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Gail Cronauer is a Actor American born on 23 december 1948
Gail Cronauer is an American stage, television, and feature film actress and an acting professor. She has performed films as diverse as Oliver Stone's JFK to the TV series, Walker, Texas Ranger. She is a recipient of the 2007, Dallas Fort Worth Theater Critics Forum award, for her role in the Lyric Stage production, Master Class.
Gail also has taught acting at Southern Methodist University, Webster College, the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, Illinois State University, and she currently teaches at Collin College, in the Dallas - Fort Worth metropolitan area in the state of Texas.
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Gail Cronauer is an American stage, television, and feature film actress and an acting professor. She has performed films as diverse as Oliver Stone's JFK to the TV series, Walker, Texas Ranger. She is a recipient of the 2007, Dallas Fort Worth Theater Critics Forum award, for her role in the Lyric Stage production, Master Class.
Gail also has taught acting at Southern Methodist University, Webster College, the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay, Illinois State University, and she currently teaches at Collin College, in the Dallas - Fort Worth metropolitan area in the state of Texas.
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Beyond the Farthest Star (2013)
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Renée O'Connor, Todd Terry, Cherami Leigh, William McNamara, Andrew Prine, Barry Corbin
Rating67%
Earthling (2011)
, 1h51Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Action
Actors Peter Greene, William Katt, Rebecca Spence, Jenny Shakeshaft, Saxon Sharbino, Harry Preston King
Rating42%
After a mysterious atmospheric event, a small group of people wake up to realize that their entire lives have been a lie. They are in fact aliens disguised as humans. Now they have to make a choice: live amongst men, or try to find a way back home.
Walking Tall: Lone Justice (2007)
, 1h35Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Kevin Sorbo, Haley Ramm, Jenny Shakeshaft, Gail Cronauer, Jonny Cruz, Jackson Hurst
Roles Emma Prescott
Rating48%
The film takes place one year following the events of Walking Tall: The Payback. In Dallas, when the two prime witnesses against the drug-lord Octavio Pérez are murdered by his gangsters in a safe-house, the testimony of FBI-agent Kate Jensen and three other agents become the only chance to keep the criminal in prison.
Walking Tall: The Payback (2007)
, 1h28Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Actors Kevin Sorbo, Haley Ramm, Gail Cronauer, Alan John Buckley, Bentley Mitchum, Jenny Shakeshaft
Roles Emma Prescott
Rating47%
This time, the plot focuses on a local hero who takes justice into his own hands. Ex military Nick (Kevin Sorbo) returns to his hometown. His father, the sheriff, tries to stand up against a brutal gang of ruthless criminals who intimidate and blackmail the people to sell them their business. He then is killed by the gang's leader Harvey Morris.
Infamous (2006)
, 2h1Directed by Douglas McGrath
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Crime
Themes Films about writers, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Films about capital punishment, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Toby Jones, Sandra Bullock, Daniel Craig, Peter Bogdanovich, Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis
Roles Bonnie Clutter
Rating69%
Truman Capote, known in New York City society for his wit and fashion flair as much as he is recognized in literary circles as the celebrated writer of Other Voices, Other Rooms and Breakfast at Tiffany's, reads a brief article about the murder of a farming family in Holcomb, Kansas, in the back pages of the New York Times of November 16, 1959.
Warning: Parental Advisory (2002)
, 1h40Directed by Mark Waters
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Mariel Hemingway, Jason Priestley, Griffin Dunne, Tim Guinee, Deborah Yates, Lois Chiles
Roles Sen. Paula Hawkins
Rating67%
Dr. T & the Women (2000)
, 2h3Directed by Robert Altman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Richard Gere, Helen Hunt, Farrah Fawcett, Laura Dern, Shelley Long, Kate Hudson
Roles Dr. T's Patient
Rating47%
Dr. Sullivan Travis (aka "Dr. T.") (Richard Gere) is a wealthy Dallas gynecologist for some of the wealthiest women in Texas who finds his life beginning to fall apart starting when his wife, Kate (Farrah Fawcett), suffers a nervous breakdown and is committed to the state mental hospital. Dr. T's eldest daughter, Dee Dee (Kate Hudson), is planning to go through with her approaching wedding despite the secret that she is romantically involved with Marilyn (Liv Tyler), the maid of honor. Dr. T's youngest daughter, Connie (Tara Reid), is a spunky conspiracy theorist who has her own agenda, while Dr. T's loyal secretary, Carolyn (Shelley Long), has romantic feelings for him, which are not mutual. Dr. T's sister-in-law, Peggy (Laura Dern), meddles in every situation she stumbles into, while one woman, Bree (Helen Hunt), a golf instructor, offers him comfort.
Finding North (1999)
, 1h35Directed by Tanya Wexler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Wendy Makkena, John Benjamin Hickey, Jonathan Lloyd Walker, Anne Bobby, Rebecca Creskoff, Molly McClure
Roles Mrs. Penn
Rating63%
Finding North tells the story of Rhonda (Makkena), a bank teller who's depressed upon turning 30, and Travis (Hickey), a gay man who's recently lost his lover to AIDS and grown suicidal. Travis receives an audio tape recorded by his lover, Bobby, before his death which sends him on a scavenger hunt of sorts to Bobby's home town in Texas. Through a series of mishaps, Rhonda ends up accompanying him on his journey. Together they follow Bobby's instructions as best they can, collecting items that represent Bobby's past, despite the many changes to the town in the years since Bobby left. Ultimately they end up at the grave site Bobby's parents had prepared for him decades earlier. They bury the collected items at Bobby's instruction and together start to try "finding north" (an expression of Bobby's; "when things hit rock bottom, sure as hell can't get any further south, might as well start finding north").
Boys Don't Cry (1999)
, 1h58Directed by Kimberly Peirce
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Documentary, Action, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Children's films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Hilary Swank, Chloë Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard, Brendan Sexton III, Alison Folland, Lecy Goranson
Roles Clerk
Rating74%
Brandon Teena (Hilary Swank) is a young trans man whose birth name was Teena Renae Brandon. When Brandon is discovered to be transgender by a former girlfriend's brother, he receives physical threats. Soon after, he is involved in a bar fight and is evicted from his cousin's trailer. Brandon moves to Falls City, Nebraska, where he befriends ex-convicts John Lotter (Peter Sarsgaard) and Tom Nissen (Brendan Sexton III), and their friends Candace (Alicia Goranson) and Lana Tisdel (Chloë Sevigny). Brandon becomes romantically involved with Lana, who is unaware of his biological sex and troubled past. The two make plans to move to Memphis, where Brandon will manage Lana's karaoke singing career.
Hefner: Unauthorized (1999)
, 1h37Directed by Peter Werner
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Randall Batinkoff, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Rebecca Herbst, Jim Metzler, Rebecca Romijn, Mark Harelik
Roles Grace Hefner
Rating47%
The Newton Boys (1998)
, 1h53Directed by Richard Linklater
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure, Historical, Crime, Western
Actors Matthew McConaughey, Skeet Ulrich, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Julianna Margulies, Gail Cronauer
Roles Mia Newton
Rating60%
Due to a miscarriage of justice Willis Newton was in prison. Afterwards he worked on a farm and was in love with the owner's daughter. Their marriage was confounded when her father was informed that Willis had been a convict. Willis returns to his family's land and tells his mother how the farmer offered him to stay as a mere worker. Still upset he craves a chance to escape poverty and goes to town. Willis meets with two criminals named Slim and Glasscock in a western saloon. The proprietor is an Indian chief who got rich when oil was found on his land. Word is the chief would not have even been allowed to enter the saloon as a guest before that. Thus Willis learns that social climbing is possible for him too if only he happens to get to a lot of money. Now he will collect a great deal of money by robbing banks until he can purchase an oil well.
Selena (1997)
, 2h2Directed by Gregory Nava
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical theatre, Documentary, Historical, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Jennifer Lopez, Edward James Olmos, Constance Marie, Jon Seda, Lupe Ontiveros, Jacob Vargas
Roles Woman Customer
Rating68%
The film opens on February 26, 1995, with Selena (Jennifer Lopez) performing to a sold-out crowd of 65,000 at the Houston Astrodome in Houston, Texas. The film then flashes back to 1961, where a young Abraham Quintanilla and his band, The Dinos, are rejected for an audition by a restaurant owner due to a whites-only policy. Crushed, Abraham gives up music.
Little Boy Blue (1997)
Genres Drama, Thriller
Actors Ryan Phillippe, Nastassja Kinski, Tyrin Turner, John Savage, Shirley Knight, Brent Jennings
Roles Motel Clerk
Rating62%
Living in the backwoods of Texas is the dysfunctional and apparently incestuous West family: a psychotic war veteran father, Ray (John Savage), a compliant wife, Kate (Nastassja Kinski), and a 19-year-old son, Jimmy (Ryan Phillippe); who is relegated to a warehouse outside the family home. Ray and Kate seem to be a normal couple running their bar, raising their two sons (around 3 and 5 year-old), but as they return home from work Ray turns violent and abusive. At his insistence Kate and Jimmy have a supposedly incestuous relationship. Ray goes even so far as to call Jimmy "Little boy blue" and to shout that 'he knows' Jimmy likes it.
Carried Away (1996)
, 1h49Directed by Bruno Barreto
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about education
Actors Dennis Hopper, Amy Irving, Gary Busey, Amy Locane, Julie Harris, Hal Holbrook
Roles Beverly
Rating62%
Joseph Svenden is a middle-aged schoolteacher who lives on a farm with his dying mother. In his simple life there is no excitement, even in his long-time relationship with a widow. However, when a 17-year-old beauty enrolls in his class, life takes an unexpected turn. She boards her horse in his barn and she then seduces him. They carry on a furtive relationship which leaves him torn between the passion, and knowing that he is doing something wrong. When her indescretion starts the inevitable scandal, many different reactions ensue.
The Substitute Wife (1994)
, 1h32Directed by Peter Werner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance, Western
Actors Farrah Fawcett, Lea Thompson, Peter Weller, Gail Cronauer, Lou Perryman, John S. Davies
Roles Isabel Donahue
Rating63%
In Nebraska, during the pioneer days, a woman who knows she's going to die (Thompson) gets a prostitute (Fawcett) to take her place with her husband (Weller). Her reason being, is if the family is left without a motherly figure, the family will lose their farm.