Acting

Bert Remsen

Born February 25, 1925 · Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, USA

Died April 22, 1999 · aged 74

Bert Remsen (February 25, 1925 – April 22, 1999) was an American actor. Born in Glen Cove, New York, on Long Island, he played character roles in numerous films directed by Robert Altman, including: Brewster McCloud (1970), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), Thieves Like Us (1974), California Split (1974), Nashville (1975), Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976), A Weddin…

Known For

The Bodyguard

The Bodyguard · 1992

MovieActionDrama

A former Secret Service agent grudgingly takes an assignment to protect a pop idol who's threatened by a crazed fan. At first, the safety-obsessed bodyguard and the self-indulgent diva totally clash. But before long, all that tension sparks fireworks of another sort, and the love-averse tough guy is torn between duty and romance.

Conspiracy Theory

Conspiracy Theory · 1997

Conspiracy Theory

MovieActionDrama

A man obsessed with conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of his theories turns out to be true. Unfortunately, in order to save himself, he has to figure out which theory it is.

Maverick

Maverick · 1994

MovieActionAdventure

Bret Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional $3k in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game beginning in a few days. He joins forces with a woman with a marvelous Southern accent, and the two try and enter the game.

The Player

The Player · 1992

MovieMysteryDrama

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

Code of Silence

Code of Silence · 1985

Code of Silence

MovieActionCrime

A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.

Forces of Nature

Forces of Nature · 1999

Forces of Nature

MovieRomanceComedy

Ben Holmes, a professional book-jacket blurbologist, is trying to get to Savannah for his wedding. He just barely catches the last plane, but a seagull flies into the engine as the plane is taking off. All later flights are cancelled because of an approaching hurricane, so he is forced to hitch a ride in a Geo Metro with an attractive but eccentric woman named Sara.

Joshua Tree

Joshua Tree · 1993

A Los Angeles police detective tracks a fugitive who heads for the desert with a deputy sheriff as hostage.

McCabe & Mrs. Miller

McCabe & Mrs. Miller · 1971

McCabe & Mrs. Miller

MovieDramaWestern

A gambler and a prostitute become thriving business partners in a remote Old West mining town until a large corporation arrives on the scene.

Filmography

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The Bodyguard

The Bodyguard · 1992

MovieActionDrama

A former Secret Service agent grudgingly takes an assignment to protect a pop idol who's threatened by a crazed fan. At first, the safety-obsessed bodyguard and the self-indulgent diva totally clash. But before long, all that tension sparks fireworks of another sort, and the love-averse tough guy is torn between duty and romance.

Rotary Club President

Conspiracy Theory

Conspiracy Theory · 1997

Conspiracy Theory

MovieActionDrama

A man obsessed with conspiracy theories becomes a target after one of his theories turns out to be true. Unfortunately, in order to save himself, he has to figure out which theory it is.

Alice's Father

Maverick

Maverick · 1994

MovieActionAdventure

Bret Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional $3k in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game beginning in a few days. He joins forces with a woman with a marvelous Southern accent, and the two try and enter the game.

Riverboat Poker Player

The Player

The Player · 1992

MovieMysteryDrama

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

Bert Ramsen

Code of Silence

Code of Silence · 1985

Code of Silence

MovieActionCrime

A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.

Commander Kates

Forces of Nature

Forces of Nature · 1999

Forces of Nature

MovieRomanceComedy

Ben Holmes, a professional book-jacket blurbologist, is trying to get to Savannah for his wedding. He just barely catches the last plane, but a seagull flies into the engine as the plane is taking off. All later flights are cancelled because of an approaching hurricane, so he is forced to hitch a ride in a Geo Metro with an attractive but eccentric woman named Sara.

Ned

Joshua Tree

Joshua Tree · 1993

A Los Angeles police detective tracks a fugitive who heads for the desert with a deputy sheriff as hostage.

Woody Engstrom

McCabe & Mrs. Miller

McCabe & Mrs. Miller · 1971

McCabe & Mrs. Miller

MovieDramaWestern

A gambler and a prostitute become thriving business partners in a remote Old West mining town until a large corporation arrives on the scene.

Bart Coyle

Nashville

Nashville · 1975

MovieDramaComedy

The intersecting stories of twenty-four characters—from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitress—and their connection through the music business in Nashville, Tennessee.

Star

Places in the Heart

Places in the Heart · 1984

Places in the Heart

In 1935 rural Texas, recently widowed Edna Spaulding struggles to survive with two small children, a farm to run, and very little money in the bank - not to mention a deadly tornado and the unwelcome presence of the Ku Klux Klan. Edna is aided by her beautician sister, Margaret; a blind boarder, Mr. Will; and a would-be thief, Moze, who decides to teach Edna how to plant and harvest cotton.

Tee Tot Hightower

Dick Tracy

Dick Tracy · 1990

MovieAdventureComedy

The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.

Bartender

Only the Lonely

Only the Lonely · 1991

Only the Lonely

MovieComedyRomance

Danny Muldoon, a Chicago policeman, still lives with his overbearing mother Rose. He meets and falls in love with Theresa Luna, whose father owns the local funeral parlour. Naturally, his mother objects to the relationship, and Danny and Theresa must either overcome her objections or give up the romance.

Spats

Kid Galahad

Kid Galahad · 1962

MovieDramaCrime

After completing military service, Walter Gulick takes a job as a sparring partner at a gym, the owner of which sees potential in Walter as a professional fighter—and takes him under his wing.

Max (uncredited)

California Split

California Split · 1974

California Split

MovieComedyDrama

Carefree single guy Charlie Waters rooms with two lovely prostitutes, Barbara Miller and Susan Peters, and lives to gamble. Along with his glum betting buddy, Bill Denny, Charlie sets out on a gambling streak in search of the ever-elusive big payday. While Charlie and Bill have some lucky moments, they also have to contend with serious setbacks that threaten to derail their hedonistic betting binge.

Helen Brown

Dead Ringer

Dead Ringer · 1964

MovieCrimeDrama

The working class twin sister of a callous wealthy woman impulsively murders her out of revenge and assumes the identity of the dead woman. But impersonating her dead twin is more complicated and risky than she anticipated.

Daniel 'Dan' Lister, Bartender

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson · 1976

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson

MovieWesternComedy

Buffalo Bill plans to put on his own Wild West sideshow, and Chief Sitting Bull has agreed to appear in it. However, Sitting Bull has his own hidden agenda, involving the President and General Custer.

The Bartender (Crutch)

Borderline

Borderline · 1980

MovieActionCrime

Jeb Maynard is a patrolman guarding the U.S.-Mexican border, whose partner and buddy Scooter has just been murdered. Maynard knows that a smuggler of illegal aliens is responsible for Scooter's death, but the feds insist that drug dealers committed the crime.

Carl J. Richards

Pork Chop Hill

Pork Chop Hill · 1959

MovieDramaHistory

Korean War, April 1953. Lieutenant Clemons, leader of the King company of the United States Infantry, is ordered to recapture Pork Chop Hill, occupied by a powerful Chinese Army force, while, just seventy miles away, at nearby the village of Panmunjom, a tense cease-fire conference is celebrated.

Lt. Cummings

White Man's Burden

White Man's Burden · 1995

White Man's Burden

The story takes place in alternative America where the blacks are members of social elite, and whites are inhabitants of inner city ghettos. Louis Pinnock is a white worker in a chocolate factory, loving husband and father of two children. While delivering a package for black CEO Thaddeus Thomas, he is mistaken for a voyeur and, as a result, loses his job, gets beaten by black cops and his family gets evicted from their home. Desperate Pinnock takes a gun and kidnaps Thomas, demanding justice.

Hot Dog Vendor

Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat

Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat · 1991

Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat

MovieComedyHorror

Reclusive vampires lounge in a lonely American town. They wear sunscreen to protect themselves. A descendant of Van Helsing arrives with hilarious consequences.

Milt

Lansky

MovieDramaCrime

Organized crime boss Meyer Lansky remembers his life as he is moving about the world looking for some country that will take him in since the USA have put out an extradition order for him.

Senator Tobey

TerrorVision

TerrorVision · 1986

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

After Stanley Putterman installs a state-of-the-art satellite dish in his backyard, a strange monster leaps off the screen and needs to feed on humans for survival. The Putterman children Sherman and Suzy—along with Suzy's metalhead boyfriend O.D.—are left to figure out what to do.

Grampa Putterman

Dillinger and Capone

Dillinger and Capone · 1995

Dillinger and Capone

MovieDramaAction

In 1934, J. Edgar Hoover and the boys made headlines for mowing down John Dillinger in a hail of bullets outside Chicago's Biograph theater. But in fact, according to this Jon Purdy gangster thriller, the Feds iced Dillinger's brother. Fast-forward five years, when mobster kingpin Al Capone gives the real Dillinger an offer he can't refuse: rob millions from a secluded vault or watch his wife and child get whacked.

Wheezy

Tai-Pan

Tai-Pan · 1986

MovieAdventureDrama

The film begins following the British victory of the first Opium War and the seizure of Hong Kong. Although the island is largely uninhabited and the terrain unfriendly, it has a large port that both the British government and various trading companies believe will be useful for the import of merchandise to be traded on mainland China, a highly lucrative market.

Columbo

Columbo · 1971

SeriesCrimeDrama

Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.

Mark

Perry Mason

Perry Mason · 1957

SeriesMysteryDrama

The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent.

Police Lt. White

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine · 1993

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyAction & Adventure

At Deep Space Nine, a space station located next to a wormhole in the vicinity of the liberated planet of Bajor, Commander Sisko and crew welcome alien visitors, root out evildoers and solve all types of unexpected problems that come their way.

Kubus

Dallas

SeriesSoapDrama

The world's first mega-soap, and one of the most popular ever produced, Dallas had it all. Beautiful women, expensive cars, and men playing Monopoly with real buildings. Famous for one of the best cliffhangers in TV history, as the world asked "Who shot J.R.?" A slow-burner to begin with, Dallas hit its stride in the 2nd season, with long storylines and expert character development. Dallas ruled the airwaves in the 1980's.

Dandy Dandridge

The Andy Griffith Show

The Andy Griffith Show · 1960

The Andy Griffith Show

SeriesComedyFamily

Andy Taylor is the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife, a spinster aunt and housekeeper, Aunt Bee, and a precocious young son, Opie. Local ne'er-do-wells, bumbling pals, and temperamental girlfriends further complicate his life.

Jim Slater

Knots Landing

Knots Landing · 1979

SeriesDramaSoap

The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community.

Jackson Mobley

Melrose Place

Melrose Place · 1992

SeriesDramaSoap

Follow the lives of a group of young adults living in a brownstone apartment complex on Melrose Place, in Los Angeles, California.

Judge George Markham

The Fugitive

The Fugitive · 1963

SeriesAction & AdventureDrama

Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man". At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, most notably dogged by Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard.

US Coast Guard Skipper

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour · 1962

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

SeriesCrimeMystery

A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.

Sheriff

Maverick

Maverick · 1957

SeriesComedyWestern

The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards than messing up their fine clothing with actual work. Sly and clever, none of the Mavericks are much for acts of derring do, but they can be courageous when the situation calls for it. Most often, however, they live by their wits and considerable charm.

Deputy George

Baywatch

Baywatch · 1989

SeriesAction & AdventureDrama

Join the Baywatch lifeguards on their thrilling adventures filled with beautiful beaches and those iconic red swimsuits.

Shop Owner

Charlie's Angels

Charlie's Angels · 1976

Charlie's Angels

SeriesAction & Adventure

Beautiful, intelligent, and ultra-sophisticated, Charlie's Angels are everything a man could dream of... and way more than they could ever handle! Receiving their orders via speaker phone from their never seen boss, Charlie, the Angels employ their incomparable sleuthing and combat skills, as well as their lethal feminine charm, to crack even the most seemingly insurmountable of cases.

Pinky Tibbs

Dynasty

Dynasty · 1981

SeriesSoapDrama

The saga of a wealthy Denver family in the oil business: Blake Carrington, the patriarch; Krystle, his former secretary and wife; his children: Adam, lost in childhood after a kidnapping; Fallon, pampered and spoiled; Steven, openly gay; and Amanda, hidden from him by his ex-wife, the conniving Alexis. Most of the show features the conflict between 2 large corporations, Blake's Denver Carrington and Alexis' ColbyCo.

Matlock

Matlock · 1986

SeriesDramaCrime

Thrifty, folksy and cantankerous, Matlock charges a premium for his services but is worth every penny: This renowned attorney, always clothed in his trademark light-gray suit and driving his signature Ford Crown Victoria, has an uncanny knack for finding overlooked clues and exposing murderers in dramatic courtroom scenes.

Wilson Douglas

The F.B.I.

The F.B.I. · 1965

SeriesCrimeDrama

The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series. Alcoa was co-sponsor of Season One only.

Spectrographic Examiner

Leave It to Beaver

Leave It to Beaver · 1957

Leave It to Beaver

SeriesComedyFamily

An inquisitive and often naïve boy, Theodore 'The Beaver' Cleaver, has adventures at home, in school, and around his suburban neighborhood. The show also starred Barbara Billingsley and Hugh Beaumont as Beaver's parents, June and Ward Cleaver, and Tony Dow as Beaver's brother Wally. The show has attained an iconic status in the US, with the Cleavers exemplifying the idealized suburban family of the mid-20th century.

Dr. Kildare

Dr. Kildare · 1961

The story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession, deal with the problems of his patients, and win the respect of the senior doctor in his specialty, internal medicine.

Dr. Tom Belmanno

Hart to Hart

Hart to Hart · 1979

SeriesAction & AdventureCrime

Wealthy couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife, moonlight as amateur detectives.

The Pretender

The Pretender · 1996

SeriesDramaMystery

Raised in a secret facility built for experimenting on children, Jarod is a genius who can master any profession and become anyone he has to be. When he realizes as an adult that he's actually a prisoner and his captors are not as benevolent as he's been told, he breaks out. While trying to find his real identity, Jarod helps those he encounters and tries to avoid the woman sent to retrieve him.

Father Moore

Starsky & Hutch

Starsky & Hutch · 1975

Starsky & Hutch

SeriesAction & AdventureDrama

Streetwise Detective David Starsky partners up with a more intellectual partner, Kenneth 'Hutch' Hutchinson, to protect citizens and patrol the streets of Bay City.

Remington Steele

Remington Steele · 1982

Remington Steele

SeriesDramaFamily

Laura Holt, a licensed private detective, opens a detective agency but finds that potential clients refuse to hire a woman, however qualified. To solve the problem, Laura invents a fictitious male superior whom she names Remington Steele. Through a series of events that unfold in the first episode, "License to Steele," a former thief and con man, whose real name is never revealed, assumes the identity of Remington Steele. Behind the scenes, Laura remains firmly in charge.

Barney Kiernan

The Donna Reed Show

The Donna Reed Show · 1958

The Donna Reed Show

SeriesComedyFamily

Revolves around typical family problems, such as firing a clumsy housekeeper, throwing a retirement bash for a colleague, and finding quality time away from the children.

Cagney & Lacey

Cagney & Lacey · 1982

SeriesCrimeDrama

Mary Beth Lacey and Chris Cagney are teamed up as NYPD police detectives. Their opposing personalities (one is tough and the other sensitive) mesh to make this one of the great crime-fighting duos of all time.

Deputy Chief

Police Woman

Police Woman · 1974

SeriesAction & AdventureCrime

Sergeant “Pepper"” Anderson, an undercover cop for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, poses undercover from mob girl to prostitute.