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Peter Nelson is a Actor and Executive Producer American born on 10 september 1959 at Los Angeles (USA)
Peter Nelson (born September 10, 1959) (sometimes credited as Calvin Persson) is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as the evil Visitor youth leader Brian in the 1983 NBC miniseries V and the 1984 sequel V: The Final Battle.
His film credits range include Purple Haze (1983), The Last Starfighter (1984), The Expendables (1989), Crime Zone (1989), Sounds of Silence (1989), Silk 2 (1989), Curfew (1989), Last Stand at Lang Mei (1989), and Die Hard 2 (1990), Final Vendetta (1996) and Double Team (1997). In 2001 he appeared in the film Delivering Milo. His most recent film appearance was in the Syfy movie Sharktopus as Commander Cox (credited under his alternate name Calvin Persson. Nelson has made guest appearances on TV shows such as The Facts of Life, Miami Vice and Kindred: The Embraced.
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Peter Nelson (born September 10, 1959) (sometimes credited as Calvin Persson) is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as the evil Visitor youth leader Brian in the 1983 NBC miniseries V and the 1984 sequel V: The Final Battle.
His film credits range include Purple Haze (1983), The Last Starfighter (1984), The Expendables (1989), Crime Zone (1989), Sounds of Silence (1989), Silk 2 (1989), Curfew (1989), Last Stand at Lang Mei (1989), and Die Hard 2 (1990), Final Vendetta (1996) and Double Team (1997). In 2001 he appeared in the film Delivering Milo. His most recent film appearance was in the Syfy movie Sharktopus as Commander Cox (credited under his alternate name Calvin Persson. Nelson has made guest appearances on TV shows such as The Facts of Life, Miami Vice and Kindred: The Embraced.
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Sharktopus (2010)
, 1h26Directed by Declan O'Brien
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Horror
Themes Films about animals, La fin du monde, Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, Transport films, Films about sharks, Natural horror films, Mise en scène d'un poisson, Giant monster films, Disaster films
Actors Eric Roberts, Sara Malakul Lane, Ralph Garman, Héctor Jiménez, Roger Corman, Peter Nelson
Roles Commander Cox
Rating32%
La société Blue Water, dirigée par Nathan Sands, crée pour l'US Navy une arme de guerre terrible : un hybride mi-requin mi-pieuvre, le sharktopus (alias S-11). Au cours d'une démonstration à Santa Monica, le sharktopus s'échappe et commence à dévorer les vacanciers sur la plage avant de parvenir à Puerto Vallarta, où il continue.
Delivering Milo (2001)
, 1h34Directed by Nick Castle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
Actors Anton Yelchin, Peter Nelson, Albert Finney, Bridget Fonda, Campbell Scott, Hank Harris
Roles Reporter
Rating56%
Elizabeth believes she has gone into labor, but at the hospital, the doctor tells her she was having Braxton Hicks contractions. The reality is that in the world from which babies come, Milo is too scared to leave the comfortable place where he has lived. Since babies must be born in order, no other babies will be born until Milo changes his mind. The people in charge give the job of educating Milo to Elmore, who is in a kind of limbo until he proves he is worthy of Heaven.
Knock Off (1998)
, 1h31Directed by Tsui Hark
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Actors Jean-Claude Van Damme, Lela Rochon, Michael Wong, Rob Schneider, Paul Sorvino, Mike Ian Lambert
Roles Biff
Rating48%
Marcus Ray (Jean-Claude Van Damme), a sales representative for "V SIX" jeans, and his partner, Tommy Hendricks (Rob Schneider), are about to be busted for selling "knock off" jeans (a low-quality imitation of well-known products). Their American contact, Karen Leigh (Lela Rochon), who is not only their employer but a CIA agent sent to find the mole in their operation, is threatening them with a jail term if they do not prove their innocence.
Double Team (1997)
, 1h30Directed by Tsui Hark
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action
Themes La provence, Films about terrorism, Buddy films
Actors Jean-Claude Van Damme, Paul Freeman, Mickey Rourke, Natacha Lindinger, Valeria Cavalli, Jay Benedict
Roles American CIA Agent
Rating48%
Having successfully completed his final mission three years prior, which was to retrieve a truck load of plutonium stolen from a US military base in Croatia by freelance international terrorist Stavros, government anti-terrorist agent Jack Paul Quinn is relaxing by his pool in Southern France with Kathryn, his pregnant wife. Quinn is approached by a government representative who tells him that Stavros, Quinn's nemesis, has become active again and tries to convince Quinn to come out of retirement telling Quinn that he ‘can’t retire until he [Stavros] does’. Quinn is reluctant to return to duty but agrees after the same representative is killed by Stavros shortly after the meeting with Quinn.
Die Hard 2 (1990)
, 2h3Directed by Renny Harlin
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes L'action se déroule en une journée, Christmas films, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Aviation films, Dans un avion, Children's films
Actors Bruce Willis, Franco Nero, Bonnie Bedelia, William Sadler, John Amos, Art Evans
Roles Thompson
Rating70%
On Christmas Eve two years after the Nakatomi Tower Incident, John McClane is waiting at Washington Dulles International Airport for his wife Holly to arrive from Los Angeles. Reporter Richard Thornburg, who exposed Holly's identity to Hans Gruber in the Nakatomi Tower, is assigned a seat across the aisle from her. In the airport bar McClane spots two men in army fatigues carrying a package, one of whom has a gun. He follows them into the baggage area. After a shootout, he kills one of the men while the other escapes. Learning the dead man is a mercenary thought killed in action, McClane relates the situation to airport police Captain Carmine Lorenzo, but Lorenzo has McClane ejected from his office.
Curfew (1989)
, 1h22Directed by Gary Winick
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Kyle Richards, John Putch, Christopher Knight, Peter Nelson, Niels Mueller, Peggy Rea
Roles John
Rating43%
The Movieweb website provides a terse synopsis: "Two escaped brothers track down the people who sentenced them to death row, including a doctor and the judge. But when they get to the D.A. and his family they have an especially lengthy revenge plot in mind for them."
Crime Zone (1989)
, 1h32Directed by Luis Llosa
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors David Carradine, Peter Nelson, Sherilyn Fenn, Diana Quijano
Roles Bone
Rating45%
In the fictional country Soleil, a brutal police state at war with Frodan, the government sets up a criminal, Hector, who walks into a police trap. Hector is captured alive at the behest of the police chief and is executed live on television after a brief show trial. Bone, who has recently lost his job at a cryogenics facility for not showing the proper respect to authority, meets Helen, a woman forced into prostitution at the government-sanctioned whorehouse. They are immediately attracted to each other and begin an illegal romance despite several close calls with the police. Bone's friend Creon becomes jealous of their relationship and demands that Bone share Helen with him; disgusted, Bone refuses, and they eventually come to blows over Creon's behavior.
The Expendables (1988)
Directed by Cirio H. Santiago
Genres Action
Actors Peter Nelson, Vic Díaz
Roles Sterling
Rating43%
The movie is a Vietnam exploitation film where a commando makes an elite team out of rebels. The men are trouble makers and rebels, but are able to perform well. The men are sent out to blow up a bridge and manage to destroy the North Vietnamese Army (NVA) guards. However, another NVA force arrives and an all out battle commences. During the battle, two of the men are killed, but the team kills off all of the NVA reinforcements and captures their leader.
The Last Starfighter (1984)
, 1h36Directed by Nick Castle
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Comic science fiction
Themes Space adventure films, Films about computing, Jeu, Comedy science fiction films, Films about video games, Space opera
Actors Lance Guest, Robert Preston, Catherine Mary Stewart, Dan O'Herlihy, Norman Snow, Kay E. Kuter
Roles Jack Blake
Rating66%
Alex Rogan is a teenager living in a trailer park with his mother and little brother, Louis. Alex often plays Starfighter, an arcade game in which the player defends "the Frontier" from "Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada" in a space battle. He becomes the game's highest-scoring player, and is approached by the game's inventor, Centauri, who invites him to take a ride. Alex does so, discovering the car is a spacecraft. Centauri is an alien who takes him to the planet Rylos. An android duplicate named Beta takes Alex's place during his absence.
Purple Haze (1982)
, 1h37Directed by David Burton Morris
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Peter Nelson
Roles Matt Caulfield
Rating70%
The film opens in Princeton University, 1968, where Matt Caulfield and his friends are watching television. There, they witness President Lyndon B. Johnson inform us of his plans not to rerun in the upcoming election. Upon hearing of his plans, Matt and the rest of the students celebrate by smoking marijuana. An uncool student from next door is disturbed by the boys' racket, and upon being pelted with junkfood by the boys for telling them to be quiet, he calls the police. Within minutes, Matt and his roommates are caught smoking, and are banned from college campus. Matt returns home to his family, where he is faced with various issues before being shipped off to Vietnam.
Producer
, 1h33Directed by Walt Becker
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Musical films
Actors Ryan Reynolds, Tara Reid, Kal Penn, Tim Matheson, Paul Gleason, Erik Estrada
Roles Co-Producer
Rating63%
Van Wilder (Ryan Reynolds) is an extremely popular student at Coolidge College who has been in school for seven years. For the past six semesters, he has made no effort to graduate, instead spending his time organizing parties and fundraisers, doing charity work, helping other students, and posing for figure drawing classes. When Van's father (Tim Matheson) discovers that Van is still in college, however, he decides to stop paying Van's tuition.
Metropolis (2001)
, 1h47Directed by Rintarō
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Animation
Themes Films about computing, Films set in the future, Political films, Cyberpunk films, Dystopian films, Steampunk films, Robot films
Actors Kōsei Tomita, Norio Wakamoto, Tarō Ishida, Takeshi Aono, Norihiro Inoue, Masaru Ikeda
Roles Executive Producer
Rating71%
In the futuristic city of Metropolis humans and robots coexist. Robots are discriminated against and segregated to the city's lower levels. A lot of Metropolis' human population are unemployed and deprived, and many people blame the robots for taking their jobs.
The Harvest (1993)
, 1h37Directed by David Marconi
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Miguel Ferrer, Leilani Sarelle, Anthony Denison, Henry Silva, Tim Thomerson, Harvey Fierstein
Roles Associate Producer
Rating55%
Charlie Pope (Miguel Ferrer) is a writer who goes to Mexico to write the ending of the plot for a movie. In Mexico he is attracted to a woman, Natalie (Leilani Sarelle). They go together to a beach where when she goes away to swim, he is attacked and wakes up five days later. When he wakes up he discovers that one of his kidneys has been removed. Rather than return he decides to find the "ring" whose members removed his kidney. He begins by tracking down Natalie (whose involvement with the ring he is unsure of). He returns to United States with Natalie. There he is attacked by Noel (Tony Denison) who tells him that the surgery was a failure and they require his other kidney. He learns that Natalie was involved in the ring. When Steve is about to kill Charlie, Natalie intervenes and Charlie is able to kill Steve and turn away the people who have come to remove his other kidney. It seems the end and Charlie is finishing the script when Detective Topo (Henry Silva) comes to meet him and informs him that he has questioned Natalie and she is innocent. Charlie goes out to meet her and sees that she looks identical to the Natalie he traveled with. In the end we hear a telephone conversation between Charlie and his boss (who had sent Charlie to Mexico) and we overhear that his boss has had a kidney transplant.
, 1h41Directed by Lee H. Katzin, Bernard Girard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Geraldine Page, Ruth Gordon, Rosemary Forsyth, Robert Fuller, Mildred Dunnock, Peter Bonerz
Roles Executive Producer
Rating67%
The opening scene of the film sets the tone. Claire Marrable (Page) is recently widowed and at the funeral, she frantically removes flowers from her husband's coffin, while eerie music plays in the background. A few days later, her husband's will is revealed by the junior partner of a law firm (The Bob Newhart Show's Peter Bonerz, in one