Known for Acting
Sydney Lassick (July 23, 1922 – April 12, 2003) was an American character actor perhaps best known for his role as Charlie Cheswick in the feature film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Born
July 22, 1922
Died
April 11, 2003 (age 80)
Birthplace
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Filmography
55 films, 18 shows


Vice
2000 · 1h 27m
country: United States
Details the trial of a young Texas "erotic dancer" on charges of lurid behavior and indecent exposure and the various witnesses who testify both for and against her.


Something to Sing About
2000 · 1h 27m
country: United States
Tommy is a troubled young man with a history of crime. When he meets Memaw, an elderly lady, the two form a special bond with Memaw encouraging Charlie to sing in the local church choir, a talent he has ignored until now. While Charlie excels in church, his old friend G. Smooth remains skeptical and stays on the streets.


Man on the Moon
1999 · 1h 58m
country: United States
The story of the life and career of eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.


Amazing Stories: The Movie III
1998 · 2h
country: United States
Culled from Steven Spielberg's Emmy-winning series are four wacky tales full of adventure and laughter. In one, an actor (Tom Harrison) in a mummy's costume mistakenly wreaks havoc as he races to the hospital for the birth of his child. Another centers on the zany antics of a family dog, while a third follows Walter Poindexter (Sydney Lassick) a man with a magical remote control. Lastly, the embodiment of Guilt (Dom DeLuise) goes on vacation, and falls for Love (Loni Anderson).


An American Vampire Story
1997 · 1h 39m
country: United States
A group of friends go on a vacation with some new friends that turn out to be vampires, they hire a famous vampire killer to help them.


Freeway
1996 · 1h 44m
country: United States
Following the arrest of her mother, Ramona, young Vanessa Lutz decides to go in search of her estranged grandmother. On the way, she is given a ride by school counselor Bob Wolverton. During the journey, Lutz begins to realize that Bob is the notorious I-5 Killer and manages to escape by shooting him several times. Wounded but still very much alive, Bob pursues Lutz across the state in this modern retelling of Little Red Riding Hood.


Attack of the 5 Ft. 2 Women
1994 · 1h 20m
country: United States
Spoof-meister, Julie Brown does a musical send-up of Tonya Harding and Lorena Bobbit's debutante debacles


Future Shock
1994 · 1h 38m
country: United States
A psychiatrist uses virtual reality to probe the minds of three unsuspecting patients, unleashing horrific psychic forces in the process.


Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
1993 · 1h 47m
country: United States
Deloris Van Cartier is again asked to don the nun's habit to help a run-down Catholic school, presided over by Mother Superior. And if trying to reach out to a class full of uninterested students wasn't bad enough, the sisters discover that the school is due to be closed by the unscrupulous chief of a local authority.


Eye of the Stranger
1993 · 1h 36m
country: United States
A stranger comes into town and causes a stir when he stands up for the townfolk, in the face of the intimidation tactics from Mayor Howard Baines. The scheming mayor wants to buy up all the local properties, and has hired two thugs to help 'persuade' the owners to sell.


Squanderers
1993 · 1h 36m
country: United States
A security guard using video surveillance to watch a parking lot sees a man stash a suitcase in a car immediately before he is apprehended by the police. After everyone is gone, the guard gets the bag from the car and discovers it has $300,000 in it. He and his pals then set off on a spending spree. Of course, the bag belongs to mobsters who soon come after the men who stole their bag.


Tom and Jerry: The Movie
1992 · 1h 23m
country: United States
The popular cartoon cat and mouse are thrown into a feature film. The story has the twosome trying to help an orphan girl who is being berated and exploited by a greedy guardian.


Miracle Beach
1992 · 1h 28m
country: United States
Down on his luck, Scotty McKay becomes the master of a very lonely genie, who brings him wealth, power and true love. Miracles can happen!


Judgement
1992 · 1h 25m
country: Unknown
A juvenile court judge goes out of her way to try to aid a young man whom she believes has innocently gotten involved with a gang.


Deep Cover
1992 · 1h 48m
country: United States
Black police officer Russell Stevens applies for a special anti-drug squad which targets the highest boss of cocaine delivery to LA—the Colombian foreign minister's nephew. Russell works his way up from the bottom undercover, until he reaches the boss.


Cool as Ice
1991 · 1h 31m
country: United States
Freewheeling, motorcycle-riding musician Johnny rolls into a small town with his band, and meets Kathy, an honor student who catches his eye. Meanwhile, Kathy's father, after being in the Witness Protection Program, is finally tracked down by two corrupt cops he escaped from years ago, who want the money he owes them.


Shakes the Clown
1991 · 1h 27m
country: United States
Shakes plods about his duties as party clown, and uses all of his free time getting seriously drunk. Binky, another clown, wins the spot on a local kiddie show, which depresses Shakes even more, and his boss threatens him with unemployment if he can't get his act under control.


The Art of Dying
1991 · 1h 35m
country: United States
A cinematographer and his assistant are attracting aspiring young actors and actresses by getting them to try out for their movie. Once filming, the evil cameraman actually kills them. The detective on the case has his hands full trying to help out runaways with stars in their eyes. When some of the people he knows turn up dead, he takes it personally, and as he gets closer to the truth his girlfriend is endangered.


Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
1991 · 1h 45m
country: United States
Sue Ellen Crandell is a teenager eagerly awaiting her mother's summer-long absence. While the babysitter looks after her rambunctious younger siblings, Sue Ellen can party and have fun. But then the babysitter abruptly dies, leaving the Crandells short on cash. Sue Ellen finds a sweet job in fashion by lying about her age and experience on her résumé. But, while her siblings run wild, she discovers the downside of adulthood


Committed
1991 · 1h 30m
country: United States
A nurse is taken hostage by a patient pretending to be a doctor and is forced to administer to everyone.


Smoothtalker
1990 · 1h 29m
country: United States
A cop tracks down a serial killer who goes after women who work for a phone-sex company.


Pacific Palisades
1990 · 1h 32m
country: France
A woman from Paris, Bernadette, comes to the United States after being promised a job. When she arrives, however, she learns that she is a victim to a hoax. Unable to return to France, Bernadette looks for work while staying with her close friend Shirley, an actress looking for her big break. Their friendship is challenged when Bernadette finds herself falling in love with Shirley's boyfriend.


Out on Bail
1989 · 1h 31m
country: South Africa
A Tennessee sheriff and lawyer want a jailed drifter to assassinate a mayoral candidate.


Curse II: The Bite
1989 · 1h 38m
country: Italy
After a young man is bitten on the hand by a radioactive snake, his hand changes into a lethal snake head, which attacks everyone he comes into contact with. Also, his body becomes filled with snakes. Now, he must prevent himself from hurting others.


Tale of Two Sisters
1989 · 1h 32m
country: United States
Two sisters reunite after not having seen each other for five years. While catching up on each others' lives, they relive childhood experiences, both good and bad.


Sonny Boy
1989 · 1h 36m
country: United States
A small-town car thief and his transgender wife come across an abandoned infant; they amputate his tongue and train him for a life in crime.


The Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck
1988 · 1h 28m
country: Sri Lanka
Ken Manchester and his beautiful rich wife Barbara Manchester hire the drunk adventurer Buck Malone to take them on a hunting expedition in the jungle. However, the true purpose of the expedition was not just hunting.


Lady in White
1988 · 1h 53m
country: United States
Locked in a school closet during Halloween 1962, young Frank witnesses the ghost of a young girl and the man who murdered her years ago.


Body Slam
1986 · 1h 29m
country: United States
M. Harry Smilac is a down-on-his-luck music manager who is having a hard time attracting talent and booking gigs for his band, Kicks (The most recent of the gigs is a Dairy Queen opening!!). When making arrangements for a campaign fund-raiser, he mistakes Rick Roberts, a professional wrestler, for a musician and hires him. At that moment he becomes a wrestling manager and starts to book matches for him and his teammate Tonga Tom. The team is a success, and Harry decides to take his wrestlers and his band on a "Rock n' Wrestling" tour. The tour is a success, and Harry feels what it is like to be a winner again.


Ratboy
1986 · 1h 44m
country: United States
A failed window dresser exploits a being with rat-like features in an effort to make money.


Stitches
1985 · 1h 27m
country: United States
The misadventures of three students in medical school.


Night Patrol
1984 · 1h 27m
country: United States
Melvin White, a neurotic, accident-prone cop who gets demoted to the night shift, secretly moonlights as the Unknown Comic, an anonymous stand-up comedian who performs with a paper bag over his head. When someone using the same guise commits a string of bar robberies in town, some begin to suspect that White is the culprit.


Silent Madness
1984 · 1h 33m
country: United States
A psychiatrist poses as an ex-sorority sister to stop a slasher freed by a computer error.


Monaco Forever
1984 · 28m
country: Unknown
An American jewel thief in Monaco encounters various characters while trying to set up a robbery.


Joe Dancer III: The Big Trade
1983 · 1h 40m
country: United States
The last of Robert Blake's three "Joe Dancer movies" finds the private investigator framed for manslaughter as he tries to uncover a Hollywood scandal that could ruin a studio and destroy a top star's career.


Fast-Walking
1982 · 1h 55m
country: United States
A dirty corrections officer gets involved in a murder plot involving one of the inmates.


Partners
1982 · 1h 33m
country: United States
After a series of murders in Los Angeles's gay community, heterosexual police officer Sgt. Benson is assigned to go undercover as half of a gay couple with Officer Kerwin, a Records Clerk


Pandemonium
1982 · 1h 22m
country: United States
A former high school student who always wanted to be a cheerleader decides to reopen the cheerleading program at her former high school after years of closure for being targeted by a serial killer.


History of the World: Part I
1981 · 1h 32m
country: United States
An uproarious version of history that proves nothing is sacred – not even the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the Spanish Inquisition.


Alligator
1980 · 1h 31m
country: United States
A baby alligator is flushed down a toilet and survives by eating discarded lab animals that have been injected with growth hormones. The now gigantic animal escapes the city sewers and goes on a rampage, pursued by a cop and a big-game hunter.
Damien: The Leper Priest
Damien: The Leper Priest
1980 · 1h 35m
country: United States
A dramatization of the life of the 19th-Century priest who devoted himself to service in Hawaii's leper colony.


The Unseen
1980 · 1h 34m
country: United States
A trio of female reporters find themselves staying overnight in a house occupied by a hostile being lurking in the basement


1941
1979 · 1h 58m
country: United States
In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.


Skatetown, U.S.A.
1979 · 1h 38m
country: United States
A street-gang leader challenges a handsome young skater in a championship contest at the local roller-disco rink.


Hot Stuff
1979 · 1h 31m
country: Unknown
When a police department's burglary task force is facing the possibility of being shut down because of their low conviction rate decides to try a new approach to apprehending their targets. They take over a pawn shop where thieves go to unload their merchandise. They record them as they bring stuff in and get them to tell them where they got it. Eventually they're threatened by the mob.


The Cracker Factory
1979 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Drama depicting the problems of a suburban housewife suffering from fits of depression and alcoholism, and her stay in a psychiatric center after a feeble suicide attempt.


China 9, Liberty 37
1978 · 1h 45m
country: Italy
Gunslinger Clayton Drumm is about to be hanged when he is given a chance to live if he agrees to murder Matthew, a miner who has steadfastly refused to sell his land to the railroad company. Matthew’s refusal is a major obstacle to the railroad’s plans for expansion.


The Billion Dollar Hobo
1977 · 1h 36m
country: United States
Vernon Praiseworthy is a clumsy but lovable dope who stands to inherit his uncle's fortune. The condition is that he travel the rails as a penniless hobo just as his uncle did in the dark days of the depression. That seems simple enough until he gets involved in a dog-napping plot. Written by Jerry Roberts


The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington
1977 · 1h 29m
country: United States
The world's most famous madame is called to Washington to testify before Congress.


Carrie
1976 · 1h 38m
country: United States
Withdrawn and sensitive teenager Carrie White faces bullying from her classmates and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers, things take a dark and violent turn.


Serpico: The Deadly Game
1976 · 1h 40m
country: United States
This pilot film for the TV series is the story of Officer Frank Serpico, a New York City cop who fought crime in the city and corruption in the police department.


One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975 · 2h 15m
country: United States
A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.


Sinderella and the Golden Bra
1964 · 1h 21m
country: United States
Prince David is having trouble finding a bride amongst the maidens of the village, so his father decides to hold a masked ball. Sinderella, an adopted French orphan, puts up with abuse from her stepmother and two stepsisters, and is not allowed to go to the ball. She is despondent until her inebriated fairy godfather appears and fixes her up real pretty and sends her on to the ball, with the admontion that she must return by midnight. Sinderella and the Prince get along famously, but the time flies and she leaves in a hurry, dropping her gilded support in her haste. The Prince mounts a desperate search for his loved one, requiring all the maidens of the village to try on the forgotten garment.


Paratroop Command
1959 · 1h 11m
country: United States
Charlie becomes a paratrooper, but, while serving in North Africa, he mistakenly kills one of his fellow U.S. soldiers, who is masquerading as a Nazi in order to wipe out a nest of the enemy. Shunned by his fellow soldiers, including his childhood friend Ace, Charlie is forced to prove himself when it is left up to him to transport a generator across an open road in full view of Nazi attackers.


The Bonnie Parker Story
1958 · 1h 19m
country: United States
In the 1930s, amoral blonde tommy-gun girl Bonnie Parker cut a swath of bodies across the South-West. Starting out on gas stations and bars with side-kick Guy Darrow she graduated to bank hold-ups with Darrow's brother and, after bloodily springing him, her jailed husband. But there was never any doubt who was in charge.