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Chicago: The Musical (2006)
Character: N/A
Companion DVD to the 10th Anniversary Edition of the 1997 Broadway revival cast album. The disc includes interviews with the creators and cast members, as well as international performance footage from Holland, Italy, Brazil, Germany, Mexico, and Russia.
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Cabaret (1988)
Character: The Emcee
A pro-shot of Cabaret's 1987 Broadway revival.
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Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy (2013)
Character: Narrator
Is it true what they say in Spamalot (“You won’t make it on Broadway if you don’t have any Jews”)? Tracing Broadway’s Yiddish roots, and exploring back-stories behind many landmark shows from Showboat to Wicked, filmmaker Michael Kantor chronicles the unique role of Jewish musicians in the creation of the modern American musical. This joyful and intelligent documentary features interviews with many theatre artists, rare archival footage and recordings from original Broadway productions, and unforgettable anecdotes (hearing about Ethel Merman’s irreverent behavior at a Passover Seder during the rehearsals for Gypsy will leave you in hysterics).
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Robert Altman's Players (1992)
Character: Self
Behind-the-scenes documentary about a fundraiser which was staged for Robert Altman's film "The Player" (1992).
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The Making and Meaning of 'We Are Family' (2002)
Character: Self
Featuring inverviews from: Afrika Bambaataa, Ashford & Simpson, Jackson Browne, Kim Burell, Taylor Dayne, Carmen Electra, Faith Evans, Roberta Flack, Joel Gray, Kc & the Sunshine Band, Eartha Kitt, Patti Labelle, Queen Latifah and more?
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Cabaret: The Musical That Changed Musicals (2013)
Character: Self
On the film's 40th anniversary, the cast and crew of Cabaret look back at the creation of this cinematic landmark, winner of 8 Academy Awards and the crowning achievement of its director, Bob Fosse. Documentary Short narrated by Neil Patrick Harris.
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The Yeomen of the Guard (1982)
Character: Jack Point
Colonel Fairfax has been falsely accused of sorcery by a jealous relative who covets his estates and money. The Colonel is condemned to death for his 'crime' and waits in the Tower of London for his execution. Fate, however, steps in - in the form of Sergeant Meryll (who owes his life to Colonel Fairfax) and Elsie Maynard, a beautiful strolling singer who has just arrived at the Tower to entertain the people in the company of a strolling jester, Jack Point.
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Don't Call Me Mama Anymore (1973)
Character: N/A
Musical special of Cass Elliot formerly known as Mama Cass, featuring Cass' mother, Dick Van Dyke, Joel Grey and fellow Mama Michelle Phillips
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About Face (1952)
Character: Bender
Three friends enter military school together, but two of them don't know that the third one is secretly married.
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Venus Rising (1995)
Character: Jimmie
A couple escapes an island prison and are chased through the real world where drugs and artificial reality are used to create emotions.
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The Music of Kander & Ebb: Razzle Dazzle (1997)
Character: Self
A profile of composing team John Kander and Fred Ebb, who have written many Broadway musicals. Highlights include interviews with Lauren Bacall, Joel Grey and others, as well as the two men themselves, plus clips of performances of their songs.
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Broadway's Lost Treasures (2003)
Character: Host (segment "Leading Men") / Emcee (segment "Cabaret")
The golden age of the annual Tony Awards ceremony lasted from 1967 to 1986 — the period during which Alexander H. Cohen and his wife, Hildy Parks, were the producers of the show. This film offers a compilation of performances from Tony Award broadcasts during those years. They are presented with color-corrected footage and digitally re-mastered sound.
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George M! (1970)
Character: George M. Cohan
Based on the semi-hit Broadway musical of 1968 and starring original stage star Joel Grey, this TV version has been re-fashioned in significant ways. The premise here is that a small group of modern-day performers have gotten together in a rehearsal studio to celebrate George M. Cohan's life and work. Bernadette Peters also returns from the original cast, along with a cohort of movie, television and stage stars as the other cast members.
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Night of 100 Stars (1982)
Character: Self
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers paid up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like. Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J. ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.
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Being Mary Tyler Moore (2023)
Character: Self (voice)
With unprecedented access to the Mary Tyler Moore Estate, friends, family, and colleagues, Being Mary Tyler Moore constructs an intimate mosaic of Mary's sixty-year career in show business.
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The Empty Mirror (1996)
Character: N/A
Adolf Hitler faces himself and must come to terms with his infamous career in an imaginary post-war subterranean bunker where he reviews historical films, dictates his memoirs and encounters Eva Braun, Josef Goebbels, Hermann Göring and Sigmund Freud.
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111 Gramercy Park (2003)
Character: Hornsby
Unsold series pilot about wealthy New Yorkers who live in an upscale apartment building, and the various maids, nannies and maintenance people who work for them.
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The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True (1995)
Character: Professor Marvel / The Gatekeeper / The Carriage Driver / The Palace Guard / The Wizard of Oz
This production consists an abbreviated script and highlights most musical numbers from the 1939 film.
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Choke (2008)
Character: Phil
A sex-addicted con-man pays for his mother's hospital bills by playing on the sympathies of those who rescue him from choking to death.
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Come September (1961)
Character: Beagle
Robert Talbot, an American millionaire, arrives early for his annual vacation at his luxurious Italian villa. His long-time girlfriend Lisa has given up waiting for him and has decided to marry another man. Meanwhile, his sneaky business associate Maurice secretly misappropriates the villa as a hotel while Talbot is away. The current guests of the "hotel" are a group of young American girls.
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What a Way to Go! (1964)
Character: Patron (uncredited)
A four-time widow discusses her four marriages, in which all of her husbands became incredibly rich and died prematurely because of their drive to be rich.
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Man on a Swing (1974)
Character: Franklin Wills
When a young schoolteacher is found dead in her car in a parking lot in broad daylight, police chief Lee Tucker can find no clues pointing to her killer. Flamboyant self-proclaimed psychic Franklin Wills offers his help to the skeptical policeman, and, when his supposed visions about the case begin to reveal clues and information that only the killer could possibly have known, he becomes a suspect himself.
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My Friend Joe (1996)
Character: Simon
During the course of one summer, a young Irish lad named Chris befriends an American boy named Joe. The two couldn't be more different, yet they become inseparable. Things turn horribly wrong however, when Chris discovers his new best friend isn't a he, but a she. The sadness only begins as Chris learns why Joe's gender must be kept a secret.
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Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985)
Character: Chiun
Tough Brooklyn street cop Sam Makin is unwillingly recruited as an assassin for a secret United States organization known as CURE, who fake his death and give him a new identity: Remo Williams. With his appearance surgically altered, Williams is trained to be a human killing machine by his aged, derisive and impassive Korean martial arts master Chiun.
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The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
Character: Lowenstein
Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud. Freud attempts to solve the mysteries of Holmes' subconscious, while Holmes devotes himself to solving a mystery involving the kidnapping of Lola Deveraux.
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A Christmas Carol (1999)
Character: Ghost of Christmas Past
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
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The Dangerous (1995)
Character: Flea
Brother and sister Ninja warriors get revenge for their sister's death by killing the drug dealers in New Orleans. The police enlist the help of a biker warrior to solve the crime. The head drug dealer stirs the pot even further by hiring Cajun warriors to kill those he believes are responsible for the deaths of his dealers.
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The Music of Chance (1993)
Character: Willy Stone
Two men face the consequences of gambling after playing with men beyond their league.
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It Takes a Lunatic (2019)
Character: Self
The extraordinary life of beloved acting teacher and theatre producer Wynn Handman is recalled in this portrait of a provocative, innovative artist.
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'Twas the Night Before Christmas (1974)
Character: Joshua Trundle (voice)
When a town learns that Santa Claus has struck it off his delivery schedule due to an insulting letter, a way must be found to change his mind.
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The Fantasticks (2000)
Character: Amos Bellamy
Widowers Amos and Ben plot to romantically unite Amos' daughter Luisa and Ben's son Matt by pretending to feud and forbidding the teens to associate, knowing they will resist their fathers' interference. As the youngsters fall in love, the fathers plot to end the 'feud' by hiring a travelling showman to fake an abduction and allow Matt to 'rescue' Luisa.
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tick, tick... BOOM! (2021)
Character: "Sunday" Legend #4
On the brink of turning 30, a promising theater composer navigates love, friendship and the pressure to create something great before time runs out.
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The Player (1992)
Character: Joel Grey
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
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Man on a String (1972)
Character: Big Joe Brown
A government agent, out to destroy a crime ring, finds himself in the middle of a mob war.
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Kafka (1991)
Character: Burgel
After a colleague is murdered, insurance worker Kafka gets embroiled in an underground group who are attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society.
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Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story (2025)
Character: Self
Rich with archival gems and Liza Minnelli’s own point of view, Bruce David Klein's luminous documentary celebrates a young entertainer full of boundless raw talent and the deep, creative relationships with her mentors and influences.
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On Broadway (2019)
Character: Self (archive footage)
An all-star cast tells the inside story of the Broadway theater, and how it came back from the brink thanks to innovative work, a new attention to inclusion and a sometimes uneasy balance between art and commerce. Legends of the stage and screen—including Helen Mirren, Christine Baranski, August Wilson, James Corden, Alec Baldwin, John Lithgow, Viola Davis, Hugh Jackman and Ian McKellen—take us behind the scenes of Broadway's most groundbreaking and beloved shows, from A Chorus Line to Hamilton. Iconic performances by Lin Manuel Miranda, Patti LuPone, Bernadette Peters, James Earl Jones and Mandy Patinkin lead the way on a hurly burly ride through Times Square, once again the main street of American show business in this documentary directed by Academy-Award nominee Oren Jacoby.
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Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles (2019)
Character: Self
The origin story behind one of Broadway's most beloved musicals, Fiddler on The Roof, and its creative roots in early 1960s New York, when "tradition" was on the wane as gender roles, sexuality, race relations and religion were evolving.
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Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Character: Oldrich Novy
Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too difficult, Selma learns to cope through her love of musicals, dreaming up little numbers to the rhythmic beats of her surroundings.
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On the Edge (2001)
Character: Dr. Mensley (segment "Reaching Normal")
A compendium of three short science-fiction films, each with a decidedly feminist slant.
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Cabaret (1972)
Character: Master of Ceremonies
Inside the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee sound the clarion call to decadent fun, while outside a certain political party grows into a brutal force.
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Marilyn and Me (1991)
Character: Johnny Hyde
Aspiring writer Robert Slatzer befriends Norma Jean Baker in 1946, the year she becomes Marilyn Monroe.
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