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Biff McGuire is a Actor and Scriptwriter American born on 25 october 1926
William "Biff" McGuire (born October 25, 1926, New Haven, Connecticut) is an American actor. In recent years he has used the name William Biff McGuire professionally.
In a career that has spanned 50 years, McGuire has collected a number of theatrical credits. He was acclaimed for his role as Woody in the 1960 revival of the musical Finian's Rainbow and played King Arthur in one of the first national tours of Camelot. He was nominated for two Tony Awards during his career.
On October 9, 1955, McGuire starred in the episode "Number Seven, Hangman's Row" of the CBS anthology series, Appointment with Adventure. He also starred in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episodes "The Gentleman From America" (1956), "The Hidden Thing" (1956), "Crackpot" (1957), and "Don't Interrupt" (1958).
He has played characters in the television series The Secret Storm, All My Children, and Gibbsville.
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Biff McGuire
In a career that has spanned 50 years, McGuire has collected a number of theatrical credits. He was acclaimed for his role as Woody in the 1960 revival of the musical Finian's Rainbow and played King Arthur in one of the first national tours of Camelot. He was nominated for two Tony Awards during his career.
On October 9, 1955, McGuire starred in the episode "Number Seven, Hangman's Row" of the CBS anthology series, Appointment with Adventure. He also starred in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episodes "The Gentleman From America" (1956), "The Hidden Thing" (1956), "Crackpot" (1957), and "Don't Interrupt" (1958).
He has played characters in the television series The Secret Storm, All My Children, and Gibbsville.
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Nero Wolfe (1979)
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Thayer David, Tom Mason, Brooke Adams, Biff McGuire, John Randolph, Anne Baxter
Roles Insp. Cramer
Rating69%
The Last Word (1979)
Directed by Roy Boulting
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Richard Harris, Karen Black, Martin Landau, Dennis Christopher, Biff McGuire, Christopher Guest
Roles Governor Davis
Rating52%
Child of Glass (1978)
, 1h33Directed by John Erman
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Adventure, Horror
Themes Ghost films, Children's films
Actors Barbara Barrie, Biff McGuire, Anthony Zerbe, Nina Foch, Katy Kurtzman, Olivia Barash
Roles Joe Armsworth
Rating75%
Alexander Armsworth and his family move into a spooky old Louisiana mansion that was once the home of a notorious river pirate. Before long, Alexander catches sight of a mysterious little girl and her dog, both of whom turn out to be ghosts. The little girl ghost tells Alexander that her name is Inez Dumaine, a Creole girl who lived in the 19th century, and appeals to him for help in finding a child of glass.
Midway (1976)
, 2h12Directed by Jack Smight
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Hal Holbrook, Toshiro Mifune
Roles Captain Miles Browning
Rating66%
The film chronicles the Battle of Midway, a turning point in World War II in the Pacific. The Imperial Japanese Navy had been undefeated until that time and out-numbered the American naval forces by four to one.
Kingston (1975)
Directed by Robert Day
Genres Drama
Actors Bradford Dillman, Dina Merrill, Martin Kove, Lenka Peterson, Biff McGuire, Raymond Burr
Roles Pat Martinson
Serpico (1973)
, 2h5Directed by Sidney Lumet
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Action, Historical, Crime, Politic
Themes La corruption policière
Actors Al Pacino, John Randolph, M. Emmet Walsh, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire, Tony Roberts
Roles Captain McClain
Rating76%
Working as a uniformed patrolman, Frank Serpico excels at every assignment. He moves on to plainclothes assignments, where he slowly discovers a hidden world of corruption and graft among his own colleagues. After witnessing cops commit violence, take payoffs, and other forms of police corruption, Serpico decides to expose what he has seen, but is harassed and threatened by his peers. His struggle leads to infighting within the police force, problems in his personal relationships, and his life being threatened. Finally, after being shot in the face during a drug bust on February 3, 1971, he testifies before the Knapp Commission, a government inquiry into NYPD police corruption between 1970 and 1972. After receiving a New York City Police Department Medal of Honor and a disability pension, Serpico resigns from the force and moves to Switzerland.
The Werewolf of Washington (1973)
, 1h25Directed by Milton Moses Ginsberg
Origin USA
Genres Fantastic, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film, Political films, Comedy horror films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Dean Stockwell, Biff McGuire, Clifton James, Déspo Diamantídou, Thayer David, Michael Dunn
Roles President
Rating40%
A reporter is bitten by a werewolf in Hungary and then becomes the press assistant to the president of the United States of America. When the reporter says he is a werewolf, no one believes him, and many think it is the work of maniacs or hippies.
The Underground Man (1973)
, 1h40Directed by Paul Wendkos
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Peter Graves, Sharon Farrell, Celeste Holm, Jim Hutton, Kay Lenz, Biff McGuire
Roles Cassidy
Rating66%
Paradise Lost (1971)
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Eli Wallach, Jo Van Fleet, Jiří Voskovec, Bernadette Peters, Cliff Gorman, George Bartenieff
Roles Phil Foley
Rating80%
The play takes place in an unnamed American city during the Depression, in 1932. The head of the family, Leo, and his wife Clara are middle-class and prosperous. However, over the course of the play Leo and his partner Sam lose their handbag business and the family must come to terms with this. The other characters in the play include a friend, Gus, and his daughter, Libby, a frivolous and self-centered young woman who is newly married to Leo's son Ben; a boarder, and an assortment of other characters.
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
, 1h42Directed by Norman Jewison, Walter Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke, Jack Weston, Gordon Pinsent, Addison Powell
Roles Sandy
Rating68%
Millionaire businessman-sportsman Thomas Crown (Steve McQueen) pulls off a perfect crime by orchestrating four men to rob $2,660,527.62 from a Boston bank, along with a fifth man who drives the getaway Ford station wagon with the money and dumps it in a cemetery trash can. None of the men ever meets Crown face-to-face, nor do they know or meet each other before the robbery. Crown retrieves the money from the trash can personally after secretly following the driver of the station wagon, then personally deposits the money into an anonymous Swiss bank account in Geneva, making several trips, never depositing the money all at once so as to not draw undue attention to his actions.
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
, 2h3Directed by Robert Ellis Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, Sign-language films, American Sign Language films, Films about language and translation
Actors Alan Arkin, Sondra Locke, Stacy Keach, Cicely Tyson, Chuck McCann, Biff McGuire
Roles Mr. Kelly
Rating75%
John Singer (Alan Arkin) is a deaf-mute who works as a silver engraver in a small southern town. His only friend is a mentally disabled mute, Antonapoulos (Chuck McCann), who continually gets into trouble with the law since he doesn't know any better. When Antonapoulos is committed to a mental institution by his family, Singer decides to move to a town near the institution in order to be near his friend. Singer finds work there and rents a room in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Kelly (Biff McGuire and Laurinda Barrett), who are having financial difficulties as a result of Mr. Kelly's recent hip injury. Because the Kellys' teenage daughter, Mick (Sondra Locke), resents having to give up her room to him, Singer makes a few tentative efforts to win her friendship. Singer also tries to become friends with Blount (Stacy Keach), a semi-alcoholic drifter, and Dr. Copeland (Percy Rodriguez), an embittered segregationist African American who is secretly dying of lung cancer. Copeland's deepest disappointment is that his educated daughter, Portia (Cicely Tyson), works as a domestic and is married to a field hand.
Station Six-Sahara (1963)
, 1h41Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Carroll Baker, Peter van Eyck, Ian Bannen, Denholm Elliott, Hansjörg Felmy, Mario Adorf
Roles Jimmy
Rating63%
When an attractive young woman arrives at an isolated oil station in the Sahara Desert, she provokes a growing tension in the male employees.
The Phenix City Story (1955)
, 1h40Directed by Phil Karlson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical, Noir, Crime
Themes Political films
Actors John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Crosby, Edward Andrews, James Edwards, Lenka Peterson
Roles Fred Gage
Rating71%
In a corrupt Alabama town, the law can do little to stop the criminal activities of Rhett Tanner, particularly in the wide-open "red-light district" area. Most of the police don't even try, being on Tanner's payroll.
You're in the Navy Now (1951)
, 1h33Directed by Henry Hathaway, Lewis Seiler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy
Themes Military humor in film, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, Children's films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Gary Cooper, Jane Greer, Millard Mitchell, Eddie Albert, John McIntire, Ray Collins
Roles Sailor Messenger
Rating62%
At Norfolk Naval Base in the opening months of World War II, Lieutenant John W. Harkness (Cooper), a newly commissioned officer, bids goodbye to wife Ellie (Jane Greer) and reports aboard the PC-1168 unaware that his civilian background in engineering and his Rutgers education has elected him, by means of a hole punched in an IBM card, to head a secret project and command the ship. The Navy has installed a steam engine and an experimental evaporator-condenser in the ship to test its feasibility in patrol craft and has assigned Harkness to conduct the sea trials.
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Firebird 2015 A.D. (1981)
Origin Canada
Genres Science fiction, Action, Romance
Actors Darren McGavin, Doug McClure, Robert Wisden, Barbara Williams, Alex Diakun
Rating35%