Michael Des Barres
Also Known As: Micheal Des Barres , Michael Desbarre , Michael DeBarre, Michael DesBarres
Biography: Michael Des Barres is a European Marquis, raised in England and living in Los Angeles. As the host of Little Steven's Underground Garage on SiriusXM Radio Channel 21, he is heard by more than six million listeners, five days a week (5am-8am and 9pm-midnight PT). He has appeared in over 150 hours of American television and more than 40 feature films, and has sold over 7 million albums as both a recording artist and songwriter.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Birthday: January 24, 1948
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Gender: Male
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Mulholland Drive
Overview: Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-06
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The High Crusade
Overview: A Monty Pythonesque tale of a band of Crusaders who find themselves in possession of an alien ship and the alien to pilot it. Armed with the means to conquer the Holy Land, the naive Crusaders set off on a grand crusade, only to find themselves not in Jerusalem, but at the mercy of an entire alien world.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-02
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Pink Cadillac
Overview: A bounty hunter helps out the wife of a bail-jumper after her child is kidnapped by neo-Nazi types.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-26
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Catch That Kid
Overview: A determined twelve-year-old mountain climber takes drastic action to save her injured father by planning a high-stakes bank heist, using her skills and teamwork to navigate the challenge.
Genres: Family Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-06
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Under Siege
Overview: A disgruntled ex-CIA operative, his assistant and their assembled group of terrorists seize a battleship with nuclear blackmail in mind. They've planned for every contingency but ignore the ship's cook, former Navy SEAL Casey Ryback—an error that could be fatal.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-08
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Waxwork II: Lost in Time
Overview: The survivors of the first Waxwork must use a portal through time to defeat the evil that has followed them and turned their lives upside down.
Genres: Horror Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-11
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Diary of a Sex Addict
Overview: A restaurant owner leads a double life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-23
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Nightflyers
Overview: A scientific group set out on a journey into space to find a magical creature. What they find is a killer computer on the ship they chartered.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-23
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Poison Ivy: The New Seduction
Overview: A sinister seductress vows to destroy a suburban family.
Genres: Thriller Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-20
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California Solo
Overview: Lachlan MacAldonich is a self-described “lazy Scotsman” and former guitar player for a once-popular 1990s rock band. No longer famous, he now lives a comfortably numb existence working on an organic farm outside Los Angeles. He drinks himself into a stupor every night and retires to his shabby apartment to record his podcast, recounting the tragic deaths of great musicians. After a particularly heavy night of drowning his sorrows at a local watering hole, he is arrested for driving under the influence. This snag, coupled with a long-ago conviction for a drug offense, means Lachlan faces possible deportation. His only hope of remaining stateside is proving that his absence would cause extreme hardship for a spouse or relative – forcing him to confront relationships he thought were buried forever.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-30
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Deep Red
Overview: After a young girl is accidently infected with an alien substance known as "Deep Red", the astonishing results attract the attention of the illustrious scientist Dr. Newmeyer. Disillusioned security expert Joe Keyes must team up with his estranged wife to protect the girl and her mother from the obsessed scientist who will stop at nothing to get what he wants.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-12
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Sugar Town
Overview: A look at the lives of several struggling L.A. musicians. Gwen, a singer-songwriter, is on a quest for the big-time. Working as an assistant to a film production designer, Gwen tries to steal her boss' boyfriend, a veteran rock producer. The producer, meanwhile, is trying to orchestrate a comeback for an '80s band.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-17
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The Jungle Book: Search for the Lost Treasure
Overview: Two teens (Lindsey Peter, Sean Price McConnell) get more than they bargained for when they join their fathers on a trek to the jungles of India to find a legendary diamond. Lucky for them, jungle boy Mowgli (Antonio Baker) and his animal pals are around to help. When the kids' fathers disappear, the characters from Rudyard Kipling's classic tale help save the day in this adventure film that also stars Gary Collins and Michael Des Barres.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Ghoulies
Overview: A young man and his girlfriend move into the man's old mansion home, where he becomes possessed by a need to control ancient demons.
Genres: Comedy Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-18
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Silk Degrees
Overview: After she witnesses a mob murder, a woman hides out in a cabin in the woods under the protection of a pair of hardboiled federal agents.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-24
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Me
Overview: A down and out actress secretly sells a reality show about her friend, a delusional eccentric, a once famous creator of reality shows, who now believes that his entire life is being filmed by hidden cameras and that he is the star of his very own reality show.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-21
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Poison
Overview: Traci is a devious teenage girl who befriends and kills anyone who comes between her and her mother, Dana, a failed movie actress who lies for and protects Traci. If looks could kill, they'd look like Traci: young, innocent, appealing, deadly. Traci clings like ivy to her devoted mother and strikes with a vengeance at any man who intrudes on their relationship. Traci's mother is an attractive woman with a healthy sexual appetite, and the attention she pays to the men in her life, whether for business or pleasure, sends Traci into a frenzy of jealousy and rage. Now Traci, using her budding sexuality, will do anything... seduce anyone... murder everyone who threatens to come between them.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-04-04
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Double Switch
Overview: Teeny bopper rock star Bart Holton is pushed around by his manager for maximum profit and longs for a normal life. Through a look-alike contest he meets Matt, a student who looks exactly like him and can imitate his dancing style perfectly. Bart proposes to switch roles for a week. At first Matt enjoys being chased by hysterical groupies and Bart enjoys hitting on the highschool girls, but of course both learn quickly that the other's life is quite different from what they'd expected.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-25
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Midnight Cabaret
Overview: A Broadway producer puts on a play with a Devil character in it. Soon the actors begin having nightmares, and events that are mentioned in the play really start happening.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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To Sir, with Love
Overview: A British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where his uninterested and delinquent pupils are in desperate need of attention and care.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-06-14
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The Hungry Bachelors Club
Overview: A celebration of life, love, acceptance and family, "Food for the Heart" is a sweet romantic comedy, about two best friends, Delmar (Jorja Fox) and Hortense (Suzanne mara), whose culinary talents and gift for hospitality leads the two women to host evenings of love and laughter with an eccentric circle of half-baked family and friends.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-11-12
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Arrivederci, Baby!
Overview: Nick tries to kill his wife to get her money, but when learning of this, she plans the same for him!
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-28
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Arizona Slim
Overview: Plot unknown but described as a rock 'n' roll western. Shot in Times Square during New Years Eve of 1973. Possibly unreleased.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-02-01
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Good Advice
Overview: An investment banker loses everything and must discover what's important in life.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-15
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A Simple Twist of Fate
Overview: When Michael McCann is thrown over by the woman he loves, he becomes something of a misanthrope and a miser, spending all of his spare money on collectible gold coins. Living in the same town is an affluent family with two sons: John and Tanny. Tanny's a wild boy, whom John cannot control, and one night he breaks into McCann's house, and steals the gold and disappears, which nearly confirms McCann's distrust of mankind. But then, a mysterious young woman dies in the snow outside McCann's house, and her small daughter makes her way to McCann's house and into McCann's life and heart.
Genres: Family Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-02
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Michael Des Barres: Who Do You Want Me To Be?
Overview: The son of a junkie aristocrat and a schizophrenic showgirl becomes a master of reinvention on a 50+ year journey through rock and roll, TV, and movies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-07-10
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I, Monster
Overview: Christopher Lee stars in this Amicus production of “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde” where the names have been changed to Dr. Marlowe and Mr. Blake. Lee as Dr. Marlowe experiments with intravenous drugs that are suppose to release inner inhibitions. So comes forth Mr. Blake (also Lee) who gets more monstrous with each transformation. Peter Cushing plays his friend and colleague, Dr. Utterson.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-01
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The Man from Elysian Fields
Overview: A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-13
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Does Anyone Care What Anyone Says In Rock’n’Roll?
Overview: A legendary music industry figure and star-maker takes a late-in-life career left turn, to write and perform his own music with a little help from his friends.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
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