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William Bronder is a Actor born on 12 june 1930
William Bronder (June 12, 1930 – May 6, 2015) was an American film and television actor. He first served in the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy as well as the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division. Afterwards he turned to Hollywood in the 1960s to start a film career.
Between 1973 and 2000, William Bronder appeared in seven films, about 50 television episodes and eight TV movies. He often portrayed rough working-class men in character roles. Bronder remains perhaps best known for playing unfriendly junkyard owner Milo Pressman in Rob Reiner's film Stand by Me (1986), starring Wil Wheaton and River Phoenix. His other films were Flush (1977), Cannery Row (1982), Yes, Giorgio (1982), Best Seller (1987), the short film Tummy Trouble (1989) and Return to Me (2000, in his last role as Wally Jatczak). He also appeared in a great number of television series of the 1970s and 1980s. Among them were Marcus Welby, M.D., The Streets of San Francisco, Police Story, Knots Landing, Hill Street Blues, CHiPs and MacGyver.
Bronder also raced pigeons and was a Hall of Fame member of the FVC San Fernando Valley Pigeon Club. He was married with his wife Tona from 1964 until his death in 2015, they had four children.
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Birth 12 june 1930
Death 6 may 2015 (at 84 years)
Death 6 may 2015 (at 84 years)
Between 1973 and 2000, William Bronder appeared in seven films, about 50 television episodes and eight TV movies. He often portrayed rough working-class men in character roles. Bronder remains perhaps best known for playing unfriendly junkyard owner Milo Pressman in Rob Reiner's film Stand by Me (1986), starring Wil Wheaton and River Phoenix. His other films were Flush (1977), Cannery Row (1982), Yes, Giorgio (1982), Best Seller (1987), the short film Tummy Trouble (1989) and Return to Me (2000, in his last role as Wally Jatczak). He also appeared in a great number of television series of the 1970s and 1980s. Among them were Marcus Welby, M.D., The Streets of San Francisco, Police Story, Knots Landing, Hill Street Blues, CHiPs and MacGyver.
Bronder also raced pigeons and was a Hall of Fame member of the FVC San Fernando Valley Pigeon Club. He was married with his wife Tona from 1964 until his death in 2015, they had four children.
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Return to Me (2000)
, 1h55Directed by Bonnie Hunt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors David Duchovny, Minnie Driver, Carroll O'Connor, Robert Loggia, David Alan Grier, James Belushi
Roles Wally Jatczak
Rating69%
Bob and Elizabeth Rueland (David Duchovny and Joely Richardson) both work — Bob as an architect, Elizabeth as a zoologist — at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo. One night, after a fundraiser, Elizabeth is killed in a car accident, and her heart is transplanted to Grace Briggs (Minnie Driver), who has suffered from heart disease since the age of 14 and is near death. The surgery is successful and Grace, an artist, is able to live a normal life for the first time. She plans to make her first airplane trip to Italy to paint, and her best friend Megan Dayton (Bonnie Hunt) encourages her to begin dating, although Grace is self-conscious about the long surgery scar on her chest. She also has written a letter thanking the family of their lost love one for the heart she received. It takes her over a year to finally find the courage to mail the letter.
Tummy Trouble (1989)
Directed by Frank Marshall, Rob Minkoff
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Animation
Themes Children's films
Actors Charles Fleischer, Kathleen Turner, Lou Hirsch, April Winchell, Corey Burton, Luq Hamet
Roles Sign Carrier
Rating71%
Chargé de garder Baby Herman pendant l'absence de « maman », Roger lui offre un hochet, que Herman s'empresse d'avaler. En déplacement aux urgences, les deux compères enchaînent les catastrophes, qui retomberont évidemment toujours sur Roger.
Stand by Me (1986)
, 1h29Directed by Rob Reiner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Adventure, Crime
Themes Films about children, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies
Actors Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell, Kiefer Sutherland, Richard Dreyfuss
Roles Milo Pressman
Rating80%
In 1985, after reading a newspaper article about the death of his childhood friend Chris Chambers, author Gordie Lachance (Richard Dreyfuss) recalls a childhood journey to view the body of a missing boy near the (fictional) town of Castle Rock, Oregon (Maine in the novella), over Labor Day weekend in 1959. Young Gordie (Wil Wheaton) was a quiet, bookish boy with a penchant for writing and telling stories. He was rejected by his father (Marshall Bell) after the death of his football-star older brother Denny (John Cusack), who had paid more attention to Gordie than their parents did.
Wet Gold (1984)
, 1h31Directed by Dick Lowry
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films
Actors Brooke Shields, Burgess Meredith, Thomas Byrd, Brian Kerwin, William Bronder
Roles Jack, Coast Guard Capt.
Rating48%
Wet Gold is the story of Laura, a young café waitress dreaming of owning a piano. Laura stumbles across Sampson, a drunk elderly man who fills her with exciting stories of a boat that sank with millions of dollars in gold. Although Chris Barnes, Laura's boyfriend, keeps telling her that Sampson's stories are all false, Sampson makes her believe that they are indeed true. Laura takes Sampson to a library, where she finds on old a newspaper article that matches up the events he described.
Cannery Row (1982)
, 2hDirected by David S. Ward
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Nick Nolte, Debra Winger, Audra Lindley, Frank McRae, M. Emmet Walsh, Rosanna DeSoto
Roles Suzy's Trick
Rating65%
The story is about the skid row citizens of Monterey, California, set during World War II. As declining fish stocks are shutting down a previously rich fishery and the dependent canning industry, bums and hookers lead colorful and adventurous lives in a balmy seaside setting.
Yes, Giorgio (1982)
, 1h50Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Kathryn Harrold, Eddie Albert, Paola Borboni, James Hong, Beulah Quo, Patrick Cranshaw
Roles Foreman
Rating38%
Luciano Pavarotti plays a world famous Italian tenor opera singer by the name of Giorgio Fini. While in Boston for a concert Fini gets a phone call asking him to perform at The Met. The call brings up bad memories from his disastrous appearance there seven years earlier. It scares him to the point where he cannot sing at rehearsal. Everyone panics thinking he is losing his voice.
A Death in Canaan (1978)
, 2h5Directed by Tony Richardson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Stefanie Powers, Brian Dennehy, Tom Atkins, Jacqueline Brookes, Conchata Ferrell, Charles Haid
Roles Judge Revere
Rating67%
The Death of Richie (1977)
, 1h37Directed by Paul Wendkos
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Robby Benson, Ben Gazzara, Eileen Brennan, Lance Kerwin, Cindy Eilbacher, John Zaremba
Roles Pinball Alley Manager
Rating66%
The film opens with a scene of a burial in a large suburban cemetery, with mourners, many of them young people, surrounding a casket while a eulogist talks. An older couple dressed in black is closest to the casket, suggesting that they are the deceased's parents. The grief-stricken father weeps openly as he is comforted by his wife.