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John Dennis Johnston is a Actor American born on 14 may 1950
John Dennis Johnston (born May 14, 1950) is an American actor.
He appears films such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Streets of Fire, Flesh+Blood, and TV series such as In Plain Sight
He appeared in both the Twilight Zone TV series and the Twilight Zone movie.
In 1981, he married Karla Pitti Johnston who is the daughter of the cowboy-singer and actor Carl PittI. They are now separated.
John is an avid cyclist. He is also an activist for cycling safety and safe driving legislation.
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John Dennis Johnston (born May 14, 1950) is an American actor.
He appears films such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Streets of Fire, Flesh+Blood, and TV series such as In Plain Sight
He appeared in both the Twilight Zone TV series and the Twilight Zone movie.
In 1981, he married Karla Pitti Johnston who is the daughter of the cowboy-singer and actor Carl PittI. They are now separated.
John is an avid cyclist. He is also an activist for cycling safety and safe driving legislation.
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Black Listed (2003)
, 1h35Directed by Robert Townsend
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Robert Townsend, Harry Lennix, Vanessa Williams, Dick Anthony Williams, Heavy D, Victoria Rowell
Roles Lt. Rayson
Rating54%
Lawyer Alan Chambers (Robert Townsend) grows tired of watching criminals being released and takes it upon himself to create a list of criminals he feels should be put to death. He sends it to his closest friends, only to find later that the killing has already begun without his involvement.
Firestarter 2: Rekindled (2002)
, 2h48Directed by Robert Iscove
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Actors Marguerite Moreau, Malcolm McDowell, Dennis Hopper, Danny Nucci, Skye McCole Bartusiak, Darnell Williams
Roles Joel Lowen
Rating51%
Charlene « Charlie » McGee est une mutante qui possède le don de pyrokinésie (déclencher des feux avec son esprit). Elle a passé son enfance et sa jeunesse à fuir les savants qui sont responsables de la mort de ses parents. Vincent Sforza travaille pour une organisation chargée de retrouver les mutants... Leurs chemins vont donc se croiser et ensemble ils essaieront de survivre afin de mener la vie tranquille dont Charlie rêve depuis toujours...
Purgatory (1999)
, 1h34Directed by Uli Edel
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Western
Actors Sam Shepard, Eric Roberts, Randy Quaid, Brad Rowe, Peter Stormare, Amelia Heinle
Roles Lamb / 'Lefty' Slade
Rating68%
An outlaw band, led by Blackjack Britton (Eric Roberts) and second man Cavin Guthrie (Peter Stormare), rob a bank. During a subsequent gunfight, a woman is shot and dies in the arms of Sonny (Cavin's nephew), a young member of the gang who is the lookout and appears to still have a conscience. The gang flees and is pursued by a posse. After passing through a dust storm, they see and enter a tunnel, emerging at the other end into verdant pastures around the town of Refuge.
Joseph's Gift (1998)
Directed by Philippe Mora
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Films based on the Bible, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Freddy Rodríguez, Brion James, Robert Townsend, John Saxon, Pamela Bellwood, Martin Kove
Roles Parker
Rating67%
The Keller family are the owners of a successful garment business based in Los Angeles, California. The story mainly revolves around Jacob Keller's (John Saxon) youngest son Joseph (Freddy Rodriguez). Because Jacob treats Joseph as if he is his favorite son, Joseph's brothers Ashton, Simon, and Robert plot to eliminate Joseph. They accomplish this by going on a business trip with Joseph, only to have him kidnapped and taken to a sweat shop run by sadist Frank Childress (Brion James).
Snide and Prejudice (1997)
, 1h59Directed by Philippe Mora
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Angus Macfadyen, René Auberjonois, Sam Bottoms, Jeffrey Combs, Claudia Christian, Mena Suvari
Roles Sheffield
Rating65%
At a mental institution, the resident physician, Dr Cohen, encourages his patients who believe they are important Nazi figures to act out their fantasies. The therapy sessions show Hitler consolidating his power by assembling his gang of supporters; however, they are interrupted at times, once because Davidson's uniform is at the dry cleaners, and another time because a patient who believes he is Picasso interrupts a session.
Precious Find (1996)
, 1h30Directed by Philippe Mora
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Sur la Lune, Films set in the future, Space opera
Actors Rutger Hauer, Joan Chen, Brion James, Don Stroud, Philippe Mora, Tim de Zarn
Rating37%
In the future. At Moon City, fate brings three adventurers together: a space ship owner, a young prospector, and a shady entrepreneur who are looking for gold on an asteroid. There they find a mine. After the prospector returns to Moon City to get water, he is followed by two soldiers of fortune, a man and a woman. The two join the three adventures.
The Siege at Ruby Ridge (1996)
, 2h55Directed by Roger Young
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Randy Quaid, Laura Dern, Kirsten Dunst, Bob Gunton, Darren E. Burrows, G. W. Bailey
Roles Tony Vickers
Rating62%
Forest Warrior (1996)
, 1h33Directed by Aaron Norris
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Environmental films, Children's films
Actors Chuck Norris, Terry Kiser, Max Gail, Roscoe Lee Browne, William Sanderson, Jordan Brower
Rating36%
The film opens with a campfire story being told by Clovis Madison (Roscoe Lee Browne) to a group of children, about a man named John McKenna (Chuck Norris) who was killed a century ago in the Tanglewood forest while fighting bandits. McKenna was magically brought back to life...and given the power to transform into a bear, wolf, or eagle. Inspired by this tale, the children dub their group the Lords of the Tanglewood - complete with the following pledge: "We ask you to leave it pure as found; For we are to it forever bound."
White Dwarf (1995)
, 1h30Directed by Peter Markle
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Films set in the future, Space opera
Actors Paul Winfield, Neal McDonough, CCH Pounder, Beverley Mitchell, David St. James, James Morrison
Roles Morgus, Osh's Assistant
Rating62%
In the year 3040, New York medical student Driscoll Rampart (Neal McDonough) is completing his internship on Rusta, a rural planet which due to it being tidally locked to its primary, is divided into contrasting halves of day and night with the halves separated by a wall. The two sides are involved in a civil war: The day side containing a Victorian-styled colony is at odds with the night containing a medieval kingdom. The differences between the two cultures leaves Rampart in a state of wonder. Rampart arrives from Earth for a six-month stint at the Light Side clinic run by Dr. Akada (Paul Winfield). Rampart's ambition is to eventually set up a private practice in Manhattan on Park Avenue.
A Walk in the Clouds (1995)
, 1h42Directed by Alfonso Arau
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Keanu Reeves, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Giancarlo Giannini, Anthony Quinn, Angélica Aragón, Freddy Rodríguez
Roles Lout #1
Rating67%
In 1945, United States Army Sgt. Paul Sutton returns to San Francisco to reunite with his wife, Betty, whom he married, following a whirlwind courtship, the day before he departed for the Pacific. The war has left him with emotional scars, and he experiences flashbacks on a regular basis.
In Pursuit of Honor (1995)
, 1h29Directed by Ken Olin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Themes Films about animals, Environmental films, Films about horses, Political films
Actors Don Johnson, Craig Sheffer, Gabrielle Anwar, Bob Gunton, Rod Steiger, James Sikking
Roles Sgt. Thomas Mulcahey
Rating69%
The movie opens in 1932 when World War I veterans are protesting and rallying in Washington D.C. for war bonuses they were promised but never received from the government, a true event known as the Bonus March. U.S. cavalry and infantry are present for crowd control. The mounted cavalry is ordered by Major John Hardesty (Bob Gunton), to present their sabers in order to hold back the protesters. First Sergeant John "Top" Libbey (Don Johnson), along with three fellow soldiers, refuse to draw their swords because the demonstrators were men they served with during the war. As a consequence, their military careers are tarnished and they are relegated to duty at a remote post in the American Southwest.
Art Deco Detective (1994)
, 1h41Directed by Philippe Mora
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy
Actors John Dennis Johnston, Joe Santos, Brion James, Stephen McHattie, Rena Riffel, Sonia Nassery Cole
Roles Arthur Decowitz
Rating55%
Wyatt Earp (1994)
, 3h11Directed by Lawrence Kasdan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Action, Adventure, Historical, Western
Actors Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, JoBeth Williams, David Andrews, Linden Ashby
Roles Frank Stillwell
Rating67%
A teenage Wyatt Earp lives on the family farm. His older brothers, Virgil and James, are away at war serving with the Union Army. Wyatt dreams of war, and packs some belongings, bids his younger brothers & sisters goodbye, and attempts to run away, intending to lie about his age and join the Union Army. He doesn't make it off the farm before his father catches him and forces him to return home. A short while later, both brothers return home at the war's end, with James gravely wounded. Shortly afterwards, the family moves west. It is during this move that Wyatt first sees a man killed, shot during a gunfight. He gets sick at the sight, and vomits.
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Sarah Jessica Parker, Sally Struthers, Lexi Randall, Gary Graham, Jayne Atkinson, John Dennis Johnston
Roles Harlan Pepper
Rating69%
The film opens with Callie Cain (Parker) leading her kids in singing along to John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads" as she moves back to her hometown of Estherville, Iowa with her 4 young daughters (plus another baby on the way) and boyfriend Ray (Hodges). Although Callie's brother John (Graham) and sister-in-law Wanda (Atkinson) attempt to help them, the abusive Ray (the father of youngest child Jason) has no interest in working, and Callie rebuffs Wanda's suggestion that she continue treatment for the manic depression she suffers from. As a result, the family soon finds themselves living in poverty, with oldest child Jessi (Randall) forced to play mother to her younger sisters (Julie, Susan, and Cindy) and brother. A short time later, Ray leaves them, and Callie continues on a downward spiral.
Murder in Mississippi (1990)
, 1h36Directed by Roger Young
Genres Drama
Actors Tom Hulce, Blair Underwood, Jennifer Grey, CCH Pounder, Andre Braugher, Royce D. Applegate
Roles Hatchet-Faced Man
Rating69%
Les dernières semaines des militants des droits civiques Michael "Mickey" Schwerner, Andrew Goodman et James Chaney avant leur disparition pendant l'été 1964.