J.E. Freeman
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Biography: J.E. Freeman (born February 2, 1946) is an American actor. He was a character actor, often cast in tough guy roles and authority figures. His first movie appearance was in the early 80's actionner An Eye for an Eye in which he plays a tow truck driver who minces words with Chuck Norris. He is especially known for his menacing characters roles : the evil gangster Marcelles Santos in David Lynch's Wild at Heart, the terrifying Eddie Dane, ferocious gay hitman from Miller's Crossing, and the infamous scientist Mason Wren in Alien Resurrection. Other notable apparitions in : Ruthless People, Patriot Games, Copycat and Go. He is openly gay. In 2009, he published a letter to the editor on sfgate.com, detailing his reminiscences of the 1969 Stonewall riots. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: February 02, 1946
Age: 79 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 09, 2014
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Miller's Crossing
Overview: Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-21
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Bitter Harvest
Overview: A farmer's herd sickens and dies, then his family and neighbors fall ill, so he bucks the state agricultural establishment as he pursues the politically-explosive investigation of how his farm, family, and friends came to be poisoned.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-18
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Wild at Heart
Overview: Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a team of hitmen to cut the lovers’ surreal honeymoon short.
Genres: Crime Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-17
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Copycat
Overview: An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-27
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Tremors 4: The Legend Begins
Overview: In 1889, seventeen men die under mysterious circumstances, and spooked by recent events, the miners who populate the town leave in droves until there's nothing left but a shell of a community.
Genres: Action Comedy Horror Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-02
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Alien Resurrection
Overview: Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of surprises … as are the new aliens. Ripley must team with a band of smugglers to keep the creatures from reaching Earth.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-12
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Patriot Games
Overview: When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-06-04
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Suspended Animation
Overview: Hollywood animator Tom (Alex McArthur) gets lost in the Michigan woods after a snowmobile ride goes wrong. He finds refuge at an isolated cabin inhabited by two sisters (Laura Esterman and Sage Allen). Initially grateful to them, Tom soon realizes that the women are cannibals who peg him as their next meal. Tom's friends manage to rescue him, but he's perpetually haunted by his horrific ordeal.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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One Good Cop
Overview: When his partner is killed in the line of duty, Artie Lewis becomes the legal guardian of his three orphaned girls. But during his investigation of the case, Lewis finds his life – and that of his newfound family – on the line. That's when the guilty crime-lord comes face to face with one man's rage, one man's fury, one man's justice.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-03
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Mystery Woman
Overview: A famous writer is found hanged in his office. At first, all police investigations conclude that it was suicide, but when Samantha Kinsey, owner of Seller 'Mystery Woman' starts his own investigation, he discovers that there is chance that has been committed murder. The film is the first in a long series of American TV movies called" Mystery Woman", in which Samantha Kinsey, the owner of a bookshop specializing in thrillers and suspense is involved in the resolution of real cases.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-31
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Along for the Ride
Overview: Two estranged brothers are forced to take a surreal and heartfelt journey to understanding, when they pick up the body of their deceased father in Mexico. A father they haven't seen in over 20 years.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-02-17
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44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out
Overview: After a failed bank robbery, two heavily armed men hold the Los Angeles Police Department at bay for 44 minutes.
Genres: Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-06-05
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Ruthless People
Overview: Sam Stone hates his wife Barbara so much that he wants her dead. He's ecstatic when she's taken by a duo of kidnappers who want $500,000 ransom in exchange for her life. Fully intending to ignore every one of the kidnappers' demands in the hopes that they do him a favor and murder her for him, the two confused kidnappers have to figure out how they're going get their money, and what they're going to do with the overbearing Barbara.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-26
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Memphis
Overview: Two men and a woman in the deep south of the 1950s plot to kidnap a child from a wealthy black family, mistakenly believing that no one will try to stop them.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-27
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Fool's Gold
Overview: Flimp and Sam are both outcasts in the Oklahoma town of Oiltown, but Jewish Sam idolises macho Latino Flimp. When they hear that a wealthy man has moved into a local house, they decide to check it out. Things go wrong, and soon they are on the run from the FBI...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-02
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The Doctor
Overview: Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems.... until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has seen medicine, hospitals, and doctors from a patient's perspective, he realises that there is more to being a doctor than surgery and prescriptions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-07-24
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Mother's Boys
Overview: Sexy but unstable wife and mother Jude walked out on her family three years ago. Now, just as suddenly, she is back. But her husband, Robert, has fallen in love with Callie, an assistant principal at his sons' school. He asks Jude for a divorce. She responds by trying to turn her three boys against Callie, then by slashing herself and blaming her rival and finally by drawing her 12-year-old, Kes, into a murderous plot.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-01
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The Man Who Knew Too Little
Overview: An American gets a ticket for an audience participation game in London, then gets involved in a case of mistaken identity. As an international plot unravels around him, he thinks it's all part of the act.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-14
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Chase
Overview: A big-city lawyer (Jennifer O'Neill) returns to her small hometown after her father's death to resume his practice. There she is called upon to defend a migrant worker who has been accused of murder.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-23
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An Eye for an Eye
Overview: Sean Kane is forced to resign from the San Francisco Police Department's Narcotics Division when he goes berserk after his partner is murdered. He decides to fight alone and follows a trail of drug traffickers into unexpected high places.
Genres: Adventure Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-14
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It Could Happen to You
Overview: Charlie Lang is a simple, kindhearted New York City cop. When he realizes he has no money to tip waitress Yvonne Biasi, Lang offers her half the winnings of his lottery ticket. Amazingly, the ticket happens to be a winner, in the sum of $4 million. True to his word, Lang proceeds to share the prize money with Biasi, which infuriates his greedy wife, Muriel. Not content with the arrangement, Muriel begins scheming to take all the money.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-07-16
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Till Death Us Do Part
Overview: This is a true crime story based on the book of the same title by prosecuting attorney, Vincent Bugliosi. (Bugliosi is the L.A. prosecutor that put Charles Manson away.) On December 11, 1966, a murder occurs in a small neighborhood of El Sereno, CA. In the middle of the night, Henry Stockton is shot three times in the head and twice in the chest and then his house is set on fire. The murderer left no clues, baffling the police, until a year later when a young pregnant woman is found bludgeoned to death in a Jaguar. Strangely, these two murders are related. As the mystery unfolds a horrific tale of greed, lust and ambition are revealed.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-02-18
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Dream with the Fishes
Overview: Terry is a suicidal voyeur who treats a dying addict to a final binge, but Terry will only do this if he promises to kill him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-21
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Hard Traveling
Overview: Set during the Depression, Dan Bessie's film (based on a novel by his father Alvah) stars Ellen Geer as a widow who begins a romance with an uneducated janitor (J.E. Freeman) who is later accused of murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-20
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There Goes My Baby
Overview: It's the summer of 1965, and the members of the graduating class of upscale Westwood High are eager to reinvent themselves. Valedictorian Mary Beth wants to attend a liberal university. Surfer bum Stick plans to enlist to fight in Vietnam. Calvin lives in the poor Watts section of Los Angeles, which is slowly erupting in violence. As the summer nights grow long, they'll all be forced to make decisions that will affect the rest of their lives.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-02
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Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story
Overview: Joey Buttafuoco's story, of how a sexy, possessive young girl destroyed his life by telling her friends the two are lovers, and then shooting his wife.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-03
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Go
Overview: A supermarket clerk decides to step in for an absent drug dealer, setting off an explosive, comedic chain of events.
Genres: Crime Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-04-09
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Auggie Rose
Overview: An insurance salesman's humdrum existence takes a turn when a stranger, ex-con Auggie Rose, unexpectedly dies in his arms. Assuming the identity of the dead man, the salesman embarks on a double life, keeping it secret from his live-in girlfriend.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-05-14
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Twice Upon a Time
Overview: In the world of the Murkworks where nightmares are made, the evil Synonamess Botch hatches a scheme to make non-stop nightmares. Only Ralph and Mumford, misfits from the cheery land of Frivoli where good dreams are made, can stop him.
Genres: Animation Comedy Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-08-05
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The Couch Trip
Overview: The escaped delinquent John W. Burns, Jr. replaces Dr. Maitlin on a radio show, saying he's the psychiatrist Lawrence Baird.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-15
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Love, Death, Elvis & Oz: The Making of Wild at Heart
Overview: A documentary about the making of the movie Wild at Heart, produced for the DVD release of the film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-07
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Terrorist on Trial: The United States vs. Salim Ajami
Overview: There is no question that the Arab terrorist portrayed by Robert Davi is guilty of killing five US citizens in Barcelona. Even his lawyers have zero respect for the rabidly sociopathic Davi. But Jewish defence attorney Ron Leibman is obsessed with the concept of Due Process, and has vowed that Davi will receive a scrupulously fair trial when the terrorist is extradited to America. The defence mounted by Leibman confounds and aggravates government prosecutor Sam Waterston--but he, like Leibman, remains a man of judiciary integrity.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-30
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