Ken Wahl
Also Known As: Кен Вол, 肯‧瓦爾
Biography: Ken Wahl (born February 14, 1957) is a retired American film and television actor, popular in the 1980s and 1990s, best known for the CBS television crime drama Wiseguy. A severe injury in 1992 effectively ended his acting career. Wahl's best known movies are probably The Wanderers and The Taking of Beverly Hills.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Birthday: October 31, 1954
Age: 70 years old
Gender: Male
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The Wanderers
Overview: The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The Wanderers.’
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-13
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Fort Apache, the Bronx
Overview: From the sight of a police officer this movie depicts the life in New York's infamous South Bronx. In the center is "Fort Apache", as the officers call their police station, which really seems like an outpost in enemy's country. The story follows officer Murphy, who seems to be a tuff cynic, but in truth he's a moralist with a sense for justice.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-06
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The Taking of Beverly Hills
Overview: A chemical spill has caused the occupants of Beverly Hills to be forcibly evacuated. A retiring football player left behind, finds that the toxic gas emulating from the spill is a bogus front for a heist set up by fired police officers out to plunder the city of all its valuables. Finding himself siding with a corrupt cop who was once apart of the plan until he discovered the city's mayor had just been blown away, by one of the chief crooks in charge. Now both on the run with no help in sight...both must do whatever they can to stop these murderous looters.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-10
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The Dirty Dozen: Next Mission
Overview: Major Reisman is "volunteered" to lead another mission using convicted army soldiers, sentenced to either death or long prison terms. This time their mission is to kill a Nazi general who plans to assassinate Hitler.
Genres: Action War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-04
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Purple Hearts
Overview: A Navy surgeon and a nurse fall in love while serving in Vietnam during the war. Their affection for one another provides a striking contrast to the violence of warfare.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-30
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The Soldier
Overview: Terrorists take over a plutonium bomb and threaten to detonate it in a Saudi Arabian oil field. A special anti-terrorist unit is sent in to stop them.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-06-01
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Race for the Yankee Zephyr
Overview: In a lake high in the mountains of New Zealand hunter Gibbie Gibson discovers a plane wreck from WW2. When he tells it around, a gang of crooks follows and threatens him and his daughter, because they know there are 50 million dollars in the wreck. Helicopter pilot Barney helps Gibbie against them, risking his life thereby.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-11-28
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Jinxed!
Overview: Harold, a professional gambler, and his girlfriend Bonita, a lounge singer, follow Willie, a young blackjack dealer, around the western U.S. Harold has a jinx on Willie and can't lose with him. Bonita and Willie meet and fall for each other and plot to do away with Harold and collect on his life insurance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-22
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Omega Syndrome
Overview: An ex-GI's daughter is abducted by a gang of white supremacists. He calls on one of his former Army buddies, and together they set out to track down the gang and rescue his daughter.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-26
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Wiseguy
Overview: Vinnie Terranova is back, foiling a staged kidnaping of computer mogul Paul Callendar's son in order to probe possible inside information brokering. Meanwhile, McPike is having a hard time working with his young boss, who feels Terranova and McPike are dinosaurs not worth supporting.
Genres: TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-02
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Running Scared
Overview: It's 1961. Two servicemen smuggle a box of military gear to USA. Leroy tries out a military camera and accidentally takes a picture of some military facilities. Army finds one of the pictures and thinks they're communist spies.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-01
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The Favor
Overview: On the eve of her high school reunion, bored housewife Kathy convinces her single best friend Emily to seduce an old flame Tom, so she can get all the juicy details. But when Emily falls for Tom, it's like high school all over again!
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-29
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The Gladiator
Overview: A road warrior vigilante avenges his brother's death at the hands of a crazy motorist by using his souped-up pickup to apprehend drunken drivers and others who abuse their driving privileges.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-03
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Wiseguy: Pilot
Overview: This was the feature-length pilot for the hit series. Vinnie Terranova, a Justice Department agent reassigned to the Organized Crime Bureau as a “wiseguy”, a specially trained deep undercover agent. To help support his cover, Vinnie has just finished serving 18 months in a New Jersey prison…
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-16
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Search for Grace
Overview: A woman haunted by disturbing flashbacks discovers through hypnotherapy that she and her boyfriend led parallel lives with a doomed couple from 1927.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-17
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