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Joel Polis is a Actor American born on 3 october 1951
Joel Polis (born October 3, 1951) is an American television, film and stage actor. He has appeared in over one hundred television programs and films during his career.
Il apparait dans des séries de télévision, comme, Cheers, Alien Nation, Bienvenue en Alaska, Star Trek : Voyager, Roseanne, Seinfeld, La Vie à tout prix et Boston Justice.
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Polis a joué dans le film The Thing de John Carpenter en 1982.Il apparait dans des séries de télévision, comme, Cheers, Alien Nation, Bienvenue en Alaska, Star Trek : Voyager, Roseanne, Seinfeld, La Vie à tout prix et Boston Justice.
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Chasing a Dream (2009)
, 1h25Directed by David Burton Morris
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Andrew Lawrence, Joanna Going, Treat Williams, Kevin Kilner, Christa B. Allen, Jake McLaughlin
Roles Dr. Aldicott
Rating62%
Senior high school football star Cameron (Andrew Lawrence) is traumatized when his best friend is killed in a car accident that he feels responsible for. When Cam learns that his best friend (a track star) was working on breaking the sub-four minute mile, he decides to honor his friend’s memory by accomplishing the goal for him. Cam is met with strong opposition from his football coach and father Gary (Treat Williams), who feels he's throwing his sports opportunities away. The father-son disagreement begins to tear the family apart, but Cam continues to pursue his goal, hoping to put his friend’s memory to rest at last.
Alien Hunter (2003)
, 1h32Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Actors James Spader, Leslie Stefanson, Nikolay Binev, Joel Polis, John Lynch, Roy Dotrice
Roles Copeland
Rating51%
In 1947 New Mexico, a radio operator receives a bizarre signal, coming from Roswell. He decides to investigate the signal's origin and goes out to follow it, never to be seen again.
Rocket's Red Glare (2000)
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Space opera
Actors Robert Wagner, Chris Potter, Frederick Coffin, Paul Scherrer, Marilu Henner, Ryan Merriman
Roles Col. Mitchell
Rating53%
Teenager Todd Baker (Merriman) and his former astronaut grandfather Gus (Wagner) team up to rebuild a Mercury Redstone Rocket for Todd's school project.
Tumbleweeds (2000)
, 1h42Directed by Gavin O'Connor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Janet McTeer, Kimberly J. Brown, Jay O. Sanders, Gavin O'Connor, Laurel Holloman, Cody McMains
Roles Vice Principal
Rating66%
The story revolves around Mary Jo Walker, a single mother whose usual reaction to trouble is to pack her car with her belongings and take her pre-teen daughter Ava in search of greener pastures. The film commences with a strong-willed Mary-Jo in an altercation with a man. As this is something which is routine in Ava's life, she packs a suitcase as she prepares herself for their inevitable departure.
Prison of Secrets (1997)
, 1h32Directed by Fred Gerber
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Prison films
Actors Stéphanie Zimbalist, Finola Hughes, Gary Frank, Kimberly Russell, Dan Lauria, Joel Polis
Roles Brad
Rating59%
Lynn Schaffer is a loving mother and wife, who gets arrested for a crime she did not realize she had committed. She does not take the arrest seriously at first. Viewing herself as innocent, she goes against the advice of her lawyer to take a plea-bargain. Instead she opts for a trial. Coming as a complete surprise to her, she is convicted, receives the maximum sentence of 10 years and is and sent to a women's prison, leaving behind her husband Larry and daughter Carey. In prison, she has difficulty adjusting to not having any privacy and having to deal with drug addicts and prostitutes but soon finds out that the prison is corrupt, with Sergeant Ed Crang and other prison guards often sexually abusing inmates.
The Sleepwalker Killing (1997)
, 1h28Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Hilary Swank, Jeffrey Nordling, Charles Esten, Natalija (Natalia) Nogulich, Lisa Darr, Sean Murray
Roles Asst. Atty. Jimmy
Rating55%
A segment from the 'Unsolved Mysteries' TV series inspired this story, in which Mark Schall kills his mother-in-law and wounds his father-in-law in the middle of the night, then turns himself in. He claims, however, that he cannot remember the crime itself. His defense team finds evidence that suggests the crimes were committed while Mark was sleep walking. They build their defense around this theory.
Fly By Night (1993)
, 1h33Directed by Steve Gomer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Actors Jeffrey D. Sams, Sharon Angela, Leo Burmester, Kathleen Chalfant, Geeta Citygirl, Todd Graff
Roles Halbein
Rating54%
Évocation du monde du rap.
The Rookie (1990)
, 2h1Directed by Clint Eastwood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Buddy films
Actors Clint Eastwood, Charlie Sheen, Raúl Juliá, Sônia Braga, Tom Skerritt, Hal Williams
Roles Lance
Rating59%
LAPD Detective Sgt. Nick Pulovski and his partner, Powell, are assigned to the case of taking down the criminal empire of a German felon, Strom, who engages in grand theft auto and chop shop operations. During an encounter with Strom and his men, who are loading a semi-trailer truck with stolen cars, Powell is murdered. Nick, despite efforts to catch the criminals on the highway, ends up losing them.
My Blue Heaven (1990)
, 1h37Directed by Herbert Ross
Genres Comedy, Action
Themes Mafia films, Gangster films
Actors Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, Joan Cusack, Carol Kane, Bill Irwin, Melanie Mayron
Roles U.S. Attorney
Rating61%
Vincent "Vinnie" Antonelli (Steve Martin) is a former mobster recently inducted into the Witness Protection Program with his wife, Linda. The two are under the watchful eye of Barney Coopersmith (Rick Moranis). Vinnie and Barney soon find common ground when both of their wives leave them due to their lifestyles. When he succeeds in getting Vinnie to a suburb in California and a private house, Barney has one more problem: he must make sure the jovial and sometimes mischievous Vinnie conforms to Witness Protection protocol until he is sent to Federal Court to testify against mob kingpins. Doing this is not as simple as it appears to be.
True Believer (1989)
, 1h48Directed by Joseph Ruben
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Prison films
Actors James Woods, Robert Downey Jr., Margaret Colin, Yuji Okumoto, Kurtwood Smith, Tom Bower
Roles Dean Rabin
Rating66%
Eddie Dodd is a burnt-out attorney who has left behind civil rights work to defend drug dealers. Roger Baron is an idealistic young legal clerk, fresh out of law school, who encourages Dodd to take on the case of Shu Kai Kim, a young Korean man who was imprisoned for a gang-related murder. Kim's mother believes her son was wrongfully accused. Dodd and Baron's investigation leads to a conspiracy among the district attorney, a police informant, and several police officers.
Those She Left Behind (1989)
, 1h36Directed by Waris Hussein
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Gary Cole, Joanna Kerns, Mary Page Keller, George Coe, Maryedith Burrell, Colleen Dewhurst
Roles Kerns
Rating62%
The movie stars Gary Cole as Scott Grimes, a man who owns a rising realty business. His wife Sue, played by Mary Page Keller, is pregnant with their first child. So it would seem Scott has everything a man could ever want.
Best Defense (1984)
, 1h34Directed by Willard Huyck
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Dudley Moore, Eddie Murphy, Kate Capshaw, David Rasche, George Dzundza, Helen Shaver
Roles First Agent
Rating38%
The movie takes place as two parallel plots separated by couple years: In 1982, Wylie Cooper (Moore), is an engineer developing a targeting system on a tank for the United States Army. In 1984, Murphy is US Army Lt. Landry, an American tank commander sent to Kuwait to demonstrate "XM-10 Annihilator", America's latest main battle tank, which is equipped with Cooper's system. Because of the tank's poor design and shoddy construction, Landry and his crew are barely able to control or navigate the XM-10 before it leaves the proving grounds and wanders into a combat zone during Iraq's invasion of Kuwait (an unintentional foreshadowing of the Gulf War that occurred six years after the release of the film).
Fatal Vision (TV) (1984)
, 3h20Directed by David Greene
Origin USA
Actors Karl Malden, Gary Cole, Judith Barsi, Eva Marie Saint, Barry Newman, Andy Griffith
Roles Brian Murtagh
Rating77%
The Thing (1982)
, 1h49Directed by John Carpenter
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Horror
Themes Films based on science fiction novels, Films about extraterrestrial life, Films about extraterrestrial life, Alien invasions in films
Actors Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David, David Clennon, Donald Moffat, Charles Hallahan
Roles Fuchs
Rating81%
In the Antarctic, a Norwegian helicopter pursues an Alaskan Malamute to an American research station. Upon landing the helicopter, a Norwegian accidentally drops a thermite charge, destroying the helicopter. The surviving Norwegian pursues the dog, firing a rifle, until he is killed by Garry, the station commander. The Americans send a helicopter pilot, MacReady, and Dr. Copper to the Norwegian camp for answers, but they find only a charred ruin. Outside, they discover the burned remains of a humanoid corpse with two faces, which they bring back along with some video footage. Their biologist, Blair, performs an autopsy on the corpse, finding a normal set of human internal organs.