Ron Leibman
Also Known As: Ronald Leibman
Biography: Ron Leibman (October 11, 1937 – December 6, 2019) was an American actor. He won both the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play in 1993 for his performance as Roy Cohn in Angels in America. Leibman also won a Primetime Emmy Award in 1979 for his role as Martin 'Kaz' Kazinsky in his short-lived crime drama series Kaz. Leibman also acted in films such as Where's Poppa? (1970), The Hot Rock (1972), Norma Rae (1979), and Zorro, The Gay Blade (1982). Later in his career, he became widely known for providing the voice of Ron Cadillac in Archer (2013–2016) and for playing Dr. Leonard Green, Rachel's rich, short-tempered father, on the sitcom Friends (1996–2004). Description above from the Wikipedia article Ron Leibman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: October 11, 1937
Age: 87 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 06, 2019
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Garden State
Overview: Andrew returns to his hometown for the funeral of his mother, a journey that reconnects him with past friends. The trip coincides with his decision to stop taking his powerful antidepressants. A chance meeting with Sam - a girl also suffering from various maladies - opens up the possibility of rekindling emotional attachments, confronting his psychologist father, and perhaps beginning a new life.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-28
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Overview: Billy Pilgrim, a veteran of the Second World War, finds himself mysteriously detached from time, so that he is able to travel, without being able to help it, from the days of his childhood to those of his peculiar life on a distant planet called Tralfamadore, passing through his bitter experience as a prisoner of war in the German city of Dresden, over which looms the inevitable shadow of an unspeakable tragedy.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-15
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Just the Ticket
Overview: Gary Starke is one of the best ticket scalpers in New York City. His girlfriend, Linda, doesn't approve of his criminal lifestyle, though, and dumps him when she gets the opportunity to study cooking in Paris. Gary realizes that he has to give up scalping if he has any chance of winning her back. But before he does, he wants to cash out on one last big score. He gets his chance when the pope announces he'll be performing Easter Mass at Yankee Stadium.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-02-01
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Up the Academy
Overview: Four boys are sent, for different reasons, to a Military Academy. The life of discipline asks a lot of the four geeks. Of course these boys know how to make a party out of the hard times. Will they be "real men" after one year.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-06
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Norma Rae
Overview: Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-02
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Auto Focus
Overview: A successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his persona as a sex addict who records and photographs his many encounters with women, often with the help of his seedy friend, John Henry Carpenter. This biographical drama reveals how Crane's double life takes its toll on him and his family, and ultimately contributes to his death.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-18
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Where’s Poppa?
Overview: When New York attorney Gordon Hocheiser meets Louise Callan, the girl of his dreams, he schemes to eliminate his aging, senile mother, even though he promised his late father that he'd always take care of her. He fears that his batty mom's eccentricities will shortly lead to Louise's departure.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-10
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Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Overview: A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-26
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Don King: Only in America
Overview: A cinematic portrait of the famous fight promoter and boxing manager.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-11-15
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Rhinestone
Overview: After a big-time country singer brags that she can turn anybody in to a country-singin' star, she's out to prove she can live up to her talk when she recruits a cab-driver as a country singer. He's scheduled to sing at a big-time NYC country night club and she puts her ample powers to work in preparing her protege.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-22
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Night Falls on Manhattan
Overview: A newly elected District attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation that may involve his father and his partner.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-21
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The Hot Rock
Overview: Dortmunder and his pals plan to steal a huge diamond from a museum. But this turns out to be only the first time they have to steal it...
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-26
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Dummy
Overview: An ex-office worker becomes a ventriloquist, leading to a date with his unemployment counselor; but his quirky family and a gauche female friend may thwart his new career and love life.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-12
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Phar Lap
Overview: Phar Lap, the big bold chestnut reigned as the king of the turf in the depression that gripped Australia of the 1930s. From his humble beginnings the New Zealand bred horse raced on to become the hero of a nation.
Genres: Drama Family History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-08-11
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Zorro, The Gay Blade
Overview: In 19th century Mexico, legendary swordsman Zorro has passed on his weapon and his sense of duty to his noble son, Diego, a dashing swashbuckler like his father. But after an injury sidelines Diego, he is forced to hand the mask over to his twin, Ramon.
Genres: Western Action Comedy Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-17
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A Question of Guilt
Overview: A swinging divorcée is prejudged by a police detective and accused of killing her child.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-21
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Seven Hours to Judgment
Overview: A distraught husband kidnaps the judge who freed his wife's killers on insufficient evidence. He gives him seven hours to find evidence that will put them away, or he'll kill his wife.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-16
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Your Three Minutes Are Up
Overview: Charlie is a sad sack of a man, working at a depressingly dull office job and stuck in a passionless engagement to a neurotic woman. One of the few bright spots in his life is his friend Mike, who seems to be living a life of carefree bohemianism.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-01
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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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The Super Cops
Overview: The true story of two New York City cops. Greenberg & Hantz fought the system, became detectives and were known on the streets as "Batman & Robin".
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-20
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A Little Help
Overview: It's a movie for everyone whose life has been thrown off-course, out of whack, or simply not turned out the way they planned it. In other words, it's a movie for everyone, period. Set in suburban Long Island in the summer of 2002, with the psychic wounds of 9/11 still fresh, A Little Help is a story that takes a comic, searching and profoundly empathetic look at a few pivotal months in the life of dental hygienist Laura Pehlke (Jenna Fischer)-an ordinary woman whose life suddenly flies off the rails-and her heroic efforts to re-establish a sense of security and normalcy for herself and her son.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-05-21
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The Art of Crime
Overview: A Romani antique dealer, who is also a private detective, gets involved in a murder case when one of his colleagues is accused of committing the murder.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-03
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Christmas Eve
Overview: Story of a well-to-do elderly woman, who befriends the homeless and volunteers her time with children, who learns she has an incurable illness and wants desperately to reunite her three grown grand children (who are scattered across the U.S. living their own lives), with their estranged father, her son. She hires a private detective to search for them so as to try to get everyone together on Christmas Eve.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-22
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Class Act: A Teacher's Story
Overview: Rich businessman decides to return to teaching after working in the stock market. He inherits a class of under-achievers and sets out to make them winners.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-18
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Romantic Comedy
Overview: Jason is in need of a collaborator to give him inspiration. Phoebe is a small-town English teacher with an urge to write. On the day Jason is being married, Jason and Phoebe meet and form a partnership.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-07
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Many Happy Returns
Overview: In this satire of the I.R.S., George Segal plays an Average Joe targeted for the Audit from Hell. His bank accounts are frozen, his home and business are attached by the government, and his wife leaves him. Segal is forced to move into the house of his obnoxious brother-in-law where lot of Odd Couple-type comedy ensues. Segal then plots to turn the tables on the I.R.S., and win back his wife and life.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-19
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Door to Door
Overview: A smooth-talking vacuum cleaner salesman takes a young man under his wing and teaches him how to swindle his way to riches. The two team up, conning everyone from car dealers to widows.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-08
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In the Wings: Angels in America On Broadway
Overview: Backstage documentary chronicling the Original Broadway Production of “Angels in America.”
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-11
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Rivkin: Bounty Hunter
Overview: A New York-based bounty hunter who makes a living chasing and capturing bail jumpers matches wits with a heavily-armed drug dealer in this pilot to a prospective series.
Genres: Action Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-20
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Personal Velocity
Overview: In a series of three vignettes, three women in turn struggle to free themselves from the men who restrict their personal freedom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-12
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A Rugrats Chanukah
Overview: The story of the Jewish holiday Chanukah through the eyes of the Rugrats, who imagine themselves as the main characters. Meanwhile, Grandpa Boris and his long-time rival, Shlomo, feud over who will play the lead in the local synagogue's Chanukah play.
Genres: Family Animation Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-04
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Linda in Wonderland
Overview: “Linda In Wonderland” is Linda Lavin’s variety television special that aired on Thanksgiving Day, 1980. Special guests include; Lynn Redgrave, Anthony Newley and Ron Leibman. Her characters of “Alice Hyatt” and “Sam Butler” from her television show “Alice” also make appearances as Ms. Lavin plays dual roles for both. Ms. Lavin and her guests perform Broadway and other musical numbers in various settings and medleys, mixed in with solo performances and Linda giving us a little background about herself growing up, along with some humor and pizzazz.
Genres: Music Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-27
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