Dennis Lipscomb
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Biography: Dennis Lipscomb (March 1, 1942 - July 30, 2014) was an American actor. Lipscomb's first feature film was Union City (1980). From the early 1980s to the 1990s, Lipscomb appeared in key roles in various motion pictures including Love Child (1982), WarGames (1983), Eyes of Fire (1983), The Day After (1983), A Soldier's Story (1984), Crossroads (1986), Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987), Retribution (1987), Sister, Sister (1987), The First Power (1990) and Under Siege (1992). Lipscomb also had a recurring role as mayor of the fictitious town of Sparta, Mississippi in the first season of In the Heat of the Night (1988). In more recent years, Lipscomb has guest starred on television commercials and shows, including WKRP In Cincinnati, T.J. Hooker, and Wiseguy (1987; CBS) as Sid Royce/Elvis Prim. To a younger audience he is perhaps best known as DCI Peter Sterling in Spycraft: The Great Game.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Westbury, New York, USA
Birthday: March 01, 1942
Deathday: July 30, 2014
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Gender: Male
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WarGames
Overview: High school student David Lightman has a talent for hacking. But while trying to hack into a computer system to play unreleased video games, he unwittingly taps into the Department of Defense's war computer and initiates a confrontation of global proportions. Together with his girlfriend and a wizardly computer genius, David must race against time to outwit his opponent and prevent a nuclear Armageddon.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-03
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Le Grand Silence
Overview: Preparing for an evening out, the sexual tension between Armande and Benny turns sour, Benny's ulterior motives for their union subtley apparent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-01
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The Day After
Overview: In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residents of a small town in Kansas as they continue their daily lives. Dr. Russell Oakes maintains his busy schedule at the hospital, Denise Dahlberg prepares for her upcoming wedding, and Stephen Klein is deep in his graduate studies. When the unthinkable happens and the bombs come down, the town's residents are thrust into the horrors of nuclear winter.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-20
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A Soldier's Story
Overview: In a rural town in Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local Army Base. Military lawyer, Captain Davenport—also a black man—is sent from Washington to conduct an investigation. Facing an uncooperative chain of command and fearful black troops, Davenport must battle with deceit and prejudice in order to find out exactly who really did kill the Master Sergeant.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-14
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Without Warning
Overview: A television program is interupted by a news network announcing that three meteors have hit the United States, France and China. At first it seems natural but after interviews by scientists and eyewitness seems to suggest that it is not. Three more meteors are coming and the various Earth governments combine forces to stop them.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-30
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Crossroads
Overview: A wanna-be blues guitar virtuoso seeks a long-lost song by legendary musician, Robert Johnson.
Genres: Drama Music Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-14
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Call to Glory
Overview: Colonel Raynor Sarnac has to balance his family and his duty as head of a flight group facing the political tensions of the early 60's. Actual historical events are part of various stories as are the activities of three active children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-13
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Retribution
Overview: After a depressed artist miraculously survives a suicide attempt, a series of horrific murders leads him to realize he may have been possessed by the vengeful spirit of a murdered gangster.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-01
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Eyes of Fire
Overview: In 1750, an adulterous preacher is ejected from a small British colony with his motley crew of followers, who make their way downriver to establish a new settlement of their own beyond the western frontier.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-21
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Love Child
Overview: It's an extraordinarily touching true-story about Terry Jean Moore, the determined, independent and young woman who is imprisoned for 7 years on account of a "five dollar" robbery. In the prison she will be pregnant by a jailer and she has to fight for bear and keep her child.
Genres: Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-15
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Union City
Overview: A 1950s accountant with a restless wife grows paranoid after hiding a milk thief's corpse next door.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-26
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The Force
Overview: When a police officer is killed in the line of duty, his soul enters into the body of a young officer to seek revenge for his murder. However, when the spirit takes over, the officer is unaware of what is going on and most think he is in need of a psychiatrist, including the wife of the fallen cop.
Genres: Action Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-02-21
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Sister, Sister
Overview: Sisters Charlotte and Lucy Bonnard live together in the gloomy Louisiana family mansion that they’ve turned into a boarding house. But when a mysterious young man enters their lives, the sisters are forced to confront their dark pasts.
Genres: Romance Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-13
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Undercover Blues
Overview: When fun-loving American agents Jeff and Jane Blue are called back from maternity leave for a special assignment in New Orleans, the spy parents decide to skip the sitter and give their bouncing baby girl the adventure of a lifetime.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-10
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The Medicine Show
Overview: A cynical young man, diagnosed with cancer, meets a brash young leukemia patient in the hospital who more than matches his distaste for IV drips and weepy sentimentality.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-10
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Guilty of Innocence: The Lenell Geter Story
Overview: This is the story of Lenell Geter, an engineer who was accused and convicted of armed robbery. Because he had such faith in the system, he thought that he would eventually be released. But he was in jail for 18 months until a lawyer from the NAACP was brought to assist in his case.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-03
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Automatic
Overview: Robgen industries newest security system is "The J Series Automatic", an android model designed and programmed to protect humans from violent attacks. But one night, an Automatic named J269 discovers a Robgen executive trying to rape a female employee named Nora Rochester. While trying to stop the crime, he inadvertently kills the executive. At this point, J269 then calls Goddard Marx (his creator and a Robgen chairman) to inform him of the incident. Marx tells the android to stay there with Rochester until help arrives, but Marx is intent on sweeping the fiasco under the rug by sending mercenaries to eliminate both J269 and Rochester. Now the two are fugitives on the run from a para-military hit squad.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-08
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The First Power
Overview: A dedicated L.A. police detective and a female psychic must stop a demonic serial killer who was given the powers of resurrection, teleportation and possession.
Genres: Crime Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-06
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The Blue Yonder
Overview: A young boy, who dreams of meeting the grandfather he never knew gets his chance, when an inventor friend constructs a time machine. After arriving in the past, it soon becomes apparent that his knowledge of the future could change the course of history.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-10
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Apollo 11: First Steps on the Moon
Overview: Fearful that the Russians would continue their lead in the space race and be the first to put a man on the moon, NASA felt an enormous pressure to push the Apollo Program forward as quickly as possible, though they knew that pushing too hard could lead to the ultimate disaster. This film recreates the tensions that were felt not only by the three astronauts, Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins, but also by their families and by the teams of technicians training to deal with anything that could go wrong.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-17
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She Knows Too Much
Overview: In this comedy-drama set in Washington, D.C., an ex-burglar and a dumbbell detective must team up to solve several puzzling murders.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-29
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Slow Burn
Overview: Jacob Asch is hired by Gerald McMurty to find his ex-wife Laine and their son in Palm Springs. Jacob finds Laine and a teenager named Donnie who may or may not be Gerald's son. He also finds an intricate web of deceit and betrayal that begin to lead to death. He takes it upon himself to unravel the mystery and find out who is killing people and why.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-29
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Curaçao
Overview: Cornelius Wettering and Stephen Guerin are expatriates living in Curaçao. They're bound together by an understanding that each is hiding from a dangerous past.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-27
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit
Overview: Jordan White, a publisher friend of Perry, is called to a hotel where a guest, famous horror writer David Hall, has cleared out the hotel for a weekend and has called his "friends" - an actress, a fortune-teller, David's private assistant and the two remaining staff at the hotel to discuss business. They have come to the hotel as all of them are going to sue David over his new book - "The Resort" which characters are obviously based on Jordan and the guests. A practical joker, David plays tricks on them until he is thrown from the high tower of the hotel where Susan Warrenfield, the manager and owner of the hotel sees the fall and then Jordan at the tower causing the police to arrest Jordan. While Perry and Della try to solve the main mystery, Paul tries to find out who is trying to scare Susan away from the hotel. Could it really be a ghost or a more earthy visitor?
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-24
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Glass Coffin
Overview: David Katz is a world famous magician and he comes to Denver with his group to perform for a charity gala for disabled children. Also there is Perry and Della as all three are supporters of the charity. Kate Ford, an assistant with an arrogant attitude, tells David that she is, from now on, going to do an illusion in which an assistant is raised in a glass coffin only to disappear when the coffin is opened up in the air (while the assistant climbs out before the coffin is raised.) After a one night stand with David, Kate is pregnant and she blackmails David with this. David and his wife Judy can't have children so that comes as a double blow to them. However Kate, with her attitude, creates much hatred at her from the rest of the group. At the gala, the glass coffin is raised but when it opens Kate's dead body falls to the ground - strangled.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-14
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Farrell: For the People
Overview: Adventures of the DA's new lady assistant.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-18
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Penitentiary II
Overview: An ex-con, on parole and trying to straighten his life out, decides to resume his boxing career when one of his prison enemies escapes and kills his girlfriend.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-02
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Under Siege
Overview: A disgruntled ex-CIA operative, his assistant and their assembled group of terrorists seize a battleship with nuclear blackmail in mind. They've planned for every contingency but ignore the ship's cook, former Navy SEAL Casey Ryback—an error that could be fatal.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-08
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Prime Target
Overview: A homicide detective assigned to investigate the serial killings of New York policewomen begins to suspect that the serial killer might be a fellow police officer.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-29
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Rewrite for Murder
Overview: Unaired CBS television pilot from 1991 starring George Clooney and Pam Dawber was an attempt at a breezy comedy/mystery in the style of Moonlighting about a pair of mismatched writers on a television mystery program who have to solve a real-life murder.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-14
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Mystery Kids
Overview: Twelve-year-old mystery writer Geneva is putting her detective skills to work on a real-live case. With her best friend, Tommy, the super-sleuths work out of a tree house and investigate the mystery of a missing girl. But the clues to the puzzle send the duo on a wild chase to solve the case and bring truth and justice to the neighborhood!
Genres: Family Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-04
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