Joel Polis

Joel Polis

출생 : 1951-10-03, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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An American television, film and stage actor. He has appeared in over one hundred television programs and films during his career. Polis' first film role was the character 'Fuchs' in the science fiction film The Thing. He appeared in numerous television series including Cheers, Alien Nation, Northern Exposure, Star Trek: Voyager, Roseanne, Seinfeld, Chicago Hope, Boston Legal and CSI. He appeared in a recurring role on the television series Cheers as the mischievous Gary, owner of the rival bar, Gary's Olde Towne Tavern. Polis's theater credits include performances at the Astor Place Theatre, Hartford Stage, Old Globe Theater, South Coast Repertory, Mark Taper Forum, Odyssey Theatre, Laguna Playhouse, Lillian Theater and the Pasadena Playhouse.

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Joel Polis

참여 작품

Chasing a Dream
Dr. Aldicott
When high school football player Cam Stiles loses his best friend, he decides to drop football and focus on attaining his friend's goal of running a mile in under four minutes. Cam's decision tears apart his relationship with former teammates and his father—who happens to be his demanding football coach.
Swallow
Agent Miller
Lacking the grades and money for college, a Florida high school senior takes assignment as a cocaine mule.
에일리언 헌터
Copeland
Government agents find evidence of extraterrestrial life at the South Pole.
Attraction
William
A writer/radio advice show host fails to heed his own advice as he stalks his ex-girlfriend and then becomes involved with an actress friend of hers.
Rocket's Red Glare
Col. Mitchell
A troubled 17-year-old Todd Baker restores a Mercury Redstone rocket as a science project with the help of his ex-astronaut grandfather. When a NASA emergency leaves a space shuttle and its crew in danger, Todd's rocket is the only one ready for immediate launch.
Shadows
Kapo
Joshua and his father are among the Jewish prisoners in a concentration camp. When the assistant leader of their work crew is gunned down by mistake, the sadistic leader offers Joshua his place. He takes it, but at what price to his heritage and family?
Tumbleweeds
Vice Principal
Whenever trouble strikes in one of her relationships, single mother Mary Jo Walker and her daughter, Ava, pack up and move to another city, a routine Ava is tiring of. This time, they are helped on their move to San Diego by trucker Jack Ranson. While Ava settles in, getting a leading part in the school play, Jack starts dating Mary Jo but soon reveals himself to be controlling and aggressive. Mary Jo prepares to flee again, angering Ava.
The Thing: Terror Takes Shape
Self
An in-depth look at the making of John Carpenter's cult classic sci-fi horror The Thing, telling the story of a group of researchers in Antarctica who encounter a parasitic extra-terrestrial life-form that assimilates, then imitates other organisms.
Prison of Secrets
Brad
Lynn Schaffer is willfully irresponsible once too often, gets fired and refuses a plea-bargain with her employer. She's now convicted and because of this uncooperative attitude gets the maximum sentence, 10 years in a women's jail wing. Model husband Larry, who wasn't informed of her dumb schemes is left running her appeal, the household and spoiled daughter who now feels abandoned. Since most inmates are junkies or prostitutes, sergeant Ed Crang and fellow corrupt jailers can run a 'favors in kind exchange'. For rebels, it gets worse. Larry however has his own radio show, so it all hangs on gathering proof.
Twilight Man
Harper
Jordan Cooper, a professor in Durham, has everything going for him. A beautiful girlfriend named Kathy, a good job and a nice place to live. But when he goes for his annual check up, things go wrong. Someone is tampering with his computer files and all his tests are bad. He is admitted to the hospital and dragged off to the county hospital late that night for a brain operation that he does not need. His electronic records are changing. He gets cable he did not order and then his girlfriend is murdered in his car. Someone is trying to ruin the life of Cooper, and he has to find out who and why before the police catch up to him.
Serial Killer
Jack Blund
As a member of FBI Psychological Profile Unit, Selby Younger tracks Morrano, vicious and intelligent serial killer. Before getting caught, Morrano attacks her leaving serious psychological wounds. Two years later, Morrano escapes and Selby, now working on a desk job, must face her personal traumas again.
나의 푸른 하늘
U.S. Attorney
비니 안토닐레(스티브 마틴 분)는 철저한 갱이다. 그러나 매력있는 매너와 달콤한 구변, 붉은 머리 등은 충분하게 그의 목이 달아나는 걸 막는 요인으로 작용한다. 그러한 그가 동료이던 범죄자를 위해 주에서 증언을 하는데 동의한다. 비니는 이 일로 프라이버그라는 평화롭고 작은 읍네를 떠나 정부의 보호 아래 마련된 목격자 보호 프로그램에 정착하게 되는데 그 프로그램에서 새 이름으로 살아가면서도 비니는 전과 같은 도벽은 그대로 지니고 있어 여러 헤프닝과 소동이 벌어진다.
Burning Bridges
Dr. Paletsky
Fact-based story of a woman who suffered a nervous breakdown after having an extra-marital affair.
Those She Left Behind
Kerns
Scott and Sue Grimes are a happily married and affluent young couple who are about to start a family together. Unfortunately, that plan gets turned completely upside-down when Sue dies suddenly and unexpectedly while giving birth to their daughter. Now in the aftermath, Scott not only has to deal with the loss of his wife, he also has the daunting task of raising his daughter all alone.
암흑의 차이나타운
Dean Rabin
차이나타운에서 폭력단 두목 지미 친이 살해된다. 그 누명을 쓰고 감옥에 8년째 복역 중인 한국인 슈카이 김은 어느날 죄수들의 합동예배시간에 같은 죄수인 인종주의자 백인 듀앤의 습격에 맞서 싸우던 중 정당방위로 듀앤을 찔러죽인다. 이 사건을 계기로, 에디 다드 변호사는 그의 조수인 로저와 함께 8년전의 사건에 대한 김의 무죄를 증명하려고 싸운다. 이 사건에는 희생양으로 김을 선택한 검찰의 음모가 얽혀있다. 정보공급원 에스파자가 자신의 부인과 연인 관계인 지미 친을 살해하자 검찰이 그를 보호하기 위해 김에게 완벽하게 죄를 뒤집어 씌웠던 것. 김의 결백을 끝내 밝힐 수 있었던 것은 그의 결백을 절대적으로 믿고 검찰에 거의 무모하게 맞서 싸웠던 다드 변호사의 믿음 덕분이었다.
괴물
Fuchs
남극의 노르웨이 탐사팀이 이상한 개를 쫓아 미국 기지까지 오게 된다. 거의 발광하다시피 개를 공격하다가 그만 방어하던 미국인들에게 사살된다. 미국인들은 진상을 조사하기 위해 노르웨이 기지로 사람을 보낸다. 그곳은 사람은 하나도 없고 이상하게 일그러진 시체와 잔해들을 발견한다. 시체들을 해부해 봤지만 별 이상이 발견되지는 않았다. 그러던 어느 날 노르웨이 탐사팀의 추격을 받았던 개가 개집에서 끔찍한 괴물로 변하게 되는데...