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Roy Thinnes is a Actor American born on 6 april 1938 at Chicago (USA)

Roy Thinnes

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Nationality USA
Birth 6 april 1938 (86 years) at Chicago (USA)

Roy Thinnes (born April 6, 1938) is an American television and film actor best known for his portrayal of lonely hero David Vincent in the ABC 1967-68 television series The Invaders. He also played Alfred Wentworth in the pilot episode of Law & Order. He starred in the 1969 British science fiction film, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (also known as Doppelgänger).

Biography

Thinnes was married to actress Lynn Loring from 1967 to 1984. In 1969, Loring gave birth to their son, Christopher Dylan Thinnes. In 2005, Thinnes married film editor Stephanie Batailler.

Best films

The Hindenburg (1975)
(Actor)

Usually with

Lynn Loring
Lynn Loring
(3 films)
Ron Howard
Ron Howard
(1 films)
Mervyn LeRoy
Mervyn LeRoy
(1 films)
Vonetta McGee
Vonetta McGee
(2 films)
Robert Wise
Robert Wise
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Roy Thinnes (15 films)

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Actor

Broken English, 1h37
Directed by Zoe Cassavetes
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Parker Posey, Melvil Poupaud, Drea de Matteo, Justin Theroux, Peter Bogdanovich, Tim Guinee
Roles Peter Andrews
Rating62% 3.148923.148923.148923.148923.14892
Nora Wilder (Parker Posey), a single, career woman works at a Manhattan boutique hotel where her excellent skills in guest relations lack in the romantic department. If it is not her loving and dominant mother (Gena Rowlands) attempting to set her up that consistently fail, she has her friend’s (Drea de Matteo) disastrous blind dates to rely on as a backup for further dismay. She's surrounded by friends who are all happily engaged or romantically involved and somehow, love escapes Nora—until she meets an unusual Frenchman (Melvil Poupaud) who helps her discover life beyond her self-imposed boundaries.
A Beautiful Mind, 2h15
Directed by Ron Howard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Romance
Themes Films about education, Medical-themed films, Films about mathematics, Psychologie, Films about psychiatry
Actors Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany, Christopher Plummer, Josh Lucas
Roles Governor
Rating81% 4.098284.098284.098284.098284.09828
In 1947, John Nash (Crowe) arrives at Princeton University. He is co-recipient, with Martin Hansen (Lucas), of the prestigious Carnegie Scholarship for mathematics. At a reception, he meets a group of other promising math and science graduate students, Richard Sol (Goldberg), Ainsley (Jason Gray-Stanford), and Bender (Rapp). He also meets his roommate Charles Herman (Bettany), a literature student.
Terminal
Terminal (1996)
, 1h27
Genres Drama, Horror
Actors Doug Savant, Nia Peeples, Michael Ironside, Roy Thinnes, Jenny O'Hara, Khandi Alexander
Roles John Cabot
Rating47% 2.3842252.3842252.3842252.3842252.384225
Dans la clinique Forbes, il semble que l'on soit arrivé à mettre en place un traitement contre le cancer. Beaucoup d'espérances sont ranimées, et beaucoup d'argent est en jeu pour la fabrication et la gestion des produits. Cela attire bien sûr beaucoup de convoitises, et le traitement est sous haute surveillance. Une infirmière est tuée alors qu'elle semble avoir découvert quelque chose. L'un des futurs investisseurs du projet envoie un jeune médecin comme stagiaire.
Code Name: Diamond Head, 1h14
Directed by Jeannot Szwarc
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Roy Thinnes, France Nuyen, Gilbert "Zulu" Kauhi, Ward Costello, Don Knight, Ian McShane
Roles Johnny Paul
Rating27% 1.392911.392911.392911.392911.39291
Johnny Paul (Thinnes) arrives in Oahu disguised as a flashy gambler and ladies' man. However, he is actually on a mission to stop the theft of a deadly new gas, which has the potential to cause instant death upon contact. The substance was being secretly created by a top battalion of Marines at the request of a Pentagon official. However, a double agent had infiltrated the unit, killed the executive, and assumed his identity. Paul uses his image to get close to the double agent, who is known by the pseudonym "Tree". However, once his cover is blown, it's a race against time to stop Tree from selling the secrets to an unnamed foreign power.
The Hindenburg, 1h45
Directed by Robert Wise, Howard Kazanjian
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes La fin du monde, Transport films, Aviation films, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, William Atherton, Roy Thinnes, Gig Young, Burgess Meredith
Roles Martin Vogel
Rating62% 3.100653.100653.100653.100653.10065
Kathie Rauch (Ruth Schudson), a psychic from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, sends a letter to the German Embassy in Washington, D.C. claiming the Hindenburg zeppelin will explode after flying over New York. In the meantime, Luftwaffe Colonel Franz Ritter (George C. Scott) boards with the intention of protecting the Hindenburg as various threats have been made to down the airship, which some see as a symbol of Nazi Germany.
Airport 1975, 1h46
Directed by Jack Smight
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes La fin du monde, Transport films, Aviation films, Dans un avion, Disaster films, American disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy, Efrem Zimbalist II, Susan Clark, Gloria Swanson
Roles Urias
Rating57% 2.8503052.8503052.8503052.8503052.850305
Columbia Air Lines' Flight 409 is a Boeing 747-100 on a red-eye route from Washington Dulles International Airport to Los Angeles International Airport. Scott Freeman, meanwhile, is a New Mexican businessman flying his private Beechcraft Baron to an urgent sales meeting in Boise, Idaho. However, an occluded front has the entire West Coast socked in, with Los Angeles reporting zero visibility. Columbia 409 and Freeman's Beechcraft are both diverted to Salt Lake City International Airport.
Charley-One-Eye, 1h36
Directed by Don Chaffey
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Western
Themes Films about racism
Actors Richard Roundtree, Roy Thinnes, Nigel Davenport, Aldo Sambrell, Patrick Mower, David Lodge
Roles The Indian
Rating58% 2.944152.944152.944152.944152.94415
Après avoir tué un officier, un soldat noir, Ben, est contraint de déserter l'armée et il est aussitôt traqué par elle et les Mexicains. Perdu dans le désert, il rencontre un Indien taiseux et solitaire affligé d'un pied-bot, Taureau-Assis, qui ne parle qu'à son animal de compagnie, un poulet surnommé "Charley le borgne". Le déserteur et l'Indien, malgré leur caractère différent, se lient d'amitié. Ils se réfugient à côté d’une petite église abandonnée. Lorsque Ben est capturé par un odieux chasseur de primes raciste, l'Indien, jusqu'ici peu loquace, prend les armes et part à son secours.
Satan's School for Girls, 1h18
Directed by David Lowell Rich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Horror, Crime
Actors Pamela Franklin, Kate Jackson, Lloyd Bochner, Roy Thinnes, Jo Van Fleet, Cheryl Ladd
Roles Clampett
Rating52% 2.605522.605522.605522.605522.60552
The film opens with a mysterious person chasing a student, Martha Sayers (Terry Lumley). The same day, the police and her sister Elizabeth (Pamela Franklin) find her hanged in her room. The police rule her death as an unmotivated suicide, but Elizabeth refuses to believe this and investigates further. She decides to visit the exclusive academy that Martha attended, The Salem Academy for Women, despite warnings from Martha's roommate, Lucy Dembrow (Gwynne Gilford). Under the assumed name of Elizabeth Morgan, she enrolls at the college, where she is welcomed by her classmates Roberta Lockhart (Kate Jackson), Debbie Jones (Jamie Smith Jackson) and Jody Keller (Cheryl Ladd).
The Horror at 37,000 Feet, 1h13
Directed by David Lowell Rich
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Chuck Connors, William Shatner, Buddy Ebsen, Roy Thinnes, Jane Merrow, Russell Johnson
Roles Alan O'Neill
Rating55% 2.750512.750512.750512.750512.75051
On a Boeing 747 flight from London to Los Angeles piloted by Captain Ernie Slade (Chuck Connors), a wealthy architect (Roy Thinnes) and his wife (Jane Merrow) have placed a druid sacrificial altar in the baggage hold of the airliner. Aboard for the ill-fated trip is ex-priest Paul Kovalik (William Shatner) and millionaire Glenn Farlee (Buddy Ebsen). Soon after takeoff, crew and passengers alike face the supernatural horror that is unleashed from the baggage compartment – the ghosts of the druids, that are seeking revenge from being uprooted from their ancient home.
The Norliss Tapes, 1h12
Directed by Dan Curtis
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Vampires in film
Actors Roy Thinnes, Don Porter, Angie Dickinson, Claude Akins, Michele Carey, Vonetta McGee
Roles David Norliss
Rating62% 3.14663.14663.14663.14663.1466
David Norliss envoie des enregistrements sur bande du roman fantastique qu'il écrit à son éditeur Sanford Evans. Ce dernier ne parvenant pas à joindre son ami se décide à écouter les enregistrements. Intrigué par l'histoire d'une femme, Ellen Sterns Cort, persuadée d'avoir rencontré son défunt mari James Raymond Cort, sculpteur réputé, revenir des morts, David se rend dans la ville côtière de Carmel. Il va découvrir que le mari, devenu vampire s’attelle à la création d'une statue en glaise représentant le démon Sargoth afin de lui donner l'immortalité.
Black Noon
Black Noon (1971)
, 1h14
Directed by Bernard L. Kowalski
Origin USA
Genres Horror, Crime, Western
Actors Roy Thinnes, Yvette Mimieux, Ray Milland, Henry Silva, Gloria Grahame, Lynn Loring
Roles Reverend John Keyes
Rating59% 2.95362.95362.95362.95362.9536
When Reverend John Keyes (Roy Thinnes) and his wife Lorna (Lynn Loring) arrive in a western town, they find that there is mysterious force causing bad luck to plague the settlers. Once the Reverend is able to get the recalcitrant residents to speak about the ongoing troubles, he finds his spiritual leadership is being challenged by a cult of devil worshippers who practice voodoo, and have to get to the heart of a strange relationship between a mute young girl and a gunslinger who seem possessed by Satanic spirits.
Journey to the Far Side of the Sun, 1h41
Directed by Robert Parrish
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Adventure, Spy
Themes Space adventure films, Spy films, Monde imaginaire, Films about sexuality, Sur une planète fictive, Films set in the future, Films about extraterrestrial life, Political films, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Roy Thinnes, Ian Hendry, Lynn Loring, George Sewell, Patrick Wymark, Philip Madoc
Roles Colonel Glenn Ross
Rating62% 3.148223.148223.148223.148223.14822
In 2069, the unmanned Sun Probe locates a planet lying on the same orbital path as Earth on the opposite side of the Sun. Dr Kurt Hassler (Herbert Lom) of the European Space Exploration Council (EUROSEC) has been relaying the spacecraft's flight data to a rival power in the East; after tracing the transmissions to Hassler's laboratory, Security Chief Mark Neuman (George Sewell) catches the scientist in the act and kills him. EUROSEC director Jason Webb (Patrick Wymark) convinces NASA representative David Poulson (Ed Bishop) that the West must be the first to send a mission to investigate the planet. With EUROSEC member states France and Germany unwilling to provide financial support, Webb obtains majority funding from NASA; American astronaut Colonel Glenn Ross (Roy Thinnes) and British astrophysicist Dr John Kane (Ian Hendry), the head of the Sun Probe project, are assigned to the mission.
The FBI Story, 1h53
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy, Raoul Walsh
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton, Larry Pennell, Ann Doran, Nick Adams
Roles Party Guest (uncredited)
Rating64% 3.247293.247293.247293.247293.24729
John Michael ('Chip') Hardesty (James Stewart) narrates the story of a murder, which the viewer sees in a flashback. Young Jack Graham (Nick Adams), takes out life insurance on his mother and plants a bomb in her luggage for a flight that she was taking from Denver, Colorado, to Portland, Oregon, November 1, 1955.