Lee Cantrell, a young San Francisco attorney by day, at night becomes a samurai warrior, and battles a crazed multi-millionaire who is planning to destroy the city with an earthquake machine.
Genres: Action Crime Adventure TV Movie Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-30
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Gangster Wars
Overview: The film tells the story of three teenagers, based on real life gangsters Charles "Lucky" Luciano (Michael Nouri), Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (Joe Penny) and Michael Lasker (Brian Benben) (a fictional character who was most likely modeled after Meyer Lansky), growing up in New York's ghettos during the early 1900s to their rise though organized crime.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-09
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Lifepod
Overview: The first interplanetary cruise ship malfunctions halfway to Jupiter, forcing most of the crew and passengers to abandon ship. A handful of people are trapped onboard.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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The Girls in the Office
Overview: A romantic comedy about four women employed by an ultra-modern Houston department store who discover that they must choose between love and a career.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-02
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Whisper Kill
Overview: Ambitious reporter, Liz Bartlett, secretly wishes that Jerry Caper, her business associate were dead. Yet her hidden desire soon becomes a reality when he is brutally murdered. Investigative reporter, Dan Walker is assigned to the murder case and becomes intrigued by the pretty reporter. they begin a passionate affair but Dan can't dispel his suspicion of Liz's guilt. When a second murder is commited, Dan probes deeper, looking for clues in Liz's past. But just as the pieces of the puzzle begin to fall into place, Dan follows a lead, bringing him face to face with the killer in a shocking ending, filled with suspense.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-16
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The Gossip Columnist
Overview: New Tinseltown gossip columnist Dina Moran helps faded movie star Georgia O'Hanlon dig up dirt on amoral characters.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-21
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The Red Phone: Manhunt
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Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-11-10
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Deathmoon
Overview: An overworked executive vacationing in Hawaii finds that his romance with an attractive businesswoman he meets there is threatened by the supernatural powers of a strange native curse on his bloodline.
Genres: Horror Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-31
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Terror in the Night
Overview: A fugitive killer posing as a policeman arrests two campers in the Arizona mountains.
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-11
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Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife
Overview: A fashion designer marries a lawyer only to discover that his father is an imfamous mafia don.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-18
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Delta County, USA
Overview: Delta County is a staid Southern community caught between the old traditions and a rapidly changing way of life. For teenagers Terry Nicholas, his sister McCain, and Joe Ed, the boy from the wrong side of the tracks that she's attracted to, the old traditions have little meaning in their lives. Their elders, struggling to preserve values of an older day, have personal problems that are sometimes overwhelming, such as the one facing John McCain Jr., an alcoholic whose wife Kate is having a hidden and torrid romance that sets her husband off on a vengeance-seeking spree.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-20
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Breach of Faith: A Family of Cops II
Overview: The family of cops is back, this time dealing with the murder of a priest tied in with the Russian Mafia, who proceed to try to draw the family off the case.
Genres: Action Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-02
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Family of Cops III: Under Suspicion
Overview: Police Inspector Paul Fein copes with family troubles while also dealing with the possibility of advancement to police chief. Meanwhile, his son is investigating the murder of a banker.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-12
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