Allen Garfield

Allen Garfield

Birthday: 1939-11-22

Place of Birth: Newark, New Jersey, USA

Biography: Allen Garfield, born and sometimes credited as Allen Goorwitz (November 22, 1939 - April 7, 2020), was an American film and television actor. Garfield was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Alice (née Lavroff) and Philip Goorwitz.A graduate of Weequahic High School, he was a sports reporter and Golden Gloves boxer before becoming an actor. He studied acting at The Actors Studio in New York City, studying with both Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan, and worked in stage before film. Garfield was a quirky and prolific actor who appeared in over 100 films and television shows. He was known for playing nervous villains, corrupt businessmen and politicians. In addition he appeared in two art films by German director Wim Wenders, Der Stand der Dinge and Bis ans Ende der Welt. Garfield had one sister, Lois. Description above from the Wikipedia article Allen Garfield, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Beverly Hills Cop II
Beverly Hills Cop II

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The Front Page
The Front Page

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The Conversation
The Conversation

A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the coupl...

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The Ninth Gate
The Ninth Gate

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Nashville
Nashville

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Diabolique
Diabolique

The wife and mistress of a cruel school master collaborate in a carefully planned and executed schem...

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The Majestic
The Majestic

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The State of Things
The State of Things

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White Boy
White Boy

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The Candidate
The Candidate

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Teachers
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The Brink's Job
The Brink's Job

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The Black Stallion Returns
The Black Stallion Returns

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Putney Swope
Putney Swope

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Continental Divide
Continental Divide

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Wild Side
Wild Side

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Footsteps
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Get Crazy
Get Crazy

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One Trick Pony
One Trick Pony

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The Stunt Man
The Stunt Man

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The Owl and the Pussycat
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Hi, Mom!
Hi, Mom!

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Cyborg 2
Cyborg 2

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Irreconcilable Differences
Irreconcilable Differences

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Let It Ride
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Absence of the Good
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The Organization
The Organization

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Miracle Beach
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Busting
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Believe in Me
Believe in Me

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You Ruined My Life
You Ruined My Life

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Obsession
Obsession

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Cry Uncle!
Cry Uncle!

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Get to Know Your Rabbit
Get to Know Your Rabbit

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Night Visitor
Night Visitor

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Desert Bloom
Desert Bloom

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Report from Hollywood
Report from Hollywood

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Club Fed
Club Fed

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Leave 'Em Laughing
Leave 'Em Laughing

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Stuart Saves His Family
Stuart Saves His Family

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Nowhere to Run
Nowhere to Run

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Serpico: The Deadly Game
Serpico: The Deadly Game

This pilot film for the TV series is the story of Officer Frank Serpico, a New York City cop who fou...

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Top of the Heap
Top of the Heap

A Black cop is pushed over the edge when he is passed over for a promotion, leading him on a violent...

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The Million Dollar Rip-Off
The Million Dollar Rip-Off

An electronics genius, who is an ex-con, and four of his lady friends devise a plot to steal million...

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Gable and Lombard
Gable and Lombard

A biography about the love affair between 1930s Hollywood superstars Clark Gable and Carole Lombard....

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The Cotton Club
The Cotton Club

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Slither
Slither

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Crime of the Century
Crime of the Century

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Paco
Paco

Paco is an orphaned Colombian boy who leaves the family farm to search for his uncle in the big big ...

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Orgy Girls '69
Orgy Girls '69

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Mother, Jugs & Speed
Mother, Jugs & Speed

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Until the End of the World
Until the End of the World

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You've Got To Walk It Like You Talk It or You'll Lose That Beat
You've Got To Walk It Like You Talk It or You'll Lose That Beat

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Judgment: The Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Judgment: The Trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

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Chief Zabu
Chief Zabu

An outrageous social comedy about a New York realtor who dreams of having political influence by tak...

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Fyre
Fyre

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The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful
The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful

A look into the cruelties and perversions of politicians....

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Jack and His Friends
Jack and His Friends

Jack is a middle aged, overweight shoe store owner with a secure upper middle class lifestyle, inclu...

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Sketches of a Strangler
Sketches of a Strangler

An art student living with his sister is actually a maniac strangling dancers and prostitutes. One v...

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The Patriots
The Patriots

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Grave Images
Grave Images

Anthology suspense / horror film with the creepy caretaker of a cemetery introducing some of its occ...

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One from the Heart
One from the Heart

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Dick Tracy
Dick Tracy

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Trial by Terror
Trial by Terror

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Killer in the Mirror
Killer in the Mirror

A woman's truly evil twin steals her sister's wealthy beloved and marries him. After his death, she ...

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Taking Off
Taking Off

Unable to deal with her parents, Jeannie Tyne runs away from home. Larry and Lynn Tyne search for he...

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Virginia Hill
Virginia Hill

The story of Virginia Hill, a former prostitute who was the girlfriend of '40s killer and gangster B...

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Greetings
Greetings

Three friends in New York City discuss how to dodge the draft and Vietnam, JFK's assassination, voye...

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Citizen Cohn
Citizen Cohn

As lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from his p...

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Destiny Turns on the Radio
Destiny Turns on the Radio

Johnny Destiny burns into Las Vegas in his hot Plymouth RoadRunner, stopping only to pick up a stran...

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Ring of Passion
Ring of Passion

Fact-based drama about the two Joe Louis-Max Schmeling heavyweight fights and the way both boxers un...

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March of the Spring Hare
March of the Spring Hare

Henry, an apathetic file clerk at the All-State Collection Agency in New York City, spends most of h...

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Incident at Vichy
Incident at Vichy

Adapted from Arthur Miller's play, film focuses on a group of Frenchmen who are detained at Vichy, t...

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Skateboard
Skateboard

A Hollywood agent finds himself in debt to a powerful bookie. To make a fast buck, he creates a team...

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Bananas
Bananas

When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American...

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The Marcus-Nelson Murders
The Marcus-Nelson Murders

A homicide detective begins to suspect that the black teenager accused of murdering two white girls ...

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Get a Job
Get a Job

Jay is a young slacker who has to get a job in order to receive his inheritance. Rather than physica...

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Sonny Boy
Sonny Boy

The owner of a toy store chain still lives at home with his mother and crazy uncle....

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