Joe Spano
Also Known As: Joseph Spano , Joseph Peter Spano
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Joseph Peter "Joe" Spano (born July 7, 1946) is an American actor who came to prominence through his role as Lt. Henry Goldblume on Hill Street Blues and is now well known for his work on NCIS as FBI Special Agent Tobias Fornell.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA
Birthday: July 07, 1946
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Gender: Male
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Apollo 13
Overview: The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with the failed journey turning into a thrilling saga of heroism. Drifting more than 200,000 miles from Earth, the astronauts work furiously with the ground crew to avert tragedy.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-30
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Primal Fear
Overview: An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the scene of the grisly murder of the bishop who has taken him in. The case gets a lot more complex when the accused reveals that there may or may not have been a third person in the room.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-06
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Hart's War
Overview: When Col. William McNamara is stripped of his freedom in a German POW camp, he's determined to keep on fighting even from behind enemy lines. Enlisting the help of a young lieutenant in a brilliant plot against his captors, McNamara risks everything on a mission to free his men and change the outcome of the war.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-15
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Fracture
Overview: A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney trying to put him away. However, there are surprises for both around every corner, and, as a suspenseful game of cat-and-mouse is played out, each must manipulate and outwit the other.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-19
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The Brotherhood of Justice
Overview: A group of high school students, led by a rich boy Derek, is sick of school violence and decides to become underground vigilantes named "Brotherhood of Justice". It starts with the idea "watching people", but things quickly get out of control. "Brotherhood of Justice" turns out another gang of violence. Derek wants to stop it but it is too late, so he takes responsibility for it and gives himself to the law.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-18
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Logan's War: Bound by Honor
Overview: Chuck Norris stars as martial arts extraordinaire Jake Fallon, who, after the death of his brother and sister-in-law, adopts (and trains) his orphaned nephew. Logan (Eddie Cibrian, TV's Invasion). After fifteen years of careful instruction, Logan is determined to avenge his parents Death... And, he'll need Uncle Jake's help to do it.
Genres: Action Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-11-01
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Warlock Moon
Overview: Young lovers John and Jenny decide to go for a drive in the countryside one day when they happen upon the remains of a long-abandoned resort spa. After doing some exploring, they find that an elderly woman, Agnes Abercrombie, is living in the crumbling building. As they learn the gruesome history of the place, involving cannibalism and a ghost bride, Jenny becomes the victim of violent attacks and supernatural visions. But no one will believe her and now she's stuck in the dilapidated resort overnight. Will she survive until morning?
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-27
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The Great Los Angeles Earthquake
Overview: After a series of small tremors in Los Angeles, Dr. Clare Winslow, a local seismologist, pinpoints the exact location and time of when the long awaited earthquake--"The Big One"--will strike southern California. With this information, she must battle city officials to release this information to the general public. Also, she hopes that her family is out of harms way when the quake strikes. Subplots show how other families and people cope with the the tremors that strike before the impending "Big One."
Genres: Drama Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-11-11
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The Easter Story
Overview: The Greatest Adventure: Stories from the Bible is a television series produced by Hanna-Barbera that tells of three young adventurers—Derek, Margo, and 'their nomad friend' Moki—who travel back in time to watch biblical events take place in the past. This segment of the story tells about the time the time travelers encounter Mark as he is gathering material to write the Gospel of Mark. He informs them of the events surrounding the Garden of Gethsemene, Jesus' numerous trials before Annas, Caiaphas, Herod, and Pilate, as well as the Crucifixion and Resurrection. He finishes by telling them of the Ascension.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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The Summer My Father Grew Up
Overview: A divorced and remarried doctor tries to reconnect with his eleven-year-old son whom he has always neglected.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-03
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Disaster at Silo 7
Overview: During routine maintenance of a liquid-fuelled ICBM, the fuel tank is penetrated by a falling spanner. The film traces the efforts of the maintenance crew and associated military and civilian personnel to recover the potentially disastrous situation before the fuel tank is sufficiently depressurised that the stack collapses and explodes.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-27
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A Call to Remember
Overview: Paula Tobias, a Holocaust survivor who has suffered the ultimate personal tragedy of losing her spouse and children during the Nazi occupation of World War II. Now re-married and living in America during the late 1960's with husband David, they build a new life together with sons Ben and Jake. One evening, Paula receives a phone call which assures her that her son, Alec, is actually alive and in New York. This brings up painful memories from the past for everyone involved, including Ben and Jake, who force their father to talk about the Holocaust. Paula rushes to New York only to find that it was a mistake - Alec was never found. She falls into a dramatic depression, as the family confronts their fears and tries to stay together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-30
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Northern Lights
Overview: The bitter-sweet story of young lovers caught up in a political struggle waged by farmers against the grain trade, the banks, and the railroads. Set in North Dakota during 1915-16, a largely forgotten era of American history.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-17
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The Flood: Who Will Save Our Children?
Overview: In rural Comfort, Texas, the strict protestant Horizon Bible church community holds its annual, pretty strictly supervised summer camp, with mandatory prayer sessions, for fraternizing teens from all over the States. The day before their departure, storm weather is announced, the busses even ride early to keep ahead, but the wind makes a river rise too fast: the busses are caught, everybody must run on foot. As TV reporters see from their helicopter, the rising water is too fast for one bus after choosing the wrong way, children and staff must climb in trees but can't cling on very long.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-10
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Terminal Choice
Overview: A patient in an hospital dies under mysterious circumstances. The attending doctor Frank Holt gets under suspect - he'd been fired already from his last position due to malpractice. For his defense he investigates with help of doctor Anna Lang. Soon they find out that half of their colleagues were betting on the patient's diagnosis - was someone trying to increase his chances? But when Frank's friend, dissector Mary Connor, becomes deadly sick, he suspects there's even more to it.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-10
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Hollywoodland
Overview: When Hollywood superstar George Reeves dies in his home, private detective Louis Simo is hired to investigate his death and gets caught in a web of lies involving a big studio executive's wife.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-31
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One Is a Lonely Number
Overview: A young woman has difficulty understanding why her husband walks out on her. Alone for the first time, she finds life difficult to cope with and for a time lives with the hope that her husband will come back to her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-19
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Fever
Overview: Fresh out of prison, all Ray wants is to get back with Lacy, but she's in a stable relationship now with Elliott, a pacifist, and wants nothing to do with him. When she's kidnapped by Ray's former associates, he and Elliott must team up to save the woman they love.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-11
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Fighting Back: The Story of Rocky Bleier
Overview: Based on Bleier's 1975 autobiography of the same name, it tells the story of how, after becoming a running back for the Steelers in 1968, he was then drafted by the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War.
Genres: Action Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-07
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Night of 100 Stars II
Overview: This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was taped February 17, 1985, at New York's Radio City Music Hall, this sequel to the 1982 "Night of 100 Stars" special features 288 celebrities.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-10
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The Enforcer
Overview: Dirty Harry Callahan returns again, this time saddled with a rookie female partner. Together, they must stop a terrorist group consisting of angry Vietnam veterans.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-16
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Cast the First Stone
Overview: After Diane Martin is raped by a hitchhiker and becomes pregnant, she must face the pious faculty at the school where she teaches who condemn her "loose morals" and ostracize her. Based on a true story.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-13
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Rave Review
Overview: A dark comedy set in the L.A. theatre scene, as director Steve Maletti accidentally causes the death of a legendarily harsh critic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-13
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The Girl Who Came Between Them
Overview: A home is divided when a 13 year old Vietnamese girl moves in with a family of an ex-GI who believes that she may be his illegitimate daughter in this fact-based movie.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-01
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Bloodlines: Murder in the Family
Overview: Stewart and Neil Woodman plot to have their parents murdered.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-01
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A Question of Faith
Overview: A man at a monastery realizes he is a woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Roadie
Overview: A young Texas good ol' boy has a knack with electronic equipment, and that talent gets him a job as a roadie with a raucous traveling rock-and-roll show.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-13
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In Quiet Night
Overview: A thriller about a man, Dr Wolcott, who is wrongfully acquitted of charges that he molested his daughter, Dinah. The deputy district attorney, Joey, takes Dinah with her seeking refuge from Dr. Wolcott's molestation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Her Costly Affair
Overview: A professor's casual fling with her graduate student turns deadly when he insists on a more permanent arrangement.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-10-28
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American Graffiti
Overview: A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-11
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Intimate Betrayal
Overview: A woman finds hidden truths when her husband disappears and is presumed dead.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-26
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Ticker
Overview: Ray Nettles, a detective of San Francisco, and his partner Fuzzy must take up to one of the most dangerous terrorist gangs of the city. When one of the terrorists, the beautiful scientist Claire Manning is arrested, Swan, the leader of the terrorists, claims he will detonate bombs throughout the city if she is not released. Because of the possible bloodshed, Nettles calls for the help of explosive expert Frank Glass...
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-23
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Texas Rangers
Overview: Ten years after the Civil War has ended, the Governor of Texas asks Leander McNelly to form a company of Rangers to help uphold the law along the Mexican border. With a few veterans of the war, most of the recruits are young men who have little or no experience with guns or policing crime.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-30
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