Duane Whitaker
Nascimento : 1959-06-23, Abilene, Texas, USA
História
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Duane Whitaker (born June 23, 1959) is an American actor.
Duane Whitaker is probably best known for his role in Quentin Tarantino's popular 1994 film Pulp Fiction as Maynard, the sadistic pawn shop owner. He wrote and portrayed the title role in Eddie Presley (based on his own successful stage play). Whitaker also wrote, directed and appeared in Together and Alone.
Other notable roles include; a racist cop in Tales from the Hood, the bouncer Roadrash in Hobgoblins, Boss Man in Feast, The Sheriff in Trailer Park of Terror, Luther in From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (which he also co-wrote), Buddy in Dead Letters (film), Winslow in Broke Sky, Mickey in Cordoba Nights and Dr. Bankhead in The Devil's Rejects.
Most recently Duane has appeared in the feature films Albino Farm and Dozers and on TV in the Cold Case episode "The Brush Man" and appears in the new Rob Zombie film Halloween II. Whitaker has also written numerous screenplays including "Stripteaser."
On March 31, 2010, American Cinematheque hosted a screening of Eddie Presley and "Together and Alone" at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles.
Duane is a graduate of Monterey High School in Lubbock, Texas.
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Charlie
A television reporter is attacked by a monster while investigating an environmental disaster in Florida.
Frank
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Dodge
Summer Roome has her world up-ended when her adrift younger brother and wayward father reenter her life. As new information about old mistakes comes to light, Summer discovers what she has in common with her family and what she doesn't.
Tom Cushing
An Oakland widower's thirst for justice is rekindled when a local killing is oddly similar to his wife's unsolved murder from decades ago.
Bogey
Story about the search for identity. With the lead character being adopted and trying to find the missing puzzle piece of where she comes from. With the help of modern technology and DNA testing she is able to make a connection with a biological relative, who invites her and her friends down to Louisiana. However with this new connection comes an old family secret, one that was suppose to stay hidden from her.
Dr. Bankhead (uncredited)
Após escapar da prisão onde viveu por 10 anos, Otis (Bill Moseley) conhece Winslow (Richard Brake) e organiza um plano para libertar sua irmã Baby (Sheri Moon Zombie), também. Os "Rejeitados do Diabo" então fogem para o México, matando inúmeras pessoas pelo caminho.
Mechanic
Two voyeuristic nerds are hacking the devices of people as they themselves are hacked by the feed from story tellers Mister Malevolent and Mystic Woman who have seven moralistic horror stories to tell.
Reverend Osburn
Grace, a teenage girl dying of cancer crashes a funeral home to find out what will happen to her after she dies but ends up teaching the awkward funeral director, Bill Jankowski how to celebrate life.
Dongren
A Global Film Noir with dark comic elements about Silas Breece, a legendarily unorthodox business hustler who travels the world seeking capitol from bizarre investors, mobsters and government officials for a series of increasingly elaborate projects.
Rex / Pawn Shop Owner
Desprezado pela sociedade há quase quarenta anos, o veterano da guerra do Vietnã Frank Vega torna-se instantaneamente uma celebridade quando impede um crime em um ônibus e a filmagem vira sucesso na Internet. Mas quando seu melhor amigo é assassinado, e a polícia não parece disposta a ajudar, Vega decide fazer jus a sua nova fama enfrentando tiras corruptos e um prefeito imoral em busca da boa e velha justiça!
Pritchett
Durante uma viagem pelos desertos da Califórnia, Tim,e sua esposa grávida Allie, que estão viajando para ver o pai de Tim, são obrigados a aceitarem abrigo de um estranho casal e seu filho, após seu carro quebrar pela estrada. Entretanto os dois descobrirão que esta família esconde um perigoso segredo.
Intimidating Inmate
Three friends - aided by one of the residents - start a night club in a retirement home, after taking a job there working the night shift to put themselves through USC.
Jeremiah
College students exploring the Ozark Mountains for a school assignment, stumble upon a group of scary, redneck cave-dwellers.
Sherman Benny
Michael Myers continua enorme e não menos perigoso do que antes. Após uma reunião falhada para tentar chegar à sua irmã bebé na sua antiga casa, Laurie Strode é imediatamente levada para um hospital para ser tratada das feridas que foram afligidas pelo seu irmão à algumas horas atrás. No entanto, Michael continua não muito longe e irá continuar a sua matança de 'Halloween' até conseguir ter a sua irmã só para si.
Car Buyer
A mob enforcer is set up to take the fall for a multi-million dollar heist involving a rival gang boss. Merle (Eric Roberts) is a gambler stuck on a twenty-year losing streak, but his luck is about to change. Surviving a trap that was intended to kill him, Merle makes away with a beautiful woman and a piece of the take. Most men in that position would have been content to simply walk away with their lives, but Merle has been loyal for twenty years. Realizing he's been betrayed, something inside snaps. They used to call him "The Butcher" as a joke, but the laughter turns to screams when Merle returns to deliver the ultimate punchline.
Sheriff Keys
Six troubled high school students and their chaperon, an optimistic youth ministries Pastor, return from an outdoor character building retreat in the mountains. During a raging storm, their bus crashes, hopelessly stranding them in the middle of the Trucker's Triangle, a forgotten locus of consummate evil in the middle of nowhere.
Marcus Cotter
Um homem tenta salvar a sua fazenda de um xerife corrupto, o homem que havia matado o seu pai vinte anos antes.
Sheriff Winslow
Two Mexican road workers make a terrible discovery that tests their friendship.
Buddy
Every stranger has a secret in writer-director Garrett Clancy’s indie drama, also released as Dead Letters. Ten years after his first novel went down in flames, the hard knocks just won’t stop for K.C. Corcoran (C. Thomas Howell) - his girlfriend’s just thrown him out. K.C. hopes to get his life back on track by writing another book and heads to a remote mountain cabin to work on it … but the locals prove more hazardous than he could have guessed.
Mickey
Finn (Raymond Turturro), drives around in an old car at night with a portable record player in the back seat pumping out a variety of tunes to help him make it through the night. Why is he out driving around every night? Because he's a burned out pizza delivery guy delivering pizzas in a city that seems as burned out as he is.
Boss Man
Tudo vai bem naquele bar decadente localizado no meio do nada. Os clientes, todos com um passado de crimes e contravenções, bebem sem nenhuma preocupação, até que descobrem que estão cercados por estranhas e furiosas criaturas que, famintas, não pensam duas vezes antes de atacar. Elas estraçalham os corpos que passam em suas frentes.
Dr. Bankhead
Emboscados em sua própria casa pelo xerife Wydell (William Forsythe), a família Firefly revida o fogo, mas só Otis e sua irmã Baby conseguem escapar. Num motel de beira de estrada, os irmãos chamam seu velho parceiro Capitão Spaulding (Sig Haig) e chacinam quem lhes atrapalhar o caminho. A violência aumenta e Wydell decide cruzar a linha e fazer justiça com as próprias mãos.
Pinky
A conniving professor and his gorilla side-kick convince down-and-out astronauts to go on a time-journey to benefit mankind. Once transported to the future, they meet beautiful but deadly space babes, a horrible monster and an army of mutants. The last doomed survivors of earth are trapped by a cosmic plague unleashed in an apocalyptic future!
Dr. Stevens
When Kate discovers she has a terminal illness, she persuades boyfriend Andy to visit Groom Lake, a reputed hotbed of alien activity, hoping to discover proof of life beyond this terrestrial sphere. Soon, the pair crosses paths with desperate government scientists, eccentric locals and a surprising -- and inspiring --conspiracy of epic proportions.
Second Unit Director
A Manson-like cult leader disappears after freaking out and hacking up a bunch of his followers with a machete. Thirty something years later some kids come and camp out on the site of the killings. Of course, bad stuff happens.
Producer
A Manson-like cult leader disappears after freaking out and hacking up a bunch of his followers with a machete. Thirty something years later some kids come and camp out on the site of the killings. Of course, bad stuff happens.
Producer
A nine story anthology featuring various dregs, druggies, the innocent and the doomed inhabiting a dingy motel room somewhere along Route 66.
Luther
Prepare-se para muita ação quando uma quadrilha de roubo a bancos encabeça uma jornada para o México com um plano perfeito para um roubo de um milhão de dólares! Mas quando um dos ladrões caminha para o lado errado... e cruza com o vampiro errado... o bando de ladrões, um a um, passa a desenvolver uma sede por sangue que se iguala com a fome que sentem por dinheiro! As circunstâncias fazem com que o último dos assaltantes, ainda completamente humano, se una com seu arqui-inimigo, um xerife texano, numa batalha onde mata-se ou morre para deter estas criaturas do mal e salvar suas próprias vidas!
Screenplay
Prepare-se para muita ação quando uma quadrilha de roubo a bancos encabeça uma jornada para o México com um plano perfeito para um roubo de um milhão de dólares! Mas quando um dos ladrões caminha para o lado errado... e cruza com o vampiro errado... o bando de ladrões, um a um, passa a desenvolver uma sede por sangue que se iguala com a fome que sentem por dinheiro! As circunstâncias fazem com que o último dos assaltantes, ainda completamente humano, se una com seu arqui-inimigo, um xerife texano, numa batalha onde mata-se ou morre para deter estas criaturas do mal e salvar suas próprias vidas!
Sergeant
Roger Mason is a prisoner locked away in a futuristic fortress of a jail. Desperate to escape and see his daughter, he keeps making attempt after attempt to break free, but each one is foiled just as he's about to gain his freedom. As his punishments include being frozen in suspended animation for years at a time, he stays the same age while his daughter grows older. As more time keeps being added to his sentence, he despairs of ever getting out.
Editor
Stories and characters interweave during one night in Hollywood.
Zevo
Stories and characters interweave during one night in Hollywood.
Writer
Stories and characters interweave during one night in Hollywood.
Director
Stories and characters interweave during one night in Hollywood.
Andy Delgado
A mysterious ship is found adrift in mid-ocean without a crew. But this mystery is soon forgotten when Captain Ramsey, his two sexy first mates and the crew discover its precious cargo of ancient Aztec treasure. However, their joy quickly succumbs to greed, paranoia and fear, as they must battle the murderous creature which guards the accursed treasure.
Potter
Space miners sent to stop a moon's collision course with the earth discover a hibernating creature that soon revives and starts slaughtering the mining crew.
Associate Producer
As Zipper's Clown Palace (a strip bar) closes, Neil wanders in and decides to hold the dancers, bartender, and remaining customers hostage. He torments them with little tasks he wants performed, playing on their weaknesses and relying on his gun for intimidation. Eventually the hostages begin formulating plans to thwart his control. Meanwhile, two policemen are observing the outside of the strip joint, realizing that something's wrong and trying to decide if it's worth ruining their buzz to intervene.
Bar Patron
As Zipper's Clown Palace (a strip bar) closes, Neil wanders in and decides to hold the dancers, bartender, and remaining customers hostage. He torments them with little tasks he wants performed, playing on their weaknesses and relying on his gun for intimidation. Eventually the hostages begin formulating plans to thwart his control. Meanwhile, two policemen are observing the outside of the strip joint, realizing that something's wrong and trying to decide if it's worth ruining their buzz to intervene.
Writer
As Zipper's Clown Palace (a strip bar) closes, Neil wanders in and decides to hold the dancers, bartender, and remaining customers hostage. He torments them with little tasks he wants performed, playing on their weaknesses and relying on his gun for intimidation. Eventually the hostages begin formulating plans to thwart his control. Meanwhile, two policemen are observing the outside of the strip joint, realizing that something's wrong and trying to decide if it's worth ruining their buzz to intervene.
Billy
Um agente funerário conta 4 contos de horror focado em três traficantes de drogas que ele retém em seu local de trabalho.
Deputy #1
Dois jovens, acidentalmente, libertam o espírito de um feiticeiro, aprisionado há muitos anos pela população de uma cidadezinha em crescimento. Encarnado em um espantalho, o feiticeiro se vingará dos descendentes dos habitantes que o aprisionaram.
Scott
Nesta quinta parte da série, o jovem cientista Rick Myers e os sobreviventes do filme anterior lutam contra demônios vindos de uma dimensão paralela, ajudados pelos bonecos assassinos, agora bonzinhos, e pelo espírito do "mestre dos brinquedos" Toulon.
Maynard
Pulp Fiction retrata três histórias interligadas que seguem as desventuras de dois assassinos baratos, da insinuante mulher do seu patrão e de um desesperado boxeur em fuga.
Reno
Travis arrives like a hot wind on a steamy summer night, he's a mystery man who sings his passion at the local road house. The stakes are rising and someone is bound to lose. It's an erotic game of cat and mouse, that will keep you guessing until the final, sizzling scene.
Writer
An Elvis impersonator with a wounded psyche, unflinching in his quest to keep the King's spirit alive bets it all on one night of glory, a headlining spot at dingy Tinseltown dive.
Eddie Presley
An Elvis impersonator with a wounded psyche, unflinching in his quest to keep the King's spirit alive bets it all on one night of glory, a headlining spot at dingy Tinseltown dive.
Long John
When a criminal female named Spanish Fly threatens to contaminate the city water with aphrodisiacs, it is up to a duo of attractive female police officers to stop her.
Mechanic
Three women plot to catch wealthy husbands by throwing a party at a mansion to which they have temporary access. Obvious love stories follow involving an ex-ballplayer, a secretly wealthy mechanic and an ad exec.
Ken 'Kim'
Um apaixonado casal de universitários da Califórnia segue uma viagem de costa a costa pelos Estados Unidos. Os estudantes se perdem da rodovia principal e desembocam numa estrada deserta do Texas, servindo perfeitamente à armadilha montada por Leatherface e sua família psicótica.
O'Donnel
A snooty female production assistant and an eager gopher at a TV station are assigned by their boss to locate a mysterious cassette. They quickly find themselves framed for murder and pursued by government agents.
Norman Perkins
Alex is caught in a web of distrust between his brother, his best friend, a beautiful stranger and the renewed dreams of the slaughter of his family.
Roadrash
A group of hobgoblins, who allow you to live out your fantasies but kill you in the process, escape from a studio vault, and a security guard and his friends must stop them before dawn.
