Allan Rich
Nascimento : 1926-02-08, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
Morte : 2020-08-22
História
Allan Rich (born Benjamin Norman Schultz; (February 8, 1926 – August 22, 2020) was an American character actor, author and activist.
Allan Rich was one of the many alleged communist sympathizers blacklisted in the 1950s Hollywood blacklist. He mentored Rene Russo in the world of acting and also played a judge in Hill Street Blues.
Rich was the co-founder of non-profit organization We Care About Kids, which produces educational short films for middle and high school youths.
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Rabbi Twersky
Aidan Bloom (Zach Braff) é um ator, pai e marido, que com 35 anos ainda sonha em encontrar sua identidade ou um propósito para sua vida. Aindan e a esposa sofrem financeiramente e a relação não melhora com o fato de que o sujeito passa boa parte do tempo sonhando em ser um grande e futurístico guerreiro espacial, um sonho seu desde pequeno.
A grown man's quest to find love and acceptance from his stepdad and win a magazine contest.
Francis
An odd-but-gifted poet, Evan Merck makes his living writing suicide notes for the soon-to-be departed. So when he meets Charlotte, the free-spirited sister of his latest client, Evan has no choice but to lie about his relationship to her late, lamented brother.
Harrison
Sadie é uma repórter investigativa que descobre um culto subterrâneo que está atraindo jovens hippies de Los Angeles. Seduzidos pela promessa de grandes festas, esses garotos começam a aparecer mortos, e quando Sadie tenta chegar ao fundo da história, se torna a vítima. Ela acorda no necrotério, nem viva nem morta, uma vampira consumida pelo insaciável desejo de sangue. Tentando desesperadamente brigar contra essa sede, Sadie decide ir atrás das pessoas que a tornaram uma vampira. Ela se une ao detetive Rawlins, que teve sua filha assassinada pelo clã, e os dois buscam juntos suas vinganças.
Zvi
A Los Angeles tollbooth clerk becomes obsessed with the Holocaust after meeting a survivor.
Klump
O homem é fiel se a oportunidade não aparece... Ray possui uma criativa agência que fornece álibis para maridos adúlteros. Seus negócios andam muito bem até o dia em que um de seus clientes mata a amante depois de uma sessão de sadomasoquismo. Considerado um dos suspeitos do assassinato e sem poder entregar os envolvidos, Ray se vê em um incrível jogo de brigas e intrigas. Mas ele bola um plano mirabolante para livrar o cliente, e a si mesmo, deste problema que parece sem solução.
Sam
Jerry Cooper is The Dogwalker, a Tom Sawyer grown up for the nineties, who having fallen on hard times, is struggling with the reality of having to sleep in his car. When he quite literally stumbles upon an old lady and her dog, he suddenly finds himself caught up in her life and over her head in a twisted mix of class, race, age, sex, drugs, dog leashes, inheritances and contract bridge.
Gordan Gates
A half-wit falls in love with a beautiful movie star.
Jason Davis is a reporter who gets an anonymous tip that turns him into an eyewitness to a judge's murder.
Judge Juttson
Costa de Cuba, 1839. Dezenas de escravos negros se libertam das correntes e assumem o comando do navio negreiro La Amistad. Eles sonham retornar para a África, mas desconhecem navegação e se vêem obrigados a confiar em dois tripulantes sobreviventes, que os enganam e fazem com que, após dois meses, sejam capturados por um navio americano, quando desordenadamente navegaram até a costa de Connecticut.
Sebastian
Após perder dinheiro apostando em cavalos, jogador convence seu cunhado viúvo a embarcar em um cruzeiro para o Caribe. Charlie e Herb embarcam como instrutores de dança para não pagar passagem e se envolvem em muitas confusões a bordo.
Bill Adolphe
Ao revelar a um desconhecido que gostaria que seu marido estivesse morto, Josie Potenza surpreende-se quando este é assassinado e todas as evidências apontam para ela. Mas este é apenas o começo de um pesadelo interminável, e Josie passa a ser perseguida por um homem e sua obsessão, mergulhando em um redemoinho de crueldade, mentiras e crimes
Dr. Benfante
Como qualquer garoto de 10 anos, Jack (WILLIAMS) quer ir à escola e brincar com outras crianças. Só que ele não é um garoto comum: portador de uma doença rara, Jack envelhece quatro vezes mais rápido que o normal, fazendo dele um menino em corpo de homem. No primeiro dia de aula, Jack descobre que não cabe na cadeira e nem entre seus colegas de classe que o consideram mais uma aberração do que um amigo. Depois de seu encontro com as garotas e de uma noite trágica na casa da árvore, a escola se transforma na maior aventura de sua vida.
Stein
Marsha, a con artist with a conscience, has agreed to take on an unusual scheme in order to pay off a debt to a lawyer who helped out her brother. An elderly millionaire is about to die, and the entire fortune has been willed to a stripper named Jean, who is unaware of the windfall awaiting her. Marsha's task is to get to know Jean well enough that she can impersonate her at the reading of the will and take the inheritance for herself. Taking a job at the same strip club, the pair soon bond, but will Marsha's feelings for her new friend outweigh her need to help pay off her brother's debt?
Quote Reader
Explores sexuality and censorship over a hundred years of motion pictures.
Reverend Larrabee
Em Miami Beach um artista com problemas financeiros se torna marchand e vive armando para sobreviver. Um de seus golpes consiste em convencer viúvas que seus maridos tinham encomendados determinados quadros. Desta forma ele conhece uma mulher muito rica e sexy (Melanie Griffith), que é amiga de uma das viúvas, e entre os dois acontece um relacionamento. Como se isto não bastasse, ele conhece a irmã (Daryl Hannah) de sua namorada, que também é extremamente sensual, e decide criar um irmão gêmeo para poder conquistá-la.
Robert Kintner
Programa de perguntas e respostas na TV, nos anos 1950, é investigado e se descobre que, visando a audiência, produtores passam a dar as respostas a um jovem de família rica, que passa a ganhar de um rapaz judeu muito mais inteligente.
Ben Heller
Tom Sanders (Michael Douglas), um executivo, espera ser promovido mas quem acaba ocupando o cargoé Meredith Johnson (Demi Moore), com quem ele teve no passado um envolvimento. Meredith rapidamente tenta forçá-lo a ter relações sexuais e, em virtude da recusa dele, ela ameaça destruí-lo na empresa.
Studio Executive #1
Saul Schwartz, a married successful businessman, is bored with his life and decides he has had enough. So he gets a divorce, quits his job, and goes off to pursue his dream, in Hollywood to be a movie star. Only becoming a movie star isn't as easy as he thought. Nobody wants an overweight, 50 year old, New Yorker who looks like a lawyer. He's going to have to make a few adjustments.
Grazinsky
Detective Sam Dietz is paired with a shady FBI agent to track down another serial killer terrorizing Los Angeles.
Leonard Marks
Nos anos 50, David Merrill é um cineasta chamado a prestar depoimento para um comitê que investiga atividades ligadas ao regime comunista, mas se nega a cooperar porque não quer prejudicar um amigo. Ele é incluído na lista que circula em Hollywood e que cita nomes de profissionais suspeitos de ter relações com o comunismo e não devem ser contratados. Surge o dilema: ajudar o amigo ou retomar sua carreira?
Allan Neyman
Condenado a envelhecer entre os terráqueos, Connor MacLeod, o último guerreiro highlander, aos 75 anos, ainda é uma esperança para seu povo no planeta Zeist. Por isso, o ditador Katana se lança à Terra para matá-lo, desencadeando uma batalha de vida ou morte.
After his girlfriend is kidnapped by a vicious mobster, Cage rips into action with a vengeance. Retired from kickboxing to pursue dreams of being an entertainer, Cage is forced into a death match with the brutal doctor death. He must win, or he will die.
Boston Official
A noted concert pianist in her early forties, totally obsessed with her music, retreats to a small town to be alone and to write a concerto, but there falls for a talented teenage musician and becomes consumed in an affair with him.
J.R. Jacobs
A womanizer tries to redeem himself to win over the girl of his dreams.
Dr. Haskell
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.
Luigi Constantine
Two LA cops turn to professional wrestling for money and revenge after being suspended from the force for a bar brawl.
Pop Roth
Scientists create "the perfect soldier" in a lab experiment by recombining his molecules. He is then sent out on dangerous but vital missions.
Jim Clark
A boy who lives at a country club where his father works decides to make some extra money by selling composted horse manure as fertilizer, and has his three sisters (two of which are older) join him in the enterprise. As their sales increase, they draw increased scrutiny from the IRS and state tax board, as well as the large scale competitor who seeks to put them out of business at any cost.
Mr. Bebe
The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
Dr. Walcott
Uma mulher é atormentada e abusada sexualmente por um demônio invisível.
Nazi
Casal ambiciona mudar-se do edifício onde mora e abrir seu próprio negócio. Mas o marido perde o emprego e, para financiar seus planos, decide colocar um anúncio para encontros sexuais, o que transforma a casa num cenário de grandes confusões.
Judge Stanley Mosk
Bill Carney has just been paralyzed from the neck down. He has been taking care of his two sons since his wife left him. Now, when word of his condition reaches her, she wants to take them away, as she feels that he is unable to care for them. And it appears that the courts agree too. So, his lawyer, also a paraplegic, begins the campaign to take his case before the Supreme Court. Will he win?
Paeter Yos
A rugged warrior is on a quest to avenge his father's brutal slaying and in search of a legendary sorcerer who can help him. Joining him on his mission is a beautiful enchantress who is also searching for the sorcerer; pursuing him is a malevolent wizard who wants him dead.
G.W. Rosen
A pair of cops, a pair of doctors, and a pair of lawyers examine a crime — the wounding of a ten-year-old girl by a sniper — from three different angles in this pilot to the short-lived series.
Roy Grutman
A woman who uses a handgun to defend herself and shoots a man who is assaulting her in her home is doggedly prosecuted by the district attorney, bent on making an example of her case.
Tobias Simon
True story of Clarence Gideon's fight to be appointed counsel at the expense of the state. This landmark case led to the Supreme Court's decision which extended this right to all criminal defendants.
Marty Fields
An idealistic but struggling actor finds his life unexpectedly complicated when he stops a robbery while wearing the costume of Captain Avenger, a superhero character of a film he is hired to to promote. He decides to dabble at being a superhero only to find that it is more difficult and dangerous than he ever imagined.
Gen. 'Mad Anthony' Wayne
This follow-up to "The Bastard" and "The Rebels" continues the account of Philip Kent's life and career from his emigration to colonial Massachusetts through the American Revolutionary War and concludes the family saga with the story of his two sons and their children as they arrive in the unexplored Northwest Territory. (Episodes 5 and 6 of the Kent Chronicles miniseries.)
Mr. Bialik
Rabino polonês desembarca na América com o objetivo de chegar ao Velho Oeste e fundar uma sinagoga em São Francisco. Mas durante o caminho ele vai enfrentar muitos perigos, como praticamente ser queimado vivo por tribo de índios ou quase ser morto por um bando de foras-da-lei.
Montrose Meier
An up-and-coming nightclub singer falls in love with a shy young deaf teacher who aspires to be a dancer.
George Jelks
Three people's lives are drastically changed when they are suddenly given one million dollars each by an eccentric billionaire in this pilot to a prospective new series which the producers hoped would equal the success of the original one that ran from 1955 to 1960.
Dr. Clark
A trumpet player, self-destructive after the death of his wife and child in a fire, befriends a crippled youngster and together they battle obstacles through each other's encouragement.
Capt. Bullis
A white female detective is partnered with a black male detective to find the person who is committing a series of particularly vicious murders. During the course of the investigation the two begin to develop an attraction to each other, but the situation is complicated by the fact that he is married.
Mr. Vogel
Story of the various joys and crises of neighbors who share terraces in a high-rise apartment building.
Ray Jenkins
Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President.
Max
A professional gambler finds himself on the run from the mob, the federal government, and a band of Indians, all of whom have an interest in a piece of land he won in a poker game.
Judge Paul Pieter
In this pilot film, Mallory is a prominent lawyer with a tarnished reputation who defends a young man charged with committing homicide against a sexual predator in prison.
Desk Sergeant
Having emigrated to New York and immediately got the kiss-off from her mother-besotted fiance, a Dutch lass takes a well-paid office job and starts liberally sampling the local male talent. After a while she decides to make her pleasure her business too, and as her reputation grows she graduates to a high-class bordello. Soon she realises she has the right talents to make a real success of a place of her own.
Police Commissioner
A New York City detective teams up with a federal agent and a state trooper to bust up a drug ring.
Bernie
Axel Freed é um professor de literatura e é viciado em apostas. Quando perde todo o seu dinheiro, ele pede emprestado da sua namorada, da sua irmã, e até de alguns bandidos perigosos. E mesmo assim, ele não para de jogar.
D. A. Tauber
A história real de um policial honesto de Nova York que denunciou a corrupção na polícia, e como consequência seus colegas se voltaram contra ele.
