Donald Moffat
Date of Birth: 26 Dec 1930
Country: UK
Total Credits at Criticker: 43 (Actor)
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When his mentor Admiral James Greer (Jones) becomes gravely ill, Jack Ryan (Ford) is appointed acting CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence. His first assignment: investigate the murder of one of the President's friends, a prominent U.S. businessman with secret ties to Colombian drug cartels. Unbeknownst to Ryan, the CIA has already dispatched a deadly field operative (Dafoe) to lead a paramilitary force against the Colombian drug lords. Caught in the crossfire, Ryan takes matters into his own hands, risking his career and life for the only cause he still believes in-the truth. (Paramount)
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Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman's death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends. (imdb)
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Director Philip Kaufman and a stellar cast -- including Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn and Ed Harris -- chronicle NASA's early transition from breaking the sound barrier in 1947 to the expeditions of the Mercury astronauts in the 1960s. Richly variegated and surprisingly funny, this film adaptation of a novel by Tom Wolfe brilliantly depicts the personal, political and technological achievements it took for America to get ahead in the space race.
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Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people that it kills.
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Henry is a lawyer who survives a shooting only to find he cannot remember anything. If that weren't enough... (imdb)
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A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game. (imdb)
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Continuing the story of Aurora Greenway in her latter years. After the death of her daughter, Aurora struggled to keep her family together... (imdb)
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Con artist Goldie moves into Steve's empty house without his knowledge, and begins setting up house posing as his new wife. (imdb)
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Bill Firpo has managed to stay honest, but can't help but be dragged into things by his larcenous brothers, the clever Dave and the kleptomaniac Alvin. (imdb)
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61* (2001) - TV Movie
Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle race to break Babe Ruth's single-season home run record. (imdb)
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Monster is a spoof of horror/monster films. After several people and a dog are found dead in their closets a "mild-mannered" reporter, a college professor, her son and a befuddled professor band together to uncover the mystery but not without involving the U.S. Army and mass panic. (imdb)
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Rachel is a 35 year old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a man from the big city returns and asks her out, she begins to have to make decisions about her life and where she wants it to go. (imdb)
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A despondent Vietnam veteran in danger of losing his livelihood is pushed to the edge when he sees Vietnamese immigrants moving into the fishing industry in a Texas bay town. (imdb)
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As the result of a head injury, brilliant computer scientist Harry Benson begins to experience violent seizures. In an attempt to control the seizures, Benson undergoes a new surgical procedure in which a microcomputer is inserted into his brain. The procedure is not entirely successful. (imdb)
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Hungarian immigrant Mike Laszlo has done well for himself since arriving in the USA nearly 50 years ago. He is particularly proud of his daughter, Ann, a successful lawyer. Following the release of some secret WWII records by the Russians, Mike finds himself accused of being a notorious war criminal. He's convinced it's a communist plot to discredit him and insists that Ann defend him in court. (imdb)
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Far North is set in rural Minnesota, at the home of a dour, curmudgeonly farm family. Only Kate (Lange) has been able to escape this repressive environment, but she comes home when dad Bertram (Charles Durning) is laid up in the hospital. Despite her city-bred sophistication, Kate almost instantly reverts to childhood, trying desperately to "prove herself" to her misogynistic papa. (All Movie Guide)
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The Bourne Identity (1988) - TV Mini-Series
A man is washed ashore the beach of a small French village during a heavy storm. A retired doctor takes care of the unconscious stranger. When the mysterious man recovers, he cannot remember anything... (imdb)
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The gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger join forces for a bungled robbery of the bank in Northfield, MN. (imdb)
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License to Kill (1984) - TV Movie
A grieving family whose daughter was killed in a car crash with a drunken driver is outraged and frustrated. (imdb)
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Two men who have been friends since childhood find themselves on opposite ends of the law. (imdb)
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Tales of the City (1993) - TV Mini-Series
The stories of several colorful characters living in San Francisco. Based on the book by Armistead Maupin (A Man I Dreamt Up). (imdb)
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The Devil and Miss Sarah (1971) - TV Movie
A notorious outlaw being escorted to prison by a homesteader and his wife turns out to have satanic powers. He uses them on the man's wife to try to possess her and help him escape. (imdb)
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Generally considered to be one of Altman's more underrated movies, HealtH takes a satirical look behind the scenes at a health-food convention at a Florida luxury hotel, where a powerful political organization is deciding on a new president. The election is rife with backroom deals and scandal. (Wikipedia.org)
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Paul Harrington thinks he has the perfect wife, stunning, kind and ambitious. Yet behind Lauren's pretty face (played by Madchen Amick) lies a wicked person who sent her former boyfriend to jail by setting him up. Reno Adams has lost seven years of his life in Jail and wants revenge. After escaping, he tracks Laurne down and entends to make her and her husbands life a living hell. (imdb)
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Exo-Man (1977) - TV Movie
A professor, who has been paralyzed in an attack by mob hitmen, builds a suit that enables him to walk and fight crime.
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Ebony, Ivory and Jade (1979) - TV Movie
Mick Jade, a former tennis bum-turned-Las Vegas song-and-dance man, doubles as a private eye with two female dancers, Ebony and Ivory, in which the trio go undercover to protect a lady scientist from international hit-men as she heads for Washington D.C. from the Middle East with her super-secret formulas. (imdb)
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Who Will Love My Children? (1983) - TV Movie
Based on a true story of Iowa farm wife Lucile Fray, Ann-Margret plays a dying mother of ten who's last wish is to find loving families for her children. (imdb)
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Cross of Fire (1989) - TV Movie
Set in the 1920s, when the Ku Klux Klan was at the height of its political power in Indiana. Details the resurgence of the Klan under the leadership of David "Steve" Stephenson. Cloaking himself in the twin veils of patriotism and morality, Stephenson rails against such "deviates" as blacks, Jews and Catholics, gaining political clout and financial kickbacks as his "invisible empire" grows. Then the fall of Stephenson... because of a 1925 rape and murder charge. (rottentomatoes.com)
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The Chisholms (1979) - TV Mini-Series
The adventures of the Chisholm family as they travel west in 1844. (imdb)
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Zak O'Brien is an animal trainer for the popular television series "Caesar and Romulus", which has been selected for a "Patsy" Award to be presented in Burbank, Californa. Zak, Caesar and Romulus board his Cherokee Arrow in Denver for the flight there, but en route at night over the Utah wastelands they encounter a sudden blizzard. Zak's radio fails, and then engine trouble ensues and he guides the craft down to a crash landing. (imdb)
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Desperado (1987) - TV Movie
Desperado was the first of several made-for-TV movies revolving around the exploits of itinerant cowboy Duell McCall (Alex McArthur). This time around, McCall finds himself in the middle of a deadly feud in a small mining town. As the only honest man in the territory (comparatively speaking), our hero is ripe for a double-cross. Framed for the murder of Sheriff Whaley (Robert Vaughn), McCall is forced to wander the wild frontier in search of the one man who can clear him. (allmovie.com)
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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (1981) - TV Movie
Biography of the former first lady, focusing on her years as a photojournalist and leading up to her marriage to John F. Kennedy and their moving into the White House. (imdb)
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Kojak: Flowers for Matty (1990) - TV Movie
Kojak charms his way into high society to investigate art thefts that are tied to munitions smuggling and murder. (imdb)
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Danielle Steel's 'Kaleidoscope' (1990) - TV Movie
A private eye is hired to reunite three sisters who have been separated for a long time, all of whom have well guarded secrets of the past.
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The true story of Leonard Matlovich, a U.S. Air Force sergeant who was dismissed from the Air Force for being gay and the story of his fight to be reinstated. (imdb)
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R.P.M. stands for (political) revolutions per minute. Anthony Quinn plays a liberal college professor at a west coast college during the hedy days of campus activism in the late 1960s. (imdb)
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The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House. (imdb)
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Numbed by career demands and a recent divorce, Dr. Alexandra Kendall hides behind a hard shell of professional detatchment - until she treats Buffy Koenig, a dying 17-year-old cancer patient who reawakens Kendall to life's possibilities.
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Logan's Run (1977) - TV Series
In a futuristic society where reaching the age of 30 is a death sentence, a rebellious law enforcement agent goes on the run in search of Sanctuary. (imdb)
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A college professor, his wife, and daughter go the the wilds of Africa to live, and study the rare white lions of the region.
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Dramatization of the trial of the "Catonsville Nine"-- a group including Fr. Daniel Berrigan of Catholic anti- Vietnam war activists who burned hundreds of draft files with homemade napalm.
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Denmark Vesey's Rebellion (1982) - TV Movie
Story of Denmark Vesey, who was raised as a slave but bought his freedom. He organized a plot to seize the city and free the black slaves, but this failed and he and others were hanged. Set in Charleston in 1822.
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A woman who left home 20 years ago under acrimonious circumstances finds out that she is terminally ill. She returns home and tries to rebuild her relationship with her embittered mother before she dies. (imdb)
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