Acting

Michael Ballew

Born July 16, 1947 · Seattle, Washington, USA

Died October 22, 2023 · aged 76

Michael Ballew was an American actor, stuntman and transportation coordinator. He began playing football as a high school freshman after his family moved to Leavenworth, Washington, and he received a partial football scholarship to Shoreline Community College in Seattle. After junior college, he transferred to the University of Washington to study sociology. After college, he played as a defensive…

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Donnie Darko

Donnie Darko · 2001

MovieFantasyDrama

After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.

Breakin' All the Rules

Breakin' All the Rules · 2004

Breakin' All the Rules

MovieComedyRomance

After being dumped by his model girlfriend, aspiring writer Quincy Watson quits his job and is inspired to pen the ultimate how-to book on breaking up. When it becomes a smash bestseller, he starts giving his player cousin, Evan, choice tips on how to win the battle of the sexes. But when Evan's beautiful girlfriend Nikki gets wind of the plan, it's these players that end up getting played.

Suburban Commando

Suburban Commando · 1991

Suburban Commando

MovieActionComedy

Shep Ramsey is an interstellar hero, righting wrongs, etc. His ship is damaged after a fight with an interstellar nasty and he must hide out on Earth until it can recharge. He leaves his power suit at home, but still finds himself unable to allow wrongs to go unrighted and so mixes it up with bad drivers, offensive paperboys, muggers and the like.

North Dallas Forty

North Dallas Forty · 1979

North Dallas Forty

MovieComedyDrama

A semi-fictional account of life as a professional football player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.

Snake Eater

Snake Eater · 1989

MovieActionThriller

The Snake Eaters are an elite division of the Marines especially trained for search and destroy missions. This actioner chronicles the exploits of one of them who has become a cop. Known as a tough loner, he returns to find the band of backwoods bad-guys who killed his parents and abducted his sister.

Midnight Man

Midnight Man · 1995

When the police start a crackdown on Yakuza activities, a killer starts killing the cops forcing a martial-arts officer to fight back.

Mask of Death

Mask of Death · 1996

MovieThrillerAction

While attempting to flee from the FBI, the criminal Frank Dallio kills Detective McKenna's wife, Rachel. McKenna himself is shot in the face by the professional killer Lyle Mason, who dies in a car crash shortly thereafter. The FBI persuades McKenna to undergo facial surgery and take the place of Lyle Mason in order to find Dallio and a valuable microchip.

Ulterior Motives

Ulterior Motives · 1993

Ulterior Motives

MovieDramaAction

A private eye becomes the bodyguard of a beautiful reporter being pursued by a Japanese mob.

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Donnie Darko

Donnie Darko · 2001

MovieFantasyDrama

After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.

Driver

Breakin' All the Rules

Breakin' All the Rules · 2004

Breakin' All the Rules

MovieComedyRomance

After being dumped by his model girlfriend, aspiring writer Quincy Watson quits his job and is inspired to pen the ultimate how-to book on breaking up. When it becomes a smash bestseller, he starts giving his player cousin, Evan, choice tips on how to win the battle of the sexes. But when Evan's beautiful girlfriend Nikki gets wind of the plan, it's these players that end up getting played.

Transportation Co-Captain

Suburban Commando

Suburban Commando · 1991

Suburban Commando

MovieActionComedy

Shep Ramsey is an interstellar hero, righting wrongs, etc. His ship is damaged after a fight with an interstellar nasty and he must hide out on Earth until it can recharge. He leaves his power suit at home, but still finds himself unable to allow wrongs to go unrighted and so mixes it up with bad drivers, offensive paperboys, muggers and the like.

Stunts

North Dallas Forty

North Dallas Forty · 1979

North Dallas Forty

MovieComedyDrama

A semi-fictional account of life as a professional football player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.

Snake Eater

Snake Eater · 1989

MovieActionThriller

The Snake Eaters are an elite division of the Marines especially trained for search and destroy missions. This actioner chronicles the exploits of one of them who has become a cop. Known as a tough loner, he returns to find the band of backwoods bad-guys who killed his parents and abducted his sister.

Dentist

Midnight Man

Midnight Man · 1995

When the police start a crackdown on Yakuza activities, a killer starts killing the cops forcing a martial-arts officer to fight back.

Truck Driver

Mask of Death

Mask of Death · 1996

MovieThrillerAction

While attempting to flee from the FBI, the criminal Frank Dallio kills Detective McKenna's wife, Rachel. McKenna himself is shot in the face by the professional killer Lyle Mason, who dies in a car crash shortly thereafter. The FBI persuades McKenna to undergo facial surgery and take the place of Lyle Mason in order to find Dallio and a valuable microchip.

Dalilo's Henchman

Ulterior Motives

Ulterior Motives · 1993

Ulterior Motives

MovieDramaAction

A private eye becomes the bodyguard of a beautiful reporter being pursued by a Japanese mob.

Bodyguard #2

Loving Deadly

Loving Deadly · 1994

A guy is smuggling babies across the border, and he gets busted. When he's in jail, his crime boss wants to keep him happy, so they arrange conjugal visits with a hooker, and they fall in love, then plot to get back at the crime boss, and they accidentally kill the crime boss's identical twin brother.

Ted

Power Rangers

Power Rangers · 1993

SeriesAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy

A team of teenagers with attitude are recruited to save Angel Grove from the evil witch, Rita Repulsa, and later, Lord Zedd, Emperor of all he sees, and their horde of monsters.

Driver