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Tom Ligon is a Actor and I/O Manager born on 10 september 1940

Tom Ligon

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Birth name Thomas Bryant Ligon
Birth 10 september 1940 (83 years)

Thomas (Tom) Ligon is a character actor and sometimes leading man of Cajun ancestry. He appeared in the films Paint Your Wagon, Jump, and Bang the Drum Slowly (in which he also sang the title song) as well as the TV series The Young and the Restless, and Oz.

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Martin Mull
Martin Mull
(2 films)
André Previn
André Previn
(1 films)
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Filmography of Tom Ligon (8 films)

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Actor

Nothing But a Man, 1h31
Directed by Michael Roemer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Ivan Dixon, Yaphet Kotto, Julius Harris, Gloria Foster, Tom Ligon, Mel Stewart
Roles Teenager
Rating78% 3.9395653.9395653.9395653.9395653.939565
The story introduces Duff Anderson on the railroad, playing checkers with his rail worker friends, at a pool hall, and on the street at night. At a church meeting featuring lively gospel music, Duff meets the pretty and genteel schoolteacher Josie Dawson. They begin to date against the will of Preacher Dawson (Josie’s father). Duff tells her he doesn't want to get married. But after visiting his illegitimate son who has been abandoned to the care of a wet nurse, and his drunken father who is barely keeping it together under the care of a loving wife, Duff realizes that he prefers the stability of a family to the life of a drifter. The two marry with bright hopes for the future, but then begin to face a series of challenges as a married couple. Being on the move had given Duff the illusion of freedom, but living in the town makes Duff subject to the town's social rules, and he immediately starts to have problems. He hates his preacher father-in-law, whom he sees as having sold out to the white people, and he hurtfully says to his wife, "You've never really been a nigger, living with them, in that house." After refusing to bow down to the white bosses at the mill he is fired, and subsequently finds himself blacklisted. His father-in-law finally finds him a job at a gas station, but customers who find him too proud for a black "boy" threaten to cause trouble if the boss keeps him on. Duff and his wife get into a fight because of the emotional and physical trials Duff faces, and because of the added pressure that a coming baby adds. Unwilling either to kowtow to white bosses or to pick cotton for $2.50 a day he leaves in a rage, telling his wife that he will write her when he is on his feet again. Duff storms off to his father, who is so inebriated that he dies as Duff and his stepmother are driving him to the hospital. Neither Duff nor his stepmother knows where his father was born or how old he was, and the only possessions he has handed down to Duff are the contents of his pockets. Duff and his stepmother stare at one another, facing the grim reality of the invisibleness and lack of history of the negro. The film concludes as Duff gains the courage to return home with his son, and the two tearfully embrace as he reassures her that "everything is gonna be all right”.
Cutting Class, 1h31
Directed by Rospo Pallenberg
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror, Crime, Slasher
Themes Serial killer films, Comedy horror films
Actors Brad Pitt, Roddy McDowall, Jill Schoelen, Donovan Leitch, Martin Mull, Nancy Fish
Roles Mr. Ingalls
Rating45% 2.2561452.2561452.2561452.2561452.256145
The plot revolves around the return of Brian Woods (Leitch), a "problem teen." He has just been released from a mental hospital; he was admitted after the suspicious death of his father, who crashed and died while driving a car with cut brakes. He falls in love with classmate Paula Carson (Jill Schoelen), but the local basketball star Dwight Ingalls (Brad Pitt) is already Paula's boyfriend. Meanwhile, the lecherous school principal also seeks Paula's affections. Then horrible murders start happening with no one certain of the identity of the culprit. The main suspects are Dwight, whose control of his anger has never been perfect; Woods, who may not have been fully cured at the sanitarium; and the principal, who seems to stop at nothing in his attempts to bed Paula.
Young Doctors in Love, 1h36
Directed by Garry Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Sean Young, Michael McKean, Crystal Bernard, Harry Dean Stanton, Kyle T. Heffner, Dabney Coleman
Rating54% 2.74952.74952.74952.74952.7495
A brilliant young trainee can't stand the sight of blood. A doctor romances the head nurse in order to get the key to the drugs cabinet. There's a mafioso on the loose disguised as a woman - in other words all the usual ingredients present and correct, though in this case the laughs are intentional.
Bang the Drum Slowly, 1h36
Directed by John D. Hancock
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Sports films, Baseball films
Actors Robert De Niro, Michael Moriarty, Vincent Gardenia, Phil Foster, Barton Heyman, Danny Aiello
Roles Piney Woods
Rating67% 3.396283.396283.396283.396283.39628
Henry Wiggen is a star pitcher for the New York Mammoths, a fictitious Major League Baseball team. He is a valuable player to his manager Dutch but is in a dispute with the team's ownership, holding out for a new contract and more money. Henry also has a sideline as an insurance salesman working for the Arcturus Corporation, with ballplayers as his clients.
The Last American Hero, 1h35
Directed by Lamont Johnson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Road movies
Actors Jeff Bridges, Valerie Perrine, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ned Beatty, Gary Busey, Ed Lauter
Roles Lamar
Rating63% 3.193883.193883.193883.193883.19388
Junior Jackson (Junior Johnson) (by Jeff Bridges), a stock-car stays one step ahead of reform school until his father (Art Lund) is thrown in prison for moonshining. Seeing the error of his ways, Jackson begins to concentrate his driving skills, hoping to become a professional stock car racer to raise money to get his father released from jail.
Paint Your Wagon, 2h46
Directed by Joshua Logan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Action, Musical, Western
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg, Harve Presnell, Ray Walston, Alan Baxter
Roles Horton Fenty
Rating65% 3.29823.29823.29823.29823.2982
When a wagon crashes into a ravine, prospector Ben Rumson finds two adult male occupants, brothers, one of whom is dead and the other of whom has a broken arm and leg. As the first man is about to be buried, gold dust is discovered at the grave site. Ben stakes a claim on the land and adopts the surviving brother as his "Pardner" while he recuperates.

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The Assassination of Richard Nixon, 1h32
Directed by Niels Mueller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Historical, Crime
Themes Assassinat, Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Sean Penn, Don Cheadle, Jack Thompson, Naomi Watts, Brad William Henke, Michael Wincott
Roles I/O Manager
Rating68% 3.4477253.4477253.4477253.4477253.447725
Samuel Bicke is portrayed as an individual who wants the world to function according to honor and merit, yet he's often paranoid and dishonest, and he gets flustered and angry when things don't go according to his plans. He clearly wants to reconcile with his estranged wife Marie but cannot accept that she has moved on without him. He states that he stopped working for his brother because he perceives that his brother forced him to lie in his job, yet he lies about his marital status to get employment. He attempts to join the Black Panthers, as he believes that discrimination affects poor white people just as much as it does blacks, but his explanations for that fact do not impress the local Panther leadership.