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Robert Ginty is a Actor, Director and Writer American born on 14 november 1948 at New York City (USA)

Robert Ginty

Robert Ginty
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Nationality USA
Birth 14 november 1948 at New York City (USA)
Death 21 september 2009 (at 60 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Robert Winthrop Ginty (November 14, 1948 – September 21, 2009) was an American movie actor, producer, scenarist, and director of movies and TV series episodes.

Biography

Révélé par la série Les Têtes brûlées, dont il tient l'un des rôles principaux, il tourne ensuite dans les années 1980 de nombreux films d'action, dont le film culte Le Droit de tuer. Il a également été l'acteur principal de la série télévisée La Fièvre de Hawaï. À partir du début des années 1990, il raréfie ses apparitions à l'écran et travaille principalement comme réalisateur de télévision ; il tient son dernier rôle en 1999.

Il a divorcé à deux reprises. Son fils, James Ginty (né le 4 décembre 1980) est lui aussi acteur ; James Ginty est apparu dans le film : K-19 : Le Piège des profondeurs, au côté de Harrison Ford.

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Filmography of Robert Ginty (17 films)

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Actor

Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, 1h38
Directed by Simon Wincer
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Motocyclette, Road movies, Buddy films
Actors Mickey Rourke, Don Johnson, Chelsea Field, Daniel Baldwin, Giancarlo Esposito, Tia Carrere
Roles Thom
Rating61% 3.0517153.0517153.0517153.0517153.051715
The film is set in the then-future of 1996 in Los Angeles. Harley Davidson (Mickey Rourke) is in a motel in Texas when he hears about a dangerous new street drug named "Crystal Dream" on the radio. The significance of this street drug does not arise again until later in the film. Harley then meets a lifelong friend, a cowboy who is nicknamed The Marlboro Man (Don Johnson) and they later plan a bank robbery to help save their friend's bar from being foreclosed and replaced with a skyscraper. However, after they rob a bank's armored car, they discover the cargo they stole is the designer drug "Crystal Dream", not money. Chance Wilder (Tom Sizemore), who is a bank president involved in drug dealing, demands the return of the drugs. A series of increasingly deadly encounters ensue as heavily armed assassins (who work for the bank) hunt for Harley and Marlboro. Much of it was actually filmed in and around Tucson, Arizona and the "Boneyard" at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.
MadHouse
MadHouse (1990)
, 1h30
Directed by Tom Ropelewski
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors John Larroquette, Kirstie Alley, Alison LaPlaca, John Diehl, Jessica Lundy, Bradley Gregg
Roles Dale
Rating54% 2.700852.700852.700852.700852.70085
A successful married couple with an idyllic California life see it ruined when their house is overrun by unwelcome house guests.
The Great Los Angeles Earthquake, 3h
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about earthquakes
Actors Joanna Kerns, Dan Lauria, Bonnie Bartlett, Lindsay Frost, Joe Spano, Michael T. Weiss
Roles Warren Cates
Rating59% 2.960142.960142.960142.960142.96014
The movie begins with a small tremor beginning in the hills outside of Los Angeles near a United States Geological Survey (USGS) research post which cuts to a scene of a teenage girl on a date with her boyfriend at the Earthquake Ride at Universal Studios Hollywood. The girl is later revealed to be Heather, daughter of Clare Winslow (Joanna Kerns), who is a seismologist with the U.S.G.S.
Loverboy
Loverboy (1989)
, 1h38
Directed by Joan Micklin Silver
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution
Actors Patrick Dempsey, Kate Jackson, Kirstie Alley, Carrie Fisher, Robert Ginty, Nancy Valen
Roles Joe Bodek
Rating60% 3.000893.000893.000893.000893.00089
Randy Bodek (Dempsey) is a rebellious college slacker, living with his girlfriend Jenny (Nancy Valen). His father, furious over Randy's lack of direction or work ethic, forces Randy to come back home and get a job. Randy eventually finds work as a pizza delivery boy at Señor Pizza, but his pitiful earnings will not allow him to fund college on his own and he despairs of being able to return to Jenny next semester. In his capacity as delivery boy, he soon makes the acquaintance of a middle-aged, wealthy Italian woman, Alex Barnett (Barbara Carrera), who pampers and seduces him. She and Randy enjoy a quiet, brief, passionate affair. During the affair, Randy's increasingly stylish appearance, unusually chipper demeanor and gifts being delivered by Randy's handsome Italian co-worker, Tony (signed "Love, Alex"), inspire Randy's father to believe his son is gay.
Exterminator 2, 1h29
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Robert Ginty, Frankie Faison, Mario Van Peebles, Deborah Geffner, Irwin Keyes, Arye Gross
Roles John Eastland
Rating46% 2.3018852.3018852.3018852.3018852.301885
Following from the previous film, it shows Eastland walking freely on the streets of New York, without any hint that his dual identity was compromised. He meets up with another old army buddy, Be Gee (Faison), who owns a garbage truck. As seen at the beginning of the film, Eastland wears a welders' mask and wields a flame thrower, while listening to a police scanner for possible crimes to stop. Slaying the brother of a gang leader named X (Van Peebles), the Exterminator gains the gang's enmity. Coincidentally, his army buddy happens to see the gang during a robbery of an armoured car, and scares them away with his truck. However, they get the truck's plate numbers, and vow revenge. Following the truck one night when the buddy loans it to Eastland, they follow Eastland to his home, and, not having seen who the driver of the truck was the night it scared them away, they presume Eastland was the man behind the wheel that night. They attack Eastland's girlfriend in the park, crippling her. Later, they break into her apartment and kill her.
White Fire
White Fire (1984)

Directed by Jean-Marie Pallardy
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Actors Robert Ginty, Fred Williamson, Belinda Mayne, Jess Hahn, Gordon Mitchell, Bruno Zincone
Roles Bo
Rating47% 2.357842.357842.357842.357842.35784
Mike et Ingrid sont un frère et une sœur dont les parents ont été tués par des malfaiteurs. Les deux héros, encore enfants, sont recueillis par Sam, un Américain. Une fois adulte, Mike et Ingrid travaillent avec Sam au sein d'un trafic de diamants en Turquie. En guise de couverture, Ingrid est la secrétaire du patron d'une mine de diamants, dans laquelle les ouvriers de la mine déterrent un jour le légendaire « White Fire », le plus gros diamant du monde. Ingrid et Mike - ce dernier étant quelque peu amoureux de sa sœur - décident alors de comploter pour voler le White Fire. Mais Ingrid est tuée par une bande rivale. Mike, d'abord désespéré, décide ensuite de mener à bien le vol du White Fire. Il recrute Olga, une jeune femme qu'il entraîne et transforme en sosie d'Ingrid à l'aide de la chirurgie esthétique, afin d'infiltrer la mine en se faisant passer pour sa sœur décédée. Mike et Olga deviennent amants.
The Alchemist, 1h26
Directed by Charles Band
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Robert Ginty, Robert Glaudini
Roles Aaron McCallum
Rating38% 1.9317351.9317351.9317351.9317351.931735
In 1955, young waitress Lenora (Lucinda Dooling) finds herself inexplicably driving down the California highway to an unknown destination. This doesn't bode well for Cam (John Sanderford), the hitchhiker she picked up, because he has to endure her somnambulist driving. The duo eventually end up at a graveside in the woods and meet alchemist Aaron (Robert Ginty), who is just as shocked to see them as Lenora appears to be the reincarnation of his wife who was murdered nearly 100 years earlier.
Warrior of the Lost World, 1h32
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action
Themes Films about music and musicians, Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Transport films, Films set in the future, Musical films, Political films, Road movies, Dystopian films, Disaster films
Actors Robert Ginty, Persis Khambatta, Donald Pleasence, Fred Williamson, Scott Coffey, Laura Nucci
Roles The Rider
Rating26% 1.312521.312521.312521.312521.31252
The Rider arrives on his advanced motorcycle with its artificial intelligence computer Einstein. He crashes but manages to pass through the 'wall of illusion' and is found and brought back to health by the Enlightened Elders. They have chosen him to lead their fight against the evil Omega, an Orwellian state run by the evil Prossor. The Elders are allied with the resistance movement, the Outsiders. The Rider first helps Nastasia and the other Outsiders by rescuing McWayne, Nastasia's father and leader of the Outsiders. While the Rider and McWayne successfully escape, Nastasia is captured and subjected to brainwashing by Prossor.
The Big Stuffed Dog, 48minutes
Directed by Robert Fuest
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about animals, Films about dogs, Children's films
Actors Noah Beery, Jr, Mildred Dunnock, Robert Ginty, Ross Harris, Abe Vigoda, Denise Nicholas
Roles Petey's Father
Rating66% 3.310913.310913.310913.310913.31091
A little boy named Petey takes his big Snoopy doll on his airplane trip, only to be lost after landing at the airport. While Petey looks for Snoopy, it practically goes on an adventure of its own, as it's passed around from person-to-person.
The Exterminator, 1h42
Directed by James Glickenhaus
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Political films
Actors Robert Ginty, Samantha Eggar, Christopher George, Steve James, Louis Edmonds, Samuel L. Jackson
Roles John Eastland
Rating56% 2.8497152.8497152.8497152.8497152.849715
The film begins in Vietnam, opening with a dramatic shot of a huge explosion propelling a U.S. soldier through the air. The soldier is revealed to be the film's protagonist, John Eastland (Robert Ginty) who is quickly assisted by fellow soldier and best friend Michael Jefferson (Steve James). Both men, along with several other U.S. soldiers are quickly captured by the Viet Cong. The film cuts to an open-air VC camp where we next see the soldiers tied to wooden stakes in the ground. The VC commander demands information on when a U.S. strike is going to occur. Eastland refuses to answer and the commander slowly decapitates one of his fellow soldiers. Jefferson manages to get free and quickly slaughters the Vietnamese soldiers.
Coming Home, 2h7
Directed by Hal Ashby
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Politique, Films about sexuality, Films about disabilities, Political films
Actors Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern, Penelope Milford, Robert Carradine, Robert Ginty
Roles Sgt. Dink Mobley
Rating72% 3.647533.647533.647533.647533.64753
In the spring of 1968 in California, Sally (Jane Fonda), a loyal and conservative military wife, is married to Bob Hyde (Bruce Dern), a captain in the United States Marine Corps who is about to be deployed to Vietnam. As a dedicated military officer, Bob sees it primarily as an opportunity for progress. At first, Sally dreads being left alone, but after a while she feels liberated. Forced to find housing off the base she moves into a new apartment by the beach and buys a sports car. With nothing else to do, she decides to volunteer at a local veterans' hospital. This, in part, is motivated by her bohemian friend Vi Munson (Penelope Milford), whose brother Billy has come home after just two weeks in Vietnam with grave emotional problems and now resides in the VA hospital.
Bound for Glory, 2h27
Directed by Hal Ashby
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Rail transport films, Musical films, Road movies
Actors David Carradine, Ronny Cox, Melinda Dillon, Gail Strickland, Ji-Tu Cumbuka, Randy Quaid
Roles Artichoke Picker
Rating71% 3.5961953.5961953.5961953.5961953.596195
In the Depression 1930s, Midwesterner Guthrie (David Carradine) plays music locally but cannot make enough as a sign painter to support his wife (Melinda Dillon) and children. With only his paintbrushes, Woody joins the migration westward from the Dust Bowl to supposedly greener California pastures via boxcar and hitchhiking. Much of the film is based on Guthrie's attempt to humanize the desperate Okie Dust Bowl refugees in California during the Great Depression.
Two-Minute Warning, 1h55
Directed by Larry Peerce
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Sports films, American football films
Actors Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, Martin Balsam, Beau Bridges, David Janssen, Jack Klugman
Roles Vendor
Rating61% 3.0989153.0989153.0989153.0989153.098915
An unknown sniper (Warren Miller) positions himself at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum prior to a professional football championship (dubbed as "Championship X") similar to The Super Bowl. He is spotted by a Goodyear Blimp camera. Police and SWAT team are immediately called in by the stadium manager Sam McKeever (Martin Balsam).