Powers Boothe
Also Known As: Powers Allen Boothe, Πάουερς Μπουθ, پاورز بوث
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Powers Allen Boothe (June 1, 1948 – May 14, 2017) was an American television and film actor. He won an Emmy in 1980 for his portrayal of Jim Jones in Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones. He also played saloon owner Cy Tolliver on Deadwood, "Curly Bill" Brocius in Tombstone, President Noah Daniels on 24, and Lamar Wyatt in Nashville. Description above from the Wikipedia article Powers Boothe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Snyder, Texas, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: June 01, 1948
Age: 76 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 14, 2017
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Sin City
Overview: Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark… Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home — Crooked cops, sexy dames, desperate vigilantes. Some are seeking revenge, others lust after redemption, and then there are those hoping for a little of both. A universe of unlikely and reluctant heroes still trying to do the right thing in a city that refuses to care.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-01
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Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Overview: Some of Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-20
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U Turn
Overview: When a desperate man’s car breaks down in a bizarre desert town while evading vengeful bookies, he becomes entangled in a dangerous love triangle. Caught between a married couple, he’s faced with deadly contracts to kill them both.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-03
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Red Dawn
Overview: It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town—and their country—from invading Soviet forces.
Genres: Action Thriller War Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-10
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Nixon
Overview: A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spanning his troubled boyhood in California to the shocking Watergate scandal that would end his Presidency.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-22
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Extreme Prejudice
Overview: A Texas Ranger and a ruthless narcotics kingpin - they were childhood friends, now they are adversaries...
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-24
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By Dawn's Early Light
Overview: A nuclear warhead launched by Soviet insurgents protesting the waning Cold War destroys the Ukrainian city of Donetsk. The destruction sets off a race between American and Soviet politicians to prevent a nuclear holocaust. While the U.S. president feverishly works to keep the military and political machine from going into overdrive, various subordinates panic. When the president is believed to be killed in a helicopter crash, zealous advisers take over.
Genres: TV Movie Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-19
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The Emerald Forest
Overview: For ten years, engineer Bill Markham has searched tirelessly for his son Tommy who disappeared from the edge of the Brazilian rainforest. Miraculously, he finds the boy living among the reclusive Amazon tribe who adopted him. And that's when Bill's adventure truly begins. For his son is now a grown tribesman who moves skillfully through this beautiful-but-dangerous terrain, fearful only of those who would exploit it. And as Bill attempts to "rescue" him from the savagery of the untamed jungle, Tommy challenges Bill's idea of true civilization and his notions about who needs rescuing.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-22
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The Avengers
Overview: When an unexpected enemy emerges and threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins!
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-25
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Tombstone
Overview: Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining town of Tombstone. But Earp is forced to don a badge again and get help from his notorious pal Doc Holliday when a gang of renegade brigands and rustlers begins terrorizing the town.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-25
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Frailty
Overview: A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to kill people who were in fact "demons."
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-12
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Southern Comfort
Overview: A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-24
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Sudden Death
Overview: When a man's daughter is suddenly taken during a championship hockey game – with the captors demanding a billion dollars by game's end – he frantically sets a plan in motion to rescue her and abort an impending explosion before the final buzzer.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-27
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Rapid Fire
Overview: College student Jake Lo is pursued by smugglers, mobsters and crooked federal agents after he witnesses a murder by a Mafia kingpin.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-21
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The Final Season
Overview: True story of Kent Stock, who in the early '90s gives up a job and ditches his wedding plans to take over as head coach of the Norway High School baseball team. Kent must win over his players and convince them and himself that he can fill their former coach's shoes and that they can go out winners. In the summer of 1991 Norway High's baseball tradition ended on a triumphant but sombre note.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-12
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Edison & Leo
Overview: The film is about the relationship between crazy scientist George Edison and his son Leo. After being electrocuted as a child, Leo is no longer able to touch people without electrocuting them.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Comedy Romance Adventure Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-04
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MacGruber
Overview: Ex-special operative MacGruber is called back into action to take down his archenemy, Dieter Von Cunth, who's in possession of a nuclear warhead and bent on destroying Washington, DC.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-05-21
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Second Nature
Overview: Everything is not as it seems for a man who recovers from a plane crash in which his family is killed. After plastic surgery and rehabilitation, he determines that he worked for a secret agency for which he was an assassin. His former boss puts him back to work to assassinate a political leader, but when he proves unable to pull the trigger, it is he who becomes the target for assassins. As he avoids capture, the story unfolds about his true past and the reason why he has a tattoo of "chilly willy" inside his lip.
Genres: Action Mystery Science Fiction Thriller War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-06-22
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Superman: Brainiac Attacks
Overview: Embittered by Superman's heroic successes and soaring popularity, Lex Luthor forms a dangerous alliance with the powerful computer/villain Brainiac. Using advanced weaponry and a special strain of Kryptonite harvested from the far reaches of outer space, Luthor specifically redesigns Brainiac to defeat the Man of Steel.
Genres: Animation Action Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-20
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Mouth of Caddo
Overview: We follow three outlaws; Will Edwards, James McKinnon and 'Kid Called Kelly' as they escape from the law through the rough terrain of 1870s Texas.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-08-01
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Blue Sky
Overview: Hank Marshall is a tough, square-jawed, straitlaced Army engineer and nuclear science expert, assigned to help conduct weapons testing in 1950s America. Hank has become a thorn in the side of the Army, though, for a couple of very different reasons. He is an outspoken opponent of atmospheric testing, though his superiors hold contrary views and want to squelch his concerns...and his reports. The other problem is his wife, Carly. She is voluptuous and volatile, wreaking havoc in his personal life and stirring up intrigue at each new Army base.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-16
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A Breed Apart
Overview: A conservationist and a widow meet a mountain climber hired to steal bald-eagle eggs.
Genres: Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-01
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Nick Nolte: No Exit
Overview: A frank and unconventional view of the life and work of actor Nick Nolte.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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The Spree
Overview: A policeman becomes obsessed with a female cat burglar, who convinces him to join her in crime.
Genres: Action TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-04-18
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Marked for Murder
Overview: Mace Moutron, The Sandman, is released from prison to take part in a project where convicts assist the police in their job. Mace isn't used to playing by the rules, and he's frustrated with the corruption and impotence of the police. When he takes action against a local drug lord, the conflict becomes personal.
Genres: TV Movie Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-17
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Into the Homeland
Overview: A man's daughter disappears after falling in love with the son of a right wing, white-supremacist terrorist organization.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Web of Deception
Overview: A forensic psychatrist of the Police Department falls for a fatal attraction that threatens to terminate his marriage, his career and his life.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-25
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Straight A's
Overview: Pressured by his late mother's ghost to return home to the family he abandoned, a former addict grabs a bag of pills and a sack of marijuana and hits the road to Shreveport.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-16
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Mutant Species
Overview: A rocket containing bio-hazardous material to be disposed of by launching into space crashes in a remote wooded area. An army team is sent to recover it. One of the men is infected and mutates into a monster, killing most of the rest of the team. One man escapes with the help of a brother & sister who live in the woods. He then tries to stop his former buddy, while also fighting against another army team sent in to destroy everything. The bio-material was supposed to create a super-soldier, was banned, and the crash of the rocket appears to have been deliberate so the experiment could proceed. But who is behind it all? And will others be infected?
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-19
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Guns, Girls and Gambling
Overview: The story throws Elvis impersonators, Indians, modern cowboys, a 6-foot-tall blond assassin, a frat boy, a corrupt sheriff and a prostitute into a chase for a priceless American Indian artifact stolen during a poker game at an Indian casino
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-05
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Skag
Overview: Pete "Skag" Skagska is a 56-year-old union foreman of a Pittsburgh steel mill until a crippling stroke forces him to stay home and try to put his life back together and deal with family problems.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-06
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The Plutonium Incident
Overview: A plutonium plant employee becomes the target of management, as well as union harassment, when she tries to blow the whistle on the company for negligent safety procedures, and she soon finds her life in peril.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-11
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A Cry for Love
Overview: Divorcee Susan Blakely, with no alimony and two kids to support, begins turning to amphetamines. While at her lowest ebb, she meets an alcoholic and three-time loser in marriage -- who, incredibly, turns out to be the ideal man!
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-20
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Dalva
Overview: The sweeping story of Dalva Northridge, a young woman of part-Sioux heritage from an old, landed family on the Nebraska plains, and of her lifelong yearning for the man she loved and the son she gave up.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-03-03
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Men of Honor
Overview: Against formidable odds -- and an old-school diving instructor embittered by the U.S. Navy's new, less prejudicial policies -- Carl Brashear sets his sights on becoming the Navy's first African-American master diver in this uplifting true story. Their relationship starts out on the rocks, but fate ultimately conspires to bring the men together into a setting of mutual respect, triumph and honor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-13
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Eternal Enemies: Lions and Hyenas
Overview: Trek into the hidden battlefields of northern Botswana where lions and spotted hyenas clash in overlapping territories. With never-before-seen footage, much of it filmed at night, you'll uncover an intense and vicious blood feud that has been waged for millennia. Follow the Southern Clan, led by a powerful hyena matriarch whose firstborn female cub kills her sister at birth to assure her succession as leader of the clan. Lurk in the shadows as a lioness from the Central Pride gives birth to three cubs and then encounters a deadly Egyptian cobra. You'll be stunned by breathtaking chase scenes as the hyena matriarch is brutally killed by a male lion, throwing the clan into chaos. Discover nature's savage conflicts in this ancient rivalry.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Cruising
Overview: When New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who preys on patrons of the city's underground bars, young rookie Steve Burns infiltrates the S&M subculture to try and lure him out of the shadows.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-15
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Tattoo
Overview: A stranger approaches an aged tattoo artist with a special artistic and mystical request - He wants to know if the tattoo artist can copy an image he has onto his skin. The old man is amazed and shaken by the image. He knows its powerful history and reveals a bit of it to the young stranger.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-04-11
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Wild Card
Overview: Thriller about a former preacher, now a professional gambler, who heads down New Mexico way to visit an old buddy, only for him to be killed. It is not long before the Preacher is uncovering a hotbed of corruption and murder in the seemingly peaceful town, aptly named Farewell.
Genres: Thriller Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-03
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A Crime of Passion
Overview: When a physician is murdered, his eldest daughter is accused of the crime, but the man's seductive new wife may not be all that she appears.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-15
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Stalingrad
Overview: The WWII pivotal battle of Stalingrad is shown through the eyes of the soldiers and officers on both sides of the war.
Genres: War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1990-02-01
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Burning Hope: The Making of Hitman Absolution
Overview: Behind the scenes documentary about the making of the game Hitman: Absolution.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-20
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13 Scarier Movie Moments
Overview: Final entry in the Bravo scary movie moments countdowns that aired in 2009.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-10
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Dead of Winter: The Donner Party
Overview: What starts out as a voyage to the West in pursuit of the American Dream quickly turns deadly for the Donner party after a series of bad decisions and severe weather. Trapped in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, this group of nearly 80 settlers fell prey to sub-zero temperatures, torrential rainfalls, extreme heat, and ten-foot snow drifts. Punishing storms trapped the party with nearly no food or shelter for 5 months in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Many died, some succumbed to cannibalism to survive, and others delved deeply into their faith while waiting to be rescued. “The Donner Party” explores this exciting journey through a hybrid of first-person narration, remarkable reenactments, expert interviews, CGI, and archival materials.
Genres: Documentary History Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-27
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The Goodbye Girl
Overview: After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-27
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Ottoman Empire: The War Machine
Overview: This History Channel documentary traces the Ottoman Empire from its beginnings in the 14th century to its incarnation as one of the largest empires in history, spanning three continents.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-26
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Attila
Overview: A vengeful beauty foils the plans of the bloodthirsty Hun warrior to conquer Rome.
Genres: Action Adventure TV Movie History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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