Michael Shannon
Birthday: Born in 1943-01-24 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Deathday: 2023-11-23
Michael Shannon was born on January 24, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Dark Shadows (2012), Little Shop of Horrors (1986) and Superman II (1980).
TV Credits
JAG
Character: Major General Richard Plesac
Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. is a former pilot turned lawyer working for the military's JAG (Judge Advocate General) division, the elite legal wing of officers that prosecutes and defends those accused of military-related crimes. He works closely with Lt. Col. Sarah Mackenzie, and together they do what needs to be done to find the truth....
The Big Battalions
Character: David
The Big Battalions tells the story of three families, Christian, Muslim and Jewish, and moves between Britain, Ethiopia, Israel, Jordan and Saudi Arabia....
Red Dwarf
Character: John F. Kennedy
The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf....
Wonder Woman
Character: Cameron
With the strength of Hercules, the wisdom of Athena, the speed of Mercury and the beauty of Aphrodite, she’s Wonder Woman. Beautiful Amazon princess Wonder Woman travels to 1940s America disguised as Diana Prince, assistant to handsome but trouble-prone Major Steve Trevor. Using her golden belt, which imbues her with astonishing strength, her bullet-deflecting bracelets, a golden lasso that dispels dishonesty and an invisible supersonic plane, Wonder Woman combats evil....
Future Cop
Character: Haven
A veteran street cop gets an experimental android that has been programmed by the police lab for his new partner....
Rock Follies
Character:
Rock Follies, and its sequel, Rock Follies of '77, was a musical drama shown on British television in the 1970s. The storyline, over 12 episodes and two series, followed the ups and downs of a fictional female rock band called the "Little Ladies" as they struggled for recognition and success. The series starred Rula Lenska, Charlotte Cornwell and Julie Covington as the Little Ladies, with support from Emlyn Price, Beth Porter, Sue Jones-Davies, Stephen Moore and Little Nell among others. The ser...
Boston Legal
Character: Avery Wilson
Alan Shore and Denny Crane lead a brigade of high-priced civil litigators in an upscale Boston law firm in a series focusing on the professional and personal lives of brilliant but often emotionally challenged attorneys. A spin-off of long-running series The Practice....
Riker
Character: Brice Landis
Riker is an American crime drama television series that aired from March 14 until April 11, 1981....
Brothers and Sisters
Character: Tom Burgess
The close-knit Walker family deals with struggles and triumphs....
The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
Character: Jack Fisher
Ann, a former chorus girl marries above herself into a rich society family, but her mother-in-law regards her with great suspicion from the start. When Ann shoots her husband dead, claiming she thought he was a prowler, the older Mrs. Grenville decides to back the woman she despises, to protect the family image....
Lillie
Character: Freddie Gebhard
The Rise and Fall of a Professional Beauty. It was the affair that shook Victorian society to its core. He was the Prince of Wales, the future monarch; she was a professional beauty, who became a royal bedmate. Follow the fascinating life of the Dean of Jersey's daughter from her modest childhood to her emergence as one of the most celebrated beauties of her time. Lillie's liaison with the heir to the throne marked only the beginning of a remarkable, scandalous and daring series of adventures in...
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
Character: Morley Kennerly
The true story of Barbara Hutton, who had inherited $40 million by the age of 6. This insight explores the effects that money can have on one's life, loves, and careers....
Prime Suspect
Character: Jake Hunter
Highly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world....
A Very Peculiar Practice
Character: Jack Daniels
A young and idealistic Doctor Stephen Daker arrives at Lowlands University to work at the Health Centre, but has to cope with an eccentric set of colleagues....
The A-Team
Character: Randy Anderson
A fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune while on the run from the Army after being branded as war criminals for a "crime they didn't commit."...
The Hanged Man
Character: Milton Webber
After surviving a series of attempts on his life, successful businessman Lew Burnett decides to remain "dead" after the most recent one so he can go undercover and find out which of his close friends and business associates want him dead....
JAG
Character: Richard Plesac
Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. is a former pilot turned lawyer working for the military's JAG (Judge Advocate General) division, the elite legal wing of officers that prosecutes and defends those accused of military-related crimes. He works closely with Lt. Col. Sarah Mackenzie, and together they do what needs to be done to find the truth....
Dempsey and Makepeace
Character: Conrad
Dempsey and Makepeace is a British television crime drama made by London Weekend Television for ITV, created and produced by Ranald Graham. The leading roles were played by Michael Brandon and Glynis Barber, who later married each other on 18 November 1989. The series combined elements of previous series such as the mis-matching of British and American crime-fighters from different classes as seen in The Persuaders! and the action of The Professionals....
Movie Credits
Future Cop
Character: Haven
A veteran street cop is assigned a new partner. The partner is not exactly what he seems to be, though--he is an experimental android who has been programmed by the police lab....
Möbius
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An FSB officer falls in love with his agent, an American woman who works as a trader in a Russian bank....
The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story
Character: Senator John Tunney
A profile in courage, the film examines the trauma and effort that Senator Edward Kennedy's son went through after losing his leg to a rare form of cancer and with the rehabilitation that was required....
The Author of Beltraffio
Character: James Sinclair
A young American writer visits a famous author in the English countryside, and notices antagonism between the author and his wife over the upbringing of their young son....
That Lucky Touch
Character: Lt. Davis
A European arms dealer meets a liberated woman journalist, who is writing a story about the ridiculous things men do with the armaments during a NATO war games meeting....
Afterward
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A skeptical family moves into their new home despite warnings of a resident ghost. They soon become believers....
Out of the Shadows
Character: Frank Osbourne
A U.S. Embassy worker is helped by an Interpol agent to prove herself innocent of a murder in the Greek isles....
Cops and Robin
Character: John Haven
A veteran street cop and his partner, a robot programmed to be the perfect policeman, are assigned to protect the five-year-old daughter of the widow who witnessed the killing of her police officer husband and now is stalked by the gangster who murdered him....
Never Never Land
Character: Peter
Zena has been abandoned by her parents and left in the care of her aunt Bee Melvin. She is treated poorly by two of her cousins, and taking the lead from the story Peter and Wendy, she runs away from home with her younger cousin....
Night Watch
Character: Martin Schraeder
UN agents Mike Graham and Sabrina Carver are sent by their director Nick Caldwell to investigate the theft of Rembrandt's painting, "The Night Watch". The trail takes them from Amsterdam to Hong Kong and involves them in not only art theft and forgery, but the high-tech schemes of Martin Schraeder and his Korean cohort Mao Yixin...
Dark Shadows
Character: Board Member #2
Vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate and family have fallen into ruin....
The Raven
Character: Dr. Morgan
A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories....
Royce
Character: Senator Scanlon
Royce is a member of the ultra-secret service "Black Hole", working for the US Government on top-secret missions. When the senator responsible for forming Black Hole disbands the organization, Royce's fellow Black Hole members plot revenge on the man responsible for them losing their jobs. Royce decides not to join them, instead deciding to thwart their attempts to exact revenge on the senator....
30 Years to Life
Character: Graham
In a futuristic dystopia, a teenager is medically aged 30 years to punish him for a crime he didn't commit....
Little Shop of Horrors
Character: Television Reporter
Seymour Krelborn is a nerdy orphan working at Mushnik's, a flower shop in urban Skid Row. He harbors a crush on fellow co-worker Audrey Fulquard, and is berated by Mr. Mushnik daily. One day Seymour finds a very mysterious unidentified plant which he calls Audrey II. The plant seems to have a craving for blood and soon begins to sing for his supper....
Death of an Angel
Character: Bishop Holmes
Grace, a priest, tracks her missing daughter to a religious community where the strange father Angel is keeping a wooden Jesus figure that sheds actual blood. When the cross is stolen, Grace decides to help out to get her daughter back....
Making Love
Character: Marty
A perfect typical LA couple find their happily-ever-after life broken when Zach confronts his long-repressed attraction for other men....
Murder on the Moon
Character: Ivanov
After a nuclear war on Earth, the Soviet Union and the U.S. both establish outposts on the moon. When a murder occurs on the outpost, both U.S. and Soviet investigators are forced to work on the case together....
The Affair
Character: Capt. Ford
A black soldier in World War II England begins an affair with a white woman whose husband is a soldier currently overseas in battle and in doubts of her relationship with him as she discovered he had been having an affair with his secretary....
Fatherland
Character: US Ambassador
Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960s and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American journalist and a German homicide cop stumble into a plot to destroy all evidence of the genocide....
Pride and Extreme Prejudice
Character: Chapinski
The CIA and the KGB both pursue a former operative (Dennehy) who seemingly has become unstable....
National Theatre Live: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Tennessee Williams’ twentieth century masterpiece Cat on a Hot Tin Roof played a strictly limited season in London’s West End in 2017. An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memo...
The Best Place to Be
Character: Patrick Callahan
A widow's life is thrown into turmoil by her hippie daughter, her rebellious teenage son, and an ill-starred love affair she is having with a much younger man -- and then a former suitor comes back into the picture....
American Gun
Character: Jerry
Seemingly disparate portraits of people -- among them a single mother, a high school principal, and an ace student -- Distinctly American -- all affected by the proliferation of guns in American society....
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
Character: President's Aide
Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to start a relationship with Lois Lane, unaware that three Kryptonian criminals he inadvertently released are conquering Earth....
Sheena
Character: Phillip Ames
Sheena's parents are killed while on Safari. She is raised by the mystical witch woman of an African tribe. When her foster mother is framed for the murder of a political leader, Sheena and a newsman, Vic Casey, are forced to flee while pursued by the mercenaries hired by the real killer, who hopes to assume power. Sheena's ability to talk to the animals and knowledge of jungle lore give them a chance against the high tech weapons of the mercenaries....
You've Got a Friend
Character: Brayton Jennings
A recently-orphaned 12 year old boy moves to a new town to live with his aunt and uncle, and finds an unlikely mentor in the town loner, who helps him build the soap box racer he dreamed of crafting with his dad....
Superman II
Character: President's Aide
Three escaped criminals from the planet Krypton, who have the same powers on Earth as Superman, test the Man of Steel's mettle. Led by General Zod, the Kryptonians take control of the White House and partner with Lex Luthor to destroy Superman and rule the world. But Superman, who made himself human in order to get closer to Lois, realizes he has a responsibility to save the planet....