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William Atherton

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William Robert Atherton Knight Jr. (born July 30, 1947), known professionally as William Atherton, is an American actor. [1]

91 relations: Actor, Benjamin Rush, Bio-Dome, Boston Legal, Bread and Roses (2000 film), Buried Alive (1990 TV film), Burning Down the House (film), Carnegie Mellon University, Castle (TV series), Centennial (miniseries), Class of '44, Clinical (film), Darryl F. Zanuck, Defiance (TV series), Desperate Housewives, Diagnosis: Murder, Die Hard, Die Hard 2, Doctor Destiny, Dr. Linus, Frank and Jesse, Funny or Die, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters: The Video Game, Gigi (musical), Grim Prairie Tales, Headspace (film), Hoodlum (film), IGN, Independence (1976 film), Into the Sun (2005 film), Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, James A. Michener, Jersey Shore Shark Attack, Jinn (film), Justice League (TV series), Justice League Unlimited, Kush (film), LA Weekly, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Life (U.S. TV series), Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Looking for Mr. Goodbar (film), Lost (TV series), Mad City (film), Maiden and married names, Malibu (film), Martha Coolidge, Michael Kael vs. the World News Company, ..., Monk (TV series), Murder, She Wrote, Nash Bridges, Night Visions (TV series), No Mercy (film), Numbers (TV series), Orange, Connecticut, Oscar (1991 film), Race to Space, Real Genius, Robert Redford, Saints and Sinners (1994 film), Stargate SG-1, Steven Spielberg, Syfy, Tales from the Crypt (TV series), The Citizen (film), The Crow: Salvation, The Day of the Locust (film), The Equalizer, The Girl Next Door (2007 film), The Girl Next Door (Ketchum novel), The Great Gatsby (1974 film), The Hindenburg (film), The House of Mirth (1981 film), The Last Samurai, The New Centurions, The New York Times, The Outer Limits (1995 TV series), The Pelican Brief (film), The Practice, The Sugarland Express, The Twilight Zone, The Twilight Zone (1985 TV series), Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Virus (1995 film), What'll I Do, Who's Your Daddy? (film), Will Ferrell, Workaholics. Expand index (41 more) »

Actor

An actor (often actress for women; see terminology) is a person who portrays a character in a performance.

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Benjamin Rush

Benjamin Rush (– April 19, 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States.

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Bio-Dome

Bio-Dome is a 1996 American comedy film directed by Jason Bloom.

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Boston Legal

Boston Legal is an American legal comedy-drama created by David E. Kelley and produced in association with 20th Century Fox Television for ABC.

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Bread and Roses (2000 film)

Bread and Roses is a 2000 film directed by Ken Loach, starring Pilar Padilla, Adrien Brody and Elpidia Carrillo.

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Buried Alive (1990 TV film)

Buried Alive is a 1990 American made-for-television horror thriller film directed by Frank Darabont and starring Tim Matheson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, William Atherton and Hoyt Axton.

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Burning Down the House (film)

Burning Down the House is a 2001 film directed by Philippe Mora.

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Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University (commonly known as CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Castle (TV series)

Castle is an American crime-comedy-drama television series, which aired on ABC for a total of eight seasons from March 9, 2009 to May 16, 2016.

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Centennial (miniseries)

Centennial is a 12-episode American television miniseries, that aired on NBC, from October 1978 to February 1979.

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Class of '44

Class of '44 is the 1973 sequel to Summer of '42.

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Clinical (film)

Clinical is a 2017 American horror thriller directed by Alistair Legrand and written by Luke Harvis and Alistair Legrand.

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Darryl F. Zanuck

Darryl Francis Zanuck (September 5, 1902December 22, 1979) was an American film producer and studio executive; he earlier contributed stories for films starting in the silent era.

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Defiance (TV series)

Defiance is an American science fiction western drama television series developed by Rockne S. O'Bannon, Kevin Murphy and Michael Taylor; the series is produced by Universal Cable Productions.

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Desperate Housewives

Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama and mystery series created by Marc Cherry and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions.

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Diagnosis: Murder

Diagnosis: Murder was an American comedy/mystery/medical crime drama television series starring Dick Van Dyke as Dr.

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Die Hard

Die Hard is a 1988 American action film directed by John McTiernan and written by Steven E. de Souza and Jeb Stuart.

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Die Hard 2

Die Hard 2 is a 1990 American action film and the second installment in the ''Die Hard'' film series.

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Doctor Destiny

Doctor Destiny is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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Dr. Linus

"Dr.

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Frank and Jesse

Frank and Jesse (also known as Frank & Jesse) is a 1994 American biographical western film written and directed by Robert Boris and starring Rob Lowe as Jesse James and Bill Paxton as Frank James.

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Funny or Die

Funny or Die is a comedy video website and film/television production company, founded by Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, Michael Kvamme, and Chris Henchy.

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Ghostbusters

Ghostbusters is a 1984 American comedy film directed and produced by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.

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Ghostbusters: The Video Game

Ghostbusters: The Video Game is a 2009 action-adventure game based on the ''Ghostbusters'' media franchise.

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Gigi (musical)

Gigi is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.

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Grim Prairie Tales

Grim Prairie Tales is a 1990 American independent western-horror film, written and directed by Wayne Coe, and starring an ensemble cast including James Earl Jones, Brad Dourif, Will Hare, Marc McClure, William Atherton, and Lisa Eichhorn.

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Headspace (film)

Headspace is a 2005 fantasy horror film directed by Andrew van den Houten.

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Hoodlum (film)

Hoodlum is a 1997 American crime drama film that gives a fictionalized account of the gang war between the Italian/Jewish mafia alliance and the Black gangsters of Harlem that took place in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

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IGN

IGN (formerly Imagine Games Network) is an American video game and entertainment media company operated by IGN Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Ziff Davis wholly owned by j2 Global.

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Independence (1976 film)

Independence is a 1976 docudrama film directed by John Huston and starring Eli Wallach, Pat Hingle and Anne Jackson.

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Into the Sun (2005 film)

Into the Sun is a 2005 American-Japanese action film directed by Christopher Morrison and starring Steven Seagal.

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Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge is a television film directed by Martha Coolidge.

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James A. Michener

James Albert Michener (February 3, 1907 – October 16, 1997) was an American author of more than 40 books, most of which were fictional, lengthy family sagas covering the lives of many generations in particular geographic locales and incorporating solid history.

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Jersey Shore Shark Attack

Jersey Shore: Shark Attack is a 2012 television film that aired on Syfy on June 8, 2012 and was written by Michael Ciminera and Richard Gnolfo.

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Jinn (film)

Jinn is a 2014 American action-horror-thriller film written and directed by Ajmal Zaheer Ahmad, starring Ray Park, Serinda Swan, Dominic Rains, William Atherton and Faran Tahir.

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Justice League (TV series)

Justice League is an American animated television series which ran from 2001 to 2004 on Cartoon Network.

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Justice League Unlimited

Justice League Unlimited (JLU) is an American animated television series that was produced by Warner Bros. Animation and aired on Cartoon Network.

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Kush (film)

Kush is a 2007 independent action-thriller film directed by York Shackleton, starring Nick Annunziata (HBO’s “The Sopranos”), William Atherton, Michael Bellisario, Matthew Carey, James DeBello, Lin Shaye, and James Duval.

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LA Weekly

LA Weekly is a free weekly alternative newspaper in Los Angeles, California.

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Law & Order

Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series, created by Dick Wolf and part of the ''Law & Order'' franchise.

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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (often abbreviated to Law & Order: SVU or just SVU) is an American police procedural, legal, crime drama television series set in New York City, where it is also primarily produced.

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Life (U.S. TV series)

Life was an American crime drama television program created by Rand Ravich that aired for two seasons on NBC.

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Looking for Mr. Goodbar

Looking for Mr.

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Looking for Mr. Goodbar (film)

Looking for Mr.

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Lost (TV series)

Lost is an American drama television series that originally aired on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) from September 22, 2004, to May 23, 2010, over six seasons, comprising a total of 121 episodes.

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Mad City (film)

Mad City is a 1997 American thriller film directed by Costa-Gavras, written by Tom Matthews based on a story by Matthews and Eric Williams, and starring Dustin Hoffman and John Travolta, with a supporting cast featuring Mia Kirshner, Alan Alda, Blythe Danner, Ted Levine, Raymond J. Barry, and Larry King.

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Maiden and married names

When a person (traditionally the wife in many cultures) assumes the family name of his or her spouse, that name replaces the person's birth surname, which in the case of the wife is called the maiden name (birth name is also used as a gender-neutral or masculine substitute for maiden name), whereas a married name is a family name or surname adopted by a person upon marriage.

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Malibu (film)

Malibu is a 1983 American made-for-television drama film based on a novel by William Murray.

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Martha Coolidge

Martha Coolidge (born August 17, 1946) is an American film director and former President of the Directors Guild of America.

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Michael Kael vs. the World News Company

Michael Kael vs.

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Monk (TV series)

Monk is an American comedy-drama detective mystery television series created by Andy Breckman and starring Tony Shalhoub as the title character, Adrian Monk.

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Murder, She Wrote

Murder, She Wrote is an American crime drama television series starring Angela Lansbury as mystery writer and amateur detective Jessica Fletcher.

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Nash Bridges

Nash Bridges is an American television police drama created by Carlton Cuse.

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Night Visions (TV series)

Night Visions is an American television horror anthology series, with each episode comprising two half-hour stories dealing with themes of the supernatural or simply the dark side of human nature.

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No Mercy (film)

No Mercy is a 1986 film starring Richard Gere and Kim Basinger about a policeman who accepts an offer to kill a Cajun gangster.

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Numbers (TV series)

Numbers (stylized as NUMB3RS) is an American crime drama television series that ran on CBS from January 23, 2005, to March 12, 2010.

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Orange, Connecticut

Orange is a town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States.

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Oscar (1991 film)

Oscar is a 1991 American screwball comedy film directed by John Landis.

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Race to Space

Race to Space is a 2001 American family drama film.

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Real Genius

Real Genius is a 1985 science fiction comedy film directed by Martha Coolidge.

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Robert Redford

Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936) is an American actor, director, producer, businessman, environmentalist, and philanthropist.

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Saints and Sinners (1994 film)

Saints and Sinners is a 1994 crime and drama film starring Damian Chapa, Jennifer Rubin, and Scott Plank.

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Stargate SG-1

Stargate SG-1 (often abbreviated as SG-1) is a Canadian-American military science fiction adventure television series and part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's ''Stargate'' franchise.

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Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American filmmaker.

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Syfy

Syfy (formerly Sci-Fi Channel and Sci Fi) is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Group division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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Tales from the Crypt (TV series)

Tales from the Crypt, sometimes titled HBO's Tales from the Crypt, is an American horror anthology television series that ran from June 10, 1989 to July 19, 1996, on the premium cable channel HBO for seven seasons with a total of 93 episodes.

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The Citizen (film)

The Citizen is a 2013 American drama independent film directed by Sam Kadi, written by Sam Kadi, Samir Younis, Jazmen Darnell Brown, and starring Khaled El Nabawy, Agnes Bruckner, Rizwan Manji, William Atherton, and Cary Elwes.

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The Crow: Salvation

The Crow: Salvation is a 2000 American fantasy action film directed by Bharat Nalluri.

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The Day of the Locust (film)

The Day of the Locust is a 1975 American drama film directed by John Schlesinger, and starring William Atherton, Karen Black, Donald Sutherland, and Geraldine Page.

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The Equalizer

The Equalizer is an American crime drama television series, originally airing on CBS from fall 1985 until late-spring 1989.

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The Girl Next Door (2007 film)

The Girl Next Door (also known as Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door and, in Germany, Jack Ketchum's Evil) is a 2007 American horror film adaptation of Jack Ketchum's 1989 novel of the same name.

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The Girl Next Door (Ketchum novel)

The Girl Next Door is a crime novel written by author Jack Ketchum in 1989.

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The Great Gatsby (1974 film)

The Great Gatsby is a 1974 American romantic drama film based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel of the same name.

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The Hindenburg (film)

The Hindenburg is a 1975 American Technicolor film based on the disaster of the German airship Hindenburg.

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The House of Mirth (1981 film)

The House of Mirth is a 1981 American television film directed by Adrian Hall.

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The Last Samurai

The Last Samurai is a 2003 American period drama war film directed and co-produced by Edward Zwick, who also co-wrote the screenplay with John Logan and Marshall Herskovitz.

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The New Centurions

The New Centurions is a 1972 Eastmancolor crime drama Panavision film based on the novel by policeman turned author Joseph Wambaugh.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Outer Limits (1995 TV series)

The Outer Limits is a Canadian-American television series that originally aired on Showtime, Syfy and in syndication between 1995 and 2002.

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The Pelican Brief (film)

The Pelican Brief is a 1993 American legal political thriller based on the novel of the same name by John Grisham.

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The Practice

The Practice is an American legal drama created by David E. Kelley centering on the partners and associates at a Boston law firm.

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The Sugarland Express

The Sugarland Express is a 1974 American crime drama film co-written and directed by Steven Spielberg in his theatrical feature directorial debut.

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The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone is an American media franchise based on the anthology television series created by Rod Serling.

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The Twilight Zone (1985 TV series)

The Twilight Zone (1985) is the first of two revivals of Rod Serling's acclaimed 1959–64 television series of the same name.

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Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie

Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie is a 2012 American comedy film written and directed by Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim.

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United States Environmental Protection Agency

The Environmental Protection Agency is an independent agency of the United States federal government for environmental protection.

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Virus (1995 film)

Virus (also known as Formula for Death) is a 1995 television film starring Nicollette Sheridan, William Devane, Stephen Caffrey, Dakin Matthews, Kurt Fuller, Barry Corbin and William Atherton.

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What'll I Do

"What'll I Do" is a song written by Irving Berlin in 1923.

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Who's Your Daddy? (film)

Who's Your Daddy? is a 2002 comedy film directed (and co-scripted) by Andy Fickman.

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Will Ferrell

John William Ferrell (born July 16, 1967) is an American actor, comedian, producer, and writer.

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Workaholics

Workaholics is an American situational comedy series that originally ran on Comedy Central from April 6, 2011 to March 15, 2017, with a total of 86 episodes spanning seven seasons.

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