James Read
Also Known As: James Christopher Read
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia James Christopher Read (born July 31, 1953) is an American actor. Read was born in Buffalo, New York. He started acting as a student of the University of Oregon where he graduated in 1976. He studied acting in New York and then did several off Broadway and regional theatres such as The Denver Center Theatre Company, where he had a couple of leading roles and spent three seasons. Read is perhaps best known for his role as George Hazard in the three North and South TV miniseries (1985, 1986 and 1994) based on the John Jakes trilogy of novels of the same name, and for his co-starring role in the movie Beaches. Read is married to actress Wendy Kilbourne, whom he met on the set of North and South. He had a recurring role on The WB series Charmed as Victor Bennett and was also a regular during the first season of Remington Steele. Currently, he may be seen as Ken Davis in the ABC family drama Wildfire. In 1998, he also earned his Masters Degree in psychology from Pepperdine University.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Buffalo, New York, USA
Birthday: July 31, 1953
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Gender: Male
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Lace 2
Overview: While in the first part, Lili searched for her mother, she now questions her mom on the identity of her father.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-01
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Eight Men Out
Overview: Buck Weaver and Hap Felsch are young idealistic players on the Chicago White Sox, a pennant-winning team owned by Charles Comiskey - a penny-pinching, hands-on manager who underpays his players and treats them with disdain. And when gamblers and hustlers discover that Comiskey's demoralized players are ripe for a money-making scheme, one by one the team members agree to throw the World Series. But when the White Sox are defeated, a couple of sports writers smell a fix and a national scandal explodes, ripping the cover off America's favorite pastime.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-02
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Beaches
Overview: A privileged rich debutante and a cynical struggling entertainer share a turbulent, but strong childhood friendship over the years.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-21
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The Initiation
Overview: An amnesiac sorority member who has been plagued by a recurring nightmare is stalked alongside other coeds by a killer in a deserted department store where they are completing a hazing ritual.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-07
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Love Crimes
Overview: An Atlanta prosecutor sets her own trap for a sex offender who poses as a famous photographer.
Genres: Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-24
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Full Circle
Overview: A young woman, traumatized by rape at an early age, slowly learns to trust and love again as she struggles to avoid repeating her mother's mistakes.
Genres: TV Movie Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-09
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Walking Thunder
Overview: In the 1850's, a young boy and his family on their way West become stranded in the Rockies. With the help of a local mountain man, a Sioux medicine man, and a legendary bear known as "Walking Thunder," the boy learns to become a man, and his family's survival is secured.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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A Lot Like Love
Overview: On a flight from Los Angeles to New York, Oliver and Emily make a connection, only to decide that they are poorly suited to be together. Over the next seven years, however, they are reunited time and time again, they go from being acquaintances to close friends to ... lovers?
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-21
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The Other Woman
Overview: After the divorce from Michael, Tessa raises her daughters Kate and Lara alone. None of them can stand Michael's new young wife Carolyn, a model. But when Tessa learns that she's suffering from cancer and soon will die, she tries to get her kids to accept Carolyn as new mother. She takes them on a trip across the country to her father Jacob's ranch in Wyoming. During this trip, Tessa tries to teach Carolyn about the responsibilities involved in raising kids.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-26
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Indiscreet
Overview: A case involving adultery, money and murder threatens a private eye's sobriety.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-28
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Web of Deceit
Overview: After making a name for herself on the West Coast, a defense lawyer returns to her hometown of Atlanta to argue a controversial rape-murder case. But it's not all work and no play: once there, she reenters high society and has a reunion with an old flame -- who just happens to be the prosecuting attorney on her case. As she investigates her client's claims of innocence, she uncovers a sinister conspiracy that threatens both her life and her new romance.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-17
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Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Overview: This is yet another telling of the adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as the two try to clear their friend Jim of murder charges.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-21
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Legally Blonde
Overview: Fashionable sorority queen Elle Woods has it all. She wants nothing more than to be Mrs. Warner Huntington III. But he dumps her before heading to law school. Elle rallies all of her resources and gets into Harvard, determined to win him back. While there, she figures out that there is more to herself than just looks.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-07-13
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Midas Valley
Overview: Set in Silicon Valley, California, follows the lives of a group of people involved in the competitive world of computer electronics and the greed, passion and intrigue amongst them.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-27
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Not Another Teen Movie
Overview: On a bet, a gridiron hero at John Hughes High School sets out to turn a bespectacled plain Jane into a beautiful and popular prom queen in this outrageous send-up of the teen movies of the 1980s and '90s.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-12-07
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When the Dark Man Calls
Overview: A famous radio talk-show host finds herself being stalked by the man convicted of murdering her husband, who has finished his 25-year sentence and is out of prison. Her situation is made even more dire when it turns out that he isn't the only problem she has.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-14
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Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Overview: Now a rising young lawyer, Elle Woods is about to make partner at her firm, but when she finds out her dog's relatives are being used as cosmetic test subjects, she heads to Washington D.C. to fight for animal rights.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-02
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All Signs of Death
Overview: Centers on an inveterate twenty-something slacker who stumbles into a career as a crime scene cleaner, only to find himself entangled with a murder mystery, a femme fatale and the loose ends of his own past.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
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The President's Child
Overview: James Guthrie is a candidate for the presidency of the United States. Eight years ago he fell in love with Elizabeth Hemming, nowadays a famous hostess/reporter. Guthrie doesn't know Jason, her kid, is his son. When his unscrupulous campaign-leader finds out about Jason, he goes all out to keep it a secret from the public
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-27
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Blue Thunder
Overview: Los Angeles, California. Officer Murphy, a veteran Metropolitan Police helicopter pilot suffering from severe trauma due to his harsh experiences during the Vietnam War, and Lymangood, his resourceful new partner, are tasked with testing an advanced and heavily armed experimental chopper known as Blue Thunder.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-05
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Fame
Overview: An updated version of the 1980 musical, which centered on the students of the New York Academy of Performing Arts.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-23
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