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Michael Fox is a Actor American born on 27 february 1921 at Yonkers (USA)
Michael Fox (February 27, 1921 – June 1, 1996) was an American character actor who was in numerous movies and television roles. Some of his most famous recurring roles were as various autopsy physicians in Perry Mason, as Coroner George McLeod in Burke's Law, as Amos Fedders in Falcon Crest, and as Saul Feinberg in The Bold and the Beautiful. He is also notable for being the reason Michael J. Fox registered his name with a middle initial when he first joined the Screen Actors Guild (to differentiate his name from "Michael Fox").
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Nationality USA
Birth 27 february 1921 at Yonkers (USA)
Death 2 june 1996 (at 75 years) at Woodland Hills (USA)
Birth 27 february 1921 at Yonkers (USA)
Death 2 june 1996 (at 75 years) at Woodland Hills (USA)
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The Hunt For the BTK Killer (2005)
, 1h28Directed by Stephen T. Kay
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Horror, Crime
Actors Robert Forster, Michael Michele, Gregg Henry, Maury Chaykin, Mimi Kuzyk, Michael Fox
Roles l'officier Rodriguez
Rating57%
L'histoire vraie de Dennis Rader, tueur en série américain reconnu coupable d'une dizaine de meurtres perpétrés entre 1974 et 1991.
Skinheads (1989)
, 1h34Directed by Greydon Clark
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Horror, Crime
Actors Barbara Bain, Chuck Connors, Liz Sagal, Bunny Summers, Michael Fox
Roles Saul
Rating34%
A group of neo-Nazi skinheads violently rob a Jewish grocery. After they flee the scene of the crime, they stop at a roadside diner where they encounter some traveling students. The neo-Nazis terrorize the students and the owner of the diner, leaving two survivors who escape to the nearby Colorado mountains. The neo-Nazis give chase but are met with opposition when a World War II veteran living in the woods comes to the aid of the students.
Over the Top (1987)
, 1h33Directed by Menahem Golan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Themes L'adolescence, Films about education, Films about children, Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Trucker films, L'enfance marginalisée, Road movies, Chase films, Films about school violence
Actors Sylvester Stallone, Robert Loggia, Susan Blakely, Rick Zumwalt, David Mendenhall, Allan Graf
Roles Jim Olson
Rating58%
Lincoln Hawk is a struggling trucker who arm wrestles on the side to make extra cash while trying to rebuild his life. Hawk's estranged wife Christina, who is very ill, asks that Hawk pick up their son Michael from military school so that the two of them can get to know each other; Hawk had left them ten years earlier. Michael's controlling grandfather Jason Cutler, a wealthy man who hates Hawk and disapproved of his daughter's relationship with him, believes that Hawk has no right to be in his grandson's life. Michael is very distrusting and bitter towards Hawk initially and treats him with contempt at every turn.
Quicksilver (1986)
, 1h45Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Sports films, Cycling films
Actors Kevin Bacon, Jami Gertz, Paul Rodriguez, Rudy Ramos, Laurence Fishburne, Gerald S. O'Loughlin
Rating56%
Jack Casey (Kevin Bacon) is a young floor trader who loses all of his company's and family's savings on a risky business decision. Deflated and disenchanted with his profession, he quits his job and becomes a bicycle messenger. Casey has to deal with his parents and his girlfriend, who are disappointed with his new job. Along with the colorful characters that work with him, he saves a troubled young woman named Terri (Jami Gertz) from a gang.
Dempsey (1983)
, 1h52Directed by Gus Trikonis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films
Actors Treat Williams, Sally Kellerman, Victoria Tennant, Sam Waterston, Robert Hardy, Peter Mark Richman
Roles Judge Dooling
Rating61%
Jack Dempsey starts out fighting in bars for half the take. He wins his first professional fight. After a later bout, he and his manager are held up at gunpoint and robbed of the purse. He sees the thieves later and beats them up to recover the cash. Jack meets Maxine Cates, but goes to New York to box. After a bout with Jack Johnson is a draw, he breaks with his manager and goes back to Salt Lake City and marries Maxine. After money disputes with her Maxine leaves and Dempsey goes to San Francisco. Kerns becomes his manager. He wins fights goes to New York and divorces Maxine. He beats Jess Willard by a TKO and becomes heavyweight champ. He goes to Hollywood to make films and gets sued for non-support by Maxine. He fights Luis Firpo and is knocked out of the ring, but still wins. He is sick (perhaps poisoned), but still fights Gene Tunney and loses in a TKO. On September 22, 1927 he fights Tunney again. Dempsey knocks Tunney down, but the count doesn't start until Dempsey goes to a neutral corner. This gives Tunney time to recover and get up when the count reaches 9. In this famous "long count" fight Tunney wins by decision.
Young Frankenstein (1974)
, 1h41Directed by Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Films about computing, Films based on science fiction novels, Comedy science fiction films, Frankenstein films, Comedy horror films, Cyberpunk films, Children's films
Actors Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Cloris Leachman, Teri Garr
Roles Helga's Father
Rating79%
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein (Gene Wilder) is a physician lecturer at an American medical school and engaged to the tightly wound socialite Elizabeth (Madeline Kahn). He becomes exasperated when anyone brings up the subject of his grandfather, the infamous mad scientist. To disassociate himself from his forebear, Frederick insists that his surname is pronounced "Fronkensteen."
The Longest Yard (1974)
, 2h1Directed by Robert Aldrich, Hal Needham
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Crime
Themes Prison films, Sports films, American football films, Musical films
Actors Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter, Anitra Ford, Michael Conrad, James Hampton
Roles Announcer
Rating70%
Paul "Wrecking" Crewe is a former star pro football quarterback, who walks out on his wealthy girlfriend Melissa in Palm Beach, Florida. He takes her Maserati-engined Citroën SM without permission and leads police on a car chase, choreographed by Hal Needham. Crewe is eventually caught and sentenced to 18 months in Citrus State Prison.
Crackle of Death (1974)
, 1h34Directed by Don Weis
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Actors Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, Carol Ann Susi, William Smith, Philip Carey, David Doyle
Rating76%
Bloody Mama (1970)
, 1h30Directed by Roger Corman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about families, Gangster films
Actors Shelley Winters, Bruce Dern, Don Stroud, Diane Varsi, Robert De Niro, Robert Walden
Roles Dr. Roth
Rating56%
Young Kate Barker (Lisa Jill) is brutalized by her father and older brothers, who rape her. Thirty-five years later, the middle-aged Kate 'Ma' Barker (Shelley Winters) now brutalizes innocent people herself, while indulging her monstrous sexual appetites. She lives by robbing banks with her four sons; the pragmatic Arthur (Clint Kimbrough), the sadistic Herman (Don Stroud), the bisexual Fred (Robert Walden), and the loyal, drug-addicted Lloyd (Robert De Niro). It all begins in the late 1920s when Ma leaves her husband, George, and her Arkansas home and embarks on her own with her four sons on a robbery-murder spree to make her own fortune, while keeping them under a tight leash.
The Dunwich Horror (1970)
, 1h30Directed by Daniel Haller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films based on works by H. P. Lovecraft
Actors Dean Stockwell, Ed Begley, Sandra Dee, Talia Shire, Lloyd Bochner, Sam Jaffe
Roles Dr. Raskin
Rating54%
The film begins with the groaning of a woman. The camera slowly pans to show two elderly women (who look like twins) and an elderly man who are watching a woman writhe and moan with the pain of childbirth on a bed in an old-fashioned looking bedroom. She is then led out of the room by the elderly man, who is later revealed as the elder Whateley.
Seven in Darkness (1969)
, 1h14Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Dans un avion
Actors Milton Berle, Dina Merrill, Sean Garrison, James Griffith, Barry Nelson, Arthur O'Connell
Roles The Pilot
Rating63%
The film follows a group of blind people who are flying to a convention for the blind in [Seattle]. Among the group are its charismatic leader, Alex Swain (Barry Nelson), a former doctor-turned-teacher for the blind. With him are his old friend Emily Garth Pleasant (Dina Merrill), recently blinded Larry Wise (Arthur O'Connell), Ramon and Christine Rohas (Alejandro Rey and Tippy Walker) who are expecting their first child at any moment, And singer Deborah Cabot (Leslie Ann Warren) who is traveling with her sighted father. Also along are Vietnam war hero Mark Larsen (Sean Garrison), who is harboring a guilty secret, and Sam Fuller (Milton Berle in a rare dramatic role), a bitter and selfish man who antagonizes everyone in the group.
Billie (1965)
, 1h27Directed by Don Weis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Sports films, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Jim Backus, Patty Duke, Jane Greer, Warren Berlinger, Billy De Wolfe, Charles Lane
Roles Ray Case, Reporter
Rating57%
Billie is a 15-year-old girl who is not like every other teen. With her bobbed haircut, tomboyish behavior and passion for track running, she distances herself from her fellow female classmates. Instead, she befriends Mike Benson, the newest school student who has recently joined the school athletic team. She gives him advice on how to run faster, and although he is initially reluctant to be taught
, 1h31Directed by Robert Stevenson, Joseph L. McEveety
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Adventure
Themes Children's films
Actors Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Leon Ames, Stuart Erwin, Alan Hewitt, Connie Gilchrist
Roles Kohner
Rating62%
Midvale College student Merlin Jones (Tommy Kirk), who is always involved with mind experiments, designs a helmet that connects to an electroencephalographic tape that records mental activity. He is brought before Judge Holmby (Leon Ames) for wearing the helmet while driving and his license is suspended. Merlin returns to the lab and discovers accidentally that his new invention enables him to read minds.
A Tiger Walks (1964)
, 1h31Directed by Norman Tokar
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Children's films
Actors Brian Keith, Vera Miles, Pamela Franklin, Sabu, Edward Andrews, Una Merkel
Roles Television Interviewer
Rating61%
A mistreated Bengal tiger named Raja escapes from a traveling circus, and hides in the woods surrounding the small town of Scotia. The new arrival starts a panic, and the townsfolk want Raja killed with the exception of Julie Williams (played by Pamela Franklin), the sheriff's daughter.
The New Interns (1964)
, 2h3Directed by John Rich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Medical-themed films
Actors Michael Callan, Dean Jones, Telly Savalas, Stefanie Powers, Barbara Eden, Charles Lane
Roles Dr. Arthur Hellman
Rating60%