Ron Frazier
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Marceline, Missouri, USA
Birthday: December 10, 1939
Deathday: December 21, 2003
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Fat Man and Little Boy
Overview: Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man determined to have the project go according to plan. He selects J. Robert Oppenheimer as the key scientist on the top-secret operation, but the two men clash fiercely on a number of issues. Despite their frequent conflicts, Groves and Oppenheimer ultimately push ahead with two bomb designs — the bigger "Fat Man" and the more streamlined "Little Boy."
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-20
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Head Office
Overview: In this comic take on big-business wheelings and dealings, an ambitious senator's son moves up the corporate ladder through undeserved promotions. But against his better judgment, he falls for a woman (the chairman's daughter, no less) who's leading a protest against the company's shady business practices.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-06
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Lost Angels
Overview: Rich L.A. party brat Tim spins into a cycle of despair after his parents divorce, and trying to fill the void with drugs and trouble only buys him a ticket to an asylum. But with the help of a psychiatrist who has taken an interest in him, will Tim try to pull himself out of the muck of teenage rebellion and ennui?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-05
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Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster
Overview: The real-life struggle to contain the environmental and financial damage caused to Alaska by the oil spill from the Exxon Valdez is dramatized.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-13
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Rollover
Overview: An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-11
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The World According to Garp
Overview: A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns her into a cultural icon.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-08-13
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The Milagro Beanfield War
Overview: The accidental breakdown of an irrigation valve launches a hot confrontation between the mainly Latino farmers in a tiny New Mexico town and the real estate developers and politicians determined to acquire their land for a golf resort.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-18
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Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess
Overview: The life and times of silverscreen goddess Rita Hayworth.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-11-01
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For Richer, for Poorer
Overview: Fresh out of college, a young man lazes about his family's estate, which irritates his father, a self-made millionaire who hatches a bankruptcy plan that he hopes will inspire his son to get a job.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Day One
Overview: Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to build an atomic bomb. The project is given to no-nonsense Gen. Leslie Groves who selects physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to head the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, where the bomb is built. As World War II draws to a close, Szilard has second thoughts about atomic weapons, and policy makers debate how and when to use the bomb.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-12
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Absolute Strangers
Overview: A husband tries to keep his comatose wife alive by allowing doctors to terminate her pregnancy. Hearing about this, anti-abortion protesters start a legal campaign to gain legal custody of the fetus.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-14
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She Woke Up
Overview: A socialite comes out of a coma determined to identify her assailant who may be a family member with a motive to strike again.
Genres: Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-19
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Found Money
Overview: Two former bank employees, executive Dick Van Dyke, forced into early retirement by a computer, and guard Sid Caesar, unceremoniously dismissed before his pension comes due, concoct a computerized scheme to steal from the rich (i.e. the bank) and give to the poor with anonymous checks (money accessed from inactive accounts) to average do-gooders.
Genres: Comedy Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-19
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Kojak: The Price of Justice
Overview: Top New York cop Theo Kojak finds himself trapped in a tangled web of false trials, jealousies and murderous scheming as he investigates the death of two young boys. Their bodies are discovered in a Harlem river, the boys mother is the major suspect. But what appears to be an open shut case soon becomes something much more sinister.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-21
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Kent State
Overview: Dramatization of the four days of events leading up to the historic tragedy at Kent State University in May 1970, during the confrontation between National Guardsmen and students staging antiwar demonstrations.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-08
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Lookwell
Overview: The former star of a cancelled cop TV show solves crimes. The pilot was broadcast on NBC in July 1991 but was not picked up as a series despite being a "personal favorite" of NBC chairman Brandon Tartikoff.
Genres: Comedy Crime TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-10
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Presumed Innocent
Overview: Rusty Sabich is a deputy prosecutor engaged in an obsessive affair with a coworker who is murdered. Soon after, he's accused of the crime. And his fight to clear his name becomes a whirlpool of lies and hidden passions.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-27
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D.A.R.Y.L.
Overview: Daryl is a normal 10-year-old boy in many ways. However, unbeknown to his foster parents and friends, Daryl is actually a government-created robot with superhuman reflexes and mental abilities. Even his name has a hidden meaning -- it's actually an acronym for Data Analyzing Robot Youth Life-form. When the organization that created him deems the "super soldier" experiment a failure and schedules Daryl to be disassembled, it is up to a few rogue scientists to help him escape.
Genres: Family Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-14
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Honky Tonk Freeway
Overview: Ticlaw, a small town in Florida, has only one attraction: a safari park. The government constructs a freeway that passes near Ticlaw, but decides not to put an exit into the town. The people of Ticlaw, leaded by its Mayor, will do anything in order to convince the governor to alter the project.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-21
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The Trial of the Moke
Overview: Henry Flipper is the first black West Point graduate. Assigned to serve at Fort Davis in Texas, Flipper becomes the object of a conspiracy by his fellow cadets to rid the base of its only black graduate.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-03
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In My Daughter's Name
Overview: A mother takes the law into her own hands after her daughter's murderer is acquitted on a technicality.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-05-10
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Brubaker
Overview: The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-20
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It's My Turn
Overview: A successful but stressed mathematics professor goes to her father's wedding and falls in love with her father's bride's son, a prematurely retired pro baseball player. She must choose between him and her current boyfriend, between Chicago and New York, and between research and administration.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-24
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