Virgil Frye
Birthday: 1930-08-21
Place of Birth: Estherville, Iowa, USA
Biography: Character actor Virgil Charles Frye was born on August 21, 1930 in Estherville, Iowa. A former Golden Gloves boxing champion, Frye worked in the cornfields in Iowa and was active in the civil rights movement in Alabama before he first began acting in films and TV shows in the mid-1960's. Virgil often played either tough guys or police officers. The father of both Sean Frye and Soleil Moon Frye, Frye also ran his own successful acting school in the Hollywood Hills. Virgil suffered from Pick's Disease or Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in his latter years and was the subject of the documentary Sonny Boy (2004) made by his daughter Soleil. Frye died at a nursing home in Orange County, California on May 7, 2012.
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Man Trouble
A sleazy but affable guard dog trainer is blackmailed to steal a manuscript for a tell-all book from...
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Nightmare in Wax
The disfigured curator of a wax museum murders his enemies and then uses their bodies as exhibits in...
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Queen of Blood
A spaceship is sent to Mars after an alien distress signal is picked up. They find one survivor, but...
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Graduation Day
After the death of a high school track star during a race, a mysterious killer in a fencing mask beg...
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The Hot Spot
Upon arriving to a small town, a drifter quickly gets into trouble with the local authorities — and ...
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Revenge of the Ninja
A peaceful ex-ninja's life shatters when his son's kidnapping forces him back into violence amid an ...
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Sonny Boy
Actress-Director Soleil Moon Frye's second work focuses on her often troubled relationship with her ...
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Up from the Depths
The staff and vacationers at a first-class resort on the island of Maui are beginning to mysteriousl...
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Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype
An ugly, misshapen podiatrist ingests a formula made by a colleague and turns into a handsome, devil...
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Running Hot
A teen convicted of murdering his father escapes from authorities and heads for Arizona with a prost...
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Uncle Joe Shannon
A trumpet player, self-destructive after the death of his wife and child in a fire, befriends a crip...
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Colors
A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barri...
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Dead Aim
A traveling gravedigger during an (unspecified) war adopts a orphan he finds alone in the desert. Af...
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The Jesus Trip
When the police discover that their motorcycles are concealing heroin, Waco and his motorcycle gang ...
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Easy Rider
Wyatt and Billy, two Harley-riding hippies, complete a drug deal in Southern California and decide t...
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Take This Job and Shove It
A junior executive is ordered to boost output in the hometown brewery where his old friends work....
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Destination: America
A patrician family's estranged, black-sheep son forsakes his blue-collar life to return home and soo...
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Hot Moves
Four friends, annoyed at how almost everyone else they know is having sex but them, agree to do what...
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The Limit
In Los Angeles, black motorcycle police officer Mark Johnson patrols gang-infested neighborhoods wit...
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Xtro 3: Watch the Skies
Marines on a deserted island are ordered to defuse bombs, but then an alien creature terrorizes them...
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Garden of the Dead
Convicts on a chain gang sniff formaldehyde fumes to get high. They attempt a prison break and are s...
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Nature of the Beast
Two men, both hiding a deadly secret, are on a murderous rampage through the desert....
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The Cat Creature
When a rich man dies, some items from a collection of his are stolen- an ancient Egyptian gold amule...
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Pacific Palisades
A woman from Paris, Bernadette, comes to the United States after being promised a job. When she arri...
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The All American Hustler
This bleak, cinema vérité influenced film chronicles the last few days in the life of a sad LA prost...
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair ...
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Winners Take All
Billy Robinson has become the hottest hot-rodder on the professional motorcycle-racing circuit. But ...
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Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw
A young country-star wannabe takes off from her carhop career to join with a young, modern Billy the...
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The Missouri Breaks
When vigilante land baron David Braxton hangs one of the best friends of cattle rustler Tom Logan, L...
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Deadhead Miles
A long-distance trucker, dressed like a sea captain, aimlessly sails the American highways in his 18...
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Borderline
Jeb Maynard is a patrolman guarding the U.S.-Mexican border, whose partner and buddy Scooter has jus...
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The Burning Bed
An abused battered wife has had enough of husband beating up on her. Everywhere she turns for help, ...
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The Secret of the Ice Cave
A group of treasure-seekers embark on a expedition into high adventure as they race to discover what...
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The Klansman
A small southern town has just been rocked by a tragedy: a young white woman has been raped by a bla...
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Howzer
Howzer Cassel and his sister Deborah, feel like run-always long before they one day, at the ages of ...
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