George Wyner
Also Known As: not available
Biography: A native of Boston and graduate of Syracuse University, George has worked extensively in TV and film since 1972. Notable film work includes the Coen Brothers' best-picture nominee A Serious Man (2009) as Rabbi Nachtner, Mel Brooks' Spaceballs (1987) as Colonel Sandurz, and his To Be or Not to Be (1983). Among other dozens of film credits are the classic Fletch (1985) and Fletch Lives (1989), The Devil's Advocate (1997), and Trouble with the Curve (2012). George has guest starred on over 150 TV shows, and has been a series regular on nine. He is perhaps best known for his six seasons as Deputy D.A. Irwin Bernstein on Hill Street Blues (1981).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Birthday: October 20, 1945
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Gender: Male
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Spaceballs
Overview: When the nefarious Dark Helmet hatches a plan to snatch Princess Vespa and steal her planet's air, space-bum-for-hire Lone Starr and his clueless sidekick fly to the rescue. Along the way, they meet Yogurt, who puts Lone Starr wise to the power of "The Schwartz." Can he master it in time to save the day?
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-24
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He's that Guy
Overview: Comedy short by the Pasadonuts, starring George Wyner
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-11-11
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The Devil's Advocate
Overview: Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax accepts a job at a New York law firm. With the stakes getting higher every case, Kevin quickly learns that his boss has something far more evil planned.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-17
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In the Darkness
Overview: A man's life is disrupted when he begins to suffer from sleep paralysis.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-01
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My Favorite Year
Overview: Fledgling comic Benjy Stone can't believe his luck when his childhood hero, the swashbuckling matinee idol Alan Swann, gets booked to appear on the variety show he writes for. But when Swann arrives, he fails to live up to his silver screen image. Instead, he's a drunken womanizer who suffers from stage fright. Benjy is assigned to look after him before the show, and it's all he can do to keep his former idol from going completely off the rails.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-01
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To Be or Not to Be
Overview: A bad Polish actor is just trying to make a living when Poland is invaded by the Germans in World War II. His wife has the habit of entertaining young Polish officers while he's on stage, which is also a source of depression to him. When one of her officers comes back on a Secret Mission, the actor takes charge and comes up with a plan for them to escape.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-16
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How to Be a Serial Killer
Overview: HOW TO BE A SERIAL KILLER is the story of Mike Wilson, a charismatic, educated, and articulate young man who has found his life's purpose in exterminating people. Mike is determined to spread his message about the joy of serial killing and recruits a lost soul named Bart to be his pupil. Mike leads Bart through the ethics of serial killing as well as teaching him various lessons in disposing corp
Genres: Comedy Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-07-24
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A Serious Man
Overview: It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances Sy Ableman.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-02
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Fletch
Overview: When investigative reporter Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher goes undercover to write a piece on the drug trade at a local beach, he's approached by wealthy businessman Alan Stanwyk, who offers him $50,000 to murder him. With sarcastic wit and a knack for disguises, Fletch sets out to uncover Stanwyk's story.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-31
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Tail Gunner Joe
Overview: Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-02-06
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Imps*
Overview: Once Upon a Time in a mythical place called Hollywood, a long, long, long time ago in a galaxy not so very far away, a witty group of actors with 38 EMMY Nominations, 3 Academy Award nominations, and 8 Golden Globe nominations, along with 4 Playmates and a Penthouse Pet, came together in a burst of comic frenzy and created imps*.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-12
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The Richest Cat in the World
Overview: Leo Kohlmeyer is a talking cat who inherits $5 million from his late owner and is looked after by the owner's in-laws whose two children, Bart and Veronica, learn Leo's secret that he can talk, while a bumbling, but devious, couple called the Rigsbys plot to kidnap Leo in order for them to gain the inheritance money for themselves.
Genres: Western Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-09
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Fletch Lives
Overview: Fletch is a fish out of water in small-town Louisiana, where he's checking out a tumbledown mansion he's inherited. When a woman he flirts with turns up dead, he becomes a suspect and must find the killer and clear his name.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-17
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Musical Mel: Inventing The Inquisition
Overview: Documentary on the making of Mel Brooks' classic comedy "History of the World, Part 1."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-12-15
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The Bad News Bears
Overview: An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-06
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Trouble with the Curve
Overview: Slowed by age and failing eyesight, crack baseball scout Gus Lobel takes his grown daughter along as he checks out the final prospect of his career. Along the way, the two renew their bond, and she catches the eye of a young player-turned-scout.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-21
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The Leftovers
Overview: A close-knit group of orphans and their father-figure, Max, try to keep their home from being shut down. Helping them out are a single mom and the elderly butler from Max's aunt's mansion, where Max grew up.
Genres: Family Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-16
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Dogs
Overview: On the quiet campus of the remotely-located SouthWestern University, something strange is happening. All of the dogs in the area, once loyal, gentle pets, are now banding together in wild packs and hunting down their former masters. Could the strange transformation have anything to do with the secret government experiments being conducted in the school's physics laboratory? More importantly, can the dogs be stopped before it's too late?
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-11
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Deadly Messages
Overview: When Laura unearths an old Ouija board in her closet, her roommate, Cindy, uses it and encounters the spirit of a man that had been murdered in their apartment. After Laura later witnesses Cindy being strangled to death, the authorities arrive to find Cindy missing and no evidence of a crime. Laura sets out to convince everyone that the murder was real while evading the man she feels is Cindy's killer.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-21
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Domino One
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Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-11
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Gilda Radner: It's Always Something
Overview: Biopic about the late "Saturday Night Live" star Gilda Radner. Gilda tells her own story, beginning with her childhood as a chubby girl who loved to perform with her dad, and her early years at Second City in Toronto. There she honed her comedic chops along with John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray, all four of whom eventually left for New York to become part of the Not Ready For Primetime Players on "Sautrday Night Live." The movie also chronicles Gilda's lifelong quest to find true love, which she eventually found with Gene Wilder, and how she used her comic genius to inspire women in their fight against cancer. The actress died in 1989 of ovarian cancer at age 42.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-29
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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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Lady Sings the Blues
Overview: Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday, beginning with her traumatic youth. The story depicts her early attempts at a singing career and her eventual rise to stardom, as well as her difficult relationship with Louis McKay, her boyfriend and manager. Casting a shadow over even Holiday's brightest moments is the vocalist's severe drug addiction, which threatens to end both her career and her life.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-12
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The Islander
Overview: A retired mainland lawyer buys a small Honolulu hotel and finds himself in a murderous situation involving a runaway grand jury witness, a ruthless mobster, and a racket-busting U.S. Senator framed for beating up an airline stewardess.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-16
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Reunion
Overview: A married man, returning to his small town for a high school reunion, finds himself torn between his long-ago high school girlfriend and her 17-year-old daughter, whose boyfriend is the star player on the school's basketball team his fellow alumni are playing.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-14
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Lucan
Overview: A 20-year old who spent the first 10 years of his life running wild in the forest after being raised by predatory animals now strikes out on his own in search of his identity. Pilot film for the short-lived series.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-22
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The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
Overview: A small time promotor/hustler takes the pint-sized baseball team to Japan for a match against the country's best little league baseball team which sparks off a series of adventures and mishaps the boys come into.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-30
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The Mesmerist
Overview: Based on an Edgar Allan Poe story, this film tells the grimly comic tale of a bad-tempered old man (Howard Hesseman) who cheats death, only to go on tormenting the living. When a medical experiment leaves the grouch hovering between life and death (and able to describe the world beyond), things get tricky for his daughter (Jessica Capshaw) and her beau (Neil Patrick Harris, of "Doogie Howser, M.D." fame), who can't get their hands on his estate.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-11
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Half Nelson
Overview: Rocky Nelson is a New York cop, who after making a major bust and selling the rights of his story to Hollywood decides to try his luck out as an actor. However, when he gets there, the directors think that he is too short to be an actor. He is then approach by someone who offers him a job at a Hollywood security agency, cause he would fit in there being an ex-cop and while working there he could come in contact with some Hollywood heavy-weights who could give him the break he needs. And at the same he gets to live in Dean Martin's guest-house.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-24
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All the President's Men
Overview: During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.
Genres: Drama History Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-09
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Do It for Uncle Manny
Overview: Struggling actor Danny and his pal Stuart are ready to rock the L.A. nightlife -- with help from a Rolls Royce and Rolex "borrowed" from Stuart's uncle Manny, a big-time producer. But plans go awry when the boys meet the too-good-to-be-true Jenny.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-06
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A More Perfect Union
Overview: Henry, Stella and little Haley Berg are a happy family. But no family is perfect. When Henry contracts Covid-19 while on trial for stealing files from the government, his absence from his family becomes too loud for Stella to ignore. Stella strains under the stress of raising their child alone during quarantine, battling her fraying mental health, and guilty conscience over a secret from the past. Isolated from each other, Henry and Stella are forced to ask themselves--When do you fight for the ones you love, and when do you let them go? What is modern love anyway? How do you balance your family's needs with your own? The Berg family will wrestle with these questions together over the political and social backdrop of the 2020 Pandemic.
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Original Language: en
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The Nurse Killer
Overview: A young nurse reports to work in a hospital's psychiatric wing and gets involved in a series of mysterious deaths.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-31
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Airport 1975
Overview: When an in-flight collision incapacitates the pilots of an airplane bound for Los Angeles, stewardess Nancy Pryor is forced to take over the controls. From the ground, her boyfriend Alan Murdock, a retired test pilot, tries to talk her through piloting and landing the 747 aircraft. Worse yet, the anxious passengers — among which are a noisy nun and a cranky man — are aggravating the already tense atmosphere.
Genres: Drama Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-18
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Willie Dynamite
Overview: Willie Dynamite is a pimp who operates in New York City. Willie was a big success as a pimp, but now, just as fast as he rose to the top, he has hit bottom. A former prostitute who has become a social worker tries to get Willie to clean up his life while it is still possible.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-23
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Almost a Woman
Overview: A young woman named Esmeralda and her family move to New York from a rural area of Puerto Rico. The transition is difficult due to the many challenges she and her family face.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-15
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American Pie 2
Overview: After a year apart - attending different schools, meeting different people - the guys rent a beach house and vow to make this the best summer ever. As it turns out, whether that will happen or not has a lot to do with the girls. Between the wild parties, outrageous revelations and yes, a trip to band camp, they discover that times change and people change, but in the end, it's all about sticking together.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-10
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In Security
Overview: The owners of a failing security company start robbing houses to boost business.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-28
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For Richer, for Poorer
Overview: Fresh out of college, a young man lazes about his family's estate, which irritates his father, a self-made millionaire who hatches a bankruptcy plan that he hopes will inspire his son to get a job.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Wildcats
Overview: Molly is a high school track coach who knows just as much about football as anyone else on the planet. When a football coach's position becomes vacant, she applies for the job, despite snickers from fellow staff members and her former husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-14
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Not Another Teen Movie
Overview: On a bet, a gridiron hero at John Hughes High School sets out to turn a bespectacled plain Jane into a beautiful and popular prom queen in this outrageous send-up of the teen movies of the 1980s and '90s.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-07
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Listen to Me
Overview: It was the best time of their lives. A kid from Oklahoma. An immigrant's daughter. A senator's son, a society girl, and a college professor with a dream. They had one thing in common...the will to win. A group of college debaters learn about the world, friendships, love, dreams and family.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-05
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The Rockford Files: If It Bleeds... It Leads
Overview: Jim Rockford must help a friend unjustly accused of child molestation.
Genres: Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-20
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The Postman
Overview: In 2013, there are no highways, no I-ways, no dreams of a better tomorrow, only scattered survivors across what was once the United States. Into this apocalyptic wasteland comes an enigmatic drifter with a mule, a knack for Shakespeare, and something yet undiscovered: the power to inspire hope.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-25
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Drop-Out Father
Overview: Successful advertising executive decides to get out of the rat race but the family rebels at the new lifestyle he outlines. He and his youngest daughter leave the suburbs for a Manhattan loft apartment while the rest of the brood -- wife and three kids -- re-evaluate the situation. For his engaging score, Peter Matz won an Emmy Award nomination.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-26
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Snow Bride
Overview: When a reporter encounters the eldest son of a famous political family at a mountain retreat, she winds up pretending to be his girlfriend over Christmas so he can save face with his family. Should she secretly expose newsworthy scoops about the famous family in order to save her job, or trust that she's falling in love for real? Stars Patricia Richardson and Katrina Law.
Genres: Romance Comedy Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-09
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Knee High P.I.
Overview: Hank Dingo is the world's smallest private detective with the world's biggest ego. A rough, tough gumshoe full of attitude, he doesn't crack cases... he smashes them! Hank throws himself into the "Case of the Missing Lawn Jockeys," beating the hell out of suspects left and right. But he'll have to survive a widow's scorn and an oil Sheik's fury - not to mention a room full of ravenous, sex-starved concubines - to solve this mystery.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-10-13
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The Wish List
Overview: Sarah Fisher, an overly organized, by-the-numbers kind of woman, makes a "wish list" of all the qualities and traits her future husband should have. After finding the perfect man, she falls for a guy who meets none of her criteria and discovers that life and love don't always work out according to the master plan.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-19
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Though None Go with Me
Overview: Elizabeth Leroy devotes her life to serving God but her faith is tested over the years as she has to overcome many hardships and sorrows.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-08
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John Candy: Comic Spirit
Overview: A tribute to the late John Candy from the cast of Spaceballs.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-03
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Whose Life Is It Anyway?
Overview: Ken Harrison is an artist that lives to make sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident, and is paralyzed from his neck down. All he can do is talk and move his head, and he wants to die. Whilst he is in hospital he makes friends with some of the staff, and they support him when he goes to trial to be allowed to die.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-02
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The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald
Overview: The bizarre story behind the man accused of assassinating John F. Kennedy and what might have happened had he been brought to trial.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-30
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The Long Goodbye
Overview: In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-08
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