Known for Acting
David Margulies (February 19, 1937 - January 11, 2016) was an American actor, known for Ghostbusters (1984), Ghostbusters II (1989) and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994). He was previously married to Carol Grant.
Born
February 19, 1937
Died
January 11, 2016 (age 78)
Birthplace
New York City, New York, USA
Filmography
52 films, 22 shows


Adam Bloom
2020 · 1h 22m
country: United States
An aspiring photographer balances responsibilities of caring for an ailing grandmother and an internship with an aging photo artist.


Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters
2020 · 1h 41m
country: United Kingdom
The documentary that tells us the full story from where it all started through to the future of the "Ghostbusters" franchise.


Curmudgeons
2016 · 16m
country: United States
The best part of getting old is no longer caring what anybody thinks. Eighty years-old and in assisted living, Ralph Pajovic is involved in a relationship that makes his family anxious. On a crisp, winter day, his unlucky-in-love granddaughter comes for what seems like an ordinary visit. A curmudgeon by nature, Ralph can’t possibly predict the surprise she has in store for him.


Aktorka
2015
country: Poland
A documentary about Elzbieta Czyzewska, one of Poland's greatest actresses, a beauty icon of the 1960s, who died in 2010. She had a great career in Poland, but the filmmakers focus more on her attempts to make a name for herself as an actress in America, after her sudden emigration to the United States with her husband, American journalist David Halberstam. Friends and acquaintances of Elzbieta Czyzewska speak without embellishment about her failed marriage, her battle with alcoholism won after years, and her attempts to return to Poland. This is a story about the fate of the actress at different stages of her career: at the top, at the bottom and in between.


A Most Violent Year
2014 · 2h 5m
country: United Arab Emirates
A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.


The Girl on the Train
2014 · 1h 20m
country: United States
When documentary filmmaker Danny Hart boards a train at Grand Central Station he has no reason to expect anything more than a pleasant ride to upstate New York to interview the subjects for his latest project. But a chance encounter with a mysterious young woman leads him on a journey of a very different sort. Within the blink of an eye his life of complacency is left behind for a world in which the line between fantasy and reality is blurred...a world of intrigue, danger, and the possibility of blood


A Case of You
2013 · 1h 31m
country: United States
Young writer Sam has a crush on Birdie, the cute and quirky barista at his local coffee shop. When his conventional attempts to woo her crash and burn, he takes his efforts online, creating an Internet profile embellished with all of the details that would make him Birdie’s dream guy. When the harebrained scheme is a surprise success and Birdie falls for his exaggerated alter ego, Sam must keep up the act or lose his dream girl forever.


Fading Gigolo
2013 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Fioravante decides to become a professional Don Juan as a way of making money to help his cash-strapped friend, Murray. With Murray acting as his "manager", the duo quickly finds themselves caught up in the crosscurrents of love and money.


Roadie
2012 · 1h 35m
country: United States
After 20 years on the road with Blue Oyster Cult, Jimmy Testagros returns to his hometown to life with his ailing mother. Complications arise when he falls for an old friend, who is now married to his longtime nemesis.


Skin Deep
2011 · 9m
country: Unknown
A woman repays a loan she borrowed long ago from an unscrupulous lender.


All Good Things
2010 · 1h 41m
country: United States
Newly-discovered facts, court records and speculation are used to elaborate the true love story and murder mystery of the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history.
Gareeb Nawaz's Taxi
Gareeb Nawaz's Taxi
2010 · 25m
country: United States
A Bangladeshi Cab Driver in New York City embarks on his own journey of self-discovery when a drag queen hails his cab.


Ira & Abby
2006 · 1h 44m
country: United States
A neurotic, young psychology student, with low self-esteem, has a chance encounter with a free-spirited, extremely gregarious woman who works at the Paris Health Club in New York City, and who suggests that they immediately get married to see how it will work out. Both of the student's parents are analysts, and they provide the happy couple with a gift certificate for a year of marriage counseling as a wedding present.
Whiskey School
Whiskey School
2005 · 1h 28m
country: United States
Leopold De Angeli is a talented playwright, but like many scribes he fancies the drink a little too much. In the hopes of saving Leopold's life, his theater friends come together to stage an intervention for him.


Invitation to a Suicide
2005 · 1h 25m
country: United States
Raised in an insular Polish immigrant neighborhood in Brooklyn where he's destined to become a poor baker like his father, Kaz Malek attempts to steal from a Russian mobster and run away with the girl of his dreams, Eva. Not cut out for a life of crime, he ends up with a $10,000 debt to the mobster who threatens to kill his father. Unable to pay or face his father's death, Kaz comes up with a novel plan: he'll hang himself and sell tickets to the show. He is surprised to find, however, that the mobster as well as the neighborhood are extremely supportive of this idea... not to mention his father. But even if he can sell the tickets will he really go through with it? By the time this dark comedy reaches its surprising conclusion, Kaz learns that sometimes embracing death is the only way to a better life.


A Jersey Tale
2004 · 1h 30m
country: Unknown
Jersey City teen Ray Ray Morales is wasting time in a low paying job until a local loan shark offers him a job — making sure that Ray Ray's friend, an immigrant pawnbroker makes his weekly payments.


Judy Garland: By Myself
2004 · 1h 56m
country: United States
As Hollywood biographies go, Judy Garland's story is one of the saddest success stories you'll ever hear. The sanitized studio version of her life presented a smiling kid with the big voice, who, alongside Mickey Rooney, just wanted to put on a show. But drugs, overwork, even psychological abuse at the hands of the studio is now part of the Garland legend. But despite the number of Garland books and documentaries, one account has always been missing -- Garland herself never managed to write a memoir. She did make several attempts at an autobiography, often recording stories on a tape recorder. Judy Garland: By Myself (2004), finally fills in the blanks - using Judy's personal recordings to tell the story in her own words.


Looking for an Echo
2000 · 1h 37m
country: Unknown
The lead singer of an oldies group reminisces about the good ol' days and a potential comeback.


Man of the Century
1999 · 1h 17m
country: United States
The sidewalks of New York will never be the same, thanks to Johnny Twennies, an ace reporter who bangs out his column on an old manual typewriter and is blissfully aware that he sticks out like a sore thubm. His girlfriend is fed up because he hasn't even kissed her and the local mob wants to bump him off because he's hot on their trail. Can Johnny blow the lid off an important crime scoop, get the girl, and keep from getting himself killed?


Celebrity
1998 · 1h 53m
country: United States
The career and personal life of writer Lee are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Robin, and dives into a new job as an entertainment journalist. His assignments take him to the swankiest corners of Manhattan, but as he jumps from one lavish party to another and engages in numerous empty romances, he starts to doubt the worth of his work. Meanwhile, top TV producer Tony falls for Robin and introduces her to the world of celebrity.


Hudson River Blues
1997 · 1h 31m
country: United States
Hoping to help their marriage, a Manhattan lawyer (Rya Kihlstedt) brings her burned-out husband (Robert Stanton) to her mother's home upstate.


Lifebreath
1997 · 1h 30m
country: Unknown
A man plans a perfect murder to get a lung transplant for his dying wife.


The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Hollywood Follies
1994 · 1h 34m
country: United States
While working for a Hollywood movie studio, Indy finds that he is no match for the wily megalomaniacal director Erich von Stroheim when the two lock horns over the ever increasing budget of Stroheim's film Foolish Wives. Though battered by the film industry, Indy decides to give it one more chance and goes on a location shoot with legendary director John Ford. Ford and his cronies, including aging gunman Wyatt Earp, help him see the magic of movies and moviemaking, and when an actor is accidentally killed, Indy pitches in to save the film.


Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
1994 · 1h 26m
country: United States
He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. The Ace is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to eyeball with a man-eating shark, stakes out the Miami Dolphins and woos and wows the ladies. Whether he's undercover, under fire or underwater, he always gets his man… or beast!


Out on a Limb
1992 · 1h 22m
country: Unknown
While heading to the town where his sister, Marci, lives, big-city banker Bill Campbell is robbed by a woman who takes everything he has, including his clothes and a business document worth millions of dollars. Bill eventually reunites with Marci, who is in a tizzy because she thinks their stepfather has been killed. While trying to determine if his sister is right, Bill must also get back his valuable paperwork.


A Stranger Among Us
1992 · 1h 50m
country: United States
Detective Emily Eden is a tough New York City cop forced to go undercover to solve a puzzling murder. Her search for the truth takes her into a secret world of unwritten law and unspoken power, a world where the only way out is deeper in.


Never Forget
1991 · 1h 34m
country: United States
Mel and Jane Mermelstein are a true-life California couple, thrown into the spotlight of judicial history in the 1980s. Mel is a Hungarian-born Jew, sole-survivor of his family's extermination at Auschwitz, and Jane, a Southern Baptist from Tennessee. Their four children are good kids, typical Americans, with just enough orneriness to irritate each other, but enough love and class to pull together when it counts.


Funny About Love
1990 · 1h 41m
country: United States
As political cartoonist Duffy and his bride Meg fail to conceive, he and sorority girl Daphne succeed.
Largo Desolato
Largo Desolato
1990
country: Unknown
A fictionalized autobiographical play written by Czechoslovakian playwright-turned-president Vaclav Havel in 1984 upon his release from a four-and-one-half-year prison term for political subversion. The play focuses on two days in the life of a dissident writer who is awaiting the knock at the door that may send him to prison.


Kojak: Ariana
1989 · 1h 36m
country: Unknown
One of Kojak's old enemies uses Ariana, a young Greek girl, as bait to trap the legendary New York detective. Meanwhile, Kojak finds himself a brash young associate.


Perfect Witness
1989 · 1h 43m
country: United States
An innocent man is thrust into a political power struggle in this drama. After witnessing a mob killing, New York restaurant owner Sam Paxton (Aidan Quinn) reports the crime. Overzealous attorneys (Brian Dennehy and Stockard Channing) put pressure on Paxton to testify in court, but Paxton is in a tough spot when the mob starts threatening his family. Paxton now faces an impossible choice: testify and put his family at risk … or go to jail.


Ghostbusters II
1989 · 1h 48m
country: United States
The discovery of a massive river of ectoplasm and a resurgence of spectral activity allows the staff of Ghostbusters to revive the business.


Running on Empty
1988 · 1h 56m
country: United States
The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been on the run with the authorities never far behind. Their survival is threatened when their eldest son falls in love with a girl, and announces his wish to live his life on his own terms.


Candy Mountain
1988 · 1h 31m
country: Switzerland
A mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker.


Magic Sticks
1987 · 1h 27m
country: Unknown
Felix is a down-and-out young drummer who obtains a pair of magic drumsticks from a street vendor. He soon finds out the sticks are able to make native New Yorkers dance uncontrollably.


Ishtar
1987 · 1h 47m
country: United States
Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the CIA, the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.
Divorced Kids' Blues
Divorced Kids' Blues
1987 · 1h
country: United States
A 15-year-old struggles through the politics of divorce as his parents split up.


Brighton Beach Memoirs
1986 · 1h 48m
country: United States
Eugene, a young teenage Jewish boy, recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. He lives with his parents, his aunt, two cousins, and his brother, Stanley, whom he looks up to and admires. He goes through the hardships of puberty, sexual fantasy, and living the life of a poor boy in a crowded house.


Nine 1/2 Weeks
1986 · 1h 57m
country: United States
An erotic story about a woman, the assistant of an art gallery, who gets involved in an impersonal affair with a man. She barely knows about his life, only about the sex games they play, so the relationship begins to get complicated.


Ghostbusters
1984 · 1h 45m
country: United States
After losing their university jobs, three parapsychologists start a ghost-catching business in New York City and uncover a supernatural threat that could destroy the world.


A Doctor's Story
1984 · 1h 36m
country: United States
A physician frustrates his family in his fight to prove that an elderly man is not senile.


Daniel
1983 · 2h 10m
country: United Kingdom
The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s. As a graduate student in New York in the 1960s, Daniel is involved in the antiwar protest movement and contrasts his experiences to the memory of his parents and his belief that they were wrongfully convicted.


I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can
1982 · 1h 47m
country: United States
An adaptation of Barbara Gordon's nonfiction account of her addiction to Valium.


Times Square
1980 · 1h 51m
country: United Kingdom
When a 13-year-old girl befriends a defiant antisocial child of the streets, the mismatched runaways set off to the Big Apple to find their own adventure.


Dressed to Kill
1980 · 1h 45m
country: United States
After witnessing a mysterious woman brutally slay a homemaker, prostitute Liz Blake finds herself trapped in a dangerous situation. While the police thinks she is the murderer, the real killer is intent on silencing her only witness.


Hide in Plain Sight
1980 · 1h 32m
country: United States
True story of a man in search of his children after his ex-wife enters the Witness Protection Program.


All That Jazz
1979 · 2h 3m
country: United States
Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him - his obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life, and only his bottles of pills keep him going.


My Old Man
1979 · 1h 40m
country: United States
An unlucky horse trainer, Frank Butler, wins big at the track and buys his 16-year old daughter a horse to salvage their relationship. When Frank is hurt prior to the opening race, Jo must go it alone.


Last Embrace
1979 · 1h 42m
country: United States
Secret agent Harry Hannan suffers a mental breakdown when a botched mission in Mexico results in the death of his wife. He is sent to a mental asylum, after which he eventually returns to work. But, once again, he begins to doubt his sanity when he receives a bizarre death threat written in Hebrew. Not knowing which of his colleagues wants to kill him, Hannan teams up with pretty young college student Ellie Fabian to attempt to unravel the mystery.


Night-Flowers
1979 · 1h 32m
country: United States
Two Vietnam vets, Tom and Nordi, live sad lives in a crumbling New Jersey city. Sharing a one room apartment, they talk about their inability to hold down real work, struggle to get noticed at the VA and fail to connect with women. This changes for Tom when he meets Marcella and they begin a relationship. However, he can't escape his past with Nordi and the toxic bond soon takes a gruesome turn.


The Front
1976 · 1h 35m
country: United States
A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.


Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers
1972 · 1h 22m
country: United States
An aspiring actress from Kansas comes to New York and meets a host of zany characters.