Frank McRae
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Biography: Frank McRae (born June 3, 1942, died April 29, 2021) was an American actor and former professional football player. McRae was born in Memphis, Tennessee. McRae graduated from Tennessee State University with a double major in drama and history. He was a defensive tackle for the Chicago Bears in the 1967 NFL season. Among his acting roles are the history teacher, Mr. Teasdale, in Red Dawn, bank robber Reed Youngblood in Dillinger, Hazel in Cannery Row, Spanky in The Wizard, James Bond's friend Sharkey in 1989's Licence to Kill, inmate Eclipse in Lock Up, shouting police captain in 48 Hrs. (a role he later parodied in Last Action Hero and Loaded Weapon 1), the train coachman in Tracks and former professional boxing champion Harry Noble in *batteries not included. He also made an effective pairing with John Candy as two bumbling subordinates; first as two tank soldiers (under an equally bumbling Sgt. Frank Tree played by Dan Aykroyd) in the cult classic 1941 and later as "Walley World" Security Guards in National Lampoon's Vacation . He played Jim, the Mechanic in the movie Used Cars. His most recent role was as a guest star on the television series ER. He also portrayed the character of Sergeant Tenga in Farewell to the King Description above from the Wikipedia article Frank McRae, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Memphis, Tennessee, USA
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Birthday: June 03, 1942
Age: 82 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 29, 2021
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48 Hrs.
Overview: A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.
Genres: Crime Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-07
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Rocky II
Overview: After Rocky goes the distance with champ Apollo Creed, both try to put the fight behind them and move on. Rocky settles down with Adrian but can't put his life together outside the ring, while Creed seeks a rematch to restore his reputation. Soon enough, the "Master of Disaster" and the "Italian Stallion" are set on a collision course for a climactic battle that is brutal and unforgettable.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-15
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Licence to Kill
Overview: After capturing the notorious drug lord Franz Sanchez, Bond's close friend and former CIA agent Felix Leiter is left for dead and his wife is murdered. Bond goes rogue and seeks vengeance on those responsible, as he infiltrates Sanchez's organization from the inside.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-13
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National Lampoon's Vacation
Overview: Clark Griswold is on a quest to take his family to the Walley World theme park for a vacation, but things don't go exactly as planned.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-07-29
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Love's Long Journey
Overview: Missie's surprise pregnancy sets her on a new course that is both thrilling and terrifying. After all the planning and dreaming, she and her husband Willie are headed west in a covered wagon, leaving behind the prairie home of Missie's parents. Now, caught between the excitement of the new adventure and the pain of not knowing when she'll see her family again, Missie copes with the challenges, and cherishes the rewards, of her new homestead.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-03
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Farewell to the King
Overview: An American soldier who escapes the execution of his comrades by Japanese soldiers in Borneo during WWII becomes the leader of a personal empire among the headhunters in this war story told in the style of Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling. The American is reluctant to rejoin the fight against the Japanese on the urging of a British commando team but conducts a war of vengeance when the Japanese attack his adopted people.
Genres: War Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-03
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1941
Overview: In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.
Genres: Comedy War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-14
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*batteries not included
Overview: In a soon to be demolished block of apartments, the residents resist the criminal methods used to force them to leave so a greedy tycoon can build his new skyscraper. When tiny mechanical aliens land for a recharge, they decide to stay and help out.
Genres: Family Comedy Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-18
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Hard Times
Overview: In the depression, Chaney, a strong silent streetfighter, joins with Speed, a promoter of no-holds-barred street boxing bouts. They go to New Orleans where Speed borrows money to set up fights for Chaney, but Speed gambles away any winnings.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-08-13
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Mr. P's Dancing Sushi Bar
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-25
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Cannery Row
Overview: Doc, who has just moved to Cannery Row, realizes that the only entertainment is the brothel. There he meets the spunky Suzy and they fall in love, giving them both a renewed chance at life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-12
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Walking Tall Part II
Overview: The Walking Tall legacy continues with Bo Svenson as Sheriff Buford Pusser, a one-man army trying to rid his town of corruption. Out to avenge his wife's death at the hand of the mob, Sheriff Pusser blows up their moonshine operation. With Buford breathing down their necks, the syndicate hires two hitmen; one a maniacal race car driver, the other a deadly gunslinger. Any other man would've hightailed it out of there, but then Pusser is no ordinary man.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-09-28
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Last Action Hero
Overview: After his father's death, a young boy finds solace in action movies featuring an indestructible cop. Given a magic ticket by a theater manager, he is transported into the film and teams up with the cop to stop a villain who escapes into the real world.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-18
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Lock Up
Overview: Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is paroled, however, Warden Drumgoole takes charge. Drumgoole was assigned to a hell-hole prison after his administration was publicly humiliated by Leone, and has now arrived on the scene to ensure that Leone never sees the light of day.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-04
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National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
Overview: An LA detective is murdered because she has microfilm with the recipe to make cocaine cookies. Two cops partner to find and stop the fiends before they can dope the nation by distributing their wares via the 'Wilderness Girls' cookie drive.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-02-04
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Dillinger
Overview: After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. Waiting for him to break Federal law they sort out several other mobsters, while Dillinger's bank robbing exploits make him something of a folk hero. Escaping from jail he finds Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson have joined the gang and pretty soon he is Public Enemy Number One. Now the G-men really are after him.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-07-20
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Used Cars
Overview: When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to save the property from falling into the hands of the owner's ruthless brother and used-car rival.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-07-11
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Sketch Artist
Overview: A sketch artist for the police helps a witness recall who she saw leaving the scene of a murder, and discovers that the person is his wife. Not willing to believe she was responsible, he resketches the pictures so they don't look like her, and he begins his own investigation of the murder.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-26
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Dog and Cat
Overview: A veteran detective loses his partner in a shooting while they are investigating a gangster who is controlling the local porno rackets. He is stunned to discover that the new partner he is assigned is not only a rookie, but a female.
Genres: Action Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-07-22
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Norma Rae
Overview: Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-02
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The End
Overview: Wendell Lawson has only six months to live. Not wanting to endure his last few months of life waiting for the end, he decides to take matters into his own hands and enlists the help of a delusional mental patient to help him commit suicide.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-10
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Paradise Alley
Overview: Three Italian-American brothers, living in the slums of 1940's New York City, try to help each other with one's wrestling career using one brother's promotional skills and another brother's con-artist tactics to thwart a sleazy manager.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-22
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Pipe Dreams
Overview: A woman trails her estranged husband to the Alaskan pipeline in hope of averting their impending divorce.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-11
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Asteroid
Overview: With the discovery of an incoming asteroid, the government of America formulate a plan to destroy it. When the plan fails, all the world can do is wait. The main impact zone is revealed to be Dallas, Texas. Generally, the plot follows the lives and reactions of several characters: an astronomer, her father, her son, two firefighters from Kansas, two young doctors in Dallas and the heads of the government agency in charge of the situation.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-16
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Shooting Stars
Overview: Two television actors who play detectives are fired when the show's star gets upset that they are getting the better parts to play. So, they decide to try it for real.
Genres: Comedy Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-07-28
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Trouble Shooters: Trapped Beneath the Earth
Overview: A rescue team is looking for survivors in a sinking building after a devastating earthquake.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-03
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Hijack
Overview: A prestigious senator and the passengers on board a train are kidnapped by a militia group.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-31
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The Orphan and the Dude
Overview: Two oddballs, one a black man called "The Dude" and one white, called "The Orphan" share a Culver City, California apartment.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-07-18
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Lightning Jack
Overview: Lightning Jack Kane is an Australian outlaw in the wild west. During a bungled bank robbery he picks up mute Ben Doyle as a hostage. The two become good friends, with Jack teaching Ben how to rob banks, while they plan Jack's last heist.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-11
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The Bank Shot
Overview: A bank temporarily housed in a mobile home while a new building is built, looks like an easy target to break into. On the other hand, why not steal the whole bank, and rob it in a safer location.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-07-31
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Snatched
Overview: The wives of three wealthy men are kidnapped and held for a $3 million ransom, but one of the men doesn't want to pay his share.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-31
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Judgment: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley
Overview: This docudrama follows the court-martial of the title character, the man held responsible for the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War.
Genres: Drama Crime War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-12
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Hostage Flight
Overview: A plane is hijacked and bound for London. Once the terrorists begin killing hostages, the passengers take matters into their own hands.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-17
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Red Dawn
Overview: It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town—and their country—from invading Soviet forces.
Genres: Action Thriller War Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-10
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Poochinski
Overview: The talking bulldog at a policeman's feet turns out to be his late partner.
Genres: TV Movie Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-09
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Tracks
Overview: A soldier returns from Vietnam on special assignment, accompanying the body of his friend by train to California for burial. During the trip, he falls in love with a gentle college student. But their relationship is shattered by his flashbacks to combat.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-15
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The Killing Jar
Overview: Michael Sanford and his wife move to his old town so he can take over the family business. However, gruesome murders of children start to happen. Meanwhile, Michael starts to become slowly insane, after he may have witnessed one of the murders and reports it to the police. Is he the murderer, or is it something of his past?
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-27
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Shaft in Africa
Overview: Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.
Genres: Action Crime Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-14
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Love's Abiding Joy
Overview: The continued Westward journey of settlers Missie and Willie Lahaye. Their roots now firmly planted as they set up homestead in the far West, Missie begins to realize her passion for teaching as Willie cares for the couple's young daughter Kathy while expanding the family ranch with a little help from sons Jeff and Matthew. When the frontier railroad comes to town, the pleasure of a long-promised visit from Missie's father Clark is suddenly offset by the tragic death of young Kathy. As the untimely demise of their beloved daughter begins to drive an emotional wedge between Missie and Willie, the devastated father unexpectedly accepts an offer made by the powerful Samuel Doros to assume the role of town sheriff. Their faith shaken and their once close-knit bond suddenly torn asunder, Missie and Willie desperately attempt to bring their crumbling family back together as son Jeff faces a series of dangers while hopelessly falling for Doros' beautiful daughter Colette.
Genres: Family Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-06
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City in Fear
Overview: A psycho-on-the-loose story, about a burned-out newspaper columnist and his circulation-hungry publisher who wants him to turn the killer into Page One news.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-30
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F.I.S.T.
Overview: Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher his methods become more ruthless and finally senator Madison starts a campaign to find the truth about the alleged connections with the Mob.
Genres: Drama Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-26
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The Wizard
Overview: A boy and his brother run away from home and hitch cross-country, with help from a girl they meet, to compete in the ultimate video-game championship.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-15
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