Raye Birk
出生 : 1943-05-27, Flint, Michigan, USA
略歴
Raye Birk (born May 27, 1943, Flint, Michigan) is an American film and television actor best known for playing the role of Pahpshmir in the first and last of the Naked Gun movies. He was the main villain in Naked Gun 331⁄3: The Final Insult. He has also starred in Due South as the terrorist Francis Bolt in the Episodes "All the Queens Horses", "Red, White and Blue", "Call of the Wild Part One" and "Call of the Wild Part Two". He also had roles in the X-Files and Babylon 5. His other film credits include roles in Best Defense (1984), Amazon Women on the Moon (1987), Throw Momma from the Train (1987), Doc Hollywood (1991) and Star Trek: Insurrection (1998).
In addition to these roles, he had a frequently occurring role as the assistant principal on The Wonder Years; starting with the pilot episode, when he had a conference with Kevin Arnold's parents for throwing food in the cafeteria. While generally antagonist, a more sympathetic role on the show was seen in the award winning episode "Goodbye" where he confides in Kevin that he is Kevin's new math teacher as Kevin's hardnosed algebra teacher has just died. He was also on a pair of Home Improvement episodes as one of Tim's poker buddies. Raye appeared in several episodes on the TV series Night Court. He appeared twice on The Golden Girls, both times playing a wedding caterer.
Furthermore, in 1985, 1986 and 1992, he appeared on three episodes of Cheers as Walt Twitchell, a mailman who got into minor altercations with Cliff Clavin. Birk reprised the role of Twitchell in a 2002 episode of the Cheers spinoff series, Frasier, in which the title character (played by Kelsey Grammer) returned to Boston and re-acquainted himself with old friends from the bar. He played a recurring role on Coach as university band director Riley Pringle from 1989 to 1993. He also appeared in an episode of Mr. Belvedere as an accordion player.
In 2004–2008, he played Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis.
Raye has been married to his wife Candace Barrett for 41 years. They have one son, Joshua, who is a professor of medieval history.
In the face of the killings and assaults on black lives, a mother is determined to keep her two sons safe once they've moved to a new neighborhood.
Dr. Len Shapiro
It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances Sy Ableman.
Postal Clerk
Set in 1920, Inge travels from Germany to rural Minnesota in order to meet the man destined to be her husband.
Heathercliff
This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of "Factotum" author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing. Along the way, he fends off the distractions offered by women, drinking and gambling.
Son'a Doctor
地球の中世時代のよう牧歌的な雰囲気をもつバクー人の惑星で調査活動を続けていたアンドロイドのデータ少佐に異変が起きた。実はバクー星は、基地も隊員もホログラム映像で偽装し、惑星連邦とソーナ人が共同で密かに観察していたのだ。誤作動が起こったデータはホログラムを解除、隊員達を人質にしてしまった。エンタープライズ号艦長ピカードはバクーに駆けつけ、ソーナ人のルアフォ総統に破壊されようとしていたデータを何とか回収した。ピカードはデータ誤作動の原因を解明していくうちに、バクー人の惑星は不老不死をもたらす特殊な放射線に包まれており、ゾーナ人が連邦のダワティ提督と共謀してバクー人を強制移住させ、永遠の若さの秘密を手に入れようと企んでいたことがわかった。この計画を阻止すべく、ピカードたちは連邦に逆らってでもこの惑星を守ることを決意、ゾーナの巨大戦艦2隻と戦いを繰り広げる。
John Davies
This is a story of Jimmy, a high school senior, who is struggling with his school life, family pressures, future choices. When it becomes too much, Jimmy kills himself.
Gary Dedmarch
A cop taking personal leave after he witnesses money stolen from the police property room becomes involved with a beautiful singer who may have killed her husband.
Michael, a young autistic boy who has trouble with verbalization but a real talent for technology, uses a computer to plead for help after being molested at his school.
Papshmir
ドレビン刑事は出会いと別れを繰り返したジェーンとついに結婚し、警察を辞職して専業主夫になる道を選ぶ。だが元同僚のホッケン署長らに、刑事への復職と、刑務所に服役中の爆弾魔ロッコのセクシーな恋人タニヤの身辺捜査を依頼される。ドレビンが復職したら離婚するというジェーンとの約束を破ってしまったため、ジェーンは家出するが、ドレビンはロッコの次なる陰謀を知るべく、ロッコがいる刑務所に受刑者となって潜入するが？
Principal Kratz
Duncan is a genius straight A student, Blade is juvenile delinquent. But because of a mix up with their school records, everyone thinks each is the other one. Now, Duncan kind of likes the attention from being thought of as a real bad dude, if only the school bully would stop trying to rough him up. And Blade definitely likes being thought of as important instead of as trouble.
Simon Tidwell, First Patient
After leaving Washington D.C. hospital, plastic surgeon Ben Stone heads for California, where a lucrative practice in Beverly Hills awaits. After a car accident, he's sentenced to perform as the community's general practitioner.
Dr. Frenzel
Based on a true story, an adoring wife and mother is taken hostage during a robbery and brutally murdered.
Judge Brown
The classic comic book characters created by John L. Goldwater are brought to tv in a slightly older version. Here the characters are adults returning to their high school reunion and remembering old times and romances from good old Riverdale High
Joseph Kilminster
A profile of the astronauts, crew, and civilians who were involved in the January 28, 1986 flight of the spaceship, Challenger, that resulted in its explosion upon takeoff. The center point of the film is the safety inspections and arguments surrounding the use of the o-rings that ultimately were blamed for the explosion.
Sam Morgan
Ken Malansky, a law student of Perry Mason's, is accused of murdering a fellow student. Perry is reluctant to take on his case as the victim was the son of a close friend.
Pahpshmir
ロサンゼルス市警のドレビン刑事は、自分が有能なタフガイだと信じるが実はそれほどでもなく、むしろトラブルメーカーになりがちだ。そんなとき、ロサンゼルスを英国のエリザベス女王が来訪する。一方、ドレビンはヘロイン密輸事件を捜査していてある財閥を調べるが、その過程で知り合った美女ジェーンと親密になり、彼女と恋に落ちてしまう。やがてドレビンは、何者かがエリザベス女王の暗殺計画を進行させていると気付く。
Pinsky
ハリウッドの2大コメディアン、ビリー・クリスタルとダニー・デヴィートが妙演を繰り広げるドタバタのサスペンス・コメディ映画。大学で創作を教えるある男が、自身の傑作小説を妻に持ち逃げされ……。
Vanya
Acclaimed director John Landis (Animal House, The Blues Brothers) presents this madcap send-up of late night TV, low-budget sci-fi films and canned-laughter-filled sitcoms packed with off-the-wall sketches that will have you in stitches. Centered around a television station which features a 1950s-style sci-fi movie interspersed with a series of wild commercials, wacky shorts and weird specials, this lampoon of contemporary life and pop culture skewers some of the silliest spectacles ever created in the name of entertainment. A truly outrageous look at the best of the worst that television has to offer.
The Jogger
Bernice "Bernie" Rhodenbarr is a burglar by trade, and she runs a bookstore as well. Her friend Carl Hefler is a dog groomer. After a successful burglary, it's discovered that a dead body was in the house she burgled. As she's the only one who can be placed at the scene of the crime, she has to use her criminal skills to clear her name of the murder AND avoid getting charged with the burglary.
George Larson
Steven and Laura Harding, along with their kids David and Mary, have moved to the quiet community of Stepford. Steven joins the men's club, which is still assimilating their wives into robots. This time, they have begun to turn their out of control teens into robots as well. Once they are assimilated, they are obedient, homework loving, big band dancing droids. Laura, David, and Mary stumble onto this mystery, and they must avoid Steven's plans to turn them into robots.
Harding
Laura Daniels, single and bored, finds new interest in life when she discovers an old ouija board. It appears, however, that the object's previous owner was murdered - and messages from beyond warn Laura that she may be next. 1985 made-for-TV thriller starring Kathleen Beller & Michael Brandon.
Dowdy
Set aboard a navy cargo ship during World War II, this comedic drama follows Lt. Doug Roberts (Robert Hays, Airplane!), who battles boredom and a tyrannical captain to the admiration of Ensign Pulver, Doc, and the crew.
Marley's Ghost
Televised stage performance based on Charles Dickens' novella.
Mort Catafalque
A gas is let loose upon the world that kills anyone over 25 years old.
