Steve Kahan
Also Known As: Stephen Kahan
Biography: Born 1930, Steve Kahan is the cousin of film writer, producer and director Richard Donner. Kahan may be best known for playing the bedraggled "Captain Ed Murphy" trying to keep Mel Gibson and Danny Glover in check in the "Lethal Weapon" series of films. He has appeared in several television series as recurring characters as well. He has appeared in fourteen films directed by his cousin Richard Donner: Superman (1978), Inside Moves (1980), The Toy (1982), Lethal Weapon (1987), Scrooged (1988), Lethal Weapon 2 (1989), Radio Flyer (1992), Lethal Weapon 3 (1992), Maverick (1994), Assassins (1995), Conspiracy Theory (1997), Lethal Weapon 4 (1998), Timeline (2003) and 16 Blocks (2006).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York
Birthday: January 01, 1930
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Gender: Male
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Lethal Weapon 2
Overview: Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats using their immunity to engage in criminal activities.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-07-07
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Lethal Weapon 3
Overview: Riggs and Murtaugh pursue a former officer who uses his knowledge of police procedure and policies to steal and sell confiscated guns and ammunition to local street gangs.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-15
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Lethal Weapon 4
Overview: With personal crises and age weighing in on them, Riggs and Murtaugh must contend with deadly Chinese triads trying to free their former leaders from prison and onto American soil.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-10
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Conspiracy Theory
Overview: A man obsessed with conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of his theories turns out to be true. Unfortunately, in order to save himself, he has to figure out which theory it is.
Genres: Action Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-08
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Timeline
Overview: A group of archaeological students become trapped in the past when they go there to retrieve their professor. The group must survive in 14th century France long enough to be rescued.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-11-26
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Maverick
Overview: Bret Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional $3k in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game beginning in a few days. He joins forces with a woman with a marvelous Southern accent, and the two try and enter the game.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-20
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Assassins
Overview: Assassin Robert Rath arrives at a funeral to kill a prominent mobster, only to witness a rival hired gun complete the job for him -- with grisly results. Horrified by the murder of innocent bystanders, Rath decides to take one last job and then return to civilian life. But finding his way out of the world of contract killing grows ever more dangerous as Rath falls for his female target and becomes a marked man himself.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-06
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Destination: America
Overview: A patrician family's estranged, black-sheep son forsakes his blue-collar life to return home and soon finds himself wrongly accused of his father's murder, with his old childhood friend determined to convict him. Pilot to a prospective TV series.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-03
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Scrooged
Overview: Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after firing a staff member on Christmas Eve, Frank is visited by a series of ghosts who give him a chance to re-evaluate his actions and right the wrongs of his past.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-22
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Predator 2
Overview: A police chief in the war-torn streets of Los Angeles discovers that an extraterrestrial creature is hunting down residents - and that he is the next target.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-21
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Warlock: The Armageddon
Overview: Every six hundred years, a great evil has the opportunity to escape and unleash Armageddon. A group of five stones has the power to either free the evil, or banish it for another six hundred years. An order of Druids battles with a Warlock determined to unleash his father upon the world.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-01
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Demolition Man
Overview: Simon Phoenix, a violent criminal cryogenically frozen in 1996, escapes during a parole hearing in 2032 in the utopia of San Angeles. Police are incapable of dealing with his violent ways and turn to his captor, who had also been cryogenically frozen after being wrongfully accused of killing 30 innocent people while apprehending Phoenix.
Genres: Crime Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-08
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Superman
Overview: Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush: Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-14
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Lethal Weapon
Overview: Buttoned-down veteran LAPD detective Roger Murtaugh is partnered with unhinged cop Martin Riggs, who — distraught after his wife's death — has a death wish and takes unnecessary risks with criminals at every turn. The odd couple embark on their first homicide investigation as partners, involving a young woman known to Murtaugh with ties to a drug and prostitution ring.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-06
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Inside Moves
Overview: After a failed suicide attempt leaves him partially crippled, Rory begins spending a lot of time at a neighborhood bar full of interesting misfits. When Jerry the bartender suddenly finds himself playing basketball for the Golden State Warriors, Rory and the rest of the bar regulars hope his success will provide a lift to their sagging spirits. Will Jerry forget his friends? What about his junkie hooker girlfriend and her pimp?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-19
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Dead On: Relentless II
Overview: Detective Sam Dietz is paired with a shady FBI agent to track down another serial killer terrorizing Los Angeles.
Genres: Action Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-02-26
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Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home
Overview: Jesse becomes reunited with Willy three years after the whale's jump to freedom as the teenager tries to rescue the killer whale and other orcas from an oil spill.
Genres: Family Adventure Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-07-19
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16 Blocks
Overview: An aging cop is assigned the ordinary task of escorting a fast-talking witness from police custody to a courthouse, but they find themselves running the gauntlet as other forces try to prevent them from getting there.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-01
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The Toy
Overview: On one of his bratty son Eric's annual visits, the plutocrat U.S. Bates takes him to his department store and offers him anything in it as a gift. Eric chooses a black janitor who has made him laugh with his antics. At first the man suffers many indignities as Eric's "toy", but gradually teaches the lonely boy what it is like to have and to be a friend.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-10
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Radio Flyer
Overview: A father reminisces about his childhood when he and his younger brother moved to a new town with their mother, her new husband and their dog, Shane. When the younger brother is subjected to physical abuse at the hands of their brutal stepfather, Mike decides to convert their toy trolley, the "Radio Flyer", into a plane to fly him to safety.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-02-21
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The Favor
Overview: On the eve of her high school reunion, bored housewife Kathy convinces her single best friend Emily to seduce an old flame Tom, so she can get all the juicy details. But when Emily falls for Tom, it's like high school all over again!
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-29
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Out Cold
Overview: Rick Rambis and his friends are having the time of their lives on Bull Mountain—until the legendary Papa Muntz' son decides to sell the mountain to a sleazy land developer, have the staff fired and turn Bull Mountain into 'Yuppieville'.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-21
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The Last Fling
Overview: A young woman decides to have one more romantic escapade before marrying her dull fiancé.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-09
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Police Story: The Freeway Killings
Overview: Thriller/Drama about LAPD detectives tracking down two serial killers who are murdering hookers.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-03
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