Dana Elcar

Dana Elcar

Nacimiento : 1927-10-10, Ferndale, Michigan United States

Muerte : 2005-06-06

Historia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Dana Elcar (October 10, 1927 – June 6, 2005) was an American television and movie character actor. Although he appeared in about 40 films, his most memorable role was on the 1980s and 1990s television series MacGyver as Peter Thornton, an administrator working for the Phoenix Foundation. Elcar had appeared in the pilot episode of MacGyver as Andy Colson (a completely different character), but was later cast as Peter Thornton, making his first regular appearance in the 11th episode of the first season. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dana Elcar, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Dana Elcar
Dana Elcar

Películas

Inside Out
Leo Gross
An agoraphobic must give up his sheltered life and venture outside after a series of personal and financial problems.
Tragedia en tres actos
Dr. Strange
Trece invitados acuden a una fiesta en casa del célebre actor sir Charles Cartwright. Una noche desafortunada para el reverendo Stephen Babbington, quien, tras probar un cóctel, cae muerto. Cuando el vaso vuelve del laboratorio sin que se hayan detectado rastros de veneno, el detective Poirot tiene que enfrentarse a un gran misterio.
Toughlove
Max Wiley
The Charters family falls into despair over their drug-addicted son Gary. They discuss his problems through the "Toughlove" program in searching for answers.
There Were Times, Dear
Don Mason
Bob and Susanne Millard deal with the onset of Bob's Alzheimer's disease.
2010: Odisea dos
Dimitri Moisevitch
Nueve años después de que la USS Discovery se perdiese en el espacio, una expedición conjunta de los Estados Unidos y la Unión Soviética es enviada a Júpiter para reactivar el ordenador Hal 9000, que dirigía la nave accidentada, y descubrir el problema que frustró la expedición del Discovery misión así como el significado de las últimas transmisiones de uno de los tripulantes. El doctor Floyd, jefe de la expedición, a su llegada a Júpiter se encuentra con el gran monolito negro que la primera misión pretendía investigar.
Dos veces yo
Burton Schuyler
Edwina Cutwater (Lily Tomlin) es una mujer millonaria y gravemente enferma que no quiere morir. Así que encuentra otra mujer dispuesta a aceptar su alma, pero un error durante la "operación" hace que el alma de Edwina vaya directamente al cuerpo de Roger Cobb (Steve Martin), un abogado... (FILMAFFINITY)
Los guerreros de la jungla
D'Antoni
En plena jungla peruana, un grupo de brutales mercenarios, se hacen con el control de fabricación y distribución de la droga. Estos salvajes guerrilleros trabajan para Cesar un opulento mafioso que junto a su exuberante hermana Ángel dirige desde su cortijo/ fortaleza selvática las operaciones de su comando criminal. Al aeropuerto del país sudamericano llegan desde los Ángeles, California un grupo de bellas modelos comandadas por una diseñadora y el director de la agencia de publicidad, en el mismo vuelo llegan y se cruzan en el aeropuerto con Don Vitto un mafioso que viene hacer negocios con Cesar, Oro por Droga. Mientras el grupo de modelos sobrevuela la selva en busca de localizaciones para su reportaje su avioneta es interceptada por los "soldados" de Cesar, Este hará presas a las modelos por que sospecha que entre ellas hay una espía infiltrada, las torturara y servirán como esclavas sexuales de su ejercito.
La princesa del estadio
Mr. Caine
La familia Maida se mudó a Oregón, y su hija Tami quiere jugar como mariscal de campo para el equipo de fútbol de la escuela secundaria. Solo hay un problema. Ella es una niña. Con todos, desde el entrenador hasta su vecino de al lado, ella probará que no solo puede jugar al fútbol, ​​sino que también puede ganar el campeonato estatal. (Basado en una historia real)
I Want to Live
Warden
The movie tells the story of a woman who struggles and fights to escape the gas chamber being condemned with capital punishment because of her participation in a hold up in which a person was killed.
Blue Skies Again
Lou
A hard-hitting, fast, sure-handed baseball player tries to break into the sport by applying for a spot on a minor-league team. The only problem is that the player is female, which engenders resistance and resentment among many players and officials.
Inspector Perez
Captain R. C. Hodges
Failed crime TV pilot starring Anne Bloom.
Forbidden Love
Burt Wagner
A young doctor meets and falls in love with the older Joanna, who is on the board of directors at his hospital. The people around them, including their families, have a hard time accepting the age difference, and they must decide whether to call it quits or stick with each other.
The Day the Bubble Burst
Mr. Block
A fictionalized account of how the 1929 stock market crash hurt the elite and the struggling, and the forces that may have caused the crash to occur.
Help Wanted: Male
Milhauser
An unmarried career woman decides she wants a baby and finds a suitable partner, a sportswriter working for the magazine she publishes. After she maneuvers him into proposing marriage to her, she learns that he happens to be sterile.
Aquí, un amigo
Capt. Hubris
Trabucco está a punto de retirarse a una paradisíaca isla, pero antes debe hacer un último trabajo: eliminar a los tres testigos claves en el juicio de un caso federal. Para ello se instala en un hotel estratégicamente situado, pero la situación se complica cuando se instala en el mismo hotel Victor Clooney, un hombre que está muy deprimido porque su mujer lo ha abandonado por un sexólogo. En el preciso momento en que Trabucco se dispone a ejecutar su plan, Victor intenta suicidarse y lo echa todo a perder.
Cóndorman
Russ Devlin
El dibujante de cómics y escritor Woody realiza una simple operación de mensajería para su amigo Harry, quien trabaja para la CIA. Pero cuando él mantiene a raya con éxito a agentes hostiles, se gana el respeto de la hermosa Natalia, que solicita su ayuda para su deserción. Woody utiliza esta solicitud como influencia para utilizar los recursos de la CIA para llevar a su creación de cómics, Cóndorman, a la vida para luchar contra el malvado Krokov.
Mark, I Love You
Mr. Bassett
A distraught widower is caught in a bitter custody battle with his late wife's parents over his 10-year-old son, following his plans to remarry and move off to California with the boy.
El último vuelo del Arca de Noé
Benchley
Para escapar de sus acreedores, Noah acepta un trato que consiste en transportar un viejo bombardero cargado de animales a una isla del Pacífico. Además, tiene que llevar a una joven directora de orfanato, que se encargará de educar a los nativos de la isla, y a dos niños del mismo centro que se cuelan en el avión como polizones. Sin embargo, un problema les obliga a aterrizar antes de lo planeado.
La bomba que desnuda
Chief
Un desconocido terrorista ha fabricado un nuevo tipo de bomba que destruye la ropa y deja a la gente desarmada. El agente Maxwell Smart, que se había retirado, recibe la orden de capturarlo. Nominada en los Razzie de 1981 como peor película.
Death Penalty
John Mulligan
A strong-willed psychologist tries to rehabilitate a member of a Pittsburgh street gang who has been found guilty of the murder of two other teenagers in a playground rumble.
Campeón
Hoffmaster
Un ex campeón de boxeo, que vive con su hijo pequeño, lleva una vida disipada, dedicada por entero a la bebida y al juego. Él desea cambiar, pero no puede. Sin embargo, cuando su mujer vuelve con él, el deseo de rehacer su vida con los suyos lo lleva a reanudar su carrera.
Samurai
Frank Boyd
Lee Cantrell, a young San Francisco attorney by day, at night becomes a samurai warrior, and battles a crazed multi-millionaire who is planning to destroy the city with an earthquake machine.
Buena suerte, Miss Wyckoff
Havermeyer
Una relación sexual entre una profesora y el mozo de la limpieza de una escuela termina en violación. (FILMAFFINITY)
Crisis in Mid-Air
Brad Mullins
The life of a stressed-out air controller falls apart as he battles a court case involving a mid-air collision for which an investigator is trying to hold him responsible.
The Flying Misfits
Col. Thomas A. Lard
The dramatized World War II adventures of US Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington and his Marine Attack Squadron 214, AKA The Black Sheep Squadron. The film also acted as the pilot for the television series Baa Baa Black Sheep. Former U.S. Marine pilot Greg "Pappy" Boyington is flying with the American Volunteer Group (the Flying Tigers) in China. After Pearl Harbor brings America into World War II, Greg leaves the AVG to rejoin the Marine Corps. He refuses to be relegated to a desk job and, against all military protocol, forms his own fighter squadron from a group of misfits and disciplinary cases.
Gemini Man [Pilot]
Dr. Harold Schuyler
A government agent is caught in the explosion of a government underwater salvage operation. He finds himself capable of turning himself invisible, and sets out to use his new powers to prove that the explosion was sabotage.
Baby Blue Marine
Sheriff Wenzel
A would-be Marine fails basic training, and is sent home wearing the "baby blue" fatigues of a washout. En route, he is mugged by a battle-fatigued Marine Raider, who leaves him to hitch-hike home in an undeserved hero's uniform. A small Colorado town takes him in, treating him like the hero he appears to be.
Law of the Land
Rev. Mr. Endicott
A frontier sheriff and his young deputies search for a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes.
W.C. Fields and Me
Dockstedter
In 1920s New York City, W. C. Fields is a successful headlining entertainer, but when his girlfriend leaves him and his broker loses his money, Fields begins anew in California. Working at a wax museum, Fields eventually lands a film role that ascends him to stardom. Back in the limelight and palling around with John Barrymore and the like, Fields meets an aspiring actress Carlotta Monti at a party, with whom he forms a rocky relationship.
El temerario Ives
Lt. Charles Blunt
A Raymond Ives, periodista y escritor de novelas de intriga, lo contrata un hombre de negocios para que le lleve unos importantes documentos, pero mientras éste busca los papeles, es asesinado. Ives, intrigado, decide investigar el crimen.
Quiero la verdad
Chief Perna
Un novato e ingenuo policía descubre, tras la muerte accidental de una atractiva agente del cuerpo que iba de incógnito, la auténtica cara de su departamento, y toda la corrupción y falta de ética que lo envuelve. La forma de combatir el crimen nada tiene que ver con lo que había imaginado. Un thriller que supuso el debut en el cine de Richard Gere. (FILMAFFINITY)
Panic on the 5:22
Hal Rodgers
Three armed men take over a private railroad car, determined to rob and kill the passengers.
Senior Year
Paul Reed
Pilot for the short-lived series "Sons and Daughters" set in a high school in the 1950's and seen through the eyes of five carefree seniors.
Heatwave!
Prescott
A devastating heatwave hits the Los Angeles area and a young expecting couple try to evade it by escaping to a mountain resort town.
El golpe
F.B.I. Agent Polk
En Illinois, en 1936, dos ladrones dan un golpe a un hombre de confianza de un gángster y se embolsan un montón de dinero. El gángster decide vengarse y mata a uno de los que dieron el golpe, mientras que el otro logra escapar y entra en contacto con un ex compinche. Los dos deciden intentar un gran timo que hará temblar las finanzas del jefe de la mafia.
Dying Room Only
Sheriff
A married couple are traveling on a deserted desert road at night. They stop at a diner and the husband goes to the men's room. He never returns and the wife begins to suspect serious foul play.
Catch-22
Colonel Cathcart
Bombardier Yossarian is stationed on the small island of Pianosa during World War II. In addition to the enemy trying to kill him, Yossarian also has to endure the bureaucratic SNAFUs of group leaders and the insane antics of other 256th Squadron members. Failed television pilot for a sitcom adaptation of Joseph Heller’s satirical black comedy novel Catch-22.
Sin ley ni esperanza
Allen
El 7 de septiembre de 1876, los famosos forajidos Cole Younger y Jesse James atracan el banco de Northfiel, en Minnesota, el más grande al oeste del Mississippi. Pero nada sale según lo previsto. (FILMAFFINITY)
División bola de fuego
Col. Talbot
Un general con fama de duro se hace cargo de una división que tiene un mal historial de combate. Su misión es hacer que eso cambie para convertirlos en los mejores combatientes de su generación.
Los valientes
Captain Detroville
El comandante de un puesto de caballería de la frontera trata de detener una guerrilla india y encontrar a su hijo, que ha sido secuestrada.
The Death of Me Yet
Hank Keller
The editor of a small-town newspaper has his past unexpectedly catch up with him: he finds out that a Soviet agent who knew him when he was a spy has been sent to the U.S. to kill him.
El gran duelo
Marv Green
Dos pistoleros, cada uno con fama de ser el más rápido del oeste, deciden enfrentarse en un duelo y vender tickets ante la expectación surgida. El vencedor se queda con todo.
Sarge: The Badge or the Cross
Father Frank Dinsmore
After his wife is murdered, a veteran cop quits the police department and becomes a priest. Several years later he is assigned to a parish where he meets the man who killed his wife -- and discovers that the killer was gunning for him instead. The first of two feature-length pilots for the series "Sarge."
Cómo me hice agente de la CIA
Carstairs
Mrs. Emily Pollifax of New Jersey goes to the CIA to volunteer for spy duty, being in her own opinion, expendable now that the children are grown and she's widowed. And being just what the department needed (someone who looks and acts completely unlike a spy), she's assigned to simple courier duty to pick up a book in Mexico City. But when the pickup doesn't go as planned, Mrs. Pollifax finds herself handcuffed to a handsome stranger on a plane bound for an Albanian prison. And it's up to her to get them out.
San Francisco International
George Woodruff
This pilot for the TV series stars Pernell Roberts as Jim Conrad, who runs an airport, much to the chagrin of his boss, "his way." In this, two plots run - a kid whose parents are splitting up decides to take off in a little red prop plane (and Conrad talks him down), and thieves played by the handsome Tab Hunter and his truly ugly sidekicks try to steal a money shipment. Roberts was replaced by Lloyd Bridges when the show went to series.
Adam a las 6 de la madrugada
Van Treadly
Un desencantado profesor de lingüística de la Universidad de California se entera de la muerte de un lejano familiar en Missouri. Viaja a través del país para asistir al funeral y decide quedarse allí trabajando en una compañía eléctrica. Al mismo tiempo, conoce a una mujer de la que se enamora pero entonces se enfrenta a una difícil decisión sobre qué rumbo debe seguir su vida.
Soldado azul
Capt. Battles
Un grupo de soldados de la caballería es atacado por los Cheyennes. Tan sólo Honus, un soldado raso completamente entregado a su deber, y Cresta, una jovencita que había vivido anteriormente con los indios durante dos años y que simpatiza más con ellos que con el ejército americano consiguen sobrevivir a la masacre. Juntos, deberán encontrar el campamento base de la caballería.
Falso testimonio
Harold Tracey
Un agente de seguros que sabe que va a morir idea un plan para ser acusado de su propio asesinato, para que su familia cobre el importe de la póliza. (FILMAFFINITY)
The Learning Tree
Kirky
The story, set in Kansas during the 1920's, covers less than a year in the life of a black teenager, and documents the veritable deluge of events which force him into sudden manhood. The family relationships and enmities, the fears, frustrations and ambitions of the black teenager in small-town America are explored with a strong statement about human values.
The Maltese Bippy
Sgt. Kelvaney
A man buys a house and comes to believe that not only is the house haunted by werewolves, but a family of vampires lives next door.
The Whole World Is Watching
Huston
A student radical, accused of murdering a cop during a campus revolt, welcomes a court confrontation and then refuses to take the stand, despite the urging of the three high-priced lawyers he has hired to represent him in this second pilot of "The Lawyers," a rotating segment of "The Bold Ones" series.
Deadlock
George Stack
The murder of a journalist, coming shortly after the killings of a black teenager and a white cop, threatens to inflame passions in the city. To prevent a riot, Lieutenant Sam Danforth and District Attorney Leslie Washburn are determined to find the killer, even though they do not exactly get along with each other and disagree over procedure.
Péndulo
Det. J.J. 'Red' Thornton
La noche que van a condecorar al capitán de la policía de Washington Frank Matthews por haber entregado un asesino a la justicia, aparece su esposa asesinada en la cama con su amante. Matthews es encarcelado como principal sospechoso, y puesto en libertad el mencionado asesino, pero escapa y va en busca del hombre al que considera el verdadero asesino.
The Sound of Anger
Andrew Pearce
A young man is arrested on suspicion of sabotaging the plane of his girlfriend's father, a wealthy man who despises him.
El estrangulador de Boston
Luis Schubert
Basado en sucesos reales. En Boston, entre 1962 y 1964, trece mujeres fueron brutalmente estranguladas por Robert de Salvo, un fontanero felizmente casado y con una vida aparentemente normal.
Sindicato de asesinos
Layton
Schuyler es un policía agresivo de métodos expeditivos que decide entregar su placa antes de que lo despidan del departamento, tras ser presentados contra él cargos por comportamiento violento. Pero ello no es impedimento para que el abogado Fredericks recurra a sus servicios con el fin de que proteja a una joven cuyo marido ha sido asesinado. (FILMAFFINITY)
Of Mice and Men
Two ranch workers, one of them simple-minded, look for work and happiness during the Great Depression, but luck is not in their cards.
The Crucible
Marshall Herrick
Landmark adaptation of the Arthur Miller play. Nominated for 3 Emmy awards.
The Borgia Stick
Craigmeyer
A suburban couple discovers that they are pawns for a powerful crime syndicate. They try to break away from the cartel and go legitimate, but the syndicate doesn't want to give them up so easily.
The Fool Killer
Mr. Dodd
After the Civil War, a southern boy, aged 12, runs away from his foster home, wanders the countryside, and meets various odd characters along the way, including Milo, a mysterious drifter who may or may not be the vengeful "Fool Killer" of folklore.
Punto límite
Foster
Durante la Guerra Fría, por un error informático un escuadrón de bombarderos del SAC es enviado a destruir Moscú, el presidente de los Estados Unidos (Henry Fonda) trata de hacerlos volver, pero el sofisticado sistema de seguridad impide abortar el ataque, así que debe convencer a la Unión Soviética de que no contraataque.
Big Deal in Laredo
Dennis Wilcox
A timid man with money problems gets into a big card game with some high-rollers.
Broadway Theatre Archive: Burning Bright
In this acclaimed production of John Steinbeck's classic morality tale, award-winning actress Colleen Dewhurst stars as Mordeen, a wife driven to desperate measures to give her aging circus performer husband a child. Dana Elcar, Donald Madden and Tony Award winner Myron McCormick round out the talented cast of this televised Broadway Theatre Archive production, produced by Lewis Freedman and Henry Weinstein.