Michael Tucker
Nascimento : 1945-02-06, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
História
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Michael Tucker (born February 6, 1945) is an American actor and author, most widely known for his role in L.A. Law, a portrayal for which he received Emmy nominations three years in a row.
Tucker was born in Baltimore, Maryland and is a graduate of the Baltimore City College high school and Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he was close to the American T.V. writer and producer, Steven Bochco, later to create L.A. Law. His acting experience includes early appearances with Joseph Papp and a major stint at the Arena Theatre, in Washington, D.C. He also has worked with Lina Wertmuller, Woody Allen, and Barry Levinson (also from Baltimore).
Tucker played Stuart Markowitz in L.A. Law, where he co-starred with his wife Jill Eikenberry.
Both he and Eikenberry are active in fund-raising for breast cancer research and treatment. He has written three books, including Living in a Foreign Language: A Memoir of Food, Wine, and Love in Italy, which describes his buying a house in a small Italian village and mastering the fine art of Italian cooking. He is the author of "Notes From The Culinary Wasteland" a blog about food, travel and the good life.
After meeting artist Emile Norman, Eikenberry and Tucker purchased land from him to become his neighbors in Big Sur, California. In 2008 they produced a PBS documentary, Emile Norman: By His Own Design
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Bank Manager
Aos 12 anos, o menino Trey Caldwell fica devastado quando seu pai, soldado do exército americano, é morto no Afeganistão - deixando um buraco em sua vida e um carrinho de corrida não finalizado na garagem. Último presente de seu pai, o carro é uma lembrança constante de como o futuro poderia ter sido. Mas quando Trey conhece Roy Gibbs, um bombeiro devastado por ter perdido o filho nos atentados de 11 de setembro, um novo laço se forma e velhas feridas começam a cicatrizar. Enquanto esta equipe incomum finaliza o carro e treina para a corrida, eles percebem que a vida não se faz apenas do tremular de uma bandeira quadriculada - mas sim da coragem para encarar uma incrível jornada de fé no caminho.
Theatre Director
Ao deparar-se, no The New Yorker, com um artigo sobre um laboratório altamente sofisticada que extrai, congela e armazena almas de pessoas, Paul poderá ter descoberto a chave para a felicidade de que andava à procura. Mas, algumas complicações surgem quando se torna uma infortunada vítima do "tráfico de almas"… A aventura de Giamatti leva-o até à Rússia, na esperança de recuperar a sua alma roubada, de uma ambiciosa mas pouco talentosa actriz de telenovelas.
Stuart Markowitz
Sherwood Schwartz
A tell-all story of what happened behind the scenes of the 70s hit TV series "The Brady Bunch." Based on the book written by Barry Williams, the actor who played Greg Brady.
Saul Moss
Two strangers, whose paths are always crossing, finally meet when fate steps in. It took them twenty years to fall in love at first sight.
Mark Hale
When teenage students kidnap Jan Hale they do not mean her any real harm - they just want enough ransom money from her husband Mark to afford a life of luxury. However, when they leave Jan handcuffed to the steering wheel of their car in the freezing cold, they are not aware that she suffers from a potentially fatal heart condition. Mark is racing against time as he and the police play a game of cat and mouse with the kidnappers, aware that he may never see his wife alive again.
On Hope is a 1994 short film directed by JoBeth Williams, with Annette O'Toole, Mercedes Ruehl, Ray Baker, and Veronica Cartwright. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
Tibbles
O jogador Gordon Bombay (Emilio Estevez) lesiona o joelho e é obrigado a sair da liga de hóquei. Ele assume a função de treinador durante um campeonato na Califórnia. Ele se estabelece e tudo parece ir bem. Mas Bombay acaba se distraindo quando a esquipe favorita ao título entra em cena.
Harry Wegman
Michael J. Fox interpreta o cortês gerente de um hotel de luxo, Doug Ireland, que faz de tudo para agradar os hóspedes, sonhando em um dia encontrar um que financie o seu grande sonho: montar o próprio hotel. Quando finalmente encontra alguém (Anthony Higgins) disposto a transformar o seu desejo em realidade, Doug se apaixona por Andy Hart (Gabrielle Anwar), a amante do rico empresário com quem ele conta para investir no negócio. Agora Doug terá de enfrentar um clássico dilema - ele irá escolher o amor ou o dinheiro? Esta sofisticada e espirituosa comédia, apresenta uma deliciosa história de amor com muitos risos e romance. Estrelando o astro do filme De Volta Para o Futuro, Michael J. Fox, Anthony Higgins (Os Caçadores da Arca Perdida) e Gabrielle Anwar (Perfume de Mulher).
Dennis 'Doc' Littky
An unconventional New England principal tries some radical new techniques to reform the high school he is hired at, and ends up the object of great controversy. A true story.
Ben Talbot
Reza a lenda que, a cada 300 anos, Papai Noel deve ceder seu lugar a um sucessor. Chegado o momento, o bom velhinho resolve pedir ajuda ao cético jornalista Ben Talbot para encontrar seu substituto. Caso não consigam, o Natal corre o risco de não mais ser festejado.
Host
Making of documentary from the 50th Anniversary.
Walter
One of life's losers (Michael Tucker) kidnaps a suburban housewife (Jill Eikenberry) while on the run from hoodlums.
Peter Ctilwell
The friendships held between two families is threatened when one of their sons drowns in the other family's swimming pool.
Self - Choir Member
Behind the scenes making of the charity single "Voices That Care".
Buddy Thornton
Menina obrigada a se casar aos 14 anos é abandonada e, aos 15, vive nas ruas. Ela é violentada por todos os homens que conhece e acaba cometendo um assassinato. No corredor da morte, um advogado tenta salvar sua vida.
Leo Szilard
Hungarian physicist Leo Szilard leaves Europe, eventually arriving in the United States. With the help of Einstein, he persuades the government to build an atomic bomb. The project is given to no-nonsense Gen. Leslie Groves who selects physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to head the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, where the bomb is built. As World War II draws to a close, Szilard has second thoughts about atomic weapons, and policy makers debate how and when to use the bomb.
Harry Lardner
When his best friend dies of a heart attack, Ray Macklin becomes a man obsessed with his own mortality. Convinced that all his aches and pains are an indication of his imminent death, Ray's life turns into a slapstick farce of health-crazed anxiety and hypochondria.
Stuart Markowitz
This film combines live action/original animation and library animation. Mickey steals a magic hat from a Sorcerer and is put under a spell by the angry magi so that no one will recognize him until he finds his own magic within. While Mickey is on his quest, network news teams around the country desperately try to find the famous, beloved mouse who has mysteriously disappeared. On his quest, Mickey goes into the "Cheers" bar, meets up with the characters from "Family Ties", and winds up on Disneyland's Main Street the night before his Birthday celebration is to take place. It is there that he finds he has all the magic inside him that he will ever need. The spell is broken and the Birthday bash commences as the whole World celebrates the beloved Mickey Mouse.
Self
Just how much do you know about alcohol consumption? Take this video quiz to find out!
Edgar
Silvia and Edgar have been married for a long time, but can't stand each other now. But a divorce would mean having to sell their dream house, which both of them want to keep. Instead they both secretly decide the answer is to kill the other.
Bagel
A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man versus man in 1963 Baltimore.
Father
Um olhar nostálgico na época de ouro do rádio. No início da Segunda Guerra Mundial em Nova York, uma família comum tem seus sonhos inspirados nos programas de rádio da época. Como não existia televisão, as famílias se reuniam ao redor do rádio e cada membro da família tinha seu programa preferido. O destemido Vingador Mascarado, o Café da Manhã Show com os socialites e galanteadores Roger e Irene e Sally, a "Garota dos Cigarros", são quase tão importantes quanto, por exemplo, se o Oceano Pacífico é menor do que o Atlântico, ou mesmo o que o seu pai realmente faz para ganhar a vida.
Stuart Markowitz
Pilot episode for the TV series introduces the lawyers and employees of McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzak, a Los Angeles law firm, in dealing with their courtroom cases and personal matters out of the courthouse. While the entire office deals with the unexpected death of one of the founding senior partners, Norman Chaney, junior partner Michael Kuzak reluctantly takes on the defense of a wealthy and spoiled young man, accused with two friends, of raping a woman dying from leukemia. While intern Abby Perkins deals with her abusive alcoholic husband, divorce lawyer Arnie Becker takes advantage of his latest client caught up in her divorce. Public defender Victor Sifuentes is also offered to join the firm, while the ruthless managing partner, Douglas Brackman, deals with a surprising revelation from his new secretary.
Michael Silverman
An elderly man is determined to reopen the Coney Island boardwalk hot dog stand he closed twenty-two years earlier for renovation, despite the fact he's recovering from a severe heart attack and it's the middle of February.
Gil's Agent
Em área pobre de Nova Jersey, durante a Depressão, uma garçonete (Mia Farrow) que sustenta o marido bêbado e desempregado, que só sabe ser violento e grosseiro, foge da sua triste realidade assistindo filmes. Mas ao ver pela quinta vez "A Rosa Púrpura do Cairo" acontece o impossível! Quando o herói da fita sai da tela para declarar seu amor por ela, isto provoca um tumulto nos outros atores do filme e logo o ator que encarna o herói viaja para lá, tentando contornar a situação. Assim, ela se divide entre o ator e o personagem.
Bagel
Baltimore, 1959. Edward "Eddie" Simmons (Steve Guttemberg), Laurence "Shrevie" Schreiber (Daniel Stern), Robert "Boogie" Sheftell (Mickey Rourke), Timothy Fenwick Jr. (Kevin Bacon) e William "Billy" Howard (Timothy Dale), cinco amigos inseparáveis, tem de enfrentar que estão se tornando adultos. A responsabilidade deste novo momento em suas vidas é alternada com horas despreocupadas em uma lanchonete local. A trama se centra no retorno da faculdade de Billy, que será padrinho no casamento de Eddie. Billy é consumido por uma relação embaraçosa com uma amiga íntima, enquanto Eddie ainda vive em casa e prepara testes de futebol para sua noiva e jura cancelar o casamento se ela falhar. Há também Boogie, um sedutor com mania de jogar, e Shrevie, um viciado em música que tem problemas em seu casamento.
Christopher Bell
Vampire Anton Voytek's lair is disturbed by the ground breaking for a new church. Anton attempts to start a modern life using his hoarded wealth, but finds it's been confiscated by the authorities. He takes revenge on the architect responsible, who in turn, aided by a retired detective, tries to hunt down and destroy Anton.
Bert
Laura Mars é uma jovem mulher que misteriosamente passa a ter visões de terríveis crimes cometidos por um serial killer.
Fred
Mulher de classe média alta de Nova Iorque precisa se adaptar a sua nova realidade após o fim do seu casamento de mais de 16 anos.
Friend
Lizzy, a liberated American photographer, falls for narrow-minded journalist Paolo. Then finds she can't live with him or without him.
