Barry Newman
Date of Birth: 26 Mar 1938
Country: USA
Biography: The son of an Austrian father and Swedish mother, Boston-born actor Barry Newman received a liberal education ranging from Latin to Hebrew to music. Graduating from Brandeis University with an anthropology degree, Newman decided upon becoming an actor when he chanced to wander into a class conducted by Actors Studio mentor Lee Strasberg. He was busy if not famously so on stage and in Manhattan-based TV (notably the daytime drama Edge of Night).
Total Credits at Criticker: 20 (Actor)
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Bobby Bowfinger, a nearly bankrupt aspiring movie producer-director, is about to take one last shot at fame and fortune. Desperate to hit the big time, the hapless dreamer recruits a motley crew of aspiring misfits, including an eager nerd, an ambitious ingenue and an overthe-hill diva. With their help, Bowfinger embarks on a radical, ingenious scheme to trick the biggest name in movies into becoming the star of his ultra-low budget film. (Universal Pictures)
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Fritz Brown is an ex-LAPD, recovering alcoholic who now splits his time repossessing cars for a used car lot and staffing his one-man private detective agency.
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Acclaimed director Steven Soderbergh's latest film follows the exploits of Wilson (Stamp), a tough English ex-con who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death. (Artisan Entertainment)
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What the #$*! Do We Know is part documentary, part story, and part elaborate and inspiring visual effects and animations. The protagonist, Amanda (Matlin), finds herself in a fantastic Alice in Wonderland experience when her daily, uninspired life literally begins to unravel, revealing the uncertain world of the quantum field hidden behind what we consider to be our normal, waking reality. (Lord of the Wind Films, LLC)
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Kowalski, the hero of the story, works for a car delivery service. He takes delivery of a 1970 Dodge Challenger to take from Colorado to Frisco, California. Shortly after pickup, he takes a bet to get the car there in less than 15 hours. After a few run-ins with motorcycle cops and highway patrol they start a chase to bring him into custody... (imdb)
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A pyromaniac, ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city. (imdb)
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Wilma Harrison had it all. A wealthy doctor for a husband. A big playboy for a lover. A beautiful home. And a horrible death. (imdb)
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Trying to shake his troubled past and start a new honest life, Floyd loses his job because of that past. With nowhere to go but back home in Oklahoma he gets news that his father's been murdered and the local sheriff lets the killer off with a self-defense plea. Bent on revenge, Floyd does what he must which leads him down a dark road littered with robbing banks and loose women. Floyd's final days are anything BUT pretty! (imdb)
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Following the death of his family in an aeroplane crash, a man plots an elaborate revenge scheme on those responsible. By setting himself up as a criminal, he plans to get close to a certain tycoon who has been approached by the culprits to help them retrieve the cargo of the lost plane. (imdb)
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Aptly nicknamed "Jack the Dog" for his womanizing ways, married photographer Jack (Nestor Carbonell) spends much of his time trying to hide his affairs from his wife, Faith (Barbara Williams), who finally gets fed up and walks out on him. Forced to face his faults while raising his young son, Sam (Andrew J. Ferchland), alone, Jack soon learns some important life lessons in this moving indie comedy.
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The Mirror Crack'd (1992) - TV Movie
At a reception for a fading film star making a screen comeback, a gushing, pushy fan is poisoned by a drink apparently meant for the actress. (imdb)
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Detective Macy (Berenger) is a seasoned NYPD officer investigating a murder that will lead him from the dangerous underworld of Chinatown gangs to the influential City Hall. The roommate of the murder victim (Heuring) asks to stay at Macy's apartment for protection; but as he draws closer to resolving the murder, she draws closer to his heart... which is right where she wants him.
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Two G-Men, returning from hell, must perform good deeds to save themselves from a doomed fate. (imdb)
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Fatal Vision (1984) - TV Mini-Series
A retiree spends nine years relentlessly seeking to prove that his son-in-law, a former Green Beret Army doctor, murdered his pregnant wife and two children. (imdb)
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An American lawyer goes to a small, picturesque city in Austria for a vacation. But he soon finds himself enmeshed in a case of international intrigue lalong with neo-Nazis and spies who are all after a chest that contains the identities of Nazi war criminals and collaborators. (TCM.com)
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A woman leaves her husband after the death of her child to teach deaf children how to speak. Her own child was deaf and although she has no formal training she successfully teaches one boy. (imdb)
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MacShayne: Winner Takes All (1994) - TV Movie
MacShayne is a gambler and small time con-man. After serving a short stretch in jail, he goes to Las Vegas to see his son, but when he gets there, his ex-wife is no longer where she use to live and work and left no forwarding address. Leggett, a recently retired cop, approaches him and tells him that he will help him find his son, if he does something for him. It seems that he is planning to rob a hotel casino and he needs three guys to pull it off. (imdb)
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Petrocelli (1974) - TV Series
A Harvard-educated lawyer from Boston sets up shop in a small Arizona town. (imdb)
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