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Graham Beckel
Graham Stuart Beckel (born December 22, 1949) is an American character actor, known for his roles in films and guest appearances on television. Early life and education Beckel graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. Career In film, Beckle is known for his roles as Ford in the drama ''The Paper Chase (film), The Paper Chase'', and Dick Stensland in Curtis Hanson's ''L.A. Confidential (film), L.A. Confidential''. Beckel also appeared in ''The Astronaut Farmer'' as Frank, a customer at the diner. Beckel portrayed oil tycoon Ellis Wyatt in ''Atlas Shrugged (film), Atlas Shrugged'' (2011). On television, he played Jack Fisk on ''Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series), Battlestar Galactica'' and List of characters in Heroes#Hal Sanders, Hal Sanders on ''Heroes (American TV series), Heroes''. He has a recurring role on the AMC (TV channel), AMC TV show ''Halt & Catch Fire'' as Nathan Cardiff, owner of the show's fictional company "Cardiff Electric". Guest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with a respective county. The city is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics, and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy. With an estimated population in 2024 of 8,478,072 distributed over , the city is the most densely populated major city in the United States. New York City has more than double the population of Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Longmire (TV Series)
''Longmire'' is an American neo-Western crime drama television series that premiered on June 3, 2012, on the A&E (TV channel), A&E network, developed by John Coveny and Hunt Baldwin. The series is based on the ''Walt Longmire Mysteries'' series of novels by Craig Johnson (author), Craig Johnson. It centers on Walt Longmire, a sheriff in Wyoming. He is assisted by staff, friends, and his daughter in investigating major crimes within his jurisdiction. ''Longmire'' became the "highest-rated original drama series" on A&E; however, the network announced in August 2014 that it would not renew the series after the third season. Warner Horizon Television offered it to other networks and Netflix picked it up, starting with season four. Netflix released the sixth and final season on November 17, 2017. It is no longer available for Streaming media, streaming via Netflix in the United States, but is available on a number of other streaming services. Plot Walt Longmire (Australian actor Rob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Dog (1998 Film)
''Black Dog'' is a 1998 American action thriller film directed by Kevin Hooks and starring Patrick Swayze. The film tells the story of a trucker and ex-con who is manipulated into transporting illegal arms. The film co-stars popular American singers Randy Travis and Meat Loaf. Plot FBI and ATF agents pursue a truck carrying illegal guns. The result is the death of the driver, which leads to a disagreement between agencies on involvement with the case. Meanwhile, truck driver Jack Crews is released from jail after serving time for vehicular manslaughter. He had accidentally hit and killed a motorist and his passenger while experiencing a Black Dog hallucination (a herald of destruction for truckers) brought on by exhaustion. Along with his imprisonment, he also lost his Commercial driver's license. Following his release, he attempts to return to a normal life while working as a truck mechanic for a repair shop in New Jersey, unable to drive himself. His manager, Frank Cut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leaving Las Vegas
''Leaving Las Vegas'' is a 1995 romantic drama film written and directed by Mike Figgis and based on the 1990 semi-autobiographical novel by John O'Brien. Nicolas Cage stars as a suicidal alcoholic in Los Angeles who, having lost his family and been recently fired, has decided to move to Las Vegas and drink himself to death. He loads a supply of alcohol into his BMW and gets drunk as he drives from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. Once there, he develops a romantic relationship with a prostitute ( Elisabeth Shue) and the film shifts to include her narrative perspective. O'Brien died by suicide after signing away the film rights to the novel. ''Leaving Las Vegas'' was filmed in super 16 mm instead of 35 mm film; while 16 mm was common for art house films at the time, 35 mm is most commonly used for mainstream film. After limited release in the United States on October 27, 1995, ''Leaving Las Vegas'' was released nationwide on February 9, 1996, receiving strong praise fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbarians At The Gate (film)
''Barbarians at the Gate'' is a 1993 American biographical comedy-drama television film directed by Glenn Jordan and written by Larry Gelbart, based on the 1989 book of the same name by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar. The film stars James Garner, Jonathan Pryce, and Peter Riegert. It tells the true story of F. Ross Johnson, who was the president and CEO of RJR Nabisco. ''Barbarians at the Gate'' received generally positive reviews from critics. The film earned nine nominations at the Primetime Emmy Awards (winning for Outstanding Made for Television Movie). It also won Best Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television and Best Actor in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television for Garner at the Golden Globe Awards. Plot Self-made multimillionaire F. Ross Johnson, CEO of RJR Nabisco, decides to take the tobacco and food conglomerate company private in 1988 after receiving advanced news of the likely market failure of the company's smokeless cigarette cal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer 8
''Jennifer 8'' is a 1992 American neo-noir thriller film written and directed by Bruce Robinson and starring Andy García, Uma Thurman, Lance Henriksen, Kathy Baker, and John Malkovich. Its plot focuses on a police detective investigating the murder of an unidentified young woman in a small Northern California town. Plot Los Angeles police detective John Berlin is teetering toward burnout after the collapse of his marriage. At the invitation of an old friend and colleague, Freddy Ross, Berlin heads to rural Northern California for a job with the Eureka police force. Berlin rankles his new colleagues, especially John Taylor, who was passed over for promotion to make room for Berlin. After finding a woman's severed hand in a garbage bag at the local dump, Berlin reopens the case of an unidentified murdered girl, nicknamed "Jennifer," which went unsolved despite a full-time six-month effort by the department. Berlin notes an unusually large number of scars on the hand, as we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liebestraum (film)
''Liebestraum'' ( German for "dream of love") is a 1991 American mystery film A mystery film is a film that revolves around the solution of a problem or a crime. It focuses on the efforts of the detective, private investigator or amateur Detective, sleuth to solve the mysterious circumstances of an issue by means of clues, ... written and directed by Mike Figgis, and starring Kevin Anderson, Pamela Gidley, Bill Pullman, Zach Grenier, Alicia Witt, Taina Elg, and Kim Novak in her final film role to date. Plot Opening as the Ralston department stores closes for the night, an unseen man and woman engage in an illicit affair as a silhouetted man closes in on them. Both appear to be shot dead before the man presumably commits suicide. Thirty years later, Nick ( Kevin Anderson), a professor of architecture in upstate New York arrives in Elderstown, Illinois to be with his birth mother ( Kim Novak) in the final days of her illness; he was adopted and never met her before. Tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
''Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael'' is a 1990 American comedy drama film that was directed by Jim Abrahams and written by Karen Leigh Hopkins. It stars Winona Ryder and Jeff Daniels. Plot Dinky Bossetti is a 15-year-old girl who was adopted as a baby and is constantly picked on at school. Dinky's antisocial attitude and behavior is caused by her intelligence, her adoptive parents not accepting her for who she is, and being bullied by her peers. Dinky's adoptive mother Rochelle is disappointed that her daughter has no interest in "feminine" things, such as makeup and nice clothing. Her adoptive father, Les, passively allows his wife to scold Dinky and send her to various "counselors" who are little more than temporary jailers. Her teachers give her no support when classmates ostracize, taunt, and throw things at her. Dinky enjoys thumbing her nose at her peers and embarrasses Gerald, a cute popular boy, by reading a condescending love poem to him in class. Dinky is befriended by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lost Angels
''Lost Angels'' (also known as ''The Road Home'') is a 1989 independent drama film directed by Hugh Hudson and written by Michael Weller, known for his work on Ragtime and Hair. The film stars Donald Sutherland and Adam Horovitz, best known as a member of the Beastie Boys, in his first major acting role. The story follows a troubled teenage boy, Tim Doolan (Horovitz), who is sent to a juvenile psychiatric hospital after a violent altercation. Under the guidance of a compassionate psychiatrist, Dr. Charles Loftis (Sutherland), he struggles to navigate the challenges of youth, rebellion, and alienation in a society that seems eager to label and control him. Despite being set in Los Angeles, ''Lost Angels'' was primarily filmed in and around San Antonio, Texas. The film explores themes of teenage disillusionment, institutionalization, and the struggle for personal identity in an unforgiving system. The film was entered into the 1989 Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
True Believer (1989 Film)
''True Believer'' (also released as ''Fighting Justice'') is a 1989 American courtroom drama directed by Joseph Ruben, written by Wesley Strick, and starring James Woods, Robert Downey Jr., Yuji Okumoto, Margaret Colin, and Kurtwood Smith. The film is loosely based on an investigative series of articles written by Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist K. W. Lee on the wrongful conviction of immigrant Chol Soo Lee for a 1973 San Francisco Chinatown gangland murder. The news coverage led to a new trial, eventual acquittal and release of the prisoner from San Quentin's Death Row. Strick based the character of Eddie Dodd on real-life Bay Area defense attorney Tony Serra. Plot summary Eddie Dodd is a burnt-out attorney who has left behind civil rights work to defend drug dealers. Roger Baron is an idealistic young legal clerk, fresh out of law school, who encourages Dodd to take on the case of Shu Kai Kim, a young Korean man who was imprisoned for a gang-related murder comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Happy As The Grass Was Green
''Happy as the Grass Was Green'', later renamed ''Hazel's People'', is a 1973 American drama film directed by Charles Davis and starring Geraldine Page, Pat Hingle and Graham Beckel. The film is one of the few Mennonite Mennonites are a group of Anabaptism, Anabaptist Christianity, Christian communities tracing their roots to the epoch of the Radical Reformation. The name ''Mennonites'' is derived from the cleric Menno Simons (1496–1561) of Friesland, part of ... related films ever made. Most of the cast other than the aforementioned consists of genuine Pennsylvanian Mennonites. The film is based on a novel by Merle Good. For many years, the film was presented nightly at the "People's Place" in Intercourse, Pennsylvania. The Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online states: "The two films ''Amish Grace'' and ''Happy as the Grass was Green'' have significant insider Mennonite contributions and come closest to presenting a valid image of Amish and Mennonites". The o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massachusetts
Massachusetts ( ; ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Maine to its east, Connecticut and Rhode Island to its south, New Hampshire and Vermont to its north, and New York (state), New York to its west. Massachusetts is the List of U.S. states and territories by area, sixth-smallest state by land area. With a 2024 U.S. Census Bureau-estimated population of 7,136,171, its highest estimated count ever, Massachusetts is the most populous state in New England, the List of U.S. states and territories by population, 16th-most-populous in the United States, and the List of states and territories of the United States by population density, third-most densely populated U.S. state, after New Jersey and Rhode Island. Massachusetts was a site of early British colonization of the Americas, English colonization. The Plymouth Colony was founded in 16 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
