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Daniel Benzali is a Actor American born on 20 january 1950 at Rio de Janeiro (Bresil)

Daniel Benzali

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Nationality USA
Birth 20 january 1950 (74 years) at Rio de Janeiro (Bresil)

Daniel Benzali (born January 20, 1950) is a Brazilian-American stage, television and film actor.

Biography

Daniel Benzali est né au Brésil mais passe l'essentiel de son enfance à Brooklyn. Il étudie le théâtre et fait partie de la Royal Shakespeare Company lors d'un séjour au Royaume-Uni, au cours duquel il fait aussi ses débuts au cinéma dans Dangereusement vôtre (1985).

À la télévision, il a joué des rôles récurrents dans les séries La Loi de Los Angeles et New York Police Blues, et fait partie de la distribution principale de Murder One et Espions d'État. Il a été nommé en 1996 au Golden Globe du meilleur acteur dans une série télévisée dramatique pour son rôle dans Murder One.

Au cinéma, il a joué des rôles importants dans Le Messager de la mort (1988), Meurtre à la Maison-Blanche (1997), All the Little Animals (1998) et The Grey Zone (2001).

Usually with

Shane Rimmer
Shane Rimmer
(4 films)
Roger Nygard
Roger Nygard
(1 films)
Wim Wenders
Wim Wenders
(1 films)
Jeremy Thomas
Jeremy Thomas
(2 films)
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Filmography of Daniel Benzali (26 films)

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Believers
Believers (2007)
, 1h42
Directed by Daniel Myrick
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Jon Huertas, Johnny Messner, Deanna Russo, Daniel Benzali, Elizabeth Bogush, Carolyn Hennesy
Rating52% 2.602372.602372.602372.602372.60237
Deux ambulanciers ayant répondu à un appel d'urgence se trouvent enlevé par une secte religieuse dont la grande obsession et d'arrêter la fin du monde en se suicidant et en tuant des gens .
If I Had Known I Was a Genius, 1h42
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Whoopi Goldberg, Keith David, David Denman, Debra Wilson, Sharon Stone, Tara Reid
Rating48% 2.409232.409232.409232.409232.40923
Michael (Markus Redmond) is an African-American boy with a genius I.Q. His family refuses to encourage him and tries to bring him down, and his mother (Whoopi Goldberg) nicknames him "Ugly". Michael enrolls in a high school drama class and finds encouragement from an eccentric teacher.
Dead Heat
Dead Heat (2002)
, 2h
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Crime
Actors Kiefer Sutherland, Anthony LaPaglia, Radha Mitchell, Lothaire Bluteau, Daniel Benzali, Kay Panabaker
Roles Frank Finnegan
Rating52% 2.60712.60712.60712.60712.6071
A cop forced into retirement by ill health is persuaded by his brother to buy a race horse. It all goes a bit wrong when the horse is stolen by a local mob boss. He is chasing after a guy that took his "buy" money.
The Grey Zone, 1h48
Directed by Tim Blake Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors David Arquette, Steve Buscemi, Harvey Keitel, Mira Sorvino, Allan Corduner, Daniel Benzali
Roles Simon Schlermer
Rating69% 3.496813.496813.496813.496813.49681
The film opens in October 1944, in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. A small group of Sonderkommandos, prisoners assigned to dispose of the bodies of other dead prisoners, are plotting an insurrection that, they hope, will destroy at least one of the camp's four crematoria and gas chambers. They are receiving firearms from Polish citizens in the nearby village and gunpowder from the UNIO munitions factory; the female prisoners who work in the UNIO are smuggling the powder to the men’s camp amid the bodies of their dead workers. When the women's activity is eventually discovered by the Germans they are savagely tortured, but they don't reveal the plot.
Screwed
Screwed (2000)
, 1h21
Directed by Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action
Themes Buddy films
Actors Norm Macdonald, Dave Chappelle, Danny DeVito, Elaine Stritch, Sarah Silverman, Daniel Benzali
Roles Detective Tom Dewey
Rating56% 2.8003952.8003952.8003952.8003952.800395
Willard (Norm Macdonald) is an overworked, underpaid chauffeur who works for a mean-spirited pie heiress named Mrs. Crock (Elaine Stritch), just as his father did before him. All Willard wants for Christmas is a new uniform, as the one he currently wears is the one his father was buried in, but Crock gives him a cheap pair of cuff links and a pie instead, while lavishing expensive gifts on her business partner Chip Oswald (Sherman Hemsley) and her prized dog Muffin. Finally fed up with being mistreated, Willard and his best friend, local chicken restaurant owner Rusty (Dave Chappelle), concoct a scheme to kidnap the dog and hold it for a $1,000,000 ransom. Muffin attacks him, leaving a great deal of destruction and Willard's blood at the scene, and the plan fails when the dog later escapes.
Suckers
Suckers (1999)

Directed by Roger Nygard
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Lori Loughlin, Daniel Benzali, Louis Mandylor, Eli Danker, David Ackert, Wayne Duvall
Roles Reggie
Rating63% 3.195313.195313.195313.195313.19531
Bobby DeLuca, (Mandylor) who is a general good guy who finds himself in a lot of trouble with some loan sharks, is being pressured by his wife, Donna (Loughlin) to find a job. Desperate for fast money, he reluctantly becomes a salesman at South Side Cars, where Donna works in the office.
Her Married Lover, 1h25
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Actors Roxana Zal, Perry King, Daniel Benzali, Terrence C. Carson, Susan Blakely, Michele Greene
Roles Det. Joe Lansing
Rating52% 2.608482.608482.608482.608482.60848
Une femme débarque toute chamboulée au poste de police, affirmant que la femme de son amant a été tuée par celui-ci. Au cours de l'interrogatoire, elle raconte sa liaison avec l'homme marié, un écrivain donnant des cours du soirs. Convoqué au poste, l'homme nie tout en bloc et les policiers semblent le croire puisque sa maîtresse n'a, bizarrement, aucune preuve de leur liaison...
All the Little Animals, 1h52
Directed by Jeremy Thomas
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Adventure
Actors John Hurt, Christian Bale, James Faulkner, Daniel Benzali, Amy Robbins
Roles Bernard 'The Fat' De Winter
Rating66% 3.3461753.3461753.3461753.3461753.346175
The story centers on an emotionally challenged man named Bobby (Christian Bale). He runs away from home in order to escape his abusive stepfather (Daniel Benzali), nicknamed "The Fat", who had killed Bobby's pet mouse and, as Bobby puts it, screamed at his mother until she died as a result. He finds himself in woodlands near Cornwall in England, eventually meeting an old man after being involved in a car accident (John Hurt). Mr. Summers, as the man calls himself, spends his time traveling and giving burials to animals that have been killed by cars, a task he refers to as "The Work". Bobby, also having an affinity for animals, becomes friends with the old man and aids him in his task.
The End of Violence, 2h2
Directed by Wim Wenders
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Bill Pullman, Gabriel Byrne, Traci Lind, Rosalind Chao, Andie MacDowell, K. Todd Freeman
Roles Phelps
Rating55% 2.799822.799822.799822.799822.79982
Movie producer Mike Max meditates on the paranoia of fear of attack, in the movie business and life in general, as his wife Page announces she is leaving him. He receives a document via email from a NASA employee he met earlier at a conference. Before opening it he is kidnapped and almost killed, a scene captured by surveillance cameras and witnessed by computer scientist Ray Bering on surveillance footage scene in his laboratory at the Griffith Observatory. However, it soon turns out the two men have been shot, Max has escaped and now is accused of killing them. He takes shelter with, and goes to work for, the Mexican gardeners who find him and they help him investigate who is trying to kill him and why. Bering, who originally sent Max the email and recognized Max in the surveillance footage, has a conversation with an intelligence agent who makes it clear that anyone who gets in the way of a new “anti-crime” satellite surveillance program not yet approved by Congress will be dealt with terminally. Detective Dean Brock suspects Max is not a killer and on a tip meets with Bering, who is assassinated by a gunshot as they begin to speak. Max gives up his business and money to his wife and the movie ends as he meditates on how a real attack has freed him from paranoia.
Murder at 1600, 1h46
Directed by Dwight H. Little
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Politique, Political films, White House in fiction
Actors Wesley Snipes, Diane Lane, Daniel Benzali, Alan Alda, Dennis Miller, Ronny Cox
Roles Agent Nick Spikings
Rating60% 3.0499953.0499953.0499953.0499953.049995
In a restroom in the White House in Washington, D.C., a janitor finds White House secretary Carla Town (Mary Moore) dead. Metropolitan Police homicide Detective Harlan Regis (Wesley Snipes), whose apartment house is awaiting demolition in favor of a parking lot, is put on the case. At the White House, Regis is introduced to U.S. Secret Service Director Nick Spikings (Daniel Benzali), U.S. National Security Advisor Alvin Jordan (Alan Alda) and Secret Service agent Nina Chance (Diane Lane). Spikings assigns Chance, a former Olympic gold-class sharpshooter, to keep an eye on Regis.
A Child's Cry for Help, 1h50
Directed by Sandor Stern
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Pam Dawber, Veronica Hamel, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Lisa Jakub, Cynthia Martells, Daniel Benzali
Roles Dr. Everett Morris
Rating61% 3.098173.098173.098173.098173.09817
A recent transplant from California, Dr. Paula Spencer has just lost her husband and is about to begin her new job at a local hospital, While she is there, a seemingly loving mother, Monica Shaw, brings her son, Eric, in for treatment for his illness. But Dr. Spencer suspects that there is something wrong, and theorizes that Monica is deliberately and abusively making her son sick all the time so that she could have him admitted to the hospital for all of the attention that it gives her. However, hospital administrators are skeptical, and when Eric's young roommate also develops a similar illness, it only serves to make them even more dismissive.
The Distinguished Gentleman, 1h52
Directed by Jonathan Lynn
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Politique, L'usurpation d'identité, Political films, Escroquerie
Actors Eddie Murphy, Lane Smith, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Joe Don Baker, James Garner, Victoria Rowell
Roles 'Skeeter' Warburton
Rating59% 2.9513952.9513952.9513952.9513952.951395
A Florida con man named Thomas Jefferson Johnson uses the passing of the longtime Congressman from his district, Jeff Johnson (who died of a heart attack while having sex with his secretary), to get elected to the United States Congress as a freshman Congressman, where the money flows from lobbyists. Omitting his first name, and abbreviating his middle name, he calls himself "Jeff" Johnson. He then manages to get on the ballot by pitching a seniors organization, the Silver Foxes, to nominate him as their candidate for office.
Afterburn
Afterburn (1992)
, 1h43
Directed by Robert Markowitz
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Laura Dern, Robert Loggia, Vincent Spano, Michael Rooker, Welker White, Richard Jenkins
Roles Col. John Patterson
Rating60% 3.04853.04853.04853.04853.0485
On November 15, 1982, Janet Harduvel (Laura Dern) is devastated by the news of the death of her husband Ted (Vincent Spano) who flew as a United States Air Force pilot in one of the world's most sophisticated fighter aircraft, the General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon. She is stymied in finding out the truth behind his crash in Korea and takes on the US military and General Dynamics, maker of the F-16. With the help of her lawyer, Leo Morrone (Robert Loggia), and her sister Mary (Welker White), Harduvel begins the long process of unraveling the lies and deception that are behind a joint military and General Dynamics cover-up that blames the accident on pilot error. Despite setbacks, she proves to be unwavering in her search for the truth to clear his name and uncover the deadly secret buried in the F-16.
Citizen Cohn, 1h51
Directed by Frank Pierson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about viral outbreaks, HIV/AIDS in film
Actors James Woods, Joe Don Baker, Joseph Bologna, Lee Grant, Ed Flanders, Jeffrey Nordling
Roles Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman
Rating70% 3.5422753.5422753.5422753.5422753.542275
The film spans Cohn's life from childhood through his initial rise to power as McCarthy's right-hand man in the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearings and his eventual public discrediting a month before his death in 1986 from AIDS. It is told mostly in flashback as Cohn lies dying in a Virginia hospital, hallucinating that his many enemies (from Robert Kennedy to Ethel Rosenberg, a convicted Communist spy he sent to the electric chair) are haunting him. It concerns aspects of Cohn's life such as his closeted homosexuality and the measure of his culpability in the "Red Scare" of the 1950s. While the movie portrays Cohn in a decidedly unsympathetic light, it also depicts episodes in his life, such as the death of his beloved mother, in which he showed a more tender, compassionate side.