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John Philbin is a Actor and Associate Producer American born on 27 april 1960
John Philbin (born 1965) is an American surfer who has appeared in television and film.
John first began acting in high school, around the same time he began surfing. Choosing acting over wrestling, John joined a drama team that went on to win awards throughout his high school career. Upon leaving high school, John went to UC Santa Barbara and surfed on their surf team. When he transferred to USC he thought his surfing days were over and that acting would have to be his primary passion, since he was going to be living in a big city. John went on a trip in 1980 to Bali where he surfed for a month in what he refers to as 'paradise'.
John went on to appear in films such as Stephen King's, Children of the Corn and Grandview, U.S.A.. That same year, he also appeared in an episode of Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories alongside actor Kevin Costner. It was later on that he once again took up surfing when he landed the role of Turtle in the film, North Shore, which gave him the chance to act and surf with some of his childhood heroes.
While filming North Shore, Gerry Lopez told John that he could surf and act. This inspired John to keep surfing and acting after the film ended and later landed him the role of Nathanial in the film Point Break, opposite Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves and Gary Busey.
John has also been in the films Tombstone opposite Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer, Return of the Living Dead, Dillinger, Moonbase as well as others and has guest-starred on various television series, including Law & Order.
Philbin trained Kate Bosworth to surf for the film Blue Crush.
John Philbin currently resides in Pacific Palisades, California, where he teaches surfing and continues to appear in films and on television. John has his own instructional video he has released and has also produced a surfing documentary for Quiksilver titled Chasing The Dream, about the Huntington Beach High surf team and their trip to Australia to try and become the next big thing in surfing. The film is narrated by Gary Busey.
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John first began acting in high school, around the same time he began surfing. Choosing acting over wrestling, John joined a drama team that went on to win awards throughout his high school career. Upon leaving high school, John went to UC Santa Barbara and surfed on their surf team. When he transferred to USC he thought his surfing days were over and that acting would have to be his primary passion, since he was going to be living in a big city. John went on a trip in 1980 to Bali where he surfed for a month in what he refers to as 'paradise'.
John went on to appear in films such as Stephen King's, Children of the Corn and Grandview, U.S.A.. That same year, he also appeared in an episode of Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories alongside actor Kevin Costner. It was later on that he once again took up surfing when he landed the role of Turtle in the film, North Shore, which gave him the chance to act and surf with some of his childhood heroes.
While filming North Shore, Gerry Lopez told John that he could surf and act. This inspired John to keep surfing and acting after the film ended and later landed him the role of Nathanial in the film Point Break, opposite Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves and Gary Busey.
John has also been in the films Tombstone opposite Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer, Return of the Living Dead, Dillinger, Moonbase as well as others and has guest-starred on various television series, including Law & Order.
Philbin trained Kate Bosworth to surf for the film Blue Crush.
John Philbin currently resides in Pacific Palisades, California, where he teaches surfing and continues to appear in films and on television. John has his own instructional video he has released and has also produced a surfing documentary for Quiksilver titled Chasing The Dream, about the Huntington Beach High surf team and their trip to Australia to try and become the next big thing in surfing. The film is narrated by Gary Busey.
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Soul Surfer (2011)
, 1h46Directed by Sean McNamara
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Action
Themes Films about animals, Medical-themed films, Seafaring films, Films about religion, Sports films, Transport films, Films about sharks, Surfing films, Mise en scène d'un poisson, Films about disabilities
Actors AnnaSophia Robb, Helen Hunt, Lorraine Nicholson, Carrie Underwood, Dennis Quaid, Kevin Sorbo
Roles Fuel TV Reporter #2
Rating70%
In 2003, teenager Bethany Hamilton lives in Kauai, Hawaii with her parents Tom and Cheri, and two brothers, Noah and Timmy. All are surfers, but she and her best friend Alana Blanchard have grown up with a passion for the sport and enter a competition. Her church youth ministry leader, Sarah Hill, is disappointed when she has to withdraw from a planned mission trip to Mexico because of the contest.
Fail Safe (2001)
, 1h26Directed by Stephen Frears
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Historical, Crime, Politic
Themes Politique, Transport films, Aviation films, Films based on science fiction novels, Political films, Arme nucléaire
Actors George Clooney, Walter Cronkite, Richard Dreyfuss, Noah Wyle, Brian Dennehy, Sam Elliott
Rating73%
The time is the early-to-mid-1960s, the height of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. An unknown aircraft approaches North America from Europe. American bombers of the Strategic Air Command (SAC) are scrambled to their fail safe points near Russia. The bombers have orders not to proceed past their fail safe points without receiving a special attack code. The original "threat" is proven to be innocuous and recall orders are issued. However, due to a technical failure, the attack code is transmitted to Group Six, which consists of six Vindicator supersonic bombers and four escort fighters. Colonel Grady, the head of the group, tries to contact Omaha to verify the fail-safe order (called Positive Check), but due to Soviet radar jamming, Grady cannot hear Omaha. Concluding that the attack order and the radar jamming could only mean nuclear war, Grady commands Group Six towards Moscow, their intended destination.
ATF (1999)
, 1h28Directed by Dean Parisot
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman, Michael O'Neill, Keith David, Mark Boone Junior, William Richert
Roles Randy
Rating49%
Following the infamous tragedy in Waco, Texas, in which the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (A.T.F.) found themselves in a battle with an armed militia, the organization, led by director Maggie Hale (Kathy Baker), finds itself in a new fight. Agent Robyn O'Brien (Amy Brenneman) goes undercover to infiltrate a militia selling illegal street-sweeper guns, dismissing Hale's orders to stay away. When O'Brien gets held prisoner inside the militia's compound, the A.T.F. is left with the decision to start another Waco and attack the militia, or come up with another way to save her.
Girl (1998)
, 1h39Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about virginity
Actors Dominique Swain, Sean Patrick Flanery, Summer Phoenix, Tara Reid, Selma Blair, Channon Roe
Roles Mr. Jones
Rating56%
Andrea Marr (Dominique Swain) is a bright, straight-A, mature, 18-year-old high school senior on the verge of womanhood who decides to abandon her sheltered, boring lifestyle and her bookish friend Darcy (Selma Blair) for a look into the local rock and roll scene. There she meets local rock singer Todd Sparrow (Sean Patrick Flanery), with whom she has a groupie fling. Aspiring rock star Cybil (Tara Reid), fellow student outgoing fellow groupie Rebecca (Summer Phoenix) guide Andrea during her time as a groupie.
Levitation (1997)
, 1h39Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy
Actors Sarah Paulson, Ernie Hudson, Jeremy London, Ann Magnuson, Grand L. Bush, Antonio Fargas
Roles Police Officer
Rating56%
Sarah Paulson portrays Acey Rawlin, a teenage girl who gets pregnant after spending the night with a man she just met. Acey's only friend, a fisherman named Bob, may be imaginary. And when Acey tells her mother Anna about her problems, Anna chooses this moment to tell Acey that she's adopted, which causes her to search out her birth mother.
Tombstone (1993)
, 2h10Directed by Kevin Jarre, George Cosmatos
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical, Western
Actors Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Michael Biehn, Dana Delany, Sam Elliott, Powers Boothe
Roles Tom Mclaury
Rating77%
Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell), a retired peace officer with a notable reputation, reunites with his brothers Virgil (Sam Elliott) and Morgan (Bill Paxton) in Tucson, Arizona, where they venture on towards Tombstone, a small mining town, to settle down. There they encounter Wyatt's long-time friend Doc Holliday (Val Kilmer), a Southern gambler and expert gunslinger, who seeks relief from his worsening tuberculosis. Josephine Marcus (Dana Delany) and Mr. Fabian (Billy Zane) are also newly arrived in Tombstone with a traveling theater troupe. Meanwhile, Wyatt's wife, Mattie Blaylock (Dana Wheeler-Nicholson), is becoming dependent on a potent narcotic. Wyatt and his brothers begin to profit from a stake in a gambling emporium and saloon when they have their first encounter with a band of outlaws called the Cowboys, led by "Curly Bill" Brocious (Powers Boothe). The Cowboys are identifiable by the red sashes worn around their waist.
Point Break (1991)
, 2h2Directed by Kathryn Bigelow
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Surfing films, Heist films, Children's films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Gary Busey, Lori Petty, John C. McGinley, James LeGros
Roles Nathanial
Rating72%
Johnny Utah is a former Ohio State Buckeyes quarterback and rookie FBI Agent. He is assigned to assist experienced agent and veteran, Angelo Pappas, in investigating a string of bank robberies by the "Ex-Presidents"; a gang of robbers that wear face-masks depicting former US presidents Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Jimmy Carter to disguise their true identities. They only raid the cash drawers in the banks that they rob—never going for the vault—and are out within 90 seconds. Pursuing Pappas' theory that the criminals are surfers, Utah goes undercover to infiltrate the surfing community. He concocts a story to persuade orphaned surfer Tyler Endicott to teach him to surf, she having saved him from drowning. Through her he meets Bodhi, the charismatic leader of a gang of surfers comprising Roach, Grommet, and Nathaniel. The group are initially wary of Utah, but accept him when Bodhi recognizes him as the former college football star. As he masters the art of surfing, Utah finds himself increasingly drawn to the surfers' adrenaline-charged lifestyle, Bodhi's philosophies, and Tyler. Following a clue retrieved by analyzing toxins found in the hair of one of the bank robbers, Utah and Pappas lead an FBI raid on another gang of surfers. Despite their criminal records, these surfers turn out to not be the Ex-Presidents and the raid inadvertently ruins a DEA undercover operation.
Dillinger (1991)
, 1h30Directed by Rupert Wainwright
Origin USA
Genres Action, Crime
Themes Gangster films
Actors Mark Harmon, Sherilyn Fenn, Will Patton, Bruce Abbott, Patricia Arquette, Vince Edwards
Roles Hamilton
Rating59%
The film is based on the actual events of the pursuit of American bank robber John Dillinger during the 1930s.
Martians Go Home (1990)
, 1h29Directed by David Odell
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Randy Quaid, Margaret Colin, Jeff Doucette, Anita Morris, John Philbin, John Philbin
Roles Donny
Rating32%
Quaid plays a song writer who accidentally invites a billion Martians (all portrayed by stand-up comedians from the late eighties and early nineties) to planet Earth.
The Boost (1988)
, 1h35Directed by Harold Becker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors James Woods, Sean Young, John Kapelos, Steven Hill, Kelle Kerr, John Rothman
Roles Tim
Rating59%
Lenny Brown is a real-estate hustler looking to strike it rich. He is married to Linda, a paralegal and amateur dancer. The two are poor in money but rich in love. Linda vows to stick with her husband until she "falls off the earth." He moves to California and goes to work for a prosperous businessman, Max Sherman, selling lucrative investments in tax shelters.
Honor Bound (1988)
, 1h38Directed by Jeannot Szwarc
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Political films
Actors George Dzundza, Relja Bašić, Slavko Brankov, Gene Davis, Gabrielle Lazure, Angus MacInnes
Roles Sergeant Max Young
Rating63%
Under Cover (1987)
, 1h34Directed by John Stockwell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Jennifer Jason Leigh, David Harris, Barry Corbin, Kathleen Wilhoite, Beth Grant, Brad Leland
Roles Officer Vic Fieldson
Rating49%
Sheffield Hauser et Vic Fieldson font partie de la nouvelle génération de jeunes flics branchés. Sheffield apprend le meurtre de son ami et reprend l'enquête qu'il menait, pour venger sa mort... Cette enquête le fera retourner au lycée, sur la piste de trafiquants de drogue utilisant les étudiants pour écouler leur marchandise. Bientôt, Hauser ne peut plus distinguer les coupables des innocents, les ennemis des alliés, et la vérité qu'il découvre est bien plus angoissante qu'il n'y paraissait au départ...
Baby Boom (1987)
, 1h50Directed by Charles Shyer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Diane Keaton, Harold Ramis, Sam Wanamaker, Sam Shepard, James Spader, John Philbin
Rating62%
J.C. Wiatt (Diane Keaton) is a driven Manhattan career woman (nicknamed the "Tiger Lady") typical of the 1980s whose fast-paced life leaves her with no time for romance or relaxation (or as the narrator in the beginning puts it she works "5 to 9"), though she derives pleasure from her frantic schedule and demanding job. She works as a management consultant and lives with an investment banker (Harold Ramis), whose job and life are likewise hectic. Her life is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a toddler, Elizabeth (twins Kristina and Michelle Kennedy), from a deceased cousin whom she hadn't seen in over 30 years.
North Shore (1987)
, 1h36Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Surfing films
Actors Matt Adler, Nia Peeples, John Philbin, John Philbin, Gregory Harrison, John Paragon
Roles Turtle
Rating64%
Rick Kane, approximately 18 years of age at the start of the film having just graduated high school, uses his winnings from a wave tank surfing contest in his native state of Arizona to fly to Hawaii the summer before the start of college to try and become a professional surfer. He takes a plane to Honolulu with plans to stay with a surfer that he met in Arizona six months previous. He finds the friend tending bar at a seedy gentlemen's club. At the bar he meets up with two pro surfers, Alex and Mark (Mark Occilupo), and stays with them at the house of Lance Burkhart. In the morning, he goes out surfing with Alex and Mark and realizes that surfing in the ocean is totally different to surfing in a wave tank and he is not as good as he had initially thought. During this scene he gets in the way of Vince, leader of the local group of the "The Hui" (wave slider club) and (real surfing legend Gerry Lopez), which causes Vince to wipe out and leads to a confrontation where he is chased off the beach after he realizes his stuff was stolen from the beach by a member of "The Hui". With nowhere to go, he fortuitously runs into Turtle (John Philbin). Kane meets and falls in love with Kiani (Nia Peeples), a beautiful local girl, coincidentally the cousin of Vince, who helps him acclimate to the local culture and customs. Turtle introduces him to Chandler (Gregory Harrison), a shaper and soul surfer, who teaches Rick about soul surfing and Rick masters the art of appreciating and riding the waves. Rick is a talented graphic artist who helps Chandler design a more contemporary logo for his surfboards. The film's antagonist is Lance Burkhart (Laird Hamilton), a famous, top-ranked surfer whose competitive and materialistic values conflict with the spiritual teachings of Chandler ("You still have a single-fin-mentality"). The film climaxes with a surf contest on Banzai Pipeline as Rick ends up competing against Lance in a duel of skills and beliefs.
Shy People (1987)
, 1h58Directed by Andreï Kontchalovski, Paul Baxley
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Barbara Hershey, Jill Clayburgh, Martha Plimpton, Merritt Butrick, John Philbin, Mare Winningham
Roles Tommy
Rating66%
Diana Sullivan (Jill Clayburgh) is a successful Manhattan writer and photojournalist, seemingly oblivious to the serious cocaine addiction that her wild child daughter Grace (Martha Plimpton) has developed. A commission by Cosmopolitan magazine to write an article about a lost branch of Diana's family leads them deep into the bayous of Louisiana, where they encounter Diana's distant cousin, Ruth (Barbara Hershey). Married at 12 to an abusive man whose current whereabouts are an increasingly troubling cipher, Ruth rules over her three adult sons, all less than perfectly cogent, with equal parts protectiveness and ferocity, while a fourth, disowned son adds to the volatility of the situation. As the fascinated Diana and wary Ruth circle one another, Grace, bored and in grip of her addiction, toys with her naive cousins with devastating consequences.