
Howard Platt
Actor · b. 1938 · Chicago, Illinois, USA
Movies21
Movie7.2ActionAdventureWhen vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into San Francisco, only a young FBI chemical weapons expert and notorious Federal prisoner have the skills to penetrate the impregnable island fortress and take him down.
The Rock
1996 · 5.4K votes
Movie6.8AdventureScience FictionDelos is a futuristic amusement park that features themed worlds populated by human-like androids. After two patrons have a run-in with a menacing gunslinger in West World, the androids at Delos all begin to malfunction, causing havoc throughout the park.
Westworld
1973 · 1.5K votes
Movie6.0ComedyThe Griswold family hits the road again for a typically ill-fated vacation, this time to the glitzy mecca of slots and showgirls—Las Vegas.
Vegas Vacation
1997 · 756 votes
Movie6.8DramaHistoryA look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spanning his troubled boyhood in California to the shocking Watergate scandal that would end his Presidency.
Nixon
1995 · 411 votes
Movie6.0ComedyFamilyA UFO is stranded on earth and impounded by the US government. Its pilot, a cat with a collar that gives it special powers, including the ability to communicate with humans, has eluded the authorities and seeks the help of a scientist in order to reclaim and repair his ship and get back home.
The Cat from Outer Space
1978 · 156 votes
Movie6.5ActionCrimeA group of ruthless Chicago mob enforcers are sent to Kansas City to settle things with the owner of a slaughterhouse who has taken money that is not his to keep.
Prime Cut
1972 · 137 votes
Movie4.4ActionA deadly team of terrorists mounts a precision attack on a swimming complex, which holds the world's finest women's swimming team hostage, and unknowingly traps a janitor inside.
Blast
1997 · 27 votes
Movie6.4ComedyDramaThe story revolves around three soldiers — Colee, T.K. and Cheaver — who return from the Iraq War after suffering injuries and learn that life has moved on without them. They end up on an unexpected road trip across the U.S.
The Lucky Ones
2008 · 198 votes
Movie5.6TV MovieDramaTod Lubitch is born with a deficient immune system. As such, he must spend the rest of his life in a completely sterile environment. His room is completely hermetically sealed against bacteria and virus, his food is specially prepared, and his only human contact comes in the form of gloved hands. The movie follows his life into a teenager.
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
1976 · 121 votes
Movie5.1ComedyWesternSam Longwood, a frontiersman who has seen better days, spies the gold-mine partner, Jack Colby, who ran off with all the gold from a mine they were prospecting fifteen years earlier. He tells his other partners from that time, Joe Knox and Billy, and they confront Colby demanding not only the thousand dollars he took but an addition fifty-nine thousand for their trouble. After being thwarted in this attempt, they, and a would-be named Thursday, hatch a plan to kidnap Colby's wife, Nancy Sue, who is coincidently Sam's old flame, but find that Nancy Sue is not the sweet girl that Sam remembers.
The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday
1976 · 31 votes
Movie4.7ComedyBobo, a feral man raised by wolves, is reunited with his family by a researcher. However, this disappoints his brother, Reggie, who has no intentions of sharing the family inheritance with him.
Walk Like a Man
1987 · 28 votes
Movie7.0CrimeDramaA man who is arrested for rape swears it wasn't him but somebody who looks just like him, but the victim insists it was him.
Cry Rape
1973 · 4 votes
Movie6.2ActionThrillerAfter his wife is kidnapped by a group of White supremacists, a record producer teams up with a PR man and a martial artist to get her back and put a stop to their plot to poison the water supply with a toxin that only kills Black people.
Three the Hard Way
1974 · 41 votes
Movie3.3ComedyTV MovieThe adventures and mishaps of four couples, winners on a TV game show, along with their young chaperone, on a Hawaiian holiday.
Three on a Date
1978 · 3 votes
Movie7.0AdventureDramaHeartless parents C.L. Doyle and his wife take two of their older children, Rosebud & Joseph T. Doyle, on a family vacation to Alaska, but dump their younger ones, Freddy & Margaret Jean, in a Los Angeles foster home. Infuriated by this, Rosebud talks Joseph T. into running away with her so that they can break their younger siblings out of the system, which sparks a manhunt, and an outburst of sympathy among kids everywhere. [Wonderful World of Disney (1954), Season 24, Episode 17]
The Young Runaways
1978 · 2 votes
Movie7.5DramaA prostitute and a skier who have been "brought back" from the brink of death relate their experiences to a skeptical doctor, who begins to believe them.
Beyond Death's Door
1979 · 2 votes
Movie6.6ActionCrimeLAPD Officer Newman has not gotten the reputation of a straight arrow by avoiding conflict when fighting for right. In this police drama, his honesty is put to the test when he and his partner discover an international drug ring involving some of the department's highest ranking officers.
Newman's Law
1974 · 9 votes
Movie9.0ComedyDramaIn this pilot film to the subsequent short-lived series, three attractive young women -- Marcy Bower, Pam Bellagio, and Lisa Benton -- succeed in qualifying for airline stewardess training at Sun West Airlines, and then start getting a taste of the rigors and fun of the real thing as rookie stewardesses.
Flying High
1978 · 1 votes
Movie5.1DramaAn enthusiastic young woman runs away to Chicago to start a new life. She is soon confronted with the emotional coldness of the big city and has to search for her place in the scheme of things.
T.R. Baskin
1971 · 18 votes
Movie5.0DramaTV MovieBased on a true story, this film tells the story of Chaplain Andrew Jensen, the only U.S. navy chaplain ever court-martialed on charges of adultery.
The Trial of Chaplain Jensen
1975 · 4 votes
Movie5.8CrimeDramaThe wives of three wealthy men are kidnapped and held for a $3 million ransom, but one of the men doesn't want to pay his share.
Snatched
1973 · 5 votes
Series18
TV7.9War & PoliticsDramaThe 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is stuck in the middle of the Korean war. With little help from the circumstances they find themselves in, they are forced to make their own fun. Fond of practical jokes and revenge, the doctors, nurses, administrators, and soldiers often find ways of making wartime life bearable.
M*A*S*H
1972 · 769 votes
TV7.0ComedyDramaAlice is an American sitcom television series that ran from August 31, 1976 to March 19, 1985 on CBS. The series is based on the 1974 film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. The show stars Linda Lavin in the title role, a widow who moves with her young son to start her life over again, and finds a job working at a roadside diner on the outskirts of Phoenix, Arizona. Most of the episodes revolve around events at Mel's Diner.
Alice
1976 · 63 votes
TV7.3ComedyBarney Miller is the kind of cop we'd all like to run into. Always sensible, he maintains order over a band of detectives who gamble, hit on anything in skirts, go to renaissance philosophy conventions for fun, and would really prefer to be writing. Nearly all of the action takes place in the squad room where citizens and criminals are brought in to complicate the mix.
Barney Miller
1975 · 62 votes
TV7.5ComedyThe Bob Newhart Show is an American situation comedy produced by MTM Enterprises, which aired 142 original episodes on CBS from September 16, 1972, to April 1, 1978. Comedian Bob Newhart portrays a psychologist having to deal with his patients and fellow office workers. The show was filmed before a live audience.
The Bob Newhart Show
1972 · 66 votes
TV7.3CrimeDramaA bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.
Kojak
1973 · 154 votes
TV6.9DramaCrimeThe Rookies is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1972 until 1976. It follows the exploits of three rookie police officers working in an unidentified city for the fictitious Southern California Police Department.
The Rookies
1972 · 22 votes
TV7.5ComedyThe misadventures of a cantankerous junk dealer and his frustrated son.
Sanford and Son
1972 · 102 votes
TV6.7ComedyFamilyGimme a Break! is an American sitcom which aired on NBC for six seasons, October 29, 1981, until May 12, 1987. The series stars Nell Carter as the housekeeper for a widowed police chief and his three daughters.
Gimme a Break!
1981 · 31 votes
TV7.1MysteryAction & AdventureThe Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries is a television series which aired for three seasons on ABC. The series starred Parker Stevenson and Shaun Cassidy as amateur sleuth brothers Frank and Joe Hardy, respectively, and Pamela Sue Martin as girl detective Nancy Drew. The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries was unusual in that it often dealt with the characters individually, in an almost anthological style. That is, some episodes featured only the Hardy Boys and others only Nancy Drew.
The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries
1977 · 31 votes
TV6.3DramaComedyFlying High is an American comedy-drama series that aired on CBS from August 28, 1978 until January 23, 1979. Created by Dawn Aldredge and Martin Cohan, the series stars Connie Sellecca, Pat Klous, and Kathryn Witt.
Flying High
1978 · 3 votes
TV7.0DramaDoctors' Hospital is an American medical drama that ran on NBC during the 1975–1976 season.
Doctors' Hospital
1975 · 2 votes
TV7.0ComedyRedd Foxx isn’t done scheming and wise-cracking in the spin-off to one of America's most beloved sitcoms.
Sanford
1980 · 5 votes
TV9.0DramaThe lives, loves, and struggles of a group of high school students at Southwest High in the mid-1950s, centering on the trials of Jeff (Gary Frank) and Anita (Glynnis O’Connor), as they navigate family turmoil and growing up in post-war America.
Sons and Daughters
1974 · 1 votes
TV6.0ComedyTeachers Only is an NBC television sitcom centered around the faculty of a high school; in the first season the school was Millard Fillmore High in Los Angeles, but in the second it is Woodrow Wilson High in New York with a changed cast. In both seasons Norman Fell played Principal Ben Cooper, but Lynn Redgrave's character, Diana Swanson, who had been an English teacher in the first season, became a guidance counselor in the second season. Redgrave and Fell were already established names when this show aired, but two of the supporting stars in the second season, Jean Smart would go on, three years later, to play her best known role, that of interior design studio receptionist Charlene Frazier Stillfield on the long running show, Designing Women. Also, Jean's co-star Teresa Ganzel became well known for her many game show appearances in the 1980s as well as her appearance in the comedic miniseries, Fresno. This show ran for only two seasons, in 1982 and 1983.
Teachers Only
1982 · 2 votes
TV7.0DramaMysteryKingston: Confidential is an American mystery crime drama that aired on NBC for 13 episodes during the spring of 1977, following the success of a 1976 made-for-TV movie entitled Kingston.
Kingston: Confidential
1977 · 2 votes
TV6.1ComedyThe life of a high school teacher who depends on the daily support, counsel, and friendship of her two best friends.
What About Joan?
2001 · 8 votes
TV7.5ComedyEmpire is an American comedy television series that aired from January 4 until February 1, 1984.
Empire
1984 · 2 votes
TV5.6ComedyFamilyHerbie the Matchmaker, also known as Herbie, The Love Bug, is a short-lived situation comedy that aired on CBS in the spring of 1982. The series is based on Walt Disney Productions' popular Herbie film series, about a Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own. It was cancelled after five episodes and, for the next fifteen years, would mark Herbie's last new appearance in either television or film; Herbie would next return to television in the 1997 film The Love Bug.
Herbie, the Love Bug
1982 · 8 votes