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Streetwalkin'
''Streetwalkin is a 1985 American thriller film starring Melissa Leo. It was an early film from Concorde Pictures. Plot Cookie and her brother run away from their loveless mother and their abusive stepfather in Upstate New York and arrive in New York City. At the train station, Cookie meets a pimp named Duke. With his charm, he makes her fall in love with him and soon has her working as a prostitute. However, his brutality against her colleagues disgusts her. Cast * Melissa Leo as "Cookie" * Dale Midkiff as "Duke" * Leon Robinson as Jason * Antonio Fargas as Finesse * Julie Newmar as "Queen Bee" * Randall Batinkoff as Tim * Annie Golden as Phoebe * Deborah Offner as Heather * Khandi Alexander as "Star" * Greg Germann as "Creepy" * Kirk Taylor as "Spade" * Samantha Fox as Topless Dancer * Conrad Roberts as Seller * Tom Wright as Henchman #1 * Daniel Jordano as Henchman #2 * Gary Howard Klar as Bouncer * Kim Chan as Desk Clerk Production Freeman wrote the film with her hus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dale Midkiff
Dale Alan Midkiff (born July 1, 1959) is an American actor, best known for playing Louis Creed in the horror film ''Pet Sematary'' (1989) and Captain Darien Lambert in the TV series ''Time Trax''. Career Midkiff acted in off-Broadway plays like Mark Medoff's ''The Wager''. His first movie role was in Roger Corman's '' Streetwalkin''' playing a pimp named Duke. Dale's acting was called "grittily impressive" in what some consider a B-movie classic. He has said in interviews that while his family never quite understood his interest in acting, they never discouraged him: "I love them for allowing a kid to believe in his dreams." His first major break came when he landed the role of the young Jock Ewing in '' Dallas: The Early Years''. That was followed by what many consider his biggest role to date, Elvis Presley, in the four-hour miniseries, ''Elvis and Me'', and by ''Dream Street'', a short-lived "blue collar" series set in New Jersey. Midkiff's roles have run the gamut from th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samantha Fox (pornographic Actress)
Stasia Micula (December 3, 1950 – April 22, 2020), known professionally as Samantha Fox, was an American pornographic film and B movie actress. She started working in 1978, working in film for almost a decade. During her film career, Fox starred in over 100 films, including ''Roommates'', '' A Night to Dismember'' and ''The Devil in Miss Jones 2''. Early life Stasia Micula was born in 1950 in New York City. Her father worked as a foreign diplomat. She attended Sarah Lawrence College for art. Career Fox acted in both porn and B-movies, including comedy, drama and horror genres, eventually retiring in the 1980s to work as a fitness instructor. Despite ups and downs - including drug addiction - she had a lucrative career, especially as a muse for director Chuck Vincent. 1970s Fox started her career in porn industry in 1975. At the encouragement of her then husband, Fox modeled for adult magazines including ''Cheri'' and ''Hustler''. She also worked briefly as a prostitute. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Leo
Melissa Chessington Leo (born September 14, 1960) is an American actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and two Critics' Choice Awards. After appearing on several television shows and films in the 1980s, Leo became a regular on the television shows '' All My Children,'' for which she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award, and ''The Young Riders''. Her breakthrough role came in 1993 as detective and later sergeant Kay Howard on the television series '' Homicide: Life on the Street'' (1993–1997). Leo received critical acclaim for her performance as Ray Eddy in the 2008 film ''Frozen River'', earning her several nominations and awards, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. In 2010, Leo won several awards for her performance as Alice Eklund-Ward in the film ''The Fighter'', including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 2013, she wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Corman
Roger William Corman (born April 5, 1926) is an American film director, producer, and actor. He has been called "The Pope of Pop Cinema" and is known as a trailblazer in the world of independent film. Many of Corman's films are based on works that have an already-established critical reputation, such as his cycle of low-budget cult films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe. In 1964, Corman—admired by members of the French New Wave and '' Cahiers du Cinéma''—became the youngest filmmaker to have a retrospective at the Cinémathèque Française, as well as in the British Film Institute and the Museum of Modern Art. He was the co-founder of New World Pictures, the founder of New Concorde and is a longtime member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 2009, he was awarded an Honorary Academy Award "for his rich engendering of films and filmmakers". Corman is also famous for distributing in the U.S. many foreign directors, such as Federico Fellini (Ital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khandi Alexander
Harriet Rene "Khandi" Alexander (born September 4, 1957) is an American dancer, choreographer, and actress. She began her career as a dancer in the 1980s and was a choreographer for Whitney Houston's world tours from 1988 to 1992. During the 1990s, Alexander appeared in a number of films, include ''CB4'' (1993), ''What's Love Got to Do with It'' (1993), '' Sugar Hill'' (1994), and ''There's Something About Mary'' (1998). She starred as Catherine Duke in the NBC sitcom ''NewsRadio'' from 1995 to 1998. She also had a major recurring role in the NBC medical drama '' ER'' (1995–2001) as Jackie Robbins, sister to Dr. Peter Benton. Alexander also received critical acclaim for her leading performance in the HBO miniseries ''The Corner'' in 2000. From 2002 to 2009, Alexander starred as Dr. Alexx Woods in the CBS police procedural series ''CSI: Miami''. From 2010 to 2013, she starred as LaDonna Batiste-Williams in the HBO drama '' Treme''. Later in 2013, she joined the cast of the AB ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Chan
Kim Chan (December 28, 1917 – October 5, 2008) was a Chinese–American actor and producer. He was most notable for his roles as Lo Si, a.k.a. The Ancient, in '' Kung Fu: The Legend Continues'' and Mr. Kim in ''The Fifth Element''. Early life Kim Shung Chan was born in Shanghai, then under the government of the Republic of China. His father was a restaurant owner, and he emigrated to the United States in 1928. An early role that brought him notice was in the Martin Scorsese classic '' The King of Comedy'' with Robert De Niro and Jerry Lewis, in which he played Lewis' butler.Grimes, William, 10-09-2008Kim Chan, Who Had Roles in TV and ‘King of Comedy,’ Is Dead "The New York Times". Career He was a familiar veteran character actor in roles that included Chon Wang's (Jackie Chan) father in ''Shanghai Knights'', Fuji in Who's the Man? Saki in '' High Times' Potluck'', Benny Wong in ''The Corruptor'', "Uncle Benny" Chan in ''Lethal Weapon 4'', The Master in '' Zen Noir'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Howard Klar
Gary Howard Klar (March 24, 1947 – December 31, 2020) was an American actor known for his role as Pvt. Steel in George A. Romero's cult classic zombie film ''Day of the Dead''. He also appeared in ''Married to the Mob'' (1988), ''Big'' (1988), and ''Hackers'' (1995). Biography Klar was born on March 24, 1947 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and was raised by adoptive parents. He had 12 siblings all of whom were adopted too. He was not aware of his adoption until many years later. He played football in college and briefly played professionally but his career unfortunately ended after an injury. He later set out to become an actor. His first film was in 1980's ''Hero at Large'' in a small role as a camera man. His biggest role was that of Pvt. Steel in the 1985 zombie horror film ''Day of the Dead''. He continued to play minor roles in films such as ''Three Men and a Baby'' and ''Big''. On December 30, 1998, he received an unannounced phone call from a Connecticut state official inf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Wright (American Actor)
Harold Thomas Wright (born November 29, 1952) is an American television and theatre actor. Early life Wright was born on November 29, 1952, in Englewood, New Jersey. Career Wright has appeared in over 40 stage productions on and off Broadway. He began his acting career as an original member of The People's Light and Theater Company outside of Philadelphia. Wright also spent four years at the National Playwrights Conference and two summers at the Sundance Institute. On Broadway, he performed in ''A Taste of Honey'' which received two Tony Award nominations. Some of the notable theaters in which he has appeared include the American Place Theater, Manhattan Theater Club, New York Theatre Workshop, Actors Theater of Louisville, Center Stage, Yale Repertory Theater, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Hartford Stage, Los Angeles Stage and Film, and Theatre De La Jeune Lune in Minneapolis starring in ''Farthest From The Sun'' with Steve Guttenberg. In 1987, he played ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conrad Roberts
Conrad Roberts is an Antiguan-American actor who has appeared in several television series and films over the past forty years. His most recent film was ''A Wrinkle In Time''. Career He first began his career in March 1968 when he was cast as "Edward Stark" on the series '' The Doctors''. Roberts would appear in over one hundred episodes of the series. After leaving the series in 1969, Roberts spent the next fifteen years appearing in various film productions. He also has a brief spoken word performance on the final track of Miles Davis's 1971 live/studio album '' Live-Evil''. During the 1980s, he became best known for his appearance in the film '' The Mosquito Coast'' as well as a smaller role in the cult horror film '' The Serpent and the Rainbow''. In 1989, Roberts was granted a recurring role in ''Miami Vice'' as "Police Commissioner Williford". He only appeared in two episodes before returning to film roles. During the 1990s, he appeared in ''The Mask of Zorro'' and also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greg Germann
Gregory Andrew Germann ( ; born February 26, 1958) is an American actor who is known for playing Richard Fish on the television series '' Ally McBeal'', which earned him a Screen Actors Guild award. He also is known for his roles as Eric "Rico" Morrow on the sitcom ''Ned & Stacey'', Tom Koracick in ''Grey’s Anatomy'' and as Hades in Season Five of ''Once Upon a Time''. Early life Germann was born in Houston. The family moved to the Lookout Mountain outside of Golden, Colorado. His mother, Marlene Marian (née Faulkner), was a homemaker and his father, Edward A. Germann, was a playwright and professor. While living in Colorado, Germann expressed interest in acting. He starred in stage plays during his middle and high-school years, before moving to New York in 1982. Career Early work He started in several Broadway plays while in New York, including a role in 1982 alongside Matthew Broderick in the play ''Fancy This'', which Germann also co-wrote. He received praise for roles i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Offner
Deborah Offner (born August 7, 1959) is an American actress, songwriter, playwright, and theatre director. Life Offner was born in New York City in 1959. Her father was Mortimer Offner, a photographer, screenwriter, and TV and theatre director. He wrote many of Katharine Hepburn's early films, but he was blacklisted. Her mother, Pauline, was a photography editor and worked for the first medical photography journal ''Scope''. She went to Sarah Lawrence College and NYU School of the Arts, and after graduating she continued to work in theatre on and off Broadway. She has since appeared in '' Act One'' at the Lincoln Center, and in film and television on ''Orange Is the New Black'' and in the comedy ''Top Five''. She also appeared in several Jonathan Kaplan films and TV series, including '' Project X'', ''Immediate Family'', ''Unlawful Entry'', '' Love Field'', '' ER'' and '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit''. Partial filmography *''Mourning Becomes Electra'' (1974, TV Mini-Seri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Golden
Annie Golden (born October 19, 1951) is an American actress and singer. She first came to prominence as the lead singer of the punk band the Shirts from 1975 to 1981 with whom she recorded three albums. She began her acting career as Mother in the 1977 Broadway revival of '' Hair''; later taking on the role of Jeannie Ryan in the 1979 film version of the musical. Other notable film credits include ''Desperately Seeking Susan'' (1985), '' Baby Boom'' (1987), ''Longtime Companion'' (1989), '' Strictly Business'' (1991), '' Prelude to a Kiss'' (1992), ''12 Monkeys'' (1995), ''The American Astronaut'' (2001), '' It Runs in the Family'' (2003), ''Adventures of Power'' (2008), and ''I Love You Phillip Morris'' (2009). Golden is best known for portraying mute Norma Romano in the Netflix comedy-drama streaming television series '' Orange Is the New Black'' from 2013 to 2019. In 1985–1986 she appeared as the recurring character Tommy in ''Miami Vice'', and from 1989 to 1992 she port ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
