William Hickey

William Hickey

Birthday: 1927-09-19

Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Biography: William Edward Hickey (September 19, 1927 – June 29, 1997) was an American actor. He was best known for his Oscar-nominated role as Don Corrado Prizzi in the John Huston 1985 film Prizzi's Honor, as well as the voice of Dr. Finklestein in Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993).

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Prizzi's Honor
Prizzi's Honor

Charley Partanna is a hitman who works for the Prizzis, one of the richest crime families in the US....

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Pink Cadillac
Pink Cadillac

A bounty hunter helps out the wife of a bail-jumper after her child is kidnapped by neo-Nazi types....

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Tales from the Darkside: The Movie
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie

A young boy tells three stories of horror to distract a witch who plans to eat him....

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National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

It's Christmastime, and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration. But things ne...

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Sea of Love
Sea of Love

Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and...

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The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Nightmare Before Christmas

Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spin...

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Puppet Master
Puppet Master

After being contacted by their mysterious former colleague, four psychics arrive at a secluded hotel...

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The Boston Strangler
The Boston Strangler

Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story...

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A Hatful of Rain
A Hatful of Rain

A Korean War veteran's morphine addiction wreaks havoc upon his family....

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The Sentinel
The Sentinel

As a young girl, Alison Parker attempted suicide after being traumatized by her father's sexual expl...

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One Crazy Summer
One Crazy Summer

An aspiring teenage cartoonist and his friends come to the aid of a singer trying to save her family...

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Happy Birthday, Wanda June
Happy Birthday, Wanda June

A hunter back from years in the Amazon finds his wife and life changed....

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The Runestone
The Runestone

A New York detective takes the case of a bulletproof monster sprung to life from Viking legend....

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Love Is All There Is
Love Is All There Is

The Malacicis, a hard-working Italian family recently immigrated from Florence, open a fancy restaur...

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Mob Boss
Mob Boss

A nerd becomes the head of his father's crime family....

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Seize the Day
Seize the Day

Tommy Wilhelm (Robin Williams) is a salesman. An honest, hard-working guy who has lost his job, his ...

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The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man
The Diary of the Hurdy-Gurdy Man

This is a dark story of a caring movie maker who struggles to make it and also struggles with his de...

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Nunzio
Nunzio

A mentally-challenged delivery boy indulges in fantasies that he is a superhero in the tough streets...

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Da
Da

A New York playwright is summoned to Ireland to bury his father. While at his boyhood home, he encou...

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Hairway to the Stars
Hairway to the Stars

The arms race goes to the beauty parlor with Bette Davis in The Letter....

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Carnage Collection - Puppet Master: Trunk Full of Terror
Carnage Collection - Puppet Master: Trunk Full of Terror

Full Moon's Carnage Collection is here. In the first stunning installment of this ongoing series, we...

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Better Than Ever
Better Than Ever

Walter and Hume, roommates in a veterans home, are complete opposites. Walter is a sarcastic wise mo...

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Between Time and Timbuktu
Between Time and Timbuktu

A poet-astronaut is shot through an area of space called the Chronosynclastic Infundibulum. He is du...

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Mikey and Nicky
Mikey and Nicky

Nick is desperate, holed up in a cheap hotel, suffering from an ulcer and convinced that a local mob...

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Little Big Man
Little Big Man

Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fightin...

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Operation Mad Ball
Operation Mad Ball

In this wacky military spoof, Lemmon plays a terminally bored Army private waging a war of wits as h...

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The Producers
The Producers

A conniving Broadway producer and his meek accountant plan to profit from charming wealthy old biddi...

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Hey Stranger
Hey Stranger

An actor and poet falls in love with a former mortuary photographer turned waitress. They find thems...

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A Stranger Is Watching
A Stranger Is Watching

A twisted man holds a TV newswoman and a girl hostage in the bowels of Grand Central Station....

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Izzy & Moe
Izzy & Moe

The adventures of two retired vaudeville performers who become two of the best prohibition agents in...

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Wise Blood
Wise Blood

A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He...

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My Blue Heaven
My Blue Heaven

FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Ant...

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The Jerky Boys
The Jerky Boys

When two unemployed telephone pranksters decide to use their vocal "talents" to impersonate a Chicag...

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MouseHunt
MouseHunt

Down-on-their luck brothers, Lars and Ernie Smuntz, aren't happy with the crumbling old mansion they...

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Bright Lights, Big City
Bright Lights, Big City

A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the me...

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A New Leaf
A New Leaf

After running out of funds, Henry Graham, a carefree playboy, plots to marry and murder wealthy bota...

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Stranded
Stranded

Loni Anderson and Perry King are stranded on a desert island....

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Westinghouse Presents: The Dispossessed
Westinghouse Presents: The Dispossessed

In 1879, the American Indian lived under severe handicaps: having no legal status as a human being a...

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Any Man's Death
Any Man's Death

When a photo-journalist vanishes while covering an African civil war, a roll of film holds the only ...

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The Telephone Book
The Telephone Book

A sexually voracious young woman receives a dirty phone call from a stranger; so satisfied by the ex...

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The Name of the Rose
The Name of the Rose

14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to f...

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92 in the Shade
92 in the Shade

A young drifter returns to his home in Key West, Florida and attempts to open a fishing charter busi...

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It Had to Be You
It Had to Be You

A has-been actress lures a TV commercial director to her apartment to seduce him....

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Sons
Sons

A trio of stepbrothers accompany their paralysed father on a jaunt to Normandy where the old boy saw...

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Puppet Master: Blitzkrieg Massacre
Puppet Master: Blitzkrieg Massacre

In an unknown dystopian future, a drifter with an unusually high tolerance to pain is held captive i...

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Tales from the Crypt Volume 3
Tales from the Crypt Volume 3

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Androcles and the Lion
Androcles and the Lion

The story of Androcles, the simple-hearted Christian tailor whose friendship with a lion saves himse...

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Knocking on Death's Door
Knocking on Death's Door

In a New England village, two newlywed students of the paranormal enter Hillside House to document t...

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The Maddening
The Maddening

David and Cassie Osborne have an argument one night. So the next morning after David goes to work, C...

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Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins

An officially "dead" cop is trained to become an extraordinary unique assassin in service of the U.S...

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Major Payne
Major Payne

Major Benson Winifred Payne is being discharged from the Marines. Payne is a killin' machine, but th...

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Forget Paris
Forget Paris

Mickey Gordon is a basketball referee who travels to France to bury his father. Ellen Andrews is an ...

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Puppet Master: The Legacy
Puppet Master: The Legacy

A rogue agent named Maclain breaks into the lab of Eric Weiss, who has spent his entire life fascina...

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Puppet Master: Axis of Evil
Puppet Master: Axis of Evil

Following the murder of Andre Toulon by Nazi assassins during the height of World War II, a young Da...

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A Hobo's Christmas
A Hobo's Christmas

A hobo played by Barnard Hughes decides it's time to go home. Drifting from place to place, Hughes f...

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Twisted
Twisted

This retelling of Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist may be populated by drug pushers, pimps and prostit...

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"Waiting for Godot" Intercut with “Krazy Kat”
"Waiting for Godot" Intercut with “Krazy Kat”

From Camera Three, excepts of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot are combined with George Herriman's...

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Puppet Master: Blitzkrieg Massacre
Puppet Master: Blitzkrieg Massacre

In an unknown dystopian future, a drifter with an unusually high tolerance to pain is held captive i...

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Starlight: a Musical Movie
Starlight: a Musical Movie

Talented youths go to the Starlight camp in trying to prepare for a musical concert....

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