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Michael Carmine is a Actor American born on 6 march 1959 at Brooklyn (USA)
Michael Carmine (March 6, 1959 – October 14, 1989) was an American actor.
Born in Brooklyn New York. He graduated from the High School of the Performing Arts at the age of sixteen, and went on to study his craft at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia. He made his first appearance before the cameras as an extra in "Rollercoaster" and received his first speaking part on "Hill Street Blues" playing Ramos, which became a recurring role. A small part in Brian De Palma's "Scarface" was followed by the role of Snake in Michael Mann's television series "Miami Vice," which led to his first major role in Mann's "Band of the Hand," directed by Paul Michael Glaser.
Michael Carmine was also known for starring in the 1987 film "Batteries Not Included" alongside veteran actors Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. In the movie, Carmine played a thug who was out to rid the residents of an apartment building scheduled to be demolished. He encountered space ships, who would rebuild the apartment home. During one scene of the movie, he rescues Tandy's character from certain death as the building was set on fire by an arsonist.
Aside from "Batteries Not Included", he also starred in the 1989 movie "Leviathan", starring alongside Ernie Hudson, Peter Weller, and Daniel Stern.
Carmine died of AIDS-related heart failure on October 14, 1989 at age 30.
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Born in Brooklyn New York. He graduated from the High School of the Performing Arts at the age of sixteen, and went on to study his craft at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia. He made his first appearance before the cameras as an extra in "Rollercoaster" and received his first speaking part on "Hill Street Blues" playing Ramos, which became a recurring role. A small part in Brian De Palma's "Scarface" was followed by the role of Snake in Michael Mann's television series "Miami Vice," which led to his first major role in Mann's "Band of the Hand," directed by Paul Michael Glaser.
Michael Carmine was also known for starring in the 1987 film "Batteries Not Included" alongside veteran actors Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. In the movie, Carmine played a thug who was out to rid the residents of an apartment building scheduled to be demolished. He encountered space ships, who would rebuild the apartment home. During one scene of the movie, he rescues Tandy's character from certain death as the building was set on fire by an arsonist.
Aside from "Batteries Not Included", he also starred in the 1989 movie "Leviathan", starring alongside Ernie Hudson, Peter Weller, and Daniel Stern.
Carmine died of AIDS-related heart failure on October 14, 1989 at age 30.
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Leviathan (1989)
, 1h38Directed by George Cosmatos
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Natural horror films, Political films
Actors Peter Weller, Richard Crenna, Amanda Pays, Daniel Stern, Ernie Hudson, Héctor Elizondo
Roles Tony 'DeJesus' Rodero
Rating58%
Martin, CEO of Tri-Oceanic Corp, hires geologist Steven Beck to command an undersea mining operation for six months. While working outside their deep sea station in a pressure suit, one of the crewmembers, Sixpack, discovers a Soviet shipwreck, Leviathan.
Longtime Companion (1989)
, 1h36Directed by Norman René
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, Sida et LGBT, HIV/AIDS in film, LGBT-related film
Actors Campbell Scott, Bruce Davison, Mary-Louise Parker, Patrick Cassidy, John Dossett, Stephen Caffrey
Roles Alberto
Rating75%
Longtime Companion chronicles the first years of the AIDS epidemic as seen through its impact on several gay men and the straight sister of one of them. The film is split into several sections identified by dates.
*batteries not included (1987)
, 1h46Directed by Matthew Robbins
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Children's films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Robot films
Actors Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Frank McRae, Elizabeth Peña, Michael Carmine, Tom Aldredge
Roles Carlos
Rating66%
Frank and Faye Riley (Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy), an elderly couple who run an apartment building and café in the run-down East Village neighborhood, come under threat by a nearby property development. The development manager, Lacey sends a hoodlum named Carlos and his gang of thugs to bribe the couple and their tenants to move out. When the tenants resist, Carlos and his thugs punch through artist Mason Baylor's (Dennis Boutsikaris) door, intimidate pregnant single mother Marisa Esteval (Elizabeth Peña) and break retired boxer Harry Knoble's (Frank McRae) jar of tiles. After Frank Riley refuses to move, Carlos vandalizes the café.
Band of the Hand (1986)
, 1h49Directed by Paul Michael Glaser
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Stephen Lang, Michael Carmine, Lauren Holly, John Cameron Mitchell, Leon Robinson, Laurence Fishburne
Roles Ruben
Rating62%
The story involves a group of juvenile delinquents in their teens who are doomed to be prosecuted as adults for their crimes unless they take part in a new and experimental "program" led by a Vietnam veteran Native American (Lang) from the Everglades. The teens must learn to survive in the dangerous swamp and how to work together. Upon completion of the program, the group buys a vacant house in a dangerous part of Miami and slowly rebuilds the neighborhood, kicking out the pimps, prostitutes and drug dealers. The film's climax has the group taking the fight directly to a drug manufacturing facility that is equipped with an M-134 Minigun.
Invasion U.S.A. (1985)
, 1h47Directed by Joseph Zito
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Martial arts, Action, Spy, Martial arts
Themes Spy films, Medical-themed films, Christmas films, Films about drugs, Sports films, Martial arts films, Political films
Actors Richard Lynch, Chuck Norris, Dehl Berti, Billy Drago, Eddie Jones, Jaime Sánchez
Roles Tonio
Rating54%
The film begins by showing a group of Cuban refugees on a boat sailing for the United States. They are at first met by what appears to be a U.S. Coast Guard boat, with armed personnel. The captain of the vessel declares that the refugees are welcomed to the United States, only to have the Guardsmen open fire on them and take several bags of cocaine hidden in the boat. It is revealed that the armed personnel were communist Latin American guerrillas disguised as U.S. Coast Guardsmen.