Sydney Lassick
Also Known As: Сидни Лэссик, Sid Lassick, Sidney Lassick
Biography: Sydney Lassick (July 23, 1922 – April 12, 2003) was an American character actor perhaps best known for his role as Charlie Cheswick in the feature film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Birthday: July 22, 1922
Deathday: April 11, 2003
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Gender: Male
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Overview: A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-19
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Joe Dancer III: The Big Trade
Overview: The last of Robert Blake's three "Joe Dancer movies" finds the private investigator framed for manslaughter as he tries to uncover a Hollywood scandal that could ruin a studio and destroy a top star's career.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-05
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Carrie
Overview: Withdrawn and sensitive teen Carrie White faces taunting from classmates at school and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When strange occurrences start happening around Carrie, she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-03
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China 9, Liberty 37
Overview: Gunslinger Clayton Drumm is about to be hanged when he is given a chance to live if he agrees to murder Matthew, a miner who has steadfastly refused to sell his land to the railroad company. Matthew’s refusal is a major obstacle to the railroad’s plans for expansion.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-08-04
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Freeway
Overview: Following the arrest of her mother, Ramona, young Vanessa Lutz decides to go in search of her estranged grandmother. On the way, she is given a ride by school counselor Bob Wolverton. During the journey, Lutz begins to realize that Bob is the notorious I-5 Killer and manages to escape by shooting him several times. Wounded but still very much alive, Bob pursues Lutz across the state in this modern retelling of Little Red Riding Hood.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-23
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The Unseen
Overview: A trio of female reporters find themselves staying overnight in a house occupied by a hostile being lurking in the basement
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-01
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Judgement
Overview: A juvenile court judge goes out of her way to try to aid a young man whom she believes has innocently gotten involved with a gang.
Genres: Drama Music Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-05
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The Bonnie Parker Story
Overview: In the 1930s, amoral blonde tommy-gun girl Bonnie Parker cut a swath of bodies across the South-West. Starting out on gas stations and bars with side-kick Guy Darrow she graduated to bank hold-ups with Darrow's brother and, after bloodily springing him, her jailed husband. But there was never any doubt who was in charge.
Genres: Crime Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-28
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Fast-Walking
Overview: A dirty corrections officer gets involved in a murder plot involving one of the inmates.
Genres: Drama Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-11
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An American Vampire Story
Overview: A group of friends go on a vacation with some new friends that turn out to be vampires, they hire a famous vampire killer to help them.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-24
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Hot Stuff
Overview: When a police department's burglary task force is facing the possibility of being shut down because of their low conviction rate decides to try a new approach to apprehending their targets. They take over a pawn shop where thieves go to unload their merchandise. They record them as they bring stuff in and get them to tell them where they got it. Eventually they're threatened by the mob.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-10
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Sinderella and the Golden Bra
Overview: Prince David is having trouble finding a bride amongst the maidens of the village, so his father decides to hold a masked ball. Sinderella, an adopted French orphan, puts up with abuse from her stepmother and two stepsisters, and is not allowed to go to the ball. She is despondent until her inebriated fairy godfather appears and fixes her up real pretty and sends her on to the ball, with the admontion that she must return by midnight. Sinderella and the Prince get along famously, but the time flies and she leaves in a hurry, dropping her gilded support in her haste. The Prince mounts a desperate search for his loved one, requiring all the maidens of the village to try on the forgotten garment.
Genres: Music Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-16
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Body Slam
Overview: M. Harry Smilac is a down-on-his-luck music manager who is having a hard time attracting talent and booking gigs for his band, Kicks (The most recent of the gigs is a Dairy Queen opening!!). When making arrangements for a campaign fund-raiser, he mistakes Rick Roberts, a professional wrestler, for a musician and hires him. At that moment he becomes a wrestling manager and starts to book matches for him and his teammate Tonga Tom. The team is a success, and Harry decides to take his wrestlers and his band on a "Rock n' Wrestling" tour. The tour is a success, and Harry feels what it is like to be a winner again.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-21
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Sonny Boy
Overview: A small-town car thief and his transgender wife come across an abandoned infant; they amputate his tongue and train him for a life in crime.
Genres: Drama Action Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-22
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Skatetown, U.S.A.
Overview: A street-gang leader challenges a handsome young skater in a championship contest at the local roller-disco rink.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-01
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Stitches
Overview: The misadventures of three students in medical school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-23
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Paratroop Command
Overview: Charlie becomes a paratrooper, but, while serving in North Africa, he mistakenly kills one of his fellow U.S. soldiers, who is masquerading as a Nazi in order to wipe out a nest of the enemy. Shunned by his fellow soldiers, including his childhood friend Ace, Charlie is forced to prove himself when it is left up to him to transport a generator across an open road in full view of Nazi attackers.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-01
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Committed
Overview: A nurse is taken hostage by a patient pretending to be a doctor and is forced to administer to everyone.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-18
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Tale of Two Sisters
Overview: Two sisters reunite after not having seen each other for five years. While catching up on each others' lives, they relive childhood experiences, both good and bad.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-01
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Tom and Jerry: The Movie
Overview: The popular cartoon cat and mouse are thrown into a feature film. The story has the twosome trying to help an orphan girl who is being berated and exploited by a greedy guardian.
Genres: Animation Comedy Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-01
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Eye of the Stranger
Overview: A stranger comes into town and causes a stir when he stands up for the townfolk, in the face of the intimidation tactics from Mayor Howard Baines. The scheming mayor wants to buy up all the local properties, and has hired two thugs to help 'persuade' the owners to sell.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-23
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Curse II: The Bite
Overview: After a young man is bitten on the hand by a radioactive snake, his hand changes into a lethal snake head, which attacks everyone he comes into contact with. Also, his body becomes filled with snakes. Now, he must prevent himself from hurting others.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-06-27
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Serpico: The Deadly Game
Overview: This pilot film for the TV series is the story of Officer Frank Serpico, a New York City cop who fought crime in the city and corruption in the police department.
Genres: Action Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-24
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The Cracker Factory
Overview: Drama depicting the problems of a suburban housewife suffering from fits of depression and alcoholism, and her stay in a psychiatric center after a feeble suicide attempt.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-16
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The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington
Overview: The world's most famous madame is called to Washington to testify before Congress.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-07-15
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The Billion Dollar Hobo
Overview: Vernon Praiseworthy is a clumsy but lovable dope who stands to inherit his uncle's fortune. The condition is that he travel the rails as a penniless hobo just as his uncle did in the dark days of the depression. That seems simple enough until he gets involved in a dog-napping plot. Written by Jerry Roberts
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-01
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Cool as Ice
Overview: Freewheeling, motorcycle-riding musician Johnny rolls into a small town with his band, and meets Kathy, an honor student who catches his eye. Meanwhile, Kathy's father, after being in the Witness Protection Program, is finally tracked down by two corrupt cops he escaped from years ago, who want the money he owes them.
Genres: Romance Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-18
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Monaco Forever
Overview: An American jewel thief in Monaco encounters various characters while trying to set up a robbery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Man on the Moon
Overview: The story of the life and career of eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-22
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Squanderers
Overview: A security guard using video surveillance to watch a parking lot sees a man stash a suitcase in a car immediately before he is apprehended by the police. After everyone is gone, the guard gets the bag from the car and discovers it has $300,000 in it. He and his pals then set off on a spending spree. Of course, the bag belongs to mobsters who soon come after the men who stole their bag.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Damien: The Leper Priest
Overview: A dramatization of the life of the 19th-Century priest who devoted himself to service in Hawaii's leper colony.
Genres: Drama Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-27
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Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
Overview: Sue Ellen Crandell is a teenager eagerly awaiting her mother's summer-long absence. While the babysitter looks after her rambunctious younger siblings, Sue Ellen can party and have fun. But then the babysitter abruptly dies, leaving the Crandells short on cash. Sue Ellen finds a sweet job in fashion by lying about her age and experience on her résumé. But, while her siblings run wild, she discovers the downside of adulthood
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-07
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Amazing Stories: The Movie III
Overview: Culled from Steven Spielberg's Emmy-winning series are four wacky tales full of adventure and laughter. In one, an actor (Tom Harrison) in a mummy's costume mistakenly wreaks havoc as he races to the hospital for the birth of his child. Another centers on the zany antics of a family dog, while a third follows Walter Poindexter (Sydney Lassick) a man with a magical remote control. Lastly, the embodiment of Guilt (Dom DeLuise) goes on vacation, and falls for Love (Loni Anderson).
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
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Future Shock
Overview: A psychiatrist uses virtual reality to probe the minds of three unsuspecting patients, unleashing horrific psychic forces in the process.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-19
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Pandemonium
Overview: A former high school student who always wanted to be a cheerleader decides to reopen the cheerleading program at her former high school after years of closure for being targeted by a serial killer.
Genres: Comedy Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-01
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Something to Sing About
Overview: Tommy is a troubled young man with a history of crime. When he meets Memaw, an elderly lady, the two form a special bond with Memaw encouraging Charlie to sing in the local church choir, a talent he has ignored until now. While Charlie excels in church, his old friend G. Smooth remains skeptical and stays on the streets.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-10
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Miracle Beach
Overview: A romantic comedy set in the Southern California beach scene. Down on his luck, Scotty McKay becomes the master of a very lonely genie, who brings him wealth, power and true love. Miracles can happen!
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Science Fiction Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-15
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Out on Bail
Overview: A Tennessee sheriff and lawyer want a jailed drifter to assassinate a mayoral candidate.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-04
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The Art of Dying
Overview: A cinematographer and his assistant are attracting aspiring young actors and actresses by getting them to try out for their movie. Once filming, the evil cameraman actually kills them. The detective on the case has his hands full trying to help out runaways with stars in their eyes. When some of the people he knows turn up dead, he takes it personally, and as he gets closer to the truth his girlfriend is endangered.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-08
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Smoothtalker
Overview: A cop tracks down a serial killer who goes after women who work for a phone-sex company.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-01
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Attack of the 5 Ft. 2 Women
Overview: Spoof-miester, Julie Brown does a musical send-up of Tonya Harding and Lorena Bobbit's debutante debacles
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-08
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Pacific Palisades
Overview: A woman from Paris, Bernadette, comes to the United States after being promised a job. When she arrives, however, she learns that she is a victim to a hoax. Unable to return to France, Bernadette looks for work while staying with her close friend Shirley, an actress looking for her big break. Their friendship is challenged when Bernadette finds herself falling in love with Shirley's boyfriend.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-28
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Deep Cover
Overview: Black police officer Russell Stevens applies for a special anti-drug squad which targets the highest boss of cocaine delivery to LA—the Colombian foreign minister's nephew. Russell works his way up from the bottom undercover, until he reaches the boss.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-04-15
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Ratboy
Overview: A failed window dresser exploits a being with rat-like features in an effort to make money.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-17
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Lady in White
Overview: Locked in a school closet during Halloween 1962, young Frank witnesses the ghost of a young girl and the man who murdered her years ago. Shortly afterward he finds himself stalked by the killer and is soon drawn to an old house where a mysterious Lady In White lives. As he discovers the secret of the woman he soon finds that the killer may be someone close to him.
Genres: Mystery Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-22
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Silent Madness
Overview: A psychiatrist poses as an ex-sorority sister to stop a slasher freed by a computer error.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-26
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History of the World: Part I
Overview: An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-12
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Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
Overview: Deloris Van Cartier is again asked to don the nun's habit to help a run-down Catholic school, presided over by Mother Superior. And if trying to reach out to a class full of uninterested students wasn't bad enough, the sisters discover that the school is due to be closed by the unscrupulous chief of a local authority.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-09
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Vice
Overview: Details the trial of a young Texas "erotic dancer" on charges of lurid behavior and indecent exposure and the various witnesses who testify both for and against her.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-25
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Shakes the Clown
Overview: Shakes plods about his duties as party clown, and uses all of his free time getting seriously drunk. Binky, another clown, wins the spot on a local kiddie show, which depresses Shakes even more, and his boss threatens him with unemployment if he can't get his act under control.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-28
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Alligator
Overview: A baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives by eating discarded lab animals that have been injected with growth hormones. The now gigantic animal escapes the city sewers and goes on a rampage, pursued by a cop and a big-game hunter.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-07-02
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The Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck
Overview: Ken Manchester and his beautiful rich wife Barbara Manchester hire the drunk adventurer Buck Malone to take them on a hunting expedition in the jungle. However, the true purpose of the expedition was not just hunting.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-29
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Partners
Overview: Benson is a police detective. After a series of murders in the Gay community he is ordered to go undercover with a gay police clerk named Kerwin as his partner. In order to be noticed they have to be flamboyant enough to attract attention which Benson finds rather disturbing. Can an uptight heterosexual and a mousey homosexual form a meaningful relationship?
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-30
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