Peter Dobson
Also Known As: Derek Hoyle
Biography: Peter Dobson (born July 19, 1964) is an American actor. His film roles include appearances in Sing (1989), Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989), The Marrying Man (1991), The Frighteners (1996), and Drowning Mona (2000), in addition to a cameo as Elvis Presley in Forrest Gump (1994). On television, he starred as the title character in the CBS comedy Johnny Bago (1993) and the lead of the USA Network comedy-drama Cover Me (2000–2001).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Red Bank, New Jersey, USA
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Birthday: July 19, 1964
Age: 60 years old
Gender: Male
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The Frighteners
Overview: Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster his facade, he claims his "special" gift is the result of a car accident that killed his wife. But what he does not count on is more people dying in the small town where he lives. As he tries to piece together the supernatural mystery of these killings, he falls in love with the wife of one of the victims and deals with a crazy FBI agent.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-18
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Operation Blood Hunt
Overview: Prolific expert of the occult and whiskey, Reverend Conte, accompanies a ragtag group of military rejects to a remote South Pacific Island to investigate the disappearance of Marines units stationed there in 1944, said to be at the hands of the Japanese Imperial Army. Upon speaking with the island’s inhabitants, they soon discover the Marines had actually been massacred by a group of Lycanthropes, known to most as WEREWOLVES.
Genres: Action Adventure Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-12-12
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2:22
Overview: The plan was easy; the job was not. On a snowy night a tight crew of four criminals plan to pull off a routine heist. When things go horribly wrong, friendship, loyalty and trust are pushed to the limit.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-24
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Drowning Mona
Overview: The recently deceased Mona Dearly was many things: an abusive wife, a domineering mother, a loud-mouthed neighbor and a violent malcontent. So when her car and corpse are discovered in the Hudson River, police Chief Wyatt Rash immediately suspects murder rather than an accident. But, since the whole community of Verplanck, N.Y., shares a deep hatred for this unceasingly spiteful woman, Rash finds his murder investigation overwhelmed with potential suspects.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-03-03
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Last Exit to Brooklyn
Overview: A gallery of characters in Brooklyn in the 1950s are crushed by their surroundings and selves: a union strike leader discovers he is gay; a prostitute falls in love with one of her clients; a family cannot cope with the fact that their daughter is illegitimately pregnant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-07-26
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L.A. Takedown
Overview: Michael Mann's gutsy telefilm tells the tale of two skilled professionals--one a cop, the other a criminal--who aren't as different as they think. Vincent Hanna is an intense cop on the trail of ruthless armed robber Patrick McLaren. After a botched heist, the two men confront each via a full scale battle on the seedy streets of Los Angeles.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-08-27
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Poolhall Junkies
Overview: A retired pool hustler is forced to pick up the stick again when his brother starts a game he can't finish.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-06-30
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Sing
Overview: When a volatile young street tough with a talent for singing and dancing is tapped by the high school music teacher to lead the upcoming senior "Sing," he is forced to come to terms with his defiant self-destructive lifestyle and his growing attraction to his co-star.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-31
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Where the Day Takes You
Overview: King is a young man, but he's already a veteran of life on the streets of Los Angeles. The de facto leader of a group of teenage runaways, King acts as a mentor to troubled kids such as gay hustler Little J and junkie Greg. When Heather, a beautiful girl from Chicago, starts hanging out with King and his crew, it changes the dynamic of the gang. However, it seems as though nothing will alter their dangerous lifestyle.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-11
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Doppelganger
Overview: After being implicated in a murder, a young woman flees New York City and moves to Los Angeles, where she rents a room from a writer. They begin an affair, but it seems she's been followed by a homicidal duplicate of herself.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-01
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A Stranger's Heart
Overview: Man and woman (Peter Dobson and Samantha Mathis) fall in love in a heart transplant facility. They are both attracted to a little girl (Mary Matilyn Mouser) who turns out to be the orphan of their heart donors...
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-05
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Zigs
Overview: Four young gamblers come up with a plan to get out of debt with a fixed game.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-01
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Dead Cold
Overview: When a carjacking leaves L.A. screenwriter Eric recovering from a gunshot wound to the abdomen, wife Alicia nurses him back to health. Four months later, the two depart for a second honeymoon in an idyllic setting in the mountains. They are snuggly ensconced in front of a crackling fire when Cale, a hunter who's ostensibly lost his sense of direction in the snow storm and nearly frozen to death, appears at their cabin door.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-07
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3 Days in Malay
Overview: Marines stationed at an airfield in Malay during WWII get wind of a coming raid by the Japanese. Unable to get reinforcements approved, they engage in a harrowing 3-day battle against enemy forces.
Genres: Action Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-08-11
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Quiet Days in Hollywood
Overview: Behind the glitz and glamour of Tinseltown exists a harsh reality. Lolita is a streetwalker hustling for business on Hollywood Blvd. Julie is a waitress coping with a sexual assault. Peter is struggling to come to terms with his sexuality. Their lives touch each other in ways they never expected.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Terrified
Overview: Traumatized after witnessing her jealous husband kill her adulterous lover and then himself, an unbalanced, nymphomaniac young woman finds herself stalked by an unknown assailant, but she cannot make anyone believe her desperate situation.
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-13
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American Idiots
Overview: Four friends embark on a cross-country journey to Las Vegas in an old RV to stop a wedding and save a friend from losing the love of his life.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-18
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Wicked Ways
Overview: A wife, her two-timing husband and a flirting neighbor are unpredictable competitors in a warped game that turns into a life-or-death affair.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-21
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Snowbound
Overview: Liz tells her old friend Barbara that she believes her ex-husband is stalking her. She plans to leave town for awhile and stay at a cabin in the mountains. Barbara invites herself along and when it seems that Dale has followed them to the cabin, Barbara discovers she doesn't know Liz as well as she thought.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-10
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What She Doesn't Know
Overview: An idealistic law school graduate comes to work in the New York D.A.'s office. Her first case leads her straight to her father, a veteran New York cop who may be involved in corruption.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-02-23
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A-list
Overview: Darren goes to Hollywood to tackle his dream of becoming an A-list movie star. However, once he gets there his dreams are crushed once he realizes the life of an actor isn't all of the glitz and glamour he had hoped. When Darren is mistaken for Dante, an A-list actor in tinsel town, Darren's world is thrown upside down. With gigs coming in left and right and the paparazzi on his tail, Darren gets his wish, for better or for worse.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-27
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Norma Jean & Marilyn
Overview: This film follows Norma Jean from her simple, ambitious youth to her sex star pinnacle and back down. She moves from lover to lover in order to further her career. She finds fame but never happiness, only knowing seduction but not love.
Genres: TV Movie Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-18
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The Big Squeeze
Overview: Benny, a hapless grifter, is thrown off a train after cheating at cards, and into the life of Tanya, a lovely bartender. Tanya has been supporting her husband, a former ballplayer, since his accident, waiting for an insurance settlement that will solve all their financial woes. But when it comes, he refuses to share it with her, claiming with newfound piety that money is the root of all evil. She then enlists the help of Benny to concoct a scheme to get her fair share of the settlement, and he finds one: a local Catholic mission needs money for repairs and Benny decides to create a miracle that will encourage husband Henry to fork over the money - which Benny and Tanya will intercept and share.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-06
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Nowhere Land
Overview: Dean sees mafia boss Santelli whack an FBI infiltrator and is relocated to a remote cabin in the Sierras for protection. While Santelli's crew tries to locate him, Dean gets company from the beautiful Monica.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Undertow
Overview: In exchange for his release, an imprisoned con man coerces his son, a former cop kicked off the force for corruption, into entrapping a corrupt gay congressman on behalf of the FBI.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-18
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So Proudly We Hail
Overview: A white supremacist exploits the works of a college anthropologist and a teen who joins his group.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-23
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Killer Rules
Overview: Two adoptive brothers -- one a mob hit man, the other a Department of Justice investigator -- who are unaware of each other's existence until they become involved with the same woman, end up in a deadly triangle in this thriller.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-24
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The Waiter
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-01
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Forrest Gump
Overview: A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved, his one true love eludes him.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-23
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Plain Clothes
Overview: To prove his brother's innocence, undercover officer Nick enrolls in high school again, dealing with crushes, bullies, humiliations, popularity swings, and quirky teachers and staff to find the real murderer.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Mystery Crime Romance Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-15
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The Nanny Express
Overview: With their mother dead, Emily and Ben torment their nannies to quit as fast as their father hires them. Till a nanny named Kate shows up and slowly wins Ben over. That's bad enough, but when her father and Kate start to fall in love, Emily sets out to break them up and match him with her ballet teacher.
Genres: Drama Romance Family Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-01-02
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The Mourning
Overview: 20 years after going MIA in Desert Storm, Aaron returns home under mysterious conditions, not having aged since his disappearance, and must reestablish relationships with loved ones before an imminent return to an ambiguous other-worldly existence.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-17
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Remembering Phil
Overview: Comedy - When TV writer-producer PHIL WINTERS (Turturro) returns from vacation, it seems as if no one is aware that he's ever existed. - Nicholas Turturro, Christina Murphy, Joanne Kelly
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-14
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Dry Cycle
Overview: The sun is setting and we see Dave, an artist, at the Laundromat. Fretting over his wife's ticking clock, Dave happens upon Ruby, a tempestuous beauty on the run with a mean-looking baby on her arm while toting a gun. Thus begins a series of capers that revolve around the helpless, yet, testy baby, a strapping town sheriff, a gun-loving bounty hunter and a snitching clown. All are involved in an ever-twisting plot in a quest for ownership of the baby Lloyd. The all night journey ultimately provides all characters their unsought solutions towards the lives they've been wanting.
Genres: Romance Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-05
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Betrayal
Overview: When one of her hits goes wrong, a professional assassin ends up with a suitcase full of a million dollars belonging to a mob boss.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-01
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Bates Motel
Overview: A mentally disturbed man, who roomed with the late Norman Bates at a psychiatric facility, inherits the infamous Bates Motel after his death and attempts to fix it up as a respectable business.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-07-05
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Protecting the King
Overview: Sex, drugs and violence--they're all part of the job when you're protecting The King of Rock & Roll. And when you're only 16, the on-the-job training comes in ways that can't be taught in school. The story of David Stanley, stepbrother and bodyguard of The King. Through the dizzying highs and lows of life on the road with unlimited excess, he experienced it all...and barely survived.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-09
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Hotel of the Damned
Overview: After a car accident and stranded in the middle of nowhere, an ex-con and his daughter find themselves in an abandoned hotel, populated by sub-human cannibalistic creatures.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-09
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Dirty Dead Con Men
Overview: A cool and dangerous neo-noir crime film that revolves around the disturbed lives of two unlikely partners: Mickey Rady, a rogue undercover cop and Kook Packard, a smooth and charismatic con man. Together they rip off those operating outside of the law...for their own personal gain. But things go awry when one heist suck them deep into a city-wide conspiracy...
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-30
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I.F.O. (Identified Flying Object)
Overview: A teenager discovers that a military project involving a surveillance helicopter that uses artificial intelligence is being housed at a neighborhood hangar, but that the device is developing a mind of its own.
Genres: Action Thriller Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-22
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The Poseidon Adventure
Overview: A cruise ship succumbs to a terrorist act and capsizes on New Year's eve. A rag-tag group of survivors, spearheaded by a priest and a homeland security agent, must journey through the upside down vessel and attempt an escape.
Genres: Adventure Drama Thriller Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-20
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All Lies End in Murder
Overview: A policeman's wife suspects he is corrupt.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-19
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6 Ways to Die
Overview: Sonny "Sundown" Garcia is the top cocaine distributor in the United States, which has made him a very rich and powerful man. It has also made him plenty of enemies. John Doe is just such a man. A nameless man of mystery, John lives to see Sundown not just dead, but to suffer six meaningful losses before his death—his fortune, his freedom, his love, his reputation, his most valuable possession and, finally, his life. John hires six hit-men, each one assigned to inflict one of the six meaningful losses upon Sundown.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-07-31
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Night of the Wolf
Overview: Claire and her teenaged son, Jesse, along with their friend and ranch foreman Purly Owens, work the cattle ranch that Claire once shared with her husband who was killed in a ranching accident. As the over-protective Claire contemplates selling the ranch, a life-threatening accident strands her deep in the wilderness with only a wild wolf for company. While Claire and the wolf form an unlikely alliance in their struggle to survive, Jesse is forced to grow up fast as he races to evade poachers and rescue his mom before it's too late!
Genres: Drama Adventure Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-15
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The Marrying Man
Overview: Charley Pearl, wealthy heir and gadabout, is slated to marry Adele, the daughter of a Hollywood tycoon. But, during a wild bachelor party in Las Vegas, Charley strikes up a flirtation with nightclub crooner Vicki Anderson that soon leads to her bedroom. When the couple are discovered by Vicki's beau, infamous gangster Bugsy Siegel, he makes a surprising pronouncement -- they'd better marry, or Charley is a dead man.
Genres: Action Comedy Romance Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-05
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Pledge of Allegiance
Overview: Mac and his high school gangster buddies try to take over the world of sports betting in a city filled with crime, prostitution and gambling. When the Mafia gets involved, they do whatever it takes to keep these tough young-bloods off their turf.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Freezerburn
Overview: The cast of an old TV show called reunites for their 20th anniversary; during the event, a quadruple homicide turns everyone into a suspect.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-12-01
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The Good Life
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Genres: Thriller Comedy Action
Original Language: es
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Elwood
Overview: Elwood is a parallel world in which animal genetics have evolved equally to humans.
Genres: Crime Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-06-01
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