Bibi Besch
Also Known As: Bibiana Maria Köchert
Biography: Bibi Besch (born Bibiana Maria Köchert; February 1, 1940 – September 7, 1996) was an Austrian-American film, television, and stage actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Dr. Carol Marcus in the science fiction film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982). Her other notable film roles were in Who's That Girl (1987), Steel Magnolias (1989), and Tremors (1990). Besch also appeared in a number of television productions, including the television film The Day After (1983) and The Jeff Foxworthy Show, and received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria
Adult: No
Birthday: February 01, 1942
Age: 83 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: September 07, 1996
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Overview: The starship Enterprise and its crew is pulled back into action when old nemesis, Khan, steals a top secret device called Project Genesis.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-04
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Dead Solid Perfect
Overview: A second-string pro golfer desperate for his shot at success tours the country.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-18
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Steel Magnolias
Overview: A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friendship and welcome her into the fold.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-15
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Doing Time on Maple Drive
Overview: Yale scholar Matt Carter introduces his wealthy fiancée, Allison, to his family, and initially everything goes smoothly. However, it isn't long before Allison learns that Matt has lied to her about his relatives to mask their failures and dysfunctions. His brother, Tim, flunked out of school and developed a drinking problem, and Matt struggles to keep his own troubling secret from his less than tolerant parents.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-16
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Victory at Entebbe
Overview: The film is based on an actual event: Operation Entebbe and the freeing of Israeli hostages at Entebbe Airport (now Entebbe International Airport) in Uganda.
Genres: Action Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-22
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The Day After
Overview: In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residents of a small town in Kansas as they continue their daily lives. Dr. Russell Oakes maintains his busy schedule at the hospital, Denise Dahlberg prepares for her upcoming wedding, and Stephen Klein is deep in his graduate studies. When the unthinkable happens and the bombs come down, the town's residents are thrust into the horrors of nuclear winter.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-20
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Tremors
Overview: Val McKee and Earl Bassett are in a fight for their lives when they discover that their desolate town has been infested with gigantic, man-eating creatures that live below the ground.
Genres: Horror Action Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-19
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Who's That Girl
Overview: An uptight New York tax lawyer gets his life turned upside down, all in a single day, when he's asked to escort a feisty and free-spirited female ex-convict whom asks him to help prove her innocence of her crime.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-07
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The Beast Within
Overview: A horrified teen mutates into a crazed cannibalistic swamp creature, and must uncover the terrifying secret identity of his father before his nasty natural tendencies force him to make jambalaya out of the locals.
Genres: Horror Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-12
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Date with an Angel
Overview: Aspiring composer Jim Sanders is engaged to spoiled rich girl Patty. But the morning after his bachelor party, Jim wakes up to discover a beautiful, broken-winged angel in his pool. When everyone finds out about his heavenly houseguest, Jim must cope with a dangerously jealous fiancée, an exploitive future father-in-law and a group of buddies with an outrageous business plan!
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-20
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Hardcore
Overview: A conservative Midwest businessman ventures into the sordid underworld of pornography in search of his runaway teenage daughter who’s making hardcore films in the pits of Los Angeles.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-09
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Betsy's Wedding
Overview: Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé Jake Lovell just want an intimate little wedding reception, but Betsy's father Eddie, a Long Island construction contractor, feels so threatened by Jake's rich WASP parents that he blows the ceremony up into a bank-breaking showpiece, sending his wife Lola into a financial panic.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-22
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The Pack
Overview: The residents of vacation spot Seal Island find themselves terrorized by a pack of dogs -- the remnants of discarded pets by visiting vacationers.
Genres: Horror Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-20
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Transplant
Overview: Fact-based story about a hard-driving young executive who rebels against his failing heart and undergoes a risky transplant.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-17
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The Captive: The Longest Drive 2
Overview: During a Cavalry massacre at an Indian village, two brothers, searching for their captured sister, rescue a white woman long ago kidnapped by the Cheyenne. They ride for their lives, haunted by the chant of the tribal Death Song.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-22
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Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry
Overview: A rich widow shocks her snobbish WASP family when she decides to marry her Jewish, divorced, doctor. His family is equally shocked.
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-30
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The Promise
Overview: A rich student's fiancee has her face destroyed by a car accident, and refuses to return to him fearing the loss of his love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-08
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The Lonely Lady
Overview: A young screenwriter allows others to exploit her in the hopes of "making it" in Hollywood.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-02
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Abandoned and Deceived
Overview: The film is the story of woman who is denied the pensions for her children by her ex-husband. Therefore she has to fight for her rights by appealing the courts of justice and the bureaucracy of the state.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-20
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Lonely Hearts
Overview: Alma, a lonely woman, falls for the conman who steals her money after seducing her. Frank doesn't want Alma around him, but he cannot do anything about the situation in case she goes to the police. Hot on the trail of the two is a female private detective, working for another of Frank's victims.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-11
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Tough Girl
Overview: Streetwise teenager is sent to live in the suburbs with her father new family.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-28
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Meteor
Overview: After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth. If it hits it will cause an incredible catastrophe which will probably extinguish mankind. To stop the meteor NASA wants to use the illegal nuclear weapon satellite "Hercules" but discovers soon that it doesn't have enough firepower. Their only chance to save the world is to join forces with the USSR who have also launched such an illegal satellite. But will both governments agree?
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-19
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Skyward Christmas
Overview: In this sequel to "Skyward" and pilot to a prospective series, Julie attempts a secret flight to bring her grandfather home for a Christmas reunion.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-03
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Rattled
Overview: A horde of rattlesnakes inexplicably descends into Eden Valley, terrorizing an isolated family and forcing them to fight for their lives.
Genres: Horror Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-14
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Extreme Close-Up
Overview: Innovative drama mixing film and video, with a teenager obsessed with watching his late mother, killed in an auto accident, on tapes he recorded of their daily lives. The mother is seen in extreme close-up only on tape.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-22
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The Plutonium Incident
Overview: A plutonium plant employee becomes the target of management, as well as union harassment, when she tries to blow the whistle on the company for negligent safety procedures, and she soon finds her life in peril.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-11
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The Last Shot
Overview: Film drama about terminal illness...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-09-01
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Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion
Overview: A teenage boy gets a job as a Pony Express rider in the Nebraska Territory not long before the Civil War breaks out.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-05
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He's My Girl
Overview: Bryan and Reggie are best friends who are in the music business in Missouri. When Reggie enters Brian for a chance to go to L.A., Bryan wins the contest and wants to bring Reggie with him. However, Bryan must bring a girl. In an effort to make sure Bryan gets his shot, Reggie decides to pose as a girl. When the duo arrive in L.A., both fall in love with two women and they must stop the promoter of the contest when he steals Bryan's song for his star, Simon Sledge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-11
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Tattle: When To Tell On A Friend
Overview: The tale of four friends who are members of a high school swimming team, and the threat to those bonds when two of them experiment with cocaine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-26
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Crazy From the Heart
Overview: A small-town, high-school principal still living at home with her mother shakes up her life in a way that even she never expected when she agrees to go out on a date with her school's Hispanic janitor.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-19
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Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story
Overview: The life and tragic death of the "Playboy" centerfold model/actress Dorothy Stratten.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-01
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Gone Are the Dayes
Overview: After the Days family witnesses a gang shooting in a Japanese restaurant, the police persuades them to testify against mobster Delgado. Detective Mitchell gets the job to hide the four until the trial. But how shall he keep two nervous adults and their two teenage kids under control?
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-06
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Secrets of a Mother and Daughter
Overview: A widowed mother, Ava Pryce (Katharine Ross) and daughter Susan Decker (Linda Hamilton) clash over the same man, a West Coast restaurant the owner named Alex Shepherd (Michael Nouri).
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-04
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Kill Me Again
Overview: After Faye and her psychotic boyfriend, Vince, successfully rob a mob courier, Faye decides to abscond with the loot. She heads to Reno, where she hires feckless private investigator Jack Andrews to help fake her death. He pulls the scheme off and sets up Faye with a new identity, only to have her skip out on him without paying. Jack follows her to Vegas and learns he's not the only one after her. Vince has discovered that she's still alive.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-27
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Distance
Overview: ’Distance’ is an award-winning, independent feature film exploring the distance between men and women through the intertwined stories of two couples. Made by the filmmaker while he was still in his 20s, ‘Distance’ features Oscar-nominee James Woods in his first leading role.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-22
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Tom and Joann
Overview: The story of Tom and Joann Hammil, a divorced couple who explore new relationships while maintaining their mutual affection a year after their sixteen-year marriage has ended. A sequel to Breaking Up (1978).
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-08
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Wounded Heart
Overview: A ruthless businesswoman, Tracy Lance, returns to her childhood home in Texas after hearing her father, Jake Lance suffered a stroke. The two have been estranged for years, and Tracy is just in Texas to collect her inheritance, thinking (and hoping) her father will die. She makes plans to sell her inheritance, the Wounded Heart ranch, to an unscrupulous land developer. Her father does die, and her step-brother Sean Donnegal helps her discover her true, caring self again.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-08-16
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Betrayal
Overview: Dramatization of the 1971 case involving a young woman who sued her psychiatrist for luring her into a sexual relationship with him under the guise of therapy.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-13
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First Ladies Diaries: Martha Washington
Overview: TV biopic about the first US President's wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-23
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Blue Bayou
Overview: A Los Angeles lawyer has to go to New Orleans for a steamy case involving a troubled teen.
Genres: Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-15
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