Vic Tayback
Birthday: 1930-01-06
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Biography: Victor Tayback (January 6, 1930 – May 25, 1990) was an American actor. He is best known for his role as diner owner Mel Sharples in the comedy-drama film Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) and the television sitcom Alice (1976–1985), for which he won two consecutive Golden Globes.
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Bullitt
Senator Walter Chalmers is aiming to take down mob boss Pete Ross with the help of testimony from th...
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Getting Married
A man falls madly in love with a pretty newscaster and goes all out to win her heart and her hand in...
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Death Follows a Psycho
Private eye Wade Griffin finds himself in an intense stand-off with a "human time-bomb", who is hold...
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No Deposit, No Return
Two rich children devise a way to escape their grandfather and visit their mother. Unfortunately for...
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Papillon
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful pris...
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All Dogs Go to Heaven
When a casino-owning dog named Charlie is murdered by his rival Carface, he finds himself in Heaven ...
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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to orga...
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George Carlin: Playin' with Your Head
George Carlin is in top form with these stand-up recorded at the Beverly Theater in Los Angeles in 1...
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Mansion of the Doomed
An insane surgeon finds himself up to his armpits in eyeballs after guilt prompts him to begin remov...
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Report to the Commissioner
Police officer Patty Butler, alias "Chicklet," is the live-in girlfriend of Thomas 'Stick' Henderson...
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The Cheap Detective
A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accu...
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Five Minutes to Live
A guitar playing killer terrorizes a housewife while his partner robs the bank where her husband wor...
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The Shaggy D.A.
Wilby Daniels, a successful lawyer running for District Attorney, suddenly finds himself being trans...
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The Gambler
New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately...
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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
After her husband dies, Alice and her son, Tommy, leave their small New Mexico town for California, ...
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Loverboy
Randy Bodek works as a pizza delivery boy at Señor Pizza to make a few extra bucks. Some customers a...
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Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round
A sophisticated con man mounts an intricate plan to rob an airport bank while the Soviet premier is ...
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Gangster Story
Gangster and cop killer Jack Martin is on the run from the law, and hides out in a small town. Low o...
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Horseplayer
A blonde seduces a quirky liquor-store worker as inspiration for her artist boyfriend....
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Blood and Lace
After her prostitute mother and her john are beaten to death while they are asleep in bed, teen-aged...
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The Don Is Dead
After his mistress is murdered, a Mafia leader goes after the killer with a bloody vengeance. Soon a...
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Weekend Warriors
In 1961, with war looming in Berlin, an Air National Guard unit of actors, journalists and studio pe...
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Gambit
Harry Dean is a career burglar set on stealing a piece of priceless art from the world's wealthiest ...
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The Blue Knight
Bumper Morgan is a veteran Los Angeles Police Department street cop. He is due to retire after 20 ye...
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Reel Horror
Evil spirits that emerge from cans of old movie film terrorize a neighborhood....
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The Case of the Baltimore Girls
Former police captain and his assistant investigate extortion and murder at a dating service....
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Portrait of a Stripper
A young widow, supporting herself and her pre-teen son by performing as a nightclub dancer, finds th...
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The Underachievers
Danny Warren is a former minor-league shortstop that becomes a narc to uncover drug dealing in this ...
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The Black Bird
The son of famous detective Sam Spade carries on the family tradition of getting involved with the M...
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Little Ladies of the Night
The sister of ex-pimp and current Los Angeles Police detective Lyle York was murdered working the st...
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Surftide 77
Private Eye Bernard Bingbang is hired by old lady Agatha Bungworthy to find her runaway niece Cynthi...
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The Jesse Owens Story
The Jesse Owens Story is a biographical film about the black athlete Jesse Owens. Dorian Harewood pl...
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Emperor of the North
Hobos encounter a sadistic railway conductor that will not let anyone "ride the rails" for free....
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Mysterious Two
Two Aliens visit the Earth in an effort to enlist converts to travel the universe with them....
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The Choirboys
A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in va...
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Treasure Island
Jim is a small child who lives in an inn run by his parents. The arrival of a strange captain to the...
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Beverly Hills Bodysnatchers
A doctor and a mortician have teamed up to do re-animation experiments on corpses using gangster mon...
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Gridlock
A series of freak accidents on the Los Angeles freeway traps a cast-load of familiar TV faces in an ...
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They Call It Murder
A small-town district attorney is saddled with several major investigations, including a gambler's m...
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Criminal Act
Two investigative reporters track down reports of giant rats in a city sewer system....
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Maxie
When deaf-mute Maxie (K.T. Baumann) goes to work at the local butcher shop, she senses strange thing...
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Through the Magic Pyramid
A lad finds himself magically sent back to ancient Egypt where he and the young King Tut team up to ...
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Dark Victory
A TV producer with a terminal illness is given the strength to keep going by her love for her doctor...
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The Big Bus
A nuclear-powered bus is making its maiden non-stop trip from New York to Denver. The journey is pla...
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Love with the Proper Stranger
Angie Rossini, an innocent New York City sales clerk from a repressive Italian-American family, enga...
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This Year's Blonde
First he seduced her. Then he made her a star. He was Johnny Hyde, 52-year-old agent, friend, lover....
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Lepke
Lepke is the feared leader of "Murder Incorporated" in this underworld drama based on the life of Lo...
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The Night the City Screamed
A massive blackout plunges a major American city into a night of terror....
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T-Bird Gang
Cooperating with the police in order to revenge his father's death, Frank joins a youth syndicate ma...
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Special Delivery
A gang of thieves plan a daring bank robbery, making their escape across the rooftops of Los Angeles...
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The Three Kings
The made-for-TV film stars Jack Warden, Lou Diamond Phillips and Stan Shaw as three patients in a Lo...
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The Alpha Caper
A parole officer forced into retirement gets together three ex-convicts to pull off a $30-million ar...
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Partners in Crime
A retired judge who opens a private detective agency and her ex-con associate try to track down $750...
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Honor Thy Father
Joseph Bologna stars as Bill Bonanno in this made-for-television adaptation of the controversial bes...
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The Power of the Resurrection
A young man, Facing torture and possibly death for his Christian beliefs, confesses his fears to Pet...
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