Donald Moffat

Donald Moffat

Birthday: 1930-12-26

Place of Birth: Plymouth, Devon, England, UK

Biography: Donald Moffat (26 December 1930 – 20 December 2018) was an English actor with decades long career in film and stage in the United States. He began his acting career on and off Broadway which included appearances in The Wild Duck and Right You Are If You Think You Are, earning a Tony Award nomination for both, as well as Painting Churches for which he received an Obie Award. Moffat also appeared in several feature films including The Thing and The Right Stuff, along with his guest appearances in the television series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman and The West Wing.

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The Thing
The Thing

A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its...

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Music Box
Music Box

A lawyer defends her father accused of war crimes, but there is more to the case than she suspects....

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, an...

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Housesitter
Housesitter

Con artist Gwen moves into Newton's empty home without his knowledge and begins setting up house, po...

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Popeye
Popeye

Popeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who's searching for his father. During a storm...

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The Best of Times
The Best of Times

A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game....

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Trapped in Paradise
Trapped in Paradise

Residents of a friendly Pennsylvania town foil three brothers' plan to rob a bank on Christmas Eve....

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The Right Stuff
The Right Stuff

At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to ...

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The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Bonfire of the Vanities

After his mistress runs over a black teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotli...

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Clear and Present Danger
Clear and Present Danger

Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is dia...

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Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force
Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force

The true story of Leonard Matlovich, a U.S. Air Force sergeant who, in 1975, publicly divulged his h...

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The Terminal Man
The Terminal Man

As the result of a head injury, brilliant computer scientist Harry Benson begins to experience viole...

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The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid

The gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger join forces to rob the First National Bank in Northfield, ...

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Rachel, Rachel
Rachel, Rachel

Rachel is a 35-year-old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a ...

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Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men

Two ranch workers, one of them simple-minded, look for work and happiness during the Great Depressio...

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Monster in the Closet
Monster in the Closet

After several people and a dog are found dead in their closets a "mild-mannered" reporter, a college...

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Love, Cheat & Steal
Love, Cheat & Steal

Paul Harrington thinks he has the perfect wife... stunning, kind, and ambitious. Yet behind Lauren's...

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HealtH
HealtH

At a luxury Florida resort, health food lobbyists choose their new president at their annual convent...

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The Battle of the River Plate
The Battle of the River Plate

In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the At...

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Far North
Far North

After generations of being apart, an accident brings a family back together and they begin to cope w...

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The Great Pretender
The Great Pretender

A newspaper reporter, who has just won a trial against his newspaper which had fired him, suffers da...

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R.P.M.
R.P.M.

R.P.M. stands for (political) revolutions per minute. Anthony Quinn plays a liberal college professo...

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The Gift of Love
The Gift of Love

Inspired by O. Henry's short story about a young bride and groom, each of whom foolishly--but quite ...

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The File on Devlin
The File on Devlin

A young woman finds herself engulfed in Cold War intrigue when her father, a Nobel Prize-winning aut...

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Alamo Bay
Alamo Bay

A despondent Vietnam veteran in danger of losing his livelihood is pushed to the edge when he sees V...

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Houston: The Legend of Texas
Houston: The Legend of Texas

Sam Elliot stars as Sam Houston, the visionary who nearly single-handedly forged the state of Texas ...

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Kaleidoscope
Kaleidoscope

A family friend hires gumshoe John Chapman to find and reunite three sisters estranged by fate for 3...

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The Devil and Miss Sarah
The Devil and Miss Sarah

A notorious outlaw being escorted to prison by a homesteader and his wife turns out to have satanic ...

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Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter
Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter

A woman, who had left home 20 years previously under acrimonious circumstances, finds out that she i...

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A Touch of the Poet
A Touch of the Poet

Cornelius "Con" Melody is an Irish tavern keeper in New England who lives in reverence of his former...

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Regarding Henry
Regarding Henry

After being shot, a lawyer loses his memory and must relearn speech and mobility, but he has a lovin...

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The White Lions
The White Lions

A college professor, his wife, and daughter go the the wilds of Africa to live, and study the rare w...

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The Sleep Room
The Sleep Room

At the height of the cold war, the C.I.A. secretly funded Dr. Ewen Cameron, director of the Allan Me...

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Cookie's Fortune
Cookie's Fortune

Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman's death causes a variety of rea...

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Desperado
Desperado

Cowboy Duell McCall wants to quickly deliver a herd of cattle to town, get paid and move on but roma...

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Majority Rule
Majority Rule

A war heroine returns to the US to run for president and ends up facing enemies worse than those in ...

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Is There Life Out There?
Is There Life Out There?

Lily Marshall has a loving, supportive husband, two great kids and an unfulfilled dream: to return t...

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Exo-Man
Exo-Man

A professor, who has been paralyzed in an attack by mob hitmen, builds a suit that enables him to wa...

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Earthquake
Earthquake

Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits ...

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Class Action
Class Action

A liberal activist lawyer alienated his daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affai...

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When the Time Comes
When the Time Comes

A terminally ill woman seeks assistance in taking her life when her husband refuses....

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Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth

A film based on the home-run legend's life....

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Forget-Me-Not Lane
Forget-Me-Not Lane

A college professor remembers the humor and sorrow of his youth in World War II Britain....

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Roger Williams: Founder Of Rhode Island
Roger Williams: Founder Of Rhode Island

Recreates the conflict of Roger Williams with the Puritan leaders of New England, including his atte...

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Ebony, Ivory and Jade
Ebony, Ivory and Jade

In this prospective pilot, Mick Jade, a tennis bum-turned-Las Vegas-song-and-dance man, doubles as a...

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Mrs. R's Daughter
Mrs. R's Daughter

When a young woman is brutally raped and beaten, her mother sets out to find justice for her....

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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy

Biography of the former first lady, focusing on her years as a photojournalist and leading up to her...

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The Evening Star
The Evening Star

Continuing the story of Aurora Greenway in her latter years. After the death of her daughter, Aurora...

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Showdown
Showdown

Two men who have been friends since childhood find themselves on opposite ends of the law....

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Who Will Love My Children?
Who Will Love My Children?

Lucile Fray has 10 children and terminal cancer. As her ne'er-do-well alcoholic husband, isn't capab...

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Tartuffe
Tartuffe

Donald Moffat stars in Moliere's classic comedy about lovable scoundrel Tartuffe, who befriends the ...

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Through Naked Eyes
Through Naked Eyes

A musician living in an apartment building likes to check out the residents of the building opposite...

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A Smile Like Yours
A Smile Like Yours

Danny and Jennifer are happily married, except for one major issue – he's doubtful about having chil...

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Promises in the Dark
Promises in the Dark

A young doctor, Alexandra Kendall, seeking change while recovering from a recent heartbreak, moves f...

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Art, what is it? Why is it?
Art, what is it? Why is it?

John Canaday analyzes the place of art among the humanities as an expression of man's attempt to def...

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Necessary Parties
Necessary Parties

Fifteen-year-old Chris Mills isn't too happy with his divorcing parents. In fact, he doesn't want th...

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Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years
Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years

The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House....

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Mary White
Mary White

The true story of the relationship between famed author William Allen White and his teenaged daughte...

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Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love
Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love

Pilot for a proposed television anthology series with stories about love, either dramatic or comedic...

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The Long Days of Summer
The Long Days of Summer

In this sequel to his 1978 "When Every Day Was the Fourth of July" (and a pilot to a prospective ser...

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On the Nickel
On the Nickel

Sam, a recovering alcoholic, feels dissatisfied with his life of sobriety and goes back in search of...

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61*
61*

In 1961, Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle played for the New York Yankees. One, Mantle, was universally...

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A Son's Promise
A Son's Promise

An iron-willed Georgia boy accepts the burden of a man on his young shoulders. Fifteen-year-old Terr...

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A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion
A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion

Story of Denmark Vesey, who was raised as a slave but bought his freedom. He organized a plot to sei...

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License to Kill
License to Kill

A grieving family whose daughter was killed in a car crash with a drunken driver is outraged and fru...

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Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story
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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Kojak: Flowers For Matty
Kojak: Flowers For Matty

Kojak charms his way into high society to investigate art thefts that are tied to munitions smugglin...

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The Call of the Wild
The Call of the Wild

A prospector, a trapper and their sled dog battle the Klondike elements on their journey to get to t...

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Lily
Lily

Lily Miniver is an eccentric, intrepid young woman whose job as associate curator at the prestigious...

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The Trial of the Catonsville Nine
The Trial of the Catonsville Nine

On May 17, 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War, nine men and women entered a Selective Service of...

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My Champion
My Champion

In 1964 Miki came to LA with only a suitcase, hoping to become the world's best marathon runner. She...

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