Alan North
Also Known As: not available
Biography: After wartime naval service, Alan North began his show business career as a stage manager in New York. He first worked on Broadway in "Plain and Fancy", doubling up as understudy for the small part of Isaac Miller. The play had a successful run between 1955 and 1956 (461 performances) and this led to further acting work in diverse productions, ranging from musical comedy to straight dramatic parts, both on and off Broadway. Alan last appeared as a quaint curmudgeonly character in "Lake Hollywood" at the Signature Theater in 1999.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: The Bronx, New York, USA
Birthday: December 23, 1920
Deathday: January 19, 2000
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Gender: Male
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The Formula
Overview: While investigating the death of a friend and fellow cop, Los Angeles police officer Barney Caine stumbles across evidence that Nazis created a synthetic alternative to gasoline during World War II. This revelation has the potential to end the established global oil industry, making the formula a very valuable and dangerous piece of information. Eventually, Caine must contend with oil tycoon Adam Steiffel, who clearly has his own agenda regarding the formula.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-19
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I'm Not Rappaport
Overview: Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter, who is half-blind, but still the super of an apartment house. When he is threatened with retirement, Nat battles on his behalf. Nat also takes on his daughter, a drug dealer, and a mugger in this appealing version of a really 'odd couple'.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-24
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See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Overview: A murder takes place in the shop of David Lyons, a deaf man who fails to hear the gunshot being fired. Outside, blind man Wally Karue hears the shot but cannot see the perpetrator. Both are arrested, but escape to form an unlikely partnership. Being chased by both the law AND the original killers, can the pair work together to outwit them all?
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-12
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Penn & Teller Get Killed
Overview: The "bad boys of magic" go over the edge in this mind-blowing, role-switching comedy murder mystery set in the dizzying world of Atlantic City casinos. In a TV interview, Penn mentions his idea of a fun practical joke: "I wish someone were trying to kill me. It would give focus to my life, excitement. I'd be like James Bond." Twenty million people hear him. One decides to deliver a punchline he'll never forget. Made by people who thought Psycho was a comedy, Penn & Teller Get Killed (they also wrote the piece) features Caitlin Clarke as the femme fatale and David Patrick Kelly as the Edgar Allan Poe-esque nutcase with a new mission. Arthur Penn, known for hip masterpieces like Bonnie and Clyde, Alice's Restaurant and Little Big Man, directs with roller-coaster pacing and subversive intelligence.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-22
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Highlander
Overview: He fought his first battle on the Scottish Highlands in 1536. He will fight his greatest battle on the streets of New York City in 1986. His name is Connor MacLeod. He is immortal.
Genres: Adventure Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-07
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Muggable Mary: Street Cop
Overview: Mary is a single mother with a disabled child who makes a living as a undercover cop catching johns, muggers, and rapists.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-25
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I'll Take You There
Overview: Still nursing wounds from a breakup, a woman is forced by her sister into a blind date that turns into a nightmare.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-03
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...And Justice for All
Overview: An ethical Baltimore defense lawyer disgusted with rampant legal corruption is forced to defend a judge he despises in a rape trial under the threat of being disbarred.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-19
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Thief of Hearts
Overview: A woman trapped in a boring marriage begins an affair with a handsome man who seems able to read her mind. She doesn't know that he has broken into her house and read her diaries, where she has recorded her deepest thoughts and fantasies.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-19
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Bordellet
Overview: A young country girl moves to Copenhagen for adventure and ends up working in a brothel.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1972-07-10
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Lincoln and the War Within
Overview: First few weeks of Lincoln's presidency where crucial for the direction the country would take. He had to bridge the gap between the victorious North and the jaded South and William H. Seward, his Secretary of State, played a crucial role.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-01
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Billy Galvin
Overview: Conflict arises between a steelworker and his son. The father wants the boy to have a chance to make more of himself than he did, but the son wants to follow in his father's footsteps and become a steel-worker himself.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-01
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The Long Kiss Goodnight
Overview: An amnesiac schoolteacher sets out to recover her identity with the help of a private detective when they discover a dark conspiracy.
Genres: Crime Action Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-11
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Glory
Overview: Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-15
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Lean On Me
Overview: When principal Joe Clark takes over decaying Eastside High School, he's faced with students wearing gang colors and graffiti-covered walls. Determined to do anything he must to turn the school around, he expels suspected drug dealers, padlocks doors and demands effort and results from students, staff and parents. Autocratic to a fault, this real-life educator put it all on the line.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-03
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Rachel River
Overview: A divorced mother pursues her career as a radio personality in rural Minnesota.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Crazy People
Overview: A bitter ad executive, who has reached his breaking point, finds himself in a mental institution, where his career actually begins to thrive with the help of the hospital's patients.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-13
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Unholy Matrimony
Overview: Sexual indiscretions are used as a basis for blackmail.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-28
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The Christmas Star
Overview: Horace McNickle (Edward Asner) is a two-time felon serving prison time for counterfeiting. On the week before Christmas, he escapes from prison dressed as Santa Claus due to his uncanny resemblence to St. Nick resulting from his long white beard and heavyset features. McNickle hides out from the police in a nearby suburban neighborhood where he is befriended and helped by two local children who think he is the real Santa Claus. McNickle takes advantage of the kids naive ness to help him get his counterfeit money hidden somewhere in a local department store while he develops kind-hearted feelings for his two con victims that make him slowly understand the true nature of Christmas.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-14
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Act of Vengeance
Overview: In 1969, an administrator runs against the corrupt president of the United Coal Miners Union, and becomes the target of a murder plot.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-04
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The Jerky Boys
Overview: When two unemployed telephone pranksters decide to use their vocal "talents" to impersonate a Chicago mob boss and curry favor with organized crime in New York, the trouble begins. It isn't long before Johnny and Kamal (the "Jerky Boys" of crank call fame) are wanted by the local mafia, the police, and their neighbor.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-02-03
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Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer
Overview: A New York detective and a victim's colleague hunt a killer who preys on single women.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-15
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Serpico
Overview: Frank Serpico is an idealistic New York City cop who refuses to take bribes, unlike the rest of the force. Frank's actions get him shunned by the other officers, and often placed in dangerous situations by his partners. When his superiors ignore his accusations of corruption, Frank decides to go public with the allegations. Although this causes the Knapp Commission to investigate his claims, Frank has also placed a target on himself.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-18
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The Fourth Protocol
Overview: Led by Kim Philby, Plan Aurora is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a nuclear bomb, whilst an MI5 agent attempts to prevent its detonation.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-20
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Plaza Suite
Overview: Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role. In the first, Karen Nash tries to get her inattentive husband Sam's attention to spruce up their failing marriage. In the second, brash film producer Jesse Kiplinger tries to get his former one-time flame Muriel to see him for what he stands for. In the third, Roy Hubley and his wife Norma try and try to get their uncertain-of-herself daughter out of the bathroom before her approaching wedding.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-12
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Liberty
Overview: Drama about how the Statue of Liberty came to be erected in New York Harbor in the early 1880s and the people responsible for its creation.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-23
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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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Clinton and Nadine
Overview: Eager to find his brother's murderer, Clinton enlists the aid of Nadine, an expensive call girl. Together they get sucked into a plot to smuggle guns to the Contra forces in Nicaragua.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-04
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Twenty Bucks
Overview: A story about the life of a twenty dollar bill as it weaves in and out of the various lives of several people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-21
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The Deadliest Season
Overview: Gerry Miller, a professional hockey player, gives in to internal and outside pressures and adopts a more aggressive style on the ice. During one particularly violent game a player on an opposing team dies, and the authorities charge Miller with manslaughter.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-16
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Darrow
Overview: The life and career of Clarence Darrow, the noted American lawyer and civil libertarian.
Genres: Drama TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-08
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