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Bill Brochtrup
William Brochtrup Jr. (born March 7, 1963) is an American actor. He is known for his role playing PAA John Irvin, a gay police public assistant, on the ABC television drama '' NYPD Blue''. Early life and education Born William Brochtrup Jr. in Inglewood, California, Brochtrup was raised in Tacoma, Washington and graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 1985. Career After graduating from college, Brochtrup moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. He was billed as "William Brochtrup" in some of his earliest roles in the 1980s. Theatre credits for Brochtrup include David Marshall Grant's ''Snakebit'' ( off-Broadway at the Century Center and in Los Angeles at the Coast Playhouse), South Coast Repertory (''Noises Off'', '' Taking Steps'', ''The Real Thing''), The Antaeus Company ('' Peace In Our Time'', ''The Malcontent'', ''Cousin Bette'', '' Tonight at 8.30'', Sinan Unel's ''Pera Palas''), Black Dahlia Theatre (Jonathan Tolins' ''Secrets of the T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inglewood, California
Inglewood is a city in southwestern Los Angeles County, California, in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 107,762. It was incorporated on February 14, 1908. The city is in the South Bay region of Los Angeles County, near Los Angeles International Airport. History The earliest residents of what is now Inglewood were Native Americans who used the Aguaje de Centinela natural springs in today's Edward Vincent Jr. Park (known for most of its history as Centinela Park). Local historian Gladys Waddingham wrote that these springs took the name Centinela from the hills that rose gradually around them, and which allowed ranchers to watch over their herds," (thus the name ''centinelas ''or sentinels). Spanish era The original settlers of Los Angeles in 1781, one of whom was Spanish soldier Jose Manuel Orchado Machado, "a 23-year-old muleteer from Los Alamos in Sinaloa". These settlers, she wrote, were ordered by the offic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Shakman
Matt Shakman is an American film, television, and theatre director, and former child actor. He produced and directed ''WandaVision'' and has directed episodes of ''The Great'', ''It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia'', '' Fargo'' and ''Game of Thrones''. He is the artistic director of the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, California. Early life Shakman was born and raised in Ventura, California. His Jewish father and Catholic mother maintained a "relatively secular household", their interfaith marriage being a source of conflict with Shakman's Jewish paternal grandmother. After acting as a child, starting with commercials and landing a series regular role on ''Just the Ten of Us'', he stepped away to attend The Thacher School in Ojai. Shakman went on to attend Yale University where he graduated with an art history and theater double major. It was at Yale where Shakman became interested in theatre, going on to direct a number of stage productions. After university, Shakman lived in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Without A Trace
''Without a Trace'' is an American police procedural drama television series created by Hank Steinberg that aired on CBS from September 26, 2002 to May 19, 2009 with the total of seven seasons and 160 episodes. The series focuses the cases of a Missing Persons Unit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in New York City. On May 19, 2009, CBS cancelled the series after seven seasons. Premise Each episode followed the search for one individual under tight time constraints. The stories also focused on the personal lives of the team members and illustrated how their experiences gave them insight into cases. The team consisted of Jack Malone (Anthony LaPaglia), Samantha Spade (Poppy Montgomery), Vivian Johnson (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), Danny Taylor (Enrique Murciano), Martin Fitzgerald (Eric Close), and Elena Delgado (Roselyn Sánchez), the last of whom joined the cast in the fourth season. The real FBI does investigate missing persons; specifically, they have the auth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dexter (TV Series)
''Dexter'' is an American crime drama television series that aired on Showtime from October 1, 2006, to September 22, 2013. Set in Miami, the series centers on Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall), a forensic technician specializing in bloodstain pattern analysis for the fictional Miami Metro Police Department, who leads a secret parallel life as a vigilante serial killer, hunting down murderers who have not been adequately punished by the justice system due to corruption or legal technicalities. The show's first season was derived from the novel ''Darkly Dreaming Dexter'' (2004), the first in a series of novels by Jeff Lindsay. It was adapted for television by James Manos Jr., who wrote the first episode. Subsequent seasons evolved independently of Lindsay's works. In February 2008, reruns (edited down to a TV-14 rating) began to air on CBS in the wake of the shortage of original programming ensuing from the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike, thus the reruns on CBS ended af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Total Security (TV Series)
''Total Security'' is an American drama television series created by Steven Bochco, David Milch, Charles H. Eglee and Theresa Rebeck. The series stars James Remar, Jim Belushi, Debrah Farentino, Tracey Needham, Bill Brochtrup, Flex Alexander, Tony Plana and Kristin Bauer. The series aired on ABC from September 27, 1997, to November 8, 1997. Cast *James Remar as Frank Cisco *Jim Belushi as Steve Wegman * Debrah Farentino as Jody Kiplinger *Tracey Needham as Ellie Jones * Bill Brochtrup as George LaSalle *Flex Alexander as Neville Watson *Tony Plana as Luis Escobar * Kristin Bauer as Geneva Renault *Jason Biggs as Robbie Rosenfeld *Michael MacRae as Michael Miller *George Wyner George Wyner (born October 20, 1945) is an American film and television actor. Wyner graduated from Syracuse University in 1968 as a drama major and was an in-demand character actor by the early 1970s. Wyner has made guest appearances in over 1 ... as Norman Rosenfeld Episodes References Exte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public Morals (1996 TV Series)
''Public Morals'' is an American sitcom that aired on the CBS network in October 1996. Created and executive produced by Steven Bochco and Jay Tarses, the series was poorly received and was canceled after airing only one episode. Synopsis The show is based around a group of mismatched detectives and others in New York City's vice squad. Among the actors who appear in the series are Peter Gerety and Donal Logue. Bill Brochtrup's character John Irvin, an administrative assistant, had been imported into the show from the drama '' NYPD Blue'', and would return to ''NYPD Blue'' after the cancellation of ''Public Morals''. Both ''Public Morals'' and ''NYPD Blue'' were produced by Steven Bochco. Cast * Peter Gerety as Lieutenant Neil Fogarty * Donal Logue as Detective Ken Schuler * Bill Brochtrup as John Irvin * Julianne Christie as Detective Corinne O'Boyle * Jana Marie Hupp as Sergeant Val Vandergoodt * Joseph Latimore as Officer Darnell "Shag" Ruggs * Justin Louis as Detecti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steven Bochco
Steven Ronald Bochco Masterson (December 16, 1943 – April 1, 2018) was an American television writer and producer. He developed a number of television series, including ''Hill Street Blues'', ''L.A. Law'', ''Doogie Howser, M.D.'', ''Cop Rock'', and ''NYPD Blue.'' Early life Bochco was born to a Jewish family in New York City, the son of Mimi, a painter, and Rudolph Bochco, a concert violinist and Polish immigrant. He was educated in Manhattan at the High School of Music and Art. His elder sister is actress Joanna Frank. In 1961, he enrolled at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now known as Carnegie Mellon University after merging with the Mellon Institute in 1967) in Pittsburgh to study playwriting and theater. He graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Theater in 1966, having also had an MCA Writing Fellowship. Career Bochco went to work for Universal Pictures as a writer and then story editor on '' Ironside'', ''Columbo'', ''McMillan & Wife'', and the short-lived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Space Marines (film)
''Space Marines'' is a 1996 film directed by John Weidner. Plot In the future, space has been colonized. As humanity expanded, the Marine Corps became the Space Force. Colonel Fraser (John Pyper-Ferguson), a former Marine officer who has become a pirate, has his pirates hijack a new synthetic explosive. Light and concealable, it is the perfect improvised explosive device. He takes hostages at a local colony to draw out an Earth negotiator (James Shigeta), who is escorted by a Marine fire team under the command of Captain 'Gray Wolf' Gray (Edward Albert). He then takes him hostage on his ship, as well as the Sergeant in charge of the security detail. After a short space chase, he arrives with demands for gold in exchange for the negotiator's life. Colonel Fraser is killed by a new recruit, who shoots him through his own torso, killing them both in the process. Cast * Billy Wirth as Zack Delano * Cady Huffman as Dar Mullins * John Pyper-Ferguson as Colonel Fraser * Edward Albert a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man Of The Year (1995 Film)
''Man of the Year'' is a 1995 mockumentary film written, directed by and starring Dirk Shafer. It is a fictionalized account of Shafer's reign as ''Playgirl'' magazine's 1992 "Man of the Year" and his struggle with reconciling his public persona as a sex symbol to women with his identity as a gay man. Shafer combines mock interviews (both with some of the actual people involved and with actors standing in for the actual people) with archive footage from Shafer's appearances on talk shows like ''Donahue'', ''The Maury Povich Show'' and ''The Jerry Springer Show'' (along with an early appearance on ''Dance Fever'') and recreations of events like his Playgirl photoshoots, his "fantasy date" with a ''Playgirl'' reader and the death of his friend Pledge Cartwright (played by actor Bill Brochtrup) of an AIDS-related illness to relate the story. Critical response ''Variety'' gave ''Man of the Year'' a generally favorable review, calling the film "pleasant to watch and intermittently cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ravenous (1999 Film)
''Ravenous'' is a 1999 horror Western cannibal film starring Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, Jeffrey Jones and David Arquette. The film, which is set in 1840s California, was directed by Antonia Bird and filmed in Europe. It was not a box office success and failed to recoup much of its $12 million budget. However, despite initial reception being mixed when first released, it has since garnered a reputation as a cult film. ''Ravenous'' had a troubled history. Issues over budget and shooting schedules were still ongoing when filming was about to start in Slovakia. After the original director Milcho Manchevski walked off the set three weeks into production, he was replaced by Bird at the suggestion of actor Robert Carlyle. Michael Nyman and Damon Albarn composed the film's score, which generated a significant amount of interest for its quirky and inventive use of loops, instruments and musical structure. Screenwriter Ted Griffin wrote a script that combined elements from the Donner Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duck (film)
''Duck'' is a 2005 American drama film by director-writer-producer Nic Bettauer. It stars Philip Baker Hall. The film is a dystopian view of the then-near future of 2009. Plot Following the death of his wife, Arthur Pratt (Philip Baker Hall) is on the verge of taking his own life. However, after he has finished burying his wife's ashes at a nearby park, a duckling crosses his path. Noticing that the duckling is all alone, Arthur decides to help it find its brace. Unfortunately, they find its brace has been killed while crossing a road. In sympathy, Arthur then takes the surviving duckling to his apartment, where he bathes and feeds it. No longer on the verge of suicide, Arthur commits himself to raising and taking care of the duckling, whom he names “Joe.” After falling behind on his rent and because his retirement home doesn't allow pets, Arthur is evicted from his apartment and banned from the premises. Arthur returns with Joe to the park where they first met and is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
He's Just Not That Into You (film)
''He's Just Not That Into You'' is a 2009 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Ken Kwapis, based on Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo's 2004 self-help book of the same name. It follows nine people and their varying romantic problems. Gigi, a common thread amongst the characters, is followed more closely than the other eight and has a more developed storyline as she consistently misreads all of her romantic partners' behaviors. She meets Alex, who helps her to interpret signs given to her by her dates. The ensemble cast includes Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Connelly, Kevin Connolly, Bradley Cooper, Ginnifer Goodwin, Scarlett Johansson, Kris Kristofferson, and Justin Long. The film was produced by New Line Cinema and Flower Films, the production company owned by Barrymore, who was executive producer. Production began in Baltimore in 2007. The film was released on February 6, 2009 by Warner Bros. Pictures to mixed reviews. It grossed $27,785, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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