1961-07-23 Midland, Texas, USA
Woodrow Tracy "Woody" Harrelson (born July 23, 1961) is an American actor. He first became known for his role as bartender Woody Boyd on the NBC sitcom Cheers (1985–1993), for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series from five nominations. Harrelson received three Academy Award nominations: Best Actor for The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), Best Supporting Actor for The Messenger (2009) and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017). Other notable films include White Men Can't Jump(1992), Natural Born Killers (1994), The Thin Red Line (1998), No Country for Old Men (2007), Seven Pounds (2008), Zombieland (2009), Seven Psychopaths (2012), Now You See Me (2013), The Edge of Seventeen (2016), War for the Planet of the Apes (2017), Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021), and Triangle of Sadness (2022). He also played Haymitch Abernathy in The Hunger Games film series (2012–2015). Harrelson received further Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his portrayal of Steve Schmidt in the HBO film Game Change (2012) and a detective in the HBO crime anthology series True Detective (2014). He also portrayed E. Howard Hunt in the HBO political limited series White House Plumbers (2023).
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Last Breath | Duncan Allcock | 2025-02-27 |
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The Electric State | Mr. Peanut (voice) | 2025-03-07 |
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Now You See Me: Now You Don't | Merritt McKinney | 2025-11-12 |
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Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music | Self | 2025-01-27 |
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Ella McCay | Eddie McCay | 2025-12-11 |
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Animal Farm | Boxer (voice) | 2025-11-14 |
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Kuleana | Narrator (voice) | 2025-10-23 |
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Fly Me to the Moon | Moe Berkus | 2024-07-10 |
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Girl from the North Country | Nick Laine | 2024-11-21 |
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Suncoast | Paul | 2024-02-02 |
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Willie Nelson 90: Long Story Short | Self | 2023-06-11 |
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Champions | Marcus | 2023-03-09 |
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Common Ground | Self | 2023-09-29 |
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The Man from Toronto | The Man from Toronto | 2022-12-23 |
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Triangle of Sadness | The Captain | 2022-09-18 |
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Homeward Bound: A Grammy Salute to the Songs of Paul Simon | Self | 2022-09-06 |
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Venom: Let There Be Carnage | Cletus Kasady / Carnage | 2021-09-30 |
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Kate | Varrick | 2021-09-10 |
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Dear Rider: The Jake Burton Story | Narrator (voice) | 2021-11-09 |
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The Men of Midway | Self | 2020-02-18 |
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Roland Emmerich: Man on a Mission | Self | 2020-02-18 |
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Kiss the Ground | Narrator (voice) | 2020-09-22 |
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Breakthrough | Narrator (voice) | 2019-03-09 |
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Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times" | Archie Bunker | 2019-12-18 |
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Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's "All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons" | Archie Bunker | 2019-05-22 |
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Midway | Admiral Chester W. Nimitz | 2019-11-06 |
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Zombieland: Double Tap | Tallahassee | 2019-10-09 |
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The Highwaymen | Manny Gault | 2019-03-15 |
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Solo: A Star Wars Story | Tobias Beckett | 2018-05-15 |
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The Origins of Ebbing | Self | 2018-06-25 |
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Venom | Cletus Kasady / Carnage | 2018-09-28 |
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War for the Planet of the Apes | The Colonel | 2017-07-11 |
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Shock and Awe | Jonathan Landay | 2017-12-09 |
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Wilson | Wilson | 2017-03-24 |
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Lost in London | Woody Harrelson | 2017-01-19 |
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Bill Willoughby | 2017-12-01 |
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The Glass Castle | Rex Walls | 2017-08-11 |
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LBJ | Lyndon B. Johnson | 2017-11-03 |
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The Edge of Seventeen | Mr. Bruner | 2016-11-18 |
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Pawns No More: The Making of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 | Self (Haymitch Abernathy) | 2016-03-22 |
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Now You See Me 2 | Merritt McKinney / Chase McKinney | 2016-06-02 |
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Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows | Self | 2016-02-21 |
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The Duel | Abraham Brant | 2016-06-24 |
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Triple 9 | Sergeant Detective Jeffrey Allen | 2016-02-19 |
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The Mockingjay Lives: The Making of the Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 | Self - Haymitch Abernathy | 2015-03-06 |
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 | Haymitch Abernathy | 2015-11-18 |
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 | Haymitch Abernathy | 2014-11-19 |
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Surviving the Game: Making The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | Self - Haymitch Abernathy | 2014-03-07 |
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire | Haymitch Abernathy | 2013-11-15 |
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Now You See Me | Merritt McKinney | 2013-05-29 |
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Out of the Furnace | Harlan DeGroat | 2013-11-12 |
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Free Birds | Jake (voice) | 2013-10-30 |
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David Blaine: Real or Magic | Self | 2013-11-19 |
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Who Bombed Judi Bari? | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2012-03-02 |
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Seven Psychopaths | Charlie Costello | 2012-10-12 |
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How to Make Money Selling Drugs | Self | 2012-09-07 |
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The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games | Self - Haymitch Abernathy | 2012-08-18 |
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Game Change | Steve Schmidt | 2012-02-28 |
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The Hunger Games | Haymitch Abernathy | 2012-03-12 |
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The (R)evolution of Immortal Technique | Self | 2011-07-01 |
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Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis | Self | 2011-12-17 |
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Rampart | Dave Brown | 2011-11-23 |
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Friends with Benefits | Tommy Bollinger | 2011-07-21 |
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Ethos | Host | 2011-02-10 |
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The End of the World: The Actor's Perspective | Self | 2010-03-02 |
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2012: Roland Emmerich - Master of the Modern Epic | Self | 2010-03-02 |
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Bunraku | The Bartender | 2010-09-01 |
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Zombieland | Tallahassee | 2009-10-02 |
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Miloš Forman: Co tě nezabije… | Self | 2009-10-08 |
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Defendor | Arthur Poppington / Defendor | 2009-09-12 |
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Management | Jango | 2009-02-08 |
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Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days | Self | 2009-02-01 |
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2012 | Charlie Frost | 2009-10-10 |
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The Messenger | Tony Stone | 2009-11-13 |
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Surfer, Dude | Jack | 2008-09-05 |
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Burma: It Can't Wait | Divo | 2008-05-02 |
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TransSiberian | Roy | 2008-01-18 |
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Semi-Pro | Monix | 2008-02-28 |
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Seven Pounds | Ezra Turner | 2008-12-18 |
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Hempsters: Plant the Seed | Himself | 2008-05-25 |
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Sleepwalking | Randall | 2008-03-14 |
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No Country for Old Men: Josh Brolin's Unauthorized Behind the Scenes | Self | 2008-03-11 |
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Battle in Seattle | Dale | 2007-09-07 |
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No Country for Old Men | Carson Wells | 2007-11-09 |
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The Grand | One Eyed Jack Faro | 2007-06-07 |
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Raw for Life | Self | 2007-10-16 |
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Nanking | Bob Wilson | 2007-02-10 |
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The Walker | Carter Page III | 2007-02-13 |
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The Weight of the Line: Animation Tales | Self | 2006-12-19 |
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A Scanner Darkly | Ernie Luckman | 2006-07-07 |
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One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly' | Self / Luckman | 2006-12-19 |
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A Prairie Home Companion | Dusty | 2006-06-01 |
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The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio | Kelly Ryan | 2005-09-28 |
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The Outsider | Self | 2005-12-04 |
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North Country | Bill White | 2005-02-12 |
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The Big White | Raymond Barnell | 2005-10-27 |
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She Hate Me | Leland Powell | 2004-07-30 |
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Linklater: St. Richard of Austin | Self | 2004-12-13 |
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After the Sunset | Stan Lloyd | 2004-11-12 |
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Scorched | Jason 'Woods' Valley | 2003-05-17 |
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This So-Called Disaster | Taxi Driver | 2003-01-01 |
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Three Stooges 75th Anniversary Special | Self - Host | 2003-04-29 |
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Anger Management | Galaxia / Security Guard Gary | 2003-04-11 |
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Go Further | Self | 2003-03-07 |
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Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film | Narrator (voice) | 2002-04-02 |
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American Saint | Self | 2001-10-18 |
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The Directors: Milos Forman | Self | 2000-08-01 |
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Welcome to Hollywood | Woody Harrelson | 2000-10-27 |
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EDtv | Ray Pekurny | 1999-03-26 |
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Play It to the Bone | Vince Boudreau | 1999-12-25 |
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Grass | Narrator (voice) | 1999-09-15 |
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Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me | Woody Harrelson | 1999-06-08 |
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The Thin Red Line | Sgt. William Keck | 1998-12-23 |
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The Hi-Lo Country | Big Boy Matson | 1998-12-30 |
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Palmetto | Harry Barber | 1998-02-20 |
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Wag the Dog | Sergeant William Schumann | 1997-12-25 |
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Welcome to Sarajevo | Flynn | 1997-05-09 |
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The Sunchaser | Dr. Michael Reynolds | 1996-05-29 |
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Kingpin | Roy Munson | 1996-07-04 |
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The People vs. Larry Flynt | Larry Flynt | 1996-12-25 |
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Money Train | Charlie | 1995-11-21 |
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The Cowboy Way | Pepper Lewis | 1994-06-03 |
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I'll Do Anything | Ground Zero Hero | 1994-02-04 |
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Natural Born Killers | Mickey Knox | 1994-08-26 |
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Indecent Proposal | David Murphy | 1993-04-07 |
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For Our Children | Self | 1993-02-16 |
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White Men Can't Jump | Billy Hoyle | 1992-03-27 |
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L.A. Story | Harris' Boss (uncredited) | 1991-02-08 |
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Doc Hollywood | Hank Gordon | 1991-08-02 |
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Ted & Venus | Homeless Vietnam Veteran | 1991-08-08 |
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Cool Blue | Dustin | 1990-02-27 |
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Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Special | Self | 1990-07-01 |
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Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme | Lou the Lamb | 1990-05-19 |
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The Earth Day Special | Woody Boyd | 1990-04-22 |
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The American Film Institute Presents: TV or Not TV? | 1990-08-31 | |
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True Believer | Man in Dodd's office | 1989-02-17 |
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Killer Instinct | Charlie Long | 1988-11-22 |
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She's Having a Baby | Woody Harrelson (uncredited) | 1988-02-05 |
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Mickey's 60th Birthday | Woody Boyd | 1988-11-13 |
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Bay Coven | Slater | 1987-10-25 |
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Paul Reiser: Out on a Whim | Self | 1987-12-05 |
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Wildcats | Krushinski | 1986-02-14 |
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Harper Valley P.T.A. | Extra (uncredited) | 1978-08-02 |
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Full Phil | Philip Doom | |
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Lips Like Sugar | John Carr | |
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The Man with the Miraculous Hands | Felix Kersten | |
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