Harold Sylvester
Also Known As: Гарольд Сильвестр
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Harold Sylvester (born February 10, 1949) is an American film and television actor. Sylvester was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. A graduate of New Orleans' St. Augustine High School and Tulane University, Sylvester is best known for his role on the TV series Married... with Children as Griff, the co-worker and friend of Al Bundy at the shoe store. Harold's other TV roles include the short-lived 1981 series Walking Tall, Today's F.B.I., Mary, and Shaky Ground. The most recent TV show he starred in was The Army Show. Sylvester had a recurring role on the TV series City of Angels. His well known film roles are An Officer and a Gentleman (1982), Uncommon Valor (1983), Innerspace (1987), Corrina, Corrina (1994), and Missing Brendan (2003). Sylvester has made guest appearances on shows, ranging from Hill Street Blues to Murder, She Wrote to NYPD Blue. Sylvester attended Tulane University on a basketball scholarship and graduated in 1972 with a degree in theater and psychology. He was the first African-American ever to receive an athletic scholarship from Tulane. Description above from the Wikipedia article Harold Sylvester, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana
Birthday: February 10, 1949
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Gender: Male
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An Officer and a Gentleman
Overview: Zack Mayo is an aloof, taciturn man who aspires to be a navy pilot. Once he arrives at training camp for his 13-week officer's course, Mayo runs afoul of abrasive, no-nonsense drill Sergeant Emil Foley. Mayo is an excellent cadet, but a little cold around the heart, so Foley rides him mercilessly, sensing that the young man would be prime officer material if he weren't so self-involved. Zack's affair with a working girl is likewise compromised by his unwillingness to give of himself.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-07-28
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Vision Quest
Overview: After deciding he needs to do something meaningful with his life, high school wrestler Louden Swain sets out on a mission to drop weight and challenge the area's undefeated champion, which creates problems with his teammates and health. Matters are complicated further when Louden's father takes in an attractive female drifter who's on her way to San Francisco.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-15
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Uncommon Valor
Overview: A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese.
Genres: Drama War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-16
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The 6th Man
Overview: A college athlete returns from the dead to help his brother's basketball team win the NCAA title.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-28
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Richie Brockelman: The Missing 24 Hours
Overview: A young private detective takes on his first case, a young woman with amnesia who doesn't know why a gunman is trying to kill her but believes she might be involved in a murder.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-27
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Fast Break
Overview: David Greene is a New York basketball enthusiast, who wants to coach. He is then offered the coaching job at a small Nevada college. He brings along some players, who are a bit odd but good. Like Swish who unknown to the rest of the team is a girl. Preacher, who's being sought by some nefarious characters. And D.C., who's a fugitive. And along with some of the students at the college, he turns them into a contender. In order to give the tam the respect they deserve and some exposure, Greene schemes to try and get the number 1 team led by Bo Winnegar, to play them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-02
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A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich
Overview: A troubled boy becomes addicted to heroin, and his mother and foster father help him fight it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-14
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Hit List
Overview: A family man and a mob witness hunt for a hit-man who has mistakenly kidnapped the family man's son.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-03
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Space Rage
Overview: In this sci-fi/western film set two hundred years from now, a bank robber, Grange is captured and sentenced to the penal colony on the mining planet Proxima Centauri 3 where he meets bounty-hunter Walker, and the Colonel, a retired policeman from LA who was considered the best of his kind. Grange is a dangerous lunatic and Walker and the Colonel must team up to keep him from escaping.
Genres: Science Fiction Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-25
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For One Night
Overview: Their town always had two proms, one for the whites and one for the blacks. When both proms wanted the same DJ, Brianna McCallister suggested combining the proms, which would also mean more money for decorations. However, her idea shook the town up, especially after a white student was let off for the same offense that a black student was suspended for. Can the town overcome racial tensions and finally combine the two proms?
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-02-05
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Corrina, Corrina
Overview: When Manny Singer's wife dies, his young daughter Molly becomes mute and withdrawn. To help cope with looking after Molly, he hires sassy housekeeper Corrina Washington, who coaxes Molly out of her shell and shows father and daughter a whole new way of life. Manny and Corrina's friendship delights Molly and enrages the other townspeople.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-12
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Someone She Knows
Overview: A desperate mother becomes detective to solve her 5 year-old daughter's death. The authorities suspect that the girl has been killed by a well-known person of the family.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-03
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Innerspace
Overview: Test pilot Tuck Pendleton volunteers to test a special vessel for a miniaturization experiment. Accidentally injected into a neurotic hypochondriac, Jack Putter, Tuck must convince Jack to find his ex-girlfriend, Lydia Maxwell, to help him extract Tuck and his ship and re-enlarge them before his oxygen runs out.
Genres: Action Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-07-01
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Alex & the Gypsy
Overview: A bail bondsman falls in love with one of his "customers" — a gypsy girl, who's been accused of attempted murder.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-03
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Double Your Pleasure
Overview: A television movie about an FBI agent (Jackée) who breaks her leg while trying to capture drug runners, and her identical twin sister (also portrayed by Jackée), a waitress who is enlisted to take her place. Masquerading as a sophisticated financial analyst, the twin is thrust into a dangerous game of organized crime and official corruption with a shady business mogul.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-29
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In the Deep Woods
Overview: A friend of Joanna has been killed by a serial killers who leaves the bodies in the woods. A strange guy who says is a private detective: Joanna begins to fear he might be the killer.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-26
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Night Club
Overview: Three friends - aided by one of the residents - start a night club in a retirement home, after taking a job there working the night shift to put themselves through USC.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-11
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Inside Moves
Overview: After a failed suicide attempt leaves him partially crippled, Rory begins spending a lot of time at a neighborhood bar full of interesting misfits. When Jerry the bartender suddenly finds himself playing basketball for the Golden State Warriors, Rory and the rest of the bar regulars hope his success will provide a lift to their sagging spirits. Will Jerry forget his friends? What about his junkie hooker girlfriend and her pimp?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-19
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Night of the Strangler
Overview: In New Orleans, a relationship between a black man and a white girl leads to a string of murders.
Genres: Horror Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-01
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Missing Brendan
Overview: George takes a trip to Vietnam to find his missing son. George's son Bob and Bob's son Patrick accompany George on the trip. George's son, Brendan, has been Missing in Action since the Vietnam War. Julie, an archeologist, joined the search.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-26
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Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story
Overview: This is the story of Morris Dees, a civil rights lawyer, who's being threatened, so he has to have an armed bodyguard.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-21
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In the Line of Duty: A Cop for the Killing
Overview: A look at the dangerous and bizarre life of an undercover cop who lives on the edge and the strife and heartbreak that comes with the job. There is also a tremendous amount of guilt and psychological pain when an undercover sting goes bad and they lose a comrade in the line of duty.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-25
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Sounder, Part 2
Overview: Poor black sharecroppers band together to build a school for their children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-13
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Overview: In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just turned 110. She tells him her story dating back to her earliest memories before slavery ended. In between the chapters of her life, the present-day struggles of Blacks in Bayonne, urged on by Jimmy, are dramatized.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-31
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