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John Hancock is a Actor American born on 4 march 1941 at Hazen (USA)
John Hancock (March 4, 1941 – October 12, 1992) was an American film and television actor.
Born in Hazen, Arkansas, Hancock is possibly best remembered for his role as "Scotty" in the ABC miniseries Roots: The Next Generations. His large size and distinctive bass voice allowed him to establish a niche playing authority figures, and he was often cast as a minister, judge, or high-ranking military officer.
Hancock also made recurring appearances in several television shows during his career, including Knots Landing, Family Ties, Diff'rent Strokes, Cop Rock,The Dukes of Hazzard, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Amen, Midnight Caller, Pacific Station, and L.A. Law. He was working with Susan Dey on the CBS sitcom Love & War as the bartender "Ike Johnson" in 1992, when he died of a heart attack at his home in Los Angeles. Hancock's character's death was subsequently written into the series and he was replaced by actor Charles Robinson.
Hancock was interred in the Devotion section, at Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.
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Birth name John Hancock
Nationality USA
Birth 4 march 1941 at Hazen (USA)
Death 12 october 1992 (at 51 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 4 march 1941 at Hazen (USA)
Death 12 october 1992 (at 51 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
John Hancock (March 4, 1941 – October 12, 1992) was an American film and television actor.
Born in Hazen, Arkansas, Hancock is possibly best remembered for his role as "Scotty" in the ABC miniseries Roots: The Next Generations. His large size and distinctive bass voice allowed him to establish a niche playing authority figures, and he was often cast as a minister, judge, or high-ranking military officer.
Hancock also made recurring appearances in several television shows during his career, including Knots Landing, Family Ties, Diff'rent Strokes, Cop Rock,The Dukes of Hazzard, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Amen, Midnight Caller, Pacific Station, and L.A. Law. He was working with Susan Dey on the CBS sitcom Love & War as the bartender "Ike Johnson" in 1992, when he died of a heart attack at his home in Los Angeles. Hancock's character's death was subsequently written into the series and he was replaced by actor Charles Robinson.
Hancock was interred in the Devotion section, at Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.
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Criminal Behavior (1992)
, 1h30Genres Thriller
Actors Farrah Fawcett, A Martinez, Dakin Matthews, Cliff De Young, John Hancock, Angela Paton
Roles Lt. Wills
Rating53%
Depuis son enfance, Jessie cultive une haine profonde envers la police. Issue d'une famille d'escrocs presque par tradition, elle a cependant choisi de rester du bon côté de la barrière en devenant avocate. Elle est prête à tout quand il s'agit de défendre des innocents. Lorsque la cour lui demande de se pencher sur le dossier d'une nurse arrêtée pour le vol d'un bijou, Jessie découvre que la bague en question provient d'un certain Larry Gaines, un trafiquant véreux..
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
, 2h5Directed by Brian De Palma
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Actors Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Kim Cattrall, Saul Rubinek, Morgan Freeman
Roles Reverend Bacon
Rating55%
Sherman McCoy (Tom Hanks) is a Wall Street investor who makes millions while enjoying the good life and the sexual favors of Maria Ruskin (Melanie Griffith), a Southern belle gold digger. Sherman and Maria are driving back to Maria's apartment from JFK Airport when they take a wrong turn on the expressway and the two find themselves in the "war-zone" of the South Bronx. They are approached by two suspicious black youths after Sherman gets out of the car to move a tire placed purposely in the middle of the road. Sherman jumps back into the car and Maria guns the engine in reverse, running over one of the teenagers and putting him in a coma. The two drive away and decide not to report the accident to the police.
Why Me? (1990)
, 1h27Directed by Gene Quintano
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Heist films
Actors Christophe Lambert, Kim Greist, Christopher Lloyd, J. T. Walsh, Rebecca Herbst, Tony Plana
Roles Tiny
Rating58%
Quand Gus et Bruno, braqueurs de coffres forts professionnels, ont vidé leur énième bijouterie, ils auraient dû se renseigner avant sur ce qu'ils risquaient d'y trouver. En l'occurrence, il s'agit la du "Brasier Byzantin", une pierre mythique qui intéresse aussi bien les turcs, la CIA, les truands de la ville. La course-poursuite s'engage...
, 3h20Directed by Lamont Johnson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Shelley Long, Tom Conti, John Rubinstein, Val Bettin, Alan Fudge, Frank Converse
Roles Soloman
Rating61%
Mean Joe is a large black man who protects the children. Sister Mary is a nun. Lady Catherine Tisseu is conservative and stiff. Ten-Four knows how to cut a business deal. These are just some of the 92 personalities that Truddi Chase came to refer to as "The Troops". These Troops first came to her rescue while, as a two-year-old, she was systematically sexually assaulted by her sadistic stepfather (Ernie Lively) in a cornfield. In addition to torture and sexual abuse, the stepfather also battered Truddi's mother beyond reclamation and chained a dog in their yard, withholding food and water until the canine finally dies. As the torture and sexual abuse worsen, more Troops arrived to aid Truddi. In young adult life, Truddi marries a loving husband (John Rubinstein), who she meets while working at an advertising agency. Eventually, daughter Page arrives and as Truddi's condition worsens, she seeks therapy to attempt to repair herself and her family. The miniseries begins with Truddi telephoning her therapist (Tom Conti) and telling him she has located her former stepfather in upstate New York and is on her way to kill him.
Collision Course (1989)
, 1h40Directed by Lewis Teague
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Buddy films
Actors Pat Morita, Chris Sarandon, Jay Leno, Tom Noonan, John Hancock, Dennis Holahan
Roles Lieutenant Ryerson
Rating46%
Tony Costas, un flic impétueux, odieux, sexiste et raciste de Détroit qui a depuis longtemps cessé de suivre les règles, se fait dire qu'il devra travailler avec l'inspecteur Fuji, un policier japonais direct. Fuji est à Detroit à la recherche d'un ingénieur japonais qui s'est rendu en Amérique avec des plans pour une pièce de voiture top secrète. Le couple ne parvient naturellement pas à s'entendre au début, mais au fur et à mesure que l'enquête se poursuit, ils commencent presque à tolérer la présence de l'autre.
, 1h44Directed by Anthony Hickox
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Action, Horror, Western
Themes Vampires in film, Comedy horror films
Actors David Carradine, Morgan Brittany, Bruce Campbell, Jim Metzler, Maxwell Caulfield, Deborah Foreman
Roles Quinton Canada
Rating61%
Under the leadership of their ancient and powerful leader Jozek Mardulak, a colony of vampires seek a peaceful life in the desolate desert town of Purgatory. Key to the transition is the town's artificial-bloodmaking facility and it is just not working. Mardulak summons the human designer of the plant, who brings his wife and two young daughters along for what he thinks will be a pleasant desert vacation. Soon, he and his family are caught up in a civil war as another vampire elder, who abhors the idea of vampires being anything other than predators, organizes a revolution, and a descendant of the Van Helsing family arrives intent on destroying all vampires.
Big Business (1988)
, 1h37Directed by Jim Abrahams
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about families, Feminist films, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare, Buddy films
Actors Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin, Fred Ward, Barry Primus, Michele Placido, Seth Green
Roles Older Harlan
Rating63%
Sometime in the late 1940s, wealthy businessman Hunt Shelton and his heavily pregnant wife get lost in the middle of West Virginia looking for some friends' summer house when Mrs. Shelton goes into labor. They end up going to the Jupiter Hollow Hospital but the doctor will not check them in because it is exclusively for employees of Hollowmade, the local furniture maker. Mr. Shelton buys the company on the spot. The Ratliffs, an impoverished couple, arrive moments later with Mrs. Ratliff also in labor. Both women give birth to twin girls. The doctor tends both births at the same time, and the elderly nurse gets confused and mixes the babies. Mr. Ratliff overhears the Sheltons deciding to name their daughters Rose and Sadie, and suggests the same names to his wife.
Traxx (1988)
, 1h24Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action
Actors Shadoe Stevens, Priscilla Barnes, Willard E. Pugh, Robert Davi, John Hancock, Hugh Gillin
Roles Chief Emmett Decker
Rating53%
Opening in 1984, Traxx is a Texas State Trooper who has little respect for the rules of the police force due to perps frequently getting away with their crimes through legal technicalities or playing the "temporary insanity" case in court. As a result, Traxx makes every effort possible to kill criminals after catching them in the act which earns him scorn from his superiors. In the opening scene, Traxx is one of several troopers called to defuse a hostage situation where a deranged holdup man has taken refuge in a pet store after shooting and killing an old lady and a puppy. Traxx storms the store and when the killer gives up and vows to plead temporary insanity, Traxx shoots and kills him anyway. After being reprimanded one too many times by the police commissioner for excessive use of force, Traxx quits and leaves town to become a soldier of fortune.
Crossroads (1986)
, 1h36Directed by Walter Hill
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Le blues, Musical films, Road movies, Buddy films
Actors Ralph Macchio, Joe Seneca, Jami Gertz, Joe Morton, Tim Russ, Dennis Lipscomb
Roles Sheriff Tilford
Rating71%
Eugene Martone (Ralph Macchio) is a classical guitar student at the Juilliard School for Performing Arts in New York City who has an obsession for the blues, especially the famed Robert Johnson. Most intriguing are the legends surrounding exactly how Johnson became so talented most notably the one claiming he "sold his soul to the Devil at the crossroads" along with a supposed lost song that Johnson never recorded.
11th Victim (1984)
, 1h59Directed by Jonathan Kaplan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Serial killer films
Actors Bess Armstrong, Max Gail, Harold Gould, Harry Northup, John Hancock, Dick Miller
Roles Capt. Long
Rating52%
Jill Kelso (Bess Armstrong) is a Des Moines, Iowa television news anchor, whose younger sister, an aspiring actress, has entered a life of prostitution in Los Angeles. When the sister becomes the eleventh victim of a sex murderer, Kelso conducts her own undercover investigation into Hollywood's night world of commercial sex. Along the way, chemistry develops with a sympathetic cop (Max Gail) who tries to save her from becoming a victim herself.
City Heat (1984)
, 1h33Directed by Richard Benjamin, Blake Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Buddy films, Gangster films
Actors Clint Eastwood, Burt Reynolds, Jane Alexander, Madeline Kahn, Rip Torn, Irene Cara
Roles Fat Freddy
Rating55%
In Kansas City, 1933, near the end of Prohibition, a police lieutenant known by his last name, Speer (Eastwood), is acquainted with a former cop turned private eye named Mike Murphy (Reynolds). Speer and Murphy were once good friends, which changed after Murphy left the force.
Tank (1984)
, 1h53Directed by Marvin J. Chomsky
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure
Actors James Garner, Shirley Jones, C. Thomas Howell, Mark Herrier, Jenilee Harrison, James Cromwell
Roles Mess Sergeant
Rating57%
Après avoir quitté l'Armée, un adjudant-chef se retrouve aux prises avec un shérif...
More Than Murder (1984)
Directed by Gary Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Noir, Crime
Actors Stacy Keach, Don Stroud, Lindsay Bloom, Kent Williams, Tim McIntire, Lynn-Holly Johnson
Roles Judge
Rating65%
Le détective privé Mike Hammer (Stacy Keach) vient en aide à son ami de la police le capitaine Pat Chambers (Don Stroud). Ce dernier est impliqué dans une douteuse affaire de trafic de drogue.
A Soldier's Story (1984)
, 1h41Directed by Norman Jewison
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Crime
Themes Films about racism, Political films
Actors Howard Rollins, Adolph Caesar, David Alan Grier, Larry Riley, Denzel Washington, David Harris
Roles Sergeant Washington
Rating71%
The time is 1944 during World War II. Vernon Waters (Adolph Caesar), the Army sergeant in charge of Company B, a platoon of black soldiers, is very drunk and staggering along a road along Fort Neal, a segregated Army base in Louisiana. Waters' last words amidst his raucous laughter were "They still hate you! They still hate you!" before he is shot to death with a .45 caliber pistol.
Tank (1984)
, 1h53Directed by Marvin J. Chomsky
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Military humor in film
Actors James Garner, Shirley Jones, C. Thomas Howell, Jenilee Harrison, G. D. Spradlin, James Cromwell
Roles Mess Sergeant
Rating57%
US Army Command Sergeant Major Zack Carey (played by Garner) is about to retire from the military after taking his last post, in rural Georgia (loosely based on Fort Benning and filmed there, as well as the small town of Zebulon, GA). Despite being offered possibility of becoming Sergeant Major of the Army, he insists he just wishes to finish his tour and retire in peace to spend time with his family. Several years earlier, his older son, an active duty soldier, had been killed in an Army training accident, and his relationship with his only surviving son, Billy (played by Howell), is strained. He is shown to be a tough but fair NCO, who quickly earns the respect and admiration of his troops.