Rick Lenz
Also Known As: Richard Palmer Lenz
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Springfield, Illinois, USA
Birthday: November 21, 1939
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Melvin and Howard
Overview: The story of hard-luck Melvin Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-19
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The Shootist
Overview: Afflicted with a terminal illness John Bernard Books, the last of the legendary gunfighters, quietly returns to Carson City for medical attention from his old friend Dr. Hostetler. Aware that his days are numbered, the troubled man seeks solace and peace in a boarding house run by a widow and her son. However, it is not Books' fate to die in peace, as he becomes embroiled in one last valiant battle.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-21
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In Self Defense
Overview: A witness is terrorized by the killer against whom she testified.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-22
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Cactus Flower
Overview: Distraught when her middle-aged lover breaks a date with her, 21-year-old Toni Simmons attempts suicide. Impressed by her action, her lover, dentist Julian Winston reconsiders marrying Toni, but he worries about her insistence on honesty. Having fabricated a wife and three children, Julian readily accepts when his devoted nurse, Stephanie, who has secretly loved Julian for years, offers to act as his wife and demand a divorce.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-16
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Where Does It Hurt?
Overview: In this classic hospital farce, Peter Sellers plays Dr. Albert T. Hopfnagel, a greedy, crooked hospital administrator who has perfected the art of bill padding, unnecessary surgery and kickbacks. Mistrusted by patients, and resented by other staffers, his assistant Alice can no longer endure his scams and plots to have him sent to prison - but not for long enough. Sellers again steals the show with an absurd and hilarious character study.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-07-24
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Scandalous John
Overview: A crotchety old ranch owner fights to be able to live his life the way he wants to, and not the way other people--and the law--tell him he has to.
Genres: Western Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-22
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Malice in Wonderland
Overview: Struggling actress Hedda Hopper can't get a break in Hollywood, even though an acquaintence of hers is the extremely powerful gossip monger Louella Parsons - maker and breaker of careers (and lives) through her daily syndicated newspaper column. The big movie moguls, fed up with Parson's power over their stars, decide to de-claw her by setting up gossip Hopper as a competitor in the rumour industry. What they couldn't forsee was that Hopper would become as big as Parsons -- and every bit as much of a pain. Based on the true life stories of two of the most powerful (and arguably dangerous) women of Hollywood's hay-day.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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The Century Turns
Overview: An old-fashioned western lawman coming to grips with the "modern technology" of the 20th century. He teams up with college-educated criminologist to solve a tricky mystery.
Genres: Western Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-08
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The Little Dragons
Overview: Karate experts attempt to rescue a girl who was kidnapped by a mother and her two psycho sons.
Genres: Action Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-07-18
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Elvis and the Beauty Queen
Overview: Don Johnson stars as Elvis Presley in this made-for-TV true story about The King's love affair with Linda Thompson (Stephanie Zimbalist), a young beauty pageant contestant who was his live-in girlfriend and traveling companion for the last four years of his life. The story begins with their first meeting and traces their years together when Thompson tried to keep Presley off drugs in the last years of his career.
Genres: Drama Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-01
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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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Shadow of a Doubt
Overview: Charlie is a young woman who is thrilled that her favorite Uncle Charlie is coming home for good. But she soon discovers that her namesake, a "Wall Street financier," has a deep, dark secret. And knowledge of that secret by anyone can prove to be deadly.
Genres: Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-27
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How Do I Love Thee?
Overview: A professor recalls his atheistic father, his devoted mother and his father's blousy mistress.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-01
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Advice to the Lovelorn
Overview: A failed pilot for a series centering on Maggie Dale, an advice columnist. This was somewhat in the tradition of shows like Fantasy Island. When she receives a letter, the writer's situation is played out for us, then she writes her advice and the writer reads her response and does his/her best to act upon it.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-30
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Violence in Blue
Overview: A murderer strikes at a secret gathering of top law enforcement agents, brought together by a millionaire seeking their endorsement of his candidate for governor.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-03
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Telltale Talk Show Host
Overview: Dr Sheila Carlin is good friends with Della who calls Perry in when she is being pestered by someone. On the theory that it could be somebody that she works with at a radio stations she arranges Perry to be interviewed by Winslow Keene who is also the station's owner. Winslow enrages the rest of the talk show hosts on the station by informing them of changes that he is making to their time slots. That night, Winslow is shot by a hit man hired by someone at the station and Sheila is set up for the murder. She calls in Perry and as usual Perry, Della and Ken swing into action to find out who really did it.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-21
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The Three Kings
Overview: The made-for-TV film stars Jack Warden, Lou Diamond Phillips and Stan Shaw as three patients in a Los Angeles-area mental institution. Dressed as the Three Wise Men for a Christmas pageant, the trio is suddenly struck with the delusion that they are really their Biblical counterparts on a quest to find the Baby Jesus. As TV cameras grind away, the three ersatz Kings surreptitiously ride out of the gates of the asylum—on camels—and into the mean streets of LA. As the story draws to its conclusion, the three escapees find themselves providing a Christmas miracle (but not in the form of rap) for a group of homeless people on the outskirts of the city.
Genres: Family Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-17
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Doc
Overview: An aging doctor in a small town decides to pack up his little black bag, but when a young doctor assumes his practice, the older practitioner can't resist butting in with comic results.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-07-28
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