David Ury
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Biography: David Brian Ury (born September 30, 1973) is an American actor, stand-up comedian, YouTuber, and Japanese translation specialist. Ury was born and raised in Sonoma, California. He graduated from Sonoma Valley High School, where he acted in theatre productions. He earned a bachelor's degree in linguistics at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington and studied abroad in Japan, where he became fluent in Japanese. Ury is a descendant of German Jewish impressionist painter Lesser Ury. Since studying abroad in Tokyo, Ury and has worked as a translator in film, television, and manga and currently (As of May 2011) translates and writes English adaptations for manga. Ury moved to Los Angeles in August 2001 where he began performing stand-up comedy. Cartoonist Keith Knight, a neighbor of his, described Ury's acting career as "Spooge man" and "a cavalcade of reprobates, sleazeballs, derelicts, & weirdos." Ury has made several film and television appearances, including an episode of Tim Kring's Crossing Jordan and in Shoot 'Em Up. He also appeared in Heroes, Malcolm in the Middle, Life, Without a Trace, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Zeke and Luther, and The Librarians. In March 2015, Ury was cast for Rob Zombie's slasher film 31 as Schizo-Head. A character actor, Ury has died on screen in almost every role he has portrayed. Ury also has several YouTube channels/accounts/personalities and alter-egos, which include Karaoke Steve and Ken Tanaka, the fictional adopted twin brother of David Ury. Tanaka is described as an Ashkenazi Jewish man adopted as an infant by Japanese parents Hideo and Mari Tanaka, and raised in Shimane Prefecture of Japan; he returns to Los Angeles to find his birth parents Jonathan and Linda Smith.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 01, 1973
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Gender: Male
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Black Widow
Overview: Mel, a photo journalist, gets suspicious when her best friend Danny start dating Olivia a wealthy but mysterious woman. She enlists the help of her assistant in investigating Olivia's past and present occupation putting herself in danger.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-12-08
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Little Death
Overview: A middle-aged filmmaker on the verge of a breakthrough. Two kids in search of a lost backpack. A small dog a long way from home.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-01-19
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1-800-Hot-Nite
Overview: When 13-year-old Tommy loses his parents to a drug raid, he turns to a phone sex operator (his fairy godmother) for help as he embarks on an urban odyssey to escape foster care with his two best friends.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-04
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Babylon
Overview: A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound films in the late 1920s.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-12-22
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Do Not Watch
Overview: A cautionary tale of madness told through the lens of an unseen Editor, who has constructed this film that unveils the events surrounding the disappearance of a post-production crew and the growing darkness that drove them insane. A decades-spanning mystery is interwoven across three timelines: a present day documentary; several missing person cases; and scientific research footage from old VHS tapes.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-10-16
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Little Boy
Overview: An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home. The story reveals the indescribable love a father has for his little boy and the love a son has for his father.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-04-23
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Overview: Five carnival workers are kidnapped and held hostage in an abandoned, Hell-like compound where they are forced to participate in a violent game, the goal of which is to survive twelve hours against a gang of sadistic clowns.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-15
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A Blind Bargain
Overview: An homage to a lost horror film starring Lon Chaney, A Blind Bargain is inspired by a handful of remaining old photographs and newspaper reviews. This version is set in 1970 but commits to the same sense of dread and catastrophe as the original story about a young man who allows a psychotic doctor to experiment on his mother.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
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The Revenant
Overview: A horror movie/buddy comedy about Joey and his undead friend Bart who comes back from the dead as a revenant: an articulate zombie that needs to drink blood to arrest the decomposition of his body.
Genres: Comedy Horror War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-16
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National Treasure: Book of Secrets
Overview: Benjamin Franklin Gates and Abigail Chase re-team with Riley Poole and, now armed with a stack of long-lost pages from John Wilkes Booth's diary, Ben must follow a clue left there to prove his ancestor's innocence in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Genres: Action Adventure Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-13
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Pearblossom Hwy
Overview: Friends Cory and Anna are drifting through life, struggling to find their place. Cory is sick of life in the desert and wants to be on a reality show so he can prove to his brother that he isn't a screw-up. Anna is in the country illegally, selling sex to save enough money to take her citizenship test. When Cory's brother visits and Anna's dying grandmother takes a turn for the worst, the two are forced to examine the direction of their lives
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-24
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Lake Los Angeles
Overview: After crossing into the U.S. with no family to speak of, young Cecilia finds herself in the charge of Francisco, a lonely Cuban immigrant long separated from his own family. Francisco operates a way station for border crossers on the outskirts of Lake Los Angeles, a surreal, desiccated lakebed in the California desert. While he copes with the alienation of living alone in a foreign land and the impossibility of realizing the American dream, Cecilia aimlessly wanders the dusty landscape, accompanied only by her fantastical imagination and distant memories of motherly love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-14
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3 from Hell
Overview: After barely surviving a furious shootout with the police, Baby Firefly, Otis Driftwood and Captain Spaulding are behind bars. But pure evil cannot be contained. Teaming up with Otis’ half-brother Winslow, the demented Firefly clan escape to unleash a whole new wave of murder, madness and mayhem.
Genres: Horror Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-16
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Able Edwards
Overview: The story of the clone of a famous entertainment mogul created to revive the glory days of his deceased predecessor's corporation. In the process of restoring reality entertainment to a synthetic, virtual world, the clone relizes he has yet to live as his own man.
Genres: Drama Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-03-15
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A Cinderella Story: If the Shoe Fits
Overview: A contemporary musical version of the classic Cinderella story in which the servant step daughter hope to compete in a musical competition for a famous pop star.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-08-02
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Shoot 'Em Up
Overview: A man named Mr. Smith delivers a woman's baby during a shootout, and is then called upon to protect the newborn from the army of gunmen.
Genres: Action Thriller Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-26
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Loners
Overview: When a group of eccentric loners is scapegoated by the government and forced into a ridiculous group therapy program as part of its war on violence they must come together to stand up for their right to be alone.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-30
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To Hell and Back: The Making of 3 From Hell
Overview: A look at the production of Rob Zombie's 3 from Hell.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-16
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Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
Overview: Harley Quinn joins forces with a singer, an assassin and a police detective to help a young girl who had a hit placed on her after she stole a rare diamond from a crime lord.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-02-05
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Kajillionaire
Overview: Two con artists have spent 26 years training their only daughter to swindle, scam and steal at every turn. During a desperate and hastily conceived heist, they charm a stranger into joining them, only to have their entire world turned upside down.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-25
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Coffee Town
Overview: Will is a 30-something website manager who uses local café, Coffee Town, as his office. When the owners of the shop discuss plans to convert Coffee Town into a bar, Will enlists the help of his two best friends Chad and Gino to save his freeloading existence. In order to thwart the plans of Coffee Town's owners, the trio stages a robbery to create the illusion of an unsafe neighborhood not suitable for the proposed venue. Also standing in their way is Sam, a disgruntled barista with delusions of grandeur and Will's heartache over unrequited love for Becca.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-09
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Paparazzi
Overview: A rising Hollywood actor decides to take personal revenge against a group of four persistent photographers to make them pay for almost causing a personal tragedy involving his wife and son.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-03
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Dark Ride
Overview: Ten years after he brutally murdered two girls, a killer escapes from a mental institution and returns to his turf, the theme park attraction called Dark Ride. About to crash his path are a group of college kids on a road trip who stumble across the park.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-20
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Faith Based
Overview: When two idiot friends realize all "faith based" films make buckets of cash, they set out on a mission to make one of their own.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-09
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Violent Ends
Overview: Lucas Frost, an honest man brought up in a crime family whose only legacy is violence, tries to make his own life with his fiancée, Emma. He is suddenly pulled back into the family business he so despises when his cousin, Eli, perpetrates an armed robbery on a local scrap yard and an innocent life is caught in the crossfire.
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Original Language: en
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