John Rubinstein

John Rubinstein

Birth : 1946-12-08, Los Angeles, California, USA

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John Rubinstein (born December 8, 1946) is an American actor, composer and director.

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John Rubinstein

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Trouble
Set in 1952, this musical thriller is what happens when a traveling salesman shows up on the doorstep of a dying old man and can't contain the song within his heart. A dark riff on a classic musical.
Our Almost Completely True Story
Dr. Morrow
Mariette Hartley has been acting for over 60 years. She has an Emmy, has been nominated 5 times, has 3 Clios, done Broadway, hundreds of TV series, films like “Ride the High Country” and “1969” and those Polaroid commercials. A friend pressures her to tackle online dating. Jerry had a thriving voice-over career in N.Y. so he moved to L.A. to do TV and hasn’t worked since. How they meet, in a bird store, (the parrot section) tells it all... almost.
Being the Ricardos
Older Jess Oppenheimer
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz face a crisis that could end their careers and another that could end their marriage.
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
Self
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as recounted by a diverse cast of Broadway stars who lived through it, creating a first-hand archive of personal backstage stories and memories. The new documentary is the long-awaited sequel to late filmmaker Rick McKay’s award-winning 2003 film Broadway: The Golden Age, continuing the saga into the '60s and '70s and spotlighting beloved classic Broadway shows including Once Upon a Mattress, Bye Bye Birdie, Barefoot in the Park, Pippin, A Chorus Line, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Chicago, and 42nd Street. Featuring a galaxy of stars including Alec Baldwin, Carol Burnett, Glenn Close, André De Shields, Jane Fonda, Robert Goulet, Liza Minnelli, Chita Rivera, Dick Van Dyke, Ben Vereen, and many more, the film also includes rare archival photos and never-before-seen footage both onstage and off.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Grandpa Joe
A musical based on the 1964 children's novel by Roald Dahl.
Daddy
Uncle Liam
Colin McCormack thinks he has it all - a great job, a steady stream of hot younger guys, and a best friend whose devotion he takes for granted. But when a charming and mercurial intern sweeps him off his feet, Colin sees a chance for something more: A family of his own. What he discovers instead is a shattering secret that may cost Colin everything -- and everyone -- he holds dear.
The Atticus Institute
Marcus Wheeler
In the early 1970s, Dr. Henry West creates an institute to find people with supernatural abilities. When Judith Winstead comes to the facility, she exhibits amazing abilities that the military wants to turn into a weapon.
A Mother's Rage
Dr. White
A mother and her daughter, Conner, embark on a journey to Conner's new school - both unaware of how many "bumps" they may find along the way.
Atlas Shrugged: Part II
Dr. Floyd Ferris
The global economy is on the brink of collapse. Brilliant creators, from artists to industrialists, continue to mysteriously disappear. Unemployment has risen to 24%. Gas is now $42 per gallon. Dagny Taggart, Vice President in Charge of Operations for Taggart Transcontinental, has discovered what may very well be the answer to the mounting energy crisis - found abandoned amongst ruins, a miraculous motor that could seemingly power the World. But, the motor is dead... there is no one left to decipher its secret... and, someone is watching. It’s a race against the clock to find the inventor and stop the destroyer before the motor of the World is stopped for good. A motor that would power the World. A World whose motor would be stopped. Who is John Galt?
Hello I Must Be Going
Stan
Divorced and demoralised, Amy Minsky’s prospects look bleak when she is condemned to move back in with her parents at the age of 35. Everyone wants to help but, as her patience level with advice is plummeting, a bold teenage boy enters her life, igniting her last bit of self-esteem.
Electric City
A view of the future of civilization, presented through the lens of provocative themes such as energy consumption, freedom of information, crime and punishment.
Healing Hands
Dr. Harris
A near death experience gives a young man, engaged to be married, the ability to heal people.
Jekyll
Daniel Carew
When Dr. Jekyll creates his alter-ego avatar and then downloads him directly into his brain, he turns into a psychopathic, hedonistic, ultra-violent party animal. Will he abandon his girlfriend in favor of the sexy stripper? How many bodies will he leave in his wake? Will his best friends be among them? Can Dr. Jekyll regain control and get his life back?
Sublime
Lichterhand
Admitted to Mt. Abaddon Hospital for a routine procedure, George Grieves discovers that his condition is much more serious and complicated than originally expected; and as his own fears begin to manifest around him, he learns that Mt. Abaddon is not a place where people come to get better... it is a place where people come to die.
Choose Connor
Cary Evor
Idealistic 15-year old Owen gets the chance of a lifetime to be the youth spokesman for U.S. Senate Candidate Lawrence Connor, only to be exploited in a fierce campaign of TV and radio ads, posters, interviews, and speaking engagements in the cut throat media-image-is-all world of American politics.
Mrs. Harris
Tarnower's Best Friend
Based on the sensational 1980s media event, famed cardiologist Herman Tarnower meets a particularly brutal end at the hands of his jilted lover, Jean Harris.
Jane Doe: The Wrong Face
Phil Raphaelson
When it comes to crime solving, nobody does it better than Jane Doe.
Witness for the Prosecution
Mark Geragos
A single blind date suffices for handsome gentleman Scott Peterson, a traveling salesman, to seduce Amber Frey all the way. When a colleague finds out about his marriage, she believes him to be a widower. Later however it becomes clear his wife was alive and pregnant, but is missing. Pregnant herself, Amber hears his wife and baby's corpses were found and records his phone calls for the police. Ultimately she's the key witness is his murder trial.
21 Grams
Gynecologist
Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife and mother of two girls; and Jack Jordan, a born-again ex-con, are brought together by a terrible accident that changes their lives.
Red Dragon
Dinner Guest
Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it seems Lecter is the only one who can help Graham track down a new serial killer.
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town: JonBenét and the City of Boulder
Rev. Hoverstock
About the infamous murder of six year old child beauty pageant contestant JonBenét Ramsey and the hysterical media coverage that made the investigation even more difficult.
Kid Cop
Stan Dwerkin
Eleven year old Peter Hansen is determined to follow his Dad's career example by becoming a one-boy neighborhood police force. When a local burglary is committed, Peter follows clues overlooked by the police and ends up in getting into bigger trouble than he ever imagined.
Norma Jean & Marilyn
Darryl Zanuck
This film follows Norma Jean from her simple, ambitious youth to her sex star pinnacle and back down. She moves from lover to lover in order to further her career. She finds fame but never happiness, only knowing seduction but not love.
Mercy
Frank Kramer
A couple of people steal the daughter of a famous lawyer. Now they want money to give her back, but it's not just the money they want. They want revenge.
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle
District Attorney
A former associate of Perry Mason returns to handle the defense of a world-class chess player accused of murdering a prominent TV personality.
RoboCop: The Future of Law Enforcement
Chip Chayken
While tracking a ruthless killer, RoboCop and Madigan uncover a conspiracy between insane genius Dr. Cray Mallardo and ruthless OCP executive Chip Chayken, to develop a computer system linked to a human brain. Neuro-brain is created, a system capable of running the public services of the entire city. There s just one glitch: a ghost named Diana inhabits the machine. As RoboCop gets too close to this kindred spirit, Chayken enlists the aid of a homicidal psychopath Pudface Morgan to kill him off.
Another Stakeout
Thomas Hassrick
Chris and Bill are called upon for their excellent surveillance record to stakeout a lakeside home where a Mafia trial witness is believed to be heading or already hiding.
The American Clock
Moe Baumler
Moe, Rose and Lee Baumler are members of an upper class family who find the world completely changed when they lose everything in the stock market crash of 1929. Lee, a college-age young man, who now faces no possibility of entering college, decides to go on the road to see what is happening to the rest of the country.
In My Daughter's Name
Ban Worrall
A mother takes the law into her own hands after her daughter's murderer is acquitted on a technicality.
Voices Within: The Lives of Truddi Chase
Norman DeRoin
A woman who suffers from multiple personality disorder is found during therapy to have suffered child abuse in this fact-based story.
Liberace
Jamie
A story of the famous pianist and entertainer, Liberace.
Sam Found Out: A Triple Play
Johnny
Liza Minnelli plays three separate women in three separate stories. There's a serious drama about a hooker and her pimp, a romance about a lonely dancer and a black prince, and a musical about a man and a woman having dog problems.
Someone to Watch Over Me
Neil Steinhart
Claire Gregory, an upper class New York personality, witnesses a murder in a luxurious nightclub. Detective Mike Keegan, recently promoted, is assigned to protect her.
Rubinstein Remembered
Self - Host
This program traces Rubinstein's career and features excerpts from his performances of works by Frederic Chopin, his favorite composer. There are also effervescent Rubinstein reminiscences told as only he could tell them, as well as interviews with his family and colleagues. A 100th anniversary tribute to the famous virtuoso pianist, Arthur Rubinstein.
Still Crazy Like a Fox
Harrison Fox, Jr.
Jack Warden is back as quirky detective Harry Fox, who becomes a suspect in a murder case while on holiday in England.
City Killer
Original Music Composer
An attractive young girl is being watched closely by her ex-lover, but matters soon start to escalate and run out of control.
The Dollmaker
Music
During World War II, hard-luck farmer Colvis Nevels leaves his rural Kentucky home to take a factory job in bustling Detroit. Reluctantly accompanying Colvis is his long-suffering wife, Gertie, a talented woodcarver set in her traditional ways. When the perils of city life and Colvis' reckless squandering of money send the Nevels into precarious financial straits, Gertie starts a business making hand-carved dolls in order to provide for her family.
Choices of the Heart
Original Music Composer
Jeannie Donovan, a party-girl searching for that something missing in her life, finds it in El Salvador, hooking up with three nuns and a heartful of ache, love, and horror in the midst of a civil war. This is a true story of the four American churchwomen murdered in the Central American countryside, and the indifference of the American government to their sad and desperate story.
Secrets of a Mother and Daughter
Music
Michael Nouri is one that mother, daughter, friends or any woman would love to be involved with. He's so handsome. Katherine Ross plays the mother that is still very beautiful at her age. Linda Hamilton plays her daughter
Daniel
The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s. As a graduate student in New York in the 1960s, Daniel is involved in the antiwar protest movement and contrasts his experiences to the memory of his parents and his belief that they were wrongfully convicted.
I Take These Men
David Koenig
Moments before being surprised at an anniversary garden party thrown by her husband and their family and friends, Carol Sherwood shocks him by saying she wants a divorce and during the course of the party, she has three separate fantasies with three different men in attendance of being married to them. The first is with egotistical real estate magnate Craig Wyler. The second is with milquetoast English professor David Koenig. The third is with her best friend Elaine's husband Phil.
Johnny Belinda
Original Music Composer
While attempting to set up a communal garden in a poverty stricken rural community, Bill Richmond becomes aware of a mute, disheveled girl named Belinda. Written off as mentally handicapped by the community, including her harsh father, Belinda intrigues Bill. He persists in making contact, discovering that Belinda is in fact deaf. Bill finds that he can communicate with Belinda using sign language, and teaches her to sign.
Night of 100 Stars
Self
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers payed up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like. Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J. ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.
Skokie
Herb Lewisohn
A dramatization of the controversial trial concerning the right for Neo-Nazis to march in the predominantly Jewish community of Skokie, Illinois.
Killjoy
Dr. Paul Trenton
A romantic rivalry leads to an innocent woman's murder. Or is it a hoax crime, part of a cunning deception? At City General Hospital, two young doctors engage in a move-and-countermove rivalry over Laury Medford. It may be more than Laury's beauty that motivates the men. Her father is the hospital's chairman of the board. Marrying her would be an inside track to the chief of staff post. Meanwhile, a senior hospital staffer, who is the mother of one of the two doctors, plots to enhance her son's chances, a mysterious outsider who says he knew the dead woman tails the two men, and Laury may be more than she appears. Murder? Hoax? The answer isn't revealed till the final freeze-frame.
The Silent Lovers
Irving Thalberg
The story of the ill-fated romance between Greta Garbo and John Gilbert.
To Race The Wind
Music
Amber Waves
Conductor
A drifter stranded in Kansas accepts a job offer from a wheat harvester who, in desperation over his cancer and financial woes, attempts suicide but becomes a father-figure to the young man.
Amber Waves
Music
A drifter stranded in Kansas accepts a job offer from a wheat harvester who, in desperation over his cancer and financial woes, attempts suicide but becomes a father-figure to the young man.
Make Me an Offer
Dr. Max Westcott
Joyce Windsor is a woman who gets involved in the real estate game after the husband she helped put through law school dumps her. But she has to deal with Pete Strickland, the "King" of Beverly Hills real estate, who wants more than she cares to give for teaching her the ins and outs of the business.
She's Dressed to Kill
Alan Lenz
A fashion designer gives a private showing at her mansion over a weekend, but someone starts killing off the models.
In Search of Historic Jesus
Jesus
Re-created Biblical tableaux mixed with interviews.
The Ordeal of Patty Hearst
Music
The story of the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst by members of a radical guerrilla organization, as seen by the FBI agent in charge of her case.
Champions: A Love Story
Original Music Composer
Two teens become romantically involved as they train for a skating championship.
The Boys from Brazil
David Bennett
Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
Happily Ever After
Richy Johnson
Suzanne Somers appears in her first TV starring role in this romantic comedy about an aspiring singer torn between making the most of her one chance at fame in Las Vegas or giving her heart to a love-struck mountain man.
The New Maverick
Music
Gambling brothers Bret (James Garner) and Bart Maverick (Jack Kelly) are, as usual, hot on the trail of a fast buck.
China 9, Liberty 37
Original Music Composer
Gunslinger Clayton Drumm (Testi) is about to be hanged when he is given a chance to live if he will agree to murder Matthew (Oates), a miner who has steadfastly refused to sell his land to the railroad company. Matthew’s refusal is a major obstacle to the railroad’s plans for expansion.
The Lazarus Syndrome
Original Music Composer
An adulterous newspaper reporter, who has just experienced a heart attack, pesters a doctor into investigating the questionable medical practices taking place at the hospital where both are residing.
Corey: For the People
Dan Corey
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.
The Car
John Norris
The film is set in the fictional Utah community of Santa Ynez, which is being terrorized by a mysterious black coupe that appears out of nowhere and begins running people down. After the car kills off the town's Sheriff, it becomes the job of Captain Wade Parent to stop the murderous driver.
Stalk the Wild Child
Original Music Composer
A young boy who had been abandoned as a child and raised by wild dogs is taken to a university where a team attempts to teach him civilized behavior.
The Quest: The Longest Drive
Wakely
To save an old friend's ranch, the Beaudine brothers round up a gang of misfits to drive a huge herd to market.
All Together Now
Bill Lindsay
Four orphaned children have 30 days to prove that they can remain together as a family without adult supervision. Based on a true story.
Kid Blue
Original Music Composer
Bickford Waner, an apparently naive young man from Fort Worth, arrives in the tiny Texas town of Dime Box and takes on a variety of menial jobs. He's befriended by Reese Ford and his wife Molly, but before long Molly has seduced Bickford. Only with the arrival of Bickford's former girlfriend Janet Conforto is it revealed that Bickford is actually the notorious train robber Kid Blue. Humiliated by a scandal arising from his affair with his friend's wife, Bickford gives up on going straight and plots a crime.
Jeremiah Johnson
Original Music Composer
A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendetta by Indians when he proves to be the match of their warriors in one-to-one combat on the early frontier.
The Sandpit Generals
Professor
Inspired by the classic novel by Brazilian cultural icon Jorge Amado, this is the story of a gang of homeless children lead by Pedro Bala. Set in Bahia, the film follows the adventures of Bala's gang of under aged outlaws as they steal, rape, find love, "capoeira" (a Brazilian form of martial arts) and African-Brazilian religion.
The Candidate
Original Music Composer
Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.
Something Evil
Ernest Lincoln
A young couple moves into a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania. What they don't know is that there is an unseen presence in the house, and that it wants to take possession of the wife.
A Howling in the Woods
Justin Conway
A disillusioned housewife on a vacation in the woods is disturbed by her husband continually trying to get her to come home and, more ominously, a mysterious howling at night.
Zachariah
Zachariah
Two gunfighters separate and experience surreal visions on their journey through the west.
The Psychiatrist: God Bless the Children
Teddy
A hip psychiatrist teams up with an ex-addict to combat drug addiction in a small town in this pilot for "The Psychiatrist."
Getting Straight
Graduate student Harry Bailey was once one of the most visible undergraduate activists on campus, but now that he's back studying for his master's, he's trying to fly right. Trouble is, the campus is exploding with various student movements, and Harry's girlfriend, Jan, is caught up in most of them. As Harry gets closer to finishing his degree, he finds his iconoclastic attitude increasingly aligned with the students rather than the faculty.
The Trouble with Girls
Yale
Chautauqua manager Walter Hale and his loyal business manager struggle to keep their traveling troupe together in small town America.