Peter Bergman
Also Known As: Peter Paul Bergman
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Birthday: November 29, 1939
Deathday: March 09, 2012
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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J-Men Forever
Overview: The Lightning Bug has a multi-prong scheme to enslave the earth. First, rock and roll, which the JMen counter with Muzac, then marijuana. Finally, the JMen build a bomb to blow up the moon with, but the Bug beats them to it by self destructing the moon by playing his rock and roll too loud.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-01
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Cracking Up
Overview: What would happen if a 9.7 magnitude earthquake were to strike the L.A. area? This is what "Cracking Up" looks at from the lighter side. The movie is composed of individual skits of original material by the actors spun around this hypothetical disaster.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-07-01
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Money, Power, Murder.
Overview: Peter Finley is a cable-TV newsman who is led into a network of sin and conspiracy when he has interest in a missing anchorwoman's story.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-10
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Everything You Know Is Wrong
Overview: "Dogs flew space ships! The Aztecs invented the vacation! Men and Women are the same sex! Our forefathers took drugs! Your brain is not the boss!". Great news! Famed dare-demon Reebus Cannibus is going to perform his greatest stunt ever! A leap down the bottomless comet pit to the center of the Earth! Join the fabulous Firesign Theatre for another of their mind-bending journeys as they explore the alien uprising in our midst! Dr. Happy Harry Cox is our guide under the watchful eye of mild-mannered trailer park manager, and member of the Funny Name Club of America, Art Wholeflaffer, as he presents all seekers (one born every minute!) with the key evidence proving the thesis that Everything You Know is Wrong!
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-06
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Love Is a Funny Thing
Overview: A composer and a French film star, both of whom are married to others, meet and fall in love while shooting a film in the United States.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-12-12
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Phantom of the Ritz
Overview: Ed Blake is a balding middle-aged man who decides to buy an old movie theater, The Ritz, to shape it up into a retro 1950s music hangout. With the aid of loyal girlfriend Nancy, foreman Bruno, and assistant Marcus, Ed is able to assemble a construction team to plan to be on time for the grand reopening. But unknown to everyone, a disfigured character has lived in the passageways of the old theater since the 50s, occasionally popping out to murder an indigent or intruder that happens upon his domain.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-30
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Firesign Theatre Presents 'Hot Shorts'
Overview: The comedy group Firesign Theatre satirizes the old Saturday afternoon cliffhangers by taking clips from many Republic Pictures serials and substituting their own comedy dialogue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-04-01
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Nick Danger in the Case of the Missing Yolk
Overview: The Yolks, a poor hillbilly family, are transported to a high-tech, futuristic home with all the latest gadgets, doo-dads and labor-saving devices. They soon begin to realize that their old life may not have been so bad after all, especially when their son gets mixed up with a TV star and the family hires a strange private investigator to find him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-30
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Eat or Be Eaten
Overview: At Kudzu County's annual Harvest Festival, a virgin must be sacrificed, to keep the giant kudzu vines from destroying the town, but plans go awry when a talk-show host from out of town gets involved.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Nova Express
Overview: An exhaustive examination of cut-ups, the control machine, and the algebra of need figure in this epic found-footage adaptation of Burroughs’s 1964 novel, which pits Inspector Lee and the Nova Police against the Nova Mob: Sammy The Butcher, Green Tony, The Brown Artist, Jacky Blue Note, Izzy The Push, The Subliminal Kid, Uranian Willy, and Mr Bradly Mr Martin, alias The Ugly Spirit. Features unreleased readings by Burroughs and voiceovers by Proctor & Bergman of the Firesign Theatre on such topics as hot crab people, language as virus, tape recorder warfare, death dwarfs, and Hassan Sabbah: the Old Man of the Mountain. “Minutes to go. Souls rotten from their orgasm drugs, flesh shuddering from their nova ovens, prisoners of the earth to come out.” (via cinema.indiana.edu)
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-20
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TV or Not TV
Overview: From two members of the Firesign Theater: Teenagers take control of their father's Pay-TV Channel.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Petronella
Overview: An animated fairytale about a princess, who because she is an only child, must perform the traditionally princely duty pf rescuing a princess. Instead she rescues a prince.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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