Jeff Conaway
Nacimiento : 1950-10-05, New York City, New York, USA
Muerte : 2011-05-27
Historia
Jeffrey Charles William Michael Conaway is an American actor, best known for his roles in the movie Grease, and the US TV series Taxi and Babylon 5. He also directed the 1992 film Bikini Summer 2.
Jeff spent time of his time living with his grandparents in South Carolina, which gave him enough of a Southern accent that when he accompanied his mother to a casting call for director Arthur Penn's Broadway play All the Way Home, a story set in Knoxville, Tennessee, the 10-year-old Conaway landed a featured role as one of four boys. The 1961 Pulitzer Prize-winning play was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play and ran 333 performances and one preview from November 29, 1960, to September 16, 1961.Conaway remained for the entire run, then toured with the national company of the play Critic's Choice.
Conaway worked as a child model, and attended high school at the Quintano School for Young Professionals. He attended the North Carolina School of the Arts and later transferred to New York University. While at NYU, he appeared in television commercials and had the lead in a school production of The Threepenny Opera. He made his movie debut in the 1971 romantic drama Jennifer on My Mind, which also featured future stars Robert De Niro and Barry Bostwick.
The following year Conaway appeared in the original cast of the Broadway musical Grease, as an understudy to several roles including that of the lead male character, Danny Zuko, and eventually succeeded role-originator Barry Bostwick. He played the role for 2 1/2 years while his friend John Travolta, with whom he shared a manager, later joined the show, playing the supporting role of Doody. After breaking into series television in 1975 with Happy Days, followed by guest spots in several other TV shows, and three more movies including Grease, he was cast as aspiring actor Bobby Wheeler on Taxi, which premiered in fall 1978.
Conaway starred in the short-lived 1983 fantasy-spoof series Wizards and Warriors. He made guest appearances on such shows as Barnaby Jones, George & Leo and Murder, She Wrote. He appeared inJawbreaker, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark and Do You Wanna Know a Secret? He also played Mick Savage on The Bold and the Beautiful. From 1994 to 1999, he played Zack Allan on Babylon 5. In addition to acting, Conaway dabbled in music. In the mid-1960s, he was the lead singer and guitarist for a rock band, The 3 1/2, which recorded four singles for Cameo Records in 1966 and 1967.
On May 11, 2011, Conaway was found unconscious from what was initially described as an overdose of substances believed to be pain medication and was treated in Encino, California, where he was listed in critical condition. The actor was suffering not from a drug overdose but rather from pneumonia with sepsis, for which he was placed into an induced coma. On May 26, 2011, Conaway's family took him off life support after doctors determined they could do nothing to revive him. Conaway died the following morning at the age of 60.
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Kenickie
The story behind the classic movie musical. The programme examines the original stage musical in the early 1970s, which starred a young Richard Gere, and the changes that occurred between stage and screen, including the addition of several new songs and toning down the original show's darker elements. Plus, a look at some of the actors who could have played the roles made famous by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John.
Circles Introduction (voice)
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Tom Doyle
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Self
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Sheriff Dan Patterson
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Agent Frank Gun
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Self
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Agent Owen Sacker
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Self (uncredited)
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Zack Allen
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Marcie's Father
Tres de las más populares estudiantes del Instituto Reagan matan accidentalmente a la reina del baile de graduación con un caramelo. La broma de cumpleaños se convierte en una tragedia que es descubierta por la empollona de la clase. Para evitar que les delate, la convertirán en la jefa del grupo. Comedia que parodia los filmes de terror ambientados en las High Schools americanas.
Zack Allen
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Zack Allen
Susan Ivanova discovers a derelict spaceship in hyperspace. They tow it back to Babylon 5, then strange things start happening. People are being telepathically taken over by aliens from another (third)space.
Bixby
Kitt Devereaux (Melanie Griffith) es una famosa abogada criminalista de Los Angeles gracias a su participación en procesos sensacionalistas por asesinato y abusos sexuales. A pesar de querer dejarlo asume el caso de un latino acusado de matar a la hija de un multimillonario, lo que que le conducirá a tener que enfrentarse con su antiguo amante, que ahora es ayudante del Fiscal del Distrito. (FILMAFFINITY)
Jagger
A soft-core film involving cybersex.
Never officially released, this stars Jeff Conaway and Gini Dante as exploitation filmmakers having a little improvised "My Dinner With Andre" style conversation in a restaurant in hell. There are animated bits and Julie Strain has a co-starring part and gets to sodomize a man. Often confused with "Queen of Lost Island;" another Jackson film made around the same time that itself went unreleased for over a decade until it showed up on DVD under a different title.
Reverend
A deadly virus has ravaged the world's population and uninfected females have become the most valuable commodity on Earth! In this chaotic world, a "new breed" of bounty hunter keeps the international "flesh dealers" supplied with "clean meat." When an exceptionally beautiful, yet dangerous female is located in the western desert, the chase is on, and all hell breaks loose!
Sean
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Rinaldi
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Werner Soehnen
An aspiring actress falls for her leading man and passion ignites. When a series of murders haunts the estate where the actors are filming, her leading man no longer seems to be perfect and she is forced into a deadly choice.
Borman
Un bello demonio se aparece a un grupo de soldados interplanetarios para tentarlos y conducirlos al caos.
Charlie Alderson
Charlie (Conaway) is a happy man with a beautiful wife (Roberts), a wonderful career and every blessing a man could want except "...children". When the wife demands a "star child" and Charlie can't deliver the goods, they turn to their crazy neighbor (Calvin) to get the job done, so to speak. Very hilarious and bawdy comedy where "one rooster to a hen-house" is not always the truth.
Tom Edwards
For reporter Tom Edwards, the eye of the storm was where he least expected it.
Jeffrey Blair
El pelo de Kaitlin es de un rojo ardiente, pero su vida personal es aburrida y monótona. Está casada con un hombre rico metido en política que la ignora para dedicarse a otras mujeres. Shauna, en cambio es rubia, independiente y lleva una vida excitante. Las dos son hermanas y gemelas. Cuando Shauna abandona la ciudad, Kaitlin decide tomar su identidad por las noches, mientras su marido está ausente. Kaitlin disfruta de esta nueva vida hasta que se ve envuelta en un homicidio y un asesino en serie la acosa.
Writer
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Stu Stocker
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Director
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Frank
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Peter Keynes
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Bud Sorenson
Jason (David Naughton) se muda a un vagón de tren abandonado donde resucita al agresivo fantasma del fallecido marido de su casera...El Mister. Tras varios encuentros cuasi fatales con el violento espectro, buscará la ayuda de un exorcista local, Vicent Tuttle (Keving McCarthy).
Cowboy
La ciudad está paralizada por el miedo. Un asesino ha sembrado las calles de cadáveres que aparecen tatuados con un primitivo signo. Jefferson, un hábil y experimentado policía se ha propuesto acabar con el pánico.
Tom Farrell
Una escritora se muda a una casa de la playa de Malibú y se encuentra con el fantasma de una actriz que supuestamente se había suicidado allí 30 años antes, pero que realmente había sido asesinada por su novio. El fantasma pide la ayuda a la escritora para demostrar que su novio fue su asesino.
Taxi driver
Dos hermanas llegan a la nueva casa que su padre viudo comparte con su nueva esposa. La creciente crueldad de la madrastra, unida a las apariciones del fantasma de la madre de las jóvenes, irá creando una atmósfera inquietante.
Sgt. Holt
El mayor Wright (Telly Savalas) es un hombre duro y violento con una fe y lealtad a su país fuera de toda duda. Su misión actual consiste en desbaratar un complot alemán cuyo objetivo es llevar al poder a un poderoso grupo de generales nazis que actúan en nombre del III Reich. El comando lo forman doce presidiarios que sólo tienen dos posibilidades: la libertad o la muerte. Su objetivo: asaltar y destruir un convoy, que es el centro de operaciones de los conspiradores.
Travis
Elvira, una presentadora de televisión de un programa de terror, viaja a Massachussets para recibir la herencia de su fallecida tía Morgana: una casa ruinosa, un perro y un libro de recetas. Poco después, encuentra una misteriosa carta...
Josh McGwin
Linda y Jerry son un matrimonio que se han mudado a un pequeño pueblo costero, donde deciden comprar una vieja casa. En el contrato acuerdan que deben dejar a su antigua dueña, una viejecita, a vivir en la casa de invitados. Pero pronto en el lugar comienzan a pasar cosas extrañas...
Mitchell
Agent tries to track down terrorists who are intercepting government nuclear weapons.
Peter Prentice
A collection of horror stories taking the viewer into the dark world of Stephen King, featuring vampires, strange objects and sinister humor. The five 20-minutes tales were all taken from the Tales from the Darkside TV series and strung together as a video feature.
T.C. Sloane
Young girl enters the modeling industry wanting to becoming "the face of the '80s."
Chuck Lanyard
Kay Dillon, a successful modeling agent, meets the young and handsome ranch hand Tyler Burnett in Nevada. She can't help but notice his incredible good looks and invites him to move to New York and start working for her as a male model. Burnett accepts the invitation and goes to New York to start his modeling career. But Tyler longs for more in life: a woman to love and his own ranch. Can he remain the biggest male model in the industry, and still get his heart's desires? Is Kay the woman to give all that to him?
Buddy Walker
A dashing, fast-living country singer almost turns Nashville upside-down after he is kidnapped by a pair of conniving female convicts determined to use him as a passport to freedom.
Russ Moran
An entrepreneur discovers a Russian plan for taking over the Middle East. He wants to use it to create a new video game but the KGB, the CIA and the FBI have different ideas.
Roy Fletcher
Six buddies spend the summer together at a Malibu beach house after each has separated from his wife at about the same time.
Kenickie
Sandy y Danny han pasado un romántico y maravilloso verano juntos, pero las vacaciones se acabaron y sus caminos se separaron. Al regresar al instituto Rydell, ambos vuelven a encontrarse de manera sorpresiva, pero el problema es que la imagen y actitud de Danny no es la misma que durante el verano: ya no es el encantador y atento chico que encandiló a Sandy, sino alguien engreído e insensible que sólo quiere presumir de duro delante de sus amigos.
Willie
Pedro, un joven huérfano, huye a un pueblo de pescadores de Maine con su mejor amigo - un dragón entrañable, y a veces invisible llamado Elliott. Un amable farero (Mickey Rooney), y su hija Nora deciden alojarlos. Pero una broma de Elliott les mete en grandes problemas. Cuando unos vendedores sin escrúpulos tratan de capturar Elliott, Pedro debe intentar un audaz rescate.
A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.
Terry Nicholas
Delta County is a staid Southern community caught between the old traditions and a rapidly changing way of life. For teenagers Terry Nicholas, his sister McCain, and Joe Ed, the boy from the wrong side of the tracks that she's attracted to, the old traditions have little meaning in their lives. Their elders, struggling to preserve values of an older day, have personal problems that are sometimes overwhelming, such as the one facing John McCain Jr., an alcoholic whose wife Kate is having a hidden and torrid romance that sets her husband off on a vengeance-seeking spree.
Frazier
En plena Segunda Guerra Mundial, Hitler se propone asestar un golpe mortal a la moral inglesa: el asesinato de Winston Churchill. Para ello, el alto mando alemán envía a Inglaterra a un comando de paracaidistas de élite, disfrazados como soldados norteamericanos, cuya misión es acabar con la vida del Primer Ministro aprovechando los planes de este de pasar un fin de semana en una apartada mansión en la campiña.
Minstrel #2
A rich American boy meets a rich American girl in Venice and tragically leads her into drug abuse.
A bungled bank robbery puts two cops - one Russian and one American on the trail of the Russian Mafia crime family operating out of L.A. The Russian police officer, an elite agent from Moscow, has been tracking these gangsters since they burdered his family two years earlier. When the Mafia lord realises he is after then, they kidnap his American partner's wife and two young daughters, holding them hostage. The price of their freedom is the Russian agent's life...
