Paul D'Amato
Also Known As: Paul D'Amatto
Biography: Paul D’Amato was an actor who played Tim “Dr. Hook” McCracken opposite Paul Newman in Slap Shot. He also appeared in The Deer Hunter, Heaven's Gate and Magnum Force.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Worcester - Massachusetts - USA
Adult: No
Birthday: October 02, 1949
Age: 75 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 19, 2024
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Heaven's Gate
Overview: Harvard graduate James Averill serves as the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyo., standing at the center of a conflict between impoverished immigrants and affluent cattle farmers. Politically connected ranchers enlist mercenary Nathan Champion—who is also vying for the affections of local madam Ella Watson—to combat the immigrant uprising. As tensions escalate, both Averill and Champion start to question their decisions.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-19
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The Opportunists
Overview: Vic is a struggling auto mechanic with a safe-cracking past and a lot of debt. His girlfriend runs a bar and offers to loan him the money she's saved for remodeling, but Vic is reluctant to take it. When a long-lost cousin from Ireland shows up on his doorstep, the two team up for one last heist.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-17
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Six Ways to Sunday
Overview: Harry Odum is a henpecked 18-year-old momma's boy with a violent temper in Youngstown, Ohio. After impressing a local boss of the Jewish Mafia, he begins working as a hit man alongside crack addict Arnie Finklestein.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-05
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Destination Anywhere
Overview: This film captures the essence of Jon Bon Jovi, the lead singer of one of the prime players in the legion of pop-metal bands that took '80s radio by storm. Most of the film is a short narrative loosely based on the songs from his 1997 solo album Destination Anywhere, and features Jon Bon Jovi and Demi Moore as a young couple struggling with alcoholism and the death of their young child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-16
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The Deer Hunter
Overview: A group of working-class friends decide to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they imagined. Before they left, Steven married his pregnant girlfriend -- and Michael and Nick were in love with the same woman. But all three are different men upon their return.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-08
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Heaven Can Wait
Overview: Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A new body must be found, and that of a recently-murdered millionaire is chosen. His wife and accountant—the murderers—are confused by this development, as he buys the L.A. Rams in order to once again quarterback them into the Superbowl.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-28
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F/X
Overview: A movies special effects man is hired by a government agency to help stage the assassination of a well known gangster. When the agency double cross him, he uses his special effects to trap the gangster and the corrupt agents.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-07
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The Deadliest Season
Overview: Gerry Miller, a professional hockey player, gives in to internal and outside pressures and adopts a more aggressive style on the ice. During one particularly violent game a player on an opposing team dies, and the authorities charge Miller with manslaughter.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-16
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Suspect
Overview: When a Supreme Court judge commits suicide and his secretary is found murdered, all fingers point to Carl Anderson, a homeless veteran who's deaf and mute. But when public defender Kathleen Riley is assigned to his case, she begins to believe that Anderson may actually be innocent. Juror Eddie Sanger, a Washington lobbyist, agrees, and together the pair begins their own investigation of events.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-23
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Slap Shot
Overview: To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-25
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Firepower
Overview: A mercenary is hired by the FBI to track down a powerful recluse criminal, a woman is also trying to track him down for her own personal vendetta.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-27
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A Case of Deadly Force
Overview: Fact-based story about a 1975 cover-up of a shooting by two white members of the Boston Tactical Unit. While on stakeout on a suspected getaway car used in a armed robbery, the two gunned down a black man who entered the car. The two claimed the man had a gun and they shot in self-defense. Police investigation decided it was a rightful shooting. The man's widow knew her husband would not be carrying a weapon and became determined to prove her husband's innocence. She hired a former cop who had become a lawyer to prove her case. Working with his four sons, the lawyer team takes on the police force in what eventually proved to be a landmark legal decision. Written by John Sacksteder
Genres: Drama TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-09
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The Living Wake
Overview: A dark comedy set in a timeless storybook universe. Self-proclaimed artist and genius, K. Roth Binew, has one day to live. He has enlisted his best and only friend, Mills Joquin, to take him around on a bicycle powered rickshaw. In a final attempt to probe life’s deepest mysteries, Binew endures one ridiculous trial after the next. He concludes his day with a final performance, his living wake. On a makeshift stage in an open field, Binew’s friends and enemies gather to witness his madness one final time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-06-06
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