
Bob Tzudiker
Writer · b. 1953 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Bob Tzudiker is an American screenwriter and actor best known for co-creating and writing Newsies with his wife, Noni White. Originally conceived as a historical drama inspired by the real-life 1899 newsboys’ strike, Newsies was reimagined as a musical at Disney’s direction and went on to become a beloved cult classic. The stage adaptation, which opened on Broadway in 2012, grossed over $100 million during its run and has since been seen by millions worldwide. As a screenwriter, Bob has shared writing credit on Disney’s Tarzan (1999), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), and 102 Dalmatians (2000), as well as Fox’s Anastasia (1997). He also contributed to Disney’s The Lion King (1994) and has written screenplays for every major studio, earning multiple Annie Award nominations along the way. Before his writing career, Bob worked extensively as an actor, appearing in films such as Total Recall (1990), Ruthless People (1986), and Walker (1987), as well as on television in Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, and other productions. He is a member of the Writers’ Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and teaches screenwriting as an adjunct professor at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. A graduate of St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland, Bob brings both a rich creative background and a deep understanding of story to his work across film, stage, and the classroom.
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Movie7.3ActionAdventureConstruction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Rekall, a virtual vacation company that manufactures memories. When something goes wrong during Quaid's memory implant procedure, his life turns upside down, leading him to question what is reality and what isn't.
Total Recall
1990 · 6.7K votes
Movie5.9ActionAdventureAfter a Tibetan boy, the mystical Golden Child, is kidnapped by the evil Sardo Numspa, humankind's fate hangs in the balance. On the other side of the world in Los Angeles, the priestess Kee Nang seeks the Chosen One, who will save the boy from death. When Nang sees social worker Chandler Jarrell on television discussing his ability to find missing children, she solicits his expertise, despite his skepticism over being "chosen."
The Golden Child
1986 · 1.2K votes
Movie6.6ComedySam Stone hates his wife Barbara so much that he wants her dead. He's ecstatic when she's taken by a duo of kidnappers who want $500,000 ransom in exchange for her life. Fully intending to ignore every one of the kidnappers' demands in the hopes that they do him a favor and murder her for him, the two confused kidnappers have to figure out how they're going get their money, and what they're going to do with the overbearing Barbara.
Ruthless People
1986 · 463 votes
Movie5.0WesternComedyBefore the adventures that made them legends, they were charming mastermind Robert Leroy Parker, alias Butch Cassidy, and crack-shot outlaw Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, soon to be known as The Sundance Kid. This is the 'prequel' of how they met, their first clumsy robberies, the heroic dangers that abound them together, the secret that nearly tore them apart, and the impossible train heist that made them notorious for life. Saddle up and ride with the showdowns, shootouts, bad guys and good times in the days before the fame when fun was the name of the game.
Butch and Sundance: The Early Days
1979 · 43 votes
Movie6.5DramaHistoryWilliam Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century in order to install a new government by a coup d'etat.
Walker
1987 · 92 votes
Movie5.4ActionDramaA World War II vet is pushed to the limit when gang members and drug dealers take over his neighborhood.
Stand Alone
1985 · 17 votes
Movie5.9ThrillerCrimeA teenage musician goes on the run from killers and the police when he returns home to find his home empty and his family gone.
Moving Target
1988 · 23 votes
Movie9.0ActionCrimeTwo unorthodox, anything-goes law enforcement partners, unencumbered by regulations and the law, search for the killer of a fellow U.S. Marshal in this lighthearted, busted pilot film.
U.S. Marshals: Waco & Rhinehart
1987 · 1 votes
Movie5.2ComedyFamilyArlo Anderson loves his reptiles, and so when he decides to buy a rare breed of frog with his date money he winds up with more than he bargained for! Gus, the frog, happens to be Italian royalty who was cursed by a witch some 600 years ago. So with the help of Gus, Arlo plans to win this year's science fair but he also somehow has to get Gus a kiss from a girl to free him from his curse. The only problem: the girls don't really like nerdy Arlo and his reptiles...
Frog
1987 · 6 votes
Movie4.8ActionAn ex-GI's daughter is abducted by a gang of white supremacists. He calls on one of his former Army buddies, and together they set out to track down the gang and rescue his daughter.
Omega Syndrome
1986 · 7 votes
Movie3.8Comedy"Police Academy" clone, about some nerds who inherit an academy for morticians, which is run by a corrupt closet necropheliac. Of course, the most incompetent students possible are accepted, so that the academy will fail, and all sorts of wacky hijinks ensue.
Mortuary Academy
1988 · 8 votes
Movie7.0WesternTV MovieA teenage boy gets a job as a Pony Express rider in the Nebraska Territory not long before the Civil War breaks out.
Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion
1977 · 1 votes
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TV7.5MysteryCrimeAn unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
Murder, She Wrote
1984 · 471 votes
TV6.5DramaCrimeSergeant Thomas Jefferson Hooker is a tough-as-nails veteran police officer with the LCPD who turns his back on a gold badge and goes back to patrolling the streets and training recruits. Along with his young partners in blue, Hooker take on Lake City's toughest criminals.
T. J. Hooker
1982 · 98 votes
TV7.2ComedyDramaFormer 1960s flower children Steven and Elyse Keaton raise their conservative son Alex, daughters Mallory and Jennifer, and later, youngest child Andrew.
Family Ties
1982 · 279 votes