Tony Frank
Also Known As: Tony L. Frank, Tony Lavelle Frank
Biography: Known for appearances in North and South (1985-86), Young Guns II (1990) and Varsity Blues (1999), Tony Frank was an American character actor, primarily in Made-for-TV features but occasionally in cinematic productions or one-off television guest roles. He was married to Katherine Swango from 1973-82.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Nacogdoches, Texas, USA
Birthday: December 09, 1943
Deathday: April 18, 2000
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Night Game
Overview: A police detective tracks a serial killer who is stalking young women on a beach front after each game that a baseball pitcher wins.
Genres: Horror Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-15
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UHF
Overview: The eccentric new manager of a UHF television channel tries to save the station from financial ruin with an odd array of programming.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-07-21
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North Dallas Forty
Overview: A semi-fictional account of life as a professional football player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-03
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Broken Promise
Overview: A juvenile court services director strives to fight the odds following his promise to a resourceful 11-year-old to keep her and her four younger brothers and sisters together as a family after their parents abandoned them, despite a bureaucrat's insistence that it is impossible to locate a single foster home for all five.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-05
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Tender Mercies
Overview: Alchoholic former country singer Mac Sledge makes friends with a young widow and her son. The friendship enables him to find inspiration to resume his career.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-04
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Lone Star
Overview: When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-21
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Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life
Overview: A haggard cowboy reflects upon his life while awaiting his death.
Genres: Crime Drama Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-14
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Wild Texas Wind
Overview: Soon after a country singer moves in with her band's new manager, he's found slain and she's a suspect.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-23
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Talk Radio
Overview: A rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-21
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Born on the Fourth of July
Overview: Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-20
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Abduction
Overview: Based on the shocking true story of Olympic medalist Kari Swenson who was abducted by two "Mountain Men" while jogging in the foothills of the Rockies in Montana.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-08
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The River Rat
Overview: On the lazy banks of the Mississippi, a young girl is reunited with her time-served but innocent father. But the reunion is tainted with the whereabouts of the stolen loot, and those who come looking for it...
Genres: Adventure Crime Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-28
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The Unspoken Truth
Overview: Despite her parents' misgivings, Brianne marries Clay, and the couple soon have a daughter. It's then that Clay begins to show the first signs that he's unhinged. When he sees Brianne innocently talking to a man, Clay shoots him dead. At first, Brianne believes that her love for her husband can prevail. But when authorities threaten to take away custody of her daughter, she learns a horrible truth about her past.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-24
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Crisis at Central High
Overview: The historic federal-state controversy over the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, as seen through the eyes of Elizabeth Huckaby, one of the teachers and girls' vice principal.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-04
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In Broad Daylight
Overview: The fanatically uncompromising Len Rowan and his family insult and terrorize the citizens of a small town for years. One day the comment of a saleswoman about Len's son not being able to pay his sweets triggers off his persecution complex. As revenge for the believed insult, the whole family starts stalking the shop owner and her husband... until this escalates and the old man gets badly injured. Len is arrested, but gets off, free on bail. His clever attorney delays the court session for more than a year - while Rowan keeps threatening the witnesses. But then, the people feel they've had enough of this and decide to take the law in their own hands...
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-02-03
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On the Borderline
Overview: A young couple embark on a cross-country journey, only to run into trouble at the Texas/Mexico border.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-10-23
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The Con
Overview: A lonely gas station attendent in Mississippi falls in love with a con woman who wants to get her hands on an inheritance he doesn't know about.
Genres: Romance Comedy Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-04
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A Climate for Killing
Overview: Shortly before a rodeo festival week in Yuma County a body is found in the desert. It seems that it's Ria Paris, who was assumed to be killed by her husband before he took his own life already 16 years ago - however the cadaver's no that old! Together with his new ambitious colleague Paul McCraw Sheriff Kyle starts to investigate in the old case again, trying to avoid shaking up the community of the small town during the celebrations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-18
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Riverbend
Overview: A black major (Steve James) and his men are on the run from a rigged court martial and hide out in a small Georgia town where a cruel white sheriff is terrorizing the black population. Together with one strong-willed woman they formulate a bold plan to fight for freedom and human rights.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-01
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Thompson's Last Run
Overview: A hardened con being transferred from a federal penitentiary to a Texas institution to finish a life sentence as a habitual criminal is freed at gunpoint by his niece. The police man, who was transferring him and has been the con's adversary for over 30 years, vows to catch the twosome.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-16
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Dalton: Code of Vengeance II
Overview: Sequel to Code of Vengeance in which Vietnam vet-turned-loner David Dalton goes off this time in pursuit of his crazy former commanding officer and his trigger-happy paramilitary group, the New Patriots, who are planning a war against the U.S. Government, which they feel let them down in Vietnam.
Genres: Action Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-11
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Sweet Dreams
Overview: The story of Patsy Cline, the velvet-voiced country music singer who died in a tragic plane crash at the height of her fame.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-02
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Extreme Prejudice
Overview: A Texas Ranger and a ruthless narcotics kingpin - they were childhood friends, now they are adversaries...
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-24
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Two Mothers for Zachary
Overview: A grandmother sues her daughter for custody of her grandson, because she believes that her daughter's homosexuality renders her unfit for motherhood.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-22
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Adam
Overview: Based on the true story that shocked the nation and led to vast changes in how law enforcement handled missing children cases...John and Reve Walsh deal with their grief in front of the whole country when their son, Adam, is abducted and later found dead.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-10
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The Substitute Wife
Overview: In Nebraska, in pioneer days, a woman who knows she is going to die asks a prostitute to replace her with her husband and four children in order to make it possible for them to keep their family farm.
Genres: Drama Romance Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-23
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Rush
Overview: Undercover cop Jim Raynor (Jason Patric) is a seasoned veteran. His partner, Kristen Cates (Jennifer Jason Leigh), is lacking in experience, but he thinks she's tough enough to work his next case with him: a deep cover assignment to bring down the notoriously hard-to-capture drug lord Gaines (Gregg Allman). While their relationship turns romantic during the assignment, they also turn into junkies, and will have to battle their own addictions if they want to bring down Gaines once and for all.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-22
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The Road to Galveston
Overview: Jordan Roosevelt, at 65, found herself alone, destitute, and depressed. Up against the wall, she took heart from the suggestion of a friend, a blind woman who was a nurse: enter a foster care program in which one takes care of patients in their own home. The patients she cares for are Alzheimers sufferers, and she shares her home with three other women in advanced stages of the disease, one (Gayle) wheelchair bound. And with these women, Jordan realizes a lifelong dream - to feel the ocean breeze. An accidental find of a coffee can stash of cash, buried by her late husband, makes the trip possible. Based on the true story of Peggy Lee of Camilla, Texas (the Alzheimers, the patients, and the foster care program are actual, the trip to the Galveston beaches is fictional).
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-24
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Alamo Bay
Overview: A despondent Vietnam veteran in danger of losing his livelihood is pushed to the edge when he sees Vietnamese immigrants moving into the fishing industry in a Texas bay town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-04-03
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Bed of Lies
Overview: Dramatization of the true-life story of a woman who fights for custody of her children while awaiting trial for the murder of her husband, who happens to have been the son of the powerful ex-governor of Texas.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-20
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Final Verdict
Overview: A trial lawyer risks losing his family and career when he defends a client who he knows to be guilty as charged.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-09
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Johnny Be Good
Overview: It's recruiting time and despite being short and scrawny, Johnny Walker is America's hottest young football prospect. His dilemma: should he take one of the many offers from college talent scouts or should he attend the local state college with his girlfriend and give up his football career?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-22
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The Steeler and the Pittsburgh Kid
Overview: The award-winning Coke commercial becomes a heart-warming story!
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-15
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