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Kiel Martin is a Actor American born on 26 july 1944 at Pittsburgh (USA)
Kiel Urban Mueller (July 26, 1944, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—December 28, 1990, Rancho Mirage, California), professionally known as Kiel Martin, was an American actor best known for his role as lovable rogue Detective John "J.D." La Rue on the 1980s television drama Hill Street Blues.
Martin was married twice, first to Claudia Martin (1944–2001), who was actor/crooner Dean Martin's daughter by his first wife, Betty MacDonald. They had one child, a daughter named Jesse. The marriage ended in divorce in 1971. His second marriage, to Joanne La Pomaroa, also ended in divorce. Like his character on Hill Street Blues, Martin battled alcoholism and like his character, was able to manage it.
Martin starred with James Mitchum in Moonrunners, the movie upon which the television series The Dukes of Hazzard was subsequently based, although neither Martin nor Mitchum reprised their leading roles for the small-screen version. In addition to Hill Street Blues, Martin also made guest appearances on various television shows between the late 1960s through the 1980s, including The Love Boat, The Virginian, The Edge of Night, Father Dowling Mysteries and Murder She Wrote. He starred in the short-lived 1987 Fox sitcom Second Chance until it's revamping as Boys Will Be Boys resulted in his character being dropped.
He died in Rancho Mirage, California of lung cancer.
He was in contention for the lead role in the Oscar winning film Midnight Cowboy.
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Birth name Kiel Urban Mueller
Nationality USA
Birth 26 july 1944 at Pittsburgh (USA)
Death 28 december 1990 (at 46 years) at Rancho Mirage (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 26 july 1944 at Pittsburgh (USA)
Death 28 december 1990 (at 46 years) at Rancho Mirage (USA)
Kiel Urban Mueller (July 26, 1944, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania—December 28, 1990, Rancho Mirage, California), professionally known as Kiel Martin, was an American actor best known for his role as lovable rogue Detective John "J.D." La Rue on the 1980s television drama Hill Street Blues.
Martin was married twice, first to Claudia Martin (1944–2001), who was actor/crooner Dean Martin's daughter by his first wife, Betty MacDonald. They had one child, a daughter named Jesse. The marriage ended in divorce in 1971. His second marriage, to Joanne La Pomaroa, also ended in divorce. Like his character on Hill Street Blues, Martin battled alcoholism and like his character, was able to manage it.
Martin starred with James Mitchum in Moonrunners, the movie upon which the television series The Dukes of Hazzard was subsequently based, although neither Martin nor Mitchum reprised their leading roles for the small-screen version. In addition to Hill Street Blues, Martin also made guest appearances on various television shows between the late 1960s through the 1980s, including The Love Boat, The Virginian, The Edge of Night, Father Dowling Mysteries and Murder She Wrote. He starred in the short-lived 1987 Fox sitcom Second Chance until it's revamping as Boys Will Be Boys resulted in his character being dropped.
He died in Rancho Mirage, California of lung cancer.
He was in contention for the lead role in the Oscar winning film Midnight Cowboy.
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Human Highway (1982)
, 1h28Directed by Dean Stockwell, Neil Young
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Neil Young, Dean Stockwell, Russ Tamblyn, Dennis Hopper, Charlotte Stewart, Sally Kirkland
Roles Construction Worker
Rating57%
Employees and customers spend time at a small gas station-diner in a fictional town next to a nuclear power plant unaware it is the last day on Earth. Young Otto (Dean Stockwell) has received ownership of the failing business by the Will of his recently deceased father. His employee, Lionel Switch (Neil Young), is the garage's goofy and bumbling auto mechanic who dreams of being a rock star. "I can do it!" Lionel often exclaims. After some modest character development and a collage-like dream sequence there is a tongue-in-cheek choreographed musical finale while nuclear war begins.
Child Bride of Short Creek (1981)
, 2hDirected by Robert Michael Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Diane Lane, Helen Hunt, Christopher Atkins, Conrad Bain, Kiel Martin, Warren Vanders
Roles Bob Kalish
Rating64%
The story follows fifteen-year-old Jessica Rae Jacobs (Diane Lane) and her friend Naomi (Helen Hunt), who grow up resigned to be victims of a patriarchal Mormon polygamist group of separatists in the 1950s West.
Moonrunners (1975)
, 1h50Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors James Mitchum, Kiel Martin, Arthur Hunnicutt, George McFarland, Joan Blackman
Roles Bobby Lee Hagg
Rating59%
Les frères Lee (Hagg en version originale), transportent de l'alcool illégalement pour le compte de leur oncle Jesse, en faisant face à Jake Rainey, un homme d'affaires intéressé par ce trafic, et le shérif Roscoe Coltrane, prêts à tout pour arrêter les frères Lee.
Lolly-Madonna XXX (1973)
, 1h43Directed by Richard C. Sarafian
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Jeff Bridges, Rod Steiger, Robert Ryan, Scott Wilson, Season Hubley, Katherine Squire
Roles Ludie Gutshall
Rating63%
Two families in rural Tennessee, headed by patriarchs Laban Feather (Rod Steiger) and Pap Gutshall (Robert Ryan) are at odds with each other. The sons of the two families play harmless tricks on each other but soon the Feather boys decide to kidnap a girl, escalating the rivalry. She turns out to be innocent bystander Roonie Gill (Season Hubley), not the made-up girlfriend "Lolly Madonna." As events escalate, Zack Feather (Jeff Bridges) and Roonie fall in love and try to bring the others to their senses.
Trick Baby (1972)
, 1h29Directed by Larry Yust
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Kiel Martin, Mel Stewart, Vernee Watson-Johnson, Donald Symington, Don Fellows
Roles White Folks
Rating66%
“White Folks” (Kiel Martin) and “Blue” Howard (Mel Stewart) are two con men in Philadelphia. White Folks is the son of a black mother who is a prostitute and a white father, a customer (the reason why his enemies call him Trick Baby). Folks's complexion is light enough for him to pass as a white man. Blue is an older black hustler who raised White Folks and taught him “the con”. The pair pull off the biggest score of their lives but before they can collect the money a previous con is complicating things. Unbeknownst to them their previous victim had mob ties and now they have run afoul of the Mafia and a corrupt cop. They must decide whether to leave town or risk their lives to collect the $130,000 from their most brilliant con.
The Panic in Needle Park (1971)
, 1h50Directed by Jerry Schatzberg
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Al Pacino, Kitty Winn, Richard Bright, Raúl Juliá, Kiel Martin, Joe Santos
Roles Chico
Rating70%
In New York City, soft-spoken Helen returns to the apartment she shares with her boyfriend Marco after enduring an unhygienic and inept abortion. Although Helen becomes ill from the procedure, Marco is satisfied because he was able to procure the abortion through bartering, and thus did not have to expend any money. When Marco leaves briefly to collect some cash, Bobby, an amiable small-time drug dealer to whom Marco owes money, shows unexpected gentleness and concern for Helen. Soon after, when Helen is hospitalized for profuse bleeding, Bobby sneaks in after visiting hours and tells her that Marco has gone away. Briefly, Helen considers returning to her dysfunctional family in Fort Wayne, Indiana. However, after she is released from the hospital, she moves in with Bobby. As they are walking together, Bobby steals a television out of a parked van and pawns it for money to buy drugs. At his apartment, Bobby declines Helen's invitation to have sex until she feels better. When she awakens to find him taking drugs, he explains that he is not an addict, but only "chipping.
The Undefeated (1969)
, 1h59Directed by John Wayne, Andrew V. McLaglen
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Horror, Western
Themes Political films, Children's films
Actors John Wayne, Rock Hudson, Antonio Aguilar, Lee Meriwether, Bruce Cabot, Melissa Newman
Roles Union Runner
Rating65%
After the American Civil War, Union Colonel John Henry Thomas (John Wayne) and company attack a group of Confederate soldiers, only to be informed after defeating them that the war had ended days ago. Another group of Confederate soldiers, led by Colonel James Langdon (Rock Hudson) prepare to join Emperor Maximilian of Mexico. Langdon torches his plantation before he departs rather than have it fall into the hands of carpetbaggers. At the same time, Thomas, with his adopted Indian son Blue Boy (Roman Gabriel) and his surviving command, brings a herd of 3,000 horses across the Rio Grande for sale in Durango, Mexico.