
Lou Hirsch
Actor · b. 1955 · Brooklyn, New York, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lou Hirsch is an actor, born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, and currently based in the United Kingdom. He studied at the University of Miami and The Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London, UK, with future Star Trek actress Marina Sirtis. He has an extensive list of credits in film, TV, and theater going back over 20 years, and his most recent film role was as Headmaster Widdlesome in Thunderbirds. He also appeared as Arnie Kowalski in the BBC comedy My Hero from 2000 to 2006. He is probably best known as the off-screen voice of Baby Herman in the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Hirsch has recently been seen in the new British American sitcom Episodes as Wallace, the security guard at the complex where the main characters live. Hirsch's first significant television appearance was as Hymie in the 1982 series We'll Meet Again. He specialises in playing Americans in English television programmes. Description above from the Wikipedia article Lou Hirsch, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies19
Movie7.5FantasyAnimationToon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1988 · 6.3K votes
Movie5.5ComedyScience FictionAiming to defeat the Man of Steel, wealthy executive Ross Webster hires bumbling but brilliant Gus Gorman to develop synthetic kryptonite, which yields some unexpected psychological effects. Between rekindling romance with his high school sweetheart and saving himself, Superman must contend with a powerful supercomputer.
Superman III
1983 · 1.9K votes
Movie5.1ActionAdventureDangerous missions are the bread and butter of the Thunderbirds, a high-tech secret force employed by the government. Led by Jeff Tracy (Bill Paxton), the Thunderbirds are at the top of their game, but their nemesis, The Hood (Ben Kingsley), has landed on their island and is attempting a coup by using the team's rescue vehicles. He'll soon discover that the Thunderbirds won't go down.
Thunderbirds
2004 · 327 votes
Movie7.0ComedyAnimationDuring a picnic, Baby Herman follows a beaver into a perilous sawmill - with Roger Rabbit in frantic pursuit.
Trail Mix-Up
1993 · 63 votes
Movie6.7ComedyAnimationRoger Rabbit once again is chosen for the dangerous task of babysitting Baby Herman and everything is going to be just fine.
Tummy Trouble
1989 · 80 votes
Movie6.7FamilyComedyRoger Rabbit struggles to keep wandering Baby Herman safe in an amusement park where the usual havoc ensues.
Roller Coaster Rabbit
1990 · 82 votes
Movie4.6DramaA young screenwriter allows others to exploit her in the hopes of "making it" in Hollywood.
The Lonely Lady
1983 · 20 votes
Movie6.8AnimationComedyVIdeo compilation of the three Roger Rabbit shorts: 'Tummy Trouble', 'Roller Coaster Rabbit' and 'Trail Mix-Up'.
The Best of Roger Rabbit
1996 · 13 votes
Movie6.4DramaComedyFour 1950s icons meet in the same hotel room, and two of them discover more in common between them than they ever anticipated.
Insignificance
1985 · 70 votes
Movie6.4WarDramaGen. George S. Patton now works a desk job for the U.S. military after World War II. In the midst of dealing with the difficulty of adapting to his dramatic change of lifestyle, Patton is involved in an auto wreck that leaves him in critical condition. While his body fails him, Patton introspectively reminisces about his relationship with his spouse, Beatrice; his childhood; and his days on the WWI battlefields.
The Last Days of Patton
1986 · 16 votes
Movie6.1DramaRomanceThe story of the marriage of the poet T. S. Eliot to socialite Vivienne Haigh-Wood, which had to cope with her gynaecological and emotional problems and his growing fame.
Tom & Viv
1994 · 34 votes
Movie6.8MusicDramaDetails the lives of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, from before their first meeting to their rise to stardom.
John and Yoko: A Love Story
1985 · 6 votes
Movie5.7DocumentaryAnimationA behind-the-scenes documentary hosted by Joanna Cassidy on the making of Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town
1988 · 12 votes
Movie3.8ActionThrillerTerrorists hold a group of people hostage during a Millenium Eve party aboard the Orient Express. Only an action movie star and a gymnast can save them.
Death, Deceit & Destiny Aboard the Orient Express
2001 · 6 votes
Movie6.4DramaRomanceThe CIA hears of a KGB scheme to assassinate the Soviet General Secretary and enlists Stoner, an agent retired for 10 years, to go to Russia to investigate. He verifies the plot, but then has trouble leaving the country. In the meantime, the U.S. policy makers struggle over whether or not to inform the Soviets of the plot. Stoner's problems are complicated by the renewal of an affair with Anna, a Russian, as he tries to convince her to defect.
Red King, White Knight
1989 · 5 votes
Movie6.0DramaIn a small (fictional) emirate of the Persian Gulf a world-weary journalist is caught up in a coup where the Emir's son, under the influence of a political renegade, attempts to depose his father - the ruling monarch. Flashbacks of the journalist's life show us how his relationships with the Emir and a beautiful young woman develop and flourish.
Deadline
1988 · 5 votes
Movie10.0DramaThe cast of Corrie take on Las Vegas!
Coronation Street: Viva Las Vegas!
1997 · 1 votes
Movie3.0DramaTV MovieThe Lowesthorpe Trawlers, an English American football team, hire American coach Hunter McCall and persuade local firm Salty Sea Fish Foods to be their sponsors, in an attempt to improve their game.
Defrosting the Fridge
1989 · 3 votes
Movie8.0DramaThe story of three generations told against the backdrop of the 20th century. The drama focuses on the life of Mary Corrigan, from her days as a rebellious mill worker in 1915 and her doomed love affair for a man who must fight for his country, through to her final days in the run up to the British General Election of 1997.
The Key
2003 · 1 votes
Series15
TV7.1Action & AdventureCrimeRobert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.
The Equalizer
1985 · 69 votes
TV7.2ComedyA British husband-and-wife comedy writing team travel to Hollywood to remake their successful British TV series, with disastrous results.
Episodes
2011 · 213 votes
TV8.1ComedyJeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories. It aired on the ITV network from 1990 to 1993, starring Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster, a young gentleman with a "distinctive blend of airy nonchalance and refined gormlessness", and Stephen Fry as Jeeves, his improbably well-informed and talented valet. Wooster is a bachelor, a minor aristocrat and member of the idle rich. He and his friends, who are mainly members of The Drones Club, are extricated from all manner of societal misadventures by the indispensable valet, Jeeves. The stories are set in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1930s.
Jeeves and Wooster
1990 · 132 votes
TV6.0DramaScreenplay was a drama anthology television series, broadcast on BBC between 1986 and 1993. Numerous episodes were produced including one named "Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Islands" starring Robbie Coltrane as English writer Samuel Johnson who in the autumn of 1773, visits the Hebrides off the north-west coast of Scotland. That episode was directed by John Byrne and co-starred John Sessions and Celia Imrie.
ScreenPlay
1986 · 2 votes
TV6.8Action & AdventureDramaDempsey and Makepeace is a British television crime drama made by London Weekend Television for ITV, created and produced by Ranald Graham. The leading roles were played by Michael Brandon and Glynis Barber, who later married each other on 18 November 1989. The series combined elements of previous series such as the mis-matching of British and American crime-fighters from different classes as seen in The Persuaders! and the action of The Professionals.
Dempsey and Makepeace
1985 · 33 votes
TV6.5ComedySci-Fi & FantasyMy Hero is a BBC sitcom created by Paul Mendelson. The programme ran for six series, first broadcast in February 2000, and concluding in September 2006. The series follows the antics of the dim-witted superhero "Thermoman", portrayed by Ardal O'Hanlon in series one to five and by James Dreyfus in the final series. The series was regularly directed by John Stroud. In the UK, the digital channel Gold regularly re-runs the programme, although the last series has yet to appear on the channel. In the United States it was shown on PBS and, briefly, BBC America. In Australia, UKTV offered re-runs of the first three series, while BBC Entertainment provided repeats for Scandinavia.
My Hero
2000 · 32 votes
TV7.3ComedySketch comedy show starring Kenny Everett.
The Kenny Everett Television Show
1982 · 12 votes
TV6.2Sci-Fi & FantasyDramaAn NYPD officer transfers his family to a space station.
Space Precinct
1994 · 23 votes
TV7.5ComedyThe New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.
The New Statesman
1987 · 54 votes
TV6.9ComedySci-Fi & FantasyWhoops Apocalypse is a six-part 1982 British sitcom by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick, made by London Weekend Television for ITV. Marshall and Renwick later reworked the concept as a 1986 film of the same name from ITC Entertainment, with almost completely different characters and plot, although one or two of the original actors returned in different roles. As the Apocalypse nears, US President Johnny Cyclops tries to run a reelection campaign whilst also dealing with the Russians, a deposed Shah needing to be hidden, and a new weapon called a 'quark' bomb.
Whoops Apocalypse
1982 · 11 votes
TV6.8ComedyOperation Good Guys is a British mockumentary, a fly-on-the-wall documentary series about an elite police unit's bid to snare one of Britain's most powerful crime lords.Blurring the line between fact and fiction, it witnesses, on camera, the total breakdown, professionally and personally, of the Operation Good Guys team. Throughout the operation, The 'Good Guys' have an unfortunate habit of embroiling into their calamitous world some of the country's best-known celebrities, from actors and footballers, to TV presenters and even the odd ex-convict.
Operation Good Guys
1997 · 5 votes
TV7.0DramaWar & PoliticsIt's 1943 and the American Air Force has come to Market Weatherby, a small East Anglian town. The war-weary British and the brash American GIs sometimes clash, but friendships are also forged.
We'll Meet Again
1982 · 3 votes
TV3.3CrimeDramaDown-and-out American comedian Johnny Lazar tries to regain his status as an international superstar by embarking on a tour of working men's clubs and universities in England. But on his first night, Johnny is witness to a gangland murder and finds himself having to go on the lam as he becomes the target of hitmen out to eliminate any chance of them being identified.
Comics
1993 · 3 votes
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Kappatoo was a CITV show based on a book by Ben Steed, starring Denise Van Outen. In the show, Kappatoo travels back in time to the present to swap places with his identical "time twin" Simon Cashmere in order to cheat in a futuristic sports contest. Kappatoo lives in the past whilst Simon lives in the far off future. The show premiered on CITV in 1990, with a follow-up series, Kappatoo II, broadcast in 1992. the show was made by Worldwide International TV for Tyne Tees Television. Filming took place at Heaton Manor School in High Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne with characters and extras using authentic school uniform from Heaton Manor School. The creative team behind Kappatoo did not do much about effects, and a short scene from the first episode which has Kappa freeze time had some extras moving around.
Kappatoo
1990 · 4 votes
TV6.2ComedyMr Don & Mr George was a Channel 4 sitcom, featuring two characters from the Scottish comedy sketch show Absolutely. Moray Hunter and Jack Docherty played two unrelated characters who happened to share a surname. Hunter and Docherty wrote the series and it was made by their production company, Absolutely Productions. The humour was surreal and often featured ridiculous visual gags and wordplay. A single six-episode series was made, and was first broadcast in the UK on Channel 4 in 1993. The series was released on VHS in the 1990s. A single VHS tape was released with all six episodes on as well. This tape stated that it had the entire first series on one tape, however no further series were made.
Mr Don & Mr George
1993 · 5 votes