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Vic Tayback

Vic Tayback

Victor Tayback (January 6, 1930 – May 25, 1990) was an American actor. He is best known for his role as diner owner Mel Sharples in the comedy-drama film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) and the television sitcom Alice (1976–1985), for which he won two consecutive Golden Globes.

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Horseplayer (1990)

A blonde seduces a quirky liquor-store worker as inspiration for her artist boyfriend. ...

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All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)

When a casino-owning dog named Charlie is murdered by his rival Carface, he finds himself in Heaven basically by default since all dogs go to heaven. However, since he wants to get back at his killer, he cons his way back to the living with the warning tha ...

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Beverly Hills Bodysnatchers (1989)

A doctor and a mortician have teamed up to do re-animation experiments on corpses using gangster money loaned for "remodeling." When they can't pay it back, the Mafia guy sends his nephews to work at the funeral home to keep a watch on the debtors, but the ...

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Criminal Act (1989)

Two investigative reporters track down reports of giant rats in a city sewer system. ...

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Loverboy (1989)

Randy Bodek works as a pizza delivery boy at Señor Pizza to make a few extra bucks. Some customers are special, though: When the order is for a pizza with extra anchovies, it means the female customers are looking for some loving. But, as Randy soon learn ...

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The Underachievers (1988)

Danny Warren is a former minor-league shortstop that becomes a narc to uncover drug dealing in this situation comedy. Investigating at a high-school adult-education class, he falls for the tempting teacher. He joins a colorful group of characters that incl ...

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The Three Kings (1987)

The made-for-TV film stars Jack Warden, Lou Diamond Phillips and Stan Shaw as three patients in a Los Angeles-area mental institution. Dressed as the Three Wise Men for a Christmas pageant, the trio is suddenly struck with the delusion that they are really ...

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Weekend Warriors (1986)

In 1961, with war looming in Berlin, an Air National Guard unit of actors, journalists and studio personnel is up for military academy consideration. ...

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George Carlin: Playin' with Your Head (1986)

George Carlin is in top form with these stand-up recorded at the Beverly Theater in Los Angeles in 1986. Routines included are "Losing Things," "Charities," "Sports," "Hello and Goodbye," "Battered Plants," "Earrings," and "A Moment of Silence." Also inclu ...

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Treasure Island (1986)

Jim is a small child who lives in an inn run by his parents. The arrival of a strange captain to the Island they live will trouble his existence and tip him into an universe of adventures. ...

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Reel Horror (1985)

Evil spirits that emerge from cans of old movie film terrorize a neighborhood. ...

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The New Man (1984)

A reformed alcoholic is visited by his young son, but he doesn't have a son called Jerry. ...

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The Jesse Owens Story (1984)

The Jesse Owens Story is a biographical film about the black athlete Jesse Owens. Dorian Harewood plays the Olympic gold-winning athlete. The drama won a 1985 Primetime Emmy Award and was nominated for two more. ...

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Mysterious Two (1982)

Two Aliens visit the Earth in an effort to enlist converts to travel the universe with them. ...

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Through the Magic Pyramid (1981)

A lad finds himself magically sent back to ancient Egypt where he and the young King Tut team up to stop their evil and overly ambitious elders. ...

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The Night the City Screamed (1980)

A massive blackout plunges a major American city into a night of terror. ...

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Gridlock (1980)

A series of freak accidents on the Los Angeles freeway traps a cast-load of familiar TV faces in an astounding traffic tie-up, with the entire system caught in a gridlock that John Beck, as a traffic expert, endeavors to unsnarl. ...

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Rage! (1980)

In an attempt to be rehabilitated, a rapist goes to therapy while in prison. ...

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This Year's Blonde (1980)

First he seduced her. Then he made her a star. He was Johnny Hyde, 52-year-old agent, friend, lover. She was an unemployed starlet — destined to be America's greatest sex goddess. Theirs was a sizzling romance — torrid, touching, tragic. ...

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Portrait of a Stripper (1979)

A young widow, supporting herself and her pre-teen son by performing as a nightclub dancer, finds the place turned into a strip joint and learns that her father-in-law is trying to prove her an unfit mother. ...

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The Cheap Detective (1978)

A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress—his partner's wife. ...

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Getting Married (1978)

A man falls madly in love with a pretty newscaster and goes all out to win her heart and her hand in marriage before she weds another man. ...

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The Case of the Baltimore Girls (1978)

Former police captain and his assistant investigate extortion and murder at a dating service. ...

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The Choirboys (1977)

A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after-hours debauchery. ...

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Little Ladies of the Night (1977)

The sister of ex-pimp and current Los Angeles Police detective Lyle York was murdered working the streets a few years ago. Since his reform, he has teamed with Officer Russ Garfield to clear the streets of underage girls working in prostitution. Pretty, yo ...

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The Shaggy D.A. (1976)

Wilby Daniels, a successful lawyer running for District Attorney, suddenly finds himself being transformed into an English sheepdog. Somehow he has to keep his change a secret and find just what is causing it, all the while eluding the local dog catcher. ...

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Mansion of the Doomed (1976)

An insane surgeon finds himself up to his armpits in eyeballs after guilt prompts him to begin removing the eyes of abducted people in hopes of performing transplants on his daughter who lost her own in a car-accident he caused. ...

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Special Delivery (1976)

A gang of thieves plan a daring bank robbery, making their escape across the rooftops of Los Angeles. The police are quickly called in, however, and only one of the robbers, Murdock, makes a clean getaway. Unfortunately, in order to do so, he is forced to ...

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The Big Bus (1976)

The ultimate disaster film parody. A nuclear-powered bus is making its maiden non-stop trip from New York to Denver. The journey is plagued by disasters due to the machinations of a mysterious group allied with the oil lobby. Will the down-on-his-luck driv ...

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No Deposit, No Return (1976)

Two rich children devise a way to escape their grandfather and visit their mother. Unfortunately for two hapless safe crackers, they become part of the plan. ...

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Dark Victory (1976)

A TV producer with a terminal illness is given the strength to keep going by her love for her doctor. ...

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The Black Bird (1975)

The son of famous detective Sam Spade carries on the family tradition of getting involved with the Maltese Falcon - and with the people who will stop at nothing, including murder, to get it. ...

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Lepke (1975)

Lepke is the feared leader of "Murder Incorporated" in this underworld drama based on the life of Louis "Lepke" Buchalter. Lepke began his criminal career as a petty thief in his teens; a stretch in prison taught him the finer points of life on the wrong s ...

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Report to the Commissioner (1975)

Police officer Patty Butler, alias "Chicklet," is the live-in girlfriend of Thomas 'Stick' Henderson to gather evidence. Detective Bo Lockley is instructed to try to find her, not knowing she's also a cop. ...

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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)

After her husband dies, Alice and her son, Tommy, leave their small New Mexico town for California, where Alice hopes to make a new life for herself as a singer. Money problems force them to settle in Arizona instead, where Alice takes a job as waitress in ...

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The Gambler (1974)

New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him. ...

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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)

With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organise a daring new heist. ...

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Papillon (1973)

A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape. ...

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The Don Is Dead (1973)

After his mistress is murdered, a Mafia leader goes after the killer with a bloody vengeance. Soon after the hunt begins, a gang war ensues. ...

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The Blue Knight (1973)

Bumper Morgan is a veteran Los Angeles Police Department street cop. He is due to retire after 20 years on the job, but is not letting up on the criminal element on his beat. ...

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The Alpha Caper (1973)

A parole officer forced into retirement gets together three ex-convicts to pull off a $30-million armored car robbery. ...

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Emperor of the North (1973)

Hobos encounter a sadistic railway conductor that will not let anyone "ride the rails" for free. ...

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Partners in Crime (1973)

A retired judge who opens a private detective agency and her ex-con associate try to track down $750,000 in bank robbery loot. ...

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Honor Thy Father (1973)

Joseph Bologna stars as Bill Bonanno in this made-for-television adaptation of the controversial bestseller from Gay Talese, chronicling the rise of New York's infamous Bonanno organized crime family. When his father disappears in 1964 and Bill is compelle ...

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Maxie (1973)

When deaf-mute Maxie (K.T. Baumann) goes to work at the local butcher shop, she senses strange things are afoot. When she discovers the beloved town butcher (Vic Tayback) is getting his choicest cuts from the local morgue, she finds herself tangled in a we ...

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Death Follows a Psycho (1972)

Private eye Wade Griffin finds himself in an intense stand-off with a "human time-bomb", who is holding four people hostage and will kill them all unless Griffin delivers the person that the bomber really wants dead. ...

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They Call It Murder (1971)

A small-town district attorney is saddled with several major investigations, including a gambler's murder and a possible insurance scam. ...

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Suitable for Framing (1971)

A wealthy art collector is murdered, and all signs point to a robbery gone wrong. But the nephew's alibi is a little too convenient, and Columbo pulls a fast one to ferret out the killer. ...

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Blood and Lace (1971)

After her prostitute mother and her john are beaten to death while they are asleep in bed, teen-aged Ellie Masters is sent to an isolated orphanage run by a mysterious woman and her handyman, both whom she comes to suspect are hiding dark secrets. ...

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Bullitt (1968)

Senator Walter Chalmers is aiming to take down mob boss Pete Ross with the help of testimony from the criminal's hothead brother Johnny, who is in protective custody in San Francisco under the watch of police lieutenant Frank Bullitt. When a pair of mob hi ...

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Gambit (1966)

Harry Dean is a career burglar set on stealing a piece of priceless art from the world's wealthiest man, Mr. Shahbandar. With the help of exotic showgirl Nicole Chang, he concocts the perfect scheme for how the robbery should go and lays it out point by po ...

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Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966)

A sophisticated con man mounts an intricate plan to rob an airport bank while the Soviet premier is due to arrive. ...

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Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)

Angie Rossini, an innocent New York City sales clerk from a repressive Italian-American family, engages in a short-lived affair with a handsome jazz musician named Rocky Papasano. When Angie becomes pregnant, she tracks down Rocky hoping he'll pay for her ...

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Surftide 77 (1962)

Private Eye Bernard Bingbang is hired by old lady Agatha Bungworthy to find her runaway niece Cynthia, heir to the family fortune, before that fortune goes to nasty Uncle Philip. Bingbang's only clue to the niece's identity: she has a birthmark that looks ...

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Five Minutes to Live (1961)

A guitar playing killer terrorizes a housewife while his partner robs the bank where her husband works. ...

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Gangster Story (1959)

Gangster and cop killer Jack Martin is on the run from the law, and hides out in a small town. Low on funds, he engineers a clever bank robbery that yields him a big bundle. Now he has not only the cops and the FBI after him, but also the local crime boss, ...

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T-Bird Gang (1959)

Cooperating with the police in order to revenge his father's death, Frank joins a youth syndicate master-minded by the sadistic Alex. When members become suspicious, Frank must cooperate with the gang activities in order to prove his loyalty. Now personall ...

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