Ben Piazza

Ben Piazza

Nascimento : 1934-07-30, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA

Morte : 1991-09-07

Perfil

Ben Piazza

Filmes

Culpado Por Suspeita
Darryl Zanuck
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?
Marcas do Destino
Mr. Simms
Drama baseado na história verdadeira de Rocky Dennis, um adolescente que nasceu com uma estranha deformidade no rosto e todos acham que usa uma máscara. Cher, em seu papel principal no cinema, é Rusty, a mãe do rapaz. Com a ajuda do amor descompromissado e a inabalável determinção de Rusty, Rocky enfrenta a dor, a solidão e os preconceitos para emergir como um extraordinário jovem que se torna uma inspiração para seus colegas e professores.
Consenting Adult
Dr. Mark Waldo
Young and shy Jeff discovers his attraction to men. After struggling with himself he comes out to his parents. Mum eventually listens to his son and tries to understand his feelings, but his Dad would rather die — which, in the end, he really does, leaving behind a mother, her son and his friend to work those things out Jeff and his Dad had never the courage to talk about.
Waltz Across Texas
Bill Wrather
A wildcatter and a geologist prospect for oil and love in West Texas.
The Five of Me
Neurologist
Henry Hawksworth (David Birney) is a man menaced by a multiple personality. There is Dana, the conservative family man; Johnny, violent and sociopathic; Peter, creative and childish; and Phil, protective and unemotional. "Dana" falls in love with Ann (Dee Wallace) and marries her. Following a crime, "Johnny" is arrested and tried. In court, Henry's multiple personalities are painfully revealed.
A Matter of Life and Death
Dr. Laurie
The true story of a nurse who spent her life caring for terminally ill patients.
The Last Song
Ken Pentoff
An aspiring singer unwittingly comes into possession of several tapes for which her engineer husband and his partner, in their electronic eavesdropping business, were murdered, and discovers that she and her daughter are now being stalked by the killers.
The Children of An Lac
Dr. Wayne R. McKinney
Based on the true story of film actress Ina Balin and her efforts with American Red Cross volunteer Betty Tisdale, as well as a compassionate Vietnamese woman running a Saigon orphanage, to rescue as many children as possible and fly them out of the country before South Vietnam's fall in the spring of 1975 through the An Lac baby-lift.
Os Irmãos Cara de Pau
Father
Após deixar a cadeia Jake reencontra seu irmão Elwood e juntos vão para o orfanato onde foram criados. Lá eles descobrem que o local será fechado se uma dívida de US$ 5 mil com a prefeitura não for paga. Como a freira que dirige o orfanato não aceita de forma alguma dinheiro ganho desonestamente, Jake e Elwood decidem por retomar a The Blues Brothers Band, na intenção de realizar um grande show e arrecadar a quantia necessária para pagar a dívida.
The Murder That Wouldn't Die
Dr. John Spencer
William Conrad stars as a retired L.A.P.D. detective who has moved to Hawaii and taken a job as a college security chief and assistant football coach in this pilot to a post-"Cannon" series to have been called "Battles." With the aid of his niece, the school's star football player, a local tough-turned-college student, and the college dean, he investigates two related murders that occurred nearly 40 years apart.
Terrores da Noite
Roger Piggott
Morcegos assassinos atormentam uma reserva indígena no Novo México.
When Every Day Was the Fourth of July
Herman Grasser
A little girl convinces her attorney father to defend a mute war veteran accused of murdering a store owner.
Kill Me If You Can
Bill Edmunds
The story of Caryl Chessman, a convicted California rapist who spent 12 years on death row before finally being executed.
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
Jay Blake
A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality.
Garotos em Ponto de Bala
Councilman Whitewood
Um velhote azarado, ex-campeão dos menores de idade, treina um time de desajustados em uma pequena liga ultra competitiva da Califórnia. Primeiro de uma trilogia de filmes com um olhar inflexível no ponto baixo do beisebol da liga no sul da Califórnia. O ex-campeão menor Morris Buttermaker é um limpador de piscina preguiçoso que ganha dinheiro para treinar os Bears, um bando de desajustados desajustados que praticamente não têm talento para beisebol. Percebendo seu dilema, o treinador Buttermaker traz para o time a craque Amanda Whurlizer, filha de uma ex-namorada, e Kelly Leak, um motociclista que é o melhor jogador do mundo. Cheios de confiança, os Bears procuram entrar no jogo do campeonato e vingar uma derrota anterior para o seu arqui inimigo, os Yankees. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)
Fer-de-Lance
Lieutenant Whitehead
An American submarine leaves Tierra Del Fuego, and one of its crew has secretly brought aboard a container full of poisonous snakes which escape storage and bite key personnel on the submarine, causing an accident that cripples the vehicle so that it drops to the bottom of the Southern Ocean. Worse still, the snakes are still at large on the submarine and complicate the efforts of the crew to escape the sunken vessel.
The Candy Snatchers
Avery
An abused autistic boy is the sole witness to the kidnapping of a teenage heiress.
Os Gângsters Não Esquecem
A French hit man is hired by a crime family to end the life of a rival mobster, but things fall apart when the boss who hired him is killed.
Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
Jesse
Junie Moon is in the hospital after her face has been disfigured by her deranged boyfriend. There she meets two other patients — Arthur, an epileptic, and Warren, who is gay and uses a wheelchair. The unlikely trio of outcasts decides to move in together and manages to enjoy a series of adventures as they endure various forms of prejudice and struggle with their own issues.
No Exit
Camarero
The Valet (Manuel Rosón) enters a hotel room with Joseph Garcin (Morgan Sterne) in tow. The windowless room has a single entrance and no mirrors. Two women, Inès Serrano (Viveca Lindfors) and Estelle Rigault (Rita Gam), are then led in; afterwards, the Valet leaves and locks the door. Realising that they are in hell, the trio expects to be tortured; however, no torturer is forthcoming. While waiting, they strike up a conversation and discuss each other's sins, desires, and unpleasant memories. Adaptation of the play by Jean-Paul Sartre.
A Árvore dos Enforcados
Rune
Em 1873, no Caminho do Ouro, Montana, o misterioso e discreto Dr. Joseph Frail chega na pequena cidade de Skull Creek, onde os mineiros estão em uma corrida do ouro. O Dr. Frail compra uma cabana no topo de uma colina e vê o ladrãozinho Rune ferido e perseguido por uma multidão que quer pendurar ele. Dr. Frail ajuda e cura Rune; mas, em troca exige que o jovem se torna seu servo. O curador de alcoólatras e pregador George Grubb diz para os moradores que o Dr. Frail, que é um grande jogador e pistoleiro, é o verdadeiro diabo, mas ninguém dá atenção às suas palavras.
A Dangerous Age
David
Teenage lovers are continually thwarted in their attempts to get married.
Terra de Paixão
Casting
Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to evade the police; but when his new surveyor, Gary, arrives along with his refined but sensual wife, Barbara, Dennis gets infatuated by her.