Cliff Gorman
Also Known As: Joel Joshua Goldberg
Biography: Cliff Gorman was an American stage and screen actor. He won an Obie award in 1968 for the stage presentation of The Boys in the Band, and went on to reprise his role in the 1970 film version. Gorman and his wife cared for his fellow The Boys in the Band cast member Robert La Tourneaux in the last few months of his battle against AIDS, until La Tourneaux's death on June 3, 1986 Gorman died of leukemia in 2002, aged 65, although his final film, Kill the Poor, was not released until 2003. He was survived by his wife, Gayle Gorman.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Queens, New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: October 13, 1936
Deathday: September 05, 2002
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Gender: Male
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Angel
Overview: Molly Stewart, a teen at the top of her class who survives by working nights as a prostitute on Hollywood Blvd, finds her world beginning to fall apart when a depraved, necrophiliac serial killer begins targeting LA’s streetwalkers.
Genres: Action Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-19
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Rosebud
Overview: In a bold coup a Palestinian terrorist group captures the yacht Rosebud and kidnaps the millionaires five daughters on it. At first they demand film clips to be shown on major European TV stations. Undercover agent Martin is hired to hunt the terrorists down.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-24
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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Overview: An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of ancient Japan finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-06
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Kill the Poor
Overview: When a marriage of convenience becomes the real thing, Joe moves his pregnant French wife to a tenement building on New York's Lower East Side. The street is like a war zone with none of the nostalgic appeal that Joe remembers from tales of his immigrant grandparents arriving in the same neighborhood with a new life. This is the urban frontier filled with comic mixture of gentrifies, homeboys, dealers and local residents simply bent on staying a float
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-09
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The Boys in the Band
Overview: A witty, perceptive and devastating look at the personal agendas and suppressed revelations swirling among a group of gay men in Manhattan. Harold is celebrating a birthday, and his friend Michael has drafted some other friends to help commemorate the event. As the evening progresses, the alcohol flows, the knives come out, and Michael's demand that the group participate in a devious telephone game, unleashing dormant and unspoken emotions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-16
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The Bunker
Overview: Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-15
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Night and the City
Overview: Looking to get rich quick, an unsuccessful lawyer uses dishonest means to try to become a boxing promoter.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-16
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Justine
Overview: In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewarden, the British consular officer, with Justine, the beautiful and mysterious wife of a Coptic banker. He observes the affairs of her heart and incidentally discovers that she is involved in a plot against the British, meant to arm the Jewish underground in Palestine. The plot finally fails, Justine is sent to jail and Darley decides to return to England.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-08-06
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Night of the Juggler
Overview: An ex New York cop is desperate to find his kidnapped daughter.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-06
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An Unmarried Woman
Overview: A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-24
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All That Jazz
Overview: Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him - his obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life, and only his bottles of pills keep him going.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-16
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Cops and Robbers
Overview: Two disillusioned New York policemen plan a $10 million robbery to fuel their low pensions, only to run into one debacle after another in the process.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-15
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Down Came a Blackbird
Overview: A woman struggles with the death of her lover. He was killed by South-American fascists.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-22
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King of the Jungle
Overview: Seymore is a young man with the mind of a child. He loves three things in life: basketball, sneaking out for cigarettes, and his mother. But all life's simple pleasures are brutally torn from him when he witnesses his mother gunned down by a neighborhood punk. Now Seymore must overcome the child within as he rises up to fight for some kind of justice. It's a fight that will take him out into the streets where there are few friends and many enemies -- and one of them is a killer who wants him silenced.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-10-12
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Strike Force
Overview: A New York City detective teams up with a federal agent and a state trooper to bust up a drug ring.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-12
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The Chicago Conspiracy Trial
Overview: A BBC-produced docudrama based on trial transcripts and aired in the United Kingdom in October 1970
Genres: TV Movie Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-04
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Class of '63
Overview: A jealous husband uses a college reunion to gauge whether or not his wife is still in love with her old flame.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-14
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Vestige of Honor
Overview: A hospital administrator and a former Green Beret join forces to try to aid a group of Montagnards, a pro-American people who were trapped in Thailand following the Vietnam War.
Genres: Action Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-30
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Paradise Lost
Overview: Playwright Clifford Odets' portrait of the Great Depression unfolds in the modest two-family home of Leo and Clara Gordon as misfortune strikes them and the people running with them. Opened on Broadway in 1935, it became one of the Group Theatre's most controversial plays and Odets' favorite.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-25
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The Forget-Me-Not Murders
Overview: A detective tries to track down a serial killer who is thought to be targeting the policeman's god-daughter.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-29
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The 60s
Overview: The Herlihys are a working class family from Chicago whose three children take wildly divergent paths: Brian joins the Marines right out of High School and goes to Vietnam, Michael becomes involved in the civil rights movement and after campaigning for Bobby Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy becomes involved in radical politics, and Katie gets pregnant, moves to San Francisco and joins a hippie commune. Meanwhile, the Taylors are an African-American family living in the deep South. When Willie Taylor, a minister and civil rights organizer, is shot to death, his son Emmet moves to the city and eventually joins the Black Panthers, serving as a bodyguard for Fred Hampton.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-07
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Hoffa
Overview: A portrait of union leader James R. Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend, Bobby Ciaro. The film follows Hoffa through his countless battles with the RTA and President Roosevelt.
Genres: Crime History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-25
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Cocaine and Blue Eyes
Overview: Michael Brennen, a San Francisco private eye gets dragged into a drug-smuggling operation while searching for the girlfriend of a deal client, leading Brennen to a politically prominent family.
Genres: Drama Action Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-02
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Murder Times Seven
Overview: For the third time, Lieutenant Janek is forced to face alone a difficult case, which has some brutal murders that way involving some bigwigs of the underworld. The case is complicated by the fact that one of the victims is his friend Ray Kiley. During the investigation Janek finds out that Kiley worked for counterintelligence.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-14
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Internal Affairs
Overview: A skilled police detective in a case involving the strange, sadistic murder of a young prostitute who has been killed in exactly the same fashion as a young nightclub singer in Saigon during the Vietnam War. At the same time, the detective attempts to ferret out corruption in the police ranks.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-06
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Doubletake
Overview: Two corpses are found in different locations with their heads severed and exchanged. Frank Janek is called on to head the team of detectives investigating. Meanwhile, Janek is trying to find out why an old friend and colleague committed suicide, which eventually leads to a romantic situation with photographer Caroline Wallace and the discovery of some major corruption among his superiors, all of which has little or nothing to do with the murder story.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-24
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Having Babies II
Overview: The story of various couples who get caught up in the personal and emotional crises of birth, adoption and hospitalization, and also of the hospital and health care workers who take care of them.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-28
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Terror on Track 9
Overview: A New York detective tracks a serial killer who injects his victims with poison at Grand Central Station.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-20
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Janek: The Silent Betrayal
Overview: Police lieutenant Frank Janek is investigating a series of murders in a building owned by a famous Broadway producer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-20
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The Silence
Overview: A cadet at West Point is subjected to "internal exile," which means that other students refuse to talk to him or acknowledge his existence, after he is accused of violating the school's code of honor.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-06
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Brinks: The Great Robbery
Overview: In this telling of the infamous 1950 robbery, James McNally is portrayed as the one gang member who maintains his silence in the face of extreme police pressure. When he is sent up to prison and sees the other gang members letting him take all the heat, he still doesn't come clean to the cops. He feels a loyalty to his best friend, who was also in on the crime. But what will his best friend choose to do?
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-26
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Murder in Black and White
Overview: A recently appointed black police commissioner is killed. So, Frank Janek is assigned to investigate.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-07
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