Michael Ruud
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Biography: Michael Ruud (October 7th, 1944-September 21st 1999) was an American Character Actor who had appeared in 48 films and tv shows. He graduated from the University of Utah with a master's degree in fine arts. He also served in the Army from 1967-1969 during the Vietnam War, reaching the Rank of Sergeant and getting an honorable discharge. After his military service he found work in theater and film. On-Screen he his best remembered as "Big Al Gateway in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers(1988), where attempted to Fight Michael Myers while Protecting the Lloyd Sisters. He passed away on September 27, 1999, from a massive stroke in Murray, Utah.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Afton, Wyoming, United States
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Birthday: October 07, 1944
Age: 80 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 21, 1999
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Overview: The escapades of Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, and the runaway slave, Jim, drifting down the Mississippi on a homemade raft, and their encounter with the Duke and his cohort, Dauphin.
Genres: Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-09
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The Ballad of Little Jo
Overview: After being thrown out of her home, a young woman decides to disguise herself as a man to survive the ruthless Wild West.
Genres: Romance Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-20
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Konrad
Overview: Konrad is a factory-made child, perfect in every way. When he is mistakenly delivered to the eccentric Mrs. Bartelotti, the factory demands his return. Konrad must go against everything he has been taught to stand up to his creators.
Genres: Comedy Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-13
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Donner Pass: The Road to Survival
Overview: A grim incident from American pioneer history is recreated as a determined group of settlers, facing almost insurmountable odds, struggles to reach California in 1846. Already divided by internal dissension over the choice of a leader and the selection of a route, the wagon train is soon decimated by Indian raids, a scarcity of food and water, and the unrelenting forces of nature. Finally after months of hardship, the party reaches the High Sierras, only to be stranded in the middle of the pass by an early snowstorm. And as fear of an agonizing death from starvation forces the abandonment of conventional rules of human behavior, the pioneers face a new enemy - each other.
Genres: TV Movie Adventure Drama History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-10-24
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The Time Machine
Overview: A scientist builds a machine that will enable him to travel back and forth in time, but when he puts it in motion, he gets more than he bargained for.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-05
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The Adventures of Nellie Bly
Overview: A "Classics Illustrated" account of pioneer female journalist Nellie Bly, who became a legend through her exposes of corruption and inhumane conditions in New York of the 1880s in "The New York World."
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-11
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Incident at Crestridge
Overview: A woman campaigns for and wins election as sheriff in a crusade against the ineptitude and outright corruption of the local law enforcement in a small town in the West.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-29
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Rockwell: A Legend of the Wild West
Overview: The feature-film debut from writer/director Richard Lloyd Dewey, this Western stars Randy Gleave as Porter Rockwell, an outlaw looking to go straight. After landing on the right side of the law as a deputy, Rockwell assembles a team and takes on the dangerous task of bringing down a corrupt business owner. Rockwell also stars NBA superstar Karl Malone and George Sullivan.
Genres: Western Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Love Kills
Overview: Glamorous fashion photographer Rebecca is getting even. Angered by her husband's infidelity, she takes a lover - a mysterious hunk she fist met during a photo shoot. He's exciting. He's handsome. And, after a night of lovemaking, he confesses he's a hit man hired by her husband to kill her. The stranger also says he's had a change of heart and wants to be Rebecca's protector. But Rebecca's husband, a renowned psychologist, insists the man is a former patient with a hidden, twisted agenda. Both men can't be right. Both could be lying. As the circle of suspense closes in on her, one thing is clear to Rebecca. Any choice she makes could be more than wrong...it could be fatal.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-11-13
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Nashville Grab
Overview: A dashing, fast-living country singer almost turns Nashville upside-down after he is kidnapped by a pair of conniving female convicts determined to use him as a passport to freedom.
Genres: Comedy Crime Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-18
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The Philadelphia Experiment
Overview: Based on an "actual event" that took place in 1943. About a US Navy Destroyer Escort that disappeared from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and sent two men 40 years into the future to 1984.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-05
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A More Perfect Union
Overview: Become an eyewitness to the Constitutional Convention of 1787. This stirring 2-hour film will bring the Founding Fathers to life as you witness the struggles and the miracles that produced the Constitution of the United States and the freest nation on earth. Filmed on location at Independence Hall; Williamsburg, Virginia; and other historical sites, it dramatically chronicles how America became a nation. It is exciting drama of the best kind-fact, rather than fiction. "It brings the history books to life," writes one reviewer. "Dramatically moving, and visually handsome," says another. Officially recognized by the Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, who cited the film as being "of exceptional merit."
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-07
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The Fall of the House of Usher
Overview: After a long journey, a traveller and his wife arrive at the Usher mansion. Upon arriving, however, they discover that the mansion's sibling inhabitants, Roderick and Madeline Usher, have been afflicted with a mysterious malady: Roderick's senses have become painfully acute, while Madeline has become nearly catatonic. That evening, Roderick tells his guests of an old Usher family curse: any time there has been more than one Usher child, all of the siblings have gone insane and died horrible deaths. As the days wear on, the effects of the curse reach their terrifying climax.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-01
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Hangar 18
Overview: During a Space Shuttle mission a satellite rams a unidentified flying object. The UFO afterwards performs an emergency landing in the deserts of Arizona. However the White House denies its existence because of the near presidential elections. The UFO is brought to the secret Hangar 18 and the accident is blamed on the incompetence of the astronauts Bancroff and Price. But the two fight against this and try to hunt down the UFO.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-07-01
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Abraham's Sacrifice
Overview: Tale of Abraham who battles a King for his land and who seeks revenge on Abraham for killing his son. And the birth of his son, Isaac and the scheming of a slave who wishes for his freedom and is willing to do whatever to get it. And eventually his test where he has to sacrifice Issac.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-22
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Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
Overview: Michael returns to Haddonfield for Jamie Lloyd – the orphaned daughter of Laurie Strode – and her babysitter Rachel. Can Dr. Loomis stop him before the unholy slaughter reaches his innocent young niece?
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-21
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Overview: A TV adaptation of Washington Irving's classic ghost story. Humor is the drawing card in this version, with Jeff Goldblum a nerdish Ichabod Crane, Dick Butkus an appropriately nasty Brom Bones, and Meg Foster as spirited Katrina van Tassel. Angered that Katrina has grown fond of schoolmaster Crane, Brom Bones determines to scare off the interloper by filling his head with spooky tales of a Headless Horseman. Crane pooh-poohs the legends, until one fateful ride home in the dark of night.
Genres: Horror Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-31
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Tripwire
Overview: A band of ruthless international terrorists led by Josef Szabo hijack a speeding railroad train loaded with a full arsenal of powerful military weaponry capable of threatening world peace. The only hero who can stop the terrorists' scheme for world domination is Jack DeForest. During the battle between good and evil the hero DeForest accidentally kills the son of the Szabo. Seeking revenge Szabo locates DeForest’s family, murders his wife and kidnaps their teenage son thereby turning their fight it into a personal vendetta. So, DeForest must fight not only to save the world, but for his only remaining family.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-30
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Solo
Overview: A woman named Liz Brantley takes a three-legged solo flight and then her plane crashes.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Geronimo: An American Legend
Overview: The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not all the Apaches are able to adapt to the life of corn farmers. One in particular, Geronimo, is restless. Pushed over the edge by broken promises and necessary actions by the government, Geronimo and thirty or so other warriors form an attack team which humiliates the government by evading capture, while reclaiming what is rightfully theirs.
Genres: Western History Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-10
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Red Rock West
Overview: When a promised job for Texan Michael fails to materialize in Wyoming, Mike is mistaken by Wayne to be the hitman he hired to kill his unfaithful wife, Suzanne. Mike takes full advantage of the situation, collects the money, and runs. During his getaway, things go wrong, and soon get worse when he runs into the real hitman, Lyle.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-14
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Double Jeopardy
Overview: Jack Hart lives with his lawyer wife and yound daughter and enjoys a wonderful life. Jack's old girlfriend, Lisa, comes into town and they have an affair. Lisa kills her current boyfriend in self-defense and Jack witnesses the whole thing. Lisa goes on trial for murder with Jack's wife as her lawyer. As the movie progresses Lisa's devious side becomes known and make for an interesting conclusion
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-11-21
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The Testaments
Overview: This film depict events from the Life and ministry of Jesus Christ as recorded in the New Testament and the Book of Mormon. The story culminates with a portrayal of the Ressurected Savior's visit to the ancient Americas as seen through the eyes of a fictional family. Jesus' ministry to the members of His fold in both the Holy Land and the ancient Americas powerfully demonstrates that He is the Good Shepherd of all who hear His voice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-24
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A Killer in the Family
Overview: Three teenage boys break their father out of prison only to discover that he is a murderous sociopath. Based on a true story.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-30
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A Hobo's Christmas
Overview: A hobo played by Barnard Hughes decides it's time to go home. Drifting from place to place, Hughes finds himself in his hometown of Salt Lake City at Christmas time. Here he hopes to close old wounds and be reunited with his unforgiving son played by Gerald McRaney, and get to know the grandchildren he has never met. McRaney, still resenting the fact that Hughes ran out on his family 25 years earlier, gives his father only one day with his grandkids; after that, he's expected to leave and never come back. All the while Hughes' friends warn him that his son and the past are memories that are best left alone, and should leave, but he has to find out for himself.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-20
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Promised Land
Overview: Three recent high school grads - star athlete Hancock, his cheerleader girlfriend, Mary, and the awkward Senator - aim to leave their small town behind and realize big dreams, but their idealistic plans collide with life's harsh realities.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-22
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The Incredible Rocky Mountain Race
Overview: An old man observes a boy bullying his playmates and treats him to a morality lesson. The man tells the story of the epic cross-country race between a young Mark Twain and his rival, Mike Fink. The bulk of the film depicts the race, which proves to be more a test of character than of stamina
Genres: Adventure Comedy Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-17
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Divided by Hate
Overview: When Carol Gibbs becomes involved with religious- and political-cult leader Steve Riordan's anti-government movement, she takes her children and leaves her husband Louis. Louis, a young farmer, tries every legal and governmental means to get his children back, without success. At his wit's end, he hires private investigator Danny Leland to snatch his children from the cult.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Louis L'Amour's Down the Long Hills
Overview: Two young survivors of a wagon-train massacre battle horse thieves as they take a prize stallion through Utah.
Genres: TV Movie Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-15
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