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Don Brockett is a Actor American born on 30 january 1930

Don Brockett

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Nationality USA
Birth 30 january 1930
Death 2 may 1990 (at 60 years) at Pittsburgh (USA)

Don Brockett (January 30, 1930 – May 2, 1995) was an American actor, comedian, and producer and director from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, known for his portrayal of Chef Brockett on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. He had small parts in many major films including Flashdance, Fletch Lives, The Silence of the Lambs, and Bob Roberts.

Don Brockett played a zombie in the 1985 George A. Romero film Day of the Dead.

Brockett was one-half of the popular Pittsburgh comedy team, "Brockett and Barbara". He was also known for his annual comedic cinematic look at Pittsburgh, Forbidden Pittsburgh.

Brockett also had bit parts in the movies Flashdance and Houseguest, both of which were filmed in Pittsburgh. Barely six months after the release of Houseguest, Brockett died of a heart attack. Prior to his death, Brockett had been heavily involved in local charities, particularly with polio research. Brockett himself had been stricken with the disease as a child. His grave is located at Allegheny Cemetery.

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Filmography of Don Brockett (18 films)

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Houseguest
Houseguest (1995)
, 1h53
Directed by Randall Miller
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Sinbad, Phil Hartman, Kim Murphy, Kim Greist, Ron Glass, Chauncey Leopardi
Roles Happy Marcelli
Rating58% 2.9486152.9486152.9486152.9486152.948615
Kevin Franklin (Sinbad) is an inner-city Pittsburgh native; raised in an orphanage, has delusions of grandeur, and talks about getting rich and driving a Porsche one day. 25 years later, he drives a rusted MG Midget and all his ambitions revolve around a series of ill-fated get-rich-quick schemes. A handshake loan of $5,000 from the mob grows to $50,000 through interest and penalties, resulting in his trying to skip town at Pittsburgh International Airport. He overhears a conversation between lawyer Gary Young (Hartman) and his children, who are waiting to pick up his childhood friend, Derek Bond, who is now a successful, straight-laced and vegetarian dentist. Upon hearing him say that he hasn't seen Bond in 25 years and doesn't know what he looks like, Franklin gives his baseball cap to the real Bond to throw off the two dim-witted mobsters chasing him and poses as Bond to the Youngs, who take him to their posh home in Sewickley.
Money for Nothing, 1h40
Directed by Ramón Menéndez
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors John Cusack, Debi Mazar, Michael Madsen, Benicio del Toro, Michael Rapaport, Philip Seymour Hoffman
Rating56% 2.849472.849472.849472.849472.84947
Joey (John Cusack) is an unemployed longshoreman who finds a bag full of money that fell out of the back of an armored car. Joey forces his friend Kenny Kozlowski (Michael Rapaport) to drive Kenny's car in the lake to hide the tire tracks. Unknown to them, a local boy witnesses them doing the crime. Joey tells Kenny that he's not going to turn the money in and will keep it for himself. Joey refuses to tell his family about it. The police are investigating the missing money and the local boy tells them about the car. The police find the car in the lake and trace it back to Kenny's house. Later, the police head to Kenny's house. During that, Kenny's dad beats his son with a belt and Kenny tells the police that Joey took the money. The neighbors overhear this and word spreads around the city that Joey took the money. Joey and his girlfriend head to the airport to leave the country, until they get arrested.
Hoffa
Hoffa (1992)
, 2h20
Directed by Danny DeVito
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Action, Historical, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Transport films, Films about the labor movement, Trucker films, L'Outfit de Chicago, Political films, Road movies, Children's films, Gangster films
Actors Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Armand Assante, J. T. Walsh, John C. Reilly, Frank Whaley
Roles Police Captain
Rating65% 3.297513.297513.297513.297513.29751
Jimmy Hoffa and Bobby Ciaro are impatiently waiting in the parking lot of a roadhouse diner on July 30,1975. Others are late for a meeting. Asked if he wants to leave, Hoffa gives Ciaro a scornful glance. The first flashback to 1935 then occurs:
Bob Roberts, 1h42
Directed by Tim Robbins
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about films, Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about politics, Musical films, Political films
Actors Giancarlo Esposito, Ray Wise, Gore Vidal, John Cusack, Peter Gallagher, Alan Rickman
Roles Chairman
Rating69% 3.4972053.4972053.4972053.4972053.497205
Bob Roberts takes place in Pennsylvania in 1990. It depicts a fictitious senatorial race between a conservative Republican folk singer, Bob Roberts (Tim Robbins), and the incumbent Democrat, Brickley Paiste (Gore Vidal). The film is shot through the perspective of Terry Manchester (Brian Murray), a British documentary filmmaker who is following the Roberts campaign. Through his lens we see Roberts travel across the state, performing songs about drug users, lazy people and the triumph of traditional family values over the rebelliousness of the 1960s. As the campaign continues, Paiste remains in the lead until a scandal arises involving him and a young woman who was seen emerging from a car with him. Paiste claims that she was a friend of his granddaughter who he was driving home, but he cannot shake the accusations.
Passed Away, 1h36
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Bob Hoskins, Jack Warden, William Petersen, Nancy Travis, Pamela Reed, Tim Curry
Roles Froggie
Rating58% 2.9003552.9003552.9003552.9003552.900355
Jack Scanlan is a union leader who is returning to work after having a heart attack. His son Frank arranges a welcome back surprise party for Jack, which more than surprises him, as he has a heart attack and dies. His large, dysfunctional family is brought together and finds themselves dealing with all of their emotional baggage.
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore, 2h
Directed by Delbert Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Walter Matthau, Harry Morgan, Susan Blakely, Ariana Richards, Barton Heyman, Brian Kerwin
Roles Judge Mulligan
Rating65% 3.287283.287283.287283.287283.28728
The sequel to the TV movie entitled The Incident, a small-town lawyer, Harmon Cobb, and his family move to Baltimore where he becomes the law partner of his old adversary (Harry Morgan), where he goes against the State of Maryland, suing on behalf of an institutionalized mental patient for release.
Mobsters
Mobsters (1991)
, 1h56
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Action, Adventure, Musical, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Gangster films
Actors Christian Slater, Patrick Dempsey, Richard Grieco, Costas Mandylor, Michael Gambon, Anthony Quinn
Rating59% 2.952572.952572.952572.952572.95257
This highly dramatized film focuses primarily on Luciano and Lansky. They start as young men victimized by the current mafia. They rise from petty criminals and bootleggers to push aside the old guard of the Mafia and eventually establish The Commission, which set up the New York Mafia into five separate families. Bugsy Siegel (Richard Grieco) and Frank Costello (Costas Mandylor) control the physical elements of the operation, while Lucky Luciano (Christian Slater) and Meyer Lansky (Patrick Dempsey) bring up the business end.
The Silence of the Lambs, 1h58
Directed by Jonathan Demme
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Assassinat, Medical-themed films, Prison films, Psychologie, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Serial killer films, Films about psychiatry, Évasion, Tiré d'une œuvre de Thomas Harris, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine, Charles Napier, Anthony Heald
Roles Friendly Psychopath
Rating83% 4.1829754.1829754.1829754.1829754.182975
Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) is pulled from her training at the FBI Academy at Quantico, Virginia by Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn) of the Bureau's Behavioral Science Unit. He assigns her to interview Hannibal Lecter, a former psychiatrist and incarcerated cannibalistic serial killer, whose insight might prove useful in the pursuit of a serial killer nicknamed "Buffalo Bill", who skins his female victims' corpses.
Night of the Living Dead, 1h25
Directed by Tom Savini
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Tony Todd, Patricia Tallman, Tom Towles, Bill Moseley, Heather Mazur, McKee Anderson
Roles Zombie (uncredited)
Rating68% 3.400263.400263.400263.400263.40026
Siblings Barbara and Johnnie visit their mother's grave in a remote Pennsylvania cemetery. During their visit, Barbara is attacked by a zombie. Her brother comes to her defense but is killed. Barbara flees the cemetery and discovers what at first seems to be an abandoned farmhouse. She seeks shelter there, only to find another pack of zombies. Shortly after, a man named Ben arrives, and the two clear the house of the dead and begin the process of barricading the doors and windows.
Criminal Justice, 1h30
Directed by Andy Wolk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Forest Whitaker, Anthony LaPaglia, Rosie Perez, Jennifer Grey, Tony Todd, Joe Lisi
Roles Judge Mulino
Rating63% 3.1947853.1947853.1947853.1947853.194785
En deux semaines, la ville d'Innocence est frappée par la mort de deux jeunes femmes, dont les corps sont retrouvés dans un étang par Caroline Waverly, célèbre violoniste. Alors que les soupçons de la présence d'un serial killer courent les rues, Tucker Longstreet, ancien ami des deux femmes assassinées, est considéré comme le principal coupable, mais Caroline refuse à croire en sa culpabilité. :P
Fletch Lives, 1h35
Directed by Michael Ritchie
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists
Actors Chevy Chase, Hal Holbrook, Julianne Phillips, R. Lee Ermey, Richard Libertini, Cleavon Little
Roles Sheriff
Rating60% 3.0495453.0495453.0495453.0495453.049545
Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher (Chevy Chase), a reporter for the L.A. Times, is contacted by the executor of his late-aunt's will, attorney Amanda Ray Ross (Patricia Kalember). Ross informs Fletch he has inherited his late-aunt's mansion and 80 acre plantation property, Belle Isle, in Thibodaux, Louisiana. Upon arriving in Louisiana, Fletch is disappointed to find the mansion completely dilapidated, but nonetheless agrees to keep on its caretaker, Calculus Entrophy (Cleavon Little). Fletch has dinner with Ross at her home that evening and she tells him of a $225,000 bid for Belle Isle made by an anonymous buyer. After sleeping with Ross, Fletch awakens the next morning to find her dead.
The Prince of Pennsylvania, 1h30
Directed by Ron Nyswaner
Genres Comedy, Action, Romance
Actors Fred Ward, Keanu Reeves, Bonnie Bedelia, Amy Madigan, Dan Monahan, Jay O. Sanders
Rating56% 2.801772.801772.801772.801772.80177
Rupert Marshetta and his accomplice and lover Carla kidnap Rupert's father to gain access to family money, but nobody in the family wants his father back. They find out that his father has already sold the land without the knowledge of his family. The police arrest Pam, but they cannot find Rupert and his father. He takes his father to the mine, where police find them before he fits an explosive device to break open the portable toilet where he thinks his father has hidden the money. Everybody escapes the explosion.
Lady Beware, 1h48
Directed by Karen Arthur
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime, Romance, Erotic thriller
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Erotic thriller films
Actors Diane Lane, Cotter Smith, Michael Woods, Tyra Ferrell, Don Brockett, Clayton Hill
Roles Locksmith
Rating58% 2.900662.900662.900662.900662.90066
Katya Yarno is a window dresser for Horne's department store who specializes in displays with sexy, slightly kinky themes. Surrounded by the equipment of her trade — mannequins and lingerie — Katya lives in a loft apartment in downtown Pittsburgh. She spends her evenings taking her bath by candlelight and thinking up new and more provocative window displays.
Day of the Dead, 1h42
Directed by George A. Romero
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Lori Cardille, Joseph Pilato, Terry Alexander, Richard Liberty, Jarlath Conroy, Sherman Howard
Roles Featured Zombie
Rating70% 3.549463.549463.549463.549463.54946
Cannibalistic zombies have overrun the entire world. The remaining fragments of the U.S. government and military hide out in fortified military bases and colonies, attempting to find a solution to the zombie pandemic. Sarah, Private Miguel Salazar, radio operator William "Bill" McDermott, and helicopter pilot John fly from their base to Fort Myers, Florida, in an attempt to locate additional survivors. They encounter a large horde of the undead, and return to their army base in the Everglades, where a small group of scientists, supported by a skeleton crew of soldiers, is searching for a way to stop or reverse the re-animation process.