Known for Acting
Born
December 14, 1923
Died
March 23, 2001 (age 77)
Filmography
29 films, 8 shows


Just the Ticket
1998 · 1h 55m
country: United States
Gary Starke is one of the best ticket scalpers in New York City. His girlfriend, Linda, doesn't approve of his criminal lifestyle, though, and dumps him when she gets the opportunity to study cooking in Paris. Gary realizes that he has to give up scalping if he has any chance of winning her back. But before he does, he wants to cash out on one last big score. He gets his chance when the pope announces he'll be performing Easter Mass at Yankee Stadium.
The Pesky Suitor
The Pesky Suitor
1995 · 21m
country: Unknown
A girl makes friends with a nice old man and his wife, who live near her school bus stop. But after a while she starts trying to avoid him, because he talks so much.


Hits!
1994 · 1h 35m
country: Unknown
Important brief-case is stolen from the mob boss Vinny. His assistant Kelly must quickly react and he hires two small-time crooks to follow the rival mobster. One of the men is hard core criminal, the other is an amateur.


Somebody to Love
1994 · 1h 42m
country: United States
Mercedes is a taxi dancer who wants to be an actress. She's involved with the married Harry, who considers himself a respected actor. Ernesto is in love with Mercedes, but he doesn't dance or have money.


In the Soup
1992 · 1h 36m
country: Japan
An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.


Betsy's Wedding
1990 · 1h 34m
country: United States
Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé Jake Lovell just want an intimate little wedding reception, but Betsy's father Eddie, a Long Island construction contractor, feels so threatened by Jake's rich WASP parents that he blows the ceremony up into a bank-breaking showpiece, sending his wife Lola into a financial panic.


The Lemon Sisters
1989 · 1h 33m
country: United States
Three life-long friends work the bars in 1980s Atlantic City performing the songs of the 1960s girl groups.


Best Seller
1987 · 1h 35m
country: United States
Hit man Cleve approaches writer/cop Dennis about a story for his next book: How Cleve made a living, working for one of the most powerful politicians in the country. To get the story right, they travel around the country to gather statements and evidence, while strong forces use any means they can to keep the story untold.


The Manhattan Project
1986 · 1h 58m
country: United States
A gifted high school student steals plutonium from the secret nuclear weapons facility in his home town in order to construct his own nuclear bomb, win a national science fair, and expose the government's secrets.


Izzy & Moe
1985 · 1h 32m
country: United States
The adventures of two retired vaudeville performers who become two of the best prohibition agents in the 1920's.


Prizzi's Honor
1985 · 2h 4m
country: United States
Charley Partanna is a hitman who works for the Prizzis, one of the richest crime families in the US. When he sees Irene Walker, it's love at first sight. But he soon finds that she, too, is a killer for hire. Charley can overlook his suspicions, but he can't turn off his heart. And the couple must remember that even if they love each other, the Prizzis love only money.


Too Scared to Scream
1984 · 1h 40m
country: United States
A killer is brutally attacking several tenants that live in a high rise apartment building in New York City.


The American Snitch
1983 · 1h 22m
country: United States
Satire spoof about a "National Enquirer"-type tabloid, featuring a cast of celebrity look-alikes.


The Entity
1982 · 2h 5m
country: United States
A single mom is raped by an invisible force. Her psychiatrist believes the experience stems from childhood trauma, while she knows something supernatural is at play.


Fort Apache, the Bronx
1981 · 2h 5m
country: United States
From the sight of a police officer this movie depicts the life in New York's infamous South Bronx. In the center is "Fort Apache", as the officers call their police station, which really seems like an outpost in enemy's country. The story follows officer Murphy, who seems to be a tough cynic, but in truth he's a moralist with a sense for justice.


The Jazz Singer
1980 · 1h 55m
country: United Kingdom
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer.


The Kidnapping of the President
1980 · 1h 54m
country: United States
A South American quasi-revolutionary/guerilla/terrorist and a misled, admiring girl compatriot manage to kidnap the U.S. President during a diplomatic visit to Toronto.


Night of the Juggler
1980 · 1h 41m
country: United States
When a twisted psychotic kidnaps a young girl, mistaking her for the daughter of a wealthy developer, her father, a hardened ex-cop, doggedly hunts them through New York's seamy streets.


Oliver's Story
1978 · 1h 31m
country: United States
Oliver Barrett IV is emotionally devastated by the death of his wife Jenny, and, while he tries to lose himself in his work as a lawyer, the long hours don't ease his pain, especially when he finds that his leftist views conflict with those of the senior partners at the firm. Eventually, Oliver's inconsolable grief begins to alienate those around him, until he finds new love with Marcie Bonwit, the wealthy and beautiful heiress to the Bonwit Teller fortune. Despite his affection for her, Oliver finds it difficult to leave the memory of Jenny behind, which causes major problems in their relationship.


Smokey and the Good Time Outlaws
1978 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Two guys come to Nashville and try to make it on the country music scene. Their vision is to play at the Grand IL' Opry. Rejection after rejection pushes them to the verge of quitting and moving back to wherever they came from.


The Deadliest Season
1977 · 1h 38m
country: United States
Gerry Miller, a professional hockey player, gives in to internal and outside pressures and adopts a more aggressive style on the ice. During one particularly violent game a player on an opposing team dies, and the authorities charge Miller with manslaughter.


Car Wash
1976 · 1h 37m
country: United States
This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar's Car Wash in the Los Angeles ghetto. The team meets dozens of eccentric customers -- including a smooth-talking preacher, a wacky cab driver and an ex-convict -- while cracking politically incorrect jokes to a constant soundtrack of disco and funk. Some of the workers find romance as the day moves along, but most are just happy to get through another shift.


Dog Day Afternoon
1975 · 2h 4m
country: United States
Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile. Sonny and Sal attempt a bank heist which quickly turns sour and escalates into a hostage situation and stand-off with the police. As Sonny's motives for the robbery are slowly revealed and things become more complicated, the heist turns into a media circus.


The Gambler
1974 · 1h 52m
country: United States
New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.


Up the Sandbox
1972 · 1h 37m
country: United States
Bored with day-to-day life in New York City and neglected by her husband, a young wife and mother slips into increasingly outrageous fantasies: her mother breaking into the apartment, an explorer's demonstration of tribal fertility music at a party causing strange transformations, and joining terrorists to plant explosives in the Statue of Liberty.


The King of Marvin Gardens
1972 · 1h 43m
country: United States
Jason Staebler lives on the Boardwalk and fronts for the local mob in Atlantic City. He is a dreamer who asks his brother David, a radio personality from Philadelphia, to help him build a paradise on a Pacific Island, which might be just another of his pie-in-the-sky schemes. Inevitably, complications begin to pile up.


Last of the Red Hot Lovers
1972 · 1h 38m
country: United States
A middle aged restaurateur begins to feel the desire to roam and realizes that one day each week, his mother's apartment will be empty all afternoon. He makes several attempts at seduction, only to learn that it is much more complicated and difficult than he could have imagined.


Made For Each Other
1971 · 1h 40m
country: United States
An eccentric woman meets an equally odd man at a group therapy session and they begin a relationship.


The Panic in Needle Park
1971 · 1h 50m
country: United States
A stark portrayal of life among a group of heroin addicts who hang out in Needle Park in New York City. Played against this setting is a low-key love story between Bobby, a young addict and small-time hustler, and Helen, a homeless girl who finds in her relationship with Bobby the stability she craves.