Harry Bugin
Actor · 1929 – 2005 · New York City, New York, USA
Harry Bugin (March 10, 1929 – October 6, 2005) was an American film, stage and television actor and musician. Born in the Bronx, New York City, the son of Isidore and Sadie Bugin, and brother to Ruth Bugin, he was a graduate of the New York Public School system and a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. Bugin played a number of musical instruments including the bass, guitar, tuba, and others. In 1957 he married the former Aphrodite Manickas of Pawtucket, RI in New York City, at which time Mrs. Bugin began a career in advertising spanning 30 years. They resided in Jackson Heights, NY until his death. In addition to a long and accomplished film career, Harry Bugin was also a professional musician (string bass, bass guitar) with top "Big Bands" from 1947–1970, including: Glenn Miller (with Ray McKinley) on the 1960s, Tex Beneke (1956/57), Ray McKinley (1960s), Vaughn Monroe (1960s), Sammy Kaye (1960s). Harry Bugin's stage credits include 1974's Twigs (with Vivian Blaine), and 12 Angry Men.
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Movie7.8ComedyCrimeJeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events involving nihilists, adult film producers, ferrets, errant toes, and large sums of money.
The Big Lebowski
1998 · 12K votes
Movie6.0DramaThrillerThe accidental shooting of a boy in New York City leads to an investigation by the Deputy Mayor, and unexpectedly far-reaching consequences.
City Hall
1996 · 333 votes
Movie7.5ComedyDramaA renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
Barton Fink
1991 · 1.9K votes
Movie7.1ComedyDramaA naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.
The Hudsucker Proxy
1994 · 1.2K votes
Movie6.6ComedyThe friendship of a group of young friends struggling with teen sex, drugs, and work is jeopardized by a romantic interest which may turn pals into bitter rivals.
The Last American Virgin
1982 · 266 votes
Movie6.0DramaAround 1940, New Yorker staff writer Joe Mitchell meets Joe Gould, a Greenwich Village character who cadges meals, drinks, and contributions to the Joe Gould Fund and who is writing a voluminous Oral History of the World, a record of 20,000 conversations he's overheard. Mitchell is fascinated with this Harvard grad and writes a 1942 piece about him, "Professor Seagull," bringing Gould some celebrity and an invitation to join the Greenwich Village Ravens, a poetry club he's often crashed. Gould's touchy, querulous personality and his frequent dropping in on Mitchell for hours of chat lead to a breakup, but the two Joes stay in touch until Gould's death and Mitchell's unveiling of the secret.
Joe Gould's Secret
2000 · 21 votes
Movie4.6DramaComedyCombining real and fictional events, this movie centers around the historic 1986 World Series, and a day in the life of a playwright who skips opening night to watch the momentous game.
Game 6
2006 · 49 votes
Movie6.9DocumentaryDramaHosted by Orson Welles, this documentary utilizes a grab bag of dramatized scenes, stock footage, TV news clips and interviews to ask: Did 16th century French astrologer and physician Nostradamus actually predict such events as the fall of King Louis XVI, the rise of Napoleon, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy? And are there prophecies that have yet to come true?
The Man Who Saw Tomorrow
1981 · 25 votes
Movie6.9DramaThis film captures the essence of Jon Bon Jovi, the lead singer of one of the prime players in the legion of pop-metal bands that took '80s radio by storm. Most of the film is a short narrative loosely based on the songs from his 1997 solo album Destination Anywhere, and features Jon Bon Jovi and Demi Moore as a young couple struggling with alcoholism and the death of their young child.
Destination Anywhere
1997 · 18 votes
Movie5.8DramaNiccolo "Mac" Vitelli is the eldest of three brothers in 1950s Queens. Mac is a construction builder, a trade he learned from his late father, and helps put his brothers on the job. When they can no longer take working for Polowski, who does shoddy work and is abusive to his staff, Mac and his brothers set up their own company. Together, Vitelli Brothers Construction builds houses with pride and care. But Mac turns out to be an overbearing workaholic, with obsessive concern about the quality of their work and incredible attention to detail. His intensity and driven ambition precludes a happy family life and begins to drive his brothers away.
Mac
1992 · 36 votes
Movie5.9ComedyDramaTwenty-something Donna is jobless, single and broke. On a fateful day, reality turns itself upside down, and she is suddenly faced with one absurdity after another.
Sudden Manhattan
1996 · 7 votes