James Tolkan

James Tolkan

出生 : 1931-06-20, Calumet, Michigan, USA

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Fiery, forceful and intimidating character actor James Tolkan has carved out a nice little niche for himself in both movies and television alike as a formidable portrayer of fierce and flinty hard-boiled tough guy types. James Stewart Tolkan was born on June 20, 1931 in Calumet, Michigan. His father, Ralph M. Tolkan, was a cattle dealer. James attended the University of Iowa, Coe College and Eastern Arizona College. After serving a year-long stint in the United States Navy, Tolkan went to New York and studied acting with both Lee Strasberg and Stella Adler at the Actors Studio. Short and bald, with beady, intense eyes, a wiry, compact, muscular build, a gruff, jarring, high-decibel voice, and an aggressive, confrontational, blunt-as-a-battle-ax, rough-around-the-edges demeanor, Tolkan has been often cast as rugged, cynical no-nonsense cops, mean, domineering authority figures, and various ruthless and dangerous criminals. Tolkan first began acting in movies in the late 1960s and was highly effective in two pictures for Sidney Lumet: He was a rabidly homophobic police lieutenant in the superbly gritty Serpico (1973) and a sneaky district attorney in the equally excellent Prince of the City (1981). Best known as the obnoxiously overzealous high school principal Gerard Strickland in the Back to the Future films, Tolkan's other most memorable roles include Napolean in Woody Allen's Love and Death (1975), a ramrod army officer in WarGames (1983), mayor Robert Culp's mordant, wisecracking assistant in Turk 182 (1985), the hard-nosed Stinger in Top Gun (1986), the choleric Detective Lubric in Masters of the Universe (1987), meek mob accountant Numbers in Dick Tracy (1990), and Wesley Snipes' bullish superior in Boiling Point (1993).

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Val
Self (archive footage)
For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood’s most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors has been documenting his own life and craft through film and video. He has amassed thousands of hours of footage, from 16mm home movies made with his brothers, to time spent in iconic roles for blockbuster movies like Top Gun, The Doors, Tombstone, and Batman Forever. This raw, wildly original and unflinching documentary reveals a life lived to extremes and a heart-filled, sometimes hilarious look at what it means to be an artist and a complex man.
トマホーク ガンマンvs食人族
Pianist
カート・ラッセル主演の西部劇ホラーアクション。荒野に佇むアメリカの田舎町。ある夜、複数の住人が忽然と姿を消し、納屋では体を八つ裂きにされた男の遺体が見つかった。現場に駆け付けた保安官・ハントは、原住民たちによる犯行ではないかと疑い…。
Back in Time
Self
Cast, crew and fans explore the 'Back to the Future' time-travel trilogy's resonance throughout our culture—30 years after Marty McFly went back in time.
Phil Spector
Judge Fidler
A drama centered on the relationship between Phil Spector and defense attorney Linda Kenney Baden while the music business legend was on trial for the murder of Lana Clarkson.
Tales from the Future
Self
Six-part retrospective on the making of "Back to the Future" (and its two sequels) for the film's 25th anniversary.
Looking Back to the Future
Self
A 9-part retrospective documentary from 2009 on the trilogy’s legacy.
Looking Back to the Future
Thanks
A 9-part retrospective documentary from 2009 on the trilogy’s legacy.
Heavens Fall
Thomas Knight, Sr.
Successful New York attorney Sam Leibowitz travels to the South in 1933 to defend nine young black men accused of raping two women on an Alabama freight train.
Seven Times Lucky
Dutch
An aging con-man and a beautiful, ambitious student cross paths in a scam that promises to make them both rich.
Underworld
Dan 'Iceberg' Eagan
A crook sets out to get revenge on the thugs who hurt his father in this bloody noir-style crime drama. After being released from prison, Johnny Crown (Denis Leary) goes after Frank (Joe Mantegna), one of the mobsters involved in a series of Father's Day killings. But Johnny isn't certain Frank is responsible for his father's injuries and seeks help from a sex therapist (Annabella Sciorra) to make sure he's got the right man.
Robo Warriors
Quon
The year is 2036 and Earth has been invaded: hope lies with the last Robo Warrior - a towering fighting machine.
Sketch Artist II: Hands That See
Tonelli
Police sketch artist Jack Whitfield helps blind rape victim Emmy describe her attacker – a serial rapist and murderer who is now out to get her.
Boiling Point
Levitt
Red is an aging scam-artist who's just been released from prison together with Ronnie, a young and not-so-bright hoodlum who is easily manipulated. Their new business is to organize fake-money sales and then kill the buyer to take his money; but when Ronnie kills an undercover secret service agent, his partner Jimmy Mercer vows revenge and is given one week to catch the killers before being transferred. Written by Giancarlo Cairella
Bloodfist IV: Die Trying
Agent Sterling
When Danny unknowingly repossesses the car of a powerful arms merchant, it sets off a chain of violent retaliation. After his friends are killed and his daughter is kidnapped, Danny takes matters into his own hands. It does not matter that the CIA and the FBI are also involved the Dragon's fire is in his fists!
Sketch Artist
Tonelli
A sketch artist for the police helps a witness recall who she saw leaving the scene of a murder, and discovers that the person is his wife. Not willing to believe she was responsible, he resketches the pictures so they don't look like her, and he begins his own investigation of the murder.
プロブレム・チャイルド2
Mr. Thron
Junior and his father, Ben, move from Cold River to Mortville. Junior becomes threatened by Ben's desire to date again and find a new mother for Junior, and sabotages each of his dates.
Driving Me Crazy
Vince
US-American comedy from the year 1991 with Thomas Gottschalk in the lead role. The German TV host plays an East German who can get his Trabi reach speeds of up to 250 and uses environmentally friendly turnip juice as fuel. In the USA, he wants to make it big with his invention. There, he gets caught up in a series of screw-ups.
Hangfire
When a large group of escaped convicts take Ike Slayton, a Vietnam veteran's wife hostage, Slayton enlists the help of his old army friend in a furious search to find her, while a hard-nosed National Guardsman leads a platoon of solders determined to kill or capture all the convicts, even if it means killing all the hostages in the crossfire.
バック・トゥ・ザ・フューチャー PART3
Marshal Strickland
スティーブン・スピルバーグとロバート・ゼメキスが贈るSFアドベンチャーシリーズ第3弾。落雷によって1885年にタイムスリップしてしまったドクを追い、マーティは西部開拓時代へ向かうのだが…。
ディック・トレイシー
Numbers
1930年代、悪がはびこる犯罪都市で心優しきタフな刑事とみなしごキッド少年が正義の為に立ち上がる。しかし2人の行く手を阻むのは、かつてないギャングたちの集結であった・・・。ウォーレン・ベイティ率いる超豪華キャストで贈る『ディック・トレイシー』。特撮シーン満載、ユニークで美しい色彩と映像でつくりあげた、スリルいっぱいのおしゃれなアクション・アドベンチャー!!
Opportunity Knocks
Sal
Eddie and Lou are a couple of two-bit con men on the lam from a loan shark. They hide out in someone's house and they hear on the answering machine that (A) the owner of the house is out of the country for a month or two and (B) the housesitter supposed to watch the house for the absent owner won't be able to watch the house due to a new job in another part of the country. This provides for a pretty nifty arrangement for Eddie and Lou...until the relatives of the house owner drop by to visit. Eddie quickly adopts the guise of the person supposedly housesitting for the owner, and the shenanigans start from there.
ファミリービジネス
Judge
老いてなお犯罪に手を染めることにスリルを感じる祖父。それに反発する息子。だがそのまた息子はおじいちゃんの仕事に興味シンシン。ショーン・コネリー、ダスティン・ホフマン、マシュー・ブロデリックという3世代の名優が共演して話題を集めた。
バック・トゥ・ザ・フューチャー PART2
Strickland
スティーブン・スピルバーグとロバート・ゼメキスが贈るSFアドベンチャーシリーズ第2弾。現代に戻って来たマーティは、2015年から帰って来たドクに連れられ今度は未来へタイムスリップすることに。
Ministry of Vengeance
Colonel Freeman
David Miller is a Vietnam vet who renounced violence and became a minister after he was forced to blow up a Viet Cong kid in self defense, but years later, when David's wife Gail and daughter Kim are killed by a group of terrorists led by Ali Aboud, in a massacre at an airport in Rome, Italy, David is devastated. Going against his faith, David sets out to find and kill Ali Aboud.
Second Sight
Coolidge
Wills is an ex-cop who pairs up with Bobby, a wacky psychic, to form the "Second Sight Detective Agency." Bobby's clairvoyant abilities come in handy during their investigations. When a nun recruits them for a case involving car theft, they suddenly find themselves dealing with the abduction of a prominent cardinal who has a chance of becoming the next pope. Bobby's psychic powers go haywire as they pursue the case.
True Blood
Det. Joseph Hanley
Ray Trueblood, member of a street gang, is framed by an enemy of a rival gang, Billy "Spider" Masters. Ray is accused of killing a cop and he has to escape leaving behind his little brother, Donny. Ten years later Ray returns to his neighborhood to take his brother with him, but things are worse than he could expect: his brother, now 18 years old, hates him and is a member of Billy Masters' gang. Furthermore, Billy Masters is looking for revenge and... the police is still after Ray for the murder of the police officer.
The Case of the Hillside Stranglers
Lt. Ed Henderson
The chilling true story of the "two of a kind" killing cousins, Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, better known as the Hillside Stranglers.
Question of Faith
Doctor Siegel
A woman struck down by terminal cancer shuns conventional medical techniques at her husband's insistence and turns to alternative treatment to combat the disease.
Split Decisions
Benny Pistone
When a boxer is killed because he wouldn't take a dive, his brother tries to find a way to avenge him even if only symbolically.
Weekend War
Dr. Alex Thompson
A group of reservists ("weekend warriors") are sent to Honduras to build a runway. Shortly after arriving an engineering group is sent to a small village to repair a bridge as a favor for the US Ambassador; at this point Captain John Deason begins to question who he is really building the bridge for...
Viper
William Tansey
After Laura's husband James is murdered, she decides to find out who did it and why. She finds herself in a fight against an anti-terrorist organization in her desire for revenge.
Made in Heaven
Mr. Bjornstead
Deceased drifter Mike arrives in Heaven and quickly falls for newborn soul Annie, soon to start her assignment on Earth. When Annie leaves, Mike follows.
マスターズ/超空の覇者
Detective Lubic
The world of Eternia in the aftermath of Skeletor's war on Castle Grayskull, which he has won after seizing Grayskull and the surrounding city using a cosmic key developed by the locksmith Gwildor. The Sorceress is now Skeletor's prisoner and he begins to drain her life-force as he waits for the moon of Eternia to align with the Great Eye of the Universe that will bestow god-like power upon him.
Armed and Dangerous
Lou Brackman
After policeman Frank Dooley is framed for theft and loses his job on the force, he joins a security guard agency and teams up with inept former defense lawyer Norman Kane. When the two botch a job guarding a local warehouse, they begin to uncover corruption within the company and their union.
トップガン
Cmdr. Tom 'Stinger' Jardian
カリフォルニア州ミラマー海軍航空基地。そこにF-14トムキャットを操る世界最高のパイロットたちを養成する訓練学校、通称“トップガン”がある。若きパイロットのマーヴェリックもパートナーのグースとともにこのトップガン入りを果たし、自信と野望を膨らませる。日々繰り返される厳しい訓練も、マーヴェリックはグースとの絶妙なコンビネーションで次々と課題をクリアしていく。しかしライバルのアイスマンは、彼の型破りな操縦を無謀と指摘する。その一方で、マーヴェリックは新任の女性教官チャーリーに心奪われていく。
Off Beat
Harry
Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer/friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance performance. Gower agrees to take his place in the show by posing as a police officer. He falls for a female officer in the show and gets into various scrapes with fellow cops and also crooks. And he dances.
Flanagan
Turner
Aging New York cabbie Flanagan still has hopes of making it as a stage actor. He can recite any Shakespeare sonnet and is facile with accents, but he can't land an agent or a job. During the course of one summing-it-all-up day, he drives his cab around the city dealing with fare evaders, an insolent stage manager determined to keep him from auditioning for his choice director, his estranged wife who has a new lover, his mistress who seems awfully close to her "drawing teacher", and two teenage sons whose bright visions of the future don't seem to include jobs. If he can only cope with all the annoyances of this day, maybe he can deal with the limitations in his abilities and his future.
バック・トゥ・ザ・フューチャー
Mr. Strickland
スティーブン・スピルバーグとロバート・ゼメキスが贈るSFアドベンチャーシリーズ第1弾。高校生のマーティは、科学者・ドクの発明したタイムマシン・デロリアンで過去にタイムスリップしてしまう。
Turk 182!
Hanley
After New York City firefighter Terry Lynch is unable to receive any compensation for an injury incurred during the off-duty rescue of a young girl, he grows suicidal. Furious, his brother Jimmy attempts to have Mayor Tyler intervene, but the corrupt politician instead denounces Terry as a drunk. Determined to get justice, Jimmy begins a graffiti campaign of embarrassing slogans mocking the mayor, which soon captivates the city.
ザ・リバー
Howard Simpson
アメリカ南部の農村地帯を襲った記録的な豪雨。農業不況の中で先祖伝来の農地を守ろうとする若い農民一家は、家族で力をあわせてこの窮地を乗り切ろうとするのだが……。あらゆる困難に立ち向かう男を描いた、力感あふれる人間ドラマ。
Iceman
Maynard
A team of Arctic researchers find a 40,000 year-old man frozen in ice and bring him back to life. Anthropologist Dr. Stanley Shephard wants to befriend the Iceman and learn about the man's past while Dr. Diane Brady and her surgical team want to discover the secret that will allow man to live in a frozen state.
ウォー・ゲーム
Wigan
コンピュータ・マニアの高校生デビッドは,ゲーム会社のネットワークに不正アクセスして発売前の最新ゲームを盗み出そうとする。アクセスに成功し画面に現れたのは,あらゆる状況を想定した戦争シミュレーションのリストだった。大喜びのデビッドは「全面熱核戦争」を選びゲームを始める。攻撃目標はラスベガスと地元シアトルだ。同時刻、北米大陸防空司令部の戦略コンピュータは、ラスベガスとシアトルに核ミサイルが接近中とのミサイル警報を発令する。
Author! Author!
Lt. Glass
A broadway playwright is burning the candle at both ends. He is dealing with pressure from a production nearing premiere, a wife who is leaving him, and 5 children 4 of which belong to her.
Hanky Panky
Conferee
The complete innocent, Michael Jordon, is drawn into a web of secrecy and government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him. When she is later murdered, Michael is the chief suspect and on the run.
プリンス・オブ・シティ
George Polito
New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice help eliminate corruption in the police department, as long as he will not have to turn in any close friends. In doing so, Ciello uncovers a conspiracy within the force to smuggle drugs to street informants.
Wolfen
Baldy
A New York City cop and an expert criminologist trying to solve a series of grisly deaths in which the victims have seemingly been maimed by feral animals discover a sinister connection between the crimes and an old legend.
悪魔の棲む家
Coroner
1974年、ロングアイランドのアミティヴィルで実際に起きた超常現象を題材にしたベストセラー・ノンフィクションの映画化。悪霊に取り憑かれた家とも知らずに越してきた平凡な一家を襲う怪異な出来事を、セミ・ドキュメンタリー・タッチと随所に差し挟まれるダイナミックな演出で見せる。
Love and Death
Napoleon
In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.
セルピコ
Steiger
熱い情熱をたぎらせ仕事に燃える新人刑事セルピコ。だが警察内部では汚職が横行し、やがて彼は孤立していく……。『ゴッド・ファーザー』で注目されたアル・パチーノの若かりしころの名演が見られる。
The Werewolf of Washington
Dark Glasses
After being unknowingly inflicted with the bite of a werewolf while on a visit to Europe, White House press secretary Jack Whittier begins to turn into a deadly beast by night, terrorizing Washington D.C. and presenting a very deadly threat to the President.
エディ・コイルの友人たち
The Man's contact man
An aging hood is about to go back to prison. Hoping to escape his fate, he supplies information on stolen guns to the feds, while simultaneously supplying arms to his bank robbing chums.
They Might Be Giants
Mr. Brown
Every hero has a weakness, and Sherlock Holmes' weakness was Moriarty. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson solve mysteries and search for Moriarty in 1970s New York City. The fact that Sherlock Holmes is a psychotic paranoid and Dr. Watson is a female psychiatrist fascinated by his case is almost beside the point.
Stiletto
Edwards
A rich, jet-setting playboy has a secret life: he's also a professional Mafia hitman. When he decides it's time to retire from that life, he finds that his former employers don't like the idea that someone who knows so much about them won't be under their control anymore, and decide to send their own hitmen to eliminate him.
The Three Sisters
In a small Russian town at the turn of the century, three sisters and their brother live but dream daily of their return to their former home in Moscow, where life is charming and stimulating meaningful. But for now they exist in a malaise of dissatisfaction. Soldiers from the local military post provide them some companionship and society, but nothing can suffice to replace Moscow in their hopes. Andrei marries a provincial girl, Natasha, and begins to settle into a life of much less meaning than he had hoped. Natasha begins to run the family her way. Masha, though married, yearns for the sophisticated life and begins a dalliance with Vershinin, an army officer with a sick and suicidal wife. Even Irina, the freshest, most optimistic of the sisters, begins to waver in her dreams until, finally, tragedy strikes.