Ralph Waite
Nacimiento : 1928-06-22, White Plains, New York, USA
Muerte : 2014-02-13
Historia
Ralph Waite (born June 22, 1928) is an American actor. His most famous role may be John Walton Sr. on the 1970s CBS TV series The Waltons, which he occasionally directed. He is also well known for his portrayal of the slave ship first mate Slater in the mini-series Roots. More recently, he appeared as Reverend Norman Balthus for 16 out of 24 episodes over the two seasons of the HBO series Carnivàle (2003–2005). Currently, he has been portraying the recurring roles of Father Matt on the daytime serial Days of our Lives, of Jethro Gibbs's (Mark Harmon) father, Jackson Gibbs, on NCIS and of Seeley Booth's (David Boreanaz) grandfather, Hank Booth on Bones.
R.L. Dutton
Cuando Eric y Marsha rompe su relación a largo plazo, el periodista Eric es capaz de capear bastante bien. Él todavía tiene su colmillo largo tiempo compañero de Gabe, y su jefe, la Sra. Andrews, quiere que le enviara a Londres para abrir una oficina. Pero en primer lugar la Sra. Andrews, dice Eric debe averiguar la verdadera identidad del autor de best seller RL Dutton. Un obstáculo mayor para el viaje de Eric, sin embargo, viene de su perro.
Ed
This is the story of an 11-year-old boy whose derby dreams are left in pieces when his soldier father is killed in Afghanistan. The boy teams up with a father figure whose own son, a firefighter, died in the line of duty, and the two help each other find redemption and revive the derby.
Mr. Perryfield
Un cartero llamado Brady McDaniels (Jeffrey S.S. Johnson) deberá decidir qué hacer con las cartas que manda de forma regular Tyler Doherty (Tanner Maguire), un niño de 8 años enfermo de cáncer que escribe a Dios.
Grandpa Ventura
Ace Ventura Jr. es un travieso jovencito de 12 años que intenta ser “normal”. Eso estaría bien, si no fuera porque para él la normalidad consiste en encontrar cachorros perdidos, rescatar gatitos secuestrados y dejar un rastro de caos por el camino. De tal palo, tal astilla: está en su naturaleza ser un detective de mascotas. Así que cuando roban un bebé panda del zoo y su madre se convierte en la primera sospechosa, nuestro jovencito héroe intentará limpiar el nombre de su familia.
Chick
When a rebellious teenager is forced to spend the summer with his grandfather, their differences go deeper than just the years that separate them.
Jacob Brawley
Dr. Maxwell is called in to investigate the kidnapping of a prize race horse. When the case leads to murder, Maxwell and Detective Bryant suspect the horse's owner.
Casey Lyle
Historia política ambientada en una pequeña localidad de Colorado durante la campaña de las elecciones para gobernador. Un inesperado y molesto cadáver en el lago será el motor de una trama que desvela las corrupciones y miserias de la vida política estadounidense.
Sheriff
Released from jail after a term basically served instead of friends he refused to rat out, Charles 'Skip' Cuddy is grateful his gentleman instinct gets him a job with living quarters as handyman on a semi-destitute estate Blessings. Working hard, he wins further confidence from the owner, bitter widow Lydia Blessing, unlike her in-living bitch nurse Jennifer. When a baby is left at the state, Skip takes it in and secretly cares for it. Lydia eventually finds out but sides with him, feeling robbed of grandchildren by her careerist only daughter Meredith. Then Skip's past comes knocking, and the baby's birth parents.
Furman Temple
Unos promotores inmobiliarios proyectan transformar la Isla Plantación (Florida) en un enorme complejo turístico para las vacaciones de verano de los americanos del norte. La población se muestra dividida: están los que eligen vender y aceptar el dinero que les ofrecen y los que quieren seguir conservando sus tierras.
Jacob Hardesty
Cuando Kelly y su padre se mudan a Nueva Orleans después de la muerte de su madre, cosas extrañas comienzan a suceder en su nuevo hogar. Kelly está convencida de que la casa está encantada por un fantasma que necesita su ayuda. Su padre no le cree pero su vecino le va a ayudar a descubrir la verdad.
President Mathews
Joshua McCord (Norris) es un agente del Servicio Secreto retirado al que le encargan la misión de entrenar a un joven. Sin embargo cuando la Primera Dama es secuestrada por terroristas se encuentra inmerso en una misión a 'todo o nada'. (FILMAFFINITY)
Senator Proust
John Walton
In 1969, John-Boy is a TV news anchorperson in New York and he is in the throes of writing a new book. He and a very pregnant Janet are making plans to return to Walton's Mountain for the celebration of John and Olivia's 40th wedding anniversary. Accompanying them to see the place John-Boy lived as a child is Aurora, a Time magazine photographer, who is doing a story on John-Boy. Meanwhile, Elizabeth arrives back from her travels and announces to Drew, who is still working at the mill with Ben, that she is back to stay. She is very upset to find that Drew did not wait for her, and that he has a new girlfriend. Also, problems arise for John-Boy and Janet because the longer John-Boy stays on the mountain, the more he becomes convinced that he would like to settle down there, raise his family, and continue with his writing whereas Janet wants to stay in New York.
Shadow (voice)
Tres años después de su viaje por bosques y montañas, las tres mascotas de "Bienvenido a Casa" vuelven vivir una nueva aventura: la familia, que vive en San Francisco, ha decidido irse de vacaciones a Canadá. El problema es que las mascotas se escapan del aeropuerto y pierden el vuelo. Chance, el bulldog vitalista, Sassy, la gata mimosa, y el cariñoso Shadow se encuentran perdidos en la gran ciudad y, para llegar a su hogar, tendrán que superar grandes peligros.
John Walton
In 1964, John-Boy Walton is planning his wedding to Janet Gilchrist, the editor of a New York fashion magazine and the daughter of a diplomat. The two of them plan a small wedding and he invites the family and friends from Walton's Mountain to come to New York for the celebration. However, Janet's Aunt Flo has other ideas and begins to take over their wedding preparations. Added to the wedding plan stress, John-Boy is also trying to write an article about his Grandma, but decides that he needs to go home to escape the wedding preparations, as well as to reunite with his grandmother and fill in some gaps leaving Janet in New York trying to prevent her wedding from getting out of hand. But she too leaves the city and heads for Walton's Mountain to plan their wedding there.
Sam Hackett
When trees in their only source of income, a lemon grove, start showing signs of disease, a burdened Californian family reaches their breaking point. Is there any hope left for them?
Drew McDermott
A young Lakota Sioux, adopted by a wealthy Jewish couple in Beverly Hills, gets in touch with his cultural roots and solves a mystery in this thriller
Cal Simms
Taking a short-cut home from work, high-schooler Billie Simms is raped. Not only does the incident cause an unwanted pregnancy that damages her college expectations, but it also outrages her smugly religious father who pressures her to give up the baby.
Dr. C.J. Halligan
A one-time investigator gets back in the game when a family suffers a trauma similar to her own.
John Walton
The fourth Waltons reunion TV movie is set in the 1960s , with John-Boy still living in New York, trying to persuade his fiancée to marry him. Meanwhile, Ben and Cindy's daughter Virginia has died, and Cindy is finding life very lonely without her. She tells Ben that she would dearly love to adopt another baby, but Ben feels that it is not a good idea. Ben argues with his father about buying a new truck for their lumber company, but John keeps insisting that they can't afford it. Elsewhere, Erin now has three children and is separated from Paul. Her decision to start seeing another man causes some indignation among the other Walton family members. Ike and Corabeth become grandparents when Aimee has a daughter, while Elizabeth returns from Europe and reunites with Drew, her old beau.
Frank
Gabe Walker, un alpinista dedicado al rescate de alta montaña, todavía no ha superado la muerte de su compañera en una caída al vacío un año atrás. Ahora le piden que vuelva a la misma montaña de la tragedia para rescatar a un grupo de personas extraviadas. Lo que Gabe desconoce es que se trata de peligrosos delincuentes que acaban de perpetrar un asalto a un avión para hacerse con un botín de cien millones de dólares.
Herb Farmer
Una cantante famosa que recibe constantes cartas anónimas con amenazas de muerte contrata a un guardaespaldas profesional para que la proteja. Sin embargo, la cantante no está de acuerdo con los métodos empleados por su protector.
Aldo Leopold (voice)
Tells about the Wilderness Act of 1964 and the three men responsible for its passage: forester/philosopher Aldo Leopold, author of the bestselling Sand County almanac and the first to bring the word 'ecology' into standard usage; Bob Marshall, millionaire socialist and founder of the Wilderness Society; and Howard Zahniser, a bureaucrat with a love of the wild places he seldom saw. Singly and together, these three fought from the 1920s through the 1950s to preserve the natural world. Provides an overview of the roots of the environmental movement, offering a deeper understanding of one of the most important issues facing contemporary civilization.
Lathan Hooks
En el año 2030 un grupo de personas aislado en una desértica instalación es amenazado por uno que es un androide letal.
Orville Lemon
A female mayor (Victoria Principal) of Albuquerque gets embroiled in a fight over the development of a new economic center. In the midst of this, she receives blackmail photos of an overnight fling she had with a stranger and threats of blackmail. On top of all this, the city is under siege by a serial killer who hunts powerful women. When the FBI moves in for the investigation, the chief officer (Ted Wass) turns out to be the stranger. Ralph Waite shows up as a friend of the mayor pressuring her for the development. Elaine Stritch plays her mother, Hector Elizondo is the city attorney, and William Lucking is the police chief
Guy Pehrsson is summoned by his grandfather to return to the farming community of his childhood. He arrives from the City to find that his mother has finally left his alcoholic and abusive father and now lives among the Indians, Guy's childhood friends and neighbours. He also discovers friction between the white farmers and the local Indians, now faced with the choice of selling or retaining their land. A choice made harder by poverty. Guy's boyhood friend, Tom Redfox, leads those Indians who wish to keep their land. Against the background of ensuing confrontation, Guy becomes reacquainted with his estranged parents, his childhood friends and old values, leading to a tragedy that affect the whole community.
Frank Hayward
Two teenage girls are locked up for a minor offence by a harsh judge who thinks a night in jail will do them good. It's a traumatizing experience that includes an assault. Afterwards, one of the girls and her family seek justice against an unfair legal system.
Tommy O'Bannon
The stylish editor of a fashion magazine and a rumpled sports reporter endeavor to keep their somewhat offbeat romance on a purely platonic level.
Executive Producer
The stylish editor of a fashion magazine and a rumpled sports reporter endeavor to keep their somewhat offbeat romance on a purely platonic level.
John Walton
Most of the Waltons have split up in the days approaching Thanksgiving 1947. But most of the family begins to arrive at Walton's Mountain begging with John-Boy recovering from a case of writers block in New York followed by Jason now a struggling musician as well as John Walton whom tries to get everyone together for the special event for Elizabeth, while newlyweds Erin and Paul plan to move out of the Walton homestead.
John Walton
Mary Ellen marries Jonesy but they don't exactly have a good start.
John Walton
Erin Walton is considering marrying her boyfriend Paul but her old boyfriend Ashley, who left for the war and married someone else, lived through his wife's death and would like to get Erin back, but Paul is not going to give her up so easily. Also Mary Ellen's boyfriend Jonesy who's a veterinarian is trying to establish a practice but everybody doesn't think he is competent. And Ben who has been minding the lumber business while their father's with their ailing mother in Arizona is having some problems and everybody's worried that he's digging himself a hole that he might not get out of.
Father Bernard Pagano
Based on the real-life ordeal of Baltimore priest Bernard Pagano, who was accused of several armed robberies in the late Seventies.
Jared Teeter
Jared Teeter has to work in a forced labor camp in Florida to make ends meet. "Angel City" is no place for the faint of heart.
Producer
Sam, a recovering alcoholic, feels dissatisfied with his life of sobriety and goes back in search of the good times he enjoyed with his wino friends on "the Nickel" of Los Angeles' skid row.
Writer
Sam, a recovering alcoholic, feels dissatisfied with his life of sobriety and goes back in search of the good times he enjoyed with his wino friends on "the Nickel" of Los Angeles' skid row.
C.G.
Sam, a recovering alcoholic, feels dissatisfied with his life of sobriety and goes back in search of the good times he enjoyed with his wino friends on "the Nickel" of Los Angeles' skid row.
Director
Sam, a recovering alcoholic, feels dissatisfied with his life of sobriety and goes back in search of the good times he enjoyed with his wino friends on "the Nickel" of Los Angeles' skid row.
Floyd Wing
A conservative, Midwestern farmer rallies his neighbors against a power company planning to erect huge towers across their land, and a political activist schoolteacher helps them organize into an effective bloc.
Henry Stone
A computer at a nuclear power plant malfunctions and receives erroneous information of a radiation leak. It seals off the compound, trapping the crew inside.
John Chapman
The true story of John Chapman, a college president who took a sabbatical and went out and got a job as a general laborer, to try to experience life outside his well-ordered but insulated college environment.
Mathews
Cuando el detective Lou Torrey es trasladado a Los Angeles, descubre que un mafioso siciliano contrata a veteranos del Vietnam para asesinar a todos sus enemigos.
Drummer
Bickford Waner, aparentemente un joven ingenuo de Fort Worth, llega a la pequeña ciudad tejana de Dime Box y se gana la vida con pequeños trabajos. Hace amistad con Reese Ford y su mujer Molly. Pronto Molly seduce a Bickford. Solamente con la llegada de Janet Conforto, antigua novia de Bickford, se descubre que él es realmente el famoso ladrón de trenes Kid Blue. Humillado por el escándalo creciente de su asunto con la mujer de su amigo, Bickford comienza a planear un crimen.
Pete Cockrell
"Mr. T" es un rudo detective privado que tiende a tomarse la justicia por su mano, sin dejar de mantener un estilo elegante, vistiendo trajes de marca, conduciendo coches caros y viviendo en un apartamento de lujo. Los servicios de "T" son solicitados por Chalky y Pete, dueños de un establecimiento en el barrio que al ser asaltados una y otra vez por unos enmascarados, deciden recurrir a quien se convierte en su única esperanza. "T" está seguro de poder hacer el trabajo de forma correcta, pero las verdaderas intenciones de quienes le han contratado son otras...
Jim Mackay
En la cárcel de Sheridan, en el territorio de Arizona, hay un muchacho de tan sólo 18 años llamado Shelley, que es puesto en libertad a requerimiento de la esposa de Chris, el sheriff. Pero, inmediatamente, el joven se une a la banda del mexicano Juan de Toro y asalta un banco. Durante el atraco, Chris es herido y su esposa secuestrada por la banda de forajidos...
John
Two girls pick up a crazed hitchhiker who may or may not be the serial killer murdering hippies in the area.
Elias Hooker
Chato (Charles Bronson) es un apache mestizo que vive entre dos culturas: por un lado, siente un cierto sentimiento de fidelidad a su tribu; pero, por otro, experimenta una poderosa atracción hacia el mundo de los blancos. Después de matar a un malvado sheriff en defensa propia, se ve obligado a huir perseguido por una partida encabezada por el sanguinario Quincey Whitmore (Jack Palance), un antiguo soldado confederado que ansía ahorcarlo. Son trece hombres contra uno, pero Chato sabe cómo conducirlos hasta territorio Apache, donde la salvaje y cruel naturaleza estará de su parte.
Mace
Una joven de la alta sociedad es secuestrada por unos matones con el objeto de obtener un sustancioso rescate.
Jack Dekker
Jered Maddox, el inflexible sheriff de Bannock (Nuevo México), antepone el cumplimiento de la ley a cualquier otra consideración. En una ocasión en que debe escoltar una caravana, algunos hombres borrachos matan a un anciano. Arrestarlos no será tarea fácil, ya que trabajan para Vincent Bronson, el cacique del lugar.
Olson
The wealthy members of an exclusive backwoods retreat face an existential threat from both a disgruntled former manager as well as a subversive, anarchistic current member.
Detective Cromie
William Popper is the son of a stockbroker and is thoroughly disenchanted with "the system." So much so that even though he can prove that he ran over a woman in his car entirely by accident, he accepts a sentence for manslaughter.
Carl Fidelio Dupea
Robert Dupea, que fue un niño prodigio como pianista, trabaja en unas explotaciones petrolíferas. Cuando vuelve a ver a su hermana, convertida en una famosa pianista, decide volver a sus orígenes y al camino que abandonó.
Peter's father
During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people become very close. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot that has violent results.
Sean Magruder
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)
Lt. Fredericks
The Hilliards are a middle class family whose lives are put in danger when escaped convict Glenn Griffin invades their home. Griffin is crazed, tormenting the Hilliards with his meek brother Hank and sadistic Robish.
Alibi
El impulsivo Luke Jackson ha sido condenado a dos años de trabajos forzados. Su delito fue romper en plena borrachera un poste de aparcamiento. La vida en el penal es durísima: tiene que convivir con presos condenados por delitos muy graves y, además, la violencia tanto de los presos como de los carceleros se ha convertido en un hábito imposible de erradicar. Luke, es un veterano de guerra que no está dispuesto a ceder, pero tendrá que pagar un alto precio por seguir siendo quien es.
Man from Toledo
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.