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Duane Whitaker

Duane Whitaker

Duane Whitaker  (born June 23, 1959) is an American actor.

Duane Whitaker is probably best known for his role in Quentin Tarantino's popular 1994 film Pulp Fiction as Maynard, the sadistic pawn shop owner. He wrote and portrayed the title role in Eddie Presley (based on his own successful stage play). Whitaker also wrote, directed and appeared in Together and Alone.

Other notable roles include; a racist cop in Tales from the Hood, the bouncer Roadrash in Hobgoblins, Boss Man in Feast, The Sheriff in Trailer Park of Terror, Luther in From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (which he also co-wrote), Buddy in Dead Letters (film), Winslow in Broke Sky, Mickey in Cordoba Nights and Dr. Bankhead in The Devil's Rejects.

Most recently Duane has appeared in the feature films Albino Farm and Dozers and on TV in the Cold Case episode "The Brush Man" and appears in the new Rob Zombie film Halloween II. Whitaker has also written numerous screenplays including "Stripteaser."

On March 31, 2010, American Cinematheque hosted a screening of Eddie Presley and "Together and Alone" at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles.

Duane is a graduate of Monterey High School in Lubbock, Texas.

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Movies Starring Duane Whitaker (48)

Saint Nick of Bethlehem (2024)

Distraught over losing his son, Nick finds closure and discovers a new purpose when he takes on the role of Santa Claus. ...

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I Don't Know (2024)

A failed cartoonist scores a dangerous win at a high-stakes poker game, and flees the criminal underworld of Los Angeles with his resilient sex worker fiancé. ...

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Lucky Louie (2023)

A retired cop teams up with four ex-convicts and a behavioral science student to solve a fifty year old bank robbery. ...

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The Red Tide Massacre (2022)

A television reporter is attacked by a monster while investigating an environmental disaster in Florida. ...

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Sally Floss: Digital Detective (2022)

In response to the financial crisis set forth by COVID-19, a shy teenager starts an internet-based detective agency to save her family home. She solves mysteries through digital footprints, virtual interviews, a brilliant mind, and an inherited intuition s ...

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Edge of Town (2020)

Summer Roome has her world up-ended when her adrift younger brother and wayward father reenter her life. As new information about old mistakes comes to light, Summer discovers what she has in common with her family and what she doesn't. ...

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Disrupted (2020)

An Oakland widower's thirst for justice is rekindled when a local killing is oddly similar to his wife's unsolved murder from decades ago. ...

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Mark of the Rougarou (2020)

Story about the search for identity. With the lead character being adopted and trying to find the missing puzzle piece of where she comes from. With the help of modern technology and DNA testing she is able to make a connection with a biological relative, ...

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My Brothers' Crossing (2020)

My Brothers' Crossing is the true story about a tragic accident that happened in August 2015. In remote southwest Virginia, during the time when we were experiencing riots and racial hate crimes, an African-American man is involved in a horrific accident w ...

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3 from Hell (2019)

After barely surviving a furious shootout with the police, Baby Firefly, Otis Driftwood and Captain Spaulding are behind bars. But pure evil cannot be contained. Teaming up with Otis' half-brother Winslow, the demented Firefly clan escape to unleash a whol ...

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American Nightmares (2018)

Two voyeuristic nerds are hacking the devices of people as they themselves are hacked by the feed from story tellers Mister Malevolent and Mystic Woman who have seven moralistic horror stories to tell. ...

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Getting Grace (2018)

Grace, a teenage girl dying of cancer crashes a funeral home to find out what will happen to her after she dies but ends up teaching the awkward funeral director, Bill Jankowski how to celebrate life. ...

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Scammerhead (2014)

A Global Film Noir with dark comic elements about Silas Breece, a legendarily unorthodox business hustler who travels the world seeking capitol from bizarre investors, mobsters and government officials for a series of increasingly elaborate projects. ...

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Bad Ass (2012)

Decorated Vietnam hero, Frank Vega returns home only to get shunned by society leaving him without a job or his high school sweetheart. It's not until forty years later when an incident on a commuter bus makes him a local hero where he's suddenly celebrate ...

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Children of the Corn: Genesis (2011)

Tim and Allie seek shelter in a remote desert compound after becoming lost and stranded. A strange Manson-like character, Preacher, reluctantly allows them inside with strict orders to be gone by morning and not wander "where you are not invited. ...

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Night Club (2011)

Three friends - aided by one of the residents - start a night club in a retirement home, after taking a job there working the night shift to put themselves through USC. ...

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Albino Farm (2009)

College students exploring the Ozark Mountains for a school assignment, stumble upon a group of scary, redneck cave-dwellers. ...

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Halloween II (2009)

Laurie Strode struggles to come to terms with her brother Michael's deadly return to Haddonfield, Illinois. Meanwhile, Michael prepares for another reunion with his sister. ...

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The Butcher (2009)

A mob enforcer is set up to take the fall for a multi-million dollar heist involving a rival gang boss. Merle (Eric Roberts) is a gambler stuck on a twenty-year losing streak, but his luck is about to change. Surviving a trap that was intended to kill him, ...

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Trailer Park of Terror (2008)

Six troubled high school students and their chaperon, an optimistic youth ministries Pastor, return from an outdoor character building retreat in the mountains. During a raging storm, their bus crashes, hopelessly stranding them in the middle of the Trucke ...

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Rex (2008)

Chase attempts to save his farm from being stolen by the corrupt sheriff that framed and murdered his father 20 years earlier. ...

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Broke Sky (2007)

Two Mexican road workers make a terrible discovery that tests their friendship. ...

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Cordoba Nights (2007)

Finn (Raymond Turturro), drives around in an old car at night with a portable record player in the back seat pumping out a variety of tunes to help him make it through the night. Why is he out driving around every night? Because he's a burned out pizza d ...

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Cold Ones (2007)

Every stranger has a secret in writer-director Garrett Clancy's indie drama, also released as Dead Letters. Ten years after his first novel went down in flames, the hard knocks just won't stop for K.C. Corcoran (C. Thomas Howell) - his girlfriend's just th ...

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Urban Decay (2007)

Cab driver Stan slams into a homeless man who gets up and walks away, leaving behind a scarf covered with writhing maggots. Obsessed with the mystery, Stan hunts the figure through the city, discovering a trail of mangled, half-eaten victims, and an urban ...

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Feast (2005)

When a motley crew of strangers find themselves trapped in an isolated tavern, they must band together in a battle for survival against a family of flesh-hungry creatures. ...

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The Devil's Rejects (2005)

The murderous, backwoods Firefly family take to the road to escape the vengeful Sheriff Wydell, who is not afraid of being as ruthless as his target. ...

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Harold Buttleman: Daredevil Stuntman (2003)

Harold Buttleman, small town tuxedo salesman, thinks he's the next great daredevil stuntman. He's not. ...

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The Low Budget Time Machine (2003)

A conniving professor and his gorilla side-kick convince down-and-out astronauts to go on a time-journey to benefit mankind. Once transported to the future, they meet beautiful but deadly space babes, a horrible monster and an army of mutants. The last d ...

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Groom Lake (2002)

When Kate discovers she has a terminal illness, she persuades boyfriend Andy to visit Groom Lake, a reputed hotbed of alien activity, hoping to discover proof of life beyond this terrestrial sphere. Soon, the pair crosses paths with desperate government sc ...

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From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (1999)

A bank-robbing gang of misfits heads to Mexico with the blueprints for the perfect million-dollar heist, but when one of the crooks wanders into the wrong bar, the thieving cohorts develop a thirst for blood. ...

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Spoiler (1998)

Roger Mason is a prisoner locked away in a futuristic fortress of a jail. Desperate to escape and see his daughter, he keeps making attempt after attempt to break free, but each one is foiled just as he's about to gain his freedom. As his punishments inclu ...

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Together and Alone (1998)

Stories and characters interweave during one night in Hollywood. ...

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The Haunted Sea (1997)

A mysterious ship is found adrift in mid-ocean without a crew. But this mystery is soon forgotten when Captain Ramsey, his two sexy first mates and the crew discover its precious cargo of ancient Aztec treasure. However, their joy quickly succumbs to greed ...

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Within the Rock (1996)

Space miners sent to stop a moon's collision course with the earth discover a hibernating creature that soon revives and starts slaughtering the mining crew. ...

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Night of the Scarecrow (1995)

A group of drunk teenagers accidently set free the spirit of a warlock, which possesses a scarecrow. The scarecrow goes on a bloody rampage killing the descendents of the men who had killed the warlock a century before. A newcomer and the daughter of the m ...

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Stripteaser (1995)

As Zipper's Clown Palace (a strip bar) closes, Neil wanders in and decides to hold the dancers, bartender, and remaining customers hostage. He torments them with little tasks he wants performed, playing on their weaknesses and relying on his gun for intimi ...

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Tales from the Hood (1995)

A strange mortician tells four horrific tales to three drug dealers that he traps in their local funeral parlor. ...

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Puppet Master 5 (1994)

Sutekh, the dark pharaoh from another dimension, sends his own puppet, Totem, to continue his quest to kill Rick and steal the magic which animates the puppets. ...

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Pulp Fiction (1994)

A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time. ...

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Saturday Night Special (1994)

Travis arrives like a hot wind on a steamy summer night, he's a mystery man who sings his passion at the local road house. The stakes are rising and someone is bound to lose. It's an erotic game of cat and mouse, that will keep you guessing until the final ...

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Eddie Presley (1993)

Eddie Presley is a down on his luck ex-Elvis impersonator. With his days of fromer glory performing in small to medium-sized clubs behind him, he's stuck in a dead-end security job, making barely enough to live out of his van. But Eddie's luck is about to ...

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Vice Academy Part 2 (1990)

When a criminal female named Spanish Fly threatens to contaminate the city water with aphrodisiacs, it is up to a duo of attractive female police officers to stop her. ...

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Rich Men, Single Women (1990)

Three women plot to catch wealthy husbands by throwing a party at a mansion to which they have temporary access. Obvious love stories follow involving an ex-ballplayer, a secretly wealthy mechanic and an ad exec. ...

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Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990)

Two college students driving coast to coast are lured off the main highway and onto a deserted Texas road. Here they are stalked by the menacing Leatherface and his demented family...a bizarre cannibalistic clan with blood on their hands and a feast on the ...

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Marked for Murder (1989)

A snooty female production assistant and an eager gopher at a TV station are assigned by their boss to locate a mysterious cassette. They quickly find themselves framed for murder and pursued by government agents. ...

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Deadly Dreams (1988)

Alex is caught in a web of distrust between his brother, his best friend, a beautiful stranger and the renewed dreams of the slaughter of his family. ...

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Hobgoblins (1988)

A group of hobgoblins, who allow you to live out your fantasies but kill you in the process, escape from a studio vault, and a security guard and his friends must stop them before dawn. ...

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Movies Made By Duane Whitaker (6)

Camp Utopia (2002)

A Manson-like cult leader disappears after freaking out and hacking up a bunch of his followers with a machete. Thirty something years later some kids come and camp out on the site of the killings. Of course, bad stuff happens. ...

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Backroad Motel (2001)

A nine story anthology featuring various dregs, druggies, the innocent and the doomed inhabiting a dingy motel room somewhere along Route 66. ...

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From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (1999)

A bank-robbing gang of misfits heads to Mexico with the blueprints for the perfect million-dollar heist, but when one of the crooks wanders into the wrong bar, the thieving cohorts develop a thirst for blood. ...

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Together and Alone (1998)

Stories and characters interweave during one night in Hollywood. ...

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Stripteaser (1995)

As Zipper's Clown Palace (a strip bar) closes, Neil wanders in and decides to hold the dancers, bartender, and remaining customers hostage. He torments them with little tasks he wants performed, playing on their weaknesses and relying on his gun for intimi ...

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Eddie Presley (1993)

Eddie Presley is a down on his luck ex-Elvis impersonator. With his days of fromer glory performing in small to medium-sized clubs behind him, he's stuck in a dead-end security job, making barely enough to live out of his van. But Eddie's luck is about to ...

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