Bill Pullman

Bill Pullman

Birthday: 1953-12-17

Place of Birth: Hornell, New York, USA

Biography: William Pullman (born December 17, 1953) is an American actor. After graduating with a Master of Fine Arts degree in theatre, he was an adjunct professor at Montana State University before deciding to pursue acting. Pullman made his film debut in Ruthless People (1986), and starred in Spaceballs (1987), The Accidental Tourist and The Serpent and the Rainbow (both 1988), Newsies (1992), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), Wyatt Earp (1994), While You Were Sleeping (1995), Independence Day (1996), Lost Highway (1997), and Lake Placid (1999). He also voiced Captain Joseph Korso in Titan A.E. (2000). He has also appeared frequently on television, usually in TV films. Since the 21st century began, Pullman has also acted in miniseries and regular series such as Torchwood (2011), playing starring roles in 1600 Penn (2012–13) and The Sinner (2017–2021). In 2021, he had a recurring role in the miniseries Halston. Pullman also has a long stage-acting career. He has appeared on Broadway several times, including in Edward Albee's The Goat or Who Is Sylvia? (2002).

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Sleepless in Seattle
Sleepless in Seattle

After the death of his mother, a young boy calls a radio station in an attempt to set his father up ...

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Spaceballs
Spaceballs

When the nefarious Dark Helmet hatches a plan to snatch Princess Vespa and steal her planet's air, s...

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Sommersby
Sommersby

Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm wit...

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While You Were Sleeping
While You Were Sleeping

A transit worker pulls commuter Peter off railway tracks after he's mugged, but—while he's in a coma...

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Independence Day
Independence Day

Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major...

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Lost Highway
Lost Highway

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, g...

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Malice
Malice

A tale about a happily married couple who would like to have children. Tracy teaches infants, Andy's...

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The Grudge
The Grudge

An American nurse living and working in Tokyo is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse, one tha...

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Surveillance
Surveillance

An FBI agent tracks a serial killer with the help of three of his would-be victims - all of whom hav...

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Lucky Numbers
Lucky Numbers

Russ Richards is a TV weatherman and local celebrity on the verge of losing his shirt. Desperate to ...

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Dear Wendy
Dear Wendy

In a blue-collar American town, a group of teens bands together to form the Dandies, a gang of gunsl...

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Scary Movie 4
Scary Movie 4

Cindy finds out the house she lives in is haunted by a little boy and goes on a quest to find out wh...

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Singles
Singles

A group of young adults in their twenties, who share an apartment in the city of Seattle, ponder on ...

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Brain Dead
Brain Dead

In a battle of man versus machine, Martin, a top neurosurgeon who's studying brain malfunctions that...

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The Accidental Tourist
The Accidental Tourist

After the death of his son, travel writer Macon Leary seems to be sleep walking through life. Macon'...

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Titan A.E.
Titan A.E.

A young man finds out that he holds the key to restoring hope and ensuring survival for the human ra...

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Peacock
Peacock

A minor train accident in rural Nebraska gradually unveils a mystery involving the town's reclusive ...

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The Serpent and the Rainbow
The Serpent and the Rainbow

A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the powe...

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You Kill Me
You Kill Me

While drying out on the West Coast, an alcoholic hit man befriends a tart-tongued woman who might ju...

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Casper
Casper

Casper is a kind young ghost who peacefully haunts a mansion in Maine. When specialist James Harvey ...

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Ruthless People
Ruthless People

Sam Stone hates his wife Barbara so much that he wants her dead. He's ecstatic when she's taken by a...

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Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Earp

From Wichita to Dodge City, to the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Wyatt Earp is taught that nothing matte...

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The Last Seduction
The Last Seduction

A devious femme fatale steals her husband’s drug money and hides out in a small town where she meets...

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Alien Autopsy
Alien Autopsy

Humouristic reconstruction of the 1995 scandal when two British lads were accused of having faked a ...

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Lake Placid
Lake Placid

When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden teams up with a paleontologi...

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Igby Goes Down
Igby Goes Down

Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic 17-year-old boy, is at war with the stifling world of old m...

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Rick
Rick

"Rigoletto" retold at Christmas time in Manhattan's corporate world. Rick, an executive at Image, is...

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Bottle Shock
Bottle Shock

Paris-based wine expert Steven Spurrier heads to California in search of cheap wine that he can use ...

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Mel Brooks: Make a Noise
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise

Mel Brooks: Make a Noise journeys through Brooks’ early years in the creative beginnings of live tel...

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The Killer Inside Me
The Killer Inside Me

Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and appar...

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Newsies
Newsies

A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When t...

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Liebestraum
Liebestraum

A man returns to his hometown and a series of dark secrets are revealed....

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Spy Games
Spy Games

A romantic suspense-comedy about CIA agent Harry (Bill Pullman) and SVR agent Natasha (Irene Jacob) ...

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Nobel Son
Nobel Son

Soon after his insufferably arrogant father wins the Nobel Prize for chemistry, Barkley Michaelson i...

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Parables of War
Parables of War

Three men, one an actor, one a dancer and the other a soldier, are all casualties of war in some way...

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Phone
Phone

One late Saturday night In Los Angeles a phone call embroils two couples in an uncanny stalking matc...

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Zero Effect
Zero Effect

Daryl Zero is a private investigator and—along with his assistant, Steve Arlo—he solves impossible c...

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Too Big to Fail
Too Big to Fail

An intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided ...

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The End of Violence
The End of Violence

In Hollywood, the lives of a successful film producer, his wife, a police detective and a surveillan...

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Mr. Wrong
Mr. Wrong

A single and lonely woman finds the seemingly perfect man to date, but soon regrets it when his dera...

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Brokedown Palace
Brokedown Palace

Best friends Alice and Darlene take a trip to Thailand after graduating high school. In Thailand, th...

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Phoebe in Wonderland
Phoebe in Wonderland

The fantastical tale of a little girl who won't - or can't - follow the rules. Confounded by her cla...

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Rio Sex Comedy
Rio Sex Comedy

A group of strangers from different countries end up on Rio's beaches. Seeking self-fulfillment, the...

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The Favor
The Favor

On the eve of her high school reunion, bored housewife Kathy convinces her single best friend Emily ...

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Tiger Cruise
Tiger Cruise

On its last leg homeward, from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii to San Diego, the USS Constellation hosts a joll...

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Bringing Up Bobby
Bringing Up Bobby

Bringing Up Bobby is the story of a European con-artist and her son Bobby, who find themselves in Ok...

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Innocent
Innocent

Judge Rusty Sabich is charged with the murder of his wife, a situation that comes 20 years after he ...

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The Guilty
The Guilty

Callum Crane, a lawyer and would-be federal judge, jeopardizes his chances at a judgeship by forcing...

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Ignition
Ignition

A web of intrigue and conspiracy lies beneath the euphoria as the U.S. is about to put a man on the ...

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Rocket Gibraltar
Rocket Gibraltar

A man's family comes for his 77th birthday and while he loves all of his children and their children...

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29 Palms
29 Palms

When a bag filled with money goes missing from a casino, the Hitman (Chris O'Donnell) must retrieve ...

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Bright Angel
Bright Angel

In Montana, naive teenager George longs to escape from his broken home before his dysfunctional pare...

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Lola Versus
Lola Versus

Just three weeks before her wedding, Lola's longtime fiance, Luke, dumps her. With her 30th birthday...

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Cold Feet
Cold Feet

Three criminals run into complications when they attempt to smuggle emeralds across the Mexican bord...

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Crazy in Love
Crazy in Love

Three generations of women live on a small island off the coast of Washington state with their men w...

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Sibling Rivalry
Sibling Rivalry

Marjorie Turner is suffocating in her marriage and day to day life. An extramarital affair with a st...

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The Fruit Hunters
The Fruit Hunters

The Fruit Hunters explores the little known subculture and history of rare fruit hunters who travel ...

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May in the Summer
May in the Summer

A bride-to-be is forced to reevaluate her life when she reunites with her family in Jordan and finds...

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Your Name Here
Your Name Here

The lines between reality and perception blur in this comic journey into the life and mind (literall...

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Kingdom Come
Kingdom Come

The documentary, Kingdom Come follows a first-time director (Daniel Gillies) as he tries to raise a ...

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American Horses
American Horses

American horses are icons. Mustang. Appaloosa. Morgan. Quarter Horse. Each breed has a unique story ...

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Going Under
Going Under

An American submarine races to get a nuclear weapon before a Russian submarine....

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The Virginian
The Virginian

A cowboy finds himself betrayed by his best friend and must choose between bringing him to justice a...

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Nervous Ticks
Nervous Ticks

A comedy about a man (Bill Pullman), who is on the run after his mistress (Julie Brown) confesses to...

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Cymbeline
Cymbeline

War erupts between dirty cops and outlaw bikers as a drug kingpin tries to protect his empire....

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Red Sky
Red Sky

Disgraced Top Gun fighter pilot Butch Masters leads a rogue squad in recovery of a WMD. Masters must...

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The Equalizer
The Equalizer

McCall believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, ...

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Brother Nature
Brother Nature

Roger, a straight-laced politician has big plans to propose to his dream girl at her family's lake h...

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Merry Christmas, George Bailey
Merry Christmas, George Bailey

Performance of the 1947 Lux Radio version of "It's a Wonderful Life", taped live in the historic Pas...

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Independence Day: Resurgence
Independence Day: Resurgence

We always knew they were coming back. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have co...

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Mistrial
Mistrial

When a cop-killer goes free, a detective's search for personal justice veers dangerously out of cont...

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Another Day: The Making of 'Independence Day: Resurgence'
Another Day: The Making of 'Independence Day: Resurgence'

Interviews about the making of the film and behind the scenes footage...

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American Ultra
American Ultra

Mike is an unmotivated stoner whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend, Phoebe, is suddenly...

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The Unbelievers
The Unbelievers

Scientists Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss travel the globe promoting a scientific worldview and...

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LBJ
LBJ

The story of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson from his young days in West Texas to the White Hou...

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Mr. Jones
Mr. Jones

The story about the relationship between a manic depressive man, Mr. Jones, and the female doctor wh...

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Home Fires Burning
Home Fires Burning

When a WW2 veteran comes back home, he realizes how the war affected Americans by seeing the changes...

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Killing Faith
Killing Faith

In the summer of 1859, a widowed physician reluctantly agrees to take a recently freed slave and her...

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Walking Out
Walking Out

A city teen travels to Montana to go hunting with his estranged father, only for the strained trip t...

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The Ballad of Lefty Brown
The Ballad of Lefty Brown

Aging sidekick Lefty Brown has ridden with Eddie Johnson his entire life. But when a rustler kills E...

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Trouble
Trouble

A feuding brother and sister entangle the fate of an old friend....

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Battle of the Sexes
Battle of the Sexes

The true story of the 1973 tennis match between world number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and s...

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A Thousand Junkies
A Thousand Junkies

Things grow more and more desperate, and ridiculous, as three heroin addicts drive all over Los Ange...

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The Equalizer 2
The Equalizer 2

Robert McCall, who serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed, embarks on a relen...

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Blood Drips Heavily on Newsie Square
Blood Drips Heavily on Newsie Square

Washed up actor Don Knotts shows up on the back lot of Universal Studios in Hollywood, California in...

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Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch

An in-depth look at artist/filmmaker David Lynch's movies, paintings, drawings, photographs, and var...

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Dark Waters
Dark Waters

A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to ...

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The Coldest Game
The Coldest Game

Warsaw, Poland, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Josh Mansky, a troubled math genius and forme...

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National Theatre Live: All My Sons
National Theatre Live: All My Sons

America, 1947. Despite hard choices and even harder knocks, Joe and Kate Keller are a success story....

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The High Note
The High Note

Set in the dazzling world of the LA music scene comes the story of Grace Davis, a superstar whose ta...

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Independence Day: The ID4 Invasion
Independence Day: The ID4 Invasion

A "mockumentary" of the alien invasion during Independence Day. Barry Nolan hosts the programme, the...

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The Making of 'Independence Day'
The Making of 'Independence Day'

We take a look at various fields of development for the motion picture, Independence Day (1996). Jef...

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John Candy: Comic Spirit
John Candy: Comic Spirit

A tribute to the late John Candy from the cast of Spaceballs....

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The War of 1996: A United World News Special
The War of 1996: A United World News Special

A faux news documentary about the 20 years that have passed between the first and second "Independen...

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Dark Waters: The Cost of Being a Hero
Dark Waters: The Cost of Being a Hero

This piece examines real-life Rob Bilott’s sacrifices to take down a powerful corporation and how a ...

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Yellowstone
Yellowstone

This documentary is in fact the theatrically released episode of 'Epic Yellowstone: Return of the Pr...

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A League of Their Own
A League of Their Own

As America's stock of athletic young men is depleted during World War II, a professional all-female ...

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A Man Is Mostly Water
A Man Is Mostly Water

The lives of two unambitious duplex neighbors, divorced father, hot-tempered, blues-obsessed documen...

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Everybody Digs Bill Evans
Everybody Digs Bill Evans

June 1961, NYC: legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans has found his musical voice and created the perfec...

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Famous
Famous

Lance Dunkquist has one asset that’s about to change his life—he has the face of a movie star. And n...

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Opening the Tombs of the Golden Mummies: Live
Opening the Tombs of the Golden Mummies: Live

Excavations in Egypt's Valley of the Golden Mummies reveal a king's untouched tomb....

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A Bridge Between
A Bridge Between

Anthony Hodges is a young basketball player recovering from a devastating car accident that leaves h...

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Spaceballs 2
Spaceballs 2

Described as "a non-prequel non-reboot sequel part two but with reboot elements franchise expansion ...

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Spaceballs: The Documentary
Spaceballs: The Documentary

The cast and crew of Spaceballs looks back at the making of the movie....

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The Basics of Philosophy
The Basics of Philosophy

A repressed philosophy professor grapples with lingering guilt over a decision from his past when th...

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Roland Emmerich - Weltenzerstörer, Weltenerbauer
Roland Emmerich - Weltenzerstörer, Weltenerbauer

Roland Emmerich himself and many of his companions provide insights into his life. With films such a...

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