Acting

Stefan Gierasch

Born February 5, 1926 · New York City, New York, USA

Died September 6, 2014 · aged 88

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Stefan Gierasch (February 5, 1926 – September 6, 2014) was an American film and television actor. Gierasch made over 100 screen appearances, mostly in American television, beginning in 1951. In the mid-60s, he performed with the Trinity Square Players in Providence, Rhode Island. He appeared in dozens of films including in The Hustler, Jeremiah Johnson, What…

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Carrie

MovieHorrorThriller

Withdrawn and sensitive teenager Carrie White faces bullying from her classmates and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers, things take a dark and violent turn.

High Plains Drifter

High Plains Drifter · 1973

High Plains Drifter

MovieWesternDrama

A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen who tried to kill him, the townsfolk decide to hire the Stranger to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.

Murder in the First

Murder in the First · 1995

Murder in the First

MovieCrimeDrama

A young, inexperienced public defender is assigned to defend an inmate accused of committing murder while behind bars.

What's Up, Doc?

What's Up, Doc? · 1972

What's Up, Doc?

MovieComedyCrime

The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.

Silver Streak

Silver Streak · 1976

MovieComedyCrime

A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his own. But all that accomplishes is to get the killer after him.

Jeremiah Johnson

Jeremiah Johnson · 1972

Jeremiah Johnson

While slowly adapting to the grueling life of a mountain man in the Rocky Mountains, Jeremiah Johnson encounters the Crow and Flathead tribes as well as hunters, trappers and settlers, all of whom call these mountains home.

The Hustler

The Hustler · 1961

MovieDramaRomance

Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary Minnesota Fats to a high-stakes match.

Junior

MovieComedyScience Fiction

A research scientist becomes the world's first pregnant man in order to test a drug he and a colleague have designed for expectant women. To carry out the trial, he has an embryo implant, believing that he will only carry the baby for three months – hardly expecting to face the prospect of giving birth.

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Carrie

MovieHorrorThriller

Withdrawn and sensitive teenager Carrie White faces bullying from her classmates and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers, things take a dark and violent turn.

Mr. Morton

High Plains Drifter

High Plains Drifter · 1973

High Plains Drifter

MovieWesternDrama

A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen who tried to kill him, the townsfolk decide to hire the Stranger to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.

Mayor Jason Hobart

Murder in the First

Murder in the First · 1995

Murder in the First

MovieCrimeDrama

A young, inexperienced public defender is assigned to defend an inmate accused of committing murder while behind bars.

Warden James Humson

What's Up, Doc?

What's Up, Doc? · 1972

What's Up, Doc?

MovieComedyCrime

The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.

Fritz

Silver Streak

Silver Streak · 1976

MovieComedyCrime

A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his own. But all that accomplishes is to get the killer after him.

Professor Schreiner & Johnson

Jeremiah Johnson

Jeremiah Johnson · 1972

Jeremiah Johnson

While slowly adapting to the grueling life of a mountain man in the Rocky Mountains, Jeremiah Johnson encounters the Crow and Flathead tribes as well as hunters, trappers and settlers, all of whom call these mountains home.

Del Gue

The Hustler

The Hustler · 1961

MovieDramaRomance

Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary Minnesota Fats to a high-stakes match.

Preacher

Junior

MovieComedyScience Fiction

A research scientist becomes the world's first pregnant man in order to test a drug he and a colleague have designed for expectant women. To carry out the trial, he has an embryo implant, believing that he will only carry the baby for three months – hardly expecting to face the prospect of giving birth.

Edward Sawyer

The Champ

The Champ · 1979

Billy used to be a great boxer, but he's settled into a hardscrabble life that revolves around drinking, training horses, and the one bright spot in his existence — his young son, T.J. Although Billy has had custody of T.J. since his wife, Annie, left the family years ago, her return prompts a new struggle for the former fighter. Determined to hold on to his son, Billy gets back into the ring to try and recapture his past success.

Charlie Goodman

Blood Beach

Blood Beach · 1980

MovieScience FictionHorror

Something or someone is attacking people one by one on the beach. Some of them are mutilated, but most of them are sucked into the sand, disappearing without a trace. What is the creature responsible? Where does it live, and where did it come from? And is there any chance of it reproducing? Meanwhile, David Huffman and Mariana Hill are once-almost-married old friends, reunited over the death of her mother on the beach, and searching for clues in the abandoned buildings where they used to play when they were young.

Dr. Dimitrios

Dave

A sweet-natured Temp Agency operator and amateur Presidential look-alike is recruited by the Secret Service to become a temporary stand-in for the President of the United States.

House Majority Leader

The New Centurions

The New Centurions · 1972

The New Centurions

MovieCrimeDrama

An idealistic rookie cop joins the LAPD to make ends meet while finishing law school, and is indoctrinated by a seasoned veteran. As time goes on, he loses his ambitions and family as police work becomes his entire life.

Landlord

Perfect

Perfect · 1985

MovieDramaRomance

A female aerobics instructor meets a male reporter doing a story on health clubs, but it isn't love at first sight.

Charlie

Blue Sunshine

Blue Sunshine · 1977

MovieScience FictionHorror

At a party, someone goes insane and murders three women. Falsely accused of the brutal killings, Jerry is on the run. More bizarre homicides continue with alarming frequency all over town. Trying to clear his name, Jerry discovers the shocking truth...people are losing their hair and turning into violent psychopaths and the connection may be some LSD all the murderers took a decade before.

Lt. Jennings

Spellbinder

Spellbinder · 1988

MovieHorrorDrama

After leaving work one night, Los Angeles attorney Jeff Mills and his colleague rescue a young, beautiful woman from an abusive boyfriend. Jeff soon becomes romantically involved with her and embroiled in the web of intrigue that follows her, despite a string of ominous happenstances and repeated warnings from his secretary.

Edgar DeWitt

Jack the Bear

Jack the Bear · 1993

MovieDramaComedy

Story of the relationships between two sons and their father, who moves the family to California and becomes a tv horror show host after the death of his wife.

Father-in-Law

Crime of the Century

Crime of the Century · 1996

Crime of the Century

MovieCrimeDrama

In 1932, the nation was shocked when the 14-month-old son of Charles Lindbergh was kidnapped, held for ransom, and murdered. Two years later, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested, convicted, and executed. This film dramatizes the investigation against Hauptmann, the trial, and the execution, painting a picture of a corrupt police force under pressure to finger a killer framing an innocent man by manufacturing evidence, paying-off and blackmailing witnesses, and covering up exculpatory evidence.

Albert Osborn Sr.

Cornbread, Earl and Me

Cornbread, Earl and Me · 1975

Cornbread, Earl and Me

The unintentional shooting by police of a star basketball player has profound personal, political and community repercussions in this acclaimed adaptation of the novel Hog Butcher by Ronald Fair. This was one of the more thoughtful urban dramas produced at the height of the "blaxploitation" craze. Also released under the title Hit the Open Man, it features the screen debut of Laurence Fishburne, who was barely a teenager at the time.

Sgt. Danaher

The Rosary Murders

The Rosary Murders · 1987

The Rosary Murders

MovieCrimeMystery

A priest is put in a dilemma when the serial killer who has been murdering priests and nuns confesses to him.

Trupiano

Victory at Entebbe

Victory at Entebbe · 1976

Victory at Entebbe

MovieActionDrama

The film is based on an actual event: Operation Entebbe and the freeing of Israeli hostages at Entebbe Airport (now Entebbe International Airport) in Uganda.

General Mordecai Gur

The Great Texas Dynamite Chase

The Great Texas Dynamite Chase · 1976

The Great Texas Dynamite Chase

MovieActionComedy

Candy and Ellie Jo are a pair of sexy bank robbers who blast their way into small-town banks with a carload of dynamite! When they take Slim hostage, it begins a thrill-packed crime spree across the state of Texas.

Hotel Clerk

That Kind of Woman

That Kind of Woman · 1959

That Kind of Woman

MovieDramaComedy

A young G.I. falls in love with a kept woman on a train to New York.

Soldier (uncredited)

The Traveling Executioner

The Traveling Executioner · 1970

The Traveling Executioner

MovieComedyDrama

Jonas Candide performs his job as state executioner in early 20th century Mississippi like a combination preacher and carnival barker, persuading condemned men to accept their deaths before electrocuting them on his electric chair. After he's assigned his first woman to execute, however, Jonas' sense of purpose is shaken.

Willy Herzallerliebst

Legend of the Phantom Rider

Legend of the Phantom Rider · 2003

Legend of the Phantom Rider

MovieActionFantasy

Two ancient entities reincarnated through the centuries face off time and again for an innocent soul.

Nathan

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Star Trek: The Next Generation · 1987

Star Trek: The Next Generation

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyAction & Adventure

Follow the intergalactic adventures of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and his loyal crew aboard the all-new USS Enterprise NCC-1701D, as they explore new worlds.

Dr. Hal Moseley

Cheers

The story about a blue-collar Boston bar run by former sports star Sam Malone and the quirky and wonderful people who worked and drank there.

Mr. Anawalt

ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.

Daniel

Murder, She Wrote

Murder, She Wrote · 1984

Murder, She Wrote

SeriesMysteryCrime

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.

Dr. Cornwall

Bonanza

Bonanza · 1959

SeriesWesternAction & Adventure

The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community.

Orville Winters

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.

Ben Masters

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.

Professor Truwald

Great Performances

Great Performances · 1971

Great Performances

SeriesComedyDocumentary

The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.

Mikhail

Falcon Crest

Falcon Crest · 1981

SeriesSoapDrama

Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. A total of 227 episodes were produced. The series revolves around the feuding factions of the wealthy Gioberti/Channing family in the Californian wine industry. Jane Wyman starred as Angela Channing, the tyrannical matriarch of the Falcon Crest Winery, alongside Robert Foxworth as Chase Gioberti, Angela's nephew who returns to Falcon Crest following the death of his father. The series was set in the fictitious Tuscany Valley northeast of San Francisco.

Sam Giannini

Ironside

Ironside · 1967

SeriesCrimeDrama

When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to the police department. Detective Sergeant Ed Brown and policewoman Eve Whitfield join with him to crack varied and fascinating cases. Ex-con Mark Sanger is employed by the chief as home help but eventually becomes a fully fledged member of the team also. Officer Whitfield leaves after 4 years service, and is replaced by Officer Fran Belding.

Klaus Muller

The Practice

The Practice · 1997

A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its storylines about “people who walk a moral tightrope.”

Judge Brudister

M*A*S*H

M*A*S*H · 1972

SeriesWar & PoliticsDrama

The 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is stuck in the middle of the Korean war. With little help from the circumstances they find themselves in, they are forced to make their own fun. Fond of practical jokes and revenge, the doctors, nurses, administrators, and soldiers often find ways of making wartime life bearable.

Colonel Ditka

Miami Vice

Miami Vice · 1984

SeriesCrimeDrama

The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership of Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs - who first meet when Tubbs is undercover in a drug cartel.

Dr. Leo Krebs

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.

Sargent Boyle

Hawaii Five-O

Hawaii Five-O · 1969

SeriesAction & AdventureDrama

Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".

Sergei Borzov

Quincy, M.E.

Quincy, M.E. · 1976

SeriesCrimeDrama

Los Angeles County medical examiner Quincy routinely engages in police investigations.

Charlie Wilson / Otto Rademacher

Touched by an Angel

Touched by an Angel · 1994

Touched by an Angel

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives.

Gus

The Incredible Hulk

The Incredible Hulk · 1977

The Incredible Hulk

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyAction & Adventure

During an experiment gone bad, radiation turns a scientist into a raging green behemoth whenever he becomes agitated. Unable to control his transformations, David Banner searches for a cure as he crosses the country, fugitive-style, with a dogged tabloid reporter on his trail.

Mr. Buchanan

Barney Miller

Barney Miller · 1975

Barney Miller is the kind of cop we'd all like to run into. Always sensible, he maintains order over a band of detectives who gamble, hit on anything in skirts, go to renaissance philosophy conventions for fun, and would really prefer to be writing. Nearly all of the action takes place in the squad room where citizens and criminals are brought in to complicate the mix.

Charles Foster Keller

Studio One

Studio One · 1948

An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.

Goldstein

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.

Willie Kovar

Naked City

Naked City · 1958

SeriesDramaCrime

Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the same name, and mimics its dramatic “semi-documentary” format. In 1997, the episode “Sweet Prince of Delancey Street” was ranked #93 on TV Guide’s “100 Greatest Episodes of All Time”.

Weller

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.

Congressman Leon Beckwith

The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone · 1985

The Twilight Zone

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two or three) rooted in horror or suspense, often with a surprising twist at the end. Episodes usually feature elements of drama and comedy.

Russian Diplomat (segment "A Small Talent for War")