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Douglas Spain is a Actor American born on 15 april 1974 at Los Angeles (USA)
Douglas Spain (born April 15, 1974) is an American film and television actor, director and producer. In 1998 Spain was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award in the category of Best Debut Performance for his role in the film Star Maps. In 1999 he won the Rising Star Award at the Marco Island Film Festival for The Last Best Sunday and in 2006 he won the Camie award at the Character and Morality in Entertainment Awards for his part in The Reading Room. He has since appeared in various features, including Permanent Midnight, But I'm a Cheerleader, A Time for Dancing, What's Cooking?, Cherry Falls, Delivering Milo and Still Green.
On television, Spain appeared in the Emmy Award-winning Band of Brothers, and has made guest appearances on Star Trek: Voyager, Pacific Blue, Nash Bridges, Brooklyn South, Becker, The Practice, JAG, Family Law, CSI: Miami, The Mentalist, NCIS, and House M.D. He has directed the films Charity, Online, Crazy, Crazy Too and The Monster.
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Douglas Spain
Douglas Spain (born April 15, 1974) is an American film and television actor, director and producer. In 1998 Spain was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award in the category of Best Debut Performance for his role in the film Star Maps. In 1999 he won the Rising Star Award at the Marco Island Film Festival for The Last Best Sunday and in 2006 he won the Camie award at the Character and Morality in Entertainment Awards for his part in The Reading Room. He has since appeared in various features, including Permanent Midnight, But I'm a Cheerleader, A Time for Dancing, What's Cooking?, Cherry Falls, Delivering Milo and Still Green.
On television, Spain appeared in the Emmy Award-winning Band of Brothers, and has made guest appearances on Star Trek: Voyager, Pacific Blue, Nash Bridges, Brooklyn South, Becker, The Practice, JAG, Family Law, CSI: Miami, The Mentalist, NCIS, and House M.D. He has directed the films Charity, Online, Crazy, Crazy Too and The Monster.
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Spain came out as gay via Facebook on January 26, 2012 and in an interview with The Advocate on January 27, 2012Usually with
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Without Men (2011)
, 1h35Directed by Gabriela Tagliavini
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Eva Longoria, Christian Slater, Oscar Nuñez, Kate del Castillo, María Conchita Alonso, Guillermo Díaz
Rating33%
Les femmes d'un village isolé d'Amérique latine sont obligées de gérer à elles seules toutes les tâches, car les hommes du village ont été recrutés de force par la guérilla communiste.
Still Green (2009)
, 1h29Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Sarah Jones, Ryan Kelley, Douglas Spain, Noah Segan, Vonzell Solomon
Roles Luke Perry
Rating39%
A group of high school graduates rent a beach house the summer before going their separate ways. An accident in the ocean tests their sexuality. The teens respond to the tragedy in a way some people find disturbing and others see as a passive act of loyalty. Free-spirited Goober (Sarah Jones) is still coping with the loss of her father, and her mother's refusal to honor his last wish. A recent break-up has unearthed these feelings, triggering spontaneous and unhealthy relationships with her friends. Jub-jub (Ryan Kelley) struggles with his conflicting feelings about Goober and about his girlfriend. Noah Segan (Noah Segan) is a talented and marketable artist. He is haunted by the knowledge that he agreed to make this movie.
Fix (2008)
, 1h33Directed by Tao Ruspoli
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Olivia Wilde, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Dedee Pfeiffer, Andrew Fiscella, Tao Ruspoli, Douglas Spain
Roles Perez
Rating59%
Racing across Los Angeles in one, unwieldy day, documentary filmmakers Bella and Milo race from Beverly Hills to Watts and places in between to get Milo's brother Leo from jail to rehab before 8pm, or Leo goes to prison for three years.
The Memory Thief (2007)
, 1h35Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Mark Webber, Rachel Miner, Jerry Adler, Allan Rich, Peter Jacobson, Douglas Spain
Roles Dominic
Rating57%
Lukas (Mark Webber) is a young man who works as a tollbooth operator. He does not have much of a social life and spends much of his free time visiting his catatonic mother in the hospital. One day, one of the tollbooth customers tosses him a copy of Hitler's Mein Kampf, and Lukas reads it, prompting a Holocaust survivor (Allan Rich) to berate Lukas as he drives through Lukas's booth. The next day the old man gives him a videotape containing his testimony from the concentration camps. Watching the tape, Lukas becomes captivated, not less so when he spots the old man's obituary in the newspaper, and decides to attend the funeral. He is confronted by Mira (Rachel Miner), a young medical student, for attending a funeral without knowing the deceased. They argue. Lukas shows her the witness tape.
Walkout (2006)
, 2hDirected by Edward James Olmos
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Alexa Vega, Efren Ramirez, Michael Peña, Yancey Arias, Tonantzin Esparza, Laura Harring
Roles David Sanchez
Rating66%
High school student Paula Crisostomo (played by Alexa Vega), is tired of being treated unequally. She meets a group of student activists from around East Los Angeles and they decide to try to change the way students are treated. They are punished for speaking Spanish in school, their bathrooms are locked during lunch, they are forced to do janitorial work as a punishment and many in the high school administrations actively dissuade the less promising students from attending college. Inspired by her Chicano teacher Sal Castro (Michael Peña) and despite opposition from her father (Yancey Arias), Paula joins in and helps hand out surveys to students to suggest improvements to the schools. Each East LA high school has two or three students who are in the group; Paula particularly becomes interested in Robert (Jeremy Ray Valdez).
The Reading Room (2005)
Directed by Georg Stanford Brown
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors James Earl Jones, Joanna Cassidy, Douglas Spain, Georg Stanford Brown, Keith Robinson, Monique Coleman
Roles Javier
Rating71%
William Campbell (James Earl Jones) is a wealthy businessman who has just lost his wife. He decides to make good on a promise he made her by opening a free reading room in an inner-city neighborhood where he grew up. Despite his good intentions, problems in the neighborhood threaten his establishment, especially from local gang members and a preacher (Georg Stanford Brown) who questions Campbell's motives.
, 1h43Directed by Yves Simoneau
Origin USA
Genres Action, Crime
Actors Michael Madsen, Ron Livingston, Ray Baker, Douglas Spain, Andrew Bryniarski, Clare Carey
Roles Bobby Martinez
Rating63%
The plot, about bank robbers held at bay by the Los Angeles Police Department, is based on a real incident which occurred February 28, 1997, known as the North Hollywood shootout. Homicide detective Frank McGregor (Michael Madsen) tracks a violent duo of bank robbers: Larry Eugene Phillips, Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu, who were named the High Incident Bandits by the L.A.P.D.
Nightstalker (2002)
, 1h35Directed by Chris Fisher
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Actors Danny Trejo, Roselyn Sánchez, Douglas Spain, Evan Parke, Aimee Graham, Chay Santini
Roles Father Rodriguez
Rating34%
La nuit venue, Richard Ramirez, plus connu sous le nom de Nightstalker, arpentait les rues à la recherche de sang frais, massacrant au hasard de ses rencontres hommes et femmes jusque dans leurs propres maisons. Seule une jeune policière aura le courage de l'affronter...
Delivering Milo (2001)
, 1h34Directed by Nick Castle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
Actors Anton Yelchin, Peter Nelson, Albert Finney, Bridget Fonda, Campbell Scott, Hank Harris
Rating56%
Elizabeth believes she has gone into labor, but at the hospital, the doctor tells her she was having Braxton Hicks contractions. The reality is that in the world from which babies come, Milo is too scared to leave the comfortable place where he has lived. Since babies must be born in order, no other babies will be born until Milo changes his mind. The people in charge give the job of educating Milo to Elmore, who is in a kind of limbo until he proves he is worthy of Heaven.
Ricochet River (2001)
Actors John Cullum, Matthew Glave, Jason James Richter, Kate Hudson, Douglas Spain, Dan Lauria
Roles Jesse Howl
Rating48%
But I'm a Cheerleader (2000)
, 1h25Directed by Jamie Babbit
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about children, Films about sexuality, Sports films, LGBT-related films, Teen LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, Coming out, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Natasha Lyonne, Cathy Moriarty, Michelle Williams, RuPaul, Clea DuVall, Bud Cort
Roles Andre
Rating68%
Seventeen-year-old Megan (Natasha Lyonne) is a sunny high school senior who loves cheerleading and is dating football player Jared (Brandt Wille). She does not enjoy kissing Jared, however, and prefers looking at her fellow cheerleaders. Combined with Megan's interest in vegetarianism and Melissa Etheridge, her family and friends suspect that Megan is in fact a lesbian. With the help of ex-gay Mike (RuPaul), they surprise her with an intervention. Following this confrontation, Megan is sent to True Directions, a reparative therapy camp which uses a five-step program (similar to Alcoholics Anonymous' twelve-step program) to convert its campers to heterosexuality.
Cherry Falls (2000)
, 1h32Directed by Geoffrey Wright
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror, Slasher
Themes Films about sexuality, Comedy horror films, Films about virginity
Actors Brittany Murphy, Jay Mohr, Michael Biehn, Candy Clark, Gabriel Mann, Jesse Bradford
Roles Mark
Rating52%
In the woods outside of Cherry Falls, Virginia, a teenage couple, Rod Harper (Jesse Bradford) and Stacy Twelfmann (Bre Blair) are getting romantic in a car when a black-haired female appears and murders them both. Meanwhile, in town, teenager Jody Marken (Brittany Murphy), the daughter of the local sheriff, is with her boyfriend, Kenny (Gabriel Mann), who thinks it is time to go "see other people." Jody goes back home to find her father, Brent (Michael Biehn), upset that she is out past her curfew. Brent and his deputies begin to investigate the murders the next day. They see that the killer carved the word "virgin" into both victims. At school, Brent sees English teacher Mr. Marliston (Jay Mohr), who urges him to divulge more details of the murder to students and the town so as to eliminate the possibility of secrets.
Rave (2000)
Origin USA
Actors Efren Ramirez, Aimee Graham, Dante Basco, Steven Bauer, Douglas Spain, Tamara Mello
Roles Daffy
Rating54%
It is Saturday night in Los Angeles and six teenagers are in search of the hottest rave in the city. In one day, we see a portrait of these teenagers finding their way through all the temptations, attractions and dangers of the wild underbelly of Los Angeles.
What's Cooking? (2000)
, 1h49Directed by Gurinder Chadha
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Cooking films, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Mercedes Ruehl, Kyra Sedgwick, Joan Chen, Victor Rivers, Julianna Margulies, Douglas Spain
Roles Anthony 'Tony' Avila
Rating67%
On Thanksgiving day, four ethnically diverse families -- Vietnamese, Latino, Jewish, and African American — gather for the traditional meal. Each family has its own distinct way of cooking the traditional holiday meal and its own set of problems.
Permanent Midnight (1998)
, 1h28Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about films, Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Mise en scène d'un scénariste
Actors Ben Stiller, Maria Bello, Elizabeth Hurley, Jay Paulson, Owen Wilson, Peter Greene
Roles Miguel
Rating61%
Approaching the end of a drug rehabilitation program, Jerry Stahl (Stiller) quits his job at a fast food restaurant on an impulse when an attractive woman named Kitty (Bello) pulls up at the drive-through window. The two check into a motel, where Jerry tells her about his life in between bouts of sex. A series of flashbacks, intercut with their conversations, details his working life to this point.