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Ned Dowd is a Actor, Co-Producer, First Assistant Director and Unit Production Manager American born on 26 may 1950 at Boston (USA)
Ned Dowd (born May 26, 1950 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American film producer and former actor.
(2004)
(Executive Producer)
(2006)
(Unit Production Manager)
(1993)
(Co-Producer)
(1992)
(Supervising Producer)
(1999)
(Producer)
(1997)
(Head of Production)
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(2004)(Executive Producer)
(2006)(Unit Production Manager)
(1993)(Co-Producer)
(1992)(Supervising Producer)
(1999)(Producer)
(1997)(Head of Production)
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Bottle Rocket (1996)
, 1h32Directed by Wes Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Themes Buddy films, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, James Caan, Lumi Cavazos, Ned Dowd, Andrew Wilson
Roles Dr. Nichols
Rating68%
In Arizona, Dignan "rescues" Anthony from a voluntary psychiatric unit, where he has been staying for self-described exhaustion. Dignan has an elaborate escape planned and has developed a 75-year plan that he shows to Anthony. The plan is to pull off several heists, and then meet up with a Mr. Henry, a landscaper and part-time criminal known to Dignan.
48 Hrs. (1982)
, 1h36Directed by Walter Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Buddy films
Actors Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole, Frank McRae, James Remar, David Patrick Kelly
Roles Big Cop
Rating68%
Convicted thief Albert Ganz is working as part of a road gang in California, when a big Native American man named Billy Bear drives up in a pickup truck and asks for water to cool off his truck’s overheating radiator. Ganz and Billy exchange insults and proceed to stage a fight with each other, wrestling in a river, and when the guards try to break up the fight, Billy slips a gun to Ganz, and Billy and Ganz kill two of the three guards and flee the scene. Two days later, Ganz and Billy kill Henry Wong (John Hauk), who was one of their partners.
Endangered Species (1982)
, 1h33Directed by Alan Rudolph
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Actors Robert Urich, JoBeth Williams, Paul Dooley, Hoyt Axton, Peter Coyote, Gailard Sartain
Roles Deputy Bobby
Rating57%
Ruben Castle is a retired New York City cop and a recovering alcoholic. On vacation in Colorado, he becomes involved with a mysterious case of mutilated cattle as well as romantically involved with a female sheriff.
Southern Comfort (1981)
, 1h39Directed by Walter Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Historical, Crime
Actors Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward, Peter Coyote, T. K. Carter, Brion James
Roles Hunter
Rating70%
A squad of nine Louisiana National Guard soldiers convene in a Louisiana swamp for weekend maneuvers. Joining the squad is Corporal Hardin (Boothe), a cynical transfer from the Texas National Guard, who quickly becomes disgusted with the behavior and arrogance of the men. A professional engineer and a married man in his civilian life, he wants no part of a date with prostitutes that PFC Spencer (Carradine) has arranged for the men. Nevertheless, he is befriended by the amiable Spencer, the two seeming to agree that they are the only level-headed soldiers in the squad.
Popeye (1980)
, 1h34Directed by Robert Altman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Action, Adventure, Musical, Animation
Themes Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Pirate films, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, Ray Walston, Paul L. Smith, Paul Dooley, Richard Libertini
Roles Butch, a Tough
Rating54%
Popeye, a sailor, arrives at the small coastal town of Sweethaven ("Sweethaven—An Anthem") while searching for his long-lost father. He is immediately feared by the townsfolk simply because he is a stranger ("Blow Me Down"), and is accosted by a greedy taxman. He rents a room at the Oyl family's boarding house where the Oyls' daughter, Olive, is preparing for her engagement party. Her hand is promised to Captain Bluto, a powerful, perpetually angry bully who runs the town in the name of the mysterious Commodore. In the morning, Popeye visits the local diner for breakfast ("Everything Is Food") and demonstrates his strength as he brawls with a gang of provocative ruffians who give him and the other customers a hard time.
Slap Shot (1977)
, 2h3Directed by George Roy Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Sports films, Ice hockey films, Sports d'hiver
Actors Paul Newman, Strother Martin, Michael Ontkean, Lindsay Crouse, Jerry Houser, Jennifer Warren
Roles Ogilthorpe
Rating72%
Reggie Dunlop (Paul Newman) is the aging player-coach of the Charlestown Chiefs hockey team in the fictional Federal League. A perennial loser for years, the team's manager Joe McGrath (Strother Martin) has resorted to extreme cost-cutting techniques and embarrassing promotional antics to keep local interest alive. Dunlop, while not particularly talented as either a player or coach, is a skilled con man, and regularly manipulates the team to his own advantage. During a hopeless season, the Chiefs pick up the Hanson Brothers, bespectacled violent goons with childlike mentalities, complete with toys in their luggage. Horrified at being given players who seem stupid, immature, and unreliable, Dunlop initially chooses not to play them.
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Ondine (2010)
, 1h51Directed by Neil Jordan
Origin Irlande
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Colin Farrell, Alicja Bachleda-Curuś, Tony Curran, Stephen Rea, Dervla Kirwan, Don Wycherley
Roles Executive Producer
Rating67%
Syracuse "Circus" (Colin Farrell) is trawling with his fishing boat and pulls up a catch and finds a barely dressed young woman caught in his net. He sees she is alive and resuscitates her. She calls herself Ondine (Alicja Bachleda) and refuses the idea to be taken to hospital as she doesn't want to be seen by anyone else. Circus accepts she has no memory to explain her situation. He shelters her in a caravan house in a quiet harbor that belonged to his late mother. This makes him late picking up his wheelchair bound daughter Annie (Alison Barry) who stays with his ex-wife Maura (Dervla Kirwan). During Annie's dialysis, he tells her a story about a fisherman that catches a woman out of the sea. Annie explains the woman could be a magical selkie. Annie receives a new powerchair from the CRC, and is returned home being greeted by Maura's boyfriend Alex (Tony Curran). Maura flips Circus off for missing the doctor for news on a kidney match for Annie, he returns to his empty house alone.
Ghostwood (2006)
, 1h25Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Patrick Bergin, Shane Connaughton, Robert Sheehan
Roles Producer
Rating42%
Driven to investigate the unexplained disappearance of his father, New York psychologist Ed Hunter (Alan Devine) travels to a remote village in the west of Ireland and finds a community that has been living in fear for centuries.
Apocalypto (2006)
, 2h18Directed by Mel Gibson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Rudy Youngblood, Mayra Sérbulo, Gerardo Taracena, María Isabel Díaz
Roles Unit Production Manager
Rating77%
While hunting in the Mesoamerican rainforest, Jaguar Paw/Paksiw (Rudy Youngblood), his father Flint Sky (Morris Birdyellowhead), and their fellow tribesmen encounter a procession of refugees fleeing warfare. The group's leader explains that their lands were ravaged and they seek a new beginning. He asks for permission to pass through the jungle. Flint Sky comments to his son that the visitors were sick with fear, and urges him to never allow fear to infect him.
King Arthur (2004)
, 2h6Directed by Antoine Fuqua
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Historical, Peplum
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about magic and magicians
Actors Clive Owen, Keira Knightley, Ioan Gruffudd, Mads Mikkelsen, Joel Edgerton, Ray Winstone
Roles Executive Producer
Rating62%
Arthur (Clive Owen) is portrayed as a Roman cavalry officer, also known as Artorius Castus, the son of a Roman father and a Celtic mother, who commands a unit of Sarmatian auxiliary cavalry in Britain at the close of the Roman occupation in 467 A.D. Arthur is loyal to Rome and a devout Catholic, but follows the teachings of Pelagianism, which many consider heretical. He and his men guard Hadrian's Wall against the Woads, a group of native Britons who are rebels against Roman rule, led by the mysterious Merlin (Stephen Dillane).
Veronica Guerin (2003)
, 1h38Directed by Joel Schumacher
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Crime
Themes Assassinat, Films about writers, Films about journalists, Mafia films, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Gangster films
Actors Cate Blanchett, Gerard McSorley, Ciarán Hinds, Brenda Fricker, Colin Farrell, Paudge Behan
Roles Executive Producer
Rating67%
Veronica Guerin (Cate Blanchett) is a feisty crime reporter for the Sunday Independent. Suddenly aware of how much Dublin's illegal drug trade is encroaching upon the lives of its working class citizens, especially the children, she becomes determined to expose the men responsible for its spread.
Reign of Fire (2002)
, 1h41Directed by Rob S. Bowman
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Films about dragons, Giant monster films, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Matthew McConaughey, Christian Bale, Izabella Dorota Skorupko, Gerard Butler, Alexander Siddig, Alice Krige
Roles Line Producer
Rating61%
Shortly after the dawn of the new millennium, during construction on the London Underground, workers penetrate an underground cave. A huge dragon emerges from hibernation, incinerating the workers with its flaming breath. The only survivor is a boy, Quinn Abercromby (Ben Thornton), whose mother Karen (Alice Krige) is the construction crew chief; Karen is crushed to death while protecting Quinn as the dragon climbs to the surface. It flies out of the Underground and more dragons appear, multiplying rapidly. Shown in newspaper clippings and a voiceover, scientists discover that dragons are a lost species responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs by incinerating them and eating their ash, as well as ice ages. The dragons are speculated to hibernate after destroying most of the Earth's creatures until the planet repopulates. After the dragons' awakening humanity resists militarily, including a 2010 use of nuclear weapons; this, however, hastens the destruction and within a few years humans are nearly extinct.
Shanghai Noon (2000)
, 1h50Directed by Tom Dey
Origin USA
Genres Martial arts, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Western, Martial arts
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Kung fu films, Buddy films
Actors Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson, Lucy Liu, Xander Berkeley, Walton Goggins, Yu Rongguang
Roles Co-Producer
Rating65%
In 1881, Chon Wang (Chan) is a Chinese Imperial Guard in the Forbidden City. After Princess Pei-Pei, for whom Wang has affection, is abducted and taken to the United States, the Emperor of China sends three of his guards to retrieve her. Wang is not one of the three, but he tells the Captain of the Imperial Guards that it was his fault the princess was kidnapped and insists on joining them. The Captain first refuses, but when the Royal Interpreter, Wang's uncle, offers to allow Wang to come help with the baggage, the Captain agrees in the hopes that the "foreign devils" would get rid of Wang. In Nevada, Roy O'Bannon (Wilson) is an outlaw who, with his gang, hijacks the train Wang is on. When Wallace, a member of Roy's gang, kills Wang's uncle, Wang chases the outlaws down. However, the gang is well-armed and Wang's only choice is to unhinge the cars and get away on the engine. In the process, Wallace takes over the gang from Roy, and they leave him buried up to his chin in the desert sand. Meanwhile, Pei-Pei, who was tricked into believing she was freely escaping her arranged marriage in China, finds out she has been kidnapped by an agent of Lo Fong, who ran away from the Forbidden City and was viewed as a traitor by the Chinese.
Wonder Boys (2000)
, 1h51Directed by Curtis Hanson
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about writers, Films about education, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Katie Holmes, Robert Downey Jr., Rip Torn
Roles Executive Producer
Rating71%
Professor Grady Tripp (Michael Douglas) is a novelist who teaches creative writing at an unnamed Pittsburgh university (the movie was shot chiefly in and around Carnegie Mellon). He is having an affair with the university chancellor, Sara Gaskell (Frances McDormand), whose husband, Walter (Richard Thomas), is the chairman of the English department in which Grady is a professor. Grady's third wife, Emily, has just left him, and he has failed to repeat the grand success of his first novel, published years earlier. He continues to labor on a second novel, but the more he tries to finish it the less able he finds himself to invent a satisfactory ending. The book runs to over two and a half thousand pages and is still far from finished. He spends his free time smoking marijuana.
The 13th Warrior (1999)
, 1h42Directed by John McTiernan, Michael Crichton
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, War, Thriller, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Films based on mythology, Transport films, Films set in the Viking Age, Films based on Norse mythology
Actors Antonio Banderas, Diane Venora, Vladimir Kulich, Clive Russell, Omar Sharif, Richard Bremmer
Roles Producer
Rating66%
Ahmad ibn Fadlan is a court poet to the Caliph of Baghdad, until his amorous encounter with the wife of an influential noble gets him exiled as an "ambassador" to Northern Barbarians. Traveling with Melchisidek, his caravan is saved from Turkic raiders by the appearance of Norsemen (presumably Varangian). Taking refuge at their settlement on the Volga river, communications are established through Melchisidek and Herger, a Norseman who speaks Latin. Ahmad and Melchisidek are in time to witness a fight, which establishes Buliwyf as heir apparent, followed by the Viking funeral of their dead king, cremated together with a young woman who agreed to accompany him to Valhalla.