Victor Argo
出生 : 1934-11-05, Brooklyn, New York, USA
死亡 : 2004-04-07
略歴
Victor Argo (November 5, 1934 – April 7, 2004) was a Puerto Rican - American actor who usually played the part of a tough bad guy in his movies.
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Intimate portrait of Abel Ferrara: the result is an eccentric road movie, with the restless film maker as a charming, shabby guide around New York by night.
Salesman
Spiced with surreal, Kafkaesque twists, MUSIC is about a man who loves music and is fascinated by the fair sex. But he is not quite sure why and how he has ended up in this strange hotel room...
Manhattan- as it is every day of the week, year in, year out. Life is pretty routine for Bob, about to turn 70, yet aching for one last fling. Maybe his shrink is right: he should place an ad in the paper and just go out and look for someone. Someone like Angela. Because: This is New York.... Anything can happen... The sky's the limit...
Grant
Being addicted to alcohol, single mother Anna had to give her son to foster parents, but they would "sell" him back if she offers enough money. When she gets to know Pete, the mentally handicapped son of a wealthy author, his father asks her to marry his son for one million dollar.
Lt. Spigot
Ray Pluto has many problems. He is satirized in the tabloids as the "loser cop." His partner is starting to seem suspiciously attracted to him. A pair of screenwriters across the hall keep bugging him for help. The superintendent of his building is stabbed by hoodlums hired by his own rebellious daughter. To top it off, a sexually aggressive chiropractor may just be Ray's undoing.
Louie
A New York drug dealer is kidnapped, and his wife must try to come up with the money and drugs to free him from his abductors before Christmas.
Sydney Simon
どこか浮き足立った雰囲気を醸す感謝祭前日のニューヨーク。精神科医のネイサンは、元同僚のサックス医師から分裂症の患者を診てくれるよう頼まれる。患者は華奢な体つきのエリザベスという少女だったが、彼女はしばしば別の人格が表われ、信じられない力で暴力をふるうという。さっそく面談治療を始めたネイサンだが、その日は意味不明のひとことを聞き出すのがやっとだった。しかし翌日、ネイサンは愛娘ジェシーを誘拐され、犯人から「5時までにエリザベスから6桁の数字を聞き出せ」との要求を受けるのだった…。
Horace
A quirky, romantic New York comedy about the pursuit of love, life and the right to be yourself.
Carl Pogue
A story about a seemingly unlikely couple who cross paths under life-threatening circumstances as though they are destined not only to meet but to save each other's lives. Not once, but twice.
Seymour
How important is the truth when falling in love? Bella is a Manhattan café waitress, about to turn 35, stuck in a long-term affair going nowhere. Paul is a widower, facing old age alone. Bella's mother sets her up with Bruno, a novelist/cabbie who likes to bed-hop and whose ex-wife expects their two children to stay with him for awhile. While Bruno learns some maturity from his young daughter, Paul answers a personals ad placed by a "widow, 60." The two couples - along with one of Paul's older pals and a Jungian stripper - sort out how to initiate a relationship these days, what to do when someone you like disappoints you, and when to tell the truth.
Paul Lazarides
更正を誓い刑務所から出所してきたレオ。叔父の助けで仕事に就くが、汚職や殺人事件などさまざまな事件に巻き込まれていき……。ジェイムズ・グレイ監督が、実際に起こった汚職事件をベースに裏社会を描く社会派サスペンス。
Tony
Hoping to revitalize their marriage, an elderly couple from New York (Gazzara, Moreno) go on vacation to the Catskills.
Mr. Neipris
Privileged teenage friends Jenny, Nell and Stream spend their senior year on a quest to rid Stream of her virginity. However, Stream wants more than just her first sexual experience. She wants to have an orgasm -- but achieving this proves problematic, as the boys she meets are hardly sensitive enough to provide her the release she seeks. When it becomes clear that Nell and Jenny have never experienced an orgasm either, all three set out to get one.
Vinny
江戸時代の武士の心得を書いた書物『葉隠れ』。この本を愛読し武士道の世界に憧れる孤独な暗殺者ゴースト・ドッグ。彼は以前命を助けられたマフィアを主と敬っていたが、「ファミリー内部の人間を消せ」という指令の現場にたまたまボスの娘が居合わせたことがきっかけで、ボスの体面のために命を狙われる羽目になる。
Portugese Business Man
A corporate raider and his henchman use a chanteuse to lure a scientific genius away from his employer and family.
man shaving
Albert is an introverted travel agent living a lonely life in New York. When Louie, his best friend from childhood, appears having just escaped from prison, Albert's quiet existence is permanently disrupted. what ensues is one long, crazy night in New York that will change both their lives forever.
Pierre
This film is about a famous jazz saxophonist, Izzy who's life is forever changed after he is accidentally shot.
Albani Krug
In 24 hours, 5 worlds collide in the forgotten neighborhoods of New York City.
Frank
A lighthearted story about a man and a woman who seem destined to be together... and the hilarious chain of accidents that seem determined to keep them apart!
Spiro
El Cid Rivera is 33 and has never left Manhattan Island; neither have his childhood friends, whom he meets every day at the same bar around the same table. He's tired of his humdrum life and a going-nowhere career. And he's been saddled with the name of an epic hero played on-screen by Charlton Heston (his mother's favorite). Bouncing between dead-end jobs, El Cid struggles to find his calling, yet fears he'll never succeed on the epic scale his mother expects. To find escape, El Cid takes to the empty streets of New York at night - as part of a group who call themselves Asphalt Nomads. He and his fellow travelers cruise Manhattan's 900 miles of open blacktop after midnight in boat-like '70s Buicks and Lincolns to find a sense of control, serenity and briefly, freedom. A tale of self-discovery and the search for purpose
Nick DiMatteo
A former nun who has become a rape counselor defies a court order to release her file on a rape victim.
Julius
The story concerns the funeral of one of three brothers in a family of gangsters that lived in New York in 1930s. Details of the past of the brothers and their families are shown through a series of flashbacks.
Victor Klein
Prison guard falls in love with inmate. She wants him to let her escape.
Vinnie
Auggie runs a small tobacco shop in Brooklyn, New York. The whole neighborhood comes to visit him to buy cigarettes and have some small talk. During the movie Lou Reed tries to explain why he has to have a cut on his health insurance bill if he keeps smoking and Madonna acts as a Singing Telegram.
Vinnie
アメリカを代表する作家ポール・オースターが書き下ろした原作を基に、男たちの中に隠された哀しいロマンティシズムを描いた都会の物語。14年間毎朝同じ時刻に店の前で写真を撮り続けている煙草屋の店長オーギー、彼の馴染みの客で突然の事故により出産まもない妻を失って以来ペンを持てずにいる作家のポール、彼が車に跳ねられそうになった所を助けた黒人少年ラシードの3人を軸に、ブルックリンのとある煙草屋に集まる男達女達の日常を、過去と現在を、嘘と本当を巧みに交差させながら進んでゆく。
Santa Claus
Mercedes is a taxi dancer who wants to be an actress. She's involved with the married Harry, who considers himself a respected actor. Ernesto is in love with Mercedes, but he doesn't dance or have money.
Charlie
Dodger, a criminal monkey, belongs to a crooked street performer but escapes his life of crime only to end up in the arms of Eva, an innocent little girl whose mother has no idea that her daughter is harboring a fugitive.
Scott's Dad
Swearing fidelity to his fiancée, two-faced Scott attempts to bed every woman who crosses his path.
Director of Photography
A New York film director, working on his latest movie in Los Angeles, begins to reflect the actions in his movie and real life, especially when he begins an affair with the lead actress.
Lino Falconetti
A chronicle of an eccentric Italian-American family in New York City in the 1950's and 60's. Young Teresa dreams of joing the convent, over the objections of her family.
Lenny
クラレンス(クリスチャン・スレイター)は、勤め先の店長が誕生日祝いに差し向けたコールガール、アラバマ(パトリシア・アークエット)と恋に落ち、すぐに結婚する。彼女のヒモと話をつけに出向いたクラレンスは成り行きで男を殺してしまい、あわてて持ち帰ったカバンの中には大量の麻薬が入っていた。麻薬を売り金を得ようとする二人に、マフィアと警察が迫り……。
Bet Cop
While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness.
Thriller directed by Romolo Guerrieri and starring Fabio Testi, Michael Nuori, Burt Young and Philippe Leroy. David Sloan is 40 and is a Vietnam veteran unable to accept his violent past. Decides to consult a psychiatrist and gradually begins to understand that there are other things in life besides killing.
Vigilante
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
El Presidente
ベトナム戦争で捕虜となり、処刑寸前の所を救われた男マクベイン。彼はその時の恩人サントスが、南米の革命で命を落としたことを知る。マクベインは、恩人の遺志を継ぎ、革命運動に身を投じるが....
Roy Bishop
A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood.
Skelton
With the aid of his girlfriend, Phyllis Potter, and best friend, Loomis, Grimm enters a Manhattan bank dressed as a clown, creates a hostage situation and executes a flawless robbery. The only thing left for the trio to do is make their getaway out of the city and to the airport. It sounds simple enough, but it seems that fate deserts them immediately after the bank heist. One mishap after another conspires to keep these robbers from reaching freedom.
Detective
人生の後半にさしかかった3人の男たち。ささやかな罪から殺人に及ぶ重大な罪まで、さまざまな罪とそれにおののく彼らの姿を描きながら人生の不条理をも辛辣に考察しているドラマ。
Avram
A writer of BAD detective novels is in full writers' block. He pretends to be the alibi of a beautiful woman who was arrested for murder at first thinking her innocent, but as she shows more and more interesting abilities (such as knife throwing) he begins to doubt his first assessment.
Peter, Apostle
ニューヨークを代表する映画作家、マーティン・スコセッシ監督が新約聖書を独自の解釈でとらえた問題作。救世主イエス・キリストを、苦悩する1人の人間として描いていく。デヴィッド・ボウイの出演にも注目。
Harris
A womanizer meets his match when he falls for the daughter of a gambling addict who is in debt to the mob.
Pablo
A man who spent 20 years in Cuban prison after the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion and a boat captain and his crew go covertly to Cuba to find a cache of gold buried during the invasion. But can they trust each other?
Dangerous Man
アーノルド・シュワルツェネッガー主演の豪快なSFアクション。極秘任務を与えられた元FBI捜査官が、巨大な暗黒街を取り仕切る悪の組織の陰謀を打ち砕く。ド派手なアクションが見モノ。
Leon
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.
Diner Cashier
An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho whom he met that evening at a coffee shop.
Sgt. Taskal
Roberta is a bored suburban housewife who is fascinated with a woman, Susan, she only knows about by reading messages to and from her in the personals section of the newspaper. This fascination reaches a peak when an ad with the headline "Desperately Seeking Susan" proposes a rendezvous. Roberta goes too, and in a series of events involving amnesia and mistaken identity, steps into Susan's life.
Victor Rawlins
During shopping for Christmas, Frank and Molly run into each other. This fleeting short moment will start to change their lives, when they recognize each other months later in the train home and have a good time together. Although both are married and Frank has two little kids, they meet more and more often, their friendship becoming the most precious thing in their lives.
Pallbearer
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.
Ramirez
TV movie 1981 Vacationing Georgia construction worker (John Schneider) meets and falls for Manhattan's comely Director of Urban Renewal (Marilu Henner) and despite her initial rejection of him, sets out to build a dream house for both of them.
Lockerman
Rock-and-roll singer Mary Rose Foster's romantic relationships and mental health are continuously imperilled by the demands of life on the road.
Tony
A portrait of a young man, Michael, so obsessed with death that he decorates his room with a life-size Grim Reaper. One night Michael's closest buddy, Louis, joins him for an adventure in Hollywood on Christmas Eve.
Melio
ニューヨークの夜を走るひとりのタクシードライバーを主人公に、現代都市に潜む狂気と混乱を描き出した、監督マーティン・スコセッシ×主演ロバート・デ・ニーロの、アメリカン・ニューシネマの傑作。ベトナム帰りの青年トラヴィス・ビックルは夜の街をタクシーで流しながら、世界の不浄さに苛立ちを感じていた。大統領候補の選挙事務所に勤めるベッツィと親しくなるトラヴィスだったが、彼女をポルノ映画館に誘ったことで絶交されてしまう。やがて、闇ルートから銃を手に入れたトラヴィスは自己鍛錬を始めるが、そんな彼の胸中にひとつの計画が沸き上がる……。
Frankie Hatcher
Orderly
As the result of a head injury, brilliant computer scientist Harry Benson begins to experience violent seizures. In an attempt to control the seizures, Benson undergoes a new surgical procedure in which a microcomputer is inserted into his brain. The procedure is not entirely successful.
Tony Longo
A military school graduation ceremony is interrupted when a student's dope-smuggling father is killed in the gym.
Sgt. Richard Marum
Harry Orwell has been retired from the force ever since he caught a bullet that lodged inoperably in his back. But that doesn’t mean the man called Harry O is out of the action. Moonlighting as a private sleuth, fighting off daily back pain and typically traveling by public bus instead of his own car (“It gives a man a chance to think”), he’s on the trail of the lowlife who murdered his pal’s son-in-law. It won’t be the only time the killer strikes before Harry closes in. David Janssen (The Fugitive) portrays dogged detective Harry in the telefilm that was the second of two pilots preceding his memorable Harry O series. Among the highlights: young Jodie Foster as Liberty, the wise-beyond-her-years homeless waif Harry befriends.
Augie the Horse
After his mistress is murdered, a Mafia leader goes after the killer with a bloody vengeance. Soon after the hunt begins, a gang war ensues.
Mario
NYに生まれ育ったチャーリーは定職も持たず、どっちつかずの生活を送るチンピラ。そして、彼の親友ジョニー・ボーイも酒や女、博打の借金に追われていた。チャーリーは彼をかばい続けるのだが……。
McIver #1
30年代不況期のアメリカを舞台に、貨車(ボックス・カー)で渡り歩いたホーボーと呼ばれる浮浪者の1人である娘とアナーキストの青年が、列車強盗をくり広げる、という実話の映画化。ロジャー・コーマン製作の低予算映画でマーティン・スコセッシ監督の長編デビュー作。