Ben Masters
Birthday: Born in 1947-05-06 in Corvallis, Oregon, USA
Deathday: 2023-01-11
Benjamin Masters (May 6, 1947 - January 11, 2023) was an American actor, known for Passions (1999), Spy Game (1997) and Noble House (1988).
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Murder, She Wrote
Character: Ray Dandridge
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases....
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
Character: Christian Becker
Like his legendary namesake, Kwai Chang Caine is a warrior monk, operating a Shaolin temple in Northern California. After an evil priest, Tan, destroys the temple, Caine and his young son, Peter each believe the other has perished. The two embark on very different paths -- Caine wanders the Earth, while Peter is a cop. When fate brings the two together, they work to overcome their differing philosophies to battle Tan, and then to help the innocent and bring justice to the new Wild West -- 90s ur...
Touched by an Angel
Character: Prof. Brian Salter
Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives....
Walker, Texas Ranger
Character: Senator Julian Knox
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 ...
Diagnosis: Murder
Character: Robert Stanton
Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders....
Kojak
Character: Oliver
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City....
Sisters
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Sisters is an Emmy Award-winning television drama. It follows the lives and loves of four close, but very different, sisters of the Reed family living in Winnetka, Illinois....
Another World
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Another World is an American television soap opera that ran on NBC for 35 years from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. Set in the fictional town of Bay City, the show in its early years opens with announcer Bill Wolff intoning its epigram, “We do not live in this world alone, but in a thousand other worlds,” which Phillips said represented the difference between “the world of events we live in, and the world of feelings and dreams that we strive for.” Another World focused less on the conventional d...
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
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Kolchak: The Night Stalker is an American television series that aired on ABC during the 1974–1975 season. It featured a fictional Chicago newspaper reporter who investigated mysterious crimes with unlikely causes, particularly those that law enforcement authorities would not follow up. These often involved the supernatural or even science fiction, including fantastic creatures....
Petrocelli
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Petrocelli is an American legal drama which ran for two seasons on NBC from September 11, 1974 to March 31, 1976. Tony Petrocelli is an Italian-American Harvard-educated lawyer who gave up the big money and frenetic pace of major-metropolitan life to practice in a sleepy city in the American Southwest. He and wife Maggie live in a trailer in the country while waiting for their new house to be built, and travel around in a beat-up old pickup truck. For a quiet rural area, Petrocelli seems to hav...
Noble House
Character: Linc Bartlett
Despite its impressive history and reputation, the international trading company Struan's is in trouble. Overextended by the previous management, new tai-pan Ian Dunross has had to issue public stock to improve the company's financial standing. Even this, however, has not given him the capital he needs. As a result, he is courting a private investor, American billionaire Linc Bartlett. Bartlett decides secretly to back Dunross' arch enemy, Quillian Gornt, who will stop at nothing to destroy Stru...
HeartBeat
Character: Dr. Leo Rosetti
The professional and private lives of the predominantly female staff of the Women's Medical Arts, a progressive clinic with a mandate to breathe new life into the doctor-patient relationship....
Murder, She Wrote
Character: Evan Rafferty / Stanley Barton
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases....
Murder, She Wrote
Character: Police Chief Thurman Gillis
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases....
Celebrity
Character: Kleber Cantrell
Self-proclaimed faith healer T.J. Luther, movie star Mack Crawford and journalist Kleber Cantrell share a fateful reunion in a deserted Texas cabin that was the scene of a night of violence over two decades....
Cruel Doubt
Character: Frank Johnston
A college student and two friends are accused of murdering one's stepfather and injuring his mother whom refuses to believe her son had anything to do with the attack....
Movie Credits
Walker Texas Ranger 3: Deadly Reunion
Character: Senator Julian Knox
An experienced member of Texas Rangers, a special police unit, arrives to compete in a pistol shooting tournament, but so does a hitman who's planing to assassinate a US senator who will be among the spectators....
Making Mr. Right
Character: Steve Marcus
When image consultant Frankie Stone is hired by a tech company to teach a scientist’s “Ulysses Robot” how to be a man, she winds up developing very real feelings for the faux human....
Mandingo
Character: Charles Woodford
Warren Maxwell, the owner of a run-down plantation, pressures his son, Hammond, to marry and produce an heir to inherit the plantation. Hammond settles on his own cousin, Blanche, but purchases a sex slave when he returns from the honeymoon. He also buys his father a new Mandingo slave named Mede to breed and train as a prize-fighter....
All That Jazz
Character: Dr. Garry
Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in musical theater. But he can feel his world slowly collapsing around him - his obsession with work has almost destroyed his personal life, and only his bottles of pills keep him going....
The Neighborhood
Character: Tony Bernhardt
A neighborhood in Brooklyn reacts to the first black families moving into the community....
The Deliberate Stranger
Character: Det. Mike Fisher
Based on a true story, this film depicts the life of Ted Bundy, the serial killer. In 1974, after having murdered several young women, he leaves Seattle for Utah, where he is a law student and where other girls disappear. It takes the cooperation of a number of police forces to work efficiently on this case. Soon, but not soon enough, the police eliminate endless possibilities and close in on him. Bundy is tried in the media and his good-boy attitude brings him sympathy but also the hatred of ma...
Running Mates
Character: Mel Fletcher
Hugh Hathaway was captain of the high school football team when Aggie Snow first went giddy over him. Now, he's a successful senator running for president and she's an award-winning children's author. They may clash on some political issues, but they can agree on one thing: they're falling in love. Aggie isn't sure she's ready to become anyone's first lady, let alone the country's but she's soon seduced by the smiling senator and introduced as his bride-to-be to the nation. Unfortunately for the...
Dream Lover
Character: Michael Hansen
After she's been attacked in her apartment, Cathy starts reliving the event in her dreams. She seeks help at a sleep disorder research center, but in doing so she encounters some unexpected results....
Kate's Secret
Character: Jack Stark
A beautiful woman married to a successful lawyer and the perfect suburban mother turns out to be a closeted bulimic....
The Second Civil War
Character: Matthew Langford
When a planeload of Pakistani orphans are shipped to his state for permanent relocation, the governor of Idaho defies the president and closes the state's border. News Net Television, a cable news program that makes hay by reporting on political scandals, quickly spins the racist act into an overnight media sensation, creating a divide in national opinion over the issue....
Loose Change
Character: Joe Norman
Three girlfriends -- an author, an artist, and a political activist -- mature and change during the turbulent 1960s....
The Keys
Character: Jake Bessarian
Brothers, shipped off by their divorced New York mom to live with their businessman dad in the Florida Keys, find him caught up in a land war against a drug lord and developer who wants to build a massive casino complex....
Street of Dreams
Character: Kyd Thomas
The film follows a laid-back private investigator Kyd Thomas who gets thrust into Hollywood's world of crime after he meets Laura Cassidy. Laura is a cocaine addict who Kyd saves from being beaten and raped....
The Shadow Box
Character: Mark
Over the course of a day in a California hospice, three terminally ill patients are observed with their families reflecting on life and death....
Lady Killer
Character: Ross Mitchell
Married woman has brief affair with younger man who turns violent when she breaks it off....
Illusions
Character: Larry
An American fashion designer is told that her husband has been killed in an air crash near France. However, she starts to believe that everything is not as it appears....
A Time to Heal
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A paralyzed mother recovers from a stroke during childbirth with care from her husband....
One of Our Own
Character: Felix Needham
Dr Jake Goodwin is the chief neurosurgeon at a busy city hospital. As he makes his rounds, Goodwin becomes involved in a vast array of medical cases. Problems arise when a top doctor is brought in seriously injured after a car crash, and Goodwin must deal with the doctor's own personal physician who wants to avoid a scandal. At the same time Goodwin's own son is brought in with a life threatening condition. This film was the pilot for the TV series Doctor's Hospital....
Demon and the Mummy
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The second of two Kolchak: The Night Stalker compilation TV films. It combines two episodes of the Kolchak TV series, Demon In Lace (about a succubus who murders young men to maintain her immortality) and Legacy of Terror (about an Aztec cult that seeks to resurrect their god by murdering physically perfect people) and adds new narration by Darren McGavin....
Key Exchange
Character: Philip
A young woman wants to get her boyfriend to commit to her, but the most she can get him to do is exchange apartment keys....