Ryan O'Neal
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Biography: Charles Patrick Ryan O'Neal (April 20, 1941 - December 8, 2023) was an American actor and former boxer. O'Neal trained as an amateur boxer before beginning his career in acting in 1960. In 1964, he landed the role of Rodney Harrington on the ABC nighttime soap opera Peyton Place. The series was an instant hit and boosted O'Neal's career. He later found success in films, most notably Love Story (1970), for which he received Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations as Best Actor, Peter Bogdanovich's What's Up, Doc? (1972) and Paper Moon (1973), Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (1975), Richard Attenborough's A Bridge Too Far (1977), and Walter Hill's The Driver (1978). From 2005 to 2017, he had a recurring role in the Fox TV series Bones as Max, the father of the show's protagonist.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
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Deathday: December 08, 2023
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The Driver
Overview: The Driver specializes in driving getaway cars for robberies. His exceptional talent has prevented him from being caught yet. After another successful flight from the police a self-assured detective makes it his primary goal to catch the Driver. He promises pardons to a gang if they help to convict him in a set-up robbery. The Driver seeks help from The Player to mislead the detective.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-08
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Chances Are
Overview: Louie Jeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, Louie is killed crossing the road. Louie is reincarnated as Alex Finch, and twenty years later, fate brings Alex and Louie's daughter, Miranda, together. It's not until Alex is invited to Louie's home that he begins to remember his former life, wife and best friend. Of course, there's also the problem that he's attracted to Louie's/his own daughter.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-10
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Barry Lyndon
Overview: An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Lyndon.
Genres: Drama Romance War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-18
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Epoch
Overview: Disaster strikes as a specialised team of investigators struggle to find out the truth about a strange monolith which sends out an intercontinental signal.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-24
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A Bridge Too Far
Overview: The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland allowing access over the Rhine into Germany. A combination of poor allied intelligence and the presence of two crack German panzer divisions meant that the final part of this operation (the bridge in Arnhem over the Rhine) was doomed to failure.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-15
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Paper Moon
Overview: A bible salesman finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership as a money-making con team in Depression-era Kansas.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-09
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People I Know
Overview: A New York press agent must scramble when his major client becomes embroiled in a huge scandal.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-21
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What's Up, Doc?
Overview: The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-09
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Love Story
Overview: Harvard Law student Oliver Barrett IV and music student Jennifer Cavilleri share a chemistry they cannot deny - and a love they cannot ignore. Despite their opposite backgrounds, the young couple put their hearts on the line for each other. When they marry, Oliver's wealthy father threatens to disown him. Jenny tries to reconcile the Barrett men, but to no avail.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-16
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Malibu's Most Wanted
Overview: A senator arranges for his son, a rich white kid who fancies himself black, to be kidnapped by a couple of black actors pretending to be murderers to try and shock him out of his plans to become a rapper.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-10
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The Main Event
Overview: A bankrupt entrepreneur attempts to recoup some of her losses by getting a washed-out boxer she picked up as a tax loss back into the ring — an idea her protégé isn't fond of.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-22
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Wild Rovers
Overview: Ross Bodine and Frank Post are cowhands on Walt Buckman's R-Bar-R ranch. Bodine is older and broods a bit about how he will get along when he's too old to cowboy. Post is young and rambunctious and ambitious for a better life than wrangling cows. When one of their fellow cowboys is killed in a corral accident, Post suggests a way into a better life for himself and his friend: robbing a bank. Bodine reluctantly joins in the plan and the two contrive to rob the local bank. They make good their escape initially, but Walt Buckman and his two sons, John and Paul, are incensed at this betrayal by their own trusted employees. John and Paul set out to bring Bodine and Post to justice.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-23
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Zero Effect
Overview: Daryl Zero is a private investigator and—along with his assistant, Steve Arlo—he solves impossible crimes and puzzles. Although Daryl's a master investigator, he doesn't know what to do with himself when he's not working; he has no social skills, writes bad music and drives Steve crazy.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-30
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Irreconcilable Differences
Overview: Alternating between the past and the present, a precocious little girl sues her selfish, career-driven parents for emancipation, surprising them both.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-28
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Faithful
Overview: A depressed housewife whose husband is having an affair contemplates suicide, but changes her mind when she faces death by a killer hired to do her in.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-04-03
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Small Sacrifices
Overview: A peculiar and disturbing case catches the attention of the police when a young mother and her children, all severely injured, show up in a hospital's emergency room.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-12
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Partners
Overview: Benson is a police detective. After a series of murders in the Gay community he is ordered to go undercover with a gay police clerk named Kerwin as his partner. In order to be noticed they have to be flamboyant enough to attract attention which Benson finds rather disturbing. Can an uptight heterosexual and a mousey homosexual form a meaningful relationship?
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-30
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The Games
Overview: From Great Britain, the United States, France, Italy, Australia and behind the Iron Curtain. They are the most superbly conditioned animals in the world. They are also the pawns of powerful nations, the victims of dangerous drugs and the object of many men's ambitions. Once every four years they come together... for the Olympic Games.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-08-07
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The Thief Who Came to Dinner
Overview: A computer programmer decides to become a thief. And when he starts making waves, an insurance investigator hounds him. He also meets a woman who becomes his accomplice.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-01
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So Fine
Overview: While trying to get his father out of a financial jam, a man comes up with an idea that turns into an unexpected overnight financial fashion success - the bottomless pants.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-25
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Tough Guys Don't Dance
Overview: Tim Madden awakens one morning to discover a fresh tattoo on his arm, his car covered in blood, his girlfriend in bed with the town sheriff, and a woman's severed head in his weed stash. Sensing a setup and in desperate need to clear his name, he begins an investigation that soon begins to expose a web of corruption in the small coastal community of Provincetown.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-18
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An Alan Smithee Film: Burn, Hollywood, Burn
Overview: Filmmaker Alan Smithee finds himself the unwilling puppet of a potentially bad big budget action film, for which he proceeds to steal the reels, and leaves the cast and crew in a frenzy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-27
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Nickelodeon
Overview: In the silent film era, attorney Leo Harrigan and gunslinger Buck Greenway are hired to stop an illegal film production. However, they soon team up with the filmmakers and become important players in the show business industry. Leo learns he has a talent for directing, and Buck's cowboy persona quickly earns him leading-man status — but both men fall for beautiful starlet Kathleen Cooke, leading to a heated personal rivalry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-21
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Green Ice
Overview: A down on his luck engineer gets involved in an adventure with a mysterious woman and an emerald magnate.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-21
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The Big Bounce
Overview: A Vietnam veteran and ex-con is persuaded by a shady woman to rob a $50,000 payroll account on a California produce farm. But who is playing who?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-05
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Screwball Comedies... Remember Them?
Overview: A documentary about the making of Peter Bogdanovich's screwball comedy "What's Up Doc?" starring Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Fever Pitch
Overview: An investigative journalist gets hooked on the subject of his inquiry — organized gambling.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-22
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Oliver's Story
Overview: Oliver Barrett IV is emotionally devastated by the death of his wife Jenny, and, while he tries to lose himself in his work as a lawyer, the long hours don't ease his pain, especially when he finds that his leftist views conflict with those of the senior partners at the firm. Eventually, Oliver's inconsolable grief begins to alienate those around him, until he finds new love with Marcie Bonwit, the wealthy and beautiful heiress to the Bonwit Teller fortune. Despite his affection for her, Oliver finds it difficult to leave the memory of Jenny behind, which causes major problems in their relationship.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-15
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Playboy: Farrah Fawcett, All of Me
Overview: At fifty years of age actress Farrah Fawcett reveals her body to the camera in this one off special.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-11
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Farrah's Story
Overview: Documentary about former Charlie's Angels star Farrah Fawcett's battle with cancer. This home-movie diary is covering roughly the past two years of Farrah's life.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-15
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The List
Overview: After being arrested for solicitation, a high-class prostitute threatens to make public a list of her best clients and someone resorts to murder to keep the list a secret. Meanwhile, the judge on the case struggles with his dilemma and one cop aims to find the killer.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-27
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The Man Upstairs
Overview: Hepburn plays an elderly woman whose house becomes a hideaway for an escaped convict (O'Neal), and the pair strike up an unlikely friendship.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-06
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Love Hate Love
Overview: Ryan O'Neal plays Russ Emery, a glib engineer who steals the heart of a fashion model named Sheila Blunden. She in turn leaves her jet setter fiance who turns out to be a psychotic who will not let go of Sheila that easily.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-09
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Sam Found Out: A Triple Play
Overview: Liza Minnelli plays three separate women in three separate stories. There's a serious drama about a hooker and her pimp, a romance about a lonely dancer and a black prince, and a musical about a man and a woman having dog problems.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-31
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This Is Farrah Fawcett
Overview: Friends and loved ones of Farrah Fawcett recall the actress' personal struggles and final days.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-03
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Man of the House
Overview: Ben Archer is not happy. His mother, Sandy, has just met a man, and it looks like things are pretty serious. Driven by a fear of abandonment, Ben tries anything and everything to ruin the "love bubble" which surrounds his mom. However, after Ben and Jack's experiences in the Indian Guides, the two become much closer.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-03
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Slumber Party Slaughter
Overview: Academy Award winning actor Tom Kingsford visits a bizarre strip club owned by real estate mogul William O'Toole, a sadistic voyeur.
Genres: Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-31
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Unity
Overview: Despite the advent of science, literature, technology, philosophy, religion, and so on -- none of these has assuaged humankind from killing one another, the animals, and nature. UNITY is a film about why we can't seem to get along, even after thousands and thousands of years.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-08-12
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Knight of Cups
Overview: Rick is a screenwriter living in Los Angeles. While successful in his career, his life feels empty. Haunted and confused, he finds temporary solace in the decadent Hollywood excess that defines his existence. Women provide a distraction to his daily pain, and every encounter brings him closer to finding his place in the world.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-10
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Mean Justice
Overview: Moreno (Bronson) is a tough ranch hand on the vast half million acre Garret Ranch. Rich in timber, gas, cattle and oil, the ranch is a major employer of rough rugged cowboys in northern New Mexico. Unexpectedly, Moreno has been accused , and tried for the murder of the daughter of the Garret ranch's popular foreman (Denver Pyle). As luck turns against the Garret ranch, each man endures struggles against nature, competitors, and each other in order to keep the operation profitable.
Genres: Western Adventure Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-08
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Kubrick Remembered
Overview: An 83-minute candid look into the life of Kubrick, including interviews with his widow, family, coworkers and actors, and featuring a tour of the Archive in London and an inside look into Kubrick's home.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-04
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Filmworker
Overview: The story of Leon Vitali, who surrendered his promising acting career to become Stanley Kubrick's devoted right-hand man.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-05-11
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Gentleman B.
Overview: Nick Vincent is set up by his crime partner Manny Breen. He is sent away to prison and when he is released, he goes to Los Angeles to look for Maria, his girlfriend. Now living with her 8 year old daughter, Ally which she had with Manny. She wants nothing to do with Nick. He turns back to a life of crime hoping to win back her affections. Soon, he is taught how to rob banks in Beverly Hills. However, Mannyu is jealous and wants back in on the action leading to a showdown on Rodeo Drive.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-19
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My Best Friend's Famous
Overview: After Sean Reilly, an earnest, self-deprecating, NY to LA transplant learns his slothful, less talented best friend gets a starring role on a hit TV show, he must battle his own insecurities and jealousy as well as the egocentric, spray-tanned male star of the show that is threatening his childhood friendship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-09-06
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Coming Soon
Overview: Privileged teenage friends Jenny, Nell and Stream spend their senior year on a quest to rid Stream of her virginity. However, Stream wants more than just her first sexual experience. She wants to have an orgasm -- but achieving this proves problematic, as the boys she meets are hardly sensitive enough to provide her the release she seeks. When it becomes clear that Nell and Jenny have never experienced an orgasm either, all three set out to get one.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-08
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Hacks
Overview: Brian is a television writer-producer who has to script a 22-episode anthology, but lacks inspiration. He witnesses a strange romantic encounter between two figures on the balcony of hotel near his flat and decides to write scripts with his writer friends based on what he saw.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-19
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Circle of Two
Overview: A 60-year-old artist shares a secret, platonic romance with a 16-year-old girl.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-07
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