Dana Elcar

Dana Elcar

Nascimento : 1927-10-10, Ferndale, Michigan United States

Morte : 2005-06-06

História

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Dana Elcar (October 10, 1927 – June 6, 2005) was an American television and movie character actor. Although he appeared in about 40 films, his most memorable role was on the 1980s and 1990s television series MacGyver as Peter Thornton, an administrator working for the Phoenix Foundation. Elcar had appeared in the pilot episode of MacGyver as Andy Colson (a completely different character), but was later cast as Peter Thornton, making his first regular appearance in the 11th episode of the first season. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dana Elcar, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Perfil

Dana Elcar
Dana Elcar

Filmes

Inside Out
Leo Gross
An agoraphobic must give up his sheltered life and venture outside after a series of personal and financial problems.
Morte em Três Atos
Dr. Strange
Em Acapulco, Hercule Poirot participa de um jantar em que um dos convidados de repente aperta a própria garganta e morre. A causa parece ser natural até que em uma outra festa, com a maioria das mesmas pessoas convidadas, produz outro cadáver. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
Toughlove
Max Wiley
The Charters family falls into despair over their drug-addicted son Gary. They discuss his problems through the "Toughlove" program in searching for answers.
There Were Times, Dear
Don Mason
Bob and Susanne Millard deal with the onset of Bob's Alzheimer's disease.
2010 - O Ano em Que Faremos Contato
Dimitri Moisevitch
A bordo da nave Leonov, uma tripulação que reúne americanos e soviéticos, está a caminho de um encontro com a Discovery, estacionada em órbita fixa. Aquilo que eles não sabem é que estão a caminho, também, de um futuro desconhecido para os humanos, e que o seu destino poderá ficar nas mãos do antigo computador da Discovery, o HAL-9000.
Um Espírito Baixou em Mim
Burton Schuyler
Edwina Cutwater (Lily Tomlin) é uma mulher muito rica que não aceita a morte iminente. Desta forma ela aceita a proposta feita por Prahka Lasa (Richard Libertini), um mestre da meditação que diz ser capaz de transferir a alma de Edwina para o corpo de Terry Hoskins (Victoria Tennant). Só que, durante a transferência, algo sai errado e ela vai parar no corpo de Roger Cobb (Steve Martin), um advogado, cuja alma permanece em seu corpo. Desta forma Edwina passa a controlar o lado esquerdo do corpo de Roger, enquanto que o próprio apenas detém o controle de seu lado direito.
Jungle Warriors
D'Antoni
A group of models fly into the jungle of some South American country to look for a photo location. Their plane is shot down and they are captured by a drug baron's private army. At the same time, the Mafia's representative arrive to negotiate future collaboration.
Quarterback Princess
Mr. Caine
The Maida family has moved to Oregon, and daughter Tami wants to play quarterback for the high school football team. There's just one problem. She's a girl. With everyone from the coach to her next door neighbor against her, she's out to prove that not only can she can play football, but she can win the state championship. (Based on a true story)
I Want to Live
Warden
The movie tells the story of a woman who struggles and fights to escape the gas chamber being condemned with capital punishment because of her participation in a hold up in which a person was killed.
Blue Skies Again
Lou
A hard-hitting, fast, sure-handed baseball player tries to break into the sport by applying for a spot on a minor-league team. The only problem is that the player is female, which engenders resistance and resentment among many players and officials.
Inspector Perez
Captain R. C. Hodges
Failed crime TV pilot starring Anne Bloom.
Forbidden Love
Burt Wagner
A young doctor meets and falls in love with the older Joanna, who is on the board of directors at his hospital. The people around them, including their families, have a hard time accepting the age difference, and they must decide whether to call it quits or stick with each other.
The Day the Bubble Burst
Mr. Block
A fictionalized account of how the 1929 stock market crash hurt the elite and the struggling, and the forces that may have caused the crash to occur.
Help Wanted: Male
Milhauser
An unmarried career woman decides she wants a baby and finds a suitable partner, a sportswriter working for the magazine she publishes. After she maneuvers him into proposing marriage to her, she learns that he happens to be sterile.
Amigos, Amigos, Negócios à Parte
Capt. Hubris
During a high profile Mafia testimony case, a contract killer checks-in a hotel room near the courthouse while his next door depressed neighbor wants to commit suicide due to marital problems.
Condorman: O Homem Pássaro
Russ Devlin
Um autor de histórias em quadrinhos, Woody, é o criador de Condorman, o homem pássaro. À partir dai, resolve assumir a identidade de seu personagem e se envolve em várias aventuras de espionagem.
Mark, I Love You
Mr. Bassett
A distraught widower is caught in a bitter custody battle with his late wife's parents over his 10-year-old son, following his plans to remarry and move off to California with the boy.
A Última Viagem da Arca de Noé
Benchley
Quando um avião transportando vários animais faz um pouso forçado em uma ilha deserta, a única chance de escapar é converter o avião em um barco. Quando Noah Dugan concorda em levar a missionária Bernadette Lafleur e sua carga de animais para uma ilha remota, é só porque ele está fugindo de uma dupla de bookmakers. O que nenhum deles sabe é que dois dos jovens estudantes da Miss Lafleur se juntaram clandestinamente aos animais e que o rádio transistor da Srta. Lafleur interferiu nos instrumentos do avião e agora eles todos estão fora do rumo. Após um pouso forçado em uma ilha remota, Dugan, Bernadette, Bobby e Julie descobrem que não estão sozinhos. Juntamente com dois soldados japoneses que estão encalhados na ilha desde a Segunda Guerra Mundial, eles devem transformar o avião em um barco navegável se eles quiserem voltar para casa. Quando Bobby e Julie insistem que não podem deixar os animais para trás, o avião convertido realmente se torna uma segunda Arca de Noé.
A Bomba que Desnuda
Chief
Maxwell Smart (Don Adams) é chamado ao serviço para ajudar a combater um vilão que ameaça detonar uma arma que destrói roupas. Em sua missão, o atrapalhado agente secreto irá contar com a ajuda da sexy Agente 34 (Sylvia Kristel).
Death Penalty
John Mulligan
A strong-willed psychologist tries to rehabilitate a member of a Pittsburgh street gang who has been found guilty of the murder of two other teenagers in a playground rumble.
O Campeão
Hoffmaster
O mundo está de olho em Billy Flynn, um ex-campeão de boxe vencido pela bebida e pelo jogo. Mas seu filho, TJ, vê além. Ele sabe que seu pai está na pior, mas para ele o pai será sempre O Campeão.
Samurai
Frank Boyd
Lee Cantrell, a young San Francisco attorney by day, at night becomes a samurai warrior, and battles a crazed multi-millionaire who is planning to destroy the city with an earthquake machine.
Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff
Havermeyer
An abusive sexual relationship between a white spinster schoolteacher and a young black janitor in 1956 Kansas complicates her struggle to come to grips with her sexuality and emotions.
Crisis in Mid-Air
Brad Mullins
The life of a stressed-out air controller falls apart as he battles a court case involving a mid-air collision for which an investigator is trying to hold him responsible.
The Flying Misfits
Col. Thomas A. Lard
The dramatized World War II adventures of US Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington and his Marine Attack Squadron 214, AKA The Black Sheep Squadron. The film also acted as the pilot for the television series Baa Baa Black Sheep. Former U.S. Marine pilot Greg "Pappy" Boyington is flying with the American Volunteer Group (the Flying Tigers) in China. After Pearl Harbor brings America into World War II, Greg leaves the AVG to rejoin the Marine Corps. He refuses to be relegated to a desk job and, against all military protocol, forms his own fighter squadron from a group of misfits and disciplinary cases.
Gemini Man [Pilot]
Dr. Harold Schuyler
A government agent is caught in the explosion of a government underwater salvage operation. He finds himself capable of turning himself invisible, and sets out to use his new powers to prove that the explosion was sabotage.
Baby Blue Marine
Sheriff Wenzel
A would-be Marine fails basic training, and is sent home wearing the "baby blue" fatigues of a washout. En route, he is mugged by a battle-fatigued Marine Raider, who leaves him to hitch-hike home in an undeserved hero's uniform. A small Colorado town takes him in, treating him like the hero he appears to be.
Law of the Land
Rev. Mr. Endicott
Um veterano xerife e seus jovens auxiliares caçam um assassino serial que está matando prostitutas.
W.C. Fields and Me
Dockstedter
In 1920s New York City, W. C. Fields is a successful headlining entertainer, but when his girlfriend leaves him and his broker loses his money, Fields begins anew in California. Working at a wax museum, Fields eventually lands a film role that ascends him to stardom. Back in the limelight and palling around with John Barrymore and the like, Fields meets an aspiring actress Carlotta Monti at a party, with whom he forms a rocky relationship.
Cinco Dias de Conspiração
Lt. Charles Blunt
A dabbler-in-crime and his assistant hire an ex-police reporter to recover some stolen papers.
Investigação Perigosa
Chief Perna
Police officer Patty Butler, alias "Chicklet," is the live-in girlfriend of Thomas 'Stick' Henderson to gather evidence. Detective Bo Lockley is instructed to try to find her, not knowing she's also a cop.
Panic on the 5:22
Hal Rodgers
Three armed men take over a private railroad car, determined to rob and kill the passengers.
Senior Year
Paul Reed
Pilot for the short-lived series "Sons and Daughters" set in a high school in the 1950's and seen through the eyes of five carefree seniors.
Heatwave!
Prescott
A devastating heatwave hits the Los Angeles area and a young expecting couple try to evade it by escaping to a mountain resort town.
Golpe de Mestre
F.B.I. Agent Polk
Após o assassinato de um amigo em comum, o aspirante a vigarista Johnny Hooker junta-se ao velho Henry Gondorff para se vingar de Doyle Lonnega, o cruel chefe responsável pelo crime. Hooker e Gondorff implementam um plano elaborado para que Lonnegan não descubra que está sendo enganado. O grande golpe começa a se desenrolar, mas as coisas não saem como planejaram e a destemida dupla faz improvisações de última hora.
Dying Room Only
Sheriff
A married couple are traveling on a deserted desert road at night. They stop at a diner and the husband goes to the men's room. He never returns and the wife begins to suspect serious foul play.
Catch-22
Colonel Cathcart
Bombardier Yossarian is stationed on the small island of Pianosa during World War II. In addition to the enemy trying to kill him, Yossarian also has to endure the bureaucratic SNAFUs of group leaders and the insane antics of other 256th Squadron members. Failed television pilot for a sitcom adaptation of Joseph Heller’s satirical black comedy novel Catch-22.
Sem Lei e Sem Esperança
Allen
The gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger join forces to rob the First National Bank in Northfield, Minnesota, but things do not go as planned.
Fireball Forward
Col. Talbot
A hard-nose general takes over a division with a bad combat record.
The Bravos
Captain Detroville
The commander of an isolated frontier cavalry post tries to stop an Indian war and find his son, who has been kidnapped.
The Death of Me Yet
Hank Keller
The editor of a small-town newspaper has his past unexpectedly catch up with him: he finds out that a Soviet agent who knew him when he was a spy has been sent to the U.S. to kill him.
O Duelo
Marv Green
Will Tenneray and Abe Cross are two aging, famous gunfighters, both in need of money. Tenneray comes up with the idea to stage a duel to the death in a bullfight arena, with the ticket proceeds going to the winner.
Sarge: The Badge or the Cross
Father Frank Dinsmore
After his wife is murdered, a veteran cop quits the police department and becomes a priest. Several years later he is assigned to a parish where he meets the man who killed his wife -- and discovers that the killer was gunning for him instead. The first of two feature-length pilots for the series "Sarge."
Mrs. Pollifax — Spy
Carstairs
Mrs. Emily Pollifax of New Jersey goes to the CIA to volunteer for spy duty, being in her own opinion, expendable now that the children are grown and she's widowed. And being just what the department needed (someone who looks and acts completely unlike a spy), she's assigned to simple courier duty to pick up a book in Mexico City. But when the pickup doesn't go as planned, Mrs. Pollifax finds herself handcuffed to a handsome stranger on a plane bound for an Albanian prison. And it's up to her to get them out.
Aeroporto Internacional de San Francisco
George Woodruff
This pilot for the TV series stars Pernell Roberts as Jim Conrad, who runs an airport, much to the chagrin of his boss, "his way." In this, two plots run - a kid whose parents are splitting up decides to take off in a little red prop plane (and Conrad talks him down), and thieves played by the handsome Tab Hunter and his truly ugly sidekicks try to steal a money shipment. Roberts was replaced by Lloyd Bridges when the show went to series.
Adam at Six A.M.
Van Treadly
A disenchanted young Professor of Semantics at a California college learns of a distant relative's death in Missouri. He journeys cross-country to the funeral, then decides to spend the summer there and work as a laborer for a power-line company. In time, he meets a girl and falls in love but then faces an important decision as to which direction he wants his life to go.
Quando é Preciso Ser Homem
Capt. Battles
Só há dois sobreviventes depois que um grupo de cavalaria é massacrado pelos Cheyenne. Honus, um Ingênuo soldado dedicado ao seu dever, e Cresta, uma jovem que viveu com os Cheyenne por dois anos e cujas simpatias estão mais com eles do que com o governo Americano. Juntos, eles tentam chegar a principal base da cavalaria.
Zig Zag
Harold Tracey
A dying man frames himself for murder so his widow can collect the reward.
The Learning Tree
Kirky
The story, set in Kansas during the 1920's, covers less than a year in the life of a black teenager, and documents the veritable deluge of events which force him into sudden manhood. The family relationships and enmities, the fears, frustrations and ambitions of the black teenager in small-town America are explored with a strong statement about human values.
The Maltese Bippy
Sgt. Kelvaney
A man buys a house and comes to believe that not only is the house haunted by werewolves, but a family of vampires lives next door.
The Whole World Is Watching
Huston
A student radical, accused of murdering a cop during a campus revolt, welcomes a court confrontation and then refuses to take the stand, despite the urging of the three high-priced lawyers he has hired to represent him in this second pilot of "The Lawyers," a rotating segment of "The Bold Ones" series.
Deadlock
George Stack
The murder of a journalist, coming shortly after the killings of a black teenager and a white cop, threatens to inflame passions in the city. To prevent a riot, Lieutenant Sam Danforth and District Attorney Leslie Washburn are determined to find the killer, even though they do not exactly get along with each other and disagree over procedure.
Pendulum
Det. J.J. 'Red' Thornton
On the evening of his decoration for bringing a murderer to justice, Washington DC Police Captain Frank Matthews' wife, and her lover are murdered in bed. Jailed as the prime suspect, with the aforementioned murderer released on a technicality Matthews escapes in search of the man he believes to be the real killer.
The Sound of Anger
Andrew Pearce
A young man is arrested on suspicion of sabotaging the plane of his girlfriend's father, a wealthy man who despises him.
O Homem Que Odiava as Mulheres
Luis Schubert
Por que 13 mulheres voluntariamente abrem suas portas para o Estrangulador de Boston? Boston está sendo atacada por um serial-killer que já matou 13 mulheres. Até que a polícia captura Albert DeSalvo (Tony Curtis), um encanador que por não lembrar dos acontecimentos, dificulta as investigações da polícia. Baseado em fatos reais.
Entre o Desejo e a Morte
Layton
Schuyler é um detetive esquentado que acredita que os bandidos são tratados com muito mais respeito do que merecem. Schuyler é encontrado por um proeminente advogado chamado Fredericks para guarda-costas de sua cliente Rena a qual está sendo acusada de matar o marido junto com o seu namorado.
Of Mice and Men
Two ranch workers, one of them simple-minded, look for work and happiness during the Great Depression, but luck is not in their cards.
The Crucible
Marshall Herrick
Landmark adaptation of the Arthur Miller play. Nominated for 3 Emmy awards.
The Borgia Stick
Craigmeyer
A suburban couple discovers that they are pawns for a powerful crime syndicate. They try to break away from the cartel and go legitimate, but the syndicate doesn't want to give them up so easily.
Uma Sombra na Janela
Mr. Dodd
After the Civil War, a southern boy, aged 12, runs away from his foster home, wanders the countryside, and meets various odd characters along the way, including Milo, a mysterious drifter who may or may not be the vengeful "Fool Killer" of folklore.
Limite de Segurança
Foster
Um avião americano cheio de bombas de hidrogênio está passando por Moscou com problemas técnicos.
Big Deal in Laredo
Dennis Wilcox
A timid man with money problems gets into a big card game with some high-rollers.
Broadway Theatre Archive: Burning Bright
In this acclaimed production of John Steinbeck's classic morality tale, award-winning actress Colleen Dewhurst stars as Mordeen, a wife driven to desperate measures to give her aging circus performer husband a child. Dana Elcar, Donald Madden and Tony Award winner Myron McCormick round out the talented cast of this televised Broadway Theatre Archive production, produced by Lewis Freedman and Henry Weinstein.