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Eric Anthony Roberts (born April 18, 1956) is an American actor. His career began with King of the Gypsies (1978), earning a Golden Globe nomination for best actor debut. He starred as the protagonist in the 1980 dramatisation of Willa Cather's 1905 short story, Paul's Case. He earned both a Golden Globe and Academy Award nomination for his supporting role in Runaway Train (1985). Through the 1990s and 2000s he maintained dramatic film and TV-movie roles while appearing in TV series. His television work includes three seasons with the sitcom Less than Perfect and a recurring role on the NBC drama Heroes. His sisters Julia Roberts and Lisa Roberts Gillan, and daughter Emma Roberts, are also actors.
Eric got his start on the now-defunct NBC daytime soap opera Another World originating the role of Ted Bancroft from February 14, 1977, to June 17, 1977.
Roberts received Golden Globe nominations for his early starring roles in King of the Gypsies (1978) and Star 80 (1983). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1985 for his role as the escaped convict Buck in the film Runaway Train. In 1987, he won the Theatre World Award for his Broadway debut performance in Burn This.
Actors: Mike Starr (actor), Scott Schaffer (miscellaneous crew), Martin Scorsese (producer), Michael Imperioli (actor), Scott Schaffer (miscellaneous crew), David Zayas (actor), Andrew Haynes (miscellaneous crew), Patricia Arquette (actress), Nick Sandow (director), Nick Sandow (writer), Stephanie Bertoni (actress), Doug E. Doug (actor), Mario Macaluso (actor), Neal Huff (actor), Stan Carp (actor),
Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller,Actors: Jon Polito (actor), Glenn Morshower (actor), Michael Papajohn (actor), Robert Evans (actor), Matthew Broderick (actor), Tim Blake Nelson (actor), Ray Liotta (actor), Robert Axelrod (actor), W. Earl Brown (actor), Alec Baldwin (actor), Buck Henry (actor), Blue Deckert (actor), Pat Morita (actor), Eric Roberts (actor), James Rebhorn (actor),
Plot: FBI director Jack Devine always sets up his brother Joe as undercover to trick mobsters. His latest cover is as movie producer Joe Diamond, to get Tommy Sanz for Teamster racketeering. His cover requires a script - the one movie theater manager Steven Schats and his brother Marshall 'Paris' wrote, supposedly a cancer biopic. So Steven is hired as director, his greatest dream, even if producing an Arizona desert drama on Rhode Island is far from ideal. When a former Oscar nominee volunteers to star, the cover gets out of hand till everyone believes in it, even the FBI brass- or not?
Keywords: actress, airplane, ambition, assault, audition, autograph, bare-butt, bare-chested-male, based-on-true-story, bathrobeActors: Daran Norris (actor), Lex Lang (actor), Eddie Frierson (actor), Unshô Ishizuka (actor), Richard Cansino (actor), Kazuhiko Inoue (actor), Dan Martin (actor), Bob Buchholz (actor), Richard Epcar (actor), Steve Blum (actor), Tom Fahn (actor), Tom Fahn (actor), George Cheung (actor), Derek Stephen Prince (actor), Jamieson Price (actor),
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Plot: Steven Kovak has been kicked out of his apartment by his girlfriend. Steven has a new apartment, and decides to slip the cable guy (Chip) $50 for free cable. Steven then fakes an interest in Chip's line of work. However Chip takes this to heart trying to become Steven's best bud. When Steven no longer wants to be Chips friend the man who can do it all goes on an all out assault to ruin Steven's life. In the backdrop is the delicate sub-plot of the trial of a former kid star for murdering his brother.
Keywords: 1990s, actor-playing-multiple-roles, architect, arena, arrest, basketball, black-comedy, black-humor, break-up, breaking-through-a-doorActors: Charles W. Fries (producer), Danny Nucci (actor), Curtis Hanson (writer), Joanna Cassidy (actress), Curtis Hanson (director), Ernie Lively (actor), Joe Spinell (actor), David Ackroyd (actor), Jacob Vargas (actor), Courtney Gains (actor), John Capodice (actor), Paul Van Zyl (miscellaneous crew), Larry B. Scott (actor), Jason Bernard (actor), Connie Papineau (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: A 14 year old boy runs away from his uncaring stepfather. Ultimately he lands in Time Square and is taken in by a Fagin-like cocaine dealer. The dealer introduces him to a band of homeless teens and initiates his training along with another youth. Meanwhile the youth's mother begins a feverish search for the boy.
Keywords: child-murder, children, drug-dealer, drugs, fire, gang, manhattan-new-york-city, new-york-city, runaway, runaway-childActors: Peter R. Simpson (producer), Alex Diakun (actor), Nick Rotundo (editor), Dave Foley (actor), Blu Mankuma (actor), Winston Rekert (actor), Paul Zaza (composer), Peter R. Simpson (producer), Anthony Harrison (actor), Larry Kent (director), Anthony Holland (actor), Jackson Davies (actor), Ilana Frank (producer), John Sheppard (writer), Lukia Czernin (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: The day-dreaming Bo Baker is reluctantly hired by his uncle, to help out at his detective agency. Bo's inept attempts to aid a damsel in distress inadvertantly cause him to foil a Nazi plot and win him the girl.
Keywords: b-movie, cult-film, cult-film, cult-film, damsel-in-distress, detective, independent-film, nazi, uncle-nephew-relationshipActors: Maurice Evans (actor), Ken Gampu (actor), George Barrows (actor), John Terry (actor), Alan Strachan (editor), Cliff Twemlow (actor), Cliff Twemlow (writer), Andrew Whaley (actor), Roy Boyd (actor), Michael Williams (producer), Brian Gascoigne (composer), Geoffrey Rose (producer), Holly Palance (actress), Andrew Sinclair (director), John Wyman (actor),
Genres: Action, Adventure,