Nicholas Colasanto
Also Known As: Nick Colasanto
Biography: Nicholas Colasanto (January 19, 1924 – February 12, 1985) was an American actor and television director who is best known for his role as "Coach" Ernie Pantusso in the American television sitcom Cheers.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Birthday: January 19, 1924
Deathday: February 12, 1985
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Gender: Male
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
Overview: During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.
Genres: War Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-12
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Raging Bull
Overview: The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-14
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Family Plot
Overview: Spiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-09
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Mad Bull
Overview: An embittered professional wrestler, convinced that his life has no meaning outside the ring, meets a beautiful woman. Unlike most of the women he has known, she seems to be interested in him for himself rather than his fame or his money, and he finds himself becoming attracted to her.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-21
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Toma
Overview: This TV-pilot, later made into a TV-series, is about a cop in Newark, New Jersey, who defies his superiors to try to bring down the head of a Mafia numbers racket.
Genres: Action Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-21
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Deadlock
Overview: A woman walks into a police station with a pistol and a vial of nitroglycerin. It turns out that she is the widow of an infamous criminal shot and killed by a detective. She notifies the police that she is waiting for the detective who shot her husband and intends to kill him in front of his fellow officers.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-17
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The Counterfeit Killer
Overview: A Secret Service agent poses as a waterfront hit man to infiltrate a global ring of counterfeiters.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-01
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The Haircut
Overview: A music executive stops in for a 15 minute haircut.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-12
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Ironside
Overview: Citizens of San Francisco are stunned by the news that Robert Ironside, the city's hard-nosed, tough-talking chief of detectives, has been shot and left for dead while vacationing at his friend the Police Commissioner's rural retreat. Ironside survives the murder attempt, but the bullet has damaged nerves in his spine, leaving him a paraplegic. Unable to gain reinstatement as chief of detectives, Ironside gets permission to continue investigating criminal cases as a citizen volunteer. With the assistance of two former protegees, Det. Sgt. Ed Brown and Officer Eve Whitfield, and a newly-hired aide/driver, Mark Sanger, Ironside sets out to solve his first case as a civilian by finding the people responsible for the attempt on his life.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-28
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Fame Is the Name of the Game
Overview: A brash, big-time investigative reporter, looking into the death of a call girl, uncovers her diary and tries to find her killer among the names contained in it.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-11-26
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The Return of the World's Greatest Detective
Overview: A Los Angeles cop falls off his motorcycle, strikes his head and wakes up believing himself to be Sherlock Holmes. Along with the social worker who is treating him, he sets out to solve the murder of an embezzler.
Genres: Crime Mystery Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-06-16
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Fat City
Overview: Two men, working as professional boxers, come to blows when their careers each begin to take opposite momentum.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-07-26
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The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery
Overview: Film noir parody with a private eye trying to solve the murder of his milkman.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-07
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Mission: Impossible vs. the Mob
Overview: The first film based on the television series MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, consisting of a compilation of a two-part episode of the original series from 1967 called THE COUNCIL.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-01
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