David Byrd

David Byrd

Birth : 1932-09-03, New York City, New York, USA

Death : 2001-01-26

History

David Byrd was born on September 3, 1932 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Lost Highway (1997), Tango & Cash (1989) and The Hudsucker Proxy (1994). He died on January 26, 2001 in Studio City, California, USA.

Profile

David Byrd

Movies

Thick as Thieves
Capetti
Two master thieves go at odds with one another as one sets the other up for a crime. The first, a suave pro who does his job and then hides in his own privacy, listening to old jazz records and caring for his ailing dog, Wally. The other is a local gangster with a taste for the finer life, who decides to eliminate the competition. This ignites a war between the two men and their aides. An angry mob boss and a female police officer try to sort the mess before things get too out of hand.
Poodle Springs
Seymour
Private eye Philip Marlowe and his bride move to a desert town, where he uncovers a land scheme.
Mother Teresa: In the Name of God's Poor
Archbishop
A story of Mother Teresa, beginning in Calcutta, India, where she faces adversity from every direction and where she lays the foundation for her crusade to help the poorest of the poor.
Lost Highway
Doctor Smordin
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace
Judge
Jobe is resuscitated by Jonathan Walker. He wants Jobe to create a special computer chip that would connect all the computers in the world into one network, which Walker would control and use. But what Walker doesn't realize is a group of teenage hackers are on to him and out to stop his plan.
Clifford
Senator
When his brother asks him to look after his young son, Clifford, Martin Daniels agrees, taking the boy into his home and introducing him to his future wife, Sarah. Clifford is fixated on the idea of visiting a famed theme park, and Martin, an engineer who helped build the park, makes plans to take him. But, when Clifford reveals himself to be a first-rate brat, his uncle goes bonkers, and a loony inter-generational standoff ensues.
The Hudsucker Proxy
Dr. Hugo Bronfenbrenner
A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.
Assolto per aver commesso il fatto
Shapiro
A former inspector of the SIAE, focusing everything on his cunning and stubbornness, tries to grab (even in fraudulent ways) all the televisions or private radios that come to hand; all to please a mysterious woman named Gilda.
Tango & Cash
Judge McCormick
Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash are narcotics detectives who, while both being extremely successful, can't stand each other. Crime Lord Yves Perret, furious at the loss of income that Tango and Cash have caused him, frames the two for murder. Caught with the murder weapon on the scene of the crime, the two have no alibi. Thrown into prison with most of the criminals they helped convict, it appears that they are going to have to trust each other if they are to clear their names and catch the evil Perret.
Big Top Pee-wee
Deke
Paul Reubens stars as Pee-wee Herman in his second full-length film about a farmer who joins the circus after a storm drops a big tent in his front yard. Pee-wee, along with an outlandish cast of animals and circus performers, puts on the best show ever.
All of Me
Minister
Just before stubborn millionaire Edwina Cutwater dies, she asks her uptight lawyer, Roger Cobb, to amend her will so that her soul will pass to the young, vibrant Terry Hoskins – but the spiritual transference goes awry. Edwina enters Roger's body instead, forcing him to battle Edwina for control of his own being.
Samson and Delilah
Elon
Samson and Delilah tv movie
Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess
Leonard Mann
The life and times of silverscreen goddess Rita Hayworth.
The Man with Two Brains
Desk Clerk
A brain surgeon tries to end his unhappy marriage to spend more time with a disembodied brain.
Missing Pieces
Motel Manager
A private detective has to deal with an unpleasant memory, a near-insoluble mystery, and a pursuing murderer inflicted with drugs and political corruption.
The Formula
Obermann
While investigating the death of a friend and fellow cop, Los Angeles police officer Barney Caine stumbles across evidence that Nazis created a synthetic alternative to gasoline during World War II. This revelation has the potential to end the established global oil industry, making the formula a very valuable and dangerous piece of information. Eventually, Caine must contend with oil tycoon Adam Steiffel, who clearly has his own agenda regarding the formula.
Transplant
Dr. Samuels
Fact-based story about a hard-driving young executive who rebels against his failing heart and undergoes a risky transplant.
Lacy and the Mississippi Queen
Bixby
This lighthearted Western was an unsuccessful series pilot in which two sisters -- a gun-toting tomboy and a beauty with an engaging smile -- team up to track down a pair of train robbers, suspects in the shooting of their father.
Deadman's Curve
Surgeon
Things were cool. Chicks were pretty. Waves were groovy. Cars had muscle. Jan and Dean rode their wave to the top of the pop charts. Then, in 1966, on their way to becoming rock and roll legends, they have to cope with a devastating car crash that leaves Jan brain-damaged and their dreams shattered.