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Joseph Attles is a Actor American born on 7 april 1903 at James Island (USA)
Joseph Attles (April 7, 1903 – October 29, 1990) was an American character actor.
He was born in James Island, South Carolina, United States on April 7, 1903. He died on October 29, 1990.
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He was born in James Island, South Carolina, United States on April 7, 1903. He died on October 29, 1990.
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, 1h44Directed by Joseph Sargent
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Films about terrorism, Transport films, Rail transport films, Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie, Films about hijackings
Actors Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Héctor Elizondo, Earl Hindman, Dick O'Neill
Roles Angry Man
Rating75%
In New York City, four men armed with submachine guns and using code names (Mr. Blue, Mr. Green, Mr. Grey, and Mr. Brown), wearing similar trenchcoat, glasses and mustache disguises, board the Pelham 123 subway train at different station stops. The men take hostage seventeen passengers and the conductor, isolate them in the train's first car and then separate the car from the rest of the train.
The Gambler (1974)
, 1h51Directed by Karel Reisz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Lauren Hutton, Burt Young, Morris Carnovsky, Jacqueline Brookes
Roles Singer in Park
Rating70%
Axel Freed is a New York City Harvard University–educated English professor and author with a gambling addiction that begins to spiral out of control. In the classroom, Freed inspires his college students with his interpretations of Fyodor Dostoevsky's work. In his personal life, Axel has the affection of the beautiful Billie and the admiration of his family, including his mother Naomi, who is a doctor, and his grandfather, a wealthy businessman.
Across 110th Street (1972)
, 1h42Directed by Barry Shear
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, Anthony Franciosa, Paul Benjamin, Antonio Fargas, Ed Bernard
Roles Mr. Jessup (as Joe Attles)
Rating69%
This film is set in Harlem, of which 110th Street is an informal boundary line. By-the-book African-American Lieutenant William Pope (Kotto) has to work with crude, racist but streetwise Italian-American Captain Frank Mattelli (Quinn) in the NYPD's 27th precinct. They are looking for three black men who slaughtered seven men—three black gangsters and two Italian gangsters, as well as two patrol officers—in the robbery of $300,000 from a Mafia-owned Harlem policy bank. Mafia lieutenant Nick D'Salvio (Franciosa) and his two henchmen are also after the hoods. In one of many violent scenes, D'Salvio finds getaway driver Henry J. Jackson (Antonio Fargas) and brutalizes him in a Harlem whorehouse.
Going Home (1971)
, 1h33Directed by Herbert Breiter Leonard
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Robert Mitchum, Brenda Vaccaro, Jan-Michael Vincent, Jason Bernard, Sally Kirkland, Josh Mostel
Roles Bible Man
Rating59%
Harry Graham (Mitchum) is a lonely and beaten down man who has recently been released from prison, serving time for murdering his wife many years ago. His son Jimmy (Vincent) is after him seeking justice for his mother's murder. Jimmy tracks Harry down to a run-down seashore community where he is now eking out a living in a trailer park with his girlfriend Jenny (Vaccaro). When Jimmy at last confronts his father face to face, they both know they have to deal with many unresolved emotional barriers in their relationship.
The Pursuit of Happiness (1971)
, 1h33Directed by Robert Mulligan
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Prison films
Actors Michael Sarrazin, Barbara Hershey, Arthur Hill, Robert Klein, Sada Thompson, Ralph Waite
Roles Holmes
Rating61%
Disenchanted college student William Popper (Michael Sarrazin) is convicted of vehicular manslaughter for killing a woman with his car. With only a week left on his sentence and the help of his girlfriend, Jane (Barbara Hershey), he escapes to Canada, making both of them wanted fugitives.
The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)
, 1h42Directed by William Wyler, Robert Swink
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Roscoe Lee Browne, Lee J. Cobb, Lee Majors, Anthony Zerbe, Lola Falana, Eve McVeagh
Roles Henry
Rating67%
À Somerton, une petite ville du Tennessee, L.B. Jones est le directeur aisé d'une petite entreprise de pompes funèbres. Afro-américain, il demande le divorce à sa femme Emma, également noire, qui le trompe avec un policier local, Willie Joe Worth. Jones engage dès lors le meilleur avocat de la ville, Oman Hedgepath, pour le défendre face à son épouse. Dans l'attente du procès de divorce, Oman suggère au policier de faire pression sur Emma pour qu'elle renonce à se faire assister d'un avocat, ce qui aurait pour conséquence de faire citer le nom de son amant lors du procès et possiblement de briser sa carrière et sa vie de famille. Comme Emma refuse, il s'en prend à L.