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Peter Strauss is a Actor and Producer American born on 20 february 1947 at New York City (USA)
Peter Lawrence Strauss (born February 20, 1947) is an American television and movie actor, known for his roles in several television miniseries in the 1970s and 1980s.
He married actress Rachel Ticotin on December 31, 1998.
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Peter Strauss
Birth name Peter Lawrence Strauss
Nationality USA
Birth 20 february 1947 (77 years) at New York City (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 20 february 1947 (77 years) at New York City (USA)
Biography
Strauss was born in Croton-on-Hudson, New York. His family was Jewish. His father, Warren B. Strauss, who immigrated from Germany, was a wine importer. Strauss graduated from the Hackley School in 1965 and Northwestern University in 1969.He married actress Rachel Ticotin on December 31, 1998.
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Filmography of Peter Strauss (29 films)
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, 1h30Directed by Lamont Johnson
Genres Science fiction, Adventure, Comic science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Transport films, Comedy science fiction films, Road movies, Space opera
Actors Peter Strauss, Molly Ringwald, Ernie Hudson, Michael Ironside, Andrea Marcovicci, Cali Timmins
Roles Wolff
Rating54%
Set in the 22nd century, the film opens with the destruction of a space cruise liner that collides with a meteor. The only apparent survivors are three beautiful women – Nova (Cali Timmins), Reena (Aleisa Shirley), and Meagan (Deborah Pratt) – who get away in an escape pod and land on the nearest habitable planet. There, they are quickly accosted by the hostile natives and taken aboard a sail-driven vehicle resembling a pirate ship on rails.
The Secret of NIMH (1982)
, 1h22Directed by Don Bluth
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure, Musical, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Mise en scène d'un rongeur, Mise en scène d'une souris, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Elizabeth Hartman, Dom DeLuise, Arthur Malet, Derek Jacobi, Hermione Baddeley, John Carradine
Roles Justin (voice)
Rating74%
Mrs. Brisby, a timid widowed field mouse, lives in a cinder block with her children in a field on the Fitzgibbons' farm. She prepares to move her family out of the field as plowing time approaches, but her son Timothy has fallen ill. She visits Mr. Ages, another mouse and friend of her late husband, Jonathan, who diagnoses Timothy with pneumonia and provides her with medicine. Mr. Ages warns her that Timothy must stay inside for at least three weeks or he will die. On her way home she encounters Jeremy, a clumsy but friendly crow. They both narrowly escape from the Fitzgibbons' cat, Dragon.
The Jericho Mile (1980)
, 1h37Directed by Michael Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Peter Strauss, Richard Lawson, Brian Dennehy, Ed Lauter, Roger E. Mosley, Geoffrey Lewis
Roles Larry "Rain" Murphy
Rating70%
Larry Murphy was convicted of first degree murder and is serving a life term in Folsom Prison for shooting his father, which he feels was justified because his father was raping his stepsister. In prison he is nicknamed "Lickety Split" by the other inmates, but remains a loner who has only one person he calls a friend: a black inmate named Stiles. The film centers around his obsession for running around the prison yard. Larry has no idea how fast he is actually running until the prison psychologist (Geoffrey Lewis) has the prison sports writer time him. Once the warden (Billy Green Bush) finds out just how fast Murphy is, he has the state track and field coach (Ed Lauter) bring up a couple of his distance runners to run against Murphy. Murphy beats them and ultimately allows the track coach to train him in anticipation of the upcoming olympic trials. Before that can happen however, a new track has to be built to proper specs in the yard for Murphy to run on so he can register an official time to be eligible to compete at the olympic trials. The Warden asks the inmates to volunteer to build the new track.
, 1h40Directed by Richard T. Heffron
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about families
Actors Peter Strauss, Barbara Parkins, Stephen Elliott, Darlene Carr, Simon Oakland, Lance Kerwin
Roles Joseph Kennedy, Jr.
Rating77%
The Last Tycoon (1976)
, 2h2Directed by Elia Kazan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jack Nicholson, Donald Pleasence, Jeanne Moreau
Roles Wylie
Rating62%
Monroe Stahr is the young production chief and the most creative executive of one of the biggest studios of the Golden Age of Hollywood. He is a tireless worker in a time of turmoil in the industry due to the creation of the Writers Guild of America, Monroe being accustomed to make his underlings, including screenwriters, do whatever he says.
Directed by Bill Bixby, Boris Sagal, David Greene
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Peter Strauss, Nick Nolte, Susan Blakely, Edward Asnere, Dorothy McGuire, Robert Reed
Roles Rudy Jordache
Rating81%
, 3h35Directed by Marvin J. Chomsky
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Ned Beatty, John Beck, Rip Torn, Billy "Green" Bush, Dabney Coleman, Andrew Duggan
Roles Ben Jacobs
Rating74%
Soldier Blue (1970)
, 1h52Directed by Ralph Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance, Western
Themes Political films
Actors Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss, Donald Pleasence, Dana Elcar, Jorge Rivero, John Anderson
Roles Honus Gent
Rating68%
A young woman, Cresta Lee (Bergen), and young U.S. private Honus Gent (Strauss) are joined together by fate when they are the only two survivors after their group is massacred by the Cheyenne. Gent is devoted to his country and duty; Lee, who has lived with the Cheyenne for two years, declares that in this conflict she sympathizes more with them. The two must now try to make it to Fort Reunion, the army base camp, where Cresta's fiance, an army officer, waits for her. As they travel through the desert with very low supplies, hiding from the Indians, they are spotted by a group of Kiowa horsemen. Under pressure from Cresta, Honus fights and seriously wounds the group's chief. Honus finds himself unable to kill the chief, and the chief's own men stab him for his defeat and leave Honus and Cresta alone.
Hail, Hero! (1969)
, 1h40Directed by David Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Michael Douglas, Peter Strauss, John Arthur Kennedy, Teresa Wright, Deborah Winters, Charles Drake
Roles Frank Dixon
Rating52%
During the Vietnam War, college student Carl Dixon quits school and joins the Army in hopes of using love, not bullets, to combat the Viet Cong.
White Mane (1953)
, 47minutesDirected by Albert Lamorisse
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Films about animals, La provence, Films about horses, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Film équestre français
Actors Frank Silvera, Denys Colomb de Daunant, Pascal Lamorisse, François Périer, Jean-Pierre Grenier, Peter Strauss
Roles Narrator (English, restored version) (voice)
Rating71%
In the marshes of Camargue, France, a herd of wild horses roam free. Their leader is a handsome white-haired stallion named White Mane (Crin Blanc in French).
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, 1h30Directed by Phillip Rhee
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Martial arts, Action, Adventure, Martial arts
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films
Actors Ernie Hudson, Phillip Rhee, Tobin Bell, Art LaFleur, Gina Gershon, Jessica Collins
Roles Producer
Rating49%
A group of Russian mobsters have stolen a huge supply of paper for printing U.S. currency, and are now flooding the market with counterfeit bills. When one of the mobsters decides to turn herself in and hand over a data CD to the DA, she is shot and killed, but not before handing the disc to an unsuspecting Tommy Lee. Despite working with the police as a martial arts instructor, Lee doesn't go to the cops with the disc, but instead goes on the run, giving the mafia time to kidnap his daughter to hold as a hostage in exchange for the disc. When Lee catches the mobsters fleeing in a C130, he raises himself on a fire engine and casts the mobster's own bomb into the plane as landing gear doors close.
, 1h30Directed by Phillip Rhee
Origin USA
Genres Martial arts, Action, Martial arts
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films
Actors Phillip Rhee, Christopher McDonald, Gina Gershon, R. Lee Ermey, Mark Rolston, Michael Bailey Smith
Roles Producer
Rating48%
The film opens in the small town of "Liberty", where a vicious group of neo-Nazis have been terrorizing the populace, most recently having murdered an African-American pastor and set fire to his church. While visiting his sister and brother-in-law in Liberty, Tommy Lee (Phillip Rhee) crosses paths with the group's leader Donnie Hansen (Mark Rolston), and is drawn into the conflict when his sister is attacked in their car. Later, the group attempts to harass a schoolteacher named Margo (Gina Gershon) at the local 4-H fair, but Tommy intervenes and fends them off. Ungrateful at first, she eventually warms up to Tommy when they are set up on a blind date, and they start a relationship. Meanwhile, the neo-Nazis launch an assault on Tommy's family. After saving Margo from an attempted rape, Tommy returns home to find his sister badly beaten. He and his brother-in-law, the local sheriff Jack Banning (Christopher McDonald), decide to take matters into their own hands and invade the group's heavily guarded compound, where Jack's children have been taken hostage. After a long, climactic fight, the children are rescued and Tommy defeats Hansen in single combat, but refuses to kill him, knowing that it would only further his message of hatred. As Tommy turns away, Hansen takes aim at him with a rifle, prompting a local teenager named Owen Tucker (Peter Simmons) to shoot and kill Hansen himself, thus brokering a new peace in the town. The ending scene shows the pastor's child reading from the Bible and the church being rebuilt.
Best of the Best 2 (1993)
, 1h37Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Martial arts, Action, Martial arts
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films
Actors Eric Roberts, Phillip Rhee, Chris Penn, Ralf Moeller, James Lew, Meg Foster
Roles Producer
Rating56%
After returning home from South Korea to great acclaim, three members of the U.S. National Karate Team (Tommy Lee, Alex Grady, and Travis Brickley) set up their own martial arts studio in Las Vegas. Unbeknownst to his friends, however, Travis has been competing at "The Coliseum", a brutal underground fighting arena run by a shady promoter named Weldon (Wayne Newton), whose protégé Brakus (Ralf Möller) is the owner and undefeated champion. Though the rules of the Coliseum state that a challenger must defeat three of its "Gladiators" in order to face Brakus, Travis wastes little time in challenging Brakus outright. Amused by Travis's arrogance, Weldon eagerly grants his wish.
Best of the Best (1989)
, 1h33Origin USA
Genres Drama, Martial arts, Action, Martial arts
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films
Actors Eric Roberts, James Earl Jones, Chris Penn, Phillip Rhee, Sally Kirkland, John Dye
Roles Producer
Rating63%
Alexander Grady, a widower and father of a five-year-old son, Walter, is chosen to represent the United States of America in an international martial arts tournament against Team Korea, despite a shoulder injury that once forced him into retirement. Also chosen for the team is Tommy Lee, a man seeking revenge against a member of Team Korea for the death of his brother during a previous tournament. The rest of Team USA consists of Travis Brickley, an extremely brash fighter with a short fuse; Virgil Keller, a devout Buddhist; and Sonny Grasso, a streetwise fighter from Detroit.