John Shea
Also Known As: John B. Shea , John V. Shea, جان شی
Biography: John Victor Shea III (born April 14, 1949) is an American actor and director who has starred on stage, television and in film. He is best known for his role as Lex Luthor in the 1990s TV series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and also starred in the short lived 1990s TV series WIOU as Hank Zaret. Later on in the 2000s he starred on the series Mutant X as Adam Kane. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Shea, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: North Conway, New Hampshire, USA
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Birthday: April 14, 1949
Age: 76 years old
Gender: Male
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Pitch
Overview: Two NYU film grads, hot off the success of their smash hit student film, prepare to pitch their big action movie to a film studio in hopes of making the leap to "the next level."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-17
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The Dining Room
Overview: Six actors play over 50 characters across 18 scenes from different families that overlap and intertwine in a single dining room. Set in a typical well-to-do household, the mosaic of interrelated scenes - some funny, some touching, some rueful - create an in-depth portrait of a vanishing species: the upper-middle-class WASP.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-19
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Stealing Home
Overview: Billy Wyatt (Harmon), a former high school and minor-league baseball baseball player receives a telephone call from his mother revealing that his former child-sitter, and later in his teens, his first love, Katie Chandler (Foster), has died. Wyatt returns home to deal with this tragedy reminescing over his childhood growing up with his father, Katie and best friend Alan Appleby.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-08-26
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Missing
Overview: Based on the real-life experiences of Ed Horman. A conservative American businessman travels to Chile to investigate the sudden disappearance of his son after a military takeover. Accompanied by his son's wife he uncovers a trail of cover-ups that implicate the US State department which supports the dictatorship.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-02-12
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The Impossible Spy
Overview: This is the true story of an Israeli civilian who was recruited into Israel's Secret Intelligence Agency to become a spy in Damascus, where he spent years infiltrating the Syrian political establishment. Israel's national hero, Eli Cohen, successfully entered the upper echelons of the Syrian government as a double-agent. The secrets he obtained became crucial in Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day War.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-28
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Small Sacrifices
Overview: A peculiar and disturbing case catches the attention of the police when a young mother and her children, all severely injured, show up in a hospital's emergency room.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-12
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Achchamundu Achchamundu
Overview: Senthil Kumar (Prasanna) and Malini (Sneha) are a happily married couple in New Jersey, living life like any other born-in-India, arrived-in-the-US couple do. He submerges himself in the office and eats sambhar rice at home and she never misses a bhajan at the temple and shops at Indian stores. They have a daughter Rithika (Akshaya Dinesh), 5 years old, the apple of their lives (their car's registration number carries the name of their daughter.) They have just settled down in a new, spacious home about which Malini, understandably, has fears. The couple squabble amicably about everything from her perpetual laundry and cooking; while Senthil argues with friends about the significance of viboothi (holy ash, usually applied on forehead) and takes his family on weekend trips and birthday parties. It is a normal, happy life in the US until Robertson (John Shea) arrives, to paint the basement. Now, things are never the same at home again.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: ta
Release Date: 2009-07-17
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Anatomy of the Tide
Overview: Three island boys, in their final summer of adolescence, look beyond an ocean that has incarcerated them since birth to plot their hopes and dreams. Dark secrets, fearful parents, and wealthy seasonal influences all combine into a recipe of tragedy and triumph. Anatomy of the Tide is exactly that -- a boy's lesson to his friends on how to jump the island's most dangerous cliff by understanding the sea which breathes beneath her rocks and a moon that controls the water.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-10
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The Insurgents
Overview: Set in a post-9/11 America, four Americans come together to build a truck bomb and plan to detonate it on a target in the U.S. Highlighting the days leading up to the event.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-09
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The Trouble with the Truth
Overview: Musician and starving artist Robert reconsiders his own failed marriage to Emily after his daughter announces that she's engaged.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-14
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Hussy
Overview: Beaty, a prostitute, and Emory, a lighting/sound technician, fall in love while working at the same London cabaret, but their relationship isn't easy.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-01
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Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
Overview: The two-part TV movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil crystallizes that evil by concentrating on two Berlin brothers. In 1931, Helmut Hoffman a brilliant student and self-styled opportunist, joins Hitler's SS. At the same time, his younger brother Karl, a top athlete and idealist, becomes a chauffeur for the "S.A.".
Genres: TV Movie Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-17
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Honeymoon
Overview: A Frenchwoman in Manhattan, in danger of being deported because of her relationship with a recently arrested drug offender, enters into a marriage of convenience with a stranger that is arranged through an agency. But even though the two are not supposed to even meet, her new husband starts taking his faux wedding vows entirely too seriously.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-20
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The Guardian Angel
Overview: In July 1944, with the Allies landed at Normandy but unable to push past German forces, a young German soldier is enlisted for a spy mission by a mysterious American OSS officer named Harry which could turn the tide of the war.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
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Coast to Coast
Overview: Two guys meet, one American, a deserter from the US army, one Brit, and they are drawn together by their mutual love of Soul music. Neither being gainfully employed they decide to start a mobile disco service for fellow soul lovers, which leads them to buy an ice cream van, and the adventure begins. Before long they find themselves on the run from the bad guys and the police.
Genres: Comedy Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-04
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A Case of Deadly Force
Overview: Fact-based story about a 1975 cover-up of a shooting by two white members of the Boston Tactical Unit. While on stakeout on a suspected getaway car used in a armed robbery, the two gunned down a black man who entered the car. The two claimed the man had a gun and they shot in self-defense. Police investigation decided it was a rightful shooting. The man's widow knew her husband would not be carrying a weapon and became determined to prove her husband's innocence. She hired a former cop who had become a lawyer to prove her case. Working with his four sons, the lawyer team takes on the police force in what eventually proved to be a landmark legal decision. Written by John Sacksteder
Genres: Drama TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-09
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The Dreamers
Overview: Set in the Middle East in 1919, a group of European Jews planning on settling in the Sinai Desert are attacked by Bedouin tribesmen. As they fight for their lives they realize that they are beginning a struggle for a new Jewish nation. This film chronicles the beginning of the modern Jewish struggle for a homeland.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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The March Sisters at Christmas
Overview: To keep the family home from being sold, four very modern March sisters tackle home improvement on their own. But their romantic entanglements involving the boy next door, an old flame and a new acquaintance become a distraction.
Genres: Romance Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-11-24
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Nowhere to Go
Overview: A rebellious teen threatened with expulsion from school is offered an alternative: an experimental program in which she would counsel troubled children. Initially rebelling from the concept, she finds that her involvement lets her confront her own angers and eventually her family including a loving grandmother. With the help of a new friend, she eventually turns away from her trouble-making boyfriend and makes a new life.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-09
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Forgotten Sins
Overview: A county sheriff is accused by his daughter of having abused her. Her accusation gets more and more elaborate, involving satanic rituals. As nearly everyone around him seems to believe he's guilty, he starts breaking up and questioning his own innocence.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-07
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The Nativity
Overview: The story of the courtship of Joseph and Mary, and of the events leading up to the first Christmas.
Genres: Drama History Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-17
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The Apocalypse Watch
Overview: A CIA analyst takes over a case from his brother, a field agent who was killed in the line of duty, in this thriller based on a Robert Ludlum novel.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-02
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Magic Moments
Overview: A successful magician is approached to do a TV special, which he has not done before. He and the beautiful producer of the show fall in love with each other, much to the disappointment of her possessive guardian (who is the person she works for). He sets out to wreck their happiness.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-19
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Southie
Overview: South Boston Irish bad boy Danny Quinn returns back home from New York and gets stuck between his pals, who are supported by one Irish mafia clan, and his family, which are members of another.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-10
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Windy City
Overview: The lives of a group of young Chicago men, as seen through the eyes of one of them, a writer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-21
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Do You Know the Muffin Man?
Overview: Roger Dollison, a police officer, and his wife, Kendra, are living the American dream. They have two children, Teddy and Sandy, a lovely home, and a dog named Rex. What they know and how they live as a family is irreparably changed one day when it is discovered that a classmate of Teddy's is the apparent victim of sexual abuse and molestation at the respected neighborhood daycare center. Like all other parents, the Dollisons are tormented — "we should have known, we should have seen" — but their devastation is complete when Teddy tells his own story, one he promised his abusers he would never tell.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-22
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See Jane Run
Overview: Jane Ravenson finds herself in the middle of a grocery store with $10,000 in her coat pockets and no memory of her life or who she is. Her husband eventually finds her and she starts to believe that her family life is fine until she feels a deep, nightmarish paranoia that something is horribly and terribly wrong.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-08
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Family Reunion
Overview: Elizabeth Winfield is a retired teacher, who desperately tries to keep her family together. While she's traveling through the country and meeting her relatives, back in her hometown, a group of shopping mall developers are planning to take over her family land in order to begin their ambitious project. Now she needs to find ways to stop this construction in time before the town's annual festivities.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-11
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An Invisible Sign
Overview: Mona Gray is a 20-year-old loner who, as a child, turned to math for salvation after her father became ill. As an adult, Mona now teaches the subject and must help her students through their own crises.
Genres: Family Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-06
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Notorious
Overview: After Alicia Velorus' father is convicted as a communist spy, CIA asks her to prove her loyalty by getting close to her father's friend, who's a suspected arms dealer. In the meantime she and her CIA contact Devlin fall in love.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-28
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Backstreet Justice
Overview: A P.I. is burdened by her late father's reputation as a corrupt cop.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-21
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The Adventures of Sebastian Cole
Overview: Hank marries the divorced Joan, who's the mother of teens Sebastian and Jessica. After living with his new family for years, Hank announces that he's getting a sex change operation. The family deserts Hank, with Jessica going her own way and Sebastian staying with his mom. But Joan becomes an alcoholic, so Sebastian moves back in with Hank — now Henrietta — who turns out to be far more supportive than anyone else.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-09-11
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Love at First Glance
Overview: After journalist Mary Landers is assigned to write a Valentine's Day story about "The Meaning of Love," her long-time boyfriend breaks up with her. On her train ride home, she finds herself trading glances with a handsome stranger who, as he exits the train, leaves his phone behind.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-02-14
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A Deadly Obsession
Overview: When she was six, Suzanne Hollander saw her mother kill her father. Twenty-five years later, she's a professor of psychology and lives in fear of becoming a criminal like her mother. As she teaches a course at the university, gunfire breaks out on campus, causing several casualties. The shooter is one of her former students with whom she had many conversations about his thesis, on the assessment of empathy. The young man, named Connor, is a dangerous psychopath who keeps the track to declare his love.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-18
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Grey Lady
Overview: A Boston police officer goes to Nantucket to investigate the murder of his partner, but he finds more than he bargained for.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-28
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Santa's Christmas Snooze
Overview: A grouchy bear doses Santa Claus with a sleeping potion in order to ruin Christmas in this animated feature.
Genres: Fantasy Family Animation
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-12-24
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Ladykiller
Overview: Mimi Rogers portrays a burned out cop who is transfered to the forensics staff as an evidence photographer. While investigating a string of killings, the trail of evidence leads to the married man with whom she's having an affair.
Genres: Romance Thriller Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-19
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Boyfriend's Deceit
Overview: Annie is pulled over by police for a traffic violation while she is driving her boyfriend's car. When the police discover a bloody knife in the back of the car, she has to find what is really going on before she is wrongly accused of a murder.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-10-12
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Justice in a Small Town
Overview: A civil service worker in Georgia places her family at risk when she agrees to help expose high-level corruption.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-09-23
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Julius Caesar
Overview: A short film presenting a stylized, abridged adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-31
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Honey, I Blew Up the Kid
Overview: Wayne Szalinski is at it again. But instead of shrinking things, he tries to make a machine that can make things grow. As in the first one, his machine isn't quite accurate. But when he brings Nick & his toddler son Adam to see his invention, the machine unexpectedly starts working. And when Adam comes right up to the machine, he gets zapped along with his stuffed bunny.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-07-16
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Getting Personal
Overview: Young professionals Christopher and Melissa meet and fall hard for each other. As their attraction grows, it becomes apparent that in order for their relationship to succeed, they must overcome Christopher's dark secret involving his father, with the help of his best friend and a sharp-edged psychiatrist.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-13
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Heartbreak Hospital
Overview: Neely, an aspiring actress, gets a role on the popular soap opera "Heartbreak Hospital." Her neighbor, Lottie, a huge fan of the show, can't differentiate between fiction and reality, and her obsession and jealousy endanger Neely and the rest of the cast.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-20
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A New Life
Overview: Steve Giardino, an abrasive workaholic Wall Streeter, and his wife Jackie divorce after twenty-six years of marriage and find themselves thrust back into the dating world in middle age and in search of a new life.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-25
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51
Overview: Due to political pressure from the American public, the Air Force has decided to allow two well-known reporters limited access to the most secretive base on the planet. But when one of the base’s “long-term visitors” exploits this unprecedented visit as a chance to liberate himself and his fellow alien captives, Area 51 turns from a secure government base to a horrifying destination of terror.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-26
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Lincoln
Overview: Famous actors read testimonies from people close to Lincoln about him and his actions during the Civil War.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-26
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