David Downing

David Downing

Birth : 1943-07-21, New York City, New York, USA

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David Downing

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Cast a Deadly Spell
In a fantastical 1940s where magic is used by everyone, a hard-boiled detective investigates the theft of a mystical tome.
Extreme Close-Up
Psychiatrist
Innovative drama mixing film and video, with a teenager obsessed with watching his late mother, killed in an auto accident, on tapes he recorded of their daily lives. The mother is seen in extreme close-up only on tape.
Meet the Raisins!
Red (voice)
Meet the Raisins! spoofs musical documentaries with its use of anthropomorphic food characters. Through its historical perspective, the special also provided an opportunity to elaborate on the personalities and introduce names of the simple yet popular characters. It follows the California Raisins' humble beginnings, rise to musical success, fall from stardom, and eventual comeback. This includes "home movie" clips, scenes of the group's early days as the Vine-Yls, concert footage, and interviews with the people behind the success of the California Raisins including manager Rudy Begaman. The group is also shown performing various hit songs
A Rose for Emily
Tobe
Townsfolk discover a warped secret while clearing out the house of a recently deceased, aristocratic spinster.
A Piano for Mrs. Cimino
Mr. Harris
An elderly widow must find meaning and activity in her life when her son suggests she is no longer capable of handling her own affairs.
Margin for Murder
Mickey Spillane's hard-hitting '50s private eye, Mike Hammer, returns to television in the guise of Kevin Dobson to track down the killer of his best friend who was driving Hammer's car. Joining in the hunt are the detective's Girl Friday, the ever-hopeful Velda, and his cop friend, Pat Chambers.
Loose Shoes
'Dark Town' Singer
Broad satire and buffoonery presented as a series of movie trailers. Among the titles and subjects are: "The Howard Huge Story", "Skate-boarders from Hell", "The Invasion of the Penis Snatchers", Woody Allen (pre-Mia), movie trailer come-ons, Charlie Chaplin, war movies, Billy Jack. The source of the title is presented about an hour into the film.
Ziegfeld: The Man and His Women
Bert Williams
Four women intimate with the showman tell his life story.
Gordon's War
Otis Russell
A black soldier comes home to Harlem after a tour in Vietnam and discovers that his wife had become a heroin addict and died of an overdose. Infuriated, he gathers three of his ex-GI buddies and they lay out plans to fight the drug dealers.
Up the Sandbox
John
A young wife and mother, bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, slips into increasingly outrageous fantasies: her mother breaking into the apartment, an explorer's demonstration of tribal fertility music at a party causing strange transformations, and joining terrorists to plant explosives in the Statue of Liberty.
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me
Heff
Free-thinking student tries to put up with life at a straight-laced college in 1958.
Putney Swope
(uncredited)
Swope—the only black man on the executive board of an advertising firm—is accidentally put in charge after the death of the chairman.