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George Sawaya is a Actor and Stunts American born on 14 august 1923 at Los Angeles (USA)
George Sawaya (August 14, 1923 – September 17, 2003) was an American stuntman and actor. He acted in almost 100 different films and television episodes, but always as minor characters. His career was relatively consistent from the 1950s to the 1980s.
Sawaya acted in the original Star Trek several times, first as Chief Humboldt in "The Menagerie, Part I" and then as Klingons in "Errand of Mercy" and "Day of the Dove".
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(1972)
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(1967)
(Stand In)
(1981)
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(1982)
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Sawaya acted in the original Star Trek several times, first as Chief Humboldt in "The Menagerie, Part I" and then as Klingons in "Errand of Mercy" and "Day of the Dove".
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Repo Man (1984)
, 1h32Directed by Alex Cox
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Crime, Comic science fiction
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Comedy science fiction films, Musical films
Actors Harry Dean Stanton, Emilio Estevez, Zander Schloss, Olivia Barash, Sy Richardson, Tracey Walter
Roles First Repo Victim
Rating67%
The film opens outside of Goffs, California, in the Mojave Desert. A 1964 Chevrolet Malibu driven by Dr. J. Frank Parnell (Fox Harris) is pulled over by a policeman. The cop opens the trunk, sees a blinding flash of white light, and is instantly vaporized, leaving only his boots behind.
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
, 1h28Directed by Carl Reiner
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Action, Crime, Romance
Actors Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Carl Reiner, Alan Ladd, Reni Santoni, Barbara Stanwyck
Rating67%
In the opening scene, John Hay Forrest (George Gaynes), noted scientist and cheesemaker, dies in a single-vehicle car accident (represented by the car wreck scene from Keeper of the Flame). In the next scene, private investigator Rigby Reardon (Steve Martin) is reading a newspaper when Forrest's daughter, Juliet (Rachel Ward), enters his office and faints when the paper's headline reminds her of her father's death. Upon coming to, she hires Rigby to investigate the death, which she thinks was murder. In Dr. Forrest's lab, Rigby finds two lists, one titled "Friends of Carlotta" and the other "Enemies of Carlotta", as well as an affectionately autographed photo of singer Kitty Collins, whose name appears on one of the lists. His search is interrupted by a man posing as an exterminator (Alan Ladd, in This Gun for Hire), who shoots Rigby in the arm and frisks the lists from the seemingly dead investigator.
The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979)
, 2h3Directed by David Lowell Rich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Disaster, Action
Themes La fin du monde, Transport films, Aviation films, Dans un avion, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Alain Delon, Susan Blakely, Robert Wagner, Sylvia Kristel, George Kennedy, Eddie Albert
Roles Girard
Rating44%
Kevin Harrison (Robert Wagner), a corrupt arms dealer, attempts to destroy an American-owned Concorde on its maiden flight after one of the passengers, reporter Maggie Whelan (Susan Blakely), learns of his weapons sales to communist countries during the Cold War.
St. Ives (1976)
, 1h34Directed by J. Lee Thompson
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Crime, Romance
Actors Charles Bronson, Jacqueline Bisset, Maximilian Schell, John Houseman, Harry Guardino, Harris Yulin
Roles Arab Bagman
Rating61%
Abner Procane hires Raymond St. Ives, a crime reporter and ex-policeman, to return five ledgers stolen from his safe.
The Devil's Rain (1975)
, 1h26Directed by Robert Fuest
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Themes Films about religion, Demons in film, Ghost films
Actors William Shatner, Ernest Borgnine, Tom Skerritt, John Travolta, Eddie Albert, Joan Prather
Roles Steve Preston
Rating51%
A curse affects the Preston family, caused by their betrayal of the Satanic priest Jonathan Corbis (Ernest Borgnine). Corbis has harassed the Preston family for generations to obtain a Satanic book of great power. Corbis captures patriarch Steve Preston, who is allowed to escape to warn his wife and younger son about Corbis's wrath. He tells them to give the book to Corbis, but during a rainstorm he melts into a waxy substance.
Blazing Saddles (1974)
, 1h29Directed by Mel Brooks
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
Themes Films about films
Actors Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn, Mel Brooks
Roles Townsman (uncredited)
Rating76%
In the American Old West of 1874, construction on a new railroad led by Lyle (Burton Gilliam) runs into quicksand. The route has to be changed, which will require it to go through Rock Ridge, a frontier town where everyone has the last name of "Johnson" (including a "Howard Johnson," a "Dr. Samuel Johnson," a "Van Johnson" and an "Olson N. Johnson"). The conniving State Attorney General Hedley Lamarr (Harvey Korman) – who constantly has to correct people who call him "Hedy", the name of a movie star, instead of "Hedley" – wants to buy the land along the new railroad route cheaply by driving out the townspeople. He sends a gang of thugs, led by his flunky assistant Taggart (Slim Pickens), to scare them away, prompting the townsfolk to demand that Governor William J. Le Petomane (Mel Brooks) appoint a new sheriff. Lamarr persuades the dim-witted Le Petomane to select Bart (Cleavon Little), a black railroad worker who was about to be hanged, as he believes a black lawman will so offend the townspeople that they will either abandon Rock Ridge or lynch the new sheriff, with either result paving the way for him to take over the town.
Earthquake (1974)
, 2h3Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes La fin du monde, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about earthquakes
Actors Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy, Lorne Greene, Geneviève Bujold, Richard Roundtree
Roles Deputy Sherriff (uncredited)
Rating59%
Stewart Graff (Heston) is jogging near the Hollywood Sign. Back home, his wife Remy Royce-Graff (Gardner),a foul-mouthed bitter woman, starts her morning by picking a fight with him. After he has showered and is preparing to leave, Stewart finds Remy unconscious with a bottle of pills nearby. Accustomed to her periodic suicide attempts, Stewart prepares to induce vomiting when a violent tremor shakes the bedroom. Remy bolts out of bed, revealing that she was faking.
The Don Is Dead (1973)
, 1h55Directed by Richard Fleischer, David S. Hall
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Gangster films
Actors Anthony Quinn, Robert Forster, Angel Tompkins, Al Lettieri, Abe Vigoda, Victor Argo
Roles Garcia (uncredited)
Rating61%
Frank is the ambitious son of an organized-crime boss. He plans a heroin deal with the help of brothers Tony and Vince, but a snitch tips off the cops.
Moon of the Wolf (1972)
, 1h15Directed by Daniel Petrie
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Wolves in film, Werewolves in film
Actors David Janssen, Barbara Rush, Bradford Dillman, John Beradino, Geoffrey Lewis, Royal Dano
Roles Attendant
Rating51%
In the Louisiana Bayou town of Marsh Island, two farmers discover the mauled, dead body of a local young woman. Sheriff Aaron Whitaker (David Janssen) is called. The victim's temperamental brother Lawrence Burrifors (Geoffrey Lewis) arrives at the crime scene and jumps to the conclusion that the girl's lover committed the murder, a man whose name her brother does not know. The town's Dr. Drutan (John Beradino) examines the body and pronounces the girl died of a blow to the head.
Private Duty Nurses (1971)
Directed by George Armitage
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors Katherine Cannon, Herbert Jefferson, Jr., Paul Gleason, Robert F. Simon, Paul Hampton, George Sawaya
Roles Ahmed
Rating45%
Sam Whiskey (1969)
, 1h36Directed by Peter Tewksbury, Arnold Laven
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
Themes Heist films
Actors Burt Reynolds, Clint Walker, Ossie Davis, Angie Dickinson, William Schallert, Woodrow Parfrey
Rating58%
Sam Whiskey (Reynolds), an adventurer and rogue in the Old West, is seduced by widow Laura Breckenridge (Dickinson) into promising to retrieve $250,000 in gold bars from a riverboat that sank in Colorado's Platte River. The gold had been stolen by Laura's late husband from the Denver Mint and replaced by plated fakes. She offers Sam $20,000 to recover and return it before the theft is discovered and her family name is ruined. Sam enlists the help of Jedidiah Hooker (Davis), a local blacksmith, and O. W. Bandy (Walker), an Army friend turned inventor, offering them shares of the reward.
Sam Whiskey (1969)
, 1h36Directed by Arnold Laven
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
Actors Burt Reynolds, Clint Walker, Angie Dickinson, Ossie Davis, William Schallert, Woodrow Parfrey
Rating58%
Sam Whiskey, un aventurier qui passe son temps à jouer et à enchaîner les conquêtes féminines, est engagé par une veuve pour retrouver le magot dérobé puis caché par le défunt mari de cette dernière...
Sol Madrid (1968)
, 1h30Directed by Brian G. Hutton
Origin USA
Genres Action, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors David McCallum, Telly Savalas, Stella Stevens, Ricardo Montalbán, Rip Torn, Pat Hingle
Roles 3rd Dietrich Gunman
Rating56%
Half a million dollars is stolen from the Mafia by small-time crook Harry Mitchell, who splits it with girlfriend Stacey Woodward and takes off for Acapulco.
Sol Madrid (1968)
, 1h30Directed by Brian G. Hutton
Origin USA
Genres Action, Crime
Actors David McCallum, Stella Stevens, Telly Savalas, Ricardo Montalbán, Rip Torn, Pat Hingle
Roles 3rd Dietrich Gunman
Rating56%
Panic in the City (1968)
, 1h37Genres Thriller
Actors Howard Duff, Linda Cristal, Nehemiah Persoff, Stephen McNally, Anne Jeffreys, Oscar Beregi, Jr.
Roles Karl Sinden (Mr. X)
Rating52%
An agent of the National Bureau of Investigation investigates the death of a nuclear scientist and discovers a plot to detonate an atomic weapon in Los Angeles.