Dana Elcar

Dana Elcar

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

Смерть : 2005-06-06

История

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.

Профиль

Dana Elcar
Dana Elcar

Фильмы

Inside Out
Leo Gross
An agoraphobic must give up his sheltered life and venture outside after a series of personal and financial problems.
Убийство в трёх актах
Dr. Strange
В Акапулько, в замке экстравагантного и гостеприимного хозяина — миллионера, происходит светский раут. Гостям, элегантным дамам и господам, среди которых - сам Эркюль Пуаро, предлагают перед трапезой прохладительный коктейль. В один из бокалов подмешан яд...
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: Космическая одиссея
Dimitri Moisevitch
Действие происходит спустя девять лет после событий предыдущей картины. Космический корабль «Алексей Леонов» с советско-американским экипажем на борту отправляется на Юпитер, чтобы разгадать тайну оставленного на орбите корабля-первопроходца «Дискавери». Для этого командиру и членам звездного экипажа предстоит вновь активировать выведенный из строя компьютерный мозг HAL-9000, который явился одной из причин провала первой экспедиции.
Весь я
Burton Schuyler
Душа сумасбродной миллионерши во время мистического сеанса реинкарнации переселяется не в тело более молодой и привлекательной женщины, а в мужчину-адвоката. Теперь одна его половина собственная, мужская, а другая — чужая, женская. Виртуозно обыгрывая эту фантастическую ситуацию блистательный актерский дуэт создает целую серию забавных несуразностей, остроумно выкручиваясь из того двусмысленного положения, в которое попали незадачливые персонажи.
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.
Друг-приятель
Capt. Hubris
Судьба сводит в одном месте совершенно непохожих людей. Мистер Трабукко работает на мафию. Его высоко ценят за профессионализм и чистую работу при ликвидации опасных свидетелей. Виктор Клуни хронический неудачник и зануда, которого бросила жена. Под тяжестью невзгод он склоняется к мысли о самоубийстве.Поначалу Трабукко не воспринимает нового знакомого всерьез, но занудство Клуни действительно не знает границ, а его навязчивая компания начинает угрожать выполнению важного контракта. Этот фильм - ремейк на французский фильм "Зануда" (1973).
Человек-кондор
Russ Devlin
Писатель, сочиняющий комиксы, знакомится в баре с прекрасной русской девушкой. Стремительное развитие последующих событий заставляет литератора действовать под маской тайного агента, за которым охотятся спецслужбы сразу нескольких стран.
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.
Последний полет Ноева ковчега
Benchley
Когда Ноа Дуган соглашается лететь с миссией Бернаддет Лафлёр и ее грузом с животными на далекий остров, это только потому, что он бегает от пары букмекеров. Никто из них не знает, что двое студентов мисс Лафлёр спрятались вместе с животными и что передающее радио мисс Дафлёр создало помехи панели управления самолета и они сбились с курса на многие мили. После вынужденной посадки на далеком острове Дуган, Бернадетт, Бобби и Джулии обнаруживают, что они не один. Вместе с двумя японскими солдатами, которые прибывали на острове со времен Второй мировой войны, они должны превратить самолет в мореходный корабль, если они когда-то хотят попасть домой. Бобби и Джулии настаивают, что они не могут оставить зверей одних, и так переделанный самолет превращается во второй Ноев ковчег.
Обнаженная Бомба
Chief
Герои фильма основаны на персонажах, созданных Мелом Бруксом и Баком Хенри, что уже определяет пародийность этой комедии о Максуэлле Смарте, агенте 86. Вспоминайте сериал «Напряги извилины». Международные террористы во главе с негодяем Хаосом завладели новым страшнейшим оружием — раздевающей бомбой. Если взорвать это устройство, то вся ткань в мире будет уничтожена. Все человечество останется без одежды, в чем мать родила. Эта тема и обыгрывается в приключениях этого суперагента.
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.
Чемпион
Hoffmaster
Истории любви между отцом и сыном, и о женщине, пытающейся их разлучить. Бывший чемпион по боксу Билли Флинн еле зарабатывает на пропитание себе и своему сыну, когда возвращается его бывшая жена Энни. Она вышла замуж и стала успешной, а теперь хочет вернуть сына. Чтобы оставить себе обожающего сына, Флинну придется тренироваться, сражаться и найти способ снова стать чемпионом.
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
A frontier sheriff and his young deputies search for a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes.
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.
Сент Айвз
Lt. Charles Blunt
Журналист и писатель Бронсон становится пешкой в смертельной игре богача Хаусмена и его прекрасной сообщницы Биссет. Ловко манипулируя им, они подставляют его под убийство.
Доклад для следователя
Chief Perna
Молодой детектив нью-йоркской полиции на собственной шкуре узнает о правилах, по которым живет полицейское управление большого города. По роковой ошибке застрелив женщину-коллегу - тайного агента полиции, он сталкивается с попыткой управления скрыть обстоятельства произошедшего.
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.
Афера
F.B.I. Agent Polk
В 1930-е годы двое отпетых мошенников пытаются отомстить главарю мафии за смерть их общего друга с помощью одной из самых неожиданных афер в истории кино, которая к тому же заканчивается удивительным и забавным образом.
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.
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
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.
Перестрелка
Marv Green
Вестерн-драма о двух стареющих ганфайтерах, которыми манипулирует с виду мирное и спокойное общество, на самом деле жаждущее кровопролития.
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.
San Francisco International
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.
Солдат в синем мундире
Capt. Battles
Отряд кавалерии, сопровождавший золото, подвергся нападению индейцев и был уничтожен. Спаслись только женщина и один солдат. Вместе они добираются до своих, по пути между ними завязывается роман…
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.
Бостонский душитель
Luis Schubert
В Бостоне и близлежащих районах в период с июня 1962 по январь 1964 годы были убиты и изнасилованы одиннадцать женщин. Полиция во главе с Джоном Боттомли находится в тупике. Преступник не оставляет практически никаких улик. Не помогает даже привлечение к расследованию экстрасенса. В конце концов, убийцу ловят. Экранизация по произведению Джеролда Фрэнка.
Прекрасный способ умереть
Layton
Рина Уэстабрук (Сильва Кошина) и её любовник-плейбой обвиняются в убийстве её мужа. Подозреваемые выпущены под залог. Их адвокат Теннесси Фредерикс (Эли Уоллах) нанимает для расследования преступления и охраны леди Рины от назойливых журналистов отставного полицейского Джима Скайлера (Кирк Дуглас).
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.
The Fool Killer
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.
Система безопасности
Foster
Компьютер военного ведомства США дает сбой, и пилоты ядерных бомбардировщиков получают команду атаковать Москву. Теперь экипажи самолетов не имеют права выходить в эфир, их единственная задача — выполнить миссию любой ценой. У президента США есть несколько часов, чтобы предотвратить надвигающуюся катастрофу.
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.