Gregory Sierra
Also Known As: Gregg Sierra, Dirk Peno, Gregory Joseph Sierra, Greg Sierra
Biography: Gregory Sierra (January 25, 1937 – January 4, 2021) was an American film and television actor. He is most commonly recognized as Det. Sgt. Chano Amenguale on the first two seasons of Barney Miller (1975-77).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: January 25, 1937
Age: 88 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 04, 2021
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Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology
Overview: As part of the film's promotion, a mockumentary was aired on HBO. Titled Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology, the mockumentary parodied Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, the 1991 documentary about the making of the film Apocalypse Now (which starred Charlie Sheen's father, Martin Sheen).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-20
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The Prisoner of Zenda
Overview: Anthony Hope's classic tale gets a decidedly 'un-classic' treatment at the hands of Peter Sellers. Following the story somewhat, friends of the new King Rudolph of Ruritania fear for his life, and switch him with a look-a-like London cabby. Throw in two(!) lovely blondes, treachery, and a battle for life and honour, and enjoy life at its zaniest.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-17
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Papillon
Overview: A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-16
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A Low Down Dirty Shame
Overview: A black detective becomes embroiled in a web of danger while searching for a fortune in missing drug money. During the course of his investigation, he encounters various old connections, ultimately confronting the criminal responsible for Shame's expulsion from the force. He must also deal with two women, Angela, a beautiful old flame, and Peaches, his energetic but annoying sidekick.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-11-23
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Command 5
Overview: A team of special military forces has to save a small town which has been taken hostage by an organization called the Brotherhood.
Genres: Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-05
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Hot Shots! Part Deux
Overview: Topper Harley is found to be working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA want him to lead a rescue mission into Iraq, to rescue the last rescue team, who went in to rescue the last rescue team—who went in to rescue hostages left behind after Desert Storm.
Genres: Action Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-21
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The Clones
Overview: A scientist discovers a plot to clone other scientists so the government can control the weather.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-01
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Mean Dog Blues
Overview: A victim of circumstance, country and western musician Paul Ramsey finds himself on a Southern chain gang.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-03
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Machismo: 40 Graves for 40 Guns
Overview: A Mexican bandit and his gang are offered a pardon and a cash reward if he will cross the border into America and bring back a gang of murderous gold thieves who robbed the local church and killed the priest and the Head Federales' wife and children.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-01
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The Night the Bridge Fell Down
Overview: A group of random individuals get stranded on a bridge that begins collapsing at both ends. Not only that, but there's a gun-wielding bank robber using the bridge as his means of escape refusing to let any of the rescuers draw near the survivors. Time is running out ...
Genres: Action Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-06
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Goodnight Jackie
Overview: Wendell Burton is a guy who can't get over his ex-girlfriend, Lana Wood. He is caught up in a nutty crisis of trying to survive life without her!
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-27
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The Gambler: The Adventure Continues
Overview: Brady Hawkes, Billy Montana, and Jeremiah Hawkes are on a train bound for a huge gambling event when the train is taken over by a gang of vicious killers in search of money. As ransom, the gang takes young Jeremiah hostage. Brady and Billy embark on a quest to rescue him and form a small gang of their own along the way.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-28
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Vampires
Overview: The church enlists a team of vampire-hunters to hunt down and destroy a group of vampires searching for an ancient relic that will allow them to exist in sunlight.
Genres: Action Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-30
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Jane Austen's Mafia!
Overview: Takeoff on the Godfather with the son of a mafia king taking over for his dying father.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-24
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The Other Side of the Wind
Overview: Surrounded by fans and sceptics, grizzled director J.J. "Jake" Hannaford returns from years abroad in Europe to a changed Hollywood, where he attempts to make his innovative comeback film. This film was started in 1970 but never completed during Welles's lifetime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-02
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Where the Hell's That Gold?!!?
Overview: A pair of thieves are pursued by the U.S. Army, the Mexican federales and Apaches in this made-for-TV Western.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-13
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Beneath the Planet of the Apes
Overview: The sole survivor of an interplanetary rescue mission lands on the planet of the apes, and uncovers a horrible secret beneath the surface.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-04-23
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The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit
Overview: Gomez is a middle-aged man who dreams of buying a gorgeous white suit in a nearby store, but doesn't have enough cash. He finds 4 more people of same size, who each give $20 and get to wear the suit for an hour each in return. But the suit is not just a suit - it makes wishes of the one wearing it come true.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-23
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The Trouble with Spies
Overview: George Trent, a British spy, has gone incommunicado in Ibiza. Appleton Porter (Donald Sutherland) is sent to find out what happened to Trent. Porter settles into a small hotel with several busybody guests. He probes them for information about Trent, their former neighbor. Meanwhile, the spy survives several attempts on his life as he attempts to solve the mystery.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-04
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Deep Cover
Overview: Black police officer Russell Stevens applies for a special anti-drug squad which targets the highest boss of cocaine delivery to LA—the Colombian foreign minister's nephew. Russell works his way up from the bottom undercover, until he reaches the boss.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-15
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The Thief Who Came to Dinner
Overview: A computer programmer decides to become a thief. And when he starts making waves, an insurance investigator hounds him. He also meets a woman who becomes his accomplice.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-01
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Getting Straight
Overview: Graduate student Harry Bailey was once one of the most visible undergraduate activists on campus, but now that he's back studying for his master's, he's trying to fly right. Trouble is, the campus is exploding with various student movements, and Harry's girlfriend, Jan, is caught up in most of them. As Harry gets closer to finishing his degree, he finds his iconoclastic attitude increasingly aligned with the students rather than the faculty.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-13
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Uncommon Valor
Overview: The pilot for an unsold weekly series, Uncommon Valor stresses the courage and resourceful of a team of firefighters in Salt Lake City, Utah. Headed by dauntless battalion chief Tom Riordan (Mitchell Ryam), the unit tries to drench a raging conflagration at County General Hospital (a disaster enhanced by some pretty good special effects). They also have to battle the villain of the piece, discreetly described in the original network press release as a "deranged arsonist."
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-22
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Red Sky at Morning
Overview: Before going off to World War II, Frank Arnold (Richard Crenna) relocates his wife, Ann (Claire Bloom), and son, Joshua (Richard Thomas), to New Mexico. Joshua has a difficult time fitting in, finding himself a minority in a predominantly Latino community, and his mother doesn't fare much better, treating her loneliness with increasing quantities of alcohol. At length, Joshua makes some friends and begins to adjust, but bad news from overseas threatens to spoil what he's accomplished.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-12
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Stingray
Overview: A district attorney is kidnapped by a criminal who then has a deranged doctor do something to him that leaves him with the mind of a child. His assistant seeks out a man who is only known by the car he drives, a Stingray. He helps people who have problems and in return, they owe him a favor that he will collect later.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-07-14
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Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper
Overview: Miami detective Sonny Crockett reluctantly teams with New York City cop Rico Tubbs when both of them end up pursuing a drug dealer who killed their respective partners.
Genres: Drama Action Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-16
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Weekend of Terror
Overview: Three nuns on a weekend trip are held hostage by escaped convicts.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-08
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The Towering Inferno
Overview: At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—skyscraper, a massive fire breaks out, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-14
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The Wrath of God
Overview: Set in the 1920s, several foreigners held by a South American military group are offered possible freedom if they accept to topple a local crazed military leader.
Genres: Adventure Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-07-14
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The Culpepper Cattle Co.
Overview: Working as an assistant on a long cattle drive, the young Ben Mockridge contends between his dream of being a cowboy and the harsh truth of the Old West.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-04-15
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Pocket Money
Overview: Broke and in debt, an otherwise honest cowboy and his buddy get mixed up in some shady dealings with a crooked cattle dealer.
Genres: Comedy Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-01
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Desperado: Badlands Justice
Overview: Alex McArthur returns as cowboy Duell McCall, who wanders the wide frontier in search of the one man who will clear him of a murder charge (What price Fugitive?) Once more, McCall finds himself in a corruption-ridden mining town. Since no one knows his true identity, he is able to establish a modicum of law and order, despite the concerted efforts of greedy land baron John Rhys-Davies. It is only a matter of time, however, before McCall will be forced to move on to other adventures.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-17
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Johnny 316
Overview: A preacher without resources spends his days reciting Bible verses. One day he meets a young jobless girl who wanders on Hollywood Boulevard. An impossible love story begins.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-20
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300 Miles for Stephanie
Overview: A San Antonio cop, as an act of faith, vows to run more than 300 miles in five days, hoping his critically ill five-year-old daughter will survive to greet him at the finish.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-12
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Honey, I Blew Up the Kid
Overview: Wayne Szalinski is at it again. But instead of shrinking things, he tries to make a machine that can make things grow. As in the first one, his machine isn't quite accurate. But when he brings Nick & his toddler son Adam to see his invention, the machine unexpectedly starts working. And when Adam comes right up to the machine, he gets zapped along with his stuffed bunny.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-16
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Donor
Overview: Dr. Kristine Lipton finds that something strange is happening in the hospital she works for when a friend is strangled by an elderly patient, who runs away but has an accident and dies. Kristine tries to find out more about this man, but discovers that all the personnel (including the hospital's director), are hiding something.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-09
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The Night They Took Miss Beautiful
Overview: Criminals hijack an airplane carrying five beauty contest finalists, but unknowingly they've also kidnapped a government agent carrying a dangerous virus that is to be used in bacterial warfare.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-24
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The Castaway Cowboy
Overview: A Wayward Texas cowboy washes up on the beaches of Hawaii and is taken home by an fatherless boy. He saves the family's business while romancing the single mom.
Genres: Adventure Family Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-08-01
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Let's Get Harry
Overview: Harry Burck has been kidnapped by South American terrorists, and when the US Government refuses to intervene, Harry's friends decide to take matters into their own hands!
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-31
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Her Secret Life
Overview: Kate Capshaw plays a schoolteacher and suburban housewife who happens to be an ex-spy. Nobody knows of Capshaw's previous espionage activities, least of all her somewhat obtuse husband Cliff De Young. When Capshaw's ex-lover Jeroen Krabbe, an intimate of Castro, lands in a Cuban prison, she is swept back into the spy business, leaving her nonplussed hubby in the dust.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-12
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Farrell: For the People
Overview: Adventures of the DA's new lady assistant.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-18
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Evening in Byzantium
Overview: While the prestigious Cannes Film Festival goes on around him, American movie producer Jesse Craig struggles to develop a pitch-worthy thriller about a terrorist plot. Before long, Craig becomes concerned that a shocking act of real-life terrorism already may be underway. Meanwhile, radical actor Bret Easton works in cahoots with a group of extremists to coordinate the hijacking of a trio of passenger planes in a devastating, multi-city nuclear attack.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-14
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Honky Tonk
Overview: In the wild west con-man 'Candy' Johnson heads to Nevada to set up his own gambling den and teams up with Lucy Cotton, a young woman he meets there. This failed television pilot film is loosely based on Honky Tonk (1941), which starred Clark Gable.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-01
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Unspeakable Acts
Overview: Two psychologists try to demonstrate that a man is a pedophile and has abused many children.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-15
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