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 Miami Vice (1987) (TV) - Starring as Kenneth Togaru in "By Hooker by Crook" |
Miami Vice is about Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson), an undercover detective in the Miami Police Department and his partner Ricardo Tubbs (Philip Michael Thomas) as they infiltrate Miami's crime syndicates. Its all money, glitz, glamour and uses 80's rock and pop for the soundtracks.
In this episode Crockett and Tubbs try to find a murder witness, not knowing that she works for heidi fliess type madame Christine Von Marburg (Melanie Griffith), who is also Sonny's lover.
- Kenneth Togaru is the ruthless businessman who planned both the murder and the set up with Ali (Vanity) and had the money launderer killed for skimming from him. Togaru orders his hitmen to track Ali down and kill her before she can reveal what she knows. |
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| Return from the River Kwai (1989) - Starring as Lieutenant Tanaka |
This sequel to the classic 1957 movie "The Bridge On The River Kwai" is also based on atrue story of British and Australian POW's held by the Japanese in Thailand. Near the end of the war the fittest of the POW's were moved by rail and ship to Japan, and during the sea journey the convoy comes under attack from an American submarine at the same time as the Allied POW's were making a daring attempt to take over the ship.
- Lieutenant Tanaka is the camp commander, and wants to set an example, so he orders that some of the prisoners are to be executed. His plan is to ship the PoWs to various Japanese car factories |
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| Oblivion (1994) - Starring as Doc Valentine |
This is a campy, fun loving Sci-Fi Western movie set in the year 303. A reptilian villian known as Redeye has taken over the town of Oblivion. The sheriff's dead, the android deputy's unplugged and the townsfolk are too yellow to stand up to the sharp-shooting lizard. Only Zack Stone (Mike Genovese), son of the late sheriff, has the skills to defeat the deadly creature.
- Doc Valentine is a drunk doctor who says many of the signature "Star Trek" lines. |
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| Space Cases (1996) (TV) - Starring as Shank in "Spung at Heart" and "On the Road to Find Out" |
| This show is about five space cadets, their two teachers and a malfunctioning android, Thelma. After the children see an alien spaceship, the Christa, outside their Space Academy and board it they become lost in space, with their assistant principal and teacher. |
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| Oblivion 2: Backlash (1996) - Starring as Doc Valentine |
In the alien-western world of Oblivion, a suave, yet lethal bounty hunter named Sweeney (Maxwell Caulfield) arrives to arrest the seductive outlaw Lash (Musetta Vander) on multiple charges, including murder. Lash, who just "inherited" a mine of Derconium (the most valuable mineral in the universe) from Crowley (Jeff Weston) in a game of cards, meets up with Redeye's brother, Jaggar (Andrew Divoff), who wants the mine for himself to rule the galaxy. It's a fight over Lash between the sheriff of Oblivion (Richard Joseph Paul), Jaggar, and Sweeney.
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Early Edition (1998) (TV) - Starring as Mr. Lee in "Blackout" |
Gary Hobson was a Chicago stockbroker until a mysterious yellow cat showed up at his front door with tomorrow's edition of the Chicago Sun-Times. From that day on Gary started trying to save people's lives and stop disasters from happening by using this fortune telling device.
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| Grosse Pointe (2000) (TV) - Starring as Japanese Ad Executive in "Star Wars" |
This is a show-within-a-show, and is a comedy that takes a look at the action behind the scenes of a teen prime-time soap. It centers on the on and off-camera antics of five actors who star in a fictional high school drama called Grosse Pointe.
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| The Chronicle (2001) (TV) - Starring as Mr. Shen in "Here There Be Dragons" |
Tucker Burns is a qualified reporter who applies for a job at the World Chronicle. It turns out that all the stories the Chronicle reports are true, but written as tabloid articles. Aided by photographer Wes and alien abductee/reporter Grace, and backed by his mysterious boss Donald Stern, Tucker investigates, ghosts, aliens, and other supernatural phenomena.
In this episode, tucker investigates reports of a fiery dragon beneath chinatown, and thinks it might be a human interest story. |
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| Futurama (2002) (TV) - Starring as Himself in "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" |
Futurama is a futuristic comedy cartoon created by Matt Groening, the same creator as The Simpsons. Futurama takes place in the year 3000, after a pizza delivery boy named Fry, is cryogenically frozen for 1,000 years. In the future he befriends Turanga Leela, the Cyclops mutant, and Bender, a drinking, swearing and stealing bending robot.
In this episode, Fry is on trial for traveling to Omega 3 to retrieve all 79 episodes of "Star Trek". He sets out on his mission with Leela, Bender and Leonard Nimoy's head in a jar, only to discover William Shatner, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei and Walter Koening are living on Omega 3 under the watchful eye of Melllvar, an evil energy creature that's also their biggest fan. |
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| Scrubs (2004) (TV) - Starring as the Priest in "My Best Friend's Wedding" |
The show focuses on the strange experiences of medical resident J.D. Also at Sacred Heart Hospital are residents Chris Turk - J.D.'s college buddy, beautiful but awkward Elliot Reid, chief of medicine Dr. Bob Kelso, Dr. Perry Cox; and Nurse Carla Espinosa, plus J.D.'s nemesis, the janitor.
The big day for Turk and Carla has finally arrived, but a patient holds up Turk. With Elliot still angry at him, J.D. attempts to reconcile her with Sean as a way to make everything right again in their friendship.
- The Priest resides at the Holy Trinity church and Turk thinks he looks like Captain Sulu. He doesn't actually perform Turk and Carla's wedding as he has another one scheduled. |
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| Malcolm in the Middle (2006) (TV) - Starring as Himself in "Hal Grieves" |
Malcolm (Frankie Muniz) is the third-oldest child in the family. Francis (Christopher Masterson) went to military school, so Reese (Justin Berfield), Malcolm and Dewey (Erik Per Sullivan) are living in the house with their parents Lois (Jane Kaczmarek) and Hal (Bryan Cranston). It centered on Malcolm and his dysfunctional family.
In this episode Hal learns that his father has passed away, but acts uncaring because he never even knew him. So he lets the boys do whatever they want until Lois ends up putting a stop to it.
- George Takei comes over for a visit to try to cheer Hal up when his friend Abe notices how depressed Hal has become. Dewey answers the door and Mr. Takei never even sees Hal anyway though. |
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| Will & Grace (2006) (TV) - Starring as Himself in "Buy, Buy Baby" |
Will Truman (Eric McCormack) is a successful Manhattan lawyer, and Grace Adler (Debra Messing) is a beautiful, self-employed interior decorator. They are best friends and neighbors in this comedy about two people who seem perfect for each other but can never actually find romance together because Will is gay and Grace is straight.
In this episode, a large corporation takes over Jack's talk showand it is completely revamped with a new co-host. While Jack decides whether he'll stand up to his new bosses, Karen decides she wants a baby of her own and offers to pay a make-up lady to carry one for her.
- George Takei as himself, drops by Jack's show (Jack Talk) for an interview. |
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