Dick Butkus
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Biography: Richard Marvin Butkus (December 9, 1942 - October 5, 2023) was an American former professional football player, sports commentator, and actor. He played football as a middle linebacker for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL) from 1965 to 1973. He was invited to eight Pro Bowls, named a first-team All-Pro six times, and was twice recognized by his peers as the NFL's Defensive Player of the Year. He was renowned as a fierce tackler and for the relentless effort with which he played and is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most intimidating linebackers in pro football history.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Birthday: December 09, 1942
Age: 82 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 05, 2023
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Brian's Song
Overview: Based on the real-life relationship between teammates Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers and the bond established when Piccolo discovers that he is dying.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-30
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The Last Boy Scout
Overview: When the girl that detective Joe Hallenback is protecting gets murdered, the boyfriend of the murdered girl attempts to investigate and solve the case. What they discover is that there is deep seated corruption going on between a crooked politician and the owner of a pro football team.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-13
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Hamburger: The Motion Picture
Overview: Russell has been expelled from several schools for lewd, crude and nude conduct. Busterburger University is his last chance at education and satisfying his disappointed parents.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-31
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Cry, Onion!
Overview: Onion Jack has bought a piece of land on which to settle, but the property is still in possession of the orphans of the original owner and is coveted by the local oil baron.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-08-25
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Deadly Games
Overview: A masked maniac with a penchant for a monster-themed board game is playing his own twisted game with the women of a small American town. Each time the dice are rolled, another victim meets a grisly end. Returning home to mourn the death of her murdered sister, Keegan befriends local cop Roger and reclusive cinema projectionist Billy — but soon finds herself in the killer's sights.
Genres: Horror Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-12
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Rodney Dangerfield: Exposed!
Overview: Rodney Dangerfield's third ABC special.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-03
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Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Overview: Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soon reunite with the friendly and lovable Gizmo. But a series of accidents creates a whole new generation of Gremlins. The situation worsens when the devilish green creatures invade a top-secret laboratory and develop genetically altered powers, making them even harder to destroy!
Genres: Comedy Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-15
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Crunch Course
Overview: Forty-two, hard-hitting minutes of the NFL's outstanding defenders, past and present, who have elevated the art of punishing ball carriers into a science
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-09
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NFL Moment of Impact
Overview: First you hear the breathing, then you feel the wind coming through your helmet's ear hole. Suddenly you're down, and you're looking through your helmet's ear hole. Pain? That's for tomorrow morning. Right now you've gotta focus - focus on the next play and try not to focus on the next Moment of Impact. Moment of Impact takes you through the rugged world of the NFL like never before. You'll go into the huddle, up to the line, and under the pile with some of the game's roughest customers - men like Ray Lewis, Patrick Kearney, John Lynch and Michael Strahan. You'll meet some of the greatest defensive units of all time and find out which teams have a "tradition by position". But hard-hitting isn't limited to defense - we'll take a look at offensive players who can dish it out as well as they can take it as well as the art of being a "gunner" on special teams
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-30
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Overview: A TV adaptation of Washington Irving's classic ghost story. Humor is the drawing card in this version, with Jeff Goldblum a nerdish Ichabod Crane, Dick Butkus an appropriately nasty Brom Bones, and Meg Foster as spirited Katrina van Tassel. Angered that Katrina has grown fond of schoolmaster Crane, Brom Bones determines to scare off the interloper by filling his head with spooky tales of a Headless Horseman. Crane pooh-poohs the legends, until one fateful ride home in the dark of night.
Genres: Horror Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-31
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Johnny Dangerously
Overview: An honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-21
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Superdome
Overview: It's the biggest event of the year — the Super Bowl! But the star players for the Cougars, gathered in New Orleans for the big game, are preoccupied with some serious off-the-field issues. Dave Walecki's marriage to his wife Nancy is falling apart, while Jim McCauley is involved in a shady deal with a management firm that could destroy his career. But that's nothing compared to the real drama. There's an assassin killing off many of the team's personnel (as well as their chances of winning)!
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-09
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Crash Course
Overview: Some students taking driver's ed during the summer. Among the students is Riko, a cocky guy; Chad, a guy from a privileged background, who's terrified to get behind the wheel; Vanessa, who's over protective mom who wouldn't allow her to take the course, who went behind her back; and Maria, a spoiled foreign student. Now the principal wants the students to pass so he tells the instructor, who's still not over his wife leaving and is not exactly up to the task, that it's important for the students to pass so he brought in a special instructor, who's very tough. And the principal also tells one of his teachers to let, one of the students Maslanski who's the school football star, pass the test he failed so that he can concentrate on driver's ed. But the teacher, seeing this as an opportunity to expose the principal as not doing his job and thus paving the way for him to be the new principal, makes Maslanski take a make up test
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-18
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The Stepford Children
Overview: Steven and Laura Harding, along with their kids David and Mary, have moved to the quiet community of Stepford. Steven joins the men's club, which is still assimilating their wives into robots. This time, they have begun to turn their out of control teens into robots as well. Once they are assimilated, they are obedient, homework loving, big band dancing droids. Laura, David, and Mary stumble onto this mystery, and they must avoid Steven's plans to turn them into robots.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller TV Movie Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-15
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Spontaneous Combustion
Overview: A young man finds out that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before he was born, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-23
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Gus
Overview: The California Atoms are in last place with no hope of moving up. But by switching the mule from team mascot to team member, (He can kick 100 yard field goals!) they start winning, and move up in the rankings, Hurrah! The competition isn't so happy.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-07-07
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Mother, Jugs & Speed
Overview: To beat out competing ambulance services, an ace driver, an office secretary/paramedic and a suspended cop resort to some outrageous behavior to help people in distress. They're a crew whose condition is even more critical than their clients!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-26
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Any Given Sunday
Overview: A star quarterback gets knocked out of the game and an unknown third stringer is called in to replace him. The unknown gives a stunning performance and forces the aging coach to reevaluate his game plans and life. A new co-owner/president adds to the pressure of winning. The new owner must prove herself in a male dominated world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-22
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Smorgasbord
Overview: Warren Nefron is a hopeless klutz who has some of the worst luck in the world: when he tries to end it all with a foolproof suicide plan, he still manages to mess it up. In desperation, he goes to a psychiatrist to see if there is some way for him to end his troubles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-04-13
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Memorial Stadium: True Illini Spirit
Overview: Documentary traces the history of Memorial Stadium at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Covers the earliest days of football at the university, to early concepts for a stadium, World War I, honoring the true Fighting Illini and the first games at the arena built in the early 1920's. Historical film and photographs are mixed with interviews from noted Illinois football players, architects, historians, contractors, veterans and their families, college marching band directors, newspaper reporters and broadcasters.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-09
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WrestleMania II
Overview: Mr. T vs. Roddy Piper in a Boxing match Battle Royal featuring superstars and athletes from the WWF and NFL Hulk Hogan (c) vs. King Kong Bundy in a Steel Cage match for the WWF Championship
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-07
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Necessary Roughness
Overview: When the Texas State University Fightin' Armadillos football team is disqualified for cheating and poor grades, the University is forced to pick from a team that actually goes to school. Will they even win a single game?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-27
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A Matter of Wife... and Death
Overview: A private investigator is confronted by the police AND the mob about the killing of a former private-eye associate.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-03
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Teddy Bears' Picnic
Overview: In Harry Shearer's tongue-in-cheek comedy, a waiter at Zanbesu Glen (a chi-chi Northern California resort) uses his movie camera to spy on the annual communal vacation of a group of rich, white U.S. government and business leaders who drink and carouse to excess while plotting their next move on the global stage. His goal? To sell the embarrassing and incriminating footage to the media and expose the "leaders" for what they really are.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-04-30
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