John Karlen

John Karlen

Nascimento : 1933-05-28, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Morte : 2020-01-22

História

John Karlen (born John Adam Karlewicz) was an American character actor who played multiple roles (Willie Loomis, Carl Collins, William H. Loomis, Desmond Collins, Alex Jenkins, and Kendrick Young) on the ABC serial Dark Shadows, in various episodes which aired from 1966 to 1971. Karlen also played Harvey Lacey, husband of Mary Beth Lacey (played by Tyne Daly), on the CBS crime series Cagney & Lacey (1982–88).

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John Karlen
John Karlen
John Karlen
John Karlen

Filmes

Master of Dark Shadows
Self
Revealing the fascinating impact of the ground-breaking Gothic drama Dark Shadows with a compelling blend of rare footage and behind-the-scenes stories exploring the diverse talents of creator-producer-director Dan Curtis.
Cagney & Lacey: True Convictions
Harvey Lacey
Detectives Cagney and Lacey come face-to-face with their true feelings about capital punishment when they're assigned to the city's first capital murder case in 10 years.
Cagney & Lacey: The View Through the Glass Ceiling
Harvey Lacey
Cagney and Lacey work a case involving police corruption and document forgery. Chris seeks a prestigious promotion, while Mary Beth has to deal with the return of her sickly, aged father.
Cagney & Lacey: Together Again
Harvey Lacey
New York's toughest lady detectives re-team to solve the murder of a homeless transient who had been terrorizing the residents of a posh apartment building with screaming threats, insults and physical intimidation. Though the cops think the culprit is another street person, Cagney and Lacey believe the real killer is one of the tenants, many of whom have ample reason to have murdered the boorish bum.
Cagney & Lacey: The Return
Harvey Lacey
1994. Cagney, now a Lieutenant, re-teams with Lacey, who has left the force, to search for a cache of missing firearms.
Roseanne: An Unauthorized Biography
Jerry Barr
Behind the headlines... Behind the laughter... there's an unforgettable story you've never heard before.
Surfistas Ninjas
Mac
A vida de dois irmãos surfistas no sul da Califórnia muda completamente quando eles descobrem que são os herdeiros do trono de Patu San, uma desconhecida ilha localizada no Oceano Pacífico. Porém, o poder em Patu San foi tomado pelo coronel Chi, um maligno e incompetente guerreiro, que manda um grupo de mercenários para eliminar a dupla.
Without Warning: Terror in the Towers
Jack McAllister
Documentário sobre o atentado à bombas no WTC em 1993.
Calendar Girl, Cop, Killer? The Bambi Bembenek Story
John Garner
Story of attractive cop Laurencia Bembenek, who, in 1982, was sentenced to prison for killing her husband's ex-wife in Milwaukee, WI.
Perry Mason: The Case of the Glass Coffin
Jake Morrison
David Katz is a world famous magician and he comes to Denver with his group to perform for a charity gala for disabled children. Also there is Perry and Della as all three are supporters of the charity. Kate Ford, an assistant with an arrogant attitude, tells David that she is, from now on, going to do an illusion in which an assistant is raised in a glass coffin only to disappear when the coffin is opened up in the air (while the assistant climbs out before the coffin is raised.) After a one night stand with David, Kate is pregnant and she blackmails David with this. David and his wife Judy can't have children so that comes as a double blow to them. However Kate, with her attitude, creates much hatred at her from the rest of the group. At the gala, the glass coffin is raised but when it opens Kate's dead body falls to the ground - strangled.
Nightmare on the 13th Floor
Sgt. Madden
In this made-for-cable television horror thriller, a travel writer visits a historic hotel to write a story about it and inadvertently finds herself on the 13th floor where she witnesses a Satanic rite and tangles with an axe-wielding killer. She escapes, but no one believes her story because the hotel has no 13th floor.
Babycakes
Al
Grace is an overweight mortuary cosmetician who falls in love with Rob, a handsome subway train conductor who doesn't even know she exists. When she finally devises a way to meet him, they discover that although they are physically different, they have a lot more in common than they think.
The Cover Girl and the Cop
Lieutenant Wingo
Julia Duffy is the cover girl and Dinah Manoff the cop in this made-for-TV contrivance.
Police Story: Burnout
Capt. Harrison
A veteran vice cop has a hard time dealing with her partner's suicide.
Daddy
Mike Burnette
Two high schoolers are unprepared for the reality of parenthood when the girl becomes pregnant.
Herança de Sangue
Max
Na década de 1940 em Chicago, um jovem negro toma um emprego de motorista para uma família branca, o que leva a pior quando ele mata acidentalmente a filha adolescente do casal e, em seguida, tenta encobri-lo.
The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
Chapel
After two attempts to kidnap a little girl Mike Hammer is hired to protect her.
Bem-vindo ao lar, Bobby
Geffin
O universitário Bobby é preso com drogas em uma área gay. As investigações revelam que ele manteve relações com um homem mais velho. Daí em diante sua vida vira um inferno, pois os colegas de faculdade passam a hostilizá-lo e querem sua expulsão, causando constrangimento à sua família.
Horas de Angústia
DiSalvo
Grupos de terroristas mantêm como reféns os passageiros e tripulação de um voo, desviado para Londres, onde os criminosos pretendem trocá-los por ex-companheiro do grupo.
Impulse
Bob Russell
After a small earthquake in a small and quiet town, local citizens start to have a bizarre, violent and self-destructive behavior...
Adeus à Inocência
Mr. Nash
Adeus inocência é um filme tão terno, intimista e romântico, que ninguém jamais esquecerá. Esta é a história de Henry "Hopper" Nash e seu amigo Nicky, curtindo suas últimas descobertas juvenis, antes de ingressar na Marinha. Elizabeth MacGovern vive a misteriosa namorada de Penn. É então que acontece essa efetuosa e nostálgica história, sobre a inocência perdida e o trauma de se tornar adulto rápido demais.
Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story
Uncle George
The story of singer Rosemary Clooney's rise to fame, her marriage to Jose Ferrer, and her nervous breakdown.
Pennies from Heaven
The Detective
During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent school teacher.
American Dream
Coach Ritter
A family moves from an affluent Chicago suburb to the mixed inner-city neighborhood where the father grew up, with the idea of giving the kids, who are becoming materialistic snobs, the feel of a big city environment.
The Long Days of Summer
Duane Haley
In this sequel to his 1978 "When Every Day Was the Fourth of July" (and a pilot to a prospective series), producer/director Dan Curtis recalls more of his youth during the late '30, and follows a fictionalized family where the father has jeopardized a promising law career to defend a Jewish immigrant against the prejudices of a staid New England town.
The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang
Charlie Powers
A light-hearted view of the Dalton Gang's legendary raid on Coffeyville, Kansas and the years leading up to it as the brothers form themselves into a gang of horse thieves and train and bank robbers with their arch enemy, Detective Will Smith, constantly on their heels.
The Return of Mod Squad
Marty
Pete, Linc and Julie are called back to the force when a series of sniper attacks are made on their old boss. But the three soon discover that they themselves are the intended targets of a gunman who lives in their old "flower child" world of the 1960s.
Express to Terror
Quinn
A gambling addict, mobsters, movie producers and others are plagued with murder while aboard a high-speed rail train. This pilot episode for the short-lived "Supertrain" series (which lasted just 9 episodes) was released to home video as a independent feature.
Colorado C.I.
Kessler
Mark and Pete Gunnison, members of the Criminal Investigation Unit of the Colorado State Police, seek to crack a multi-million dollar real estate swindle.
Killer's Delight
Danny
A detective tracks a serial killer through San Francisco.
Uma Pequena Cidade do Texas
Lenny
A crooked sheriff in a small Southern town frames an ex-convict in a drug bust and takes his girlfriend.
The Kansas City Massacre
Sam Cowley
Gangsters free one of their colleagues being escorted to prison and kill several FBI agents and local police officers in the attempt. FBI agent Melvin Purvis puts together a special squad to track down and capture the men responsible.
Delancey Street: The Crisis Within
Richard Copell
The story of Delancey Street Foundation, a self-help group devoted to reclaiming ex-junkies, ex-convicts, and others.
Trilogy of Terror
Thomas Amman
A horror anthology containing three stories: a female college professor is aggressively pursued by one of her students; a prudish brunette determines that her free-spirited blonde sister is evil; and a woman's night turns upside down after she purchases an ancient Zuni fetish doll.
The Cloning of Clifford Swimmer
Clifford Swimmer, an angry and abusive man cruel to his wife and son, wants out if his marriage. With the help of a scientist he clones a replacement who takes over as head of the family while the real Clifford travels the world. The clone turns out to be a gentle and sensitive husband and father, a complete opposite of the original, and the wife and son come to love him. When the real Clifford comes back and finds his family happy with the clone he becomes angry and jealous and things take a deadly turn.
Nightmare at 43 Hillcrest
Police looking for drug dealers mistakenly raid the house of a typical suburban family. However, rather than admit their mistake and jeopardize their careers, several of the police officers decide to plant heroin in the family's house, and change the records of the raid to make it look like the family was the target of their investigation all along. Based on a true story.
Melvin Purvis G-Man
'Tony' Anthony Redecci
Agent Melvin Purvis is placed in charge of running down notorious killer Machine Gun Kelly, and sets out to do just that.
The Invasion of Carol Enders
David Hastings
Television thriller about a woman is possessed after a brutal attack.
Shirts/Skins
Herbie Bush
Six businessmen who have a weekly after-hours basketball game get caught up in a bet about a hide-and-seek contest.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Alan Campbell
Adaptation of the novel by Oscar Wilde.
Frankenstein
Otto Roget
A scientist obsessed with creating life steals body parts to put together his "creation." Released as a feature on video, this was originally shown in two installments on TV as part of the Wide World of Entertainment series.
Escravas do Desejo
Stefan Chilton
Ostende, Bélgica. Em um decadente hotel à beira-mar, Stefan e Valerie, um casal recém-casado, conhecem a misteriosa Condessa Báthory e Ilona, sua secretária.
Night of Dark Shadows
Alex Jenkins
A newlywed painter and his wife move into his family's ancestral home and find themselves plagued by spirits of past residents.
Nas Sombras da Noite
Willie Loomis
The story of vampire Barnabas Collins, the possible cure offered him by Dr. Julia Hoffman, and his search for love amidst the horror.