Joel Polis

Joel Polis

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

História

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.

Perfil

Joel Polis

Filmes

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.
Contato Alienígena
Copeland
Cientistas de uma base da NASA no Pólo Sul descobrem um misterioso objeto enterrado no gelo. Ao mesmo tempo, diversas estações de pesquisa e radiotelescópios espalhados pelo mundo interceptam sinais de rádio muito estranhos. O especialista em criptologia Julian Rome constrói um decodificador e decifra o complexo código, descobrindo que a mensagem é um alerta extraterrestre.
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?
Livre para Amar
Vice Principal
Uma mulher muda constantemente de cidade em cidade com sua filha de 12 anos para escapar de relacionamentos fracassados. O filme começa com uma fuga e a mudança para um novo começo em San Diego. Lá mamãe pega um caminhoneiro controlador e briga com seu chefe esquisito. Enquanto isso, a filha, acostumada a fazer as mudanças constantes, consegue uma boa adaptação na escola, incluindo ser escolhida para um papel principal.
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.
Meu Pequeno Paraíso
U.S. Attorney
Um criminoso que colabora com a Justiça (Martin) ganha uma nova identidade e vai morar em outra cidade, protegido por um ingênuo agente do FBI (Moranis). Sem que o policial perceba, o bandido reorganiza sua quadrilha e volta a agir no mundo do crime.
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.
Justiça Corrupta
Dean Rabin
O assassinato. A condenação. A dissimulação. Agora James Woods vai ter que enfrentar a corrupção e a conspiração nos altos escalões do departamento de justiça de Nova York, neste drama de muita ação. Eddie Dodd (James Woods), um renomado defensor dos direitos civis nos anos 60, agora um cínico amargurado que ganha apenas o suficiente para viver defendendo traficantes de drogas. A paixão de Dodd pela justiça é revivida quando um jovem advogado idealista (Robert Downey Jr.) vai até ele para reabrir o caso de um crime ocorrido há oito anos, cujo jovem prisioneiro cumpre pena em Sing Sing. A frenética busca de Dodd pela verdade acaba levando-o a um angustiante labirinto de inescrupulosos promotores, grupos brancos racistas e policiais corruptos. Será que ele estará pondo a vida em jogo pelas suas crenças? Apoiado em um elenco extraordinário, Justiça Corrupta é um intenso e emocionante suspense que retrata a luta de dois homens pela restauração da justiça.
O Enigma de Outro Mundo
Fuchs
Na remota Antártida, um grupo de cientistas americanos é perturbado em sua base quando, de um helicóptero, alguém atira em um cão do acampamento. À medida que socorrem o cão baleado, o bicho começa a atacar os cientistas e os outros cachorros e logo eles descobrem que o animal pode assumir a forma de suas vítimas. Isto significa que membros da equipe podem ser mortos e a cópia assumir o lugar deles. Com isso, um piloto e um médico precisam capturar a fera antes que seja tarde demais.