Richard Venture
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Biography: Richard Venture (November 12, 1923 - December 19, 2017) was an American actor, known for Heartbreak Ridge (1986), Scent of a Woman (1992) and Missing (1982).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New Jersey, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: November 12, 1923
Age: 101 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 19, 2017
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Stickin' Together
Overview: A Hawaiian beach bum finds himself surrogate uncle to five orphaned children, helping them stay together, in this pilot movie for a TV series which turned up briefly in the spring of 1979 as "The Mackenzies of Paradise Cove."
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-04-14
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Red Corner
Overview: An American attorney on business in China, ends up wrongfully on trial for murder and his only key to innocence is a female defense lawyer from the country.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-30
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Scent of a Woman
Overview: Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving looking after retired U.S. Army officer Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade, a cantankerous middle-aged man who lives with his niece and her family.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-23
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The Onion Field
Overview: An LA police officer is murdered in the onion fields outside of Bakersfield. However, legal loopholes could keep his kidnappers from receiving justice, and his partner is haunted by overwhelming survivor's guilt.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-09
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Andre's Mother
Overview: Written by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner Terrence McNally, Andre's Mother is the story of Katherine Gerard (Sada Thompson) who has lost her son to AIDS. Set at Andre's memorial service, the film follows Katherine's journey as she confronts the death of her son, the anguish of his lover Cal Porter (Richard Thomas), and, in flashbacks, the key moments of denial and miscommunication with those closest to her. Originally broadcast as part of "American Playhouse" on PBS (season nine, episode four).
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-07
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One Special Victory
Overview: A fact-based story, John Larroquette plays a hotshot executive that ends up in court over a certain charge. He is sentenced to community service. He is assigned to coach a basketball team of mentally handicapped citizens. At first, he is reluctant and thinks selfishly of his own needs. Later on, he finds the real meaning of life which is helping others.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-08
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Off the Minnesota Strip
Overview: A teenage runaway attempts to readjust to home and family life in Minnesota after returning home after years of working on the streets of New York City as a hooker and tries desperately to regain her parents' understanding and love.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-05
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Being There
Overview: A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-19
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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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Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Overview: A short, unhappy affair with a married man leads a dedicated schoolteacher into the alcohol-and-drug fueled underworld of singles’ bars, where she begins to engage in a pattern of dangerous sexual activity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-19
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Series 7: The Contenders
Overview: A reality TV program selects six contestants to participate in a free-for-all, no holds barred deathmatch, where they must skillfully outwit and kill each other in order to be the last person alive.
Genres: Action Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-20
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Imaginary Crimes
Overview: A recently widowed, small-time hustler struggles to raise his two daughters on his own and still make a dishonest living in 1960s Portland, Oregon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-14
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Helter Skelter
Overview: The investigation of two horrific mass murders leads to the capture and trial of the psychotic pseudo-hippie Charles Manson and his "family".
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-01
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Man on a Swing
Overview: A small-town police chief investigating a murder is offered help by a self-described psychic. However, when the chief discovers that the "psychic" is in possession of information known only to the police, he suspects that the man may be more involved in the case than he lets on.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-24
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Cocaine: One Man's Seduction
Overview: A 47 year old real estate salesman gets trapped in the insidious web of cocaine addiction.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-27
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Dark Intruder
Overview: Police call in occult expert to help solve series of murders.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-25
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The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
Overview: Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-20
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Touch and Go
Overview: A Chicago hockey star is accosted by a youth gang who attempt to rob him; after he chases them off he catches the youngest member and gives him a ride home, where he meets the boy's mother.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-08-22
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Danger in Paradise
Overview: A young man has to battle his greedy stepmother for control of his father's huge estate.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-12
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As Summers Die
Overview: Set in a sleepy Southern Louisiana town in 1959, a lawyer, searches for justice as he volunteers to help a black woman whose property is being threatened by the Holts, the first family of the town, after she refuses to sell her valuable land.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-18
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Corey: For the People
Overview: A wealthy socialite is accused of killing her husband. She claims self-defense as a battered wife, and the district attorney plans to go along with that. However, an assistant district attorney files capital murder charges against her, as he believes she's not quite the innocent, abused wife she portrays herself to be. This was a pilot film for a proposed series that did not get picked up.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-12
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The Executioner's Song
Overview: In this fact-based made-for TV film, Gary Gilmore, an Indiana man who just finished serving a lengthy stay in prison, tries to start anew by moving to Utah. Before long, Gary begins an ill-advised romance with the troubled Nicole Baker, a teenage single mother. As their relationship quickly deteriorates, Gary goes on a murderous rampage, leaving two dead. During his trial, he demands capital punishment; a media circus ensues and outsiders look to profit from his story.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-10
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The Violation of Sarah McDavid
Overview: Sarah McDavid, an idealistic young teacher, takes a job in a rough high school where she is eventually attacked and raped in her classroom after school hours and decides to buck the school system in an attempt to make schools safer for students and teachers alike, against the advice of the school's principal, Dr. Keys, who tries to gloss over the hazardous conditions and the incident itself to avoid bad publicity and decreased enrollment.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-19
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The Greatest
Overview: Muhammad Ali's life story up to the late 1970s, which includes his Olympic boxing triumphs as Cassius Clay, his conversion to Islam, his refusal of the Army draft and the legal battle after being stripped of his World Title.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-17
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All the President's Men
Overview: During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-09
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My Kidnapper, My Love
Overview: Small-time crook Rooney cons his crippled brother, a street-wise news vendor, into snatching a wealthy, emotionally-disturbed runaway to extort money from her parents, but the brother throws the get-rich-quick scheme awry by falling in love with her.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-08
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A Sensitive, Passionate Man
Overview: The marriage of a wealthy, outwardly happy couple is threatened by the husband's alcoholism.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-06
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The Best Little Girl in the World
Overview: Casey Powell is a teenage girl who is secretly suffering from anorexia nervosa, a mental and physical illness of deliberately starving herself or self-inducing vomiting, because of her inability to cope with family stress and because of social pressures.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-11
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The Hunter
Overview: During his long career, bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson has caught over 5,000 criminals. Now, while he is working on apprehending fugitives in Illinois, Texas and Nebraska, he himself is being hunted by a psychotic killer.
Genres: Thriller Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-08-01
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Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case
Overview: Based on the well-publicized Oregon criminal case of the late 1970s, this film dramatizes the unique dispute in which Greta Rideout instigated the prosecution of her husband, John, charging him with raping her.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-30
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Family Sins
Overview: Gordon has a loving wife and two sons, Bryan and Keith, but he favors his spoiled younger son Keith over Bryan, who is defiant and not good at sports. As Gordon begins to yell and hit Bryan, Bryan's behavior slips towards the psychotic side and he takes it out on beings who can't defend themselves until he goes way too far one day during a summer camping trip.
Genres: Horror Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-25
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The Sicilian
Overview: Egocentric bandit Salvatore Giuliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian independence.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-10-07
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Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb
Overview: The story of Col. Paul Tibbets and his crew who flew the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, bringing World War II to a close.
Genres: War History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-23
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Second Serve
Overview: Fact-based story about tennis pro Renee Richards, whose player status was challenged in 1976 when it was revealed that she was a trans woman. Flashback to 1964 before she was out as trans, a successful New York doctor with a great lifestyle, a flashy girl friend, and a secret life. Her psychiatrist mother refuses to deal with her and sends her to a colleague who diagnoses with a psychotic gender confusion, which he says can be unlearned. After a failed marriage and parenthood, she comes out as trans, with a new life in California.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Heartbreak Ridge
Overview: A hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-05
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Diary of the Dead
Overview: An unemployed man who lives with his wife and overbearing mother-in-law sees an opportunity to relieve himself of the old bat, which tangles him in a maze of deception.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Street Hawk: The Movie
Overview: Feature-length pilot of the 1980s action series following the exploits of motorbike riding superhero Jesse Mach (Rex Smith). Deskbound after being seriously injured in an accident that left his colleague dead, LA cop Jesse is approached by federal agent and engineer Norman Tuttle (Joe Regalbuto), who enlists him to work as an undercover agent for the government. To this end, Tuttle provides Jesse with a powerful motorcycle called Street Hawk - but Jesse is soon using Street Hawk to settle his own personal vendetta.
Genres: Action Crime Mystery Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-12
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Navy Seals
Overview: During a rescue mission, a team of Navy Seals discover that a terrorist group have access to deadly US built Stinger missiles, and must set out to locate and destroy them before they can be used.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-20
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The Last Word
Overview: When politicians try to force out a renter in a corrupt real-estate deal, the man decides to take matters into his own hands. He takes a police officer hostage, hoping to expose the scam and save his home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-10
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The Tenth Month
Overview: An unmarried, middle-aged woman accidentally gets pregnant by an internationally renowned pianist and decides to keep and raise the baby on her own.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-16
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The Final Days
Overview: The Final Days concerns itself with the final months of the Richard Nixon presidency.
Genres: History TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-29
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Airport '77
Overview: Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle after a hijacking gone wrong. Now the surviving passengers must brave panic, slow leaks, oxygen depletion, and more while attempting a daring plan, all while 200 feet underwater.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-11
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Chicago Story
Overview: A pair of cops, a pair of doctors, and a pair of lawyers examine a crime — the wounding of a ten-year-old girl by a sniper — from three different angles in this pilot to the short-lived series.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-15
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Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye
Overview: Based on the best-selling book, this movie focuses on John F. Kennedy's first run for a congressional seat in 1946.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-27
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The Littlest Victims
Overview: A true account of the life of pioneering AIDS doctor James Oleske.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-23
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