Lynne Thigpen
Also Known As: Lynne Richmond
Biography: Cherlynne Theresa 'Lynne' Thigpen (December 22, 1948 – March 12, 2003) was an American actress of stage and screen. She was known for her roles as The Chief of ACME Crimenet on the game show Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? and various spinoffs, Luna (The Moon) on the Playhouse Disney children's series Bear in the Big Blue House, and Ella Farmer on The District (2000–2003). For her varied television work, she was nominated for six Daytime Emmy Awards and she also won a Tony Award in 1997 for portraying Dr. Judith Kaufman in An American Daughter.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Joliet, Illinois, USA
Birthday: December 22, 1948
Deathday: March 12, 2003
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Gender: Female
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The Boys Next Door
Overview: Kind-hearted social worker Jack Palmer feels guilty about not spending enough time with his wife due to the pressures of his job taking care of four developmentally disabled men: obsessive-compulsive Norman, bipolar Arnold, childlike Lucien, and schizophrenic Barry. When Jack announces his decision to leave his job, his four charges react quite unexpectedly to the news.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-04
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Novocaine
Overview: A dentist finds himself a murder suspect after a sexy patient seduces him into prescribing her drugs.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-23
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Article 99
Overview: Dr. Richard Sturgess leads a team of compassionate doctors at a veteran's hospital. Along with Drs. Morgan, Handleman and Van Dorn, he fights to deliver adequate care to needy veterans in the face of funding cuts and a corrupt administration. To succeed, the staff may have to bend the rules and circumvent the villainous "Article 99," a bureaucratic loophole that prevents veterans from receiving the benefits they deserve.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-13
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Naked in New York
Overview: Naked in New York begins in the car of grown up Jake, he is talking to us about his girlfriend, Joanne, and to whom you can turn to for help while facing life. From there it flashes back to his memories of his parents, college, house across from a squirrel infested peanut factory, best friend, writing career and Joanne.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-11-10
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Bob Roberts
Overview: Millionaire conservative Bob Roberts launches an insurgent campaign against incumbent senator Brickley Paiste, firing up crowds at his rallies by singing '60s-style acoustic folk songs with lyrics espousing far-right conservative social and economic views.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-04
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The Insider
Overview: A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-28
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Tootsie
Overview: When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego – Dorothy Michaels – in order to land a part in a daytime drama, he unwittingly becomes a feminist icon and ends up in a romantic pickle.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-17
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Godspell
Overview: A modern day musical telling of the ministry of Jesus Christ set in New York. The Apostles, portrayed as an acting troupe re-enact the parables and teachings of Jesus.
Genres: Comedy Family Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-21
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Chance of a Lifetime
Overview: Irreverent freelance investigative reporter Tom Maguire hits rock bottom when bigot editor in chief Ivan refuses to print his pieces anymore and his bad back most be operated, but his health insurance just expired. Sympathetic editor Irene Dunbar, feeling guilty she didn't save his job, volunteers for a fake marriage so he can use her insurance. The 'happy couple' in now constantly beleaguered by her mother and an insurance inspector, while each has his own affairs, but the co-habitation also seems to generate meaningful affection.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-29
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Fol-de-Rol
Overview: A filmed version of Sid and Marty Krofft's 1968 live puppet show, set at a medieval fair. The special was a pilot for a weekly series.
Genres: Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-27
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Bear in the Big Blue House: A Berry Bear Christmas
Overview: The winter holidays find Bear and his friends planning a big celebration. They're all getting ready for Christmas, but also learn about Hanukkah and Kwanzaa. Bear also celebrates his favorite tradition, the finding of the winter berry. As things start out, Pip and Pop have put together a reindeer wreath. Everyone wants to help out with the wreath, so Bear suggests they all add something of their own. Later, the group meets Santa Hogg and presents him with a large list of holiday wishes. Then there's a bit of an argument when Treelo wants to open everyone's presents and not just his own. In the Shadow segment, Shadow thanks Bear for his gift of a scarf --- Shadows don't get cold, but it's the thought that counts. She then sings the song "It's Kwanzaa Time." After hearing a howling noise, the group takes in an old hound named Jack with no home and invites him to stay at the Big Blue House for the holidays. This gets everyone thinking about the true meaning of the holidays.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-29
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Rockabye
Overview: A young woman, striking out on her own after having left her husband in California, has her young son snatched from her moments after getting off the bus in New York City on her way to Vermont, and reluctantly accepts the help of a hard-nosed reporter in tracking him down after being given the runaround from the police.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-11
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Night Ride Home
Overview: When a devastating accident tears apart the already frayed marriage of Neal and Nora Mahler, each family member must learn that their own emotions are best dealt with by relying on each other and their bonds as a family.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-07
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Cagney & Lacey: The View Through the Glass Ceiling
Overview: Cagney and Lacey work a case involving police corruption and document forgery. Chris seeks a prestigious promotion, while Mary Beth has to deal with the return of her sickly, aged father.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-10-25
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Blankman
Overview: Darryl is a childlike man with a genius for inventing various gadgets out of junk. When he stumbles on a method to make his clothes bulletproof, he decides to use his skills to be the lowest budgeted superhero of all.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-08-19
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Lean On Me
Overview: When principal Joe Clark takes over decaying Eastside High School, he's faced with students wearing gang colors and graffiti-covered walls. Determined to do anything he must to turn the school around, he expels suspected drug dealers, padlocks doors and demands effort and results from students, staff and parents. Autocratic to a fault, this real-life educator put it all on the line.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-03
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Random Hearts
Overview: After losing their spouses in a plane crash, an internal affairs cop and a congresswoman find each other's keys in each other's loved ones' possessions and discover that the two were having an affair.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-08
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Anger Management
Overview: After a small misunderstanding aboard an airplane escalates out of control, timid businessman Dave Buznik is ordered by the court to undergo anger management therapy at the hands of specialist Dr. Buddy Rydell. But when Buddy steps up his aggressive treatment by moving in, Dave goes from mild to wild as the unorthodox treatment wreaks havoc with his life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-11
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Private Affairs
Overview: A departure from most ABC Afterschool Specials, this one focuses on Madeline Green, a teenage girl who discovers her father's affair with a friend of her mother, and struggles to keep it from tearing her family apart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-26
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Separate But Equal
Overview: A dramatization of the events of Brown vs. Board of Education, the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation.
Genres: History TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-07
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The Warriors
Overview: Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-01
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Bear in the Big Blue House: Everybody's Special
Overview: Join Bear and friends for fun and humorous learning
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Bear in the Big Blue House - Party Time with Bear
Overview: Let your child learn, explore and have fun with this award-winning series. Celebrate good times with Bear and all his friends in three party-hearty episodes that teach sharing, encourage self-expression through movement, and reinforce the value of friendship. In "Mouse Party," everyone gets busy preparing for Tutter's surprise birthday, complete with presents and cake, too. A day of peaceful relaxation turns upside down at "Bear's Birthday Bash," and with a few lessons, Tutter's pals have him "Dancin' The Day Away," in this celebration of friendship and caring, bursting at the seams with six sing-along songs!
Genres: Family Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-07-01
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Just Cause
Overview: A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific murder of a child.
Genres: Action Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-02-17
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Streets of Fire
Overview: Raven Shaddock and his gang of merciless biker friends kidnap rock singer Ellen Aim. Ellen's former lover, soldier-for-hire Tom Cody, happens to be passing through town on a visit. In an attempt to save his star act, Ellen's manager hires Tom to rescue her. Along with a former soldier, they battle through dangerous cityscapes, determined to get Ellen back.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-01
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Tintypes
Overview: Debuting on Broadway in 1980, Tintypes is a musical review featuring songs from the early twentieth century providing the audience with a look into that turbulent time in American history. Nominated for three Tony Awards, and winner of several Obie Awards, this production stars Carolyn Mignini, Lynne Thigpen, Trey Wilson, Mary Catherine Wright, and Jerry Zaks.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Pretty Poison
Overview: A clueless cheerleader falls for a mysterious young man who tells her he's a secret agent. But the truth is much simpler and darker.
Genres: Thriller Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-24
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The Paper
Overview: Henry Hackett is the workaholic editor of a New York City tabloid. He loves his job, but the long hours and low pay are leading to discontent. Also, publisher Bernie White faces financial straits, and has hatchet-man Alicia Clark—Henry's nemesis—impose unpopular cutbacks.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-18
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Fear Stalk
Overview: A producer from Beverly Hills is shocked when someone steals all of her belongings out of her purse. The thief begins to make threatening phone calls and withdraws money from her accounts. The stalker becomes more and more dangerous until he finally tries to kill the producer.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-17
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Impulse
Overview: A Los Angeles vice cop, caught between her undercover role as a sex worker and her personal relationships, is thrown into a web of murder and deceit.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-06
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Working
Overview: This musical adaptation of the Studs Terkel book examines the average worker's viewpoint--showing that he or she is anything but average. Based on a series of interviews with real working people--construction workers, waitresses, firemen, secretaries, and cleaning women, Working is both an exploration of the individuals' occupations and a lament for lost hopes and dreams.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-13
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Flanagan
Overview: Aging New York cabbie Flanagan still has hopes of making it as a stage actor. He can recite any Shakespeare sonnet and is facile with accents, but he can't land an agent or a job. During the course of one summing-it-all-up day, he drives his cab around the city dealing with fare evaders, an insolent stage manager determined to keep him from auditioning for his choice director, his estranged wife who has a new lover, his mistress who seems awfully close to her "drawing teacher", and two teenage sons whose bright visions of the future don't seem to include jobs. If he can only cope with all the annoyances of this day, maybe he can deal with the limitations in his abilities and his future.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-30
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Shaft
Overview: New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail for Switzerland. Two years later Wade returns to face trial, confident his money and influence will get him acquitted -- especially since he's paid a drug kingpin to kill the witness.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-15
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An American Daughter
Overview: A Senator's daughter seems to have a lock on a nomination as the US Surgeon General, until a background check reveals she once neglected to return a jury-duty notice. Then she makes a mistake in comments about her homemaker mother that leaves her open to a media blitz and her sure-fire nomination suddenly appears shaky.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-05
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When Hell Freezes Over, I'll Skate
Overview: This lively, spirit-lifting musical celebrates the sheer joy -- and survival -- of black music, song and poetry since the days of America's Civil War. With utter grace and ease, the gifted eight-member singing ensemble glides from gospel to disco and from slave-quarter sermons to contemporary black poetry.
Genres: Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-30
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Sweet Liberty
Overview: Michael Burgess is an academic who has written a scholarly book on the American Revolution which Hollywood has bought the film rights to. The arrival of the film crew seriously disrupts him as actors want to change their characters, directors want to re-stage battles, and he becomes infatuated with Faith who will play the female lead in the movie. At the same time, he is fighting with his crazy mother who thinks the Devil lives in her kitchen, and his girlfriend who is talking about commitment.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-16
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Bicentennial Man
Overview: Richard Martin buys a gift, a new NDR-114 robot. The product is named Andrew by the youngest of the family's children. "Bicentennial Man" follows the life and times of Andrew, a robot purchased as a household appliance programmed to perform menial tasks. As Andrew begins to experience emotions and creative thought, the Martin family soon discovers they don't have an ordinary robot.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-17
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Running on Empty
Overview: The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been on the run with the authorities never far behind. Their survival is threatened when their eldest son falls in love with a girl, and announces his wish to live his life on his own terms.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-09
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Hello Again
Overview: A suburban housewife chokes to death and is brought back to life by a spell cast by her wacky sister.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-06
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A Mother's Instinct
Overview: Holly Mitchell a divorcee, remarries widower, Carl Gibbons, the father of two small boys. When she begins to question his past, he disappears with the boys. She then learns that the boys' mother is still alive, having been deserted five years ago. The two 'wives' join forces to find him and the boys.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-13
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