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Brian Avery is a Actor and Executive Producer American born on 13 july 1940 at Los Angeles (USA)
Brian Avery (born July 13, 1940) is an American actor and producer who has worked frequently on film and television.
He appeared on the TV Show Gomer Pyle USMC as PFC Brian Jones in the October 13, 1967 episode entitled "The Great Talent Hunt". Brian Avery played the role of a fellow private who ends up being the vocal teacher who helps Gomer Pyle Jim Nabors win the contest and go to Washington D.C. to represent the United States Marine Corps as a Singer.
Avery also appeared in the Dragnet episode, "The Subscription Racket," originally broadcast on April 20, 1967, in which Avery played a magazine salesman who solicited subscriptions by falsely claiming to be a Medal of Honor winner.
As an actor, he is known for playing Carl Smith, who attempts to marry Elaine Robinson (Katharine Ross) in the 1967 film The Graduate. He also appeared in the 1973 Woody Allen film Sleeper.
Avery has also worked as an executive producer. He is the father of the musician Eric Avery who is the former bass player with the rock band Jane's Addiction.
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Brian Avery (born July 13, 1940) is an American actor and producer who has worked frequently on film and television.
He appeared on the TV Show Gomer Pyle USMC as PFC Brian Jones in the October 13, 1967 episode entitled "The Great Talent Hunt". Brian Avery played the role of a fellow private who ends up being the vocal teacher who helps Gomer Pyle Jim Nabors win the contest and go to Washington D.C. to represent the United States Marine Corps as a Singer.
Avery also appeared in the Dragnet episode, "The Subscription Racket," originally broadcast on April 20, 1967, in which Avery played a magazine salesman who solicited subscriptions by falsely claiming to be a Medal of Honor winner.
As an actor, he is known for playing Carl Smith, who attempts to marry Elaine Robinson (Katharine Ross) in the 1967 film The Graduate. He also appeared in the 1973 Woody Allen film Sleeper.
Avery has also worked as an executive producer. He is the father of the musician Eric Avery who is the former bass player with the rock band Jane's Addiction.
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Already Dead (2007)
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Ron Eldard, Til Schweiger, Christopher Plummer, Patrick Kilpatrick, Marisa Coughlan, Geoff Pierson
Roles Gunman
Rating56%
Thomas Archer (Ron Eldard), a disconsolate man, is led to an underground room by a distorted male voice on his mobile phone. In flashback it is shown that his wife had been attacked and his son killed for no apparent reason. When he reaches the underground room he finds a man hooded and tied to a chair and told by the distorted voice that this is the man responsible for the attacks. Without any proof he accepts everything he is told and proceeds to torture the man with various implements found in the room. After a while Archer realizes that that this may not be the man responsible for the attacks. Against the orders of the voice he questions the man. They then collaborate in an attempt to escape what they now see as a situation in which the lives of both of them are at risk. It is revealed in flashback that his Doctor (Christopher Plummer) had made Archer an offer to get the revenge he needs. The doctor now reappears and tries to insist that Archer "finish it, and take back your life".
Traffic (2000)
, 2h28Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Musical, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Political films
Actors Michael Douglas, Don Cheadle, Benicio del Toro, Dennis Quaid, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Tomás Milián
Roles DEA Agent - Public Storage
Rating75%
Mexico storyline In Mexico, police officer Javier Rodriguez (del Toro) and his partner Manolo Sanchez (Vargas) stop a drug transport and arrest the couriers. Their arrest is interrupted by General Salazar (Milian), a high-ranking Mexican official who decides to hire Javier. Salazar instructs him to apprehend Francisco Flores (Collins), a hitman for the Tijuana Cartel, headed by the Obregón brothers.
Kiss & Tell (1997)
Directed by Jordan Alan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Justine Bateman, Heather Graham, Henry Hopper, Mariah O'Brien, Richmond Arquette, Lewis Arquette
Roles Brian Humphries / Producer
Rating43%
Justine Bateman plays Molly, a performance artist who is found dead. Police detectives interview her friends (played by Heather Graham and others) to learn who killed her and why.
, 1h28Origin USA
Actors Brian Avery, Clint Howard, Zachery Ty Bryan, Rance Howard, Rif Hutton, Crystal Chappell
Roles Zackery
Rating41%
Le légendaire Bigfoot a été aperçu dans le nord de la Californie, et accusé de la disparition de plusieurs campeurs. Un homme d'affaire de Chicago offre un million de dollars à qui capturera la mystérieuse créature. Bigfoot sauve un enfant perdu dans la forêt: ensemble, ils vont affronter tous ceux qui sont prêts à tuer pour empocher la récompense...
D2: The Mighty Ducks (1994)
, 1h46Directed by Sam Weisman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action
Themes Sports films, Ice hockey films, Children's films, Sports d'hiver
Actors Emilio Estevez, Joshua Jackson, Michael Tucker, Joss Ackland, Jan Rubes, Kathryn Erbe
Rating61%
Former peewee ice hockey coach Gordon Bombay is a star in the minor leagues and is expected to make it to the National Hockey League soon. However, after a career-ending knee injury, he returns to Minneapolis. Bombay is then offered a chance to coach a team representing the United States in the Junior Goodwill Games. Team USA consists of many of the old Ducks, in addition to five new players with special talents.
Tin Man (1983)
, 1h29Directed by John G. Thomas
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Timothy Bottoms, John Phillip Law, Troy Donahue, Richard Stahl, Brian Avery
Roles Forbes
Rating60%
A deaf auto mechanic invents a computer so he can hear and speak. When he attempts to patent his invention he is taken advantage of by a self-serving salesman.
The Fortune (1975)
, 1h28Directed by Mike Nichols
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, Stockard Channing, Ian Wolfe, Brian Avery, Florence Stanley
Roles Airline Steward
Rating55%
Nicky Wilson (Beatty) and Oscar Sullivan (Nicholson) are inept 1920s scam artists who see pay dirt in the guise of Fredericka Quintessa Bigard (Stockard Channing), the millionaire heiress to a sanitary napkin fortune. She loves the already married Nicky, but because the Mann Act prohibits him from taking her across state lines and engaging in immoral relations, he proposes that she marry Oscar and then carry on an affair with the man she wants. Oscar, who is wanted for embezzlement and anxious to get out of town, is happy to comply with the plan, although he intends to claim his spousal privileges after they are wed.
Sleeper (1973)
, 1h29Directed by Woody Allen
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Romance, Comic science fiction
Themes Films about religion, Comedy science fiction films, Films set in the future, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Dystopian films, Robot films
Actors Diane Keaton, Woody Allen, John Beck, Mews Small, Bartlett Robinson, Don Keefer
Roles Herald Cohen
Rating70%
Miles Monroe (Woody Allen), a jazz musician and owner of the "Happy Carrot" health-food store in 1973, is subjected to cryopreservation without his consent, and not revived for 200 years. The scientists who revive him are members of a rebellion: 22nd-century America seems to be a police state, ruled by a dictator about to implement a secret plan known as the "Aries Project". The rebels hope to use Miles as a spy to infiltrate the Aries Project, because he is the only member of this society without a known biometric identity.
Journey to Shiloh (1968)
, 1h41Directed by William Hale
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Western
Actors James Caan, Michael Sarrazin, Harrison Ford, Brenda Scott, Albert Popwell, Don Stroud
Roles Carter Claiborne
Rating56%
Seven young Texans in the Confederate army during the American Civil War, The Concho County Comanches, journey to Shiloh, Tennessee where a major battle is about to take place. Along the way they encounter many perilous adventures.
The Graduate (1967)
, 1h45Directed by Mike Nichols
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Musical films, Films about virginity
Actors Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross, William Daniels, Murray Hamilton, Elizabeth Wilson
Roles Carl Smith
Rating79%
Benjamin Braddock, aged twenty, has earned his bachelor's degree and has returned home to a party celebrating his graduation at his parents' house in Pasadena, California. Benjamin, visibly uncomfortable as his parents deliver accolades and neighborhood friends ask him about his future plans, evades those who try to congratulate him. Mrs. Robinson, the neglected wife of his father's law partner, insists that he drive her home. Benjamin is coerced inside to have a drink and Mrs. Robinson attempts to seduce him. She invites him up to her daughter's bedroom to see her portrait and then reenters the room naked, making it clear that she is available to him. Benjamin initially rebuffs her, but after a few days, he clumsily organizes a tryst at the Taft hotel.
A Ticklish Affair (1963)
, 1h28Directed by George Sidney
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Aviation films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Shirley Jones, Gig Young, Red Buttons, Edward Platt, Carolyn Jones, Edgar Buchanan
Roles Signalman (uncredited)
Rating58%
Commander Key Weedon (Gig Young), a pilot with the U.S. Navy, is sent to investigate when an S.O.S. emergency signal is spotted in the San Diego region. He discovers it is the doing of a six-year-old boy, Grover Martin, whose uncle Simon (Red Buttons), an airline pilot, gave the boy a blinker light as a gift.
, 2h33Directed by Vincente Minnelli
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Glenn Ford, Paul Henreid, Ingrid Thulin, Charles Boyer, Lee J. Cobb, Paul Lukas
Roles Gustav von Hartrott
Rating64%
Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, le conflit entre les deux branches, l'une française et l'autre allemande, dont est issue une famille argentine, sur fond de nazisme et d'occupation de Paris.
The Blue Angel (1959)
, 1h47Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Curd Jürgens, Stella Stevens, May Britt, Theodore Bikel, John Banner, Ludwig Stössel
Roles Ansbach, Student (uncredited)
Rating61%
Professor Immanuel Rath (Curt Jurgens) is shocked to discover a number of his students have been frequenting a nightspot called the Blue Angel, where a scandalous entertainer named Lola (May Britt) performs. Rath attends the show one night in order to catch some of his boys in this den of wickedness, but he is soon drawn into Lola's sensual spell, and in time becomes involved in an obsessive romance with her that costs him his job, his savings and his dignity.
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Flashbacks of a Fool (2008)
, 1h54Directed by Baillie Walsh
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about television
Actors Daniel Craig, Harry Eden, Claire Forlani, Felicity Jones, Eve, Emilia Fox
Roles Executive Producer
Rating67%
Joe Scott (Daniel Craig) is a has-been actor, who seemed to have had great success at one time but who now just spends his time drinking, doing drugs and sleeping with random women. The only person he has in his life is his personal assistant Ophelia and even she is getting tired of him. He receives a call from his mother to say his childhood best friend, Boots, whom he has not seen in years, has died. He attends a disastrous meeting with an up-and-coming director and his agent, who has lost interest in Joe. Joe learns he will not get the part he had hoped would restore his flagging career. His agent tells him that he is washed up, no one wants to work with him and quits. This upsets Joe, who goes for a walk along the beach and walks into the waves. Floating in the sea, he remembers his teenage life.