Peter Scolari
Also Known As: Peter Thomas Scolari
Biography: Peter Thomas Scolari (September 12, 1955 – October 22, 2021) was an American actor. He is best known for his roles as Michael Harris on Newhart (1984–1990) and Henry Desmond in Bosom Buddies (1980–1982). Scolari received three Emmy nominations for his work on Newhart and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series for his recurring role as Tad Horvath on Girls in 2016. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Scolari, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New Rochelle, New York, USA
Birthday: September 12, 1955
Deathday: October 22, 2021
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Gender: Male
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The Polar Express
Overview: When a doubting young boy takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery that shows him that the wonder of life never fades for those who believe.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-10
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The Boy Who Cried Wolf
Overview: “Wolf! Wolf!” Is there really a wolf, or is the shepherd boy just playing a trick? In this cautionary tale, a boy cries “wolf” one too many times, so when a wolf really does come after the sheep he’s watching, nobody believes him!
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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The Further Adventures of Wally Brown
Overview: 1980 TV pilot
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-08-21
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Ticks
Overview: Teens camping in a northern California retreat are terrorized by mutant insects created by evil, polluting pot farmers.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-12
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Imps*
Overview: Once Upon a Time in a mythical place called Hollywood, a long, long, long time ago in a galaxy not so very far away, a witty group of actors with 38 EMMY Nominations, 3 Academy Award nominations, and 8 Golden Globe nominations, along with 4 Playmates and a Penthouse Pet, came together in a burst of comic frenzy and created imps*.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-12
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Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon
Overview: Twelve men who belong to one of the world's most exclusive fraternities -- people who've walked on the surface of the moon -- are paid homage in this documentary. Using newsreel footage, rare NASA photographs, and digitally animated re-creations, Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon examines the Apollo missions between 1969 and 1972 which put astronauts on the moon.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-23
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Camp Nowhere
Overview: Morris "Mud" Himmel has a problem. His parents desperately want to send him away to summer camp. He hates going to summer camp, and would do anything to get out of it. Talking to his friends, he realizes that they are all facing the same sentence: a boring summer camp. Together with his friends, he hatches a plan to trick all the parents into sending them to a camp of their own design.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-26
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Harry Anderson: The Tricks of His Trade
Overview: A one man CBS Special featuring classic close-up magic, card tricks and other sleight of hand.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-28
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Glass Coffin
Overview: David Katz is a world famous magician and he comes to Denver with his group to perform for a charity gala for disabled children. Also there is Perry and Della as all three are supporters of the charity. Kate Ford, an assistant with an arrogant attitude, tells David that she is, from now on, going to do an illusion in which an assistant is raised in a glass coffin only to disappear when the coffin is opened up in the air (while the assistant climbs out before the coffin is raised.) After a one night stand with David, Kate is pregnant and she blackmails David with this. David and his wife Judy can't have children so that comes as a double blow to them. However Kate, with her attitude, creates much hatred at her from the rest of the group. At the gala, the glass coffin is raised but when it opens Kate's dead body falls to the ground - strangled.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-14
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Carpool
Overview: Four strangers are thrown together in a carpool when a bag of money, almost a million dollars, falls from a Brinks truck into their path. Because of circumstances, they are unable to turn in the money, and they struggle over what to do. They are pursued by thieves, the mob, and the police.
Genres: Action Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-05
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Perfect Harmony
Overview: During the 1950s, a private school in the south undergoes racial tension as it experiences desegregation. Can a love of music help ease the pain?
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-31
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The Ryan White Story
Overview: The story of Ryan White, a 13-year-old haemophiliac who contracted AIDS from factor VIII, which was used to control this disorder.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-16
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The Rosebud Beach Hotel
Overview: After taking over a failing Miami hotel with her workaholic fiancé, Elliot, Tracy thinks Liza has seduced her better half-to-be. She then tries to have an affair of her own, and arranges for hookers to become bellhops. Meanwhile, her rich daddy hires an inept arsonist to blow up the place.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-11-02
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Take Off
Overview: A Don Juan-like playboy doesn't get old, but a stag film of his does in this hardcore riff on The Portrait of Dorian Gray.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Letting Go
Overview: Unlucky in love, strangled at work, and tormented at home, Joel Slater is desperately searching for a way to juggle his life. But sometimes, the secret to happiness begins with letting go.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-02
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Disclosure
Overview: An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-06-19
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Corporate Affairs
Overview: An executive discovers that his former lover has given their firm's CEO a fatal heart attack during sex.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-05
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Fatal Confession: A Father Dowling Mystery
Overview: Frank Dowling has to solve the mystery of a young man who is obsessed with finding his natural parents.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-30
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That Thing You Do!
Overview: A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-04
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Missing Children: A Mother's Story
Overview: A young mother hands her children into what she thinks is a childcare center while she finds a new home, but returns to find that they have been adopted out without her knowledge.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-01
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Amazons
Overview: A cult of descendants of the Amazons plot to take control of mankind, but an inquisitive doctor might uncover their plans.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-29
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Mentor
Overview: A thought-provoking drama about the power that a famous university professor holds over his students and assistants.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-28
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Suburban Girl
Overview: Publishing assistant Brett Eisenberg wants to be a big-time editor. However, she lacks self-confidence, a problem that isn't helped by her new, overbearing boss. Brett soon enters into a relationship with Archie, an older man who has plenty of his own issues, including alcoholism, diabetes and a difficult relationship with his daughter. Intent on helping Archie get past his problems, she turns to her dying father for advice.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-27
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A Plumm Summer
Overview: Based on a true-story - A Plumm Summer tells the remarkable tale of two young brothers, Elliott and Rocky Plumm, who go head-to-head with the FBI in order to crack the "frog-napping" case and get their beloved TV puppet, Froggy Doo back on the air, all the while become local heroes and best friends.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-25
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Stop the World, I Want to Get Off
Overview: Set against the backdrop of a circus, the show focuses on Littlechap, from the moment of his birth to his death. Each time something unsatisfactory happens, he calls out 'Stop the world!' and addresses the audience.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-09
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Mr. Bill's Real Life Adventures
Overview: Based on the "Saturday Night Live" shorts, Mr. Bill stars in his own show, but this time he's played by a human actor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-11
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The Ultimate Christmas Present
Overview: When 13-year-old Allie Thompson and her best friend Sam happen upon a weather-making machine discarded by none other than Santa Claus, they use it to cause a snow day in Los Angeles. But when the machine gets out of hand, it threatens to ruin Christmas.
Genres: TV Movie Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-01
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Fire! Trapped on the 37th Floor
Overview: A fire breaks out on the 12th floor of the First Interstate Tower building in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, Paul and Susan are working late on the 37th floor, along with cleaning staff, security, and building engineers, some of whom are installing sprinklers. The fire spreads rapidly and those in the building quickly become trapped.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-02-18
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All You Can Eat
Overview: An overweight man makes a shift in habits after being turned down by his crush who fears that he could die of cardiac arrest the way her father did.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-06-19
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Looks That Kill
Overview: A teenager lives out the hilarious and often tragic consequences of being lethally attractive, until he meets a girl with a congenital defect.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-06-19
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Diagnosis Murder: The House on Sycamore Street
Overview: Dr Mark Sloan cannot believe that his former student Dr Drummond, an ambitious cosmetic surgeon, has committed suicide. Assisted by his team of hobby detectives, pathologist Amanda Bentley and junior doctor Jack Parker, Sloan tries to investigate the case. He finds out that Drummond and his senior partner, Dr Stern, had used plastic surgery to create a double of rich banker and benefactor Gantry, who is expected to make a major donation to the community hospital. Does Gantry also plan to have his double assassinated in order to vanish with the money himself?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-01
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Sorority Boys
Overview: After being falsely accused of stealing the budget for their annual cocktail cruise, three very different fraternity brothers are kicked out of their dorm. In order to clear their name and to secure their future careers, the three dress up in drag and pledge the sorority next door where they learn a few valuable - and hilarious - lessons about themselves and the female species.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-22
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Talk to Me
Overview: An idealistic talk show producer clashes with her ratings obsessed boss on a story involving a young prostitute.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-20
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How You Look at It
Overview: Short about how love at first sight changes a man's perspective of the world around him. With a little help from his inner theme songs, his environment comes together to support his quest to be with his newly sighted love...or at least, say hello to her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-09
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Jerome's Bouquet
Overview: 82 year-old Elena Klein, a retired New York florist, can't stop arranging — only now it's not flowers she's arranging, but people's lives.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-02
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The Social Ones
Overview: A mockumentary that explores the lives and anxieties of a group of social media influencers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-13
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Dean
Overview: A freelance illustrator in New York suffers a quarter-life crisis and leaves his home for the west coast.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-16
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Harry Anderson's Sideshow
Overview: Variety magic and comedy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-30
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A Scooby-Doo! Christmas
Overview: On the way to Daphne's relatives' condominium, the Mystery Inc. gang detours through the town of Winter Hollow, where the vengeful Headless Snowman has destroyed the town's Christmas spirit.
Genres: Animation Family Mystery Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-13
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For Hope
Overview: The life and death of a young woman who suffered from scleroderma, and how she and her family coped.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-17
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