Chick Vennera
Also Known As: Francis Vennera
Biography: Francis "Chick" Vennera was an American actor and voice artist. He often served as a voice double for Joe Pesci.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Herkimer, New York, USA
Birthday: March 27, 1947
Deathday: July 07, 2021
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Capitol Conspiracy
Overview: Martial arts star Don "The Dragon" Wilson stars in this action/suspense story. A child is recruited to take part in a secret government experiment which results in him being able to see into the future. Years later, the child is an adult and is working for the government; his latest assignment is to find the other people who were part of the same project. Before long, he discovers the other test subjects usually pop up murdered shortly before he can talk to them, and he realizes he may well be the next target.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-01
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Yanks
Overview: During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don't much like the brash Yanks, especially when it comes to the G.I.s making advances on the lonely British girls. One relationship that develops is between married John, an Army Captain, and the aristocratic Helen, whose naval husband is away at war. Helen loves her husband, but Helen and John are looking for some comfort during the difficult times.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-01
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McBain
Overview: Santos attempts to lead a people's revolt in Colombia to overthrow the Presidente. When his revolt fails and he is killed, his sister Christina goes to New York to find McBain, a lieutenant Santos rescued during the Vietnam War. McBain agrees to help, recruits his old war buddies, raises some cash by killing a few drug dealers, then leads an attack to topple the Colombian government.
Genres: Action War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-20
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Glass Trap
Overview: When an army of radioactive ants are unknowingly carted into a skyscraper, a group of people have to find a way out before they're eaten one by one.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-08-02
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Thank God It's Friday
Overview: It's Friday and everyone is going to the hot new disco. The Commodores are scheduled to play if Floyd shows up with the instruments and Nicole dreams of becoming a disco star. Other characters are there to win the dance contest, or to put a little excitement into a fifth anniversary.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-19
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Fugitive Mind
Overview: A man finds out that he was brainwashed to kill an important government official.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-14
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High Risk
Overview: Four American friends, badly needing money, decide to make a commando-like raid into a South American drug lord's compound.
Genres: Action Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-01
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Running Red
Overview: Gregori is an ex-Soviet Commando haunted by the death of his brother, and trying to forget his old life in the US. However, Gregori realizes after he has already started a family of his own that the past is never far behind. A former superior from his days as a Russkie hired gun orders him to kill some people or watch his new family die. It looks like Gregori doesn't have much of a choice, because he's grown fond of having Angie Everhart for a wife...
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-30
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Last Rites
Overview: After witnessing her lover being murdered by his jealous wife, Angela seeks refuge in a church where she encounters a young priest named Michael, who gives her sanctuary. But the killing was not a simple act of passion, as the victim had ties to organized crime, and, surprisingly, so does Michael, whose father is a powerful don. When the priest finds himself falling in love with Angela, his religious vows and family ties are both severely tested.
Genres: Romance Thriller Horror Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-18
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The Terror Within II
Overview: In a world gone mad, the last human colony struggles to survive underground, beneath a land of nightmarish mutants who seek to destroy them. But when the mutant breaks inside humanity's final stronghold, the battle for survival pits the human colonists against their deadly invaders miles below the earth's surface.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-18
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Animaniacs: Wakko's Wish
Overview: The Warner Brothers (and the Warner Sister) go on a quest to find a fallen wishing star to help Dot with her illness. Unfortunately the rest of the town, including an evil king, also hear about the star and want to get to it first to have their own wishes come true. It's a race against time and it's up to the three zany siblings to get there first.
Genres: Animation Music Comedy Adventure Drama Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-20
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Intrepid
Overview: Hotshot Navy special ops guys get assigned to take a cruise to keep an eye on a VIP's daughter. Once the voyage is under way, somehow a nuke A) gets lost in the vicinity, and goes off. The resulting tidal wave capsizes the cruise ship, and its up to our heros to save the day
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Double Threat
Overview: A former movie star, Monica Scott, returns to the big screen along with younger boyfriend, Eric Cline, after a long absence. Monica is very jealous of the attention Eric gives to her body double - Lisa. The plot becomes difficult to follow as it changes between real life and the movie they are making. The jealousy inevitably leads to murder attempts and denials
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-11
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A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story
Overview: The story of Mary Thomas, the mother of basketball star Isiah Thomas, and how she fought to keep her family together and her sons out of trouble despite the surroundings of poverty, drugs, crime and violence of their ghetto neighborhood.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-12-03
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Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid
Overview: A young ghetto kid despairs of ever getting out of that environment and making something of himself, until one day he gets a job as an assistant in a veterinarian's office, and working with all the animals begins to affect his outlook on life.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-12
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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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Stranded
Overview: The Russian space station Avma is disintegrating, and an international team of scientists is sent to the dying station to salvage valuable technology left on board. But fate has other plans, and when a rogue meteor collides with the station, leaving them with all communications lost, and life-giving oxygen bleeding into space, one man has only hours to save all the lives on board.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-20
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Active Stealth
Overview: After Captain Murphy lost some of his men on his last mission to Mexico to bring back a US Senator, he has been plagued with unhappiness and bad dreams. When Murphy is given orders to go back to Mexico to help Mexican people slaving for Salvatore, a rich drug dealer, he must use a new technology plane to get there. The plane is technically advanced with a new protection luxury called 'Active Stealth'. Murphy and his men get aboard the 'Active Stealth', piloted by Hollywood who dreams of being an actor and embark to Mexico. The action never stops from then on when Salvatore sends his men in to block them from getting through.
Genres: War Adventure Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-07-11
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Kidnapped
Overview: A woman's sister is kidnapped on her 16th Birthday and forced into filming pornography. A policeman helps the woman rescue her teenage sister from the pornographers.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-09
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A Bunny's Tale
Overview: A dramatization of Gloria Steinem's undercover investigation of the working conditions Bunnies faced at the Playboy Clubs.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-25
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Body Chemistry III: Point of Seduction
Overview: Movie producer Alan Clay wants to make a movie about Dr. Claire Archer and her amazing life story. Claire falls for Alan, and Alan cannot resist temptation, so now he's hiding an affair from wife Beth. When the movie writer's investigations uncover new facts in the killings, Claire senses the danger, and responds.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-02-23
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Night Eyes 4: Fatal Passion
Overview: Successful psychologist, Dr. Angela Cross, puts in a new burglar alarm system into her home due to threats she received. Steve Caldwell and Will Griffith install her system and after Will gets shot during a burglary attempt. Jeff and Angela have a hot relationship going until another break-in at her house. Angela has some secrets from her past that could be exposed if the tapes stolen are viewed.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-06
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Body Chemistry 4: Full Exposure
Overview: TV producer Clair Archer, charged with the murder of her co-producer, hires attorney Simon Mitchell to defend her. Though happily married, Simon falls for Clair's seductive wiles.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-09-19
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Runaway Father
Overview: A woman's husband leaves her and their three daughters. Years later she sets out to find him and get him to pay back child support.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-22
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Free Ride
Overview: A group of teenagers borrow a car, unaware that gangsters have stashed mob money in it. The gangsters are determined to get the money back.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-17
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Night Eyes
Overview: A Beverly Hills home-security guard is seduced by a rock star's wife he monitors by video.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-31
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Tycus
Overview: An underground city is built to save a cross-section of humanity as a comet hurtles toward Earth.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-22
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Air Rage
Overview: A Marine Colonel and his men are sent abroad on hostage rescue mission. When they arrive, they find the hostages dead and decide to get payback by massacring the village. Upon their return home to the US, they must face the consequences.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-07-24
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Kissing Miranda
Overview: A young man falls in love with a co-worker's mail order bride from Latin America.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-02-25
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Final Voyage
Overview: This is the story of a modern day pirate mad man and his crew of eight, searching for fortune on a cruise ship but a small group of passengers fight back.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-20
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