Dennis Weaver
Nascimento : 1924-06-04, Joplin, Missouri, USA
Morte : 2006-02-24
História
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William Dennis Weaver (June 4, 1924 – February 24, 2006) was an American actor, best known for his work in television, including roles on Gunsmoke, as Marshal Sam McCloud on the NBC police drama McCloud, and the 1971 TV movie Duel.
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Abner (voice)
A fazenda Caminho do Paraíso está em pânico, pois uma ação de despejo ameaça acabar com o local. Temendo ir para o matadouro, os animais da fazenda decidem ajudar a dona a conseguir a quantia necessária para pagar a hipoteca. O alvo escolhido pelo grupo é o perigoso bandido Alameda Slim, que tem uma grande recompensa reservada para quem capturá-lo.
Buck Stevens
Quando um perigoso grupo de terroristas internacionais realiza um audacioso plano de seqüestro e em pleno ar domina um avião e seus tripulantes, uma seqüência de fatos emocionantes tem início. Os terroristas querem um software com os códigos que controlam um satélite nuclear capaz de destruir a Terra. Após tiroteios intensos e algumas nortes, eles conseguem fugir levando o software. O avião avariado e desgovernado, mergulha nas águas do pacífico e imediatamente, uma equipe de resgate é formada para salvar os sobreviventes recuperar o computador roubado. Mas, será que eles conseguirão realizar seu objetivo? Muita ação, suspense e efeitos especiais em um filme com muita adrenalina.
Sam Balaam
A cowboy finds himself betrayed by his best friend and must choose between bringing him to justice and alienating the pretty schoolteacher he is in love with.
Grandpa Flint
Before Pete Flint moves to New York with his family, he goes on one last embark with his grandfather. When their plane crashes in Wildcat Canyon, they are forced to survive in the dangerous and cold winter with only each other and a dog they find.
Sam Jenks
A couple's idyllic life is shattered when authorities accuse them of child abuse and take away their three young children. When they desperately search for the source of the rumors about them, their suspicions lead them to a young woman who recently arrived in their small town, but they can't believe that this person they befriended would turn the town against them.
Captain Farnsworth
Kansas, 1868. A wagon train is attacked by a band of Lakota Sioux led by the young and athletic warrior Tokalah. The attractive, red haired Anna Brewster-Morgan and her friend Sarah White are on this wagon train too. When Tokalah noticed a terrified Anna with a Bible, he thinks this is an omen. Despite killing the other passengers of the wagon train, only Anna and Sarah may continue their voyage. The next day Anna and Sarah are kidnapped by Tokalah. At first terrified of her captors, the unhappily married Anna eventually falls in love with the noble, honorable Tokalah. After a year's captivity, Sarah is returned to her own people. Anna now must choose between her new life with Tokalah and her previous existence as the wife of farmer Daniel Morgan.
Sheriff Pratt
Comedy about idiotic (the two can't even add 1+1) kidnappers, both played for unknown reasons by Joe Piscopo, who capture two young girls and hold them for ransom. However, in "Home Alone" fashion, the two girls make fools of the two men. The film becomes even sillier as two horses who talk to one another decide to rescue the girls from the kidnappers
Chance Wayne
Retired sherriff, judge, coroner and con-man team up to solve crimes. Pilot. From http://www.cannell.com/tv-show-detail/18/greyhounds.html GREYHOUNDS is an action drama starring Dennis Weaver, Robert Guillaume, James Coburn and Pat Morita about three retired lawmen and a "reformed" conman lured back into crimefighting as special consultants to a young Assistant U.S. Attorney in San Diego. Weaver is Chance Wayne, a widowed ex-sheriff; Guillaume is former Judge Robert "Maximum Bob" Smith; Morita plays ex-police psychiatrist Akira "Moch" Mochizuki; Coburn is con artist John Duffy, just released from prison and not so anxious to go straight. "JoJo" Gonzales, played by Roxann Biggs, is the female U.S. Attorney who recruits them for her staff.
Vice President Dale Burden
A "play on words" about a fictional political scandal concerning covert arms deals and double-dealing government operatives, satirizing the Watergate hearings of 1972-1973.
A beautiful and disturbing film recounts America’s story from the environment’s point of view. From the arrival of Columbus to the simple wilderness living of the 16th and 17th centuries, through the agrarian lifestyle of the 18th century, the changes from the Industrial Revolution, to the 20th century when most of the planet’s resources have been depleted — this film examines the North American landscape and all the wildlife destruction, deforestation, soil depletion and pollution that have been wrought to make the American Dream come true.
Narrator
A special examining the appeal of real-life daredevils and heroic figures compared with their fictional counterparts as portrayed in adventure films.
A documentary about a house Dennis Weaver built/had built in Colorado. The concept was created by Michael Reynolds and his headquarters are in Taos, N.M. It is an off-grid house built with earth-rammed tires and other recycled materials.
Sheriff Ben Harlen
During routine maintenance of a liquid-fuelled ICBM, the fuel tank is penetrated by a falling spanner. The film traces the efforts of the maintenance crew and associated military and civilian personnel to recover the potentially disastrous situation before the fuel tank is sufficiently depressurised that the stack collapses and explodes.
Explores the past-life experiences of various celebrities.
Jack Duggan
A functionally illiterate factory foreman (Dennis Weaver) loses his job after refusing a promotion that requires reading.
Mr. Wyshner
Fact-based story of a young boy who lost his right arm in a childhood accident, but went on to fulfill his dreams of playing major-league baseball. The story of Pete Gray.
Wally Johnson
The true story of Bill Johnson, the first US men's skiing gold medal winner, whose Olympics dreams were threatened by his rebellious attitude.
Eddie Gant
A 47 year old real estate salesman gets trapped in the insidious web of cocaine addiction.
Phillip
O filme tem foco em uma família suburbana americana com três filhos: um garotinho, Kevin, e duas garotas: Jennifer e Mary. A primeira, mais velha, morre em um acidente de carro. Uma tragédia que faz com que a família se mude para outro lugar. Todavia o fantasma da garotinha retorna e aparece para sua irmã Mary. Ela diz estar muito triste e irritada, já que seus pais, sua avó e seu irmão não se lembram mais dela e que apenas Mary ainda a ama. E pra demonstrar esse amor, Jennifer pede um favor para Mary para que só assim possam ficar juntas pra sempre.
Aaron Danner
Due to her parents' divorce, a young lady named Judy begins to doubt herself and love in general as her wedding day approaches.
Dr. Samuel A. Mudd
This is the story of the doctor whose farm John Wilkes Booth went to after assassinating Abraham Lincoln
Elroy 'Bud' Burkhardt
Agricultor rude acostumado às dificuldades da vida no campo contrata um ex-modelo novaiorquino que ficou desfigurado por um acidente. No início a antipatia é mútua, mas as coisas vão mudando com o aprendizado do trabalho.
Daniel Ellis Stone
Dennis Weaver is a Joseph Wambaugh-type novelist cop and Pat Hingle is his hard-nosed superior who wants him to stick to police work or get off the force in this pilot to the short-lived series.
Charles Bates
The story of the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst by members of a radical guerrilla organization, as seen by the FBI agent in charge of her case.
Professor Benjamin Fuller
The last of a northern California tribe tries to assimilate with the help of an anthropologist.
Gable McQueen
A retired mainland lawyer buys a small Honolulu hotel and finds himself in a murderous situation involving a runaway grand jury witness, a ruthless mobster, and a racket-busting U.S. Senator framed for beating up an airline stewardess.
Donald Halston
The pressures of problems at home and at work are taking a tremendous toll on a middle-aged husband, and he begins to take it out on his wife.
Neil Glynn
A family's outing turns out badly as they are terrorized by a gang of young thugs.
Deke Chambers
An outlaw joins up with a wagon train of pioneer women and secretly hides some money there, but his old gang shows up and wants their money - and the women.
Lonnie McAfee
After serving time in prison for attempted murder of the man who caused his wife's death, hard-luck loser Lonnie comes home to find that all of his belongings have been sold and his two boys have been given to strangers to raise. He sets out across the country to find them and possibly to find himself.
Abraham Lincoln
A young girl writes to President Abraham Lincoln to advise him to grow a beard.
David Mann
Davis Mann é um simples trabalhador, igual a milhões de outros, um homem comum que cruza o deserto para um compromisso de negócios. Sua vida transcorre sem problemas, até o momento em que ele tenta ultrapassar um lento caminhão-tanque. Sem nenhum motivo aparente, o motorista do caminhão começa a fazer um perigoso jogo de gato e rato na estrada, tentando tirar David de seu caminho. Em clima de crescente suspense, David aos poucos percebe que o caminhoneiro não está para brincadeiras: ele quer, a todo custo, assassinar o pacato homem. Qual seria o motivo de tanto ódio e violência?
Lt. Joe Hardy
A Marine officer reported as killed in Vietnam, but who was actually a POW, returns home. Instead of being welcomed home, however, he discovers that his father has died, his wife has remarried, his daughter has been adopted, his business has been sold, and his life has completely changed.
Lincoln Palmer
Two middle-aged women move to Hollywood, California after their sons are convicted of a notorious murder and open a dance school for children eager to tap their way to stardom.
Erwin Ward
James Garner is Luther Sledge, the leader of a pack of rebels who are planning to steal a stash of gold. But after the thieves actually manage to get away with the bounty, they soon discover that the enemy lies within their midst. As they begin to bicker over who should get the biggest cut, the stage is set for a deadly showdown. Claude Akins and John Marley co-star in this Italian Western directed by Vic Morrow.
Self
John Wayne and an all-star cast tell the story of America.
Self
A Classic Holiday Celebration with Dean and Friends.
Chip Corbett
Dennis Weaver is a mercenary pilot in the Pacific during WW2. He agrees to help Vera Miles steal the Phillipine treasury of gold away from the conquering Japanese forces.
Tom Wedloe
The Story of a boy and his bear.
George Tucker, the Sundown Kid
In Part 1, Gallegher befriends a man on the stagecoach while heading west, only to discover he is a famous outlaw, the Sundown Kid. The sheriff is crooked, too, so it is difficult for Gallegher and his friend, Detective Snead, to capture the Sundown Kid. Gallegher and his colleagues work for the recall of the corrupt mayor of Brimstone, even though the mayor tries to stop them by force. In Part 2, Gallegher buys and trains a horse, then is surprised when a local rancher is accused of murder. The boy is sure it is a frame-up, and he tries to help out. Gallegher continues to help the rancher who has been framed for murder, and after he finds an incriminating watch, he is able to reach the trial just in time to save the day.
Hoffman
Os Estados Unidos e a União Soviética possuem bases próprias na Lua. Os soviéticos enviaram um casal, enquanto que os americanos enviaram dois homens solteiros. A NASA precisa sempre substituir a equipe, já que os astronautas enlouquecem caso permaneçam por muito tempo na base - o que não ocorre com os vizinhos soviéticos. Para resolver a questão, a NASA decide substituir sua equipe e procura um casal de cientistas para a função. Os escolhidos são Pete Mattemore (Jerry Lewis) e Eileen Forbes (Connie Stevens). Só que, em nome da moralidade, o governo americano exige que eles se casem antes de serem enviados ao espaço.
Willard Grange
While crossing the desert, a frontier scout, Jess Remsberg, rescues Ellen Grange from a pursuing band of Apaches, and returns her to her husband, Willard Grange. He is contracted to act as a scout for an Army cavalry unit. Willard, Ellen, and her infant son are along for the ride, as is horse trader Toller, a veteran of the 10th Cavalry. The party is trapped in a canyon by Chata, an Apache chief and grandfather of Ellen's baby. Willard is captured and tortured. Jess sneaks away and brings reinforcements just in time to save the day. Jess learns that the man he has been hunting is none other than Willard Grange.
Andy Lowe
A semi-documentary dramatization of five weeks in the life of Vice Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey, Jr., from his assignment to command the U.S. naval operations in the South Pacific to the Allied victory at Guadalcanal.
Mirador Motel Night Manager
Quando um carro-bomba explode no lado norte-americano da fronteira entre os EUA e o México, Miguel Vargas, o agente antidrogas mexicano, inicia sua investigação, junto com o capitão da polícia americana Hank Quinlan. Quando Vargas começa a suspeitar que Quinlan e seu parceiro obscuro, Menzies, estão plantando provas para enquadrar um homem inocente, suas investigações sobre sua possível corrupção rapidamente colocaram em risco a si e sua nova esposa, Susie.
Hank
A wounded bank robber takes over his brother's home.
Maj. Carlisle
When young Crazy Horse, of whom great things were predicted, wins his bride, rival Little Big Man goes to villainous traders with evidence of gold in the sacred Lakota burial ground. Of course, a new gold rush starts despite all treaties, and Crazy Horse becomes military leader of his people. Initial Indian victories lead to the inevitable result. Uniquely, all is told from the Indian perspective.
John Brown Jr.
Rise, fall and execution of John Brown, fanatic abolitionist.
Sheriff Clyde Gibbons
Randolph Scott, um poderoso rancheiro e criador de gado, está determinado a administrar o seu vasto negócio com mão de ferro e integridade. Porém, tem como seu maior inimigo, um proprietário de terras local (Richard Boone), de caráter duvidoso, que não gosta de resolver seus problemas com base na lei, e sim, prefere usar o persuasivo poder da pistola. Produção primorosa do próprio Scott e Harry J. Brown, seu sócio em vários filmes, que fizeram grande sucesso de bilheteria. Interpretações irrepreensíveis de Richard Boone e Jocelyn Brando (irmã de Marlon Brando), que honrou o nome da família de atores
Ranger clerk
A policeman tries to protect a young woman against a hit man, when she flees New York after witnessing a mob killing.
Pino
A thrilling Cavalry-versus-Indians adventure starring Jeff Chandler as an Army official recruiting Seminole allies, against his superior's wishes, to stop a planned Kiowa attack.
Tendo o seu pai sido morto às mãos de uma horda de soldados que transportam o símbolo de uma serpente enroscada, Harun decide ir até Bagdade para descobrir quem mandou executar o assassinato. Assim que chega à cidade arma-se com uma espada que parece estar dotada de uma incrível força e cuja magia só funciona nas suas mãos. Entretanto, no palácio, o malvado vizir Jafar conspira com o seu filho para derrubar o califa. Mas a filha deste, a princessa Khairuzan, apaixona-se por Harun e juntos viverão uma aventura para salvar o califado dos perfídios planos do vizir.
Menguito
Estamos às vésperas da Guerra de Secessão, no Forte Union, território do Novo México. O tenente da União Jed Sayre, simpático à causa dos Navajos, luta para manter a paz entre brancos e índios. Mas o novo comandante, Capitão Lee Whitlock, pai da bela Marcy, acha que índio bom é índio morto. Escaramuças de ambos os lados sucedem-se num crescendo, com o renegado Menguito à frente dos nativos. As hostilidades são incentivadas pelo General Storey, cujo fim é fazer com que os soldados desertem em favor dos confederados.
Frank Durling
O Xerife Federal Frame Johnson é contratado para manter a paz em uma cidade incontrolável do Oeste Selvagem. Mas que tamanho deve ser o seu sacrifício para estabelecer a lei e a ordem? Ele deve escolher entre a mulher que ama e a vida perigosa de um oficial da lei da fronteira.
Matt Jessup
A saloonkeeper sides with the sheriff for justice after she's framed for rustling.
Jim Clements
Libertado da prisão, John Wesley Hardin deixa um relato de sua vida no jornal local. Ele fala sobre seu pai excessivamente religioso, sua vida resultante de cartas e armas e seu amor por sua meia-irmã substituída em sua morte durante um tiroteio por Rosie, a garota do salão de dança.
Dandy Taylor
Brothers Dan and Neil Hammond return to Texas after the Civil War. Ambitious Dan turns to rustling and then shady land deals to build an empire. Being held for a murder, he is rescued from a lynch mob by Neil, who is now the Marshal, but there is eventually a falling out between the brothers, good triumphing over evil.
Sam McCloud
Ex-Marshal McCloud now is senator of New Mexico, fighting for a new environment law. His enemy is Maitland, unscrupulous owner of Chemtel, the world's most important chemical manufacturer. Shortly after McCloud gives an inspiring speech, he barely escapes an bomb in his car and a shooting in a restaurant. When he learns that his niece, medical researcher for Chemtel, was killed, he begins to suspect that the attempts on his life were not made by Arabian terrorists, but by Maitland. He pays him a visit in Britain and starts to research on his own.