Known for Acting
William Edward Hickey (September 19, 1927 – June 29, 1997) was an American actor. He was best known for his Oscar-nominated role as Don Corrado Prizzi in the John Huston 1985 film Prizzi's Honor, as well as the voice of Dr. Finklestein in Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993).
Born
September 19, 1927
Died
June 29, 1997 (age 69)
Birthplace
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Filmography
60 films, 17 shows


Carnage Collection - Puppet Master: Trunk Full of Terror
2022 · 1h 5m
country: Unknown
Full Moon's Carnage Collection is here. In the first stunning installment of this ongoing series, we open a "Trunk Full of Terror" and unleash the NASTIEST and GNARLIEST moments from our iconic Puppet Master film franchise. See Blade, Torch, Jester and the rest of the gang maim, mutilate and massacre every unlucky victim that dares cross their path. You wanted carnage? You got it.


An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
2022 · 2h 30m
country: Unknown
An oral history of the 1986 film adaptation of "The Name of the Rose", gathering together the memories of several members of the surviving cast/crew.


Puppet Master: Blitzkrieg Massacre
2018 · 1h 2m
country: United States
In an unknown dystopian future, a drifter with an unusually high tolerance to pain is held captive in a horrific hospital by The Circle of Psycho Surgeons, a clandestine crew of medical deviants experimenting with human suffering. Suddenly, our shackled hero hears the call of "The Gore Collector," a sadistic curator of carnage who is well past his prime and now seeks an heir to take over his evil operation. Escaping from the lurid lab, the drifter enters the underground lair of The Gore Collector and there, the perverse programmer pops in a vile videotape and begins the process of trying to warp the man's mind with the goriest moments from Full Moon's most iconic film franchise.


Puppet Master: Blitzkrieg Massacre
2018 · 1h 2m
country: Unknown
In an unknown dystopian future, a drifter with an unusually high tolerance to pain is held captive in a horrific hospital by The Circle of Psycho Surgeons, a clandestine crew of medical deviants experimenting with human suffering. Suddenly, our shackled hero hears the call of "The Gore Collector," a sadistic curator of carnage who is well past his prime and now seeks an heir to take over his evil operation. Escaping from the lurid lab, the drifter enters the underground lair of The Gore Collector and there, the perverse programmer pops in a vile videotape and begins the process of trying to warp the man's mind with the goriest moments from Full Moon's most iconic film franchise.


Charles Band's Puppet Master: Axis of Evil
2010 · 1h 23m
country: United States
Following the murder of Andre Toulon by Nazi assassins during the height of World War II, a young Danny Coogan finds his crate of mysterious puppets, and discovers their plan to attack a secret American manufacturing plant.


Puppet Master: The Legacy
2003 · 1h 20m
country: United States
A rogue agent named Maclain breaks into the lab of Eric Weiss, who has spent his entire life fascinated by Andre Toulon's supernatural ability to breathe life into his carefully crafted figurines.


Knocking on Death's Door
1999 · 1h 35m
country: United States
In a New England village, two newlywed students of the paranormal enter Hillside House to document the activities of a legion of ghosts. They uncover a murderous history that leads them into the clutches of a mysterious doctor.


The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man
1999 · 2h 9m
country: United States
This is a dark story of a caring movie maker who struggles to make it and also struggles with his demons and obsessions.


MouseHunt
1997 · 1h 38m
country: United States
Down-on-their luck brothers, Lars and Ernie Smuntz, aren't happy with the crumbling old mansion they inherit... until they discover the estate is worth millions. Before they can cash in, they have to rid the house of its single, stubborn occupant—a tiny and tenacious mouse.
Better Than Ever
Better Than Ever
1997 · 1h 25m
country: United States
Walter and Hume, roommates in a veterans home, are complete opposites. Walter is a sarcastic wise mouth who loves to speak his mind. Hume is meticulous and quiet but loves to wind Walter up. Tired of being poked, prodded, and placated with pills by the nursing staff, the two escape. Determined to end their lives in quiet dignity, they load their weapons and hail a cab to a remote wooded area.


Twisted
1996 · 1h 40m
country: United States
This retelling of Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist may be populated by drug pushers, pimps and prostitutes, but the book's classic themes remain the same. Caught under the thumb of a lecherous brothel owner, 10-year-old Lee befriends an aspiring musician named Angel who helps him escape his servitude and sends a maternal drag queen to vanquish the boy's enemies.


Love Is All There Is
1996 · 1h 45m
country: United States
The Malacicis, a hard-working Italian family recently immigrated from Florence, open a fancy restaurant in the Bronx, N.Y., drawing the ire of another clan. Mike and Sadie Capomezzo, equally hard-working Sicilian caterers from the area, find they cannot stand Piero and Maria Malacici. But things get complicated when the Malacicis' daughter, Gina, and the Capomezzos' son, Rosario, fall in love.


The Maddening
1995 · 1h 35m
country: United States
David and Cassie Osborne have an argument one night. So the next morning after David goes to work, Cassie runs off to her sister's house for a few days with their daughter Samantha. Only they never get there. David starts looking for them, and her sister, Joanne, thinks David had something to do with their disappearance, and calls the police. Actually Samantha and Cassie are with Roy and Georgina Scudder, and their daughter Jill. Roy picked them up after their car broke down. The only problem is, the Scudders, who seem a little odd at first, won't let them leave or call anyone.


Forget Paris
1995 · 1h 41m
country: United States
Mickey Gordon is a basketball referee who travels to France to bury his father. Ellen Andrews is an American living in Paris who works for the airline he flies on. They meet and fall in love, but their relationship goes through many difficult patches.


Major Payne
1995 · 1h 35m
country: United States
Major Benson Winifred Payne is being discharged from the Marines. Payne is a killin' machine, but the wars of the world are no longer fought on the battlefield. A career Marine, he has no idea what to do as a civilian, so his commander finds him a job - commanding officer of a local school's JROTC program, a bunch of ragtag losers with no hope.


The Jerky Boys
1995 · 1h 22m
country: United States
When two unemployed telephone pranksters decide to use their vocal "talents" to impersonate a Chicago mob boss and curry favor with organized crime in New York, the trouble begins. It isn't long before Johnny and Kamal (the "Jerky Boys" of crank call fame) are wanted by the local mafia, the police, and their neighbor.


Hey Stranger
1994 · 1h 45m
country: Belgium
An actor and poet falls in love with a former mortuary photographer turned waitress. They find themselves caught up way over their heads in a dirty political and financial affair, an art smuggling case that touches them merely for the fact that it may separate them, be it through death or exile.


The Nightmare Before Christmas
1993 · 1h 16m
country: United States
Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, kidnaps Santa Claus and plans to deliver shrunken heads and other ghoulish gifts to children on Christmas morning. But as Christmas approaches, Jack's rag-doll girlfriend, Sally, tries to foil his misguided plans.


The Runestone
1991 · 1h 45m
country: United States
A New York detective takes the case of a bulletproof monster sprung to life from Viking legend.


Mob Boss
1990 · 1h 33m
country: United States
A nerd becomes the head of his father's crime family.


My Blue Heaven
1990 · 1h 37m
country: United States
FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Antonelli. In the witness protection program one is supposed to keep a low profile, but that is something that Antonelli has trouble doing. Coopersmith certainly has his hands full keeping Antonelli away from the Mafia hitmen who want to stop him testifying, not to mention the nightclubs...


Any Man's Death
1990 · 1h 45m
country: South Africa
When a photo-journalist vanishes while covering an African civil war, a roll of film holds the only clues to his disappearance. Following the trail found in the photos, a veteran reporter finds himself in the middle of events as they escalate into war, leaving him with two deadly and disastrous options...


Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
1990 · 1h 33m
country: United States
A young boy tells three stories of horror to distract a witch who plans to eat him.


Sons
1990 · 1h 29m
country: France
A trio of stepbrothers accompany their paralysed father on a jaunt to Normandy where the old boy saw combat and romantic action during the war.


National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
1989 · 1h 37m
country: United States
It's Christmastime, and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration. But things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen, and their two kids. Clark's continual bad luck is worsened by his obnoxious family guests, but he manages to keep going, knowing that his Christmas bonus is due soon.
It Had to Be You
It Had to Be You
1989 · 1h 36m
country: Unknown
A has-been actress lures a TV commercial director to her apartment to seduce him.


Puppetmaster
1989 · 1h 28m
country: United States
After being contacted by their mysterious former colleague, four psychics arrive at a secluded hotel where they are stalked by a group of murderous puppets.


Sea of Love
1989 · 1h 53m
country: United States
Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colleague. Joining up with an officer from another part of town to investigate a series of murders linked by the lonely hearts columns he finds he is getting seriously and possibly dangerously involved with Helen, one of the main suspects.


Pink Cadillac
1989 · 2h 2m
country: United States
A skip tracer helps out a bail-jumper after her child is kidnapped by a group of ethno-nationalist thugs, of which her husband is a member, going by the name of Birthright. The baby is taken as leverage because, although initially oblivious, she has their money!


Hairway to the Stars
1989 · 12m
country: United States
The arms race goes to the beauty parlor with Bette Davis in The Letter.
Starlight: a Musical Movie
Starlight: a Musical Movie
1988 · 1h 18m
country: United States
Talented youths go to the Starlight camp in trying to prepare for a musical concert.


Da
1988 · 1h 42m
country: Ireland
A New York playwright is summoned to Ireland to bury his father. While at his boyhood home, he encounters his father's spirit and relives memories both pleasant and not.


Bright Lights, Big City
1988 · 1h 47m
country: Japan
A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.


A Hobo's Christmas
1987 · 1h 40m
country: United States
A hobo played by Barnard Hughes decides it's time to go home. Drifting from place to place, Hughes finds himself in his hometown of Salt Lake City at Christmas time. Here he hopes to close old wounds and be reunited with his unforgiving son played by Gerald McRaney, and get to know the grandchildren he has never met. McRaney, still resenting the fact that Hughes ran out on his family 25 years earlier, gives his father only one day with his grandkids; after that, he's expected to leave and never come back. All the while Hughes' friends warn him that his son and the past are memories that are best left alone, and should leave, but he has to find out for himself.


The Name of the Rose
1986 · 2h 10m
country: France
14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence; which is considerable.
Stranded
Stranded
1986 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Loni Anderson and Perry King are stranded on a desert island.


Seize the Day
1986 · 1h 33m
country: United States
Tommy Wilhelm is a salesman. An honest, hard-working guy who has lost his job, his girlfriend, and left part of his sanity behind as he heads to New York to pick up the pieces of his life. He's always been able to sell, but caught in a downward spiral, he must, in addition, face the father who never really understood him, while trying to balance his newly precarious existence.


One Crazy Summer
1986 · 1h 33m
country: United States
An aspiring teenage cartoonist and his friends come to the aid of a singer trying to save her family property from developers.


Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
1985 · 2h 1m
country: United States
Tough Brooklyn street cop Sam Makin is unwillingly recruited as an assassin for a secret United States organization known as CURE, who fake his death and give him a new identity: Remo Williams. With his appearance surgically altered, Williams is trained to be a human killing machine by his aged, derisive and impassive Korean martial arts master Chiun.


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.


A Stranger Is Watching
1982 · 1h 32m
country: United States
A twisted man holds a TV newswoman and a girl hostage in the bowels of Grand Central Station.


Wise Blood
1979 · 1h 46m
country: United States
A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.


Nunzio
1978 · 1h 25m
country: United States
A mentally-challenged delivery boy indulges in fantasies that he is a superhero in the tough streets of Brooklyn. He lives a life marked with torments from the gang of deadbeats at the corner, overbearing concern from his mother and older brother, and general confusion about women and his burgeoning desires for them.


The Sentinel
1977 · 1h 32m
country: United States
As a young girl, Alison Parker attempted suicide after being traumatized by her father's sexual exploits. Now an elite fashion model, she moves to a Brooklyn Heights apartment building where she encounters a number of bizarre, eccentric tenants and attempts to uncover the building's sinister secret.


Mikey and Nicky
1976 · 1h 46m
country: United States
Nick is desperate, holed up in a cheap hotel, suffering from an ulcer and convinced that a local mob boss wants him killed. Terrified, he calls Mikey, his friend since childhood and a fellow gangster. So begins a long night…


92 in the Shade
1975 · 1h 33m
country: United Kingdom
A young drifter returns to his home in Key West, Florida and attempts to open a fishing charter business, provoking a dangerous feud with a rival fishing sea captain.


Between Time and Timbuktu
1972 · 1h 30m
country: United States
A poet-astronaut is shot through an area of space called the Chronosynclastic Infundibulum. He is duplicated into infinite copies of himself, each of whom finds himself in a bizarre situations on a different world.


Happy Birthday, Wanda June
1971 · 1h 45m
country: United States
A hunter back from years in the Amazon finds his wife and life changed.


The Telephone Book
1971 · 1h 27m
country: United States
A sexually voracious young woman receives a dirty phone call from a stranger; so satisfied by the experience, she sets out to find him somewhere in New York City.


A New Leaf
1971 · 1h 42m
country: United States
After running out of funds, Henry Graham, a carefree playboy, plots to marry and murder wealthy botanist Henrietta Lowell.


Little Big Man
1970 · 2h 19m
country: United States
Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fighting with General Custer.


The Boston Strangler
1968 · 1h 56m
country: United States
Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from the point of view of the investigators who have very few clues to build a case upon.


The Producers
1968 · 1h 29m
country: United States
A conniving Broadway producer and his meek accountant plan to profit from charming wealthy old biddies to invest in an overbudget production, and then put on a sure-fire disaster, so nobody will ask for their money back — and what's more disastrous than a tasteless musical celebrating Adolf Hitler.


Androcles and the Lion
1967 · 1h 30m
country: United States
The story of Androcles, the simple-hearted Christian tailor whose friendship with a lion saves himself and his friends from martyrdom in the Roman Colosseum.


Invitation to a Gunfighter
1964 · 1h 32m
country: United States
In New Mexico, a Confederate veteran returns home to find his fiancée married to a Union soldier, his Yankee neighbors rallied against him and his property sold by the local banker who then hires a gunman to kill him.
Westinghouse Presents: The Dispossessed
Westinghouse Presents: The Dispossessed
1961 · 45m
country: United States
In 1879, the American Indian lived under severe handicaps: having no legal status as a human being and with the requirement to stay on reservations. Defying the law, Ponca Chief Standing Bear leads his people off their disease-ridden reservation. Though they're captured, the Poncas are given three days to find a lawyer and find a legal way to become their own people once again.


"Waiting for Godot" Intercut with “Krazy Kat”
1958 · 27m
country: Unknown
From Camera Three, excepts of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot are combined with George Herriman's Krazy Kat. Krazy Kat waits for Ignatz to throw a brick at her head, while Estragon and Vladamir refuse to make a decision until they can consult with the mysterious Godot.


Operation Mad Ball
1957 · 1h 45m
country: United States
In this wacky military spoof, Lemmon plays a terminally bored Army private waging a war of wits as he tries to throw a party under the nose of his obnoxious commanding officer.


A Hatful of Rain
1957 · 1h 49m
country: United States
A Korean War veteran's morphine addiction wreaks havoc upon his family.