Robert Prosky
Birthday: 1930-12-13
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography: Robert Prosky (born Robert Joseph Porzuczek, December 13, 1930 – December 8, 2008) was an American actor. He became a well-known supporting actor in the 1980s with his roles in Thief (1981), Christine (1983), The Natural (1984), and Broadcast News (1987). Prosky's other notable movies include Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990), Hoffa (1992), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), Last Action Hero (1993), Rudy (1993), Miracle on 34th Street (1994), Dead Man Walking (1995), and Mad City (1997). His most notable television role was of Sgt. Stan Jablonski on the TV police drama Hill Street Blues.
Movies
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soo...
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Dead Man Walking
A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his schedul...
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Mrs. Doubtfire
Loving but irresponsible dad Daniel Hillard, estranged from his exasperated spouse, is crushed by a ...
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The Great Outdoors
It's vacation time for outdoorsy Chicago man Chet Ripley, along with his wife, Connie, and their two...
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Outrageous Fortune
Refined actress Lauren Ames finally has a chance to study with the great theatre professor Stanislav...
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Thief
Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to...
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Far and Away
A young couple escapes Ireland, dreaming of a new life during the land giveaway in Oklahoma. As they...
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The Natural
An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take ...
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The Chamber
Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, ...
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Loose Cannons
Mac, the two-fisted, savvy cop finds that he's being saddled with a new partner, a known burnout, to...
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Christine
Nerdy high schooler Arnie Cunningham falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes ob...
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Broadcast News
A high-strung news producer finds herself in a love triangle between a talented but self-doubting re...
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Mad City
A misguided museum guard who loses his job and then tries to get it back at gunpoint is thrown into ...
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The Keep
Set during World War II, a German army garrison is sent to guard a mountain pass in a village in Rom...
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Funny About Love
As political cartoonist Duffy and his bride Meg fail to conceive, he and sorority girl Daphne succee...
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Dudley Do-Right
Royal Canadian Mountie Dudley Do-right is busy keeping the peace in his small mountain town when his...
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The Lords of Discipline
Will arrives for his last year at Military Academy, in the Deep South USA, in the 1960's. A black st...
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Things Change
Jerry, a misfit Mafia henchman, is assigned the low-level job of keeping an eye on Gino, a shoe repa...
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Big Shots
Following the death of his father, a suburbanite runs away from home and winds up on Chicago's South...
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The Love She Sought
An aging school teacher (Lansbury) at a Catholic grammar school in Minnesota questions her life's ex...
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Suits on the Loose
Suits on the Loose is the story of two rebellious teens, Justin and Ty, and their breakout from a de...
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Monsignor
The vows of an ambitious young American priest are tested during World War II. Not only does Father ...
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Washington Monuments
Washington Monuments captures the beauty and history of the Capital's major landmarks in a presentat...
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Pasta For War
A humorous retooling of wartime propaganda films as troops of rigatoni march in stunning symmetry be...
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Age Isn't Everything
Young man gives up his dream of becoming an astronaut to go into business — and finds himself turned...
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NBC 75th Anniversary Special
A celebration of NBC's 75 year history, featuring clips of special moments....
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Swing Vote
A newly-appointed Supreme Court Justice must settle a controversial moral and legal dilemma with his...
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Johnny Ryan
An honest, hard-working cop has to go up against the mob in 1949 New York City....
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The Lake
Jackie Ivers is a Los Angeles nurse who returns home to the small town of San Vicente to find that h...
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Dangerous Pursuit
A young woman's past catches up with her five years later and nearly shatters her life. As a footloo...
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From the Dead of Night
After having a near death experience Joanna finds her life in constant danger. She begins to believe...
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The Scarlet Letter
Set in puritanical Boston in the mid 1600s, the story of seamstress Hester Prynne, who is outcast af...
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Green Card
Urban horticulturalist Brontë Mitchell has her eye on a gorgeous apartment, but the building's board...
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Hoffa
A portrait of union leader James R. Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend, Bobby Ciaro. The ...
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The Valley of Light
The Valley of Light is a beautifully-filmed, sentimental movie of a young man's quest to make sense ...
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Hanky Panky
Naïve Michael Jordon is drawn into a web of government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious pac...
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The Ordeal of Bill Carney
Bill Carney has just been paralyzed from the neck down. He has been taking care of his two sons sinc...
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Rudy
Rudy grew up in a steel mill town where most people ended up working, but wanted to play football at...
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Home Fires Burning
When a WW2 veteran comes back home, he realizes how the war affected Americans by seeing the changes...
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D-Tox
A disgraced FBI agent with a drinking problem joins nine other troubled law enforcement officers at ...
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Last Action Hero
After his father's death, a young boy finds solace in action movies featuring an indestructible cop....
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Into Thin Air
Ellen Burstyn stars as Joan Walker, a mother whose college student son vanishes while traveling from...
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The Skeptic
After the mysterious death of his Aunt, a confirmed skeptic lawyer, Bryan Becket, dismisses reports ...
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LifeStories: Steve Burdick
Steve Burdick is closeted television anchorman whose lover dies of an AIDS-related illness. Steve d...
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The Heist
Ex-con Neal Skinner seeks revenge against track owner Ebbet Berens for framing him in an emerald smu...
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The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broa...
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A Walk in the Woods
A true story about one US and one USSR delegate who, during 1982 talks in Geneva between USA and USS...
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Double Edge
In this fast paced action-thriller, daytime's top star Susan Lucci plays two roles: both a crack FBI...
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Zalmen, or The Madness of God
This play takes place during Yom Kippur in a post-Stalinist Russian synagogue, where a Rabbi waits f...
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Death to Smoochy
Tells the story of Rainbow Randolph, the corrupt, costumed star of a popular children's TV show, who...
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The Brink's Job
In 1950, a group of unlikely criminal masterminds commits the robbery of the century. Led by Tony Pi...
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Miracle on 34th Street
Six-year-old Susan Walker has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle—Santa Claus. Her mother...
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Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story
For a generation, the mobs main money machine was the Teamsters Union. When Jimmy Hoffa disappeared,...
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Death to Smoochy: Bloopers & Outtakes
Bloopers and Outakes featured on the Death to Smoochy DVD....
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Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
A short documentary about the making of Danny Devito’s film Death to Smoochy....
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Lincoln: Trial by Fire
Cliff Robertson narrates this dramatization focuses on the little-known life-and-death struggle of p...
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