Oliver Clark
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Oliver Clark (born January 4, 1939) is an American character actor. Clark was born Richard Mardirosian in Buffalo, New York, the son of Afro (née Karahos) and Matthew Mardirosian. He is of Armenian heritage.[citation needed] His brother, Tom Mardirosian, is also an actor. Clark made numerous appearances in film and television, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s. Two of his best-known characters were John Doe#6 on the NBC drama St. Elsewhere,a likeable and humorous psychiatric patient, and Mr. Herd, a patient of psychologist Bob Hartley on CBS situation comedy The Bob Newhart Show. He played Mr. Belding in the original pilot of the series Good Morning Miss Bliss but was subsequently replaced by Dennis Haskins. Description above from the Wikipedia article Oliver Clark licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Buffalo, New York
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Birthday: January 04, 1939
Age: 86 years old
Gender: Male
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Fire Sale
Overview: Benny and his wife Ruthie are getting set to drive down to Florida, but Benny needs someone to look after his department store while he's gone. Though he doesn't think much of him, Benny hands the responsibility over to his son, Russell. While Russell doesn't get much respect from his parents, he's better off than his brother, Ezra, whom Benny has gone so far as to disown. Ezra is currently battling with his work (coach of a high school basketball team that hasn't won in ages) and his wife (who keeps nagging him that she wants to have a baby as soon as possible) at the same time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-09
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Ernest Saves Christmas
Overview: When Santa Claus decides to retire and pass on his magic bag of Christmas surprises to a new Saint Nick, he enlists the aid of a hilarious assortment of characters. A perky teen runaway and hapless taxi driver Ernest P. Worrell must convince a skeptical kiddie-show host to take over the post of Father Christmas.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-11
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Fame
Overview: A waiter becomes a sudden overnight success as a playwright, and then begins negotiations with an Italian movie director to turn his play into a film. The results are unexpected.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-02
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The Great Texas Dynamite Chase
Overview: Candy and Ellie Jo are a pair of sexy bank robbers who blast their way into small-town banks with a carload of dynamite! When they take Slim hostage, it begins a thrill-packed crime spree across the state of Texas.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-01
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Another Man, Another Chance
Overview: Young Jeanne falls in love with photographer Francis, who soon takes her with him when he emigrates to America. In a small town in the still wild west, they build up a small photo shop. Meanwhile, animal doctor David lives on his lonesome farm together with his unlucky wife. It takes years and two tragic accidents until Jeanne and David meet. She has already decided to return to France as soon as possible, but love, and fate, have other plans.
Genres: Drama Romance Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-28
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Mystery Men
Overview: When Champion City's hero Captain Amazing is kidnapped by the recently paroled supervillain Casanova Frankenstein, a trio of average, everyday superheroes -- Mr. Furious, the Shoveler and the Blue Raja -- assemble a new super team to save him.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-08-06
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A Star Is Born
Overview: Drunken, has-been rock star John Norman Howard falls in love with unknown singer Esther Hoffman after seeing her perform at a club. He lets her sing a few songs at one of his shows and she becomes the talk of the music industry. Esther's star begins to rise, while John's continues to fall. She tries desperately to get John to sober up and focus on his music, but it may be too late to save him.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-17
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Hanging by a Thread
Overview: A group of old friends on an outing re-live various traumas and tragedies via flashback whilst trapped high above a ravine in a disabled cable-car.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-08
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The Orphan and the Dude
Overview: Two oddballs, one a black man called "The Dude" and one white, called "The Orphan" share a Culver City, California apartment.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-07-18
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Christmas in Cartoontown
Overview: It's Christmas Eve, and Irv the Elf is usually the Santa's helper who helps get the reindeer in the air, but this year, things are a little different. Somehow, Irv's gotten trapped inside a plastic snow globe, and now a couple of kids named Heidi and Alex are going to have to team up with the heroes from their favorite fairy tales like Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Pinocchio, in order to make sure Christmas happens for boys and girls all over the world.
Genres: Fantasy Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-11-16
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They Might Be Giants
Overview: After the death of his wife, wealthy retiree Justin Playfair creates a fantasy world for himself in which he is the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes, even dressing like the character. Out of concern for Justin's money more than his health, his brother Blevins puts him under the care of psychiatrist Dr. Mildred Watson. As Dr. Watson grows fond of Justin, she begins to play along with his theories, eventually becoming an assistant in his investigations.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-09
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The Last Married Couple in America
Overview: Jeff and Mari Thompson are contently married, but they are stunned to see many of their friends and neighbors going through separations and divorces. Seemingly surrounded by people with domestic problems, Jeff and Mari begin to question their own relationship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-04-03
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The Landlord
Overview: At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially, his intention is to evict the black tenants and convert the building into a posh flat. But Elgar is not one to be bound by yesterday's urges, and soon he has other thoughts on his mind.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-20
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Deadhead Miles
Overview: A long-distance trucker, dressed like a sea captain, aimlessly sails the American highways in his 18 wheeler mumbling manic, southern accented non sequiturs; carnivalizing roadside stops and happenstance towns while out-weirding cops and weigh stations with his new cryptic, over-coated hitchhiker buddy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-08-08
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One Cooks, the Other Doesn't
Overview: A real estate agent has a problem: his ex-wife and son are moving in with him-and his jealous bride.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-09-27
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Happy Endings
Overview: A teenager postpones his determination to become a songwriter so that he can keep his younger brother and two sisters together as a family following the death of their parents.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-26
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Doctor Detroit
Overview: A shy but gentle man named Clifford Skridlow is a professor of comparative literature at the financially-strapped fictional Monroe College in Chicago. A chance encounter with four beautiful women at a restaurant changes his life forever.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-05-06
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I Take These Men
Overview: Moments before being surprised at an anniversary garden party thrown by her husband and their family and friends, Carol Sherwood shocks him by saying she wants a divorce and during the course of the party, she has three separate fantasies of marriages to three different men. The first is with egotistical real estate magnate Craig Wyler. The second is with milquetoast English professor David Koenig. The third is with her best friend Elaine's husband, Phil.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-05
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