Anthony Heald
Also Known As: 安東尼・希爾德
Biography: An American actor known for portraying Hannibal Lecter's jail nemesis, Dr. Frederick Chilton in The Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon, and for playing assistant principal Scott Guber in David E. Kelley's Boston Public. He also had a recurring role as Judge Cooper on Kelley's The Practice and Boston Legal. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New Rochelle, New York, USA
Birthday: August 25, 1944
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Gender: Male
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The Silence of the Lambs
Overview: Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-02-14
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A Time to Kill
Overview: A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-24
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The Client
Overview: A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a Mafia hit-man. Before Jerome shoots himself, he tells Mark where the body of a Senator is buried. Clifford shoots himself and Mark is found at the scene, and both the FBI and the Mafia quickly realize that Mark probably knows more than he says.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-20
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8MM
Overview: A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, he relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife, family and simple life as a small-town PI.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-26
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Bushwhacked
Overview: A inept courier realises he has been used by criminals to deliver money. On the run from both the criminals and police, he poses as a Scout leader and leads a scout group on a hike through the mountains.
Genres: Adventure Family Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-04
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Deep Rising
Overview: A group of heavily armed hijackers board a luxury ocean liner in the South Pacific Ocean to loot it, only to do battle with a series of large-sized, tentacled, man-eating sea creatures who have taken over the ship first.
Genres: Adventure Action Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-30
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Accepted
Overview: A high school slacker who's rejected by every school he applies to opts to create his own institution of higher learning, the South Harmon Institute of Technology, on a rundown piece of property near his hometown.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-18
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The Ballad of Little Jo
Overview: After being thrown out of her home, a young woman decides to disguise herself as a man to survive the ruthless Wild West.
Genres: Romance Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-20
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Old?!
Overview: OLD?! is a 55 -minute documentary showcasing over seventy people with poignant stories and plain-speak wisdom about the life journey of aging. These individuals, from 10 days to 101 years old, offer funny, touching and inspiring stories as they share their perspectives about what it means to be old. Throughout the film OLD?! invites us to embrace our own aging process.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-07-25
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The Beniker Gang
Overview: When his younger friends go up for adoption, threatening their extended family, an orphaned teen helps them discourage potential parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-02
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A Case of Deadly Force
Overview: Fact-based story about a 1975 cover-up of a shooting by two white members of the Boston Tactical Unit. While on stakeout on a suspected getaway car used in a armed robbery, the two gunned down a black man who entered the car. The two claimed the man had a gun and they shot in self-defense. Police investigation decided it was a rightful shooting. The man's widow knew her husband would not be carrying a weapon and became determined to prove her husband's innocence. She hired a former cop who had become a lawyer to prove her case. Working with his four sons, the lawyer team takes on the police force in what eventually proved to be a landmark legal decision. Written by John Sacksteder
Genres: Drama TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-09
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Postcards from the Edge
Overview: Substance-addicted Hollywood actress, Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continuing to employ her that she live with her mother, herself once a star and now a champion drinker. Such a set-up is bad news for Suzanne who has struggled for years to get out of her mother's shadow, and who still treats her like a child. Despite these and other problems, Suzanne begins to see the funny side of her situation, and also realises that not only do daughters have mothers—mothers do too.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-14
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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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Kiss of Death
Overview: Jimmy Kilmartin's an ex-con who's trying to go straight. But he can't say no to a quick driving job because his so-called friend's life is threatened. The job is for Little Junior Brown, a violent and powerful villain. When things go wrong, Jimmy is left to do the time, and his whole life is turned upside-down, but if that wasn't enough, the cops won't leave Jimmy alone when he gets out... They want Little Junior Brown.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-04-21
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Red Dragon
Overview: Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it seems Lecter is the only one who can help Graham track down a new serial killer.
Genres: Crime Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-02
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Whispers in the Dark
Overview: Psychiatrist Ann Hecker is ending one relationship and possibly starting an important new one, while finding that some of the sexual exploits her patients relate are weighing on her. Turning to a married friend from her research days for guidance, she finds his help increasingly important when a female patient is murdered and it turns out that her new boyfriend was also seeing the dead woman.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-06
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Happy New Year
Overview: Small time crooksters Nick and Charlie have an elaborate plan to rob an exclusive jewelers store. Using a variety of disguises and posing as rich old men and women they begin the set-up, but then Nick falls for the owner of a neighboring antique store and things get a little complicated.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-07
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Teachers
Overview: A teacher reconnects with an old student who is now an attorney representing a family who is suing the school for graduating their son who still cannot read or write. Amid the daily chaos of teaching in an inner city school, Alex Jurel tries to decide if he will lie at his deposition to protect the school or tell the truth and risk throwing away his career.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-05
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Proof of Life
Overview: Alice hires a professional negotiator to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has been kidnapped by anti-government guerrillas in South America.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-08
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Outrageous Fortune
Overview: Refined actress Lauren Ames finally has a chance to study with the great theatre professor Stanislav Korzenowski. Sandy Brozinsky, a brash, loud actress, decides through happenstance to also study with Korzenowski. The two women end up dating the same man (who turns out to be a double agent) and follow him across the country to force him to choose between them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-30
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The Ruby Princess Runs Away
Overview: Based on the best-selling children's book, The Ruby Princess Runs Away is a fun-filled musical is packed with magical creatures, rollicking comedy, and delightful songs. While the great wizard Gallivant scours the Jewel Kingdom to find the Runaway Princess, the evil Darklings and their leader Princess Rudgrin plot to take over her throne. Only Princess Roxanne and her new friends (some loyal gnomes and a very special dragon) can stop them. If you like action-packed fairy tales about spunky princesses that would rather climb a tree than rule a kingdom, this is the show for you.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-04
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Alone
Overview: A recently widowed traveler is kidnapped by a cold blooded killer, only to escape into the wilderness where she is forced to battle against the elements as her pursuer closes in on her.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-10
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The Pelican Brief
Overview: A law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her in a far-reaching web of murder, corruption, and greed.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-17
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Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Overview: A behind-the-scenes look at the making of this Oscar winning thriller, prepared for its tenth anniversary. Includes interviews with star Anthony Hopkins, as well as other members of the cast and crew, giving their views on the experience of creating this masterpiece of terror and suspense.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-08-21
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Page to Screen: 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Overview: Documentary about the adaptation of the 1988 novel by Thomas Harris into the 1991 film directed by Jonathan Demme. Originally presented in two parts on Bravo Television.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-28
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X-Men: The Last Stand
Overview: When a cure is found to treat mutations, lines are drawn amongst the X-Men—led by Professor Charles Xavier—and the Brotherhood, a band of powerful mutants organised under Xavier's former ally, Magneto.
Genres: Adventure Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-24
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Every Act of Life
Overview: The life of Tony-winning playwright Terrence McNally (Master Class, Ragtime): 60 years of groundbreaking plays and musicals, the struggle for gay rights, addiction and recovery, finding true love, and the relentless pursuit of inspiration.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-23
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Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys
Overview: In 1930s Alabama, nine young black men are accused of raping two white women. The judge in the case, unlike the rest of the town, comes to believe that the boys are innocent and, against all advice from his friends and family, sets them free, which turns the entire community against him.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-22
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Inside Story - The Silence of the Lambs
Overview: With interviews from cast and crew, including stars Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, and director Jonathan Demme, this feature-length documentary tells the story of how a film with a young director trained in B-movies and cheesy comedies managed to make one of the most chilling films in decades, and how a studio in the midst of collapse turned out a film that took the box office - and Oscars - by storm.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-08
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Searching for Bobby Fischer
Overview: A seven-year-old chess prodigy refuses to harden himself in order to become a champion like the famous but unlikable Bobby Fischer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-08-13
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Orphans
Overview: Brothers Treat and Philip have only had each other since they were kids, when a small-time criminal abruptly upends their routine lives.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-18
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