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Wings Hauser
Gerald Dwight "Wings" Hauser (born December 12, 1947) is an American actor and occasional director. He received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for his supporting role in '' Tough Guys Don't Dance'' (1987). Life and career Hauser was born in Hollywood, California, the son of Geraldine (née Thienes) and director and producer Dwight Hauser (1911–1969). His brother is actor Erich Hauser. In 1967, Hauser landed his first acting role as a marine rifleman in the World War II-drama ''First to Fight''. In 1975, Hauser released an album for RCA entitled ''Your Love Keeps Me Off the Streets''. For this LP, he used the name Wings Livinryte. Hauser first attracted notice in 1977 in ''The Young and the Restless'' as Greg Foster. He starred in the 1982 made-for-TV-movie '' Hear No Evil'' as Garrard. Hauser appeared in forty-one television series, including recurring roles in ''Beverly Hills 90210'', '' Murder, She Wrote'', and '' Roseanne'', and a cameo as a juror in the seaso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hollywood, Los Angeles
Hollywood is a neighborhood in the Central Los Angeles, central region of Los Angeles, California. Its name has come to be a metonymy, shorthand reference for the Cinema of the United States, U.S. film industry and the people associated with it. Many notable film studios, such as Columbia Pictures, Walt Disney Studios (division), Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., and Universal Pictures, are located near or in Hollywood. Hollywood was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was Merger (politics), consolidated with the city of Los Angeles in 1910. Soon thereafter a prominent film industry emerged, having developed first on the East Coast. Eventually it became the most recognizable in the world. History Initial development H.J. Whitley, a real estate developer, arranged to buy the E.C. Hurd ranch. They agreed on a price and shook hands on the deal. Whitley shared his plans for the new town with General Harrison Gray Otis (publisher), Harrison Gray Otis, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rubber (2010 Film)
''Rubber'' is a 2010 English-language French independent horror-comedy film about a tire that comes to life and kills people with psychokinetic powers. It was directed and written by Quentin Dupieux. The film was produced by Realitism Films. It was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010, where it received positive reviews from critics. Plot A group of people in a California desert are gathered to watch a "film". A sheriff named Chad points out that many moments in cinema happen for "no reason", that life is full of this "no reason", and that this film is an homage to "no reason". Chad is sometimes participating in the narrative action and sometimes commenting on it. An accountant then passes binoculars to the audience members and rides off on a bicycle. The audience starts looking through their binoculars into the distance, waiting for the "film" to start. Throughout the film, this group of people return in order to gauge their reactions to what has taken place so far. Somewh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pale Blood
Pale Blood is a 1990 direct-to-video vampire film directed by V.V. Dachin Hsu and Michael W. Leighton. It was written by Hsu and Takashi Matsuoka, and produced by Omar Kaczmarczyk and Leighton. The film starred George Chakiris, Wings Hauser and Pamela Ludwig, and featured music and performance by the punk rock band Agent Orange. Plot Michael Fury (Chakiris) arrives in Los Angeles to investigate a series of mysterious high-profile murders where the victims have been completely drained of blood. Aiding him in his quest is Lori (Ludwig), a junior member at an investigative firm who is obsessed with the occult. Unbeknownst to her, Fury is himself a vampire. Yet, unbeknownst to Fury, Lori has been keeping a little surprise hidden too. Cast *George Chakiris as Michael Fury *Wings Hauser as Van Vandameer *Pamela Ludwig as Lori *Diana Frank as Jenny *Darcy DeMoss as Cherry *Earl Garnes as Harker *Frazer Smith as Frazer Kelly *Michael Palm as Lead Singer in Band *Agent Orange as Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Siege Of Firebase Gloria
''The Siege of Firebase Gloria'' is a 1989 war film directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith, starring Wings Hauser and R. Lee Ermey. It was filmed in the Philippines. Plot At the start of the Tet Offensive, a Marine Long Range Reconnaissance unit led by Sergeant Major Bill Hafner ( R. Lee Ermey) and Corporal Joseph L. Di Nardo (Wings Hauser) come upon a village where the locals have been executed gruesomely for fraternising with the US troops. Di Nardo finds a sole survivor, a young Vietnamese child (Michael Cruz). Hafner's recon unit which also consists of college kid Murphy and radioman Shortwave who has only 17 days left on his enlistment exit the village and while on patrol, come upon a VietCong tunnel complex where they find an American POW. Later the Marines arrive at the poorly defended firebase called Gloria. Hafner immediately takes control of the base when he discovers the commanding officer Captain Williams is a burned out drug addict and is not fit for duty. Hafner and D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Carpenter (film)
''The Carpenter'' is a 1988 horror film directed by David Wellington, and written by Doug Taylor. Plot After being released from the institution in Québec where she was placed in after suffering a mental breakdown, housewife Alice Jarett relocates to the country of Canada with her husband Martin, a professor. The house the couple moves into was never finished, so Martin hires a cheap construction crew to complete it. One night, Alice is awakened by hammering in the basement, caused by a carpenter she had not seen with the rest of the crew. Unlike the other workers, this one has a pleasant demeanor and good work ethic, and while Martin is away one night, he stops another carpenter from trying to rape Alice by cutting the man's arms off with a circular saw, sending the dazed Alice back to bed, and cleaning up the mess afterward. Alice has a few more run-ins with the carpenter, and comes to the conclusion that he is the spirit of the house's builder, a man named Edward who was execu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nightmare At Noon
''Nightmare at Noon'', also titled ''Death Street USA'', is a 1988 American action horror film written and directed by Nico Mastorakis, and starring Wings Hauser, Bo Hopkins, George Kennedy, and Brion James. The film was shot on-location in Moab and Arches National Park, Utah. The score was composed by Stanley Myers and Hans Zimmer. Plot A mad albino scientist (Brion James) injects a substance into the water supply for the fictional town of Canyonland, an isolated town in rural Utah, with the help of a shadowy, unknown agency. Anybody who drinks the water eventually turns into a rabid zombie. Some visitors who recently arrived in a Recreational Vehicle observe the zombies. After recollecting seeing something unusual at the river as they were driving to the town, they suspect it is the water turning the towns residents crazy. They attempt in vain to warn city officials and reach the outside world for help. The escape attempts are futile as the mad scientist has severed all means to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wind (1986 Film)
''The Wind'' (also known as ''The Edge of Terror'' and ''Terror's Edge'') is a 1986 American slasher film co-written, produced, co-edited and directed by Nico Mastorakis. It stars Meg Foster, Wings Hauser, Robert Morley, and David McCallum. The film follows a novelist who is under attack by an assailant during a windy night in Monemvasia. Plot American novelist Sian Anderson travels to the solitude Greek island Monemvasia from her Los Angeles home to write her newest mystery book. She rents a home owned by Elias Appelby, an eccentric elderly man, who advises her that a strong and massive wind will occur throughout the night, and that he recommends she stay indoors while the wind blows from the sea. After Elias leaves, Sian is met by Phil, a gruff handyman and fellow American who also lives on the property. That night, Phil murders Elias after he attempts to fire him. Sian later witnesses Phil burying something from a distance. When she goes to investigate, she finds Elias's corpse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling
''Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling'' is a 1986 American biographical comedy-drama film directed, produced by and starring Richard Pryor, who also wrote the screenplay with Paul Mooney and Rocco Urbisci. ''Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling'' was Richard Pryor's first and only directorial effort, although he is credited as such on the screen version of his 1983 stand-up comedy concert film. Background Pryor plays Jo Jo Dancer, a popular stand-up comedian, who has severely burned himself while freebasing cocaine. The film came out six years after Pryor had set himself on fire while freebasing. Synopsis As Dancer lies hospitalized in a coma, his spiritual alter ego revisits his life, from growing up in a brothel as a child and struggling to beat the long odds to become a top-rated comedian. However, his success leads to extensive drug use and womanizing that takes its toll on his life. It affects every relationship, including his marriages. Jo Jo's spirit watches and attempts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terror In The Aisles
''Terror in the Aisles'' is a 1984 American documentary film about horror films, including slasher films and crime thrillers. The film is directed by Andrew J. Kuehn, and hosted by Donald Pleasence and Nancy Allen. The original music score is composed by John Everett Beal. Plot Director Andrew J. Kuehn has excerpted brief segments of terror and suspense in a wide variety of horror movies and strung them together with added commentary, as well as some enacted narrative, to create a compilation of fright-inducing effects. ''Halloween'' actor Donald Pleasence and '' Dressed to Kill'' star Nancy Allen provide the commentary on topics such as "sex and terror" ('' Dressed to Kill'', ''Klute'', '' Ms .45'', '' The Seduction'', '' When a Stranger Calls''), loathsome villains (''Dracula'', ''Frankenstein'', ''Friday the 13th Part 2'', '' Halloween I'' & '' II'', '' Marathon Man'', '' Nighthawks'', ''The Texas Chain Saw Massacre'', ''Vice Squad'', ''Wait Until Dark'', '' What Ever Happ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Soldier's Story
''A Soldier's Story'' is a 1984 American mystery drama film directed and produced by Norman Jewison, adapted by Charles Fuller from his Pulitzer Prize-winning '' A Soldier's Play'', an adaptation of Herman Melville's novella '' Billy Budd''. It is a story about racism in a segregated regiment of the U.S Army commanded by White officers and training in the Jim Crow South, in a time and place where a Black officer is unprecedented and bitterly resented by nearly everyone, and follows a Black JAG officer sent to investigate the murder of a Black sergeant in Louisiana near the end of World War II. The cast, composed primarily of Black actors, is led by Howard E. Rollins Jr. and Adolph Caesar (whose performance was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar). Other actors include Art Evans, David Alan Grier, Larry Riley, David Harris, Robert Townsend, and Patti LaBelle. Denzel Washington, still at the beginning of his career, appears in a supporting role. Several actors repris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mutant (film)
''Mutant'' is a 1984 American horror film. It was initially released to theaters as ''Night Shadows'', but it premiered on video with the ''Mutant'' title, which it has retained for all subsequent releases. Plot Brothers Josh and Mike are enjoying a vacation in the South when they are run off the road by Al and a few of his friends. They eventually make it to a small town whose inhabitants are getting sick and some are disappearing. They meet Sheriff Will who takes them to a bed and breakfast to stay for the night. As they're sleeping, something comes from under Mike's bed and drags him down. Josh begins looking through town to find his brother. He meets a schoolteacher named Holly who agrees to help. As they leave the school, they hear strange noises in a storage room. As Josh checks it out, a body of a decomposed schoolgirl falls on him. Al (who is a custodian) accuses him of murder and chases him off, leaving with Holly to her uncle's place where he recovers from the toxic rea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deadly Force (film)
''Deadly Force'' is a 1983 American action film directed by Paul Aaron and written by Ken Barnett, Robert Vincent O'Neill and Barry Schneider. The film stars Wings Hauser, Joyce Ingalls, Paul Shenar, Al Ruscio, Arlen Dean Snyder and Lincoln Kilpatrick. The film was released on July 8, 1983, by Embassy Pictures. Plot A disgraced former police officer, named Stoney Cooper, returns to Los Angeles when a serial killer strikes close to home and vows to catch the murderer and win back his estranged wife. Cast *Wings Hauser as Stoney Cooper * Joyce Ingalls as Eddie Cooper *Paul Shenar as Joshua Adams *Al Ruscio as Sam Goodwin *Arlen Dean Snyder as Ashley Maynard *Lincoln Kilpatrick as Otto Hoxley *Bud Ekins as Harvey Benton *J. Víctor López as Diego *Hector Elias as Lopez *Ramón Franco as Jesus *Gina Gallego as Maria *Big Yank as Jefferson *Estelle Getty as Gussie *Victoria Vanderkloot as Beverly *Richard Beauchamp as Tony the Bomber *Paul Benjamin as Lester *Bill Berry as J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
