Charles Hallahan
Also Known As: Charles John Hallahan
Biography: Was an American film, television and stage actor best known for his performances in Going in Style, The Thing, and Dante's Peak. Description above from the Wikipedia article Charles Hallahan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Birthday: July 29, 1943
Deathday: November 25, 1997
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Thing
Overview: In the winter of 1982, a twelve-man research team at a remote Antarctic research station discovers an alien buried in the snow for over 100,000 years. Soon unfrozen, the form-changing creature wreaks havoc, creates terror... and becomes one of them.
Genres: Horror Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-25
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Body of Evidence
Overview: When an elderly millionaire is found dead with cocaine in his system, his will leaves $8 million to Rebecca Carlson, who was having an affair with him. District attorney Robert Garrett decides to prosecute Rebecca, arguing that she deliberately engaged in wild sex with the old man to overexcite him and lead to his premature death. Defense attorney Frank Dulaney defends Rebecca in court while getting sucked into a dangerous affair with her.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-15
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Vision Quest
Overview: After deciding he needs to do something meaningful with his life, high school wrestler Louden Swain sets out on a mission to drop weight and challenge the area's undefeated champion, which creates problems with his teammates and health. Matters are complicated further when Louden's father takes in an attractive female drifter who's on her way to San Francisco.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-15
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Things That Go Bump
Overview: It's New Orleans on the eve of Mardi Gras celebrations. Three kids call upon the legend of Sleepy Head to seek vengeance on their parents. Officer "Bump" Bumpstead aspires to become a detective and stumbles into one *weird* case.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-22
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Dave
Overview: A sweet-natured Temp Agency operator and amateur Presidential look-alike is recruited by the Secret Service to become a temporary stand-in for the President of the United States.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-07
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Dante's Peak
Overview: Volcanologist Harry Dalton comes to the sleepy town of Dante's Peak to investigate the recent rumblings of the dormant volcano the burg is named for. Before long, his worst fears are realized when a massive eruption hits, and immediately, Harry, the mayor and the townspeople find themselves fighting for their lives amid a catastrophic nightmare.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-07
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Silkwood
Overview: The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-14
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Fatal Beauty
Overview: Detective Rita Rizzoli is accustomed to donning costumes and going undercover to nail crooks. But she'll be required to use all of her get-ups and more when a major cocaine ring is suspected of turning out a potent new strain of the drug, called "Fatal Beauty." With the help of her partner and a former bodyguard for a local cartel, Rita will do whatever it takes to find out who's dealing Fatal Beauty and stop them.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-30
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Going in Style
Overview: Three senior citizens in their 70s who live together are slowly decaying in endless days with nothing to do but feed the birds. One of them comes up with an idea - rob a bank. They certainly could use the money if they get away with it and if they are caught, what could happen to three old men?
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-25
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Nightwing
Overview: Killer bats plague an Indian reservation in Arizona.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-22
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Terror Out of the Sky
Overview: TV sequel to "The Savage Bees" featuring more rampaging insects. This time a marching band and a school bus get in the path of the bees.
Genres: Horror Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-26
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Allison Sydney Harrison
Overview: The story, set in San Francisco, depicts the adventures of Allison Sydney Harrison, a high-school student who teams with her wealthy private-detective father David Harrison to solve crimes. In the pilot, Allison and David team to solve the murder of a beautiful woman. The prime suspect is their chauffeur, Pat Rosetti.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-08-19
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Ambushed
Overview: Jim Natter, the leader of a violent Kuk Klux Klan lodge, is shot dead. His teenage son Eric Natter is found nearby, and taken into police custody for his protection pending the investigation. While four cops drive him to a safe-house, they are ambushed. Three of them shot dead, including Deputy Lawrence, and his black partner Jerry Robinson is accused of the murders.
Genres: Thriller Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-20
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Skag
Overview: Pete "Skag" Skagska is a 56-year-old union foreman of a Pittsburgh steel mill until a crippling stroke forces him to stay home and try to put his life back together and deal with family problems.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-06
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A Winner Never Quits
Overview: Raised in a poor Pennsylvania mining town by his immigrant parents, Pete Grey lost his right arm while still a young boy. But through the encouragement of his father and the constant coaching of his older brother, Pete never gives up on his dream of playing professional baseball. Driven by anger, he finally makes it to the big leagues. But it isn't until he agrees to meet a handicapped youngster who idolizes him that Pete finally becomes a genuine American hero.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-13
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Hide in Plain Sight
Overview: True story of a man in search of his children after his ex-wife enters the Witness Protection Program.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-21
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Margin for Murder
Overview: Mickey Spillane's hard-hitting '50s private eye, Mike Hammer, returns to television in the guise of Kevin Dobson to track down the killer of his best friend who was driving Hammer's car. Joining in the hunt are the detective's Girl Friday, the ever-hopeful Velda, and his cop friend, Pat Chambers.
Genres: Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-15
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Jack Reed: A Search for Justice
Overview: Chicago police detective Jack Reed investigates the brutal murder of a stripper while he deals with corruption and bureaucracy within his own department.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-02
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Tales from the Hollywood Hills: The Old Reliable
Overview: In this program, a wealthy and famous, but not terribly successful, film actress of the 1930s, Adela Shannon, suddenly becomes a widow when her husband is accidentally killed by a moving sightseeing bus. Due to a suit to contest her husband's will, Shannon is left penniless. She devises a means to keep herself in the standard of living to which she has grown accustomed: Shannon intends to blackmail her three ex-husbands with a book written by her sister, Bill. The book contains information none of her former spouses would want made public. Meanwhile, Bill thinks that it would be better to publish the book instead. Unfortunately, she decides this after Shannon has placed the manuscript in her safe. Luckily for Bill, however, Shannon's butler is an expert thief who happens to know a thing or two about breaking into safes.
Genres: Drama Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-04
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Twilight Zone: The Movie
Overview: An anthology film presenting remakes of three episodes from the "Twilight Zone" TV series—"Kick the Can", "It's a Good Life" and "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"—and one original story, "Time Out."
Genres: Horror Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-24
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Pale Rider
Overview: A mysterious preacher protects a humble prospector village from a greedy mining company trying to encroach on their land.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-28
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A Death in Canaan
Overview: When a teenager is accused of his mother's murder, the community of Canaan rallies to his defense.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-01
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The Rich Man's Wife
Overview: A rich man's wife finds she has a bad prenuptial agreement with an even worse husband. Over drinks with a stranger, she fantasizes about doing her husband in to void the prenup — but much to her surprise, the stranger decides to turn her imagination into reality.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-13
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Kidco
Overview: A boy who lives at a country club where his father works decides to make some extra money by selling composted horse manure as fertilizer, and has his three sisters (two of which are older) join him in the enterprise. As their sales increase, they draw increased scrutiny from the IRS and state tax board, as well as the large scale competitor who seeks to put them out of business at any cost.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-13
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The Other Victim
Overview: After his wife is raped, a man struggles to find ways to express the anger and helplessness which the crime has instilled in him.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-04
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The Thing: Terror Takes Shape
Overview: An in-depth look at the making of John Carpenter's cult classic sci-fi horror The Thing, telling the story of a group of researchers in Antarctica who encounter a parasitic extra-terrestrial life-form that assimilates, then imitates other organisms.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-08
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P.K. and the Kid
Overview: P.K. runs away from home because her step-father keeps on harassing her sexually and her mother is ignoring the problem. She hides in the loading space of Kid Kane's pickup, who's on the way to the world championships in arm-wrestling. When he discovers her, he wants to send her home at first, but after he knows the story he takes her with him - and gets himself into big trouble: her step-father is behind them furiously, trying to kidnap her and take revenge for the stress he got from her mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-06
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Cyrano de Begerac
Overview: Cyrano de Begerac helps an army officer woo Roxanne, the woman he loves.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-06
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Nails
Overview: The wife of a wild Los Angeles police detective becomes a hostage of the heroin ring he and his partner have exposed.
Genres: Thriller Crime Action TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-25
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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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Roswell
Overview: Based on the book "UFO Crash at Roswell" by Kevin Randle and Donald Schmitt, Roswell follows the attempts of Major Jesse Marcel to discover the truth about strange debris found on a local rancher's field in July of 1947. Told by his superiors that what he has found is nothing more than a downed weather balloon, Marcel maintains his military duty until the weight of the truth, however out of this world it may be, forces him to piece together what really occurred.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-31
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Cast a Deadly Spell
Overview: In a fantastical 1940s where magic is used by everyone, a hard-boiled detective investigates the theft of a mystical tome.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Comedy Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-07
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Mind Rage
Overview: A serial killer's trail of dead bodies leads to the haunting past of two brothers and one woman's love for both men. The fact this features some fairly well known actors (one of whom died in 1997), yet took at least seven years to release, probably isn't a hallmark of high quality.
Genres: Horror Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-05
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Executive Decision
Overview: Terrorists hijack a 747 inbound to Washington D.C., demanding the release of their imprisoned leader. Intelligence expert David Grant (Kurt Russell) suspects another reason and he is soon the reluctant member of a special assault team that is assigned to intercept the plane and hijackers.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-15
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The Fan
Overview: When the San Francisco Giants pay center-fielder, Bobby Rayburn $40 million to lead their team to the World Series, no one is happier or more supportive than #1 fan, Gil Renard. When Rayburn becomes mired in the worst slump of his career, the obsessed Renard decides to stop at nothing to help his idol regain his former glory—not even murder.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-15
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Rolling Thunder
Overview: An ex-military unit specializes itself in non-lethal combat methods and takedowns and offers its services
Genres: Action Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-16
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True Believer
Overview: Eddie Dodd is a burnt out former civil rights lawyer who now specializes in defending drug dealers. Roger Baron, newly graduated from law school, has followed Eddie's great cases and now wants to learn at his feet. With Roger's idealistic prodding, Eddie reluctantly takes on a case of a young Korean man who, according to his mother, has been in jail for eight years for a murder he didn't commit.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-02-17
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The Pest
Overview: Fast-talking Latino con artist Pestario "Pest" Vargas is the target of Scottish mobsters to whom he owes a considerable debt. Willing to do anything to raise money and avoid severe injury or death, Vargas agrees to a very unusual job -- he will be transported to a remote island and hunted by Gustav Shank, a racist German executive. If he can survive a full day and night, Vargas gets $50,000 and will be set free. Is he wily enough to elude Shank?
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-07
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The Return of Hunter: Everyone Walks in L.A.
Overview: Lieutenant Rick Hunter's girlfriend is murdered.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-06
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The Star Chamber
Overview: As violence escalates in Los Angeles and heinous murders are committed, Steven Hardin, a young judge of the California Supreme Court, must struggle with his tortured conscience and growing despair as he watches helplessly as the ruthless criminals brought before his court go free because clever lawyers find obscure loopholes in the law.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-08-05
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J. Edgar Hoover
Overview: He battled the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, encouraged McCarthy and single-handedly changed the course of history. Hired by F.D.R. to be the director of the FBI, Hoover erected the most sophisticated investigatory agency in the world.
Genres: TV Movie History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-11
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Space Jam
Overview: With their freedom on the line, the Looney Tunes seek the help of NBA superstar Michael Jordon to win a basketball game against a team of moronic aliens.
Genres: Family Animation Comedy Science Fiction Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-15
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Chicago Story
Overview: A pair of cops, a pair of doctors, and a pair of lawyers examine a crime — the wounding of a ten-year-old girl by a sniper — from three different angles in this pilot to the short-lived series.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-15
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