Percy Rodriguez
Also Known As: Percy Rodrigues
Biography: Percy Rodriguez (born Percy Rodrigues) was a Canadian actor of Afro-Portuguese descent. He is known for his extensive work in television and film, as well as his voiceover narration work for numerous film trailers, TV spots and commercials. Rodriguez died of kidney failure on September 6, 2007, at his home in Indio, California.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Birthday: June 13, 1918
Deathday: September 06, 2007
Adult: No
Gender: Male
Popularity:
Known For:
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Overview: Singer is a deaf-mute whose small world brings him in contact with a young girl, Mick, who cherishes a seemingly hopeless dream of becoming a concert pianist. At first hostile, Mick soon becomes friends with Singer, hoping to enlarge his small world. Three other central characters come to Singer for help also, each of them seeing in him a powerful force.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-07-31
Popularity:
Destination Dune
Overview: A short documentary that was originally produced to promote the film at conventions and publicity events in the lead-up to its release.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
Popularity:
Come Back, Charleston Blue
Overview: Sequel to Cotton Comes to Harlem. Another bad influence is hitting Harlem and Gravedigger and Coffin Ed are the two cops who will stop it. Charleston Blue was a prohibition era black gangster, dead 4 decades. When he seems to have reappeared, once again slitting throats with his Blue straight edge razors, the two cops begin a complicated search for some answers.
Genres: Crime Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-06-29
Popularity:
The Legend of Hillbilly John
Overview: A roaming hillbilly, on a quest to defy the Devil, encounters several supernatural characters and does battle with his silver-stringed guitar.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Horror Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-01
Popularity:
Angel Dusted
Overview: Cautionary anti-drug film based on a true story about the effects on Jean Stapleton and Arthur Hill when their teenage son (John Putch, Stapleton's real-life son) gets spaced out on a marijuana joint laced with PCP, or "angel dust," and the family is forced to wrestle with the crisis.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-11
Popularity:
David and Hazel: A Story in Communication
Overview: A married couple doesn't communicate.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
Popularity:
Deadlock
Overview: A woman walks into a police station with a pistol and a vial of nitroglycerin. It turns out that she is the widow of an infamous criminal shot and killed by a detective. She notifies the police that she is waiting for the detective who shot her husband and intends to kill him in front of his fellow officers.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-17
Popularity:
The Shark Is Still Working: The Impact & Legacy of "Jaws"
Overview: After three decades, Jaws continues to intrigue, thrill and frighten viewers. This documentary focuses on the many ways in which Jaws has helped to shape popular culture.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-02
Popularity:
The Sweet Ride
Overview: AA tennis bum (Tony Franciosa) and his Malibu Beach buddies hang out with a TV actress (Jacqueline Bisset) headed for trouble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-06-12
Popularity:
BrainWaves
Overview: After a traffic accident Kaylie is in coma for months and her doctors want to try a new procedure on her. To regain her consciousness, they stimulate her brain with the neural patterns of a woman who has just died. It works and Kaylie fully recovers. However, she begins to relive the dying moments of her donor and realizes that she was murdered! Along with her husband and mother, she tries to find out what happened.
Genres: Horror Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-08-05
Popularity:
Heavy Metal
Overview: The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Adventure Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-07
Popularity:
The Night Rider
Overview: "The Mark of Zorro" was updated for this pilot for a prospective series that tells of a New Orleans gentleman who turns masked rider to fight for law and order and avenge his family's killing by four men who wanted their silver mine.
Genres: Action Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-11
Popularity:
The Old Man Who Cried Wolf
Overview: Emile Pulska is visiting his old friend Abe Stillman. During the visit they are attacked and Emile is struck senseless. When he wakes up he is told that Abe is dead, dead by natural causes, the doctors tell him. When Emile insists that they were attacked, his relatives try to give him psychiatric help. Emile decides to try to find the killers himself, but someone is watching his every step...
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-13
Popularity:
Who Will Teach Your Child?
Overview: A study of the teacher's vital role in a child's development. Learning through natural curiousity in the pre-school years. Different types of teachers, the destructive effect of a short-tempered instructor on this natural curiosity; the wise teacher helping a troubled child to regain self-confidence.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-01
Popularity:
Hugo the Hippo
Overview: The Sultan of Zanzibar has a harbor infested with sharks, which makes it impossible for ships to trade with him. In an attempt to fix the problem, he brings twelve hippos into the harbor to keep the sharks away. His idea works well enough, but once the hippos are no longer a novelty and the people no longer feed them, they begin to starve. After the hungry hippos rampage through the city looking for food, Aban-Khan, the king's adviser, slaughters all the hippos except one, a little hippo named Hugo.
Genres: Animation Family Adventure
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1975-12-25
Popularity:
Galaxina
Overview: Galaxina is a lifelike, voluptuous android who is assigned to oversee the operations of an intergalactic Space Police cruiser captained by incompetent Cornelius Butt. When a mission requires the ship's crew to be placed in suspended animation for decades, Galaxina finds herself alone for many years, developing emotions and falling in love with the ship's pilot, Thor.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-06
Popularity:
The Astral Factor
Overview: Demonstrating that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, a convicted strangler studies the paranormal and finds a way to render himself invisible. Once he escapes, he sets out to find and eliminate five women who remind him of the mother he murdered. A police lieutenant sets out to safeguard them and bring the invisible killer to justice.
Genres: Science Fiction Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-01
Popularity:
The Plainsman
Overview: Calamity Jane tries to help Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickock stop an Indian war.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-08-01
Popularity:
The Last Survivors
Overview: When a passenger ship sinks, a ship's officer must decide which passengers in an overcrowded lifeboat must be sacrificed so the rest can survive an approaching typhoon.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-04
Popularity:
This Girl For Hire
Overview: In this pilot for a proposed TV series, B.T. Brady is a flippant, but somewhat klutzy female private detective in Hollywood who sets out to solve the murder of a obnoxious mystery writer. Along the way, Brady gets help from her flamboyant mother Zandra, a washed-up actress, as well as Brady's live-in boyfriend Wolfe who runs a memorabilia shop.
Genres: Comedy Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-11
Popularity:
Genesis II
Overview: A scientist who has been preserved in suspended animation wakes up to find himself in a primitive society in the future.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-23
Popularity:
Ring of Passion
Overview: Fact-based drama about the two Joe Louis-Max Schmeling heavyweight fights and the way both boxers unwillingly became symbols of political ideologies just prior to World War II.
Genres: Action Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-02-04
Popularity:
The Making of 'Alien³'
Overview: A short promotional documentary detailing production of the 1992 film Alien³, containing interviews with cast and crew, as well as behind the scenes clips.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
Popularity:
Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit
Overview: Jordan White, a publisher friend of Perry, is called to a hotel where a guest, famous horror writer David Hall, has cleared out the hotel for a weekend and has called his "friends" - an actress, a fortune-teller, David's private assistant and the two remaining staff at the hotel to discuss business. They have come to the hotel as all of them are going to sue David over his new book - "The Resort" which characters are obviously based on Jordan and the guests. A practical joker, David plays tricks on them until he is thrown from the high tower of the hotel where Susan Warrenfield, the manager and owner of the hotel sees the fall and then Jordan at the tower causing the police to arrest Jordan. While Perry and Della try to solve the main mystery, Paul tries to find out who is trying to scare Susan away from the hotel. Could it really be a ghost or a more earthy visitor?
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-05-24
Popularity:
The Lives of Jenny Dolan
Overview: A newspaper reporter's life is endangered when she is assigned to investigate a political assassination.
Genres: Thriller Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-27
Popularity:
Rhinoceros
Overview: A boozing young man in love with his co-worker finds that everyone around him, even his pompous and condescending best friend, is changing into a rhinoceros.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-21
Popularity:
Deadly Blessing
Overview: When a former member of a religious cult dies in a mysterious accident, Martha, who now lives alone and close to the cult's church, begins to fear for her life and the lives of her visiting friends.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-14
Popularity:
Captain EO
Overview: In this 3-D science fiction film that was shown at Disney theme parks, the infamous Captain EO and his ragtag crew are sent on a diplomatic mission through space to deliver a gift to the mysterious and menacing Supreme Leader of a desolate industrial planet.
Genres: Music Science Fiction Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-12
Popularity:
The Boy from Dead Man's Bayou
Overview:
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-09
Popularity:
Troublemaker
Overview: A humanity student, Lucien is active in various extracurricular activities. Recognized by his peers, he represents other students in their challenge of college rules and the settlement of the fate of an incompetent professor. He ends up being thrown out of the school. After his mother's death, even though he dates Lise, a young woman with whom he does acting, he has to resist the advances of a homosexual whose death he will accidentally cause.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-03-20
Popularity:
Carol for Another Christmas
Overview: Daniel Grudge, a wealthy industrialist and fierce isolationist long embittered by the loss of his son in World War II, is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve who lead him to reconsider his attitude toward his fellow man.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-28
Popularity:
The Forgotten Man
Overview: A Marine officer reported as killed in Vietnam, but who was actually a POW, returns home. Instead of being welcomed home, however, he discovers that his father has died, his wife has remarried, his daughter has been adopted, his business has been sold, and his life has completely changed.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-14
Popularity: