Brion James
Date of Birth: 20 Feb 1945
Country: USA
Biography: Brion Howard James (February 20, 1945 - August 7, 1999) was an American character actor. Known for playing the character of Leon Kowalski in the movie Blade Runner, James portrayed a variety of colorful roles in well-known American films such as 48 Hrs., Another 48 Hours, Tango & Cash, Silverado, Red Heat, The Player and The Fifth Element. James' commanding screen presence and formidable physique at 1.91 metres (6 ft 3.2 in) tall usually resulted in his casting as a heavy...(Wikipedia)
Total Credits at Criticker: 78 (Actor)
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Harrison Ford stars as former detective Rick Deckard who is on the hunt for "replicants," androids, attempting to pass as humans in technogrunge 2019 Los Angeles.
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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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Snobby school boy goes left, and mistakes the "Filthy Whore" for his millionaire dad's yacht. He joins four filthy fishermen for hijinx on the high seas. (imdb)
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New York cab driver Korben Dallas didn't mean to be a hero. But he just picked up the kind of fare that only comes along every five thousand years - a perfect beauty, a perfect being, a perfect weapon. Now, together, they must save the world. (Columbia TriStar)
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Stranded in the heat of a barren African desert, eleven bus-passengers shelter in the remnants of an abandoned town. As rescue grows more remote by the day and anxiety deepens, an idea emerges: why not stage a play. However the choice of "King Lear" only manages to plunge this disparate group of travellers into turmoil as they struggle to overcome both nature's wrath and their own mortality. (IFC Films)
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Concerns upwardly mobile 31 year-old womanizing, gambling, amoral lawyer who has a bad day, abuses a telephone operator for giving him a wrong number, and then cops hell from her as she uses her access to technology to turn his life upside down... (imdb)
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A sloppy white police officer has to team together with his black buddy who has only a few days left until he gets released from prison... (imdb)
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A soldier from Earth crashlands on an alien world after sustaining battle damage. Eventually he encounters another survivor... (imdb)
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A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer. (imdb)
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Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a Russian policeman sent after a Russian drug dealer who has escaped to the United States and is awaiting extradition in Chicago (imdb)
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A pair of whacked-out cartoon-like exterminator/hitmen kill the owner of a burglar-alarm company, and stalk the partner who hired them, his wife, and a nerd framed for the murder, who tells the story in flashback from the electric chair.
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A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble lord who decides not to pay them by kidnapping the betrothed of the noble's son... (imdb)
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In the future, chaos is rampant as 'information terrorists' threaten to destroy order in society. Alex is a part-man-part-machine LAPD cop who is the best at what he does. (imdb)
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A fired cop and useless lawyer sign up as security guards and find they've joined a corrupt union. (imdb)
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Coming from a police family, Tom Hardy ends up fighting his uncle after the murder of his father. Tom believes the killer is another cop, and goes on the record with his allegations. Demoted then to river duty, the killer taunts Tom. (imdb)
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In 1939, WBN, a 4th netwok is about to take to America's airwaves. As if the confusion of the premiere night wasn't enough, Penny Henderson, the owner's secretary, must deal with an unhappy sponsor, an overbearing boss and a soon-to-be ex-husband who desperately wants her back. (imdb)
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Men in White (1998) - TV Movie
Satire of recent science fiction films including all of the obvious choices and "Dr. Strangelove" finds two garbage men defeating an alien invasion. (imdb)
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A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror the Vietnam experience. (imdb)
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Brain Smasher... A Love Story (1993) - Direct-to-Video
Sam Crain, a professional model, is asked by her sister to smuggle a package from Europe to Portland Oregon, where she discovers that her sister is battling Chinese Shaolin Monks (not ninjas!). Fleeing the monks, Sam unwittingly involves Ed "Brainsmasher" Molloy, a nightclub bouncer. (imdb)
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Something is alive beneath the surface of the graveyard. Something with the power to destroy and the power to heal. One man, a cop, is determined to kill this mysterious creature. Another, a scientist, is determined to capture and save this miraculous being. Stalking the creature in it's subterranean habitat, neither man is aware of the battle they are about to start. A battle for science, survival and revenge. (imdb)
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Scientists poison the water supply of a small town, turning the residents into homicidal maniacs who kill each other and anybody who passes through. (imdb)
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This film is an excellent biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Oklahoma home in the 1930s to find work, and discovered the suffering and strength of America's working class. (imdb)
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A Russian KGB agent is sent to Africa to kill an anti-Communist black revolutionary. However, he has a change of heart when he sees how the Russians and their Cuban allies are killing and repressing the locals, so he switches sides and helps the rebels. (imdb)
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The desert can be a lonely place for the people who live there or for those who are traveling through. It is also the teller of different stories including the story of a traveling salesman whose only commodity is death and the story of a young man who finds that the death that he wishes for is difficult to find... (imdb)
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On Hong Kong's last day of British rule a corporate assassin carries out his orders to murder a corrupt general. Unbeknownst to him, his bosses have set him up for a fall, and he must now band together with an unlikely corps of friends to survive. (imdb)
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Jim Malden, a Vietnam veteran who has lost wife and child, lives as a recluse on an island full of rare birds. His only contacts with humanity are with Stella Clayton and her young son Adam, who have a small supply store on the mainland. One day, a mountain climber named Mike Walker brings a visit to the island to observe two very rare eagles; what he doesn't tell Malden is that he's hired by an egg collector to steal the eagles' eggs. (imdb)
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Pixie is cursed with turning into a Pterodactyl when her husband is caught messing with bones on an ancient burial ground. Her husband, children, friends, and neighbours must come to terms with Pixie's new "look". Her only chance to return to her normal state is to find the shaman who inflicted the curse on her. (imdb)
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While investigating the murder of a movie star, a detective finds that he himself is being set up for the crime. (imdb)
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Three adventurers leave Moon City and head towards the asteroids in search of gold. (imdb)
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An ex-cop gets pulled back in an undercover mission for the FBI by his former partner. The mission is to catch drug runners, but it is also sting operation against dirty cops, some of whom set up the ex-cops' dismissal from the force. (imdb)
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Joseph is the youngest member of a large family that owns a successful garment business in Los Angeles. His father, Jacob, makes no attempt at hiding the fact that Joseph is his favorite son, resulting in the constant envy and resentment of his brothers. Eventually, in their bitterness, they plot revenge against this favored son. When Joseph accompanies his brothers on a trip to New York, they commit the ultimate betrayal. (imdb)
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Detective Lucas McCarthy finally apprehends "Meat Cleaver Max" and watches the electric chair execution from the audience. But killing Max Jenke only elevated him to another level of reality. Now Lucas' family is under attack, his sanity in question, and his house haunted. Aided by a disreputable college professor, can Lucas reclaim his mind, house, and family? Features Lance Henriksen as the Lucas McCarthy and Brion James as Max Jenke. (imdb)
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In a post-apocalyptic world, a warrior wandering through the desert comes upon a group of settlers who are being menaced by a murderous gang that is after the water they control. (imdb)
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Private investigator and former police detective Jack Ramsey (Michael Harris) is enjoying an affair with the local district attorney's wife, but when she is strangled not long after he has departed following a session of amorous activity, Ramsey is pegged as the primary suspect due to "clues" obviously planted at the murder scene in order to incriminate him, and additionally because of a zealous detective (Matt McCoy) who has personal persons for disliking the former policeman. (amazon.com)
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Annihilator (1986) - TV Movie
Humanoid killer robots stalk a newspaperman, who has knowledge of their existence. One of the robots is made to look like his girl friend. (imdb)
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Four career felons are brought together by desperation and greed in a most devious attempt to double-cross a rival crime boss.
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Scanner Cop (1994) - Direct-to-Video
Sam Staziak, a rookie cop with the Los Angeles Police Department, is also a 'scanner' (psionic). When a string of murders begins to decimate the police department, Sam faces sensory overload and possible insanity as he uses his powers to hunt the man responsible for the killings.
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Black Magic (1992) - TV Movie
A man is having dreams of his dead cousin who tells him he's been killed by a witch in Istanbul, North Carolina. He goes there and meets the woman and confronts her. He begins having spells of clumsiness as he pursues his cousin, who has been missing, and is convinced that the witch has put a curse on him. Meanwhile he's falling in love with her. (imdb)
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Characters in a bio technological firm utilize nanotechnology (miniature, smart robots) to control others for their own good. (imdb)
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After Leila, his boss's daughter, is kidnapped by psychopathic plague victim Decker, chauffuer Chazz teams up with plague-infected mercenary Luger to penetrate the toxic & off-limits Plague Zone and bring her back alive. (imdb)
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After outlaws disguised as Indians ambush a cross-country stagecoach, siblings Luke and Hannah Morgan (Corey Carrier and Mercedes McNab), gunslinger Clara (Vivian Schilling) and singer Mandy (Charlotte Ross) find themselves stranded in the wilderness while the bad guys search for them. Luckily, a friendly Indian leader (Graham Greene) and his tribe befriend the group. Corbin Bernsen co-stars as one of the bandits in this family adventure. (Netflix)
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In this suspenseful thriller, two men harbor some deadly secrets that must not be allowed to surface, leading to a face-off between the pair in the desert. One of them is a disturbed killer in the midst of a murder spree; the other is on the lam after ripping off a Las Vegas casino for $1 million.
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This adventure chronicles two boys' search for a treasure buried somewhere in the Florida Keys during the mid 1800s. The children are assisted by three adults, who each have the their own agendas for finding the cache. The hunters are followed by a greedy gang of villains. (allmovie.com)
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During the alien invasion of 2022, one man flees through a wormhole to 1992, where attempt after attempt is made to catch and kill him. (imdb)
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A beast gets loose in a laboratory, killing all in it's way. A former scientist, now working as a custodian tries to stop it. (imdb)
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In the near future Nassim, terrorist leader, storms computer company headquarters. His aim is deadly computer virus that could bring him world domination. Nick, company janitor and ex-cop, will get in his way. (imdb)
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During a time when the city of Los Angeles is terrorized by animal attack style murders, a kindly elderly lady provides a nomad with room and board. It turns out that he is a werewolf and is responsible for the recent killings. He bites the elderly woman, turning her into a hungry werewolf. Now her adult son must try to prevent the both of them from doing any more harm. (imdb)
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Enid is horrible, her husband and younger sister are having an affair. When Enid walks in on them 'enjoying' themselves, she is furious. A fight develops and Enid is hit over the head with a heavy object. One disaster after another ensues, as they attempt to make Enid's death look like an accident. (imdb)
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Five former cub scouts have a reunion and go camping on the mountain they never conquered. High jinks ensue due to their childhood enemies and a group of escaped convicts who mistake them for an FBI unit (imdb)
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Michael Sanford and his wife move to his old town so he can take over the family business. However, gruesome murders of children start to happen. Meanwhile, Michael starts to become slowly insane after he may have witnessed one of the murders and reports it to the police. Is he the murderer, or is it something of his past?
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Love Among Thieves (1987) - TV Movie
Romantic mystery-heist story about a baroness and concert pianist who is forced to steal some priceless Faberge eggs and deliver them to ransom her kidnapped fiancé in Latin America. (imdb)
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In the sequel to Hell Comes to Frogtown, the Mutant-Frog leader of Frogtown kidnaps a professor and forces him to make a serum that will turn everyone into Frogs, they also kidnap some people to test the serum on. And courageous Sam Hell will have to save them. (imdb)
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Steel Frontier (1995) - Direct-to-Video
Mad Max meets the Man With No Name in this futuristic story of a gunfighter (Joe Lara), who goes after a band of marauders who are terrorizing everyone and killing indiscriminately. As with the spaghetti westerns, the lone gunman enters into a town where the people have lost the will to fight back and proceeds to kill off the bad guys single-handedly. But once he is out-numbered totally and wounded, some do find the capability to fight back. (imdb)
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A psychiatrist uses virtual reality to probe the minds of three unsuspecting patients, unleashing horrific psychic forces in the process. (imdb)
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A sex therapist finds herself forced to cooperate with the police in tracking down a killer who has been targeting other sex therapists by using her as a decoy. (imdb)
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The Gambler: The Adventure Continues (1983) - TV Movie
Brady Hawkes, Billy Montana, and Jeremiah Hawkes are on a train bound for a huge gambling event when the train is taken over by a gang of vicious killers in search of money. As ransom, the gang takes young Jeremiah hostage. Brady and Billy embark on a quest to rescue him and form a small gang of their own along the way. (imdb)
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In this action-packed drama, Max Lightener (Loren Avedon) is a Navy SEAL and intelligence operative who is pushed too far when his fiancée Jackie Martin (Lisa Crosato) and her father are abducted by Bobby Rico (Brion James), an underworld financier involved in drug running and Wall Street swindling. Max teams up with FBI agent Luis (Francesco Quinn) to rescue Jackie and give Rico the punishment he deserves, but it soon becomes evident that Rico has snatched Mr. (allrovi.com)
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Killing at Hell's Gate (1981) - TV Movie
A rafting party is terrorized during a trip down the river. The villains are local woodcutters, disgruntled by the fact that their factory is to be closed down. | (imdb)
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In this lurid sci-fi actioner a psycho LA police chief has surgeons implant a device into the spines of wounded officers that turns them into lunatic killers who are then assigned to his Scum Quelling Urban Assault Division (SQUAD). After cleaning the streets of slimy crooks, the officers are programmed to destroy themselves. (allrovi.com)
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Samantha Stewart is a successful public defender whose life gets turned upside-down one night when a prostitute named Vicki gets thrown out of a limo at Samantha's feet. Vicki slips a brooch into Sam's hand before disappering, then turns up the next day, dead. Sam soon finds herself the target of an international conspiracy who will stop at nothing to get back the brooch and silence Sam for good. (imdb)
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A hunting expedition goes awry when another hunter decides to make the hunters the hunted. (imdb)
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Rio Diablo (1993) - TV Movie
Stars of country music fill out the cast of this made-for-TV western. Kenny Rogers plays a bounty hunter who sets off with his newlywed partner (Travis Tritt) to track down the kidnappers who ran off with Tritt's wife (Laura Harring). (allrovi.com)
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In a small Southern town, the local sheriff tries to keep everything peaceful and under control. (imdb)
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An honest cop named Billy Bear hides from the IRA in an Indian reservation. The problem is, the IRA's assassin is a bad cop. On the reservation, Billy turns the table on the assassin. (imdb)
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The Companion (1994) - TV Movie
In the near-distant future, a female romance writer is planning to write her next book in a remote mountain cabin. A friend convinces her to bring along a "companion", a nearly-human android to cook and clean. She settles on a male companion named "Geoffrey." Bored with some of Geoffrey's behavior, she tinkers with his programming -- first his personality, then his sexuality. Real trouble comes when she gives his mind access to "random data." (imdb)
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Desperado: The Outlaw Wars (1989) - TV Movie
Duell McCall visits his old girlfriend, Nora, and learns that she gave birth to his child. He wants to stay but he is still a wanted man. So, Sheriff Campbell suggests that if he brings in this notorious criminal, who's been plaguing the territory, he might be able to get a pardon. (imdb)
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Hear No Evil (1982) - TV Movie
A cop becomes deaf in a fight, tries to break up a drug ring run by bikers. (imdb)
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Knight Rider 2010 (1994) - TV Movie
Loosely based on the popular television series of the 80's, this movie brings the story into an apocalyptic time and a new "KITT". (imdb)
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While watching from afar the mysterious woman he's long been obsessed with, a junk trader finds a passed-out genie who needs to get back to his lamp.
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Jack (an ex P.I.) steals a briefcase from local mobsters. A stripper joins him on the run. Other local mob groups are also interested in the contents of the briefcase.
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When Steve Mitchell is clandestinely sent to the US embassy in Bucharest, Romania to disarm a nuclear bomb that has secretly remained in the building since the end of the Cold War, little does he know that other problems will soon erupt. He must join Erica Long, a diplomatic attaché who is not all that she appears, to work together on setting the correct computer code that will disable the weapon and accomplish the mission. (imdb)
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In the future, a man travels to the ends of the earth to find that the perfect woman is always under his nose... (imdb)
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After he is accused of murdering a lawman in 1901 Texas, a Mexican-American farmer flees and manages to elude a large posse for two weeks before he is finally captured. (imdb)
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