Daniel Benzali

Daniel Benzali

Nascimento : 1950-01-20, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

História

Daniel Benzali (born January 20, 1950) is a Brazilian-American stage, television and film actor.Benzali was a theatre actor before making guest-starring roles on television series such as Star Trek: The Next Generation, The X-Files, NYPD Blue and L.A. Law. L.A. Law creator Steven Bochco was so impressed with Benzali's performance that he cast him in the lead role of his 1995 series Murder One, playing attorney Ted Hoffman. For this role he was nominated for a Golden Globe award. More recently, Benzali starred on the series The Agency, and in films such as By Dawn's Early Light (1990), Murder at 1600 (1997) and The Grey Zone (2001). He also appeared in the post-apocalyptic CBS series Jericho as the enigmatic former Department of Homeland Security director Thomas Valente. Most recently he starred in the FX television series Nip/Tuck as the main character's psychotherapist and later patient, Dr. Griffin. Another of his roles was that of Reggie, a money hungry sales manager/drug smuggler at a car dealership in the 1999 cult-classic "Suckers." Benzali has also played musical theater. He portrayed Juan Peron in the London cast of Evita, and played faded film director Max von Mayerling, alongside Patti LuPone, in the original cast (1993) of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard. Benzali had previously appeared on Broadway in Fiddler on the Roof, and other smaller productions. Benzali was also formerly engaged to actress Kim Cattrall. In December 2010, Benzali joined ABC's General Hospital.[2]Benzali plays a character named Theodore Hoffman, a reference to his role on the mid-1990s television series Murder One. Benzali's character is also known as "The Balkan", an international crime lord. Description above from the Wikipedia article Daniel Benzali , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Perfil

Daniel Benzali

Filmes

Fórmula Fatal
Os paramédicos respondem a uma chamada de emergência em uma área rural no sul da Califórnia. Ao chegarem ao local, um posto de gasolina abandonado, eles encontram uma mulher inconsciente, Rebecca, e sua filha aterrorizada, Libby. De acordo com Liby, as duas estão fugindo de um grupo chamado QUANTA, liderados por um homem que os membros chama de "O Professor". Enquanto David e Victor estão tentando salvar a vida da mulher desacordada, surge no meio do nada um grupo de homens tatuados que descem de uma picape e sequestram todos. Eles são levados a um bunker e são informados que foram abduzidos por um culto ligado ao apocalipse final, que está se preparando para a última passagem para a próxima vida.
No Encalço da Máfia
Frank Finnegan
Boston cop Pally is forced into early retirement, putting a strain on his marriage. Pally's stepbrother, Ray, attempts to lift his spirits by tipping him off to a sure-bet racehorse. But their attempts to secure the champion equine are thwarted by a local mob boss, who steals the horse as repayment for a gambling debt. With their investment on the line, Pally and Ray become entangled in a web of underworld crime and murder.
Cinzas da Guerra
Simon Schlermer
Miklos Nyiszli (Allan Corduner) é um judeu que foi escolhido por Josef Mengele (Henry Stram) para trabalhar como patologista no campo de concentração de Auchswitz, em plena 2ª Guerra Mundial. Nyiszli vive com o dilema de ajudar a exterminar seu próprio povo ou garantir mais algum tempo de vida, que ele mesmo não sabe quanto será. Assim como ele existem diversos outros judeus, que foram os Sonderkommandos, que pretendem se rebelar contra os nazistas. Até que, quando o motim está prestes a começar, eles descobrem uma garota de 14 anos que inexplicavelmente sobreviveu à câmara de gás.
Boss of Bosses
Bruce Mouw
The story of the rise and fall of the powerful New York City organized crime boss, Paul Castellano.
Vegas, City of Dreams
Dr. Sigmund Stein
When the body of Gabrielle Garrett is found on Lake Mead on a Christmas day, the coroner rules it as suicide. However, her three sisters begin their own investigation, which leads them to Byron Lord and the dark Las Vegas underworld.
Em Maus Lençóis
Detective Tom Dewey
Quando acidentalmente descobre que será demitido no dia de Natal acha que deve se vingar de Crock. Para tanto pede a ajuda de Rusty P. Hayes, seu melhor amigo. No início pensam em seqüestrar Crock, mas como não são criminosos resolvem seqüestrar o cãozinho de estimação dela e pedir um resgate. Na hora de pegar o cão este morde muito Willard, chegando ao ponto de espalhar sangue pela sala de Crock. Rusty deixa um bilhete, dizendo que se não pagar US$ 1 milhão ela terá um cão morto. Porém o animal foge, sem que Willard e Rusty notem. Eles só caem na real quando os dois amigos vêem o rosto de Willard na primeira página do jornal, pois como o cão voltou para casa Crock entende que Willard é que foi seqüestrado e o "cachorro morto" seria ele, em razão do sangue. Vendo que se tornou a vítima, ele aumenta o resgate para US$ 5 milhões, que Virginia nem pensa em pagar. Até que a opinião pública se revolta e passa a boicotar os produtos dela.
Suckers
Reggie
A fiercely dishonest car salesman hires a new employee who owes a serious debt to loan sharks.
Her Married Lover
Det. Joe Lansing
Film editor Katie and suspense novelist Richard share an erotically charged moment during a hostage crisis, before embarking on a rapturous affair. When Richard’s wife is killed in a suspicious accident, the lovers are accused of murder.
All the Little Animals
Bernard 'The Fat' De Winter
An emotionally challenged young man named Bobby runs away from home in order to escape his abusive stepfather who has killed his pets. He meets an old man, Mr. Summers, who spends his time traveling and giving burials to animals that have been killed by cars. Bobby, also having an affinity for animals, becomes friends with the old man and aids him in his task.
Heist
Big Fats
Four career felons are brought together by desperation and greed in the most devious attempt to double-cross a rival crime boss
O Fim da Violência
Phelps
Mike Max is a Hollywood producer who became powerful and rich thanks to brutal and bloody action films. His ignored wife Paige is close to leaving him. Suddenly Mike is kidnapped by two bandits, but escapes and hides out with his Mexican gardener's family for a while. At the same time, surveillance expert Ray Bering is looking for what happens in the city, but it is not clear what he wants. The police investigation for Max's disappearance is led by detective Doc Block, who falls in love with actress Cat who is playing in ongoing Max's production.
Crime na Casa Branca
Agent Nick Spikings
O corpo de uma mulher é encontrado na Casa Branca e o detetive Harlan Regis suspeita que alguém está tentando encobrir o crime. Ele logo descobre que sua própria vida corre perigo e corre para tentar encontrar o assassino.
A Child's Cry for Help
Dr. Everett Morris
A recently widowed doctor moves with her daughter to start at a new hospital. While there a loving mother brings her son in for treatment. The doctor suspects that there is something wrong, and theorizes that the mother is deliberately making her son sick so that she could bring him to the hospital for the attention that it gives her. When the doctor decides to restrict the mother's access to her son and is reporting her to child services, the mother in turn decides to sue the doctor and the hospital. And some of the hospital board don't agree with her diagnosis or think that she's over-reacting. And even while the mother's not allowed access to her son, he is still sick, so is the doctor right or wrong?
Um Distinto Cavalheiro
'Skeeter' Warburton
Em um mundo de conchavos políticos, até mesmo um charlatão profissional como Thomas Jefferson Johnson (Eddie Murphy) pode encontrar um adversário superior. Depois de usar a popularidade de seu nome para ser eleito, Johnson começa a receber as mesmas regalias financeiras de outros políticos. Porém, ao investigar a conexão entre empresas elétricas e câncer em crianças, ele surpreendentemente decide lutar para dar um fim a esta situação, só que para isso terá que enfrentar um inescrupuloso político.
Citizen Cohn
Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman
As lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from his past visit him as he reflects on his life and loves.
Afterburn
Col. John Patterson
Based on a true story, one woman takes on the U.S. military and General Dynamics; maker of the F-16, thought to be the very best tactical fighter in the world. Air Force Captain Theodore T. Harduvel was one of the best F-16 pilots the U.S. had to offer. After much digging, Janet Harduvel discovers a joint military and General Dynamic cover-up. She proves to be unwavering in her search for the truth to clear his name.
O Último Selvagem
Mr. Whitney
O que acontece quando o último remanescente de uma tribo indígena americana é obrigado a encarar sozinho o século 20? Na linha de Dança Com Lobos, este filme mostra a contrastante relação entre o último selvagem vivo da tribo Yahi e um antropólogo da Califórnia. Emocionantes lições de vida extraídas de um doloroso relato que registra a extinção de toda uma raça.
A Day in October
Solomon Kublitz
During the month of October 1943, the Danish resistance movement and just plain ordinary citizens joined together in staging a mass exodus by fishing boats to neutral Sweden of their Jewish countrymen, practically on the eve of the Nazi's planned round-up and delivery to concentration camps of all Jews. Story is told from the point of view of one Jewish family.
By Dawn's Early Light
Bascombe
A nuclear warhead launched by Soviet insurgents protesting the waning Cold War destroys the Ukrainian city of Donetsk. The destruction sets off a race between American and Soviet politicians to prevent a nuclear holocaust. While the U.S. president feverishly works to keep the military and political machine from going into overdrive, various subordinates panic. When the president is believed to be killed in a helicopter crash, zealous advisers take over.
Roe vs. Wade
Holly Hunter plays a lonely, single, poorly educated Texan who finds herself pregnant with no means to support a child. To avoid giving up the child, she seeks an abortion. Denied an abortion in Texas the young woman hires a novice lawyer to plead her case in the US supreme court. Eventually the law is changed, but for the character it takes longer than nine months.
Mensageiro da Morte
Chief Barney Doyle
Em sua própria casa as mulheres e crianças de Orville Beecham, um mórmon, são vítimas de um massacre. A polícia acredita que o crime tem motivos religiosos, mas Orville não faz nenhum comentário sobre o caso enquanto é mantido sob proteção policial. Um repórter policial do Denver Tribune, Garret Smith, se envolve na investigação e gradativamente toma consciência de que razões econômicas motivaram os crimes.
Pacote de Mentiras
Peter Schafer
A couple learns that their friendly neighbours might be Russian spies.
The Last Days of Patton
Col. Glen Spurling
As a result of General George S. Patton's (George C. Scott) decision to use former Nazis to help reconstruct post-World War II Germany (and publicly defending the practice), General Dwight Eisenhower (Richard Dysart) removes him from that task and reassigns him to supervise "an army of clerks" whose task is to write the official history of the U.S. military involvement in World War II. Shortly thereafter, on December 9, 1945 (a day before he was to transfer back to the United States), Patton is involved in an automobile accident that seriously injures his spinal column, paralyzing him. As he lies in his hospital bed, he flashes back to earlier pivotal moments in his life, including stories his father told him of his grandfather's service during the American Civil War which inspired him to attend the United States Military Academy at West Point, his marriage to his wife Beatrice (Eva Marie Saint), and his championing of the use of tanks in the United States Army.
Whoops Apocalypse
William Kubert (US Defence Secretary)
When a small British owned island in the Caribbean is invaded and the world's most dangerous terrorist kidnaps a member of the Royal family, the countdown to World War 3 begins. If anyone can prevent the oncoming apocalypse it's the American President, but her closest ally the British Prime Minister appears to have gone stark raving mad.
Strong Medicine
Seth
TV Movie A woman starts working for a prestigious pharmaceutical company that's developing a new miraculous cure. Soon, she discovers what a devious and cut-throat business pharmaceutical industry can be.
Malícia Atômica
First Theatrical Agent
Quatro ícones culturais dos anos 1950 (Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio e o senador Joseph McCarthy) que teoricamente poderia ter se conhecido, mas provavelmente não, ficcionalmente participam desta moderna fábula americana do pós Segunda Guerra Mundial. Visualmente intrigante, o filme tem uma progressão fluida de flash-backs e flash-forwards centradas em ficcionais observações atuais de Einstein, memórias de infância e apreensões com o futuro.
007 Na Mira dos Assassinos
Howe
O magnata Max Zorin (Christopher Walken) pretende controlar o mercado de informática. Ele resolve arquitetar um louco plano, no qual milhares de pessoas vão morrer para ficar ainda mais rico. Após retornar da sua viagem na União Soviética com um chip de computador, James Bond (Roger Moore) precisa investigar as indústrias de Zorin e tentar impedir que o vilão realize os seus planos.
Terror Combat