Granville Van Dusen
Birthday: Born in 1944-03-16 in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, USA
Deathday: Alive
TV Credits
Murder, She Wrote
Character: Congressman Brad Gardner
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases....
Magnum, P.I.
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A private investigator who works when he wants, lives in a beachfront estate in Hawaii, drives a posh Ferrari, runs up an unlimited tab at a swank bar, and charms attractive women in peril - that's the lifestyle of Thomas Magnum, aka Magnum, P.I....
Family Ties
Character: Mr. Carter
Former 1960s flower children Steven and Elyse Keaton raise their conservative son Alex, daughters Mallory and Jennifer, and later, youngest child Andrew....
Star Trek: Enterprise
Character: Klingon Magistrate
During the mid-22nd century, a century before Captain Kirk's five-year mission, Jonathan Archer captains the United Earth ship Enterprise during the early years of Starfleet, leading up to the Earth-Romulan War and the formation of the Federation....
Rhoda
Character:
Rhoda is an American television sitcom, starring Valerie Harper, which aired 109 episodes over five seasons, from 1974 to 1978. The show was a spin-off of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, in which Harper between the years 1970 and 1974 had played the role of Rhoda Morgenstern, a spunky, weight-conscious, flamboyantly fashioned Jewish neighbor and native New Yorker in the role of Mary Richards' best friend. After four seasons, Rhoda left Minneapolis and returned to her original hometown of New York Cit...
Judging Amy
Character: Judge Clarence Faraday
Judging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through May 3, 2005, on CBS-TV. This TV series starred Amy Brenneman and Tyne Daly. Its main character is a judge who serves in a family court, and in addition to the family-related cases that she adjudicates, many episodes of the show focus on her own experiences as a divorced mother, and on the experiences of her mother, a social worker who works in the field of child welfare. This series was based on the li...
The Bionic Woman
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After fully recovering from her near fatal bout of bionic rejection, Jaime Sommers, the first female cyborg, is assigned to spy missions of her own....
Matlock
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Matlock is an American television legal drama, starring Andy Griffith in the title role of criminal defense attorney Ben Matlock. The show, produced by The Fred Silverman Company, Dean Hargrove Productions, Viacom Productions and Paramount Television originally aired from September 23, 1986 to May 8, 1992 on NBC; and from November 5, 1992 until May 7, 1995 on ABC. The show's format is similar to that of CBS's Perry Mason, with Matlock identifying the perpetrators and then confronting them in dr...
Doogie Howser, M.D.
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Doogie Howser is a doctor. He is also a 16-year-old genius who graduated college at age 10 and finished medical school at age 14. But he is still a teenager, with normal teenage friends and problems. But unlike a normal teenager, he is just learning to drive while also consulting on serious medical cases like heart transplants....
Quincy, M.E.
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Los Angeles County medical examiner Quincy routinely engages in police investigations....
Moonlighting
Character: Alan Margolese
After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency. Together they solve various cases, while getting comfortable with each other....
Highway to Heaven
Character: Bob Bailey
A probationary angel is sent back to Earth to team up with an ex-cop and help people....
Baretta
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Baretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show was a milder version of a successful 1973–74 ABC series, Toma, starring Tony Musante as chameleon-like, real-life New Jersey police officer David Toma. While popular, Toma received intense criticism at the time for its realistic and frequent depiction of police and criminal violence. When Musante left the series after a single season, the concept was retooled as Baretta, with Robert Blake in the title...
Kaz
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Kaz is an American crime drama series that aired on CBS from September 10, 1978 to April 22, 1979....
Walker, Texas Ranger
Character: Neal Banyon
Modern-day Texas Ranger, Cordell Walker's independent crime-solving methods have their roots in the rugged traditions of the Old West. Walker's closest friend is former Ranger, C.D. Parker, who retired after a knee injury, and now owns "C.D.'s," a Country/Western saloon/restaurant. Rookie Ranger, James "Jimmy" Trivette is an ex-football player who bases his crime-solving methods on reason and uses computers and cellular phones. Alex Cahill is the Assistant DA who shares a mutual attraction with ...
Hill Street Blues
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A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station....
Hotel
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Hotel is an American prime time drama series which aired on ABC from September 21, 1983 to May 5, 1988 in the timeslot following Dynasty. Based on Arthur Hailey's 1965 novel of the same name, the series was produced by Aaron Spelling and set in the elegant and fictitious St. Gregory Hotel in San Francisco. Establishing shots of the hotel were filmed in front of The Fairmont San Francisco atop the Nob Hill neighborhood. Episodes followed the activities of passing guests, as well as the personal ...
Diagnosis: Murder
Character: Herb Morton
Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders....
Space: Above and Beyond
Character: Gen. Weirick
Set in the years 2063–2064, the show focuses on the "Wildcards", members of the United States Marine Corps Space Aviator Cavalry, 58th Squadron. They are stationed on the space carrier USS Saratoga, and act as infantry and pilots of SA-43 Endo/Exo-Atmospheric Attack Jet fighters....
Three's Company
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Three's Company is an American television sitcom that aired for eight seasons on ABC from March 15, 1977, to September 18, 1984. Developed by Don Nicholl, Michael Ross and Bernie West, it is based on the British sitcom Man About the House created by Brian Cooke and Johnnie Mortimer. The story revolves around three single roommates: Jack Tripper, Janet Wood, and Chrissy Snow, who all platonically live together in a Santa Monica, California apartment complex owned by Stanley and Helen Roper. The ...
Kojak
Character: Fred Toomey
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City....
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
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Dr. Michaela Quinn journeys to Colorado Springs to be the town's physician after her father's death in 1868....
Melrose Place
Character: Dr. Steele
Follow the lives of a group of young adults living in a brownstone apartment complex on Melrose Place, in Los Angeles, California....
Hunter
Character: Eddie Sanders
Hunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt. Dee Dee McCall, which ran on NBC from 1984 to 1991. However, Kramer left after the sixth season to pursue other acting and musical opportunities. In the seventh season, Hunter partnered with two different women officers. The titular character, Sgt. Rick Hunter, was a wily, physically imposing, and often rule-breaking homicide detective with the Los ...
The Waltons
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The Waltons live their life in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II....
Ironside
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When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to the police department. Detective Sergeant Ed Brown and policewoman Eve Whitfield join with him to crack varied and fascinating cases. Ex-con Mark Sanger is employed by the chief as home help but eventually becomes a fully fledged member of the team also. Officer Whitfield leaves after 4 years service, and is replaced by Officer Fran Belding....
Gilmore Girls
Character: Darren Springsteen
Set in the charming town of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, the series follows the captivating lives of Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, a mother/daughter pair who have a relationship most people only dream of....
Harry O
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After being shot in the line of duty, Harry Orwell was forced to retire from the San Diego Police Department. To supplement his police pension, Harry runs a private detective agency out of his beach house... The series starred David Janssen and was executive produced by Jerry Thorpe....
Switch
Character: Phil Simon
Switch is an American action-adventure, tongue-in-cheek detective series starring Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner, who work as private eyes, for a deceptive sting operation. It was broadcast on the CBS network for three seasons between September 9, 1975 and August 20, 1978, bumping the Hawaii Five-O detective series to Friday nights....
The New Adventures of Jonny Quest
Character: Race Bannon
The New Adventures of Jonny Quest was a 1980s continuation of Hanna-Barbera's Jonny Quest animated television series from the 1960s. Debuting in 1986 as part of The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera's 2nd season, syndication package, this new Jonny Quest series could be seen as the second season to a program that originally aired from 1964-1965 on ABC....
Paris
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Paris is an American television series that appeared on the CBS television network from September 29, 1979 to January 15, 1980. A crime drama, the show is notable as the first-ever appearance of renowned actor James Earl Jones in a lead role on television and was created by Steven Bochco, who later achieved fame for Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue, also served as executive producer. The program told the story of Los Angeles Police Captain Woody Paris, who supervised a team of young detectives. ...
Stone
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Stone is an American police drama that aired on NBC on Monday nights between January 14 and March 17, 1980. The series was a Stephen J. Cannell Production in association with Gerry Productions, Inc. and Universal Television and was created by Cannell, Richard Levinson and William Link....
Topkapi Palace
Character: Narrator
The Ottoman Dynasty extended over three continents, surviving 600 years from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the 20th century. 24 of its 36 Sultans ruled the Empire from Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, for a period of 400 years. The royal residence, which has witnessed moments of great joy and sorrow, became a museum after the founding of the Turkish Republic in 1923 by Kemal Ataturk. Until it opened its doors to visitors from all over the world, the Topkapi Palace had always been a mysterious, ...
Buddy Faro
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Buddy Faro was the best private detective in the business, until he disappeared in 1978 after a case went bad. Twenty years later, he's brought back to Los Angeles by private detective Bob Jones and they reopen Buddy Faro Investigations....
The Stockard Channing Show
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The Stockard Channing Show is an American sitcom starring Stockard Channing, Ron Silver, Sydney Goldsmith, Max Showalter and Jack Somack. The show first aired on CBS from March 24 to July 12, 1980. 13 episodes were produced. The series aired at 8:30 P.M. EST, along with WKRP in Cincinnati, M*A*S*H and Flo on the Monday night lineup. After the show ended, Channing would not star in another sitcom until Out of Practice....
Diagnosis: Murder
Character: Defense Attorney McNamara
Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders....
The West Wing
Character: Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs Bryce Lilly
The West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells the stories of the members of a fictional presidential administration. These interesting characters have humor and dedication that touches the heart while the politics that they discuss touch on everyday life....
Freakazoid!
Character: Dash O'Pepper (voice)
The adventures of Freakazoid, a manic, insane superhero who battles with an array of super villains....
One West Waikiki
Character:
One West Waikiki is an American crime/drama TV show set in Hawaii which ran from 1994-1996. It starred Cheryl Ladd, Richard Burgi and Kayla Blake and was nominated for a Prime Time Emmy in 1995....
Star Trek: Enterprise
Character: Andorian General
During the mid-22nd century, a century before Captain Kirk's five-year mission, Jonathan Archer captains the United Earth ship Enterprise during the early years of Starfleet, leading up to the Earth-Romulan War and the formation of the Federation....
CHiPs
Character: Lieutenant Harold Bates
Lighthearted look at the adventures of two Highway Patrol officers in Los Angeles. The main characters are Jon Baker and Frank Poncherello, two motorcycle officers always on the street to save lives....
Sliders
Character: Keeper Abraham
In his basement in San Francisco, boy-genius Quinn Mallory unlocks the doorway to an infinite number of Earths. During a test run, Quinn invites co-worker Wade Welles and his teacher Professor Maximillian Arturo to see his new invention. But an increase in power and an early departure leave all three, plus a washed-up soul singer named Rembrandt "Crying Man" Brown, lost in a parallel world. Now they must "slide" from world to world, not only adapting to their changing surroundings, but also tryi...
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Character: D.A. Michael Clemmons
A much more lavish version of the popular Superman television series which had first aired forty years earlier, Lois & Clark focused more on the Man of Steel's early adult years in Metropolis. With the unknowing help of Lois Lane, Clark Kent created Superman there in Metropolis after finding work at the world-famous Daily Planet newspaper, where he meets fellow reporter Lois Lane....
Baretta
Character: George Parsons
Baretta is an American detective television series which ran on ABC from 1975 to 1978. The show was a milder version of a successful 1973–74 ABC series, Toma, starring Tony Musante as chameleon-like, real-life New Jersey police officer David Toma. While popular, Toma received intense criticism at the time for its realistic and frequent depiction of police and criminal violence. When Musante left the series after a single season, the concept was retooled as Baretta, with Robert Blake in the title...
Suddenly Susan
Character: Alan Piper
Suddenly Susan is an American television sitcom. Shields plays Susan Keane, a glamorous San Francisco magazine writer who begins to adjust to being single, and who learns to be independent-minded, after being taken care of all her life....
Movie Credits
Love’s Dark Ride
Character: Tom Scott
A young advertising executive, blinded in a gun accident, attempts to rebuild his life and career by living through a nightclub entertainer who befriends him....
Piranha: Wolf in the Water
Character: Narrator
The piranha shares a notoriety with the shark and the wolf as one of nature's most relentless killers. It's very name has become synonymous with mindless consumption. The Piranha: Wolf in the Water explores the myth and mystique surrounding these exotic creatures while documenting the habits and behavior of the various species that comprise its widespread family. It's a world of cunning and savage justice acted out between predator and prey where the waters team with a menace that brings to mind...
Transplant
Character: Dr. Kroner
Fact-based story about a hard-driving young executive who rebels against his failing heart and undergoes a risky transplant....
Allison Sydney Harrison
Character: Walt Spencer
The story, set in San Francisco, depicts the adventures of Allison Sydney Harrison, a high-school student who teams with her wealthy private-detective father David Harrison to solve crimes. In the pilot, Allison and David team to solve the murder of a beautiful woman. The prime suspect is their chauffeur, Pat Rosetti....
Aladdin and the Adventure of All Time
Character: (voice)
Aladdin and his new friend Paige visit English kings, Egyptian queens, come face to face with a Tyrannosaurus Rex, and walk the gangplank with Blackbeard the Pirate, in search of a stolen magic lamp....
The World Beyond
Character: Paul Taylor
A golem made of mud terrorizes a couple on a remote Maine island....
Jonny's Golden Quest
Character: 'Race' Bannon
In the first feature-length animated movie based on the Hanna-Barbera series, Jonny Quest fans get to meet the women behind the adventurous men. Joining scientist Benton Quest, his plucky son Jonny, bodyguard Race Bannon and Jonny's young pal Hadji are Benton's biologist wife Rachel, Race's ex-wife Jade and young 12-year-old Jessie, who harbors a big secret. Throughout, Team Quest battles the evil schemes of modern-day alchemist Dr. Zin, who has cloned himself and created an army of mutant repti...
Jonny Quest vs. the Cyber Insects
Character: Race Bannon
The evil Dr. Zin has genetically modified household pests into disturbingly large insects that he calls assassinoids, fearless and devoted warriors that will carry out his plan for world domination. Team Quest, headed by internationally respected scientist Benton Quest, is Earth's only hope. When the good doctor becomes Zin's captive, the stakes - and the action quotient - grow higher. Enter Jonny Quest, Dr. Quest's bright, excitable, imaginative and heroic young son, ex-special agent Race Banno...
The Rose and the Jackal
Character: Tom
Detective Allan Pinkerton, working for the Union, becomes obsessed with Southern socialite Rose O'Neal Greenhow, a spy for the Confederacy....
Dr. Max
Character: Dr. John Poole
A small-town doctor neglects his family to look after his patients....
Dr. Scorpion
Character: Terry Batliner
A retired spy is reluctantly lured back into action to take down a mad scientist living on a tropical island....
This Is Kate Bennett...
Character: Tim Maxwell
In this pilot for a prospective TV series, Kate Bennett is an investigative TV news reporter whose life is imperiled, along with that of her young daughter Jennifer, after she doggedly pursues the story of a sniper attack on several nurses....
You Lucky Dog
Character: Mr. Fister
Jack Morgan is a dog therapist, once famous for being able to read his dog's mind. Although Jack cannot read the minds of other dogs, he still operates a canine mind-reading business, without divulging his inability to customers. Mr. Mooney and his wife bring their dog to see Jack. Dissatisfied with Jack's inability to read his dog's mind, Mr. Mooney, who is a friend of the city mayor, threatens to have his business closed down. After the Mooneys leave, a wealthy man named Clyde Windsor brings h...
High Midnight
Character: Lt. Ellis
Blue-collar worker Tony Giannetti vows to avenge the murder of his wife and child in a no-knock drug raid led by ruthlessly ambitious narcotics officer Capt. Lou Mikalich....
Breaking Up
Character: Tom Hammil
JoAnn Hammil faces a harrowing fight to rediscover her personal identity when her husband of 15 years announces that he is leaving her and their children to search for the indefinable joy he feels he is missing from his life....
Hearts of the West
Character: WWI Pilot
Lewis Tater writes Wild West dime novels and dreams of actually becoming a cowboy. When he goes west to find his dream he finds himself in possession of the loot box of two crooks who tried to rob him....
Dynasty
Character: Creed Vauclose
The story of a pioneer family in the early 1800s that seeks its fortunes on the Ohio frontier....
Chain Letter
Character: John Hastings
The Messenger of Death has an interesting way of getting victims. His assistant, Miss Smith, would write a letter where recipients would be told to pass it along. The person that failed in doing so would meet misfortune (mostly death). The Messenger of Death and Miss Smith would watch the person that broke the chain on a television monitor. After the victim's demise, The Messenger of Death would go back to his desk, and say to his assistant, "Take a letter, Miss Smith"....
Escapade
Character: Joshua Rand
Two U.S. Secret Service agents are lured on a bizarre search for their rookie partner who has mysteriously disappeared.Two secret agents set out in search of a missing comrade....
Anaconda: Giant Snake of the Amazon
Character: Narrator
No animal in the Amazon is more feared and more respected than the 'spirit of the river' - The Anaconda...
The World of Darkness
Character: Paul Taylor
A newspaper sportswriter has a special connection to the supernatural....
The Wild and the Free
Character: Dr. Rafelson
Two scientists involved in chimpanzee research -- one maintaining that the animals should be kept in their native habitat in Africa without human interference, the other trying to train them in sign language in a domesticated atmosphere -- join forces when they learn that the government plans to cut off the language grant and use the chimps for radiation research....
Hotline
Character: Justin Price
A crisis helpline assistant attracts the attention of a serial killer who delights in feeding her cryptic, nursery-rhyme style riddles when planning his next murder!...
Madame X
Character: Clay Richardson
Thrown out of her home by a jealous husband, a woman sinks into degradation. Twenty years later, she is charged with killing a man bent on harming her daughter. The daughter, unaware of who the woman is, takes the assignment to defend her in court....
That's Entertainment! III
Character: Beginning Narrator (voice)
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain....
Someone I Touched
Character: John
A woman learns that her husband has been unfaithful and that she has acquired a venereal disease. Then she learns that, after years of trying, she is finally pregnant...
A Cry for Help
Character: Brother Stephen Tyler
A talk-radio host, who specializes in abusing and insulting his audience, gets a call from a disturbed teenage girl who says she is going to commit suicide. After first encouraging her, he has a change of heart and frantically tries to get his listeners to help find the girl before she makes good on her threat....
Gladiator Games: The Roman Bloodsport
Character: Narrator (voice)
A look at the making of the Gladiator (2000) and the historical aspects presented within the film. Interviews with cast, crew and historical professors tell us a little bit more about certain locations and characters than what was in the movie....
It Ain't Easy
Character: Paul
Randy has PTSD from the Army. After extreme treatment he is released into the world to make it on his own. He goes to Winnipeg to race his snowmobile cross country to St. Paul....
The Night That Panicked America
Character: Carl Phillips
A dramatization of the Oct. 30, 1938 mass panic that Orson Welles' radio play, "The War of the Worlds" accidentally provoked....
The War Between the Tates
Character: Sanford Finkelstein
A college professor's well-ordered life is disrupted when his wife discovers he is having an affair with one of his students....