Grant James

Grant James

Nascimento : 1935-06-19, Medina, Ohio, USA

Morte : 2022-11-23

História

Grant James was born on June 19, 1935 in Medina, Ohio, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for UHF (1989), Tombstone (1993) and Bernie (2011). He died on November 23, 2022 in Spokane, Washington, USA.

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Grant James

Filmes

A Vastidão da Noite
Arlo
No período da Guerra Fria, enquanto acontece a corrida espacial entre os Estados Unidos e a União Soviética, dois adolescentes de uma cidadezinha americana são obcecados pelo rádio. Quando eles descobrem uma estranha frequência de ondas aéreas, suas vidas e o mundo inteiro podem estar prestes a mudar drasticamente.
O Conto
Anthony Graham
Jennifer (Laura Dern) tem uma ótima carreira como documentarista e professora e um relacionamento repleto de carinho e respeito mútuo com seu noivo, Martin (Common). Porém, quando sua mãe encontra uma história que ela escreveu para escola quando tinha 13 anos contando sobre um relacionamento que teve com dois adultos, ela é obrigada a revisitar um passado traumático e reconciliar suas lembranças com o que de fato aconteceu com ela. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
The Shadow People
Elderly Ghost
Newlyweds Megan and Andrew have just moved into their dream home with aspirations to start a family. But soon strange events start happening. Voices and shadowy figures haunt Megan, and even Andrew, starts questioning his own sanity as their marriage is being torn apart. The visions grow increasingly real..and threatening, yet Megan is unwilling to relinquish her home. When the appearance of a mysterious priest unveils the truth behind their nightmare, Megan's reality takes a desperate turn that her haunting visions never could have predicted.
The Idealist
John Leddy
A whistle blower attempts to reveal the secret behind a nuclear disaster that occurred during the height of the Cold War.
Debi & Lóide 2
Mr. Stainer
Passaram-se exatamente vinte anos desde que deixámos Lloyd e Harry com as suas brincadeiras, e tudo agora mudou, menos a sua idiotice. Quando Harry precisa de um rim novo e descobre que tem uma filha, tem de acordar Lloyd do estado com a tose em que ficou desde que Mary o rejeitou, de forma a se meterem à estrada para pedirem a ajuda dela. Cruzando todo o país nos meios de transporte mais loucos, a sua jornada para encontrar a filha perdida leva-os de uma instituição psiquiátrica onde pertencem a uma convenção que reúne os maiores cérebros de todo o mundo.
Light from the Darkroom
Nuncio
Light in the Darkroom is the story of two best friends whose faith is tested when their friends disappear during a religious pilgrimage.
Evocando Espíritos 2
Mr. Gordy
Uma jovem família muda-se para uma casa história na Geórgia e lá percebem que não são os únicos habitantes. Logo notam que há um segredo obscuro e ameaçador que derrubará todos no seu caminho...
I Am Gabriel
An unforgiving sun, a parched earth, and a failed economy have left a small Texas town desolate. For ten years Promise, Texas has known nothing but one curse after another. It's barren, broken, and dying, leaving a town full of despair. When a couple finds a boy walking along a dusty road, alone in the middle of nowhere, with nothing but a mat tucked under his arm, they pick him up in hopes of helping him. What they don't realize is that he has come to help them and the residents of Promise. No one knows who he is or where he came from. Some think he's an answer to prayer. Others think he's a runaway or a false prophet. And the only thing this boy will say about himself is that he's here to help. The town's sheriff, Brody, is determined to uncover the truth. But Brody has his own problems trying to hold a dying town together. Miracle after miracle takes place and the residents of Promise embrace the boy... Written by Mike Norris
Terremoto Aracnídeo
Gramps
Uma família descobre que um terremoto em Nova Orleans provocou um perigo muito maior do que todos imaginavam, despertando uma espécie de aranha gigante que vivia debaixo da terra e, com o abalo sísmico, agora tem acesso à superfície.
Bernie: Quase um Anjo
Mr. Estes
Em uma pequena cidade rural do Texas, o agente funerário Bernie (Jack Black) é um dos moradores mais populares da cidade. Porém, todos ficam espantados por ele começar um romance com uma senhora viúva e rica. Quando ela aparece morta, a cidade inteira se agita ao saber da notícia. É quando o advogado Danny Buck Davidson (Matthew McConaughey) assume o caso.
E Se... Você Tivesse uma Segunda Chance?
Henryk Zimmerman
Há 15 anos Ben Walker (Kevin Sorbo) abandonou sua namorada de anos e a vocação religiosa para dedicar-se a uma grande oportunidade na carreira. Agora rico e bem-sucedido, ele recebe a visita de um anjo, que mostra como sua vida teria sido muito melhor se ele tivesse feito outra escolha naquele momento.
Boggy Creek
U. J.
Remake de "The Legend of Boggy Creek" (1972). Conta a história de um grupo de amigos que encontra o terror de frente durante um passeio pelos pântanos.
A Verdade e o Medo
Aaron Wakefield
Remake do filme de Fritz Lang, com o mesmo título, sobre o plano dum homem que visa expor o carácter corrupto do Procurador do Ministério Público, sem saber que as teias da corrupção são maiores do que ele julga.
O Curioso Caso de Benjamin Button
Joking Old Man (uncredited)
Benjamin Button é um homem que nasce idoso e rejuvenesce à medida que o tempo passa. Doze anos depois de seu nascimento, ele conhece Daisy, uma criança que entra e sai de sua vida enquanto cresce para ser dançarina. Embora tenha todos os tipos de aventuras incomuns, sua relação com Daisy o faz acreditar que os dois se encontrarão no momento certo da vida.
Pulse 2: Afterlife
Uncle Pete
The world has been reshaped by the invasion of ghosts via the wireless internet. Cities are deserted, technology has been destroyed and the few remaining human beings eschew anything electrical in order to avoid a confrontation with the soulless ghosts that now wander the planet. Most of the ghosts are doomed to a repetitive loop of something they did while they were still despairing humans (a man repeatedly hangs himself, for example), but there are some ghosts so locked in denial, they do not know they are dead. They continue to haunt their homes, wrapped in fear that their souls will soon be torn from them.
Sugar Creek
Old Fence Builder
Sugar Creek is a low budget film, unlike anything you have ever seen. Part fairy tale/morality tale. Part Horror/ Western. The story of Adam, as he is hunted by a mysterious Horseman through a valley where men do hateful things because they've had hateful things done to them, is the story of revenge and redemption, and the irony in between.
Uma Garota Irresistível
Priest
Edie Sedgwick (Sienna Miller) é uma modelo rica, bela e ambiciosa, que tem sua vida alterada após conhecer Andy Warhol (Guy Pearce), o mais famoso artista plástico de Nova York. Edie passa a frequentar o estúdio de Warhol, onde músicos, artistas e atores se encontram durante o dia para criar arte e à noite para se divertir. Aproveitando a proximidade com Warhol, Edie lhe pede que dê uma ajuda a Danny Quinn (Hayden Christensen), um talentoso músico. Quinn, por sua vez, deseja que Edie se afaste de Warhol, acusando-o de usá-la em seus filmes sem lhe pagar algo.
Fat Girls
Grandpa
Fat Girls is an original off-beat comedy feature. It focuses on Rodney Miller, not your typical Texas high school student...he is a theater lover and his ultimate dream is to be on Broadway. Awkward and shy, he doesn't have many people to talk to in his small Texas town that understand him. He ends up finding what he was looking for in his theater teacher, Mr. Cox
A Four Course Meal
Superintendent / Eastbrooke
A horror-comedy anthology comprised of four gruesome shorts. From the world's bloodiest cooking show to a modern zombie tale rife with social commentary, there is something in this Four Course Meal for even the most insatiable appetite.
Rain
Doc Matzner
Rain, a young black musical prodigy, finds trouble and heartbreak when she witnesses her sister's murder by gangbangers. In order to protect her daughter, Rain's mother secretly contacts Rain's biological mother, and Rain learns the truth of her parentage: She is the daughter of a white socialite. Sent to live with her wealthy grandmother, Rain adjusts to boarding school life, where her musical talents flourish.
Deadroom
Percy
Four encounters, each confined to a single room: a man helps a young woman remember her past; a husband and wife confront each other about their infidelities; a journalist interviews a famous author about the mysteries hidden in his novel; and a secretary visits her former employer to tell him how much she's always loved him. Each of these conversations could happen any day, every day – except that the young woman has been raped and murdered, the husband has died in a terrible automobile accident, the employer has perished in a fire, and the novelist has passed away from old age. The four intertwined stories weave a tale that is shocking, humorous, tragic and uplifting, in which secrets are shared, truths are revealed, and each of the eight characters comes to an understanding they could not have gained without the touch of death.
Birdie and Bogey
Dr. Carroll
A 12 year old gets cancer. She becomes a fighter, not only for herself but her father as well. It will tear the faith of both of them and their mother as well.
Seventy-8
Mr. Rowlands
It is present day in Arkham Heights, a seemingly desolate town that has decayed much since the eighties. Renny Meeks is a lonely, mentally challenged man with an IQ of 78, who sacks groceries at a small store. He's a simple man, recently released from an institution for a crime he was accused of that rocked the town ten years ago.
Shtickmen
Franklin Trowell
While he struggles to make rent by teaching defensive-driving courses and comedy classes, a small-time Dallas comic named Jerry Martin (Dean Lewis) sets his sights on a career-making comedy contest at a local club. David Wilk also stars as Jerry's annoyingly successful nemesis Jim "Buckeye" Marvin, who will serve as a judge at the competition. This mockumentary screened at a dozen international film festivals, winning awards at five.
Bells of Innocence
Emeritus
Jux Jonas is stuck deep in the heart of Texas with his friends Oren and Conrad after an emergency plane landing. Soon, they realize they're far from safety, stranded in a strange community where the locals seem under the spell of a voice from a short-wave radio owned by a local rancher. Will they ever escape? Also co-stars Norris's famous father, Chuck, in a supporting role.
Barney's Dino Dancin' Tunes
Pop Wheely
With some help from a tabletop video jukebox sent by Professor Tinkerputt, Barney, BJ, and Baby Bop relive memories as they watch special times they shared together.
House of the Generals
Herschel Kharacter
Based on a true story. The life of a Ukrainian Jewish girl from the last days of the Russian Czarist regime through the end of WWII and the affects of the political turmoil and Jewish persecution on her and those closest to her. Ukraine amassed thousands of WWII monuments. 600,000 Ukrainian Jews perished as victims of Hitler and Stalin, and half of the Russian losses occurred in Ukraine.
House of the Generals
Writer
Based on a true story. The life of a Ukrainian Jewish girl from the last days of the Russian Czarist regime through the end of WWII and the affects of the political turmoil and Jewish persecution on her and those closest to her. Ukraine amassed thousands of WWII monuments. 600,000 Ukrainian Jews perished as victims of Hitler and Stalin, and half of the Russian losses occurred in Ukraine.
Catalina Trust
Augie Flynn
Marshall has done well despite the hard hand fate dealt him as a boy. He's getting a raise at his marketing job and will soon marry Kitty Lehuesen, the most sought-after girl in his Brooklyn neighborhood. Though he's never forgotten the betrayal of his grandfather, things are now good—that is, until a bizarre image of the old man appears in the middle of the night.
Newton Boys: Os Irmãos Fora-da-Lei
Gangland Doctor
Em 1919 quatro irmãos texanos, Willis, Jess (Ethan Hawke), Joe e Dock, liderados por Willis, começam a se tornar, com a ajuda do especialista em nitroglicerina Brentwood Glasscock, a mais bem sucedida quadrilha de assaltantes de bancos de sua época. Quando as portas dos cofres dos bancos se tornam mais seguras eles tentam diversificar assaltando um trem, que transporta milhões de dólares.
O Quinto Elemento
Scientist
No século XXIII, um motorista de taxi de Nova York se envolve em uma aventura na qual tem de deter um ser demoníaco que percorre a galáxia a cada cinco mil anos. Se nada for feito, a Terra será destruída. Mas para isto, ele precisa encontrar quatro pedras antigas que representam os elementos e colocá-las em volta de uma bela mulher, que é o quinto elemento.
Mutant Species
Senator Roberts
A rocket containing bio-hazardous material to be disposed of by launching into space crashes in a remote wooded area. An army team is sent to recover it. One of the men is infected and mutates into a monster, killing most of the rest of the team. One man escapes with the help of a brother & sister who live in the woods. He then tries to stop his former buddy, while also fighting against another army team sent in to destroy everything. The bio-material was supposed to create a super-soldier, was banned, and the crash of the rocket appears to have been deliberate so the experiment could proceed. But who is behind it all? And will others be infected?
Final Exit
Cap
A Nobel Peace Prize winner, a convicted murderer and two professing Christian teenagers are being escorted to judgment. Who will spend eternity in heaven? This evangelistic drama will confront your viewers with life's most important choices: Jesus or Satan? Heaven or Hell?
Tombstone: A Justiça Está Chegando
Dr. Goodfellow
Após acabar com o crime em Dodge City, Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell) se muda para a cidade de Tombstone, onde pretende enriquecer anonimamente. Lá ele encontra seus irmãos e também Doc Holliday (Val Kilmer), seu velho amigo. Eles levam a vida sem problemas, até o aparecimento de um grupo de bandoleiros que começa a causar confusão pelas redondezas. Para resolver a situação os integrantes da família Earp e Doc Holliday decidem combatê-los.
TV Pirada
Killer Thug
George consegue ser demitido de qualquer emprego até que o seu tio, um fanático por apostas, acaba ganhando um canal local de TV UHF em um jogo de pôquer. Sendo aficionado por televisão e com uma baita imaginação, George tem a oportunidade de brigar contra a grande emissora da cidade, que é uma afiliada da maior rede nacional e tem quase a totalidade da audiência da cidade. Entre outras loucas inovações para levantar os índices de audiência deste canal falido de TV, ele coloca o faxineiro como apresentador de um programa infantil.
A Thief in the Night
Screenplay
Patty, a young woman caught up in living for the present with little concern for the future, awakens one day to find her husband missing and the radio reporting that millions of people around the globe have mysteriously vanished. As dramatic, earth-shaking events begin to unfold around her, Patty realizes she is living in the end times spoken of in biblical prophecy.