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Britt Leach is a Actor American born on 18 july 1938 at Gadsden (USA)

Britt Leach

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Nationality USA
Birth 18 july 1938 (85 years) at Gadsden (USA)

Britt Leach (born July 18, 1938; Gadsden, Alabama) is an American character actor. He is best known for his role in the films Goin' South, Fuzz, The Last Starfighter, Weird Science, The Great Outdoors, Baby Boom, and Silent Night, Deadly Night. Leach has also made guest appearances in television shows such as The Brady Bunch, The Partridge Family, Bonanza, Tales from the Crypt and many others.

During the fall of 1976, he was cast in the role of Mickey "Wig" Wiggins, an airplane mechanic, in the six-episode CBS adventure series, Spencer's Pilots, starring Gene Evans, Christopher Stone, and Todd Susman.

In 2007, Leach did not renew his membership in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and wrote of his frustration with DVD screeners in a satirical piece on his website.

Usually with

Charles Shyer
Charles Shyer
(3 films)
Nancy Meyers
Nancy Meyers
(2 films)
Don Shanks
Don Shanks
(2 films)
John Hughes
John Hughes
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Britt Leach (20 films)

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Father of the Bride, 1h45
Directed by Charles Shyer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about families, Films about marriage
Actors Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Martin Short, Kieran Culkin, George Newbern
Roles Assistant Supermarket Manager (uncredited)
Rating65% 3.2991853.2991853.2991853.2991853.299185
George Banks (Steve Martin) is the owner of an athletic shoe company in San Marino, California, whose 22-year-old daughter, Annie (Kimberly Williams), returns from Europe, telling them she is engaged to Bryan MacKenzie (George Newbern), a man from an upper-class family from Bel-Air, despite them only having known each other for three months. The sudden shock turns the warm reunion into a heated argument between George and Annie, but they quickly reconcile in time for Bryan to arrive and meet them. Despite Bryan's good financial status and likeable demeanour, George takes an immediate dislike to him while his wife, Nina (Diane Keaton), accepts him as a potential son-in-law.
Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker, 1h30
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Robot films
Actors Mickey Rooney, William Thorne, Lilyan Chauvin, Clint Howard, Britt Leach, Gilmer McCormick
Rating43% 2.167862.167862.167862.167862.16786
Late one night in December, a young boy named Derek Quinn (William Thorne) hears the doorbell ringing and goes downstairs and finds a Christmas present that has been addressed to him on the porch. His father Tom (Van Quattro) reprimands him for being up so late and opening the door, sending him off to bed. Instead Derek watches from the stairs as his curious father opens the gift. Finding a musical orb shaped like Santa Claus in the box he activates it, causing it to strangle him with retractable cords; as Tom struggles he slips and falls onto a fireplace poker, his impaled body being found by his wife Sarah (Jane Higginson) a few moments later.
The Great Outdoors, 1h30
Directed by Howard Deutch
Genres Comedy
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Annette Bening, Robert Prosky, Lewis Arquette, Chris Young
Roles Reg
Rating65% 3.2994253.2994253.2994253.2994253.299425
Chicagoan Chester "Chet" Ripley (Candy), his wife, Connie (Faracy), and their two sons, Buckley "Buck" (Young) and Ben (Giatti), are on vacation at a lake resort in Pechoggin, Wisconsin during the summer. All is going as planned until Connie's sister, Kate (Bening), Kate's investment broker husband, Roman Craig (Aykroyd), and their twin daughters, Mara and Cara (Rebecca and Hilary Gordon), crash the vacation.
Baby Boom
Baby Boom (1987)
, 1h50
Directed by Charles Shyer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Diane Keaton, Harold Ramis, Sam Wanamaker, Sam Shepard, James Spader, John Philbin
Roles Vern Boone
Rating62% 3.1498853.1498853.1498853.1498853.149885
J.C. Wiatt (Diane Keaton) is a driven Manhattan career woman (nicknamed the "Tiger Lady") typical of the 1980s whose fast-paced life leaves her with no time for romance or relaxation (or as the narrator in the beginning puts it she works "5 to 9"), though she derives pleasure from her frantic schedule and demanding job. She works as a management consultant and lives with an investment banker (Harold Ramis), whose job and life are likewise hectic. Her life is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a toddler, Elizabeth (twins Kristina and Michelle Kennedy), from a deceased cousin whom she hadn't seen in over 30 years.
Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2, 1h28
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror, Slasher
Themes Films about children, Medical-themed films, Christmas films, Serial killer films, Films about psychiatry, Comedy horror films, Films set in psychiatric hospitals, Santa Claus in film
Actors Eric Freeman, Elizabeth Kaitan, Darrel Guilbeau, Frank Novak, Linnea Quigley, Lilyan Chauvin
Roles Mr. Simms (archive footage)
Rating39% 1.9567651.9567651.9567651.9567651.956765
The sequel picks up on Christmas Eve some years after the first one, with Ricky Caldwell, the 18-year-old brother of the first film's killer, is now being held in a mental hospital, awaiting trial for a series of murders that he committed. While being interviewed by the psychiatrist Dr. Henry Bloom, Ricky tells the story of the murders his brother Billy committed throughout a series of several flashbacks used footage from the original film, as well as some new shots inserted in the flashbacks to make Ricky appear in more of Billy's original story.
Weird Science, 1h34
Directed by John Hughes
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Comic science fiction
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Films about computing, Films based on mythology, Comedy science fiction films, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology, Buddy films, Teen movie, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Kelly LeBrock, Bill Paxton, Robert Downey Jr., Robert Rusler
Roles Al Wallace
Rating65% 3.2992853.2992853.2992853.2992853.299285
Shermer, Illinois, is a fictitious suburb of Chicago. There, nerdy social outcasts Gary Wallace (Anthony Michael Hall) and Wyatt Donnelly (Ilan Mitchell-Smith) are publicly humiliated by Ian (Robert Downey, Jr.) and Max (Robert Rusler) after they are seen swooning over two girls who happen to be their girlfriends. Dejected and disappointed at their direction in life and wanting more, Gary convinces the uptight Wyatt that they need a boost of popularity in order to get their crushes, Hilly (Judie Aronson) and Deb (Suzanne Snyder), away from Ian and Max. Alone for the weekend with Wyatt's parents gone, Gary is inspired by the 1931 classic Frankenstein to create a virtual girl using Wyatt's computer; infusing her with everything they can conceive to make the perfect dream girl. After hooking electrodes to a doll and hacking into a government computer system for more power, a power surge creates Lisa, a beautiful and intelligent woman with seemingly endless powers. Promptly, she conjures up a Cadillac convertible to take the boys out to a bar, using her powers to manipulate people into believing Gary and Wyatt are of age. The boys come up with the name Lisa (Kelly Le Brock), based upon a failed romantic experience of Gary's that ended with Lisa kicking him in the testicles.
The Last Starfighter, 1h36
Directed by Nick Castle
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Comic science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Films about computing, Jeu, Comedy science fiction films, Films about video games, Space opera
Actors Lance Guest, Robert Preston, Catherine Mary Stewart, Dan O'Herlihy, Norman Snow, Kay E. Kuter
Roles Mr. Potter
Rating66% 3.349183.349183.349183.349183.34918
Alex Rogan is a teenager living in a trailer park with his mother and little brother, Louis. Alex often plays Starfighter, an arcade game in which the player defends "the Frontier" from "Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada" in a space battle. He becomes the game's highest-scoring player, and is approached by the game's inventor, Centauri, who invites him to take a ride. Alex does so, discovering the car is a spacecraft. Centauri is an alien who takes him to the planet Rylos. An android duplicate named Beta takes Alex's place during his absence.
Silent Night, Deadly Night, 1h25
Directed by Charles E. Sellier Jr.
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Films about children, Christmas films, Serial killer films, Santa Claus in film
Actors Lilyan Chauvin, Gilmer McCormick, Linnea Quigley, Britt Leach, Leo Geter, Will Hare
Roles Mr. Sims
Rating58% 2.9010252.9010252.9010252.9010252.901025
In 1971, on a visit to his institutionalized grandfather, who warned 5-year-old Billy Chapman that Santa Claus punishes the naughty, his family happens to come across a man in a Santa Claus outfit seemingly having car trouble. The man - actually a criminal who has just used that disguise to rob a liquor store after he kills a man and escaped - pulls a gun and mercilessly kills Billy's father in front of him and his infant brother Ricky, then slits their mother's throat with a switch blade, leaving the children alive. Three years later, Billy and Ricky are celebrating Christmas in an orphanage run by Mother Superior, a strict disciplinarian, who persistently strikes children who misbehave and considers punishment for their wicked actions as a good thing. Sister Margaret seems to be the only one who sympathizes with the children, trying to get Billy to open up and play with the children, but they are constantly under Superior's scrutinizing eye and they regularly end up getting punished.
Kentucky Woman, 1h36
Directed by Walter Doniger
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Cheryl Ladd, Ned Beatty, Peter Weller, Tess Harper, Lewis Smith, Peter Hobbs
Roles Amos
Rating63% 3.1815453.1815453.1815453.1815453.181545
Maggie Telford (Cheryl Ladd), a poverty-stricken waitress, faces harassment and humiliation when she goes to work as a coal miner to support her small son and ailing coal miner father disabled with black lung disease (Ned Beatty).
Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker, 1h36
Directed by William Asher
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Films based on plays, Teen LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Jimmy McNichol, Susan Tyrrell, Bill Paxton, Bo Svenson, Marcia Lewis, Steve Eastin
Roles Sgt. Cook
Rating63% 3.15513.15513.15513.15513.1551
Billy Lynch (Jimmy McNichol) is a high school student who has been raised by his aunt since age three, after his parents died in a violent car accident. His Aunt Cheryl (Susan Tyrrell) is overly protective of her nephew. A gifted basketball player, Billy is offered a chance at a scholarship to attend the University of Colorado, but Cheryl dismisses the idea, assuming that Billy will stay with her to "contribute." At school, Billy is bullied by one of his basketball teammates, Eddie (Bill Paxton), who is jealous of Billy's close friendship with their coach, Tom Landers (Steve Eastin), while Julia (Julia Duffy), the school's journalism photographer, begins to take romantic interest in Billy.
Hardly Working, 1h31
Directed by Jerry Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Jerry Lewis, Susan Oliver, Deanna Lund, Roger C. Carmel, Harold J. Stone, Steve Franken
Rating47% 2.3606652.3606652.3606652.3606652.360665
Bo Hooper (Lewis), a clown, finds himself unemployed when the circus where he works suddenly closes. He winds up living with his sister (Susan Oliver), against the wishes of her husband Robert (Roger C. Carmel). From there he goes from job to job, wreaking havoc along the way. He finally finds some stability as a postal worker, until he finds out that his boss is his girlfriend's father. The father hates all mail carriers because his daughter's ex-husband was one, so he tries to wreck Bo's life, but Bo overcomes the odds and succeeds not only at work, but at impressing the father.
High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane, 1h36
Directed by Jerry Jameson
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Lee Majors, David Carradine, Pernell Roberts, Michael Pataki, Katherine Cannon, Frank Campanella
Roles Virgil
Rating52% 2.614262.614262.614262.614262.61426
Will Kane returns to the town of Hadleyville, a year after the events of High Noon, and finds that the town is now in the hands of a corrupt marshal and his two aides. J.D. Ward, the man that replaced Kane as marshal, is a tyrant who shoots up the horses Will has just purchased. Ward is after Ben Irons and his men in order to get the bounty on them, even though Ward knows they are innocent. Ben gets away. Ward pursues him, and Kane decides to help Ben. Ben dies from a gunshot wound. Ward is going to arrest Kane for helping Ben, but the town rallies together and issues a warrant for Ward's arrest. Kane then again puts on the tin star (that he threw on the ground at the end of the 1952 original movie) and shoots Ward to death.
Goin' South, 1h45
Directed by Jack Nicholson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Western
Actors Jack Nicholson, Mary Steenburgen, Christopher Lloyd, John Belushi, Richard Bradford, Veronica Cartwright
Roles Parson Weems
Rating61% 3.0968353.0968353.0968353.0968353.096835
Henry Lloyd Moon (Nicholson), a third-rate outlaw in the late 1860s, is a bank robber, horse thief and cattle thief who is sentenced to be hanged in Longhorn, Texas, to the glee of the local populace and especially of the deputy sheriff (Lloyd). Moon comes under especially close scrutiny from some women in town, due to a local ordinance originating during the Civil War, that allowed a condemned man (short of being a murderer) to be saved from the gallows if an unmarried lady would marry him and take responsibility for his good behavior.
Jackson County Jail, 1h25
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Women in prison films
Actors Yvette Mimieux, Tommy Lee Jones, Mary Woronov, Howard Hesseman, Nan Martin, Robert Carradine
Roles Dan Oldum
Rating60% 3.0451853.0451853.0451853.0451853.045185
Dinah Hunter (Mimieux) works for a Los Angeles advertising agency and has been involved in a two-year romantic relationship. After she catches the man being unfaithful to her, Dinah quits her job and drives to New York for a fresh start.