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Chick Vennera is a Actor American born on 27 march 1947

Chick Vennera

Chick Vennera
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Nationality USA
Birth 27 march 1947
Death 7 july 2021 (at 74 years)

Chick Vennera (born March 27, 1947) is an American actor known for his role as Joe Mondragon, in Robert Redford's The Milagro Beanfield War, among other movies.

Biography

Vennera spent time in the U.S. Army signal corps, where he won the Third Army Entertainment Contest.
He also spent time as a musician, playing in various nightclubs in Los Angeles.

Best films

Thank God It's Friday (1978)
(Actor)

Usually with

Jim Wynorski
Jim Wynorski
(2 films)
Tom Ruegger
Tom Ruegger
(1 films)
Fred Olen Ray
Fred Olen Ray
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Chick Vennera (16 films)

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Actor

Glass Trap
Glass Trap (2005)
, 1h30
Directed by Fred Olen Ray
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors C. Thomas Howell, Stella Stevens, Brent Huff, Andrew Prine, Ron Harper, Chick Vennera
Roles Paolo
Rating31% 1.572261.572261.572261.572261.57226
Des fourmis ayant été exposées à des radiations qui ont doublé leur taille et leur appétit sont lâchées dans un gratte-ciel au coeur de San Francisco un samedi matin. Les rares personnes travaillant dans le bâtiment doivent trouver un moyen de s'échapper : les mutantes ont envahi l'immeuble, du garage jusqu'aux étages supérieurs. Très vite, l'appétit féroce des fourmis fait ses premières victimes...
Final Voyage, 1h35
Directed by Jim Wynorski
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Films about hijackings
Actors Dylan Walsh, Ice-T, Erika Eleniak, Claudia Christian, Rick Ducommun, Beau Billingslea
Roles Dennis
Rating37% 1.8734351.8734351.8734351.8734351.873435
L'USS Britannic prend la mer en direction du Pacifique sud, transportant à son bord une fortune en argent et en bijoux. Un magot qui suscite évidemment bien des convoitises. Comme celle de Josef, un chef d'un gang qui projette de dévaliser le navire une fois qu'il aura gagné le large. Mais un vigile, Aaron Carpenter, est bien décidé à contrecarrer ses plans...
Animaniacs: Wakko's Wish, 1h20
Directed by Tom Ruegger
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Fantasy, Musical, Animation
Themes Films about children, Monde imaginaire, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Children's films
Actors Rob Paulsen, Jess Harnell, Tress MacNeille, Maurice LaMarche, Nathan Ruegger, Sherri Stoner
Roles Pesto (voice)
Rating71% 3.5929453.5929453.5929453.5929453.592945
In the town of Acme Falls within the kingdom of Warnerstock, all the people live happily together. However, upon the death of the king, Sir William the Good, Warnerstock enters a state of civil war. Taking advantage of the situation, the neighboring kingdom of Ticktockia, led by King Salazar, the Pushy, takes over Warnerstock, and makes all its people poor and miserable due to overtaxing. Three orphans, Yakko, Wakko, and Dot Warner, are particularly troubled, as Dot needs an operation. Wakko finds work in another town to pay for it, but Plotz takes his pay – a half penny – from him, lying that it is for taxes.
Fugitive Mind, 1h34
Directed by Fred Olen Ray
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors Michael Dudikoffi, Heather Langenkamp, Michele Greene, David Hedison, Barry Newman, Ian Ogilvy
Roles Jimmy Morabito
Rating46% 2.336262.336262.336262.336262.33626
Alors qu'il est un ingénieur à la vie de famille parfaitement réglée, Robert Dean perd la mémoire. Il réalise alors qu'il est manipulé pour commettre des meurtres au nom d'une mystérieuse association. Dès lors, il va traquer ceux qui s'en sont pris à lui et qui ont d'autres projets sinistres à lui confier.
Time Under Fire, 1h32
Genres Science fiction, Action
Themes Time travel films
Actors Jeff Fahey, Richard Tyson, Jack Coleman, Bryan Cranston, Kimberly Friedmutter, Larry Poindexter
Roles Spitz
Rating36% 1.833551.833551.833551.833551.83355
Commander Alan Deakins' submarine accidentally enters a portal in the Bermuda Triangle and disappears. Deakins resurfaces months later claiming to have traveled to the future. A Paranormal Research organization headed by Lance McCarty (Jack Coleman) bankrolls an expedition to recreate the circumstances of the accident in order to discover the truth. A state department official, Charles Braddock (Bryan Cranston) authorizes Deakins' breakout from a mental institution in order to participate in the expedition. Before leaving, Deakins visits his heartbroken wife, Jeannie (Kimberly Stevens) who, overjoyed to rediscover he is alive, tries to convince him not to leave.
Night Eyes 4: Fatal Passion
Genres Drama, Thriller, Erotic thriller
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Erotic thriller films
Actors Paula Barbieri, Andrew Stevens, Casper Van Dien, Chick Vennera, Jacqueline Lovell
Roles Alex Stein
Rating40% 2.048362.048362.048362.048362.04836
Successful psychologist, Dr. Angela Cross (Paula Barbieri), hires security expert Will Griffith (Andrew Stevens) and his partner, Steve Caldwell (Jeff Trachta), to install a security system in her house, after receiving several death threats. Jeff and Angela begin a relationship, which eventually exposes some secrets from her past.
McBain
McBain (1991)
, 1h47
Directed by James Glickenhaus
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Actors Christopher Walken, Michael Ironside, Luis Guzmán, María Conchita Alonso, Steve James, Victor Argo
Roles Roberto Santos
Rating48% 2.402052.402052.402052.402052.40205
Roberto Santos cherche à renverser le régime dictatorial qui oppresse la Colombie mais sa rébellion échoue et il est tué. Christina, sa sœur, part alors trouver Robert McBain, ancien frère d'armes de Santos durant la guerre du Viêt Nam, pour lui demander de venger son frère. McBain accepte et réunit quelques vétérans pour organiser une nouvelle révolte.
The Terror Within II, 1h30
Directed by Andrew Stevens
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Horror
Themes Pregnancy films, Films about sexuality
Actors Andrew Stevens, Stella Stevens, R. Lee Ermey, Chick Vennera, Burton Gilliam, Barbara Alyn Woods
Roles Kyle
Rating42% 2.1178752.1178752.1178752.1178752.117875
The last human colony struggles to survive underground, beneath a land of nightmarish mutants who seek to destroy them. But when the mutant breaks inside humanity's final stronghold, the battle for survival pits the human colonists against their deadly invaders miles below the Earth's surface.
Night Eyes
Night Eyes (1990)
, 1h30
Directed by Jag Mundhra
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Erotic thriller
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Erotic thriller films
Actors Tanya Roberts, Andrew Stevens, Cooper Huckabee, Stephen Meadows, Paul Carr, Larry Poindexter
Roles Shapiro
Rating42% 2.116272.116272.116272.116272.11627
When Nikki (Tanya Roberts) catches her husband, rock star Brian Walker (Warwick Sims), with another woman, she files for divorce. Walker and his lawyer bribe her security company, led by Will Griffith (Andrew Stevens), to spy on her and catch her having an affair to achieve a favorable divorce settlement. While spying on Nikki for the security company, Will becomes lustfully obsessed with her and begins sleeping with her despite the dangerous consequences.
The Milagro Beanfield War, 1h57
Directed by Robert Redford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy
Themes Political films
Actors Richard Bradford, Rubén Blades, Sônia Braga, Julie Carmen, James Gammon, Melanie Griffith
Roles Joe Mondragon
Rating67% 3.397033.397033.397033.397033.39703
Nearly 500 residents of the agricultural community of Milagro in the mountains of northern New Mexico face a crisis when politicians and business interests make a backroom deal to usurp the town's water in order to pave the way for a land buy-out. Due to the new laws, Joe Mondragon is unable to make a living farming because he is not allowed to divert water from an irrigation ditch that runs past his property.
Last Rites
Last Rites (1988)
, 1h43
Directed by Donald Bellisario
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Horror, Crime, Romance
Themes Mafia films, Gangster films
Actors Tom Berenger, Daphne Zuniga, Anne Twomey, Chick Vennera, Dane Clark, Paul Dooley
Roles Nuzo
Rating51% 2.553812.553812.553812.553812.55381
Father Michael is a New York priest with close ties to the Mafia crime syndicate — his father is a don. The priest's brother-in-law Gino, a mafia boss, is murdered while having sex with Angela, a mistress. She narrowly escapes by hiding in a bathroom and locking the door.
A Bunny's Tale, 1h44
Directed by Karen Arthur
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Kirstie Alley, Cotter Smith, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Joanna Kerns, Lisa Pelikan, Delta Burke
Roles Frankie
Rating58% 2.903512.903512.903512.903512.90351
Engaged by a magazine to write an investigative article on publisher Hugh Hefner's nightclub chain, Ms. Steinem (Kirstie Alley) poses as a young girl named "Marie" and enters the Bunny training program at the New York Playboy Club. Outfitted with phony ears, fuzzy tail and revealing costume, Gloria learns the proper method of serving drinks (the "bunny dip") and how to fend off customers who ignore Hefner's "look but don't touch" policy. She also concludes that being a sex object, even a chaste one, is depressingly demeaning—an "awakening".
High Risk
High Risk (1981)
, 1h34
Directed by Stewart Raffill
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Heist films
Actors James Brolin, Anthony Quinn, Lindsay Wagner, James Coburn, Ernest Borgnine, Bruce Davison
Roles Tony
Rating56% 2.8041152.8041152.8041152.8041152.804115
During a period of sluggish economy and high unemployment, four friends—Stone (James Brolin), Tony (Chick Vennera), Dan (Bruce Davison) and Rockney (Cleavon Little)—gather for a fishing trip. The weekend getaway is a cover: they are really planning to fly to Colombia to rob a drug lord. They meet with Clint (Ernest Borgnine), who supplies them with weapons and target practice. It becomes clear that with the exception of Stone, the men have no relevant training and are not taking the heist seriously.
Yanks
Yanks (1979)
, 2h18
Directed by John Schlesinger
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Richard Gere, Vanessa Redgrave, William Devane, Rachel Roberts, Lisa Eichhorn, Chick Vennera
Roles Danny Ruffelo
Rating63% 3.196973.196973.196973.196973.19697
This film opens with the narration: "From early 1942 until the invasion of Europe over a million Americans landed in Britain. They came to serve on other battle fronts or to man the vast U.S. bases in England. Hardly a city, town or village remained untouched."