Nathan Davis
Also Known As: Nate Davis
Biography: Nathan Davis was an American stage and screen actor. By trade, he was a pharmaceutical sales rep who decided to pursue acting after being fired from his sales job in the late 1970s.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Birthday: May 22, 1917
Deathday: October 15, 2008
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Children Nobody Wanted
Overview: True story of Tom Butterfield and his crusade to provide family life for homeless children, becoming not only the first bachelor caretaker, but the youngest single adult to become a legal foster parent in the state of Missouri.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-05
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Poltergeist III
Overview: Carol Anne has been sent to live with her Aunt and Uncle in an effort to hide her from the clutches of the ghostly Reverend Kane, but he tracks her down and terrorises her in her relatives' appartment in a tall glass building. Will he finally achieve his target and capture Carol Anne again, or will Tangina be able, yet again, to thwart him?
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-10
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Code of Silence
Overview: A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-03
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On the Right Track
Overview: Lester is a homeless shoeshine boy living in a railway station. He's got this funny knack for picking the winning horses' names out of the paper while shining shoes. When word gets around, though, everyone wants a piece of the action.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-06
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The Package
Overview: Experienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Boyette, back to the US, but Boyette escapes and Gallagher must risk life and limb to catch him.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-25
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Flowers in the Attic
Overview: After the death of her husband, a mother takes her kids off to live with their grandparents in a huge, decrepit old mansion. However, the kids are kept hidden in a room just below the attic, visited only by their mother who becomes less and less concerned about them and their failing health, and more concerned about herself and the inheritence she plans to win back from her dying father.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-20
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Will: G. Gordon Liddy
Overview: Based on the autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy who spent 54 months in prison following the Watergate scandal.
Genres: TV Movie Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-10
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Dunston Checks In
Overview: Hotel manager Robert Grant is forced by his boss to postpone his family vacation when a hotel critic checks in. Trouble is, the critic is really a villainous jewel thief with an orangutan assistant named Dunston. When Dunston gets loose and tries to escape a life of crime -- aided by Robert's sons -- havoc, hijinks and lots of laughs abound!
Genres: Family Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-12
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Tough Guys
Overview: Harry Doyle and Archie Lang are two old-time train robbers, who held up a train in 1956 and have been incarcerated for thirty years. After serving their time, they are released from jail and have to adjust to a new life of freedom. and soon realize that they still have the pizzazz when, picking up their prison checks at a bank, they foil a robbery attempt.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-03
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Young Lust
Overview: The reunion of Garytown High School’s class of ‘71 is a catalyst for a series of comic crises involving sex, drugs, murder and anatomical oddities.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-27
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Dummy
Overview: The real-life account of an illiterate, deaf-and-mute, black youth who was accused of murdering a prostitute, and the relationship that developed between him and his court-appointed attorney, who also was deaf, and the events leading up to his precedent-setting trial.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-27
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Flesh & Blood
Overview: A young street-tough-turned-boxer struggles to reach the top while finding his romance with an attractive TV reporter is complicated by an incestuous relationship with his mother.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-14
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Chain Reaction
Overview: At the University of Chicago, a research team that includes brilliant student machinist Eddie Kasalivich experiences a breakthrough: a stable form of fusion that may lead to a waste-free energy source. However, a private company wants to exploit the technology, so Kasalivich and physicist Dr. Lily Sinclair are framed for murder, and the fusion device is stolen. On the run from the FBI, they must recover the technology and exonerate themselves.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-02
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Risky Business
Overview: Meet Joel Goodson, an industrious, college-bound 17-year-old and a responsible, trustworthy son. However, when his parents go away and leave him home alone in the wealthy Chicago suburbs with the Porsche at his disposal he quickly decides he has been good for too long and it is time to enjoy himself. After an unfortunate incident with the Porsche Joel must raise some cash, in a risky way.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-08-05
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Holes
Overview: A wrongfully convicted boy is sent to a brutal desert detention camp where he must dig holes in order to build character. What he doesn't know is that he is digging holes in order to search for a lost treasure hidden somewhere in the camp.
Genres: Adventure Family Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-18
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Steal Big Steal Little
Overview: Ruben and Robby are twin brothers, adopted by Mona, one of the wealthiest - and most eccentric - women in Santa Barbara. Ruben is devoted to Mona, but Robby is more devoted to her money. So when Mona leaves her fortune and estate to Ruben it starts a battle between brothers that soon leads to madness, mayhem, and even attempted murder. On Ruben's side is Lou Perilli an ex-Chicago cop and used car dealer who knows the law - and how to get around it. On Robby's side is ruthless businessman Reed Tyler, who is out to turn a swift profit on Mona's property. Walking a shifty line between them is Eddie Agopian, the family lawyer, who doesn't care which side wins as long as he's on the winner's side. But whether they're stealing big or stealing little, they're all stealing in this hilarious comedy about greed, power... and brotherly love.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-29
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Hudson Taylor
Overview: The early years of the great missionary Hudson Taylor are portrayed in this drama. The movie details his work in China and the trails he endured. Hudson Taylor is an inpiration to all as a man of true faith in the living God.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Thief
Overview: Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to use his ill-gotten income to retire from crime and build a nice life for himself complete with a home, wife and kids. To accelerate the process, he signs on with a top gangster for a big score.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-27
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Let's Go to Prison
Overview: When a career criminal's plan for revenge is thwarted by unlikely circumstances, he puts his intended victim's son in his place by putting him in prison...and then joining him.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-17
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Stony Island
Overview: Richie Bloom, the only white kid on the block, forms an R&B band with his best friend, Kevin. With the help of their mentor, aging sax legend Percy, they pull together a funky supergroup. Despite few resources and heavy losses this resilient group of dedicated musicians, armed only with wit, sleight of hand and outrageous Chicago bravado must come together to finally make their smash debut.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-17
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Almost Salinas
Overview: Life takes a strange turn when a group of outsiders come to the small town of Cholame, the famed site of James Dean's fatal car crash. Cholame's only business, a diner owned by Max (John Mahoney), is overrun by this glamorous group while the diner's short order cook (Ian Gomez) and waitress (Virginia Madsen) get caught up into this new, exciting world. Unknown to the rest, a magazine reporter (Linda Emond) arrives in town to uncover a dark secret that Max has kept hidden for over forty years.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-01
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