Joel Polis
Birthday: 1951-10-03
Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography: An American television, film and stage actor. He has appeared in over one hundred television programs and films during his career. Polis' first film role was the character 'Fuchs' in the science fiction film The Thing. He appeared in numerous television series including Cheers, Alien Nation, Northern Exposure, Star Trek: Voyager, Roseanne, Seinfeld, Chicago Hope, Boston Legal and CSI. He appeared in a recurring role on the television series Cheers as the mischievous Gary, owner of the rival bar, Gary's Olde Towne Tavern. Polis's theater credits include performances at the Astor Place Theatre, Hartford Stage, Old Globe Theater, South Coast Repertory, Mark Taper Forum, Odyssey Theatre, Laguna Playhouse, Lillian Theater and the Pasadena Playhouse.
Movies
The Thing
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its...
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Burning Bridges
Fact-based story of a woman who suffered a nervous breakdown after having an extra-marital affair....
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Shadows
Joshua and his father are among the Jewish prisoners in a concentration camp. When the assistant lea...
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Serial Killer
As a member of FBI Psychological Profile Unit, Selby Younger tracks Morrano, vicious and intelligent...
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Deadly Medicine
A pediatrician becomes trapped in a web of betrayal and guilt when her best friend, a nurse, seems t...
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Prison of Secrets
Lynn Schaffer is willfully irresponsible once too often, gets fired and refuses a plea-bargain with ...
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Twilight Man
Jordan Cooper, a professor in Durham, has everything going for him. A beautiful girlfriend named Kat...
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Rocket's Red Glare
A troubled 17-year-old Todd Baker restores a Mercury Redstone rocket as a science project with the h...
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Those She Left Behind
Scott and Sue Grimes are a happily married and affluent young couple who are about to start a family...
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The Thing: Terror Takes Shape
An in-depth look at the making of John Carpenter's cult classic sci-fi horror The Thing, telling the...
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All The Kids Do It
High school diving champion Buddy Elder (Scott Baio) can't seem to stop drinking and driving....
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Best Defense
An engineer fails to get the bugs out of a tank before an Army officer has to use it in Kuwait....
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The Rookie
Veteran cop Nick Pulovski is used to playing musical partners; many of the partners he's had in the ...
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Chasing a Dream
When high school football player Cam Stiles loses his best friend, he decides to drop football and ...
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Alien Hunter
Government agents find evidence of extraterrestrial life at the South Pole....
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True Believer
Eddie Dodd is a burnt out former civil rights lawyer who now specializes in defending drug dealers. ...
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My Blue Heaven
FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Ant...
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Attraction
A writer/radio advice show host fails to heed his own advice as he stalks his ex-girlfriend and then...
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Swallow
Lacking the grades and money for college, a Florida high school senior takes assignment as a cocaine...
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Tumbleweeds
Whenever trouble strikes in one of her relationships, single mother Mary Jo Walker and her daughter,...
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Born Beautiful
This is the story of Betsy a model who is nearly 30. Now in the world of modeling that is considered...
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The Thing Expanded
The ultimate companion to John Carpenter’s "The Thing", digging deep into the proverbial iceberg to ...
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Dark Angel
Homicide detective Walter D'Arcangelo is the only link to a serial killer who preys on adulterous wo...
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Fallen Angels
When a turn of the century prison reformatory is slated for demolition, a grisly discovery is made. ...
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The Sleepwalker Killing
Mark Schall kills his mother-in-law and wounds his father-in-law in the middle of the night, then tu...
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It's My Party
Nick, a gay, HIV-positive architect, begins to display severe symptoms of AIDS and makes preparation...
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