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Robert Prosky
Born: 13th Dec 1930 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA - Died 8th Dec 2008
Dept: Acting
Robert Prosky (born Robert Joseph Porzuczek, December 13, 1930 – December 8, 2008) was an American actor. He became a well-known supporting actor in the 1980s with his roles in Thief (1981), Christine (1983), The Natural (1984), and Broadcast News (1987).
Prosky's other notable movies include Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990), Hoffa (1992), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), Last Action Hero (1993), Rudy (1993), Miracle on 34th Street (1994), Dead Man Walking (1995), and Mad City (1997). His most notable television role was of Sgt. Stan Jablonski on the TV police drama Hill Street Blues.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 81
Film: 57 (70%)
Television: 24 (30%)
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Filmography
2009
After the mysterious death of his Aunt, a confirmed skeptic lawyer, Bryan Becket, dismisses reports that her house is haunted and moves in. Immediatel ... view
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Father Wymond
2007
The Valley of Light is a beautifully-filmed, sentimental movie of a young man's quest to make sense of his experiences and find new meaning in life. W ... view
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Hoke
2006
The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broadway's brightest luminaries. Culled from clips fro ... view
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Andrey Botvinnik (segment "A Walk in the Woods")
2005
Suits on the Loose is the story of two rebellious teens, Justin and Ty, and their breakout from a desert survival camp. When two naive Mormon missiona ... view
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Bishop Hollister
Sep 2003 (first aired)
An experimental fusion of reality and fiction--a fly-on-the-wall look at government, filmed in and around the corridors of power in Washington. The se ... view
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Tommy's Dad (3 ep.)
2002
Bloopers and Outakes featured on the Death to Smoochy DVD. ... view
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Self
2002
A short documentary about the making of Danny Devito’s film Death to Smoochy. ... view
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2002
A celebration of NBC's 75 year history, featuring clips of special moments. ... view
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Self
2002
Tells the story of Rainbow Randolph, the corrupt, costumed star of a popular children's TV show, who is fired over a bribery scandal and replaced by s ... view
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Network Chairman (uncredited)
2002
A disgraced FBI agent with a drinking problem joins nine other troubled law enforcement officers at an isolated detox clinic in the wilds of Wyoming. ... view
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McKenzie
Sep 2001 (first aired)
Danny is recently separated father struggling to raise his two teenage kids. Despite just turning 40, He still wants to pursue his lifelong dreams all ... view
Character:
Lenny (11 ep.)
2000
A humorous retooling of wartime propaganda films as troops of rigatoni march in stunning symmetry beneath squadrons of glorious mostacciloli. ... view
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The Dictator (voice)
Sep 1999 (first aired)
The series depicts the family of a single mother and her romance with a single father. ... view
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)
1999
Royal Canadian Mountie Dudley Do-right is busy keeping the peace in his small mountain town when his old rival, Snidely Whiplash, comes up with a plot ... view
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Inspector Fenwick
1999
A newly-appointed Supreme Court Justice must settle a controversial moral and legal dilemma with his tie-breaking decision which may also have serious ... view
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Chief Justice
1999
The beating of Rodney King by four LAPD officers was a defining moment of the nineties. It caused one of the worst race riots in American history and ... view
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Self (voice)
Mar 1998 (first aired)
LateLine is an American TV sitcom that ran on NBC from March 17, 1998, through March 16, 1999. Due to an abrupt cancellation, there were seven unaired ... view
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)
1998
Jackie Ivers is a Los Angeles nurse who returns home to the small town of San Vicente to find that her friends and family have taken on bizarrely diff ... view
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Herb
1997
A misguided museum guard who loses his job and then tries to get it back at gunpoint is thrown into the fierce world of ratings-driven TV gone mad. ... view
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Lou Potts
Sep 1997 (first aired)
Veronica 'Ronnie' Chase is the 'Queen of Romance.' Founder of a successful lingerie empire, and best-selling author of self-help romance books, Ronnie ... view
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Pat Chase (22 ep.)
Mar 1997 (first aired)
A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its story ... view
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Father Patrick Martin (5 ep.)
1996
Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, Sam Cayhall, a former Ku Klux Klan member he has n ... view
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E. Garner Goodman
1995
A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple. ... view
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Hilton Barber
1995
Set in puritanical Boston in the mid 1600s, the story of seamstress Hester Prynne, who is outcast after she becomes pregnant by a respected reverend. ... view
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Horace Stonehall
Apr 1995 (first aired)
One of America's most complex and enduring figures, Thomas Jefferson struggled personally and publicly with an issue that would come to define our nat ... view
Character:
Edmund Bacon (voice) (2 ep.)
1994
Six-year-old Susan Walker has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle—Santa Claus. Her mother told her the secret about Santa a long time ago ... view
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Judge Henry Harper
Sep 1994 (first aired)
Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives. ... view
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Dr. Robert Harrigan (1 ep.)
Sep 1994 (first aired)
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened e ... view
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Wayne Rutley (1 ep.)
1993
Loving but irresponsible dad Daniel Hillard, estranged from his exasperated spouse, is crushed by a court order allowing only weekly visits with his k ... view
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Mr. Lundy
1993
Rudy grew up in a steel mill town where most people ended up working, but wanted to play football at Notre Dame instead. There were only a couple of p ... view
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Father Cavanaugh
Sep 1993 (first aired)
After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a radio psychiatrist after his policeman father gets sho ... view
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T.H. Houghton (1 ep.)
1993
After his father's death, a young boy finds solace in action movies featuring an indestructible cop. Given a magic ticket by a theater manager, he is ... view
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Nick
1992
A portrait of union leader James R. Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend, Bobby Ciaro. The film follows Hoffa through his countless battles w ... view
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Billy Flynn
1992
For a generation, the mobs main money machine was the Teamsters Union. When Jimmy Hoffa disappeared, the fight was on to see who could follow him. Jac ... view
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Maishe
1992
A young free-spirited Irish woman from an affluent Protestant family spontaneously befriends a street-smart commoner cheated by her family’s hostile ... view
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Daniel Christie
1992
In this fast paced action-thriller, daytime's top star Susan Lucci plays two roles: both a crack FBI agent and the elusive killer-for-hire who she sta ... view
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Maggie's Father
Sep 1991 (first aired)
Brooklyn Bridge is an American television program which aired on CBS between 1991 and 1993. It is about a Jewish American family living in Brooklyn in ... view
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)
1991
Young man gives up his dream of becoming an astronaut to go into business — and finds himself turned into a little old man. ... view
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Grandpa Irving
1990
Urban horticulturalist Brontë Mitchell has her eye on a gorgeous apartment, but the building's board will rent it only to a married couple. Georges F ... view
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Brontë's Lawyer
1990
Steve Burdick is closeted television anchorman whose lover dies of an AIDS-related illness. Steve decides to come out and then tells his story about ... view
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The Storyteller (Voice)
1990
An aging school teacher (Lansbury) at a Catholic grammar school in Minnesota questions her life's existence when she has to start battling a new bisho ... view
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Bishop Richard Baker
1990
As political cartoonist Duffy and his bride Meg fail to conceive, he and sorority girl Daphne succeed. ... view
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E. T.
Aug 1990 (first aired)
Lifestories is an American medical drama television series that premiered August 20, 1990, on NBC. Done in a documentary style with off-screen narrati ... view
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Unknown/various (9 ep.)
1990
An honest, hard-working cop has to go up against the mob in 1949 New York City. ... view
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Capt. Fitzgerald
1990
Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soon reunite with the friendly and lovable Gizmo. But ... view
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Grandpa Fred
1990
A young woman's past catches up with her five years later and nearly shatters her life. As a footloose cocktail waitress, she unwittingly once spent t ... view
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Bill
1990
Mac, the two-fisted, savvy cop finds that he's being saddled with a new partner, a known burnout, to work with him on a new and difficult case. The ne ... view
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Von Metz
Nov 1989 (first aired)
Talented female attorney, Christine Cromwell, searches for justice, and the truth, when her friends and clients are accused of murder. ... view
Character:
Larry Cerreta (1 ep.)
1989
Ex-con Neal Skinner seeks revenge against track owner Ebbet Berens for framing him in an emerald smuggling deal. ... view
Character:
Dancer
Feb 1989 (first aired)
Hayden Fox, the curmudgeonly coach of Minnesota State University's Screaming Eagles football team, tries to navigate his way through the sports world, ... view
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Coach 'Jake the Snake' Connelly (2 ep.)
1989
After having a near death experience Joanna finds her life in constant danger. She begins to believe that certain forces are trying to bring her back ... view
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Dr. Walter Hovde
1989
When a WW2 veteran comes back home, he realizes how the war affected Americans by seeing the changes in his wife, family, and best friend. ... view
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Rosh Benefield
1988
Jerry, a misfit Mafia henchman, is assigned the low-level job of keeping an eye on Gino, a shoe repairman fingered by the Mob to confess to a murder h ... view
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Joseph 'Don Giuseppe' Vincenzo
1988
It's vacation time for outdoorsy Chicago man Chet Ripley, along with his wife, Connie, and their two kids, Buck and Ben. But a serene weekend of fishi ... view
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Wally
Jan 1988 (first aired)
In early-twentieth-century Atlanta, the murder of a young girl prompts strong reactions from the community and ultimately leads to the arrest of a man ... view
Character:
Tom Watson (2 ep.)
1988
A true story about one US and one USSR delegate who, during 1982 talks in Geneva between USA and USSR on limiting medium-range nukes in Europe, met by ... view
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Andrey Botvinnik
1987
A high-strung news producer finds herself in a love triangle between a talented but self-doubting reporter and a charming news anchor who embodies the ... view
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Ernie Merriman
1987
Following the death of his father, a suburbanite runs away from home and winds up on Chicago's South Side. After being mugged, the boy befriends a you ... view
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Keegan
1987
Refined actress Lauren Ames finally has a chance to study with the great theatre professor Stanislav Korzenowski. Sandy Brozinsky, a brash, loud actre ... view
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Stanislav Korzenowski
1987
Washington Monuments captures the beauty and history of the Capital's major landmarks in a presentation that is informative, picturesque and entertain ... view
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Narrator
1985
Ellen Burstyn stars as Joan Walker, a mother whose college student son vanishes while traveling from Canada to Colorado. When police fail to investiga ... view
Character:
Jim Conway
Sep 1985 (first aired)
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986, and on the USA Network from 1987 to 1989. The s ... view
Character:
Dr. Sutton A. Vogel (1 ep.)
Sep 1984 (first aired)
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases. ... view
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Bishop Patrick Shea (1 ep.)
1984
An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the lea ... view
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The Judge
1983
Set during World War II, a German army garrison is sent to guard a mountain pass in a village in Romania's Carpathian mountains and sets up barracks i ... view
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Father Mihail Fonescu
1983
Nerdy high schooler Arnie Cunningham falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes obsessed with restoring the classic automobile to he ... view
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Will Darnell
1983
Will arrives for his last year at Military Academy, in the Deep South USA, in the 1960's. A black student, Pearce, has been accepted, for the first ti ... view
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Col. 'Bear' Berrineau
1982
The vows of an ambitious young American priest are tested during World War II. Not only does Father John Flaherty get involved with the black market t ... view
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Bishop Walkman
Sep 1982 (first aired)
The story about a blue-collar Boston bar run by former sports star Sam Malone and the quirky and wonderful people who worked and drank there. ... view
Character:
Navy Captain Franklin Howe (1 ep.)
1982
Naïve Michael Jordon is drawn into a web of government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him. When she's later ... view
Character:
Hiram Calder
Jan 1982 (first aired)
When starving mobs begin rioting in the streets of Moscow, Soviet leaders believe they have no recourse but to seize the Alaskan pipeline to force the ... view
Character:
Gen. Aleksey Rudenski (2 ep.)
1981
Bill Carney has just been paralyzed from the neck down. He has been taking care of his two sons since his wife left him. Now, when word of his conditi ... view
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Judge Philip Erbsen
1981
Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to use his ill-gotten income to retire from crime an ... view
Character:
Leo Alderman
Jan 1981 (first aired)
A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station. ... view
Character:
Stan Jablonski (67 ep.)
1978
In 1950, a group of unlikely criminal masterminds commits the robbery of the century. Led by Tony Pino, a petty thief fresh out of prison, and Joe McG ... view
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Lineup Gallery Cop
Sep 1977 (first aired)
The trials of a former television station manager turned newspaper city editor, and his journalist staff. ... view
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Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Aug 1975 (first aired)
Short lived soap opera about rich family and their servants in 1920s Boston. ... view
Character:
McLeague (1 ep.)
1975
This play takes place during Yom Kippur in a post-Stalinist Russian synagogue, where a Rabbi waits for a Western acting troupe and gets extremely angr ... view
Character:
The Chairman
1974
Cliff Robertson narrates this dramatization focuses on the little-known life-and-death struggle of power between President Lincoln and his general in ... view
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Secretary of War Stanton
Apr 1956 (first aired)
The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The awards ... view
Character:
Self - Nominee (1 ep.)
Self - Nominee / Performer (1 ep.)
Dec 1951 (first aired)
Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christo ... view
Character:
Rosh Benefield (1 ep.)
Hoke (1 ep.)