Dennis Burkley
Also Known As: Dennis Burley, Dennis Burkely, Dennis Burkeley, Dennis Henry Burkely
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dennis Henry Burkley (September 10, 1945 – July 14, 2013) was an American actor. In a career spanning four decades, he appeared in numerous films and television series. Burkley was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Imogene (née Ware) and Henry Burkley. He grew up in Grand Prairie, Texas, and graduated from Texas Christian University.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: September 10, 1945
Age: 79 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 14, 2013
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Mask
Overview: A boy with a massive facial skull deformity and his biker gang mother attempt to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-08
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Suburban Commando
Overview: Shep Ramsey is an interstellar hero, righting wrongs, etc. His ship is damaged after a fight with an interstellar nasty and he must hide out on Earth until it can recharge. He leaves his power suit at home, but still finds himself unable to allow wrongs to go unrighted and so mixes it up with bad drivers, offensive paperboys, muggers and the like.
Genres: Action Comedy Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-04
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Wanted: Dead or Alive
Overview: Nick Randall is a Los Angeles-based bounty hunter and an ex-CIA operative who is asked by a former co-worker to help track down terrorist Malak Al Rahim. However, Malak Al Rahim is also looking for Randall, forcing a showdown on the waterfront.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-16
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Son in Law
Overview: Country girl Rebecca has spent most of her life on a farm in South Dakota, and, when she goes away to college in Los Angeles, Rebecca immediately feels out of place in the daunting urban setting. She is befriended by a savvy party animal named Crawl, who convinces the ambivalent Rebecca to stay in the city. When Thanksgiving break rolls around, Rebecca, no longer an innocent farm girl, invites Crawl back to South Dakota, where he pretends to be her fiancé.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-07-02
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Murphy's Romance
Overview: Emma, a divorced single mother seeking to start her life over, moves to a small town in Arizona. She befriends Murphy, the older local pharmacist, but things turn complicated when her ex-husband shows up.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-12-25
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Malone
Overview: Erstwhile C.I.A. assassin Richard Malone hopes for a tranquil retirement in the placid Pacific Northwest, but what he gets is a rumble with a right-wing extremist plotting a secret revolution.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-01
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Nightmare Honeymoon
Overview: A newlywed couple seek revenge after narrowly surviving a savage attack in rural Louisiana.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-09-20
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Fletch Lives
Overview: Fletch is a fish out of water in small-town Louisiana, where he's checking out a tumbledown mansion he's inherited. When a woman he flirts with turns up dead, he becomes a suspect and must find the killer and clear his name.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-17
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Beyond the Law
Overview: Dan Saxon is an undercover cop who infiltrates a biker gang to nail the scum behind a drug-smuggling operation. In order to maintain the trust of the gang's leader, he must commit ever more dangerous and heinous crimes. Just how far 'beyond the law' will Saxon go?
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-22
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Stewardess School
Overview: A group of varied misfits (including a former prostitute/stripper and a bumbler who can't see more than 6 inches in front of his face) enter a school to become flight attendants. Somehow, the group makes it through to the final test: a cross-country flight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-08-01
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Possums
Overview: When the town of Nowata votes to cancel its losing high school football team, the Possums, a local radio announcer decides to keep broadcasting imaginary games, team or no team.
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-13
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Pass the Ammo
Overview: A corrupt television preacher and his congregation are held hostage by a woman, her lover, and her two cousins in an attempt to avenge the theft of her inheritance. A quirky look at the dishonesty of the televangelist industry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-04
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Lambada
Overview: Kevin Laird is a Beverly Hills school teacher by day and a mystery man by night. Using his lambada dance moves to first earn the kid's respect and acceptance, Kevin then teaches them academics. But when a jealous student exposes Kevin's double life, his two worlds collide, threatening his job and reputation.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-16
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Bummer
Overview: The manager of a rock band fires the drunken, psycho bass player, who goes on a rape and murder spree.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-03
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The Call of the Wild
Overview: A prospector, a trapper and their sled dog battle the Klondike elements on their journey to get to the gold country.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-22
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Amateur Night at the Dixie Bar and Grill
Overview: A variety of people are drawn together through their participation in an amateur talent contest in a country roadhouse.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-08
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Mad Bull
Overview: An embittered professional wrestler, convinced that his life has no meaning outside the ring, meets a beautiful woman. Unlike most of the women he has known, she seems to be interested in him for himself rather than his fame or his money, and he finds himself becoming attracted to her.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-21
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Summer Fantasy
Overview: After graduating high school, Carrie needs something to do for the summer. She goes to lifeguard try-outs and gets the job. In this hot Los Angeles summer, she will fall desperately in love with a much older lifeguard.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-25
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Four Eyes and Six-Guns
Overview: Ernest Albright opens his eyeglass store in what he thinks is a thriving community, but soon discovers that his store is just a shabby shack in Tombstone, Arizona. The town's Doom Brothers are trouble for everybody including Wyatt Earp, the sheriff. Ernest uses his own special brand of short-sighted shooting to help Wyatt rid the town of its worst citizens and live in peace.
Genres: Western Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-07
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Charleston
Overview: Stella Farrell is a southern belle in 1860's Charleston, South Carolina who is determined to hang onto her aristocratic family's mansion following the Civil War.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-15
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Heroes
Overview: A Vietnam veteran suffering from post traumatic stress disorder breaks out of a VA hospital and goes on a road trip with a sympathetic traveler to find out what became of the other men in his unit.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-04
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The Slugger's Wife
Overview: Darryl Palmer is a major league baseball player who meets and pursues an attractive singer. After some setbacks, the two are married and sent on an emotional journey that sees his career take off, while hers doesn't. She can't escape unhappiness when she gives up her dreams to support her husband. With a separation on the horizon, Darryl must choose between his big-league life and his one true love.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-29
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Eye of the Stalker
Overview: A judge finds that the law is no help when her daughter becomes the object of a college professor's dangerous and terrifying obsession. Inspired by actual events.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-12-18
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Touch
Overview: At the discovery of his ability to work miracles, Juvenal becomes a media sensation, but now he's prone to those who want to exploit him.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-02-14
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The End of Innocence
Overview: Seemingly autobiographical story of a woman overwhelmed with trying to please everyone except herself, and not finding any answers until she's admitted to a rehab center by her parents. Eventually here is where she finds her answers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-06
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Keep Your Distance
Overview: In the perfectly normal town of Louisville, KY, there is a perfectly normal man living the perfect life. David Dailey is a man who has it all: A great career, a community that adores him, and an enduring marriage. But beneath the surface, David's idyllic world is crumbling. He's haunted by a series of mysterious notes that warn of an imminent fall from grace...
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-02
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The Doors
Overview: The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.
Genres: Music Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-03-01
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Fathers' Day
Overview: A woman cons two old boyfriends into searching for her runaway son by convincing both that they are the boy's father.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-09
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Laserblast
Overview: Happy go-lucky teen Billy Duncan discovers an otherworldly laser gun in the southern California desert, making him the target of a pair of aliens who had recently executed its previous owner.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-01
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Indictment: The McMartin Trial
Overview: The McMartin family's lives are turned upside down when they are accused of serious child molestation. The family run a school for infants. An unqualified child cruelty "expert" videotapes the children describing outrageous stories of abuse. One of the most expensive and long running trials in US legal history, exposes the lack of evidence and unprofessional attitudes of the finger pointers which kept one of the accused in jail for over 5 years without bail.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-05-20
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Tin Cup
Overview: A washed up golf pro working at a driving range tries to qualify for the US Open in order to win the heart of his succesful rival's girlfriend.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-16
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Hollywood Homicide
Overview: Joe Gavilan and his new partner K. C. Calden, are detectives on the beat in Tinseltown. Neither one of them really wants to be a cop, Gavilan moonlights as a real estate broker, and Calden is an aspiring actor moonlighting as a yoga instructor. When the two are assigned a big case they must work out whether they want to solve the case or follow their hearts.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-06-09
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Who's That Girl
Overview: An uptight New York tax lawyer gets his life turned upside down, all in a single day, when he's asked to escort a feisty and free-spirited female ex-convict whom asks him to help prove her innocence of her crime.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-07
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Mrs. R's Daughter
Overview: When a young woman is brutally raped and beaten, her mother sets out to find justice for her.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-19
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Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot
Overview: A tough police sergeant's mother comes to visit him, and promptly starts trying to fix up his life, much to his embarrassment. For his birthday she buys him a machine gun out of the back of a van, and begins to further interfere with his job and love life, eventually helping him with a case he's on.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-02-21
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Wish You Were Dead
Overview: Two bad women fight over one man in a back-stabbing, money-grabbing, insurance-hustling, double-dealing, two-timing caper.
Genres: Action Comedy Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-21
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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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No Way Out
Overview: Navy Lt. Tom Farrell meets a young woman, Susan Atwell , and they share a passionate fling. Farrell then finds out that his superior, Defense Secretary David Brice, is also romantically involved with Atwell. When the young woman turns up dead, Farrell is put in charge of the murder investigation. He begins to uncover shocking clues about the case, but when details of his encounter with Susan surface, he becomes a suspect as well.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-14
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The Exonerated
Overview: Six people tell their stories on a single subject - how they got wrongfully convicted to death penalty, but later got exonerated.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-03-06
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Rush
Overview: Undercover cop Jim Raynor (Jason Patric) is a seasoned veteran. His partner, Kristen Cates (Jennifer Jason Leigh), is lacking in experience, but he thinks she's tough enough to work his next case with him: a deep cover assignment to bring down the notoriously hard-to-capture drug lord Gaines (Gregg Allman). While their relationship turns romantic during the assignment, they also turn into junkies, and will have to battle their own addictions if they want to bring down Gaines once and for all.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-22
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Pauly Shore Is Dead
Overview: Hollywood comedian/actor Pauly Shore loses everything: his house, nobody in Hollywood wants to represent him, he moves back home with his mom and is now parking cars at the Comedy Store. Then one night when he's up in his mom's loft, a dead famous comedian appears who tells Pauly to kill himself cause he'll go down as a comedic genius who died before his time. Pauly then fakes his own death, and the media goes crazy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-11
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An Innocent Man
Overview: Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer. Rainwood is convicted of drug dealing, based on the perjured evidence of a police informant. Thrown into a seedy jail, fighting to prove his innocence is diffucult when he has to deal with the realities of prison life, where everyone claims they were framed.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-06
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Delta County, USA
Overview: Delta County is a staid Southern community caught between the old traditions and a rapidly changing way of life. For teenagers Terry Nicholas, his sister McCain, and Joe Ed, the boy from the wrong side of the tracks that she's attracted to, the old traditions have little meaning in their lives. Their elders, struggling to preserve values of an older day, have personal problems that are sometimes overwhelming, such as the one facing John McCain Jr., an alcoholic whose wife Kate is having a hidden and torrid romance that sets her husband off on a vengeance-seeking spree.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-20
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Sidekicks
Overview: Asthmatic teenager Barry Gabrewski is a daydreamer. Troubled by bullying, he escapes into a fantasy world where he is the sidekick to his martial arts hero, Chuck Norris, in a series of high-octane adventures taken right out of his movies. With help from his teacher's wise old uncle, Mr. Lee, Barry learns the finer points of martial arts and enters a karate championship.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-17
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Stay Hungry
Overview: A dishonest businessman asks rich layabout Craig Blake to help him buy a gym, which will be demolished for a development project in Alabama. But after spending time with weightlifter Joe Santo and gym worker Mary Tate Farnsworth, Craig wants out of the deal. The property negotiations turn ugly, causing a brawl at the gym and a spectacle at a big bodybuilding meet, as Craig learns that it's not easy to turn your back on fair-weather friends.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-23
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Con Air
Overview: Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces impossible odds when the transport plane is skyjacked mid-flight by the most vicious criminals in the country led by the mastermind — genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, and backed by black militant Diamond Dog and psychopath Billy Bedlam.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-05
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