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Thayer David is a Actor American born on 4 march 1927 at Medford (USA)
Thayer David (born David Thayer Hersey, March 4, 1927 – July 17, 1978) was an American film, stage and television actor. He was best known for his work on the cult ABC serial Dark Shadows (1966–1971) and as the fight promoter George Jergens in the Oscar-winning movie Rocky (1976). He also appeared as Count Arne Saknussemm in the film Journey to the Center of the Earth in 1959. His raspy distinctive voice narrated many voice-overs in commercials and instructional films.
He was married to and divorced from film and television actress Valerie French.
Thayer David died July 17, 1978, from a heart attack in New York City at the age of 51. He and his former wife Valerie French were planning to remarry before he died.
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Birth name David Thayer Hersey
Nationality USA
Birth 4 march 1927 at Medford (USA)
Death 17 july 1978 (at 51 years) at New York City (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 4 march 1927 at Medford (USA)
Death 17 july 1978 (at 51 years) at New York City (USA)
Biography
A resident of Manhattan, Thayer David collected walking sticks, 18th-century European landscape paintings and Victorian furniture. "He was the most widely educated and best-read actor I've ever encountered," said Frank D. Gilroy, who wrote and directed the 1977 TV movie Nero Wolfe. His fellow cast members on Dark Shadows remembered him as a "walking encyclopedia" around the studio.He was married to and divorced from film and television actress Valerie French.
Thayer David died July 17, 1978, from a heart attack in New York City at the age of 51. He and his former wife Valerie French were planning to remarry before he died.
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Nero Wolfe (1979)
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Thayer David, Tom Mason, Brooke Adams, Biff McGuire, John Randolph, Anne Baxter
Roles Nero Wolfe
Rating69%
House Calls (1978)
, 1h38Directed by Howard Zieff
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Art Carney, Richard Benjamin, Dick O'Neill, Candice Azzara
Rating65%
Charles Nichols is a respected doctor. He is also a new widower, and as soon as he returns to Los Angeles from a tropical vacation and period of mourning, he finds himself propositioned by a number of women.
Spider-Man (1978)
, 1h30Directed by Ronald Neame, E.W. Swackhamer
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Films about animals, Films about children, Films about computing, Films about spiders, Spider-Man films, Superhero films, Cyberpunk films, Super-héros inspiré de comics
Actors Nicholas Hammond, Lisa Eilbacher, David White, Michael Pataki, Hilly Hicks, Len Lesser
Roles Edward Byron
Rating11%
Peter Parker (Nicholas Hammond), a freelance photographer for the Daily Bugle, is bitten by a radioactive spider and discovers he has gained superpowers, such as super-strength, agility and the ability to climb sheer walls and ceilings. When a mysterious Guru (Thayer David) places people under mind-control to rob banks and threatens to have ten New Yorkers commit suicide at his command unless the city pays him $50 million, Peter becomes the costumed hero Spider-Man to stop the crook's fiendish scheme. Things take a bad turn when the villain hypnotizes Peter Parker into being one of the ten people to jump off a building on command.
Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)
, 1h39Directed by Ted Kotcheff
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors George Segal, Jane Fonda, Sean Frye, Ed McMahon, Dick Gautier, Allan Miller
Roles Deacon
Rating64%
An upper-middle-class couple, Dick and Jane Harper, hits a hump in their living the good life when the husband loses his job. Falling through the cracks of society in the United States, they then become high-class thieves to get back all they lost.
Sudden Death (1977)
, 1h29Directed by Eddie Romero
Origin Philippines
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Robert Conrad, Don Stroud, John Ashley, Felton Perry, Vic Díaz, Bill Raymond
Roles Hauser
Rating56%
When Ed Neilson's entire family is viciously murdered, he pleads with retired CIA operative Duke Smith (Robert Conrad) to investigate. He refuses, but relents after Neilson too meets an explosive death.
The Amazing Howard Hughes (1977)
, 3h35Directed by William A. Graham
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Tommy Lee Jones, Ed Flanders, James Hampton, Lee Purcell, Sorrell Booke, Arthur Franz
Roles Floyd Odlum
Rating65%
This film recounts the life and times of Howard Hughes, from his being a Hollywood producer and an aviator to a 1946 experimental plane crash that left him with a concussion that left him with
Roots (TV miniseries) (1977)
, 9h30Directed by Gilbert Moses, Marvin J. Chomsky, John Erman, David Greene, David Green
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about slavery, Films about racism
Actors John Amos, Ben Vereen, LeVar Burton, Louis Gossett Jr., Georg Stanford Brown, Leslie Uggams
Rating83%
In The Gambia, West Africa, in 1750 Kunta Kinte is born to Omoro Kinte (Thalmus Rasulala), a Mandinka warrior, and his wife, Binta (Cicely Tyson). When Kunta (LeVar Burton) reaches the age of 15, he and a group of other adolescent boys take part in tribal manhood training, ending with a ceremony, after which they become recognized as men and Mandinka warriors. While trying to carry out a task to catch a bird and take it home unharmed, Kunta sees white men carrying firearms, along with their black collaborators. Later, while fetching wood outside his village to make a drum for his younger brother, Kunta is captured by black collaborators under the direction of white men. He is then sold to a slave trader and placed aboard a ship under the command of Capt. Thomas Davies (Edward Asner) for a three-month journey to Colonial America. During the voyage a group of rebels among the human cargo try but fail to stage a mutiny and to take over the ship.
Rocky (1976)
, 1h59Directed by John G. Avildsen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Le boxe anglaise
Actors Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith, Tony Burton
Roles George 'Miles' Jergens
Rating80%
Rocky "The Italian Stallion" Balboa is a hard-living, but failing prize fighter from an Italian neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Between fights, he works as an enforcer for loan shark Anthony Gazzo, and is regarded by many of his neighbors as a bum. The World Heavyweight Champion, Apollo Creed, announces plans to hold a match in Philadelphia during the upcoming United States Bicentennial. However, he is informed five weeks from the fight date, that his scheduled opponent, Mac Lee Green, is unable to compete due to an injured hand. With all other potential replacements booked up or otherwise unavailable, Creed decides to spice things up and give a local contender a chance to face him. He settles on Rocky, believing that he will be an easy challenge.
, 1h43Directed by Melvin Frank
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Action, Romance, Western
Actors Goldie Hawn, George Segal, Thayer David, Richard Farnsworth, Conrad Janis, Richard Pryor
Roles Josiah Widdicombe (Mormon patriarch)
Rating57%
A popular dance hall girl, Duchess, joins with a gambler nicknamed the "Dirtwater Fox" on the way to Salt Lake City, Utah. Seeking refuge from a pursuing gang of outlaws, the Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox join a wagon train of Mormons. On their trip, they encounter snakes, rapids, horseback pursuits through towns, and even getting tied up by the outlaws (eventually escaping).
, 1h43Directed by Melvin Frank
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Western
Themes Children's films
Actors George Segal, Goldie Hawn, Conrad Janis, Thayer David, Richard Farnsworth, Pat Ast
Roles Josiah Widdicombe (Mormon patriarch)
Rating57%
Un débrouillard femelle est courir après les hommes riches, mais devient à plusieurs reprises mélangé avec un escroc suave et une carte de requin à travers une série de mésaventures avant de tomber en amour avec lui.
The Eiger Sanction (1975)
, 2h3Directed by Clint Eastwood, James Fargo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Sports films, Alpinisme
Actors Clint Eastwood, George Kennedy, Jack Cassidy, Vonetta McGee, Thayer David, Gregory Walcott
Roles Dragon
Rating63%
College art history professor Dr. Jonathan Hemlock (Clint Eastwood) is a retired government assassin who performed "sanctions", a euphemism for officially approved killings. He also has a reputation as one of the world's top mountaineers.
Fore Play (1975)
, 1h15Directed by John G. Avildsen, Ralph Rosenblum, Bruce Malmuth
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Zero Mostel, Estelle Parsons, Pat Paulsen, Jerry Orbach, Paul Dooley, George S. Irving
Roles General
Rating40%
The film is split into three segments: the first involves a man buying an animate sex doll and his many failed attempts to bed it. In the second story, a man suffering from writer's block find his muse by undressing various women. Finally, the third story involves the President of the United States, whose daughter is kidnapped and will be killed unless the President and his wife have sex on national television.
Peeper (1975)
, 1h27Directed by Peter Hyams
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller
Themes Children's films
Actors Michael Caine, Timothy Carey, Natalie Wood, Kitty Winn, Michael Constantine, Thayer David
Roles Frank Prendergast
Rating56%
1947 à Hollywood. Lou Anglich échappe à une filature en frappant son poursuivant avec sa valise. Lorsque Leslie C. Tucker, un détective privé anglais, revient à son bureau, il trouve Anglich, qui le charge de retrouver a fille Anna, placée dans un orphelinat 29 ans auparavant. Anglich dit à Tucker qu'il a beaucoup d'argent et qu'il veut le donner à sa fille avant que ses "associés" le retrouvent et le tuent...
Hearts of the West (1975)
, 1h42Directed by Howard Zieff
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Western
Themes Films about television
Actors Jeff Bridges, Andy Griffith, Donald Pleasence, Blythe Danner, Alan Arkin, Richard B. Shull
Roles Bank Manager
Rating64%
Lewis Tater (Jeff Bridges), a 1930s-era aspiring novelist who harbors dreams of becoming the next Zane Grey, decides to leave his family home in Iowa to go to the University of Titan in Nevada so he can soak up the western atmosphere. He arrives to find that there is no university, only a mail order correspondence course scam run by two crooks out of the local hotel. He tries to spend the night at the hotel, and is attacked by one of the men. He escapes his attacker and steals their car, pulling over when it runs out of gas.
The Stoolie (1974)
, 1h30Directed by John G. Avildsen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Jackie Mason, Dan Frazer, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Thayer David, Bill McCutcheon, Richard McKenzie
Roles Lattimore
Rating52%