
Frank Doubleday
Oyuncu · 1945 – 2018 · Norwich, Connecticut, USA
Thin, intense, antsy, and often unnerving character actor Frank Doubleday usually portrayed creepy villains in both movies and TV shows alike from the mid-1970's up until the early 1990's. Frank was born on January 28, 1945 in Norwich, Connecticut and came with his family to Los Angeles, California at age six. Doubleday made his film debut as an aggressive switchblade-wielding punk thug in the hilariously raunchy comedy The First Nudie Musical (1976). Doubleday's lean, hollow-eyed, sunken-cheeked face, closely cropped light blonde hair, skinny limbs, and slim build gave him a striking and potent screen presence that was put to especially effective use in two pictures for director John Carpenter: He's genuinely scary as the vicious street gang leader who kills little girl Kim Richards in cold blood in the terrific urban action classic Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) and was likewise memorably freaky as Isaac Hayes' ghoulish flunky "Romero" in the excellent futuristic science fiction cult favorite Escape from New York (1981). Doubleday's other noteworthy parts are a mob kingpin's conceited jerk son in Avenging Angel (1985), a fidgety prison inmate in the nifty science fiction item Space Rage (1985), a ferocious member of a roving murderous band of supernatural Eskimo spirits in the spooky Nomads (1986), a mercenary in Broadcast News (1987), and a sweaty, twitchy hoodlum who holds a bunch of fat ladies hostage in a laundromat in the funky urban science fiction hoot Dollman (1991). Among the TV shows Doubleday did guest appearances on are Amazing Stories (1985), Sledge Hammer! (1986), Stingray (1985), T.J. Hooker (1982), Hill Street Blues (1981), CHiPs (1977), The Incredible Hulk (1978), Charlie's Angels (1976), Wonder Woman (1975) and Starsky and Hutch (1975). Outside of acting, Frank also directed stage plays and taught acting at the Hollywood Court Theater. Doubleday died at age 73 from esophageal cancer on March 3, 2018 in Los Angeles, California.
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Film7.0AksiyonGerilim1997 yılında suçun artması sonucu duvarlar ve dikenli tellerle çevrilen New York, ABD'nin geri kalanından yalıtılarak adeta dev bir açık hava cezaevine dönüştürülmüştür. En iflah olmaz suçlular oraya atılıp anarşik ve vahşi bir yaşama mahkum edilirken kaçmaya çalışanlar vurulmaktadır. Manhattan'ı anakaraya bağlayan köprüler havaya uçurulmuş ve mayınlanmıştır. ABD başkanının uçağı teröristlerce kaçırılır ve başkan kaçış kapsülüyle New York'a düşer. Onu kurtarmak için eski asker ve şimdinin dik başlı mahkumu katil Snake Pliskin bir anlaşmaya zorlanır. Snake'in koluna 24 saat içerisinde infilak edecek bir patlayıcı yerleştirilip New York'a gönderilecek ve başkanı bulup getirecektir. Zamanında ve bu imkansız görevi tamamlamış olarak dönerse Snake'in hayatı da kurtulacaktır.
Film6.8KomediRomantikBasket-case haber yapımcısı Jane Craig, nefret ettiği eğlence haberlerine yönelik trendi temsil eden güzel bir çocuk olan yeni muhabir Tom Grunnick'e aşık olur. Yetenekli ama sıradan bir muhabir olan Aaron Altman, Jane için karşılıksız bir meşale taşıyor. Kanal büyük değişikliklere hazırlanırken üçlü arasında kıvılcımlar uçuşur. Hem haber hem de Jane, stil ve içerik arasında seçim yapmak zorundadır.
Film7.3GerilimAksiyonLos Angeles'ta kapanmakta olan bir polis karakolu boşaltılmak üzeredir. Bu sebeple elektrik ve telefonları kesilmiş, son tutuklular tahliye edilmeyi beklerken bir kaç sekreter ile bir polis memuru da onları gözetmektedir. Bu arada Los Angeles polisi ölümcül bir hata yapmış ve pis bir sokak çetesini kendisine düşman etmiştir. İşte şimdi bu korumasız karakol büyük bir intikam hareketinin kurbanı durumundadır. Hiç bitmeyecekmiş gibi gelen bir saldırı başlar. Polis memuru Bishop, bir kaç sivil ve tutuklular canlarını kurtarmak için müthiş bir mücadelede işbirliği yapacaklardır.
Film5.9KomediGerilimPrivate detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a political smear campaign and he sets out to find out who is responsible, with deadly results.
The Big Fix
1978 · 42 votes
Film5.0WesternKomediBefore 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
Film5.0MüzikKomediThe heir to a bankrupt studio decides to make a daring musical to avoid demolition, agreeing to finish it in two weeks or lose ownership.
The First Nudie Musical
1976 · 25 votes
Film5.2AksiyonGerilimEski fahişe Molly sokak hayatını Teğmen Andrews yardımıyla bırakmayı başarır. Hukuk okumaya ve normal bir yaşam sürmeye başlar. Andrews acımasız bir çete tarafından öldürüldüğünde, katillerini bulmak için Angel olarak sokaklara döner.
Avenging Angel
1985 · 61 votes
Film4.8Bilim KurguAksiyonBrick Bardo is a traveller from outer space who is forced to land on Earth. Though regular sized on his home planet, he is doll-sized here on Earth, as are the enemy forces who have landed as well. While Brick enlists the help of an impoverished girl and her son, the bad guys enlist the help of a local gang. When word leaks out as to his location, and all hell breaks loose, Brick is besieged by an onslaught of curious kids, angry gang members, and his own doll-sized enemies, and he must protect the family who has helped him and get off the planet alive.
Dollman
1991 · 100 votes
Film4.8DramFantastikOne night, in a Los Angeles hospital, Dr. Flax attends to a seriously injured man who, apparently crazed, whispers mysterious and disconcerting words in French into her ear.
Nomads
1986 · 138 votes
Film4.2DramGerilimMayor candidate Mike Rhodes is kidnapped in his own home outside of Los Angeles by unknown, masked terrorists. His wife Kelly barely survives the attempted murder on her, and is able to identify one of the kidnappers. She's placed on the police's protection list while the investigation is ongoing. Ruger, a tough and merciless bounty hunter is out on the streets avenging her partner's death. With Kelly as her bait, Ruger starts a dangerous game to bring Cavanough, a crazed crime kingpin behind the kidnapping, out of hiding.
L.A. Bounty
1989 · 20 votes
Film4.4AksiyonUpon moving into a bigoted neighborhood, the scientist father of a persecuted black family gives a superpower elixir to a tough bodyguard, who thus becomes a superpowered crimefighter.
Abar, the First Black Superman
1977 · 14 votes
Film4.8SuçDramA white female detective is partnered with a black male detective to find the person who is committing a series of particularly vicious murders. During the course of the investigation the two begin to develop an attraction to each other, but the situation is complicated by the fact that he is married.
A Killing Affair
1977 · 6 votes
Film4.6DramKomediA bail bondsman falls in love with one of his "customers" — a gypsy girl, who's been accused of attempted murder.
Alex & the Gypsy
1976 · 7 votes
Film4.1Bilim KurguWesternIn this sci-fi/western film set two hundred years from now, a bank robber, Grange is captured and sentenced to the penal colony on the mining planet Proxima Centauri 3 where he meets bounty-hunter Walker, and the Colonel, a retired policeman from LA who was considered the best of his kind. Grange is a dangerous lunatic and Walker and the Colonel must team up to keep him from escaping.
Space Rage
1985 · 17 votes
Film7.0KomediFantastikWilliam Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night", re-imagined in a child's vision of Hell. "Shakespeare's Plan 12 from Outer Space" is a festive yarn, comprised of the most homely and vulgar materials, while shamelessly thwarted buy the Bard's coarsest of jokes and grossest buffoonery.
Shakespeare's Plan 12 from Outer Space
1996 · 1 votes
Film6.0WesternA showdown is staged between a U.S. deputy marshal and the outlaw gang that raised him in the New Mexico Territory of 1887.
Longarm
1988 · 3 votes
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Dizi6.5DramSuçSergeant 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 · 99 votes
Dizi7.3BelgeselGizemCan you tell the difference between fact and fiction? Several stories of strange, mysterious and incredible occurrences are chronicled during each episode. It is up to the viewer to decide which stories actually happened and which were completely fabricated by the show’s writers. The answer is revealed by Jonathan Frakes at the conclusion of each episode.
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
1997 · 64 votes
Dizi7.5Bilim Kurgu ve FantastikKomediA truly amazing, fantastical, science fiction, funny and odd, and sometimes scary, sad and endearing anthology series presented by Steven Spielberg with guest appearances by many famous actors, actresses, and directors.
Amazing Stories
1985 · 237 votes
Dizi8.0KomediSuçSledge Hammer! is an American satirical police sitcom produced by New World Television that ran for two seasons on ABC from 1986 to 1988. The series was created by Alan Spencer and stars David Rasche as Inspector Sledge Hammer, a preposterous caricature of the standard "cop on the edge" character. Al Jean and Mike Reiss, best known for their work on The Simpsons, wrote for the show and worked as story editors.
Sledge Hammer!
1986 · 183 votes
Dizi6.8DramAksiyon ve MaceraLighthearted look at the adventures of two Highway Patrol officers in Los Angeles. The main characters are Jon Baker and Frank Poncherello, two motorcycle officers always on the street to save lives.
CHiPs
1977 · 154 votes