Robert Ginty
Also Known As: Robert Ginity, R.W. Ginty
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Ginty (November 14, 1948 – September 21, 2009) was an American movie actor, producer, scenarist, and director of movies and TV series episodes. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Ginty, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Birthday: November 14, 1948
Deathday: September 21, 2009
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Gender: Male
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Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man
Overview: It's the lawless future, and renegade biker Harley Davidson and his surly cowboy buddy, Marlboro, learn that a corrupt bank is about to foreclose on their friend's bar to further an expanding empire. Harley and Marlboro decide to help by robbing the crooked bank. But when they accidentally filch a drug shipment, they find themselves on the run from criminal financiers and the mob in this rugged action adventure.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-23
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The Courage and the Passion
Overview: The lives and loves of a group of U.S. Air Force test pilots on a sprawling airbase called "Joshua Tree."
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-27
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The Exterminator
Overview: When a man's best friend is killed on the streets of New York, he transforms into a violent killer, turning New York into a war zone.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-10
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Loverboy
Overview: Randy Bodek works as a pizza delivery boy at Señor Pizza to make a few extra bucks. Some customers are special, though: When the order is for a pizza with extra anchovies, it means the female customers are looking for some loving. But, as Randy soon learns, life as a professional gigolo can get pretty complicated.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-28
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Scarab
Overview: Dr. Wilfred Manz performs a magical experiment on a beetle-shaped amulet. His patience exhausted, he smashes his fist into some bottles and a few drops of blood fall onto the scarab. His laboratory is rocked by an explosion, the god Khepera appears and Manz is transformed into a demi-god magician. Thirty years later, Manz has assumed the name Khepera and lives in mysterious castle. Using his magical powers, he is killing heads of government and causing the collapse of major financial institutions. Jack Murphy, an American correspondent, witnesses the pandemonium following the suicide of the Spanish prime minister and notices an attractive nurse, Elena, take a small scarab which has fallen from the prime minister's lapel. Later, he visits an occult shop where the scarab is identified as being associated with the Egyptian god, Khepera. Murphy is captured and Elena — who was tricked into sacrificing her brother when they were children — once more takes up the sacrificial dagger...
Genres: Horror Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-22
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Lady Dragon
Overview: An ex-CIA agent living in Indonesia tracks the arms dealer who killed her husband. Along the way, she meets a young boy and his grandfather, who teach her in the ways of the Lady Dragon.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-15
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Exterminator 2
Overview: The flamethrower-wielding vigilante John Eastland returns to rid New York of a drug lord and his gang.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-14
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Warrior of the Lost World
Overview: A nomad mercenary on a high-tech motorcycle helps bring about the downfall of the evil Orwellian government, the Omega.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Gold Raiders
Overview: An unmarked U.S. Airforce plane carrying $200 million in gold is shot down over Communist Laos. In a race against time the CIA dispatch an elite force of hand-picked agents to recover the treasure before it falls into enemy hands.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
Overview: After a series of small tremors in Los Angeles, Dr. Clare Winslow, a local seismologist, pinpoints the exact location and time of when the long awaited earthquake--"The Big One"--will strike southern California. With this information, she must battle city officials to release this information to the general public. Also, she hopes that her family is out of harms way when the quake strikes. Subplots show how other families and people cope with the the tremors that strike before the impending "Big One."
Genres: Drama Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-11
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White Fire
Overview: While working in a diamond mine located in the desert, Bo and Ingrid, two siblings who survived a massacre as children, make a surprising discovery.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-07-05
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Vietnam Texas
Overview: A priest (Robert Ginty) learns that he fathered a child during his tour of duty in Vietnam and that the mother and child has relocated to Houston, Texas in the Little Saigon quarters. Searching for them, he also finds massive prejudice against the Vietnamese people, particularly among the fishing community in which they are trying to work. Setting out to right the wrongs, the priest tends to use more fisticuffs than friendly, priestly persuasion.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-09
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Code Name: Vengeance
Overview: Soldier of fortune, Monroe Bieler, is sent to dole out some American-style justice when the wife and child of an African president are kidnapped by terrorists.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-01
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The Alchemist
Overview: A man seeks revenge on an evil magician who placed a curse on him.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-01
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Maniac Killer
Overview: A murderous cult kidnaps French prostitutes and tortures them to death to "purify" them of their evil ways. The local pimps, understandably upset, set out after them, as does a man whose girlfriend was kidnapped by the cult and may still be held by them.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-02
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The Act
Overview: Blackmail, a complex heist, and political snakery collide into a complicated caper full of disguises and surprises, where it's never clear who's really working for whom.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-01
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Programmed to Kill
Overview: A middle eastern female terrorist is captured by the CIA in Greece, after an attack on a marketplace. Transported back to the USA, the terrorist undergoes an operation where she is transformed into a cybernetic killing machine. Now the CIA have a secret weapon to send back to the Middle East, but how long can they control her?
Genres: Horror Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-05
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Cop Target
Overview: Farley Wood is hired to escort a rich widow of a DEA agent and her kid to the tropical island of San Cristobal. The widow needs protection from a gang of international terrorists and her escort soon suspects that the deceased husband was involved in dirty drug dealings. While on the island, the daughter is kidnapped by a group of seedy South American thugs and held for ransom. The cop escort gets official orders to leave the case to the FBI, but he decides to his own investigating and finds that the crime may have had political motivations.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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The Flying Misfits
Overview: The dramatized World War II adventures of US Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington and his Marine Attack Squadron 214, AKA The Black Sheep Squadron. The film also acted as the pilot for the television series Baa Baa Black Sheep. Former U.S. Marine pilot Greg "Pappy" Boyington is flying with the American Volunteer Group (the Flying Tigers) in China. After Pearl Harbor brings America into World War II, Greg leaves the AVG to rejoin the Marine Corps. He refuses to be relegated to a desk job and, against all military protocol, forms his own fighter squadron from a group of misfits and disciplinary cases.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-21
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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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Hawaiian Heat
Overview: Two Chicago cops quit their jobs in the Windy City to become detectives in Hawaii. TV movie that served as a pilot to the series of the same name.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-14
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Cop on the Beat
Overview: An aging street cop goes after a gang of toughs involved in several robbery-rapes on his beat in this pilot (a spin-off from "Police Story") for the 1975-76 series. The veteran cop concept also was the basis for "The Blue Knight" series at the same time — and that, too, was based on a Joseph Wambaugh creation. Also known as "The Return of Joe Forrester."
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-06
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The Turning Point of Jim Malloy
Overview: The son of a small-town doctor returns to his hometown after being kicked out of Yale, and begins a new career on the town's newspaper.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-12
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Mission Kill
Overview: An ex-Green Beret visits one of his army buddies, and finds himself involved in his friend's scheme to smuggle arms into a turbulent South American country.
Genres: Crime Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-19
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The Bounty Hunter
Overview: An ex-cop turned bounty hunter shows up in a small town looking for a man who's jumped bail. However, the real reason he's there is to avenge his old friend, an Indian who lived in the area and was murdered by the local sheriff, who is trying to get the Indians to sell their land cheaply so an oil company can move in and take over the land, which they believe sits on top of large reserves of oil.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-27
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Taken Alive
Overview: A beautiful secret agent recruits a local sculptor to aid her in rescuing a presidential candidate's kidnapped mistress.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-12
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Seeing Through the Mists of Oblivion
Overview: After the end of civilization, an aged man undergoes a mysterious journey through space and time that takes him through memories, visions, and historical events, ultimately transcending the limitations of the senses and into a new cosmic rebirth.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction History Mystery
Original Language: en
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Three Kinds of Heat
Overview: Three friends persecute a gang of criminals from Harlem to the parties of the High Society of London.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-01
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Out on Bail
Overview: A Tennessee sheriff and lawyer want a jailed drifter to assassinate a mayoral candidate.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-04
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The Prophet's Game
Overview: Moving from city to city, The Prophet lures unsuspecting contestants into solving the riddles it supplies. If the contestants are wrong, somebody dies and somebody is famous.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-06
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MadHouse
Overview: The luxurious villa of Mark and Jessie Bannister, a yuppie couple, is overrun by loads of uninvited guests who turn the house up side down.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-16
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Coming Home
Overview: In 1968 California, a Marine officer's wife falls in love with a former high school classmate who suffered a paralyzing combat injury in the war.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-15
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The Big Stuffed Dog
Overview: A large stuffed Snoopy toy goes astray at an airport baggage area, and gets involved with various travelers.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-08
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Bound for Glory
Overview: A biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s to find work, discovering the suffering and strength of America's working class.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-05
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Doublecross on Costa's Island
Overview: Six years after stopping a multi-national arms deal that would have wiped out Los Angeles, Agent Enrico Costa (Franco Columbu) is tracked down at his home halfway around the world. Through revenge and deception, from Sardinia to Beverly Hills, Costa must ready for a final showdown by finding his way through an intricate web of double crosses, while meeting up with old friends and enemies. If Costa wants to survive and save his home, and island, he will have to fight his way out!
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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I Want to Live
Overview: The movie tells the story of a woman who struggles and fights to escape the gas chamber being condemned with capital punishment because of her participation in a hold up in which a person was killed.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-09
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Almighty Fred
Overview: Two brothers, down on their luck and in need of cash, cook up a scheme to create their own new religion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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