Earl Hindman
Also Known As: Leo Heinz, ارل هیندمن
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Earl John Hindman (October 20, 1942 – December 29, 2003) was an American actor, best-known for his role as the kindly neighbor (whose lower face was always hidden from sight from the television viewer) Wilson W. Wilson Jr. on the television sitcom Home Improvement (1991–1999). Long before this role, however, he played bad guys in two 1970s thrillers, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three and The Parallax View. Hindman's most famous and enduring pre-Home Improvement role was as Bob Reid in Ryan's Hope. He played the role in 459 episodes during the years 1975-1989. Ex-police officer Bob Reid was everybody's best friend who never got the girl, and was the long-suffering brother of the soap's serial bride Delia Reid Ryan Ryan Coleridge. Hindman's wife Molly McGreevey was also on the soap 1977-1981 as Polly Longworth, best friend to media tycoon Rae Woodard. Description above from the Wikipedia article Earl Hindman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bisbee, Arizona, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: October 20, 1942
Age: 82 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 29, 2003
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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Overview: In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-02
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Silverado
Overview: Four unwitting heroes cross paths on their journey to the sleepy town of Silverado. Little do they know the town where their family and friends reside has been taken over by a corrupt sheriff and a murderous posse. It's up to the sharp-shooting foursome to save the day, but first they have to break each other out of jail, and learn who their real friends are.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-07-10
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The Ultimate Degenerate
Overview: Man drugs, photographs & tortures women he meets by personal ads.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-04-25
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The Parallax View
Overview: An ambitious reporter gets in trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-14
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Murder in Coweta County
Overview: Wallace a wealthy landowner in Meriwether County, Georgia, has virtually unlimited power in the county, including having the sheriff under his control. When he murders a share cropper he thinks that he is powerful enough to get away with it. Because the act of murder took place in Coweta County, it is under the jurisdiction of the Coweta County sheriff who hunts the murderer without trepidation.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-15
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The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
Overview: A small-town eccentric opens a café in her decaying home.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-28
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The Kiss of Her Flesh
Overview: Richard has lost what little sanity he had left, instead putting all emphasis on seeking out and brutally slaying any and every woman who crosses his path. However, this time he might have met his match as his deceased wife's sister, Maria, is hellbent on putting an end to his orgiastic rampage.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-27
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Shoot It Black, Shoot It Blue
Overview: A white cop apprehends, then murders, a Black purse thief in the street. A Black film student witnesses the murder and begins surveilling the cop in his everyday life. Based on the novel "Shoot It" by Paul Tyner; filmed in Kansas City.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-06
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Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?
Overview: A prostitute is murdered on the streets of a tough, low-income neighborhood. A diabetic retired boxer who knew her is appalled by the lack of interest shown in the case by the police or anybody else in the neighborhood, and decides to investigate the case himself.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-11
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Talk Radio
Overview: A rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-21
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Kojak: The Price of Justice
Overview: When the bodies of two young boys are discovered in the Harlem River, their mother is the obvious suspect, particularly with her scandalous past. But what appears to be an open-and-shut case soon becomes something much more sinister.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-21
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3 Men and a Baby
Overview: Three bachelors find themselves forced to take care of a baby left by one of the guy's girlfriends.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-27
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One Police Plaza
Overview: A veteran New York City Police Lieutenant's investigation of a woman's murder uncovers corruption in high places.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-29
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Pueblo
Overview: Dramatization showing the 1968 seizure of the spy ship, Pueblo, by the North Koreans and the treatment of the Pueblo's crew during their year of captivity through flashbacks during the 1969 investigation of the affair.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-28
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Rising Son
Overview: Gus Robinson loves three things: his job, family, and country; but suddenly he's losing all three. When his factory shuts down, Gus faces unemployment. It's a time of change for his wife Martha and son Charlie as they reassess a world Gus barely recognizes. But through the nightmare, one dream they cannot take away from him; the reason he will continue to fight: his son, Charlie.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-23
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Key West
Overview: A former CIA agent and his friend, operating a charter boat service in Florida, find themselves the target of an eccentric millionaire with a score to settle.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-10
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Greased Lightning
Overview: The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper-tier NASCAR race.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-07-01
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The Brink's Job
Overview: In 1950, a group of unlikely criminal masterminds commits the robbery of the century. Led by Tony Pino, a petty thief fresh out of prison, and Joe McGinnis, who specializes in planning lucrative capers, the gang robs Brink's main office in Boston of more than $2 million. However, things begin to go awry when the FBI gets involved, the cops start cracking down on the gang and McGinnis refuses to hand over the loot...
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-08
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Taps
Overview: Military cadets take extreme measures to ensure the future of their academy when its existence is threatened by local condo developers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-20
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Fires Within
Overview: A Cuban emigre, living in Miami and involved in an affair with the American seaman who rescued her and her daughter years earlier, must face her husband after he is unexpectedly released from a Cuban prison.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-28
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Teenage Mother
Overview: A new health teacher in a high school is nearly raped by drug-dealing students and is blamed when a student turns up pregnant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-22
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Final
Overview: Waking up in a nearly empty room, Bill has strange recollections of his father's death and a car crash, and occasional paranoid delusions. Ann, a psychologist, tries to help him make sense of it all.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-08
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Stay the Night
Overview: Based on a true story, Barbara Hershey and Morgan Weisser portray two star crossed lovers who will stop at nothing to be together without any ridicule. "Stay the Night" tells the dark tale of the controversial romance of a small town teenage boy named Michael Kettman and a free-spirited older woman named Jimmie Sue Finger, who suffers from an abusive marriage. Jimmie Sue and her younger lover plot to murder her husband, which leads to either eternal bliss for the both of them or a curse on their relationship.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-26
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The Red Spider
Overview: A cop is found dead in a hotel, brutally murdered, a spider cut into his stomach. The police believes his death might be connected to the fact that he was a dirty cop - the internal affairs commission already was after him - but then several other people are murdered in the very same way, and there seems to be no connection between the cases. The police seeks for a blonde woman among the prostitutes.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-21
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Kojak: It's Always Something
Overview: After discovering the connection between a corrupt city commissioner and Colombian killers, Kojak is framed for the murder of a call girl and is prosecuted by former police detective Crocker, now an assistant D.A.
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-31
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A Memory of Two Mondays
Overview: Workers in an auto parts warehouse in 1933 New York City inhabit a bleak, dead-end world in the depths of the Depression where, at least, they have jobs. Introduced by its playwright, Arthur Miller, it was the first in a series of NET Playhouse programs concerning life in America during the Depression years.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-28
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Tim Allen Presents: A User's Guide to Home Improvement
Overview: Tim Allen presents his own favorite clips, show bloopers, and personal reflections on the long-running series.
Genres: Comedy Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-04
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