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James Read is a Actor American born on 31 july 1953 at Buffalo (USA)
James Christopher Read (born July 31, 1953) is an American actor, best known for his role of George Hazard in the North and South television miniseries.
Read was born in Buffalo, New York. He started acting as a student of law at the University of Oregon where he graduated in 1976. He studied acting in New York and then did several off Broadway and regional theatres such as The Denver Center Theatre Company, where he had a couple of leading roles and spent three seasons. In 1998, he earned his Masters Degree in psychology from Pepperdine University.
Career
Read is best known for his role as George Hazard in the three North and South TV miniseries (1985, 1986 and 1994) based on the John Jakes trilogy of novels of the same name (his co-star, Patrick Swayze, taught him how to ride a horse), and for his co-starring role in the movie Beaches.
He had a recurring role on The WB series Charmed as Victor Bennett and was also a regular during the first season of Remington Steele. Recently, he could be seen as Ken Davis in the ABC family drama Wildfire and as ambassador Franklin Fairchild in 2010 television series Persons Unknown. In 2008, he directed an episode of "Wildfire". In 2009, he performed in "Better Angels" as Abraham Lincoln at the Colony Theatre in Burbank, California. Since 2014, he has played the role of drug lord Clyde Weston on the soap opera Days of Our Lives.
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James Christopher Read (born July 31, 1953) is an American actor, best known for his role of George Hazard in the North and South television miniseries.
Biography
Early lifeRead was born in Buffalo, New York. He started acting as a student of law at the University of Oregon where he graduated in 1976. He studied acting in New York and then did several off Broadway and regional theatres such as The Denver Center Theatre Company, where he had a couple of leading roles and spent three seasons. In 1998, he earned his Masters Degree in psychology from Pepperdine University.
Career
Read is best known for his role as George Hazard in the three North and South TV miniseries (1985, 1986 and 1994) based on the John Jakes trilogy of novels of the same name (his co-star, Patrick Swayze, taught him how to ride a horse), and for his co-starring role in the movie Beaches.
He had a recurring role on The WB series Charmed as Victor Bennett and was also a regular during the first season of Remington Steele. Recently, he could be seen as Ken Davis in the ABC family drama Wildfire and as ambassador Franklin Fairchild in 2010 television series Persons Unknown. In 2008, he directed an episode of "Wildfire". In 2009, he performed in "Better Angels" as Abraham Lincoln at the Colony Theatre in Burbank, California. Since 2014, he has played the role of drug lord Clyde Weston on the soap opera Days of Our Lives.
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Fame (2009)
, 1h47Directed by Kevin Tancharoen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Collins Pennie, Kelsey Grammer, Charles Dutton, Megan Mullaly, Bebe Neuwirth, Naturi Naughton
Roles Alice's Dad
Rating50%
During the opening scenes in auditions and orientation, it is told that in 1936, New York City Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia founded the High School of Music & Art in order to provide a facility where the most gifted and talented public school students of New York City could pursue their talents in art or music, while also completing a full academic program of instruction. In 1948, the School of Performing Arts (P.A.) was created to provide training in performance skills to students who wished to prepare for professional careers in dance, music or drama.
A Lot Like Love (2005)
, 1h47Directed by Nigel Cole
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about disabilities, Sign-language films, American Sign Language films, Films about language and translation
Actors Ashton Kutcher, Amanda Peet, Molly Cheek, Kal Penn, Kathryn Hahn, James Read
Roles Brent Friehl
Rating66%
Constructed as a series of chapters that take place at a turning point in each character's life, the story moves from seven years in the past to three years to two and finally arrives in the present day. Emily Friehl (Amanda Peet) and Oliver Martin's (Ashton Kutcher) first encounter is on a flight from Los Angeles to New York City, during which they join the mile high club. He has hopes of becoming an Internet entrepreneur and, certain of his future success, gives her his mother's phone number and suggests she call him in six years to see if his prediction came true.
, 1h35Directed by Charles Herman-Wurmfeld
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Environmental films, Politique, Political films
Actors Reese Witherspoon, Sally Field, Regina King, Jennifer Coolidge, Bruce McGill, Dana Ivey
Roles Elle's Father
Rating48%
Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) wants her Chihuahua, Bruiser, to reunite with his mother, because she would like Bruiser's mom to attend Elle and Emmett's wedding. Elle hires a detective to find Bruiser's mother, only to discover that the owner of her dog's mother is a cosmetics company that uses Bruiser's mother for "testing". She finds out that her law firm represents the C'est Magnifique Corporation.
Legally Blonde (2001)
, 1h36Directed by Robert Luketic
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Feminist films, Political films
Actors Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Selma Blair, Matt Davis, Victor Garber, Jennifer Coolidge
Roles Elle's Father
Rating65%
In her senior year at the fictional CULA, girlish sorority president Elle Woods majors in fashion merchandising and is in love with her boyfriend, Warner Huntington III, who will attend Harvard Law School the following year. She excitedly expects him to ask her to marry him, but he breaks up with her instead, saying that he has to be with someone more "serious" if he plans on a career in politics.
Not Another Teen Movie (2001)
, 1h29Directed by Joel Gallen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Dance films, Films about education, Films about families, Films about sexuality, Sports films, Erotic films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Chyler Leigh-West, Chris Evans, Jaime Pressly, Eric Christian Olsen, Eric Jungmann, Mia Kirshner
Roles Preston's Father
Rating57%
In the stereotypical high school community of John Hughes High in Southern California, sexy Priscilla (Jaime Pressly), a popular cheerleader, separates from her football star boyfriend, Jake Wyler (Chris Evans). After Jake discovers that Priscilla is now dating peculiar Les (Riley Smith) just to spite him, one of Jake's friends, Austin (Eric Christian Olsen), suggests seeking retribution by turning Janey Briggs (Chyler Leigh), a "uniquely rebellious girl", into the prom queen.
Indiscreet (1998)
, 1h40Genres Thriller
Actors Luke Perry, Gloria Reuben, Peter Coyote, James Read, Adam Baldwin, Julio Oscar Mechoso
Roles Zachariah Dodd
Rating56%
Zachariah Dodd, a rich lawyer, hires Michael Nash (played by Luke Perry),a private investigator, to obtain evidences that is wife, Eve Dodd (played by Gloria Reuben) is unfaithful so he can divorce her. Michael Nash discovers instead that Eve is rather physically abused by her husband and have committed no adultery. She attempts to commit suicide to escape from the torments of her marriage by drowning herself naked into the sea. Michael rescues Eve and fall in love with her. The two begin secretly a love affair.
Walking Thunder (1997)
Directed by Craig Clyde
Genres Drama
Actors John Denver, James Read, Irene Miracle, Brian Keith, Don Shanks, Christopher Neame
Roles Abner Murdock
Rating58%
A young boy, Danny McKay, stays with his grandmother while his parents are away. The grandmother gives him a journal written by his grandfather when the latter was a teenage boy. It relates how he, Jacob McKay, travelled with his parents and younger brother Toby in a covered wagon on the way to California to seek a better life. Somehow they become separated from the wagon train that they originally joined up with and become stranded in the Rocky Mountains. While they are sleeping, an enormous bear appears and rummages through the wagon, scaring off their mules and livestock and scatters their possessions. The axle of the wagon is broken in the process and the father, John McKay, decides to build a shelter where they presently are as it would take too long to fix the axle and winter is about to arrive. Also, the mother Emma is heavily pregnant with their third child. Jacob and Toby are sent to look for food and come across a lodge owned by an old Sioux medicine man Dark Wind. Having read about the Indians in books, Jacob and Toby fear for their lives when the old man appears but are quickly re-assured by the fortuitous arrival of mountain man Abner Murdock, who understands the Sioux language and acts as interpreter. Both Murdock and Dark Wind share a meal with the McKays, and Dark Wind regales them with the story of the great bear known by the Sioux nation as Walking Thunder, with whom he shares a kindred spirit, and who had dominion over the land in which they live.
Harvest of Fire (1996)
, 1h39Directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Lolita Davidovich, J. A. Preston, Sam Trammell, Jean Louisa Kelly, Tom Aldredge, James Read
Roles Scott
Rating64%
The Other Woman (1995)
, 1h29Directed by Gabrielle Beaumont
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about cancer
Actors Jill Eikenberry, Laura Leighton, Lloyd Bridges, James Read, Lindsay Parker, Rosemary Forsyth
Roles Michael
Rating62%
Tout comme ses enfants, Tessa déteste la nouvelle compagne de son ex-mari. Lorsqu'elle apprend qu'elle est atteinte d'un cancer incurable, la mère a du mal à accepter d'être remplacée par une autre. Pourtant, elle n'a d'autre choix que de rapprocher ses enfants de leur nouvelle mère...
Love Crimes (1992)
, 1h24Directed by Lizzie Borden, Lizzy Borden
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Romance, Erotic thriller
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Erotic thriller films
Actors Sean Young, Patrick Bergin, Arnetia Walker, James Read, Ron Orbach
Roles Stanton Gray
Rating43%
Assistant district attorney Dana Greenway conspires with police lieutenant Maria Johnson to go after a serial sexual predator who identifies himself to his victims as "David Hanover," a distinguished photographer.
, 2hDirected by Paul Krasny
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Actors Raphael Sbarge, William Windom, Megan Follows, Ned Beatty, Shea Farrell, Mitchell Anderson
Roles Hugh
Rating61%
Beaches (1989)
, 2h3Directed by Garry Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Feminist films, Political films, Buddy films
Actors Bette Midler, Barbara Hershey, John Heard, James Read, Spalding Gray, Lainie Kazan
Roles Michael Essex
Rating69%
The story of two friends from different backgrounds, whose friendship spans more than 30 years through childhood, love, and tragedy: Cecilia Carol "C.C." Bloom (Bette Midler), a New York actress and singer, and Hillary Whitney (Barbara Hershey), a San Francisco heiress and lawyer. The film begins with middle-aged C.C. receiving a note during a rehearsal for her upcoming Los Angeles concert. She leaves the rehearsal in a panic and tries frantically to travel to her friend's side. Unable to get a flight to San Francisco because of fog, she rents a car and drives overnight, reflecting on her life with Hillary.
Eight Men Out (1988)
, 1h55Directed by John Sayles
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Sports films, Baseball films
Actors John Cusack, Jace Alexander, Clifton James, John Anderson, Michael Lerner, Christopher Lloyd
Roles Lefty Williams
Rating71%
The 1919 Chicago White Sox are considered the greatest team in baseball and, in fact, one of the greatest ever assembled to that point. However, the team's owner, Charles Comiskey, is a skinflint with little inclination to reward his players for a spectacular season.
Celebration Family (1987)
, 1h31Directed by Robert Day
Origin USA
Actors James Read, Stéphanie Zimbalist
Rating72%
, 4hDirected by Charles Jarrott
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Actors Farrah Fawcett, Fairuza Balk, David Ackroyd, Nicholas Clay, Burl Ives, James Read
Roles Cary Grant
Rating68%
The film begins in 1917 with the opening of the 1000th Woolworth's store, known as the Woolworth Tower. Barbara is seen with her family as her grandfather, Frank Woolworth, delivers a speech. After the commemoration, Frank expresses his disappointment to his daughter Edna that her husband Franklin was not present to celebrate the opening of the new store. Edna acknowledges that her husband is a philanderer, drunk, and gambler but replies that he still happens to be Barbara's father. Later that night in their apartment at the Plaza hotel, Edna leaves Barbara a note under her pillow, then walks back to her room and drinks poison. Barbara wakes up to find her mother dead.