Acting

Bob Maroff

Born January 22, 1934 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Died March 14, 1991 · aged 57

Bob Maroff was born on January 22, 1934 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Taxi Driver (1976), Annie Hall (1977), Stardust Memories (1980) and Racing With the Moon (1984). Maroff played Mr. Nett, the sadistic prison guard, in the original Broadway cast of Short Eyes, and reprised the role in the critically acclaimed 1977 film version of Short Eyes. He died on March 14, 1991 in …

Known For

Taxi Driver

Taxi Driver · 1976

MovieCrimeDrama

Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.

Annie Hall

Annie Hall · 1977

MovieComedyDrama

New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.

Midnight Run

Midnight Run · 1988

MovieComedyCrime

A bounty hunter pursues a former Mafia accountant who is also being chased by a rival bounty hunter, the F.B.I., and his old mob boss after jumping bail.

Stardust Memories

Stardust Memories · 1980

Stardust Memories

MovieComedyDrama

While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.

An Innocent Man

An Innocent Man · 1989

An Innocent Man

MovieCrimeDrama

Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer. Rainwood is convicted of drug dealing, based on the perjured evidence of a police informant. Thrown into a seedy jail, fighting to prove his innocence is diffucult when he has to deal with the realities of prison life, where everyone claims they were framed.

Arthur

MovieComedyDrama

Arthur is a 30-year-old child who will inherit $750 million if he complies with his family's demands and marries the woman of their choosing.

Racing with the Moon

Racing with the Moon · 1984

Racing with the Moon

MovieDramaRomance

In a small coastal California town, Henry and Nicky are pals from blue collar families with only a short time before they ship off to World War II. Henry begins romancing new-to-town Caddie Winger, believing her to be wealthy. Mischievous and irresponsible, Nicky gets into trouble which forces the other two to become involved, testing their relationship, as well as the friendship between the boys.

The Pick-up Artist

The Pick-up Artist · 1987

The Pick-up Artist

MovieRomanceComedy

A womanizer meets his match when he falls for the daughter of a gambling addict who is in debt to the mob.

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Taxi Driver

Taxi Driver · 1976

MovieCrimeDrama

Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.

Mafioso

Annie Hall

Annie Hall · 1977

MovieComedyDrama

New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.

Man #1 Outside Theatre

Midnight Run

Midnight Run · 1988

MovieComedyCrime

A bounty hunter pursues a former Mafia accountant who is also being chased by a rival bounty hunter, the F.B.I., and his old mob boss after jumping bail.

L.A. Taxi Driver

Stardust Memories

Stardust Memories · 1980

Stardust Memories

MovieComedyDrama

While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.

Jerry Abraham

An Innocent Man

An Innocent Man · 1989

An Innocent Man

MovieCrimeDrama

Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer. Rainwood is convicted of drug dealing, based on the perjured evidence of a police informant. Thrown into a seedy jail, fighting to prove his innocence is diffucult when he has to deal with the realities of prison life, where everyone claims they were framed.

Venucci

Arthur

MovieComedyDrama

Arthur is a 30-year-old child who will inherit $750 million if he complies with his family's demands and marries the woman of their choosing.

Prize Man

Racing with the Moon

Racing with the Moon · 1984

Racing with the Moon

MovieDramaRomance

In a small coastal California town, Henry and Nicky are pals from blue collar families with only a short time before they ship off to World War II. Henry begins romancing new-to-town Caddie Winger, believing her to be wealthy. Mischievous and irresponsible, Nicky gets into trouble which forces the other two to become involved, testing their relationship, as well as the friendship between the boys.

Al

The Pick-up Artist

The Pick-up Artist · 1987

The Pick-up Artist

MovieRomanceComedy

A womanizer meets his match when he falls for the daughter of a gambling addict who is in debt to the mob.

Basketball Concession Owner

Going in Style

Going in Style · 1979

MovieCrimeComedy

Three kindly old men decide to light up the dimming twilight of their lives with a last blaze of glory – by sticking up a Manhattan bank in broad daylight.

Cab Driver

Solar Crisis

Solar Crisis · 1992

MovieScience Fiction

A huge solar flare is predicted to fry the Earth. Astronauts aboard the spaceship Helios must go to the Sun to drop a bomb equipped with an Artificial Intelligence and a Japanese pilot at the right time so the flare will point somewhere else.

Camel Rider

Enemy Territory

Enemy Territory · 1987

Enemy Territory

MovieActionCrime

An insurance salesman inadvertently gets trapped after dark in an apartment building that is terrorized by a street gang called "The Vampires."

Detective

Short Eyes

Short Eyes · 1977

MovieDramaCrime

A young man who is charged with child molestation is placed in New York City’s infamous Tombs prison. When the other inmates in his cell block find out what he is charged with, life becomes extremely difficult for him.

Mr. Nett

Candy Mountain

Candy Mountain · 1988

MovieMusicDrama

A mediocre musician goes on the road in search of the world's greatest guitar maker.

Gas-Station Attendant

Concrete Beat

Concrete Beat · 1984

A newspaper columnist becomes determined to clear a woman who is blamed for the death of her child in a tragic fire.

Desk Sergeant

The Equalizer

The Equalizer · 1985

SeriesAction & AdventureCrime

Robert McCall is a former agent of a secret government agency who is now running his own private crime fighting operation where he fashions himself as "The Equalizer." It is a service for victims of the system who have exhausted all possible means of seeking justice and have nowhere to go. McCall promises to even out the odds for them.

Union Cabbie

Kojak

SeriesCrimeDrama

A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.

Doorman

Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast · 1987

Beauty and the Beast

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyCrime

Savvy Assistant District Attorney Catherine Chandler is saved by a noble, beast-like man named Vincent, who lives in a secret, utopian community beneath New York City. They share a psychic bond, and he protects her from above.

Gypsy