
Randy Brooks
Actor · b. 1950 · New York City, New York, USA
Frederick Randolph Brooks (born January 30, 1950) is an American television and film actor known for his role as L.A.P.D. Detective Holdaway in the 1992 hit cult film Reservoir Dogs. Brooks also starred in the 1988 hit drama film Colors. Description above from the Wikipedia article Randy Brooks (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movie8.1CrimeThrillerA botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors -- veteran Mr. White, newcomer Mr. Orange, psychopathic parolee Mr. Blonde, bickering weasel Mr. Pink and Nice Guy Eddie -- unravel.
Reservoir Dogs
1992 · 15K votes
Movie6.5ActionCrimeA confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of Los Angeles, where the gang culture is enforced by the colors the members wear.
Colors
1988 · 564 votes
Movie5.5ThrillerCrimeScudder is a detective with the Sheriff's Department who is forced to shoot a violent suspect during a narcotics raid. The ensuing psychological aftermath of this shooting worsens his drinking problem and this alcoholism causes him to lose his job, as well as his marriage.
8 Million Ways to Die
1986 · 151 votes
Movie4.9ThrillerMysteryA Los Angeles lawyer defends her former college roommate, whose husband — her lover — has been slain.
Defenseless
1991 · 29 votes
Movie5.7ActionThrillerJay Killon is the bodyguard of the recently elected US president, but he is assigned to the first lady (Lara Royce). Lara hates Killon so she does all she can to escape. The story complicates when someone tries to kill Lara.
Assassination
1987 · 105 votes
Movie5.9DramaGina is young, recently married and bored. On a trip to Lake Tahoe she discovers the game of blackjack. Increasingly obsessed with gambling, she keeps hoping her lucky streak will last.
The Seduction of Gina
1984 · 7 votes
MovieDramaTV Movie"Nightingales" are eight student nurses living off campus in Southern California in this stylish Aaron Spelling production that ultimately was developed into a short-lived series which aired on NBC at the beginning of 1989. Subsequently edited down to 90 minutes, the film later served as the premiere episode for the series, which was reworked to add Suzanne Pleshette and Barry Newman as stars.
Nightingales
1988
Movie5.0Science FictionDramaA troubled 17-year-old Todd Baker restores a Mercury Redstone rocket as a science project with the help of his ex-astronaut grandfather. When a NASA emergency leaves a space shuttle and its crew in danger, Todd's rocket is the only one ready for immediate launch.
Rocket's Red Glare
2000 · 3 votes
Movie5.2DramaTV MovieA young doctor meets and falls in love with the older Joanna, who is on the board of directors at his hospital. The people around them, including their families, have a hard time accepting the age difference, and they must decide whether to call it quits or stick with each other.
Forbidden Love
1982 · 9 votes
Movie6.6DramaCrimeIn this drama, undercover investigators are recruited from the streets to prevent arms smugglers from getting their weapons to street gangs.
The Renegades
1982 · 7 votes
Movie4.1ComedyDramaA group of graduating students from a midwestern high school comes to New York City on a trip to celebrate the impending end of school. The students include: Roger Ellis, an ambitious teen aiming for success in big business; David, an aspiring rock star; Judy Matheson, a stagestruck coed actress wannabe; Denise, a free-spirited girl hoping to obtain a degree of sophistication; Fred, a lotharo looking for any Big City woman to be with; and Jon Lipton, a would-be artist hoping to make it big. Mickey Rooney also appears briefly as himself during the backstage scene at the musical "Sugar Babies."
Senior Trip
1981 · 7 votes
Movie9.0CrimeDramaA group of young delinquents well on the road to careers in crime, are given a shock course in prison life. Brought face to face with hardened criminals many serving life sentences for rape and murder, they are suddenly confronted with the harsh realities of a top-security U.S. Penitentiary.
Scared Straight! Another Story
1980 · 1 votes
Movie5.3DramaAn all-black inner city school has to become an integrated school. Few dozen white kids are transfered there, but the black students are aggressively opposed to this. The school then approaches a tough black teacher for help.
Halls of Anger
1970 · 8 votes
Movie4.7ComedyThe escapades of a crew of zany parking lot attendants.
Underground Aces
1981 · 9 votes
Movie7.5DramaTV MovieTalented musician and free spirit Libby chafes under the rule of her divorced journalist mother, so she seeks emancipation from her parents and hits the road, soon joining the ranks of a traveling carnival. She gains the freedom she has longed for but learns some hard lessons along the way.
Freedom
1981 · 2 votes
Movie8.0DramaTV MovieIn an attempt to be rehabilitated, a rapist goes to therapy while in prison.
Rage!
1980 · 2 votes
Movie5.8ActionComedyA new highway threatens a Chicago neighborhood, so to protest the residents throw a block party.
The Monkey Hustle
1976 · 10 votes
Movie6.0DramaTV MovieAmbitious pilot to a prospective series revolving around a combat cameraman in Vietnam. Carl Danton is in Saigon on assignment at the start of the 1968 Tet offensive with a cynical boss in the local bureau chief. His love interest is a Vietnamese doctor whose brother happens to be a leader in the Viet Cong and whose influential parents are involved in high-level corruption.
Fly Away Home
1981 · 4 votes
Movie5.0ActionTravis Winslow is an honest man trapped in the middle of a drug war, deliberately placed in the crossfire by Shelby Collins, a woman as deadly as she is beautiful. After his brother Matt's death, no one knows the location of the last shipment of cocaine Matt smuggled into America. The cops think Travis has the answer, and so do the two rival crime lords. When Travis's daughter, Jennifer, is kidnapped, Travis realizes that he can rely on no one but himself. He races against the clock to find a way to rescue his daughter and save his own life, even if it means becoming as deadly as his enemies.
Black Snow
1989 · 3 votes
Movie6.2ActionA disgraced cop goes to work for the mob, and must choose between good and evil when he goes up against his former friends on the force.
Redemption
2002 · 5 votes
Movie8.0ActionNick Fox and his friend Mac, a photographer, are contacted by a mother who's son is recruited by a training camp in South America.
Dark Horse
1985 · 1 votes
- Movie4.0DramaRomance
A woman's Mr. Right turns out to have extra baggage in the form of a drunk ex wife and criminal past.
Don't Touch If You Ain't Prayed
2005 · 2 votes
Movie5.6DramaTV MovieA divorcée struggling to make ends meet, but still utilizing her spare time for social causes neglects her daughter in this fact-based story. At 18, the daughter starts drifting into bad company and eventually becomes a prostitute. To try to get her back in a proper life, her mother abducts her off the street and forcibly brings her home.
Daughter of the Streets
1990 · 5 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
TV8.3DramaThe West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells the stories of the members of a fictional presidential administration. These interesting characters have humor and dedication that touches the heart while the politics that they discuss touch on everyday life.
The West Wing
1999 · 609 votes
TV7.3CrimeMystery21 Jump Street revolves around a group of young cops who would use their youthful appearance to go undercover and solve crimes involving teenagers and young adults.
21 Jump Street
1987 · 206 votes
TV7.1Action & AdventureDramaHunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt. Dee Dee McCall, which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1991. However, Kramer left after the sixth season to pursue other acting and musical opportunities. In the seventh season, Hunter partnered with two different women officers. The titular character, Sgt. Rick Hunter, was a wily, physically imposing, and often rule-breaking homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. The show's main characters, Hunter and McCall, resolve many of their cases by shooting dead the perpetrators. The show's executive producer during the first season was Stephen J. Cannell, whose company produced the series.
Hunter
1984 · 102 votes
TV6.8ComedyThe misadventures of a divorced mother, two teenage daughters, and their new building superintendent in Indianapolis.
One Day at a Time
1975 · 64 votes
TV8.1DramaComedyFamily attorney and mom, Lynn Holt, has had to scramble to keep her family and her law firm together, since her husband left her and took most of their joint law practice with him. Although the attorneys are carting plenty of life's baggage, they're all determined to make the most of this unexpected second chance—and make each month's mortgage payment.
Family Law
1999 · 12 votes
TV8.1War & PoliticsDramaThe trials of a U.S. Army platoon serving in the field during the Vietnam War.
Tour of Duty
1987 · 185 votes
TV7.1ComedyFamilyA wacky alien comes to Earth to study its residents and the life of the human woman he boards with is never the same.
Mork & Mindy
1978 · 166 votes
TV6.0SoapDramaThe lives and trials of the staff and civilian residents of a US naval base.
Emerald Point N.A.S.
1983 · 3 votes
TV5.9ComedyBrothers and Sisters is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from January to April 1979. The series attempted to capitalize on the success of the 1978 motion picture National Lampoon's Animal House. It was the second of three frat-house comedy series to air in early 1979.
Brothers and Sisters
1979 · 4 votes
TV6.5DramaThe Renegades is a short-lived ABC TV show from 1982 about a gang that is given the option of going to jail for their crimes or becoming a special police undercover unit. The star of The Renegades, and leader of the gang, was The Bandit played by Patrick Swayze. The gang's police handler is Captain Scanlon played by Kurtwood Smith. Kurtwood Smith went on to play the father in the That '70s Show.
The Renegades
1983 · 2 votes