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Michael Jeter is a Actor American born on 26 august 1952 at Lawrenceburg (USA)

Michael Jeter

Michael Jeter
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Nationality USA
Birth 26 august 1952 at Lawrenceburg (USA)
Death 30 march 2003 (at 50 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Michael Jeter (August 26, 1952 – March 30, 2003) was an American actor of film, stage, and television. His notable television roles are as Herman Stiles on Evening Shade from 1990 until 1994 and for playing Mr. Noodle's brother Mr. Noodle on Elmo's World from 2000 until 2003. Jeter's film roles include Zelig, The Fisher King, Waterworld, Air Bud, The Green Mile, Jurassic Park III, and The Polar Express, among many others.

Biography

Jeter was openly gay and met his partner, Sean Blue in 1995; they were together from 1995 until Jeter's death in 2003.

Best films

Waterworld (1995)
(Actor)
The Fisher King (1991)
(Actor)

Usually with

Dwight Yoakam
Dwight Yoakam
(2 films)
Kevin Costner
Kevin Costner
(2 films)
Mike Southon
Mike Southon
(2 films)
James Glennon
James Glennon
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Michael Jeter (35 films)

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Actor

The Polar Express, 1h40
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Christmas films, Transport films, Rail transport films, Musical films, Children's films, Santa Claus in film
Actors Tom Hanks, Daryl Sabara, Josh Hutcherson, Nona Gaye, Peter Scolari, Eddie Deezen
Roles Smokey / Steamer
Rating66% 3.301453.301453.301453.301453.30145
On Christmas Eve in the late-1950s, a boy witnesses a train called the Polar Express that is about to embark to the North Pole. When the boy examines the engine, the conductor lets him board the train. The boy meets other children, including a girl and a know-it-all kid. When the train picks up Billy, the hero boy applies the emergency brakes. Billy initially declines to board but changes his mind. The conductor summons a waiter team, who give the children hot chocolate, and the girl stows away one cup under her seat to give to Billy, who is alone in the observation car. The girl and conductor deliver the hot chocolate cup to Billy until the hero boy discovers the girl’s ticket is unpunched. He loses it before he can return it. After the ticket is abused by the wind and animals, it slips back in the train. The girl explains her lost ticket, and the conductor considers ejecting her before taking her for a walk on the top of the train instead. The hero boy locates the lost ticket and pursues them.
Open Range
Open Range (2003)
, 2h19
Directed by Kevin Costner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Actors Robert Duvall, Annette Bening, Kevin Costner, Michael Gambon, Michael Jeter, Diego Luna
Roles Percy
Rating73% 3.698593.698593.698593.698593.69859
The film is set in 1882. "Boss" Spearman (Duvall) is an open range cattleman, who, with hired hands Charley (Costner), Mose (Benrubi) and Button (Luna), is driving a herd cross country. Charley is a former soldier who fought in the Civil War and feels guilty over his past as a killer.
Welcome to Collinwood, 1h20
Directed by Anthony Russo et Joe Russo
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors William H. Macy, Isaiah Washington, Sam Rockwell, Michael Jeter, Luis Guzmán, Patricia Clarkson
Roles Toto
Rating62% 3.1486453.1486453.1486453.1486453.148645
Cosimo (Luis Guzmán) is arrested when he and Toto (Michael Jeter) try to steal a car. In prison, he meets an old man who tells him of a “Bellini” - a perfect heist - that he could not carry out because of a life sentence. Cosimo asks his girlfriend Rosalind (Patricia Clarkson) to find a "Mullinski" (Clevelandese for someone willing to do a prison stretch in exchange for money) so that he can walk free and pull off the heist. Rosalind and Toto ask misfits Basil (Andrew Davoli), Leon (Isaiah Washington), Riley (William H. Macy), who babysits his infant son while needing £1,000 to pay his own wife’s jail fine, and Pero (Sam Rockwell), a boxer who agrees to confess to Cosimo's crime for $16,000 but ends up being jailed alongside him. While inside, Pero gets Cosimo to tell him what the Bellini is before revealing that his own sentence was suspended, leaving Cosimo still in jail. Returning home, Pero is met by Rosalind and the other four demanding a refund. He tells them he used the $16,000 to pay off debts but will share the Bellini details. The six then decide to carry out the heist themselves.
Jurassic Park III, 1h32
Directed by Joe Johnston
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Clonage, Dinosaur films, Films about computing, La préhistoire, Films based on science fiction novels, Animaux préhistoriques, Cyberpunk films
Actors Sam Neill, William H. Macy, Téa Leoni, Alessandro Nivola, Trevor Morgan, Laura Dern
Roles Mr. Udesky
Rating59% 2.9522752.9522752.9522752.9522752.952275
Tourists Ben Hildebrand and Eric Kirby decide to parasail around the island of Isla Sorna. A creature of unknown species attacks and kills the boat crew as it passes through a fog bank, but Ben uncouples the line, and with Eric bound with him, he goes sailing into the wilderness.
The Gift
The Gift (2000)
, 1h51
Directed by Sam Raimi
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about families, Feminist films, Films about sexuality, Films about domestic violence, Ghost films
Actors Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi, Keanu Reeves, Katie Holmes, Greg Kinnear, Hilary Swank
Roles Gerald Weems
Rating66% 3.3477353.3477353.3477353.3477353.347735
In the town of Brixton, Georgia, widow Annie Wilson is the resident fortune-teller who possesses extrasensory perception. Jessica King (Holmes), the fiancée of local school principal Wayne Collins (Kinnear) disappears.
South of Heaven, West of Hell, 2h12
Directed by Dwight Yoakam
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Western
Actors Billy Bob Thornton, Dwight Yoakam, Vince Vaughn, Bridget Fonda, Peter Fonda, Paul Reubens
Roles Uncle Jude
Rating41% 2.063232.063232.063232.063232.06323
Au début du XXème siècle, dans une petite ville située au fin fond de l'Arizona, le jeune marshal Valentine Casey reçoit, le soir de Noël, la visite d'une bande de hors-la-loi, qui font partie de sa famille et avec lesquels il partage un passé peu reluisant. Ces derniers ne tardent pas à semer la terreur dans les environs.
South of Heaven, West of Hell, 2h12
Directed by Dwight Yoakam
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Western
Actors Billy Bob Thornton, Vince Vaughn, Bridget Fonda, Dwight Yoakam, Peter Fonda, Joe Unger
Roles Uncle Jude
Rating41% 2.063232.063232.063232.063232.06323
Au début du XXème siècle, dans une petite ville située au fin fond de l'Arizona, le jeune marshal Valentine Casey reçoit, le soir de Noël, la visite d'une bande de hors-la-loi, qui font partie de sa famille et avec lesquels il partage un passé peu reluisant. Ces derniers ne tardent pas à semer la terreur dans les environs.
True Crime
True Crime (1999)
, 2h7
Directed by Clint Eastwood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Clint Eastwood, Isaiah Washington, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Denis Leary, James Woods, Francesca Eastwood
Roles Dale Porthouse
Rating65% 3.298993.298993.298993.298993.29899
Steve Everett (Clint Eastwood), an Oakland journalist recovering from alcoholism, is assigned to cover the execution of convicted murderer Frank Beechum (Isaiah Washington) following the death in a car wreck of Everett's colleague, Michelle Ziegler (Mary McCormack), who had originally been assigned to the story.
The Green Mile, 3h8
Directed by Frank Darabont
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Fantasy, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Prison films, Films about psychiatry, Films about capital punishment
Actors Tom Hanks, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt, Michael Clarke Duncan, James Cromwell, Graham Greene
Roles Eduard Delacroix
Rating85% 4.255724.255724.255724.255724.25572
In a Louisiana nursing home in 1999, Paul Edgecomb becomes nervous while watching the 1935 film Top Hat. He is with his elderly friend Elaine, who becomes concerned, and Paul tells her that the film reminded him of his past, when he was a prison officer in charge of death row inmates at the Cold Mountain Penitentiary during the summer of 1935. The scene shifts to 1935, where Paul works with fellow guards Brutus "Brutal" Howell, Harry Terwilliger, and Dean Stanton. Unlike the other guards, Paul is a very calm guard and is sympathetic with some inmates.
Jakob the Liar, 2h
Directed by Peter Kassovitz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Historical
Themes Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Robin Williams, Alan Arkin, Liev Schreiber, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Bob Balaban, Justus von Dohnányi
Roles Avron
Rating65% 3.2514553.2514553.2514553.2514553.251455
In Poland of early 1944, a Polish-Jewish shopkeeper named Jakob is summoned to the German headquarters after being falsely accused of being out after curfew. While waiting for the commander, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast speaking about Soviet offensives. Returned to the ghetto, Jakob shares his information with a friend, sparking rumors that there is a secret radio within the ghetto. After hesitating, Jakob decides to use the chance to spread hope throughout the ghetto by continuing to tell the optimistic, fantastic tales that he allegedly heard from "his secret radio" and his lies keep hope and humor alive among the isolated ghetto inhabitants. He also has a real secret in that he is hiding a young Jewish girl who escaped from an extermination camp deportation train.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 1h59
Directed by Terry Gilliam
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Adventure
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Transport films, Road movies, Buddy films
Actors Benicio del Toro, Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Ellen Barkin, Tobey Maguire, Gary Busey
Roles Ron Bumquist
Rating74% 3.7478953.7478953.7478953.7478953.747895
A montage of news clips of Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War protests is seen while The Lennon Sisters cover of "My Favorite Things" is heard.
Patch Adams, 1h55
Directed by Tom Shadyac
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about suicide
Actors Robin Williams, Daniel London, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Monica Potter, Daniel London, Bob Gunton
Roles Rudy
Rating68% 3.406193.406193.406193.406193.40619
A suicidal Hunter "Patch" Adams (Robin Williams) commits himself into a mental institution. Once there, he finds that using humor to help his fellow patients gives him a purpose in life. Because of this he wants to become a medical doctor and two years later enrolls at the Medical College of Virginia (now known as VCU School of Medicine) as the oldest first year student. He questions the school's soulless approach to medical care and clashes with the school's Dean Walcott (Bob Gunton), who believes that doctors must treat patients as patients and not bond with them as people. Because of this and incidents such as setting up a giant pair of legs during an obstetric conference, he is expelled from the medical school, although he is later reinstated due to his methods actually helping patients improve. Adams encourages medical students to work closely with nurses, learn interviewing skills early, and argues that death should be treated with dignity and sometimes even humor.
The Naked Man, 1h36
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Michael Rapaport, Michael Jeter, Rachael Leigh Cook, John Carroll Lynch, Arija Bareikis, Martin Ferrero
Roles Sticks
Rating51% 2.556642.556642.556642.556642.55664
Dr. Edward Blis, Jr, a chiropractor by day, moonlights as a professional wrestler at night. His wrestling name is the Naked Man and he wears a naked body suit when wrestling. After his parents are killed by Sticks Varona, a cripple with crutches which double as machine guns, and an Elvis Presley impersonator, he loses his sanity. He adopts the persona of his wrestling character and goes on a rampage of revenge.
Thursday
Thursday (1998)
, 1h27
Directed by Skip Woods
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Thomas Jane, Aaron Eckhart, Paulina Porizkova, James LeGros, Paula Marshall, Michael Jeter
Roles Dr. Jarvis
Rating70% 3.5483553.5483553.5483553.5483553.548355
The movie opens in a Los Angeles convenience store one late Monday night, where a small-time drug dealer named Nick (Aaron Eckhart) is trying to decide what coffee brand to buy. His ex-lover Dallas (Paulina Porizkova) and fellow hitman Billy Hill (James LeGros) are getting impatient and tell him to hurry up. Conflicts between Nick and the cashier (Luck Hari) ensue, resulting in Dallas shooting the cashier dead. Though the three attempt to cover up the crime, they are forced to also shoot a police officer (Bari K. Willerford) when he discovers blood on the ground.
MouseHunt
MouseHunt (1997)
, 1h38
Directed by Gore Verbinski
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Films about animals, Mise en scène d'un rongeur, Mise en scène d'une souris, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Nathan Lane, Lee Evans, Vicki Lewis, Maury Chaykin, Christopher Walken, William Frankfather
Roles Quincy Thorpe
Rating64% 3.249933.249933.249933.249933.24993
When once-wealthy string magnate Rudolf Smuntz (William Hickey) dies, he leaves his outdated string factory and a run-down mansion to his two sons, Lars (Lee Evans) and Ernie (Nathan Lane). When Lars refuses a proposal by representatives from the large Zeppco conglomerate to purchase their string factory, his greedy wife April (Vicki Lewis) promptly throws him out. Meanwhile, Ernie serves Mayor McKrinkle (Cliff Emmich) at his restaurant in anticipation of becoming a famous chef for serving such a high-profile guest. However, the mayor is poisoned by a cockroach (which came from Rudolf's old box of Cuban cigars that Ernie took for himself) and suffers two heart attacks. As a result, the mayor dies, Ernie's restaurant is closed down by the Board of Health, and he too is out on the street.