Acting
Jay Garner
Born January 17, 1929 · Sewanee, Tennessee, USA
Died January 21, 2011 · aged 82
Jay Garner (January 17, 1929 – January 21, 2011), born James H. Garner Jr., was an American actor. Television audiences know him as Admiral Asimov in the second season of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century and as lecherous food critic Jason Defarge in Three's Company.
Known For
Pennies from Heaven · 1981Pennies from Heaven
★ 6.11981
MovieDramaMusic
During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent schoolteacher.
Hanky Panky · 1982Hanky Panky
★ 5.31982
MovieMysteryAction
Naïve Michael Jordon is drawn into a web of government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him. When she's later murdered, Michael becomes the chief suspect and goes on the run.
F.D.R.: The Last Year · 1980F.D.R.: The Last Year
★ 6.91980
MovieDramaTV Movie
Though visibly frail and weary, President Franklin D. Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth term. He also oversees plans for the D-Day Invasion and engages in tempestuous summit meetings with his wartime allies Stalin and Churchill.
Night of the Dark Full Moon · 1972Night of the Dark Full Moon
★ 5.11972
MovieThrillerHorror
A man investigates the grisly crimes that occurred in a former insane asylum, unsettling the locals who all seem to have something to hide.
Mae West · 1982Mae West
★ 5.81982
MovieDramaTV Movie
Biography of the curvaceous and sharp-witted actress who scandalized Broadway and Hollywood in the 1920s-30s with her frank approach to sex.
Between Time and Timbuktu · 1972Between Time and Timbuktu
★ 7.71972
MovieComedyScience Fiction
A poet-astronaut is shot through an area of space called the Chronosynclastic Infundibulum. He is duplicated into infinite copies of himself, each of whom finds himself in a bizarre situations on a different world.
Working · 1982Working
★ 4.81982
MovieDramaMusic
This musical adaptation of the Studs Terkel book examines the average worker's viewpoint--showing that he or she is anything but average. Based on a series of interviews with real working people--construction workers, waitresses, firemen, secretaries, and cleaning women, Working is both an exploration of the individuals' occupations and a lament for lost hopes and dreams.
Paradise Lost · 1971Paradise Lost
★ 9.01971
MovieDramaTV Movie
Playwright Clifford Odets' portrait of the Great Depression unfolds in the modest two-family home of Leo and Clara Gordon as misfortune strikes them and the people running with them. Opened on Broadway in 1935, it became one of the Group Theatre's most controversial plays and Odets' favorite.
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