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Nathan Davis is a Actor American born on 6 may 1919
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Nathan Davis (May 22, 1917 – October 15, 2008) was an American film and television actor.
Davis started acting in the late 1970s. He appeared on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood in 1975 and in films such as Dunston Checks In, Holes, Code of Silence, Chain Reaction, Thief, Poltergeist III and many others.
He was married to Metta (née Talmy). They had three children: Chicago Musician Richard "Richie" Peter Davis, Hollywood film director Andrew Davis, and Jo Ellen Davis Friedman.
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Nathan Davis
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Nathan Davis (May 22, 1917 – October 15, 2008) was an American film and television actor.
Biography
Davis was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Romanian immigrants, Rose (née Marcus) and Fred Davis.Davis started acting in the late 1970s. He appeared on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood in 1975 and in films such as Dunston Checks In, Holes, Code of Silence, Chain Reaction, Thief, Poltergeist III and many others.
He was married to Metta (née Talmy). They had three children: Chicago Musician Richard "Richie" Peter Davis, Hollywood film director Andrew Davis, and Jo Ellen Davis Friedman.
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Let's Go to Prison (2006)
, 1h24Directed by Bob Odenkirk
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Dax Shepard, Will Arnett, Chi McBride, David Koechner, Dylan Baker, Michael Shannon
Rating58%
John Lyshitski (Dax Shepard) has spent most of his life in prison, serving three different sentences (starting when he was eight, when he stole the Publisher's Clearing House van). Each of his three trials were before Judge Nelson Biederman III, who seemed to show no mercy passing down indiscriminately harsh sentences. After being released from his third sentence, John decides to take revenge on Biederman. After trying to determine when Biederman would be presiding over his next case, he discovers (much to his dissatisfaction) that he had died three days prior to his release.
Holes (2003)
, 1h57Directed by Andrew Davis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Adventure, Crime, Romance, Western
Themes Prison films, Children's films
Actors Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight, Patricia Arquette, Tim Blake Nelson, Shia LaBeouf, Khleo Thomas
Roles Stanley Yelnats Jr.
Rating69%
Stanley Yelnats IV is a teenager born to a family who have been cursed with bad luck since his great-great grandfather didn't carry a sorceress, Madame Zeroni, up a mountaintop. He is sent to Camp Green Lake when he is falsely accused of theft. He arrives to find that the camp is a dried-up lake run by the warden, her assistant, Mr. Sir, and the counselor, Dr. Pendanski. Prisoners spend each day digging holes in the desert to "build character." After finding a golden lipstick tube initialed K.B., he begins to suspect the hole-digging isn't for just building character.
Chain Reaction (1996)
, 1h42Directed by Andrew Davis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Children's films, Chase films
Actors Keanu Reeves, Morgan Freeman, Rachel Weisz, Fred Ward, Brian Cox, Kevin Dunn
Roles Morris Grodsky
Rating57%
Eddie Kasalivich (Keanu Reeves) is a student machinist working with a team from the University of Chicago to obtain clean energy from water by efficiently splitting the hydrogen and oxygen molecules. While working at home, Eddie inadvertently discovers the secret. The machine is perfected the next day in the lab and everything appears to be working and stable. To celebrate, a party is thrown in the lab. That night after the party, project physicist Dr. Lily Sinclair (Rachel Weisz) tries to leave the lab but her car battery is dead. Eddie offers to take her home by taxi; but, later says they took a bus. Back in the lab, Drs. Alistair Barkley and Lu Chen are on their computers preparing to upload their discovery to the Internet so the world can share in this new discovery, speaking Chinese. Meanwhile, a van is seen driving toward the lab. Chen hears a noise and goes to investigate, but is kidnapped by unknown assailants as Alistair also comes under attack.
Dunston Checks In (1996)
, 1h28Directed by Ken Kwapis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about apes, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Jason Alexander, Eric Lloyd, Faye Dunaway, Rupert Everett, Paul Reubens, Glenn Shadix
Roles Victor Dubrow
Rating54%
Lionel Spalding (Glenn Shadix) arrives at the Majestic Hotel, a 5-star Hotel, when he ends up accidentally being hosed by Kyle (Eric Lloyd) and Brian (Graham Sack), much to the stress and frustration of the hotel manager and the boys' father Robert Grant (Jason Alexander), who is disappointed with the boys but they are guaranteed a vacation afterwards, only to be forced to delay the trip for a third time by the ruthless hotel owner, Elena Dubrow (Faye Dunaway), due to the upcoming Crystal Ball where one of the guests is revealed to be a critic from the Le Monde Traveller Organization who they hope will reward the Majestic with a sixth star.
The Package (1989)
, 1h48Directed by Andrew Davis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Political films
Actors Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy, Tommy Lee Jones, Dennis Franz, Pam Grier, John Heard
Roles Soviet Press Secretary
Rating63%
Gene Hackman stars as Johnny Gallagher, a Special Forces Master Sergeant in the United States Army who is assigned to escort a prisoner, an Army deserter named Thomas Boyette (Tommy Lee Jones), from West Berlin back to the United States. When Boyette escapes, Gallagher pursues him and discovers that Boyette is actually a professional assassin hired to kill the leader of the Soviet Union (clearly resembling Mikhail Gorbachev) after a meeting in Chicago with the President of the United States. Gallagher is joined by his ex-wife Eileen, a lieutenant colonel in the Judge Advocate General Corps of the U.S. Army (Joanna Cassidy), and Chicago police Lt. Milan Delich (Dennis Franz).
Poltergeist III (1988)
, 1h38Directed by Gary Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about children, Ghost films
Actors Tom Skerritt, Nancy Allen, Heather O'Rourke, Zelda Rubinstein, Lara Flynn Boyle, Nathan Davis
Roles Reverend Henry Kane
Rating47%
The Freeling family has sent Carol Anne (Heather O'Rourke) to live with Diane's sister Pat (Nancy Allen) and her husband Bruce Gardner (Tom Skerritt). Carol Anne has been told she is in Chicago temporarily to attend a unique school for gifted children with emotional problems, though Pat thinks it is because Steven and Diane just wanted Carol Anne out of their house. Pat and Bruce are unaware of the events of the first two films, just noting that Steven was involved in a bad land deal. Along with Donna (Lara Flynn Boyle), Bruce's daughter from a previous marriage, they live in the luxury skyscraper (Chicago's 100-story John Hancock Center) of which Bruce is the manager.
Flowers in the Attic (1987)
, 1h33Directed by Jeffrey Bloom
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about families, Films about religion, Films about sexuality
Actors Louise Fletcher, Victoria Tennant, Kristy Swanson, Lindsay Parker, Marshall Colt, Nathan Davis
Roles Malcolm Foxworth (Grandfather)
Rating57%
After the sudden death of their father, four children — teenagers Chris and Cathy and 5-year-old twins Cory and Carrie — find themselves penniless and forced to travel with their mother Corinne to live with her wealthy parents (whom the children had neither met nor been told about before). Corinne informs her children that there has been tension between herself and her parents for many years, but does not elaborate and simply says they had cut her out of their lives for something she had done of which they disapproved. The children trust her, though Cathy is skeptical as she wonders what happened that caused the rift between her mother and her parents.
Burglar (1987)
, 1h43Directed by Hugh Wilson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Whoopi Goldberg, G. W. Bailey, Bobcat Goldthwait, Lesley Ann Warren, Vyto Ruginis, James Handy
Rating51%
Bernice "Bernie" Rhodenbarr, a former burglar, resumes her life of crime when a corrupt police officer named Ray Kirschman blackmails her.
Tough Guys (1986)
, 1h44Directed by Jeff Kanew
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films
Actors Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Charles Durning, Eli Wallach, Darlanne Fluegel, Dana Carvey
Roles Jimmy Ellis
Rating61%
Harry Doyle (Lancaster) and Archie Long (Douglas) are gangsters who've served a 30-year prison sentence for hijacking a Southern Pacific train called The Gold Coast Flyer, ready to collect Social Security.
Code of Silence (1985)
, 1h36Directed by Andrew Davis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Chuck Norris, Henry Silva, Bert Remsen, Dennis Farina, Nathan Davis, Molly Hagan
Roles Felix Scalese
Rating59%
October 17, 1984: It is late morning in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood where a sting operation is taking place. Sergeant Eddie Cusack (Chuck Norris) and his crack team of Chicago Police detectives take their positions, including Lieutenant Kobas (Joseph F. Kosala), stationed on a rooftop with Detectives Brennan (Ron Dean) and Music (Gene Barge) as lookouts, along with alcoholic Detective Cragie (Ralph Foody) and rookie Nick Kopalas (Joseph Guzaldo) in a cemetery. An undercover informant is about to meet a buyer at an 'L' train stop. Cusack and partner Dorato (Dennis Farina) use a garbage truck to patrol beneath the train tracks.
Windy City (1984)
, 1h43Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Kate Capshaw, Josh Mostel, John Shea, Jeffrey DeMunn, Eric Pierpoint, Lewis J. Stadlen
Rating58%
Danny Morgan's world crashes down around him when he learns the two most important people in his life, Emily, a former girlfriend, is about to be married, and Sol, his close friend, has leukemia.
Risky Business (1983)
, 1h38Directed by Paul Brickman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Crime, Romance
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Films about prostitution, Transgender in film, Erotic thriller films, Teen movie, LGBT-related films, Films about virginity, LGBT-related film
Actors Tom Cruise, Rebecca De Mornay, Joe Pantoliano, Sean Penn, Richard Masur, Bronson Pinchot
Rating67%
Joel Goodson is a normal high school student who lives with his wealthy parents in the North Shore area of suburban Chicago. His father wants him to attend Princeton University, his alma mater, so Joel participates in Future Enterprisers, an extracurricular activity in which students work in teams to create small businesses.
Thief (1981)
, 2h2Directed by Michael Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Noir, Crime
Themes Mafia films, L'Outfit de Chicago, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Robert Prosky, James Belushi, Willie Nelson, Dennis Farina
Roles Grossman
Rating73%
Frank (James Caan) is a highly experienced jewel thief and hardened ex-convict who has a set structure to his life. With a pair of successful Chicago businesses (a bar and a car dealership) as fronts for his lucrative criminal enterprise, Frank sets out to fulfill the missing part of his life vision: a family beginning with Jessie (Tuesday Weld), a pretty cashier he has begun dating.
The Children Nobody Wanted (1981)
Genres Drama
Actors Fredric Lehne, Michelle Pfeiffer, Noble Willingham, Matt Clark, Anne Haney, Barbara Barrie
Roles Orville
Rating62%
Working in a state mental hospital, nineteen-year-old Tom Butterfield (Fredric Lehne) befriends an abandoned eight-year-old boy for whom authorities cannot find a foster family. Compelled by the child’s plight, Butterfield and supportive girlfriend Jennifer Williams (Michelle Pfeiffer) transform a dilapidated country club in Marshall, Missouri, into the Butterfield Ranch for homeless boys.
Stony Island (1978)
, 1h37Directed by Andrew Davis
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Actors Nathan Davis, Rae Dawn Chong, Dennis Franz, George Englund, Susanna Hoffs, Billy Preston
Rating67%