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Ben Piazza
Born: 30th Jul 1934 Little Rock, Arkansas, USA - Died 7th Sep 1991
Dept: Acting
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 49
Film: 27 (55%)
Television: 22 (45%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Western, War & Politics, Music, Action, Soap, Adventure, Documentary
Filmography
1991
Owing to his alleged involvement with communist parties, film director David Merrill is forbidden from working in Hollywood. He decides to fight for h ... view
Character:
Darryl Zanuck
Sep 1989 (first aired)
Snoops is an American crime themed comedy-drama series which aired for one season from September 1989 to July 1990 on CBS. The series was created and ... view
Character:
Charles Yates (1 ep.)
Sep 1987 (first aired)
Savvy Assistant District Attorney Catherine Chandler is saved by a noble, beast-like man named Vincent, who lives in a secret, utopian community benea ... view
Character:
Richards (1 ep.)
Mar 1986 (first aired)
Thrifty, folksy and cantankerous, Matlock charges a premium for his services but is worth every penny: This renowned attorney, always clothed in his t ... view
Character:
David Westlake (1 ep.)
Martin Landers (1 ep.)
Sep 1985 (first aired)
This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two or ... view
Character:
Dr. Vaughn Heilman (segment "Chameleon") (1 ep.)
Apr 1985 (first aired)
Suspense anthology series hosted by Orson Welles who asks the audience to solve the crime presented in the first part of each episode. The second part ... view
Character:
Phillip Bingham (1 ep.)
1985
A significantly deformed but highly intelligent teenage boy and his biker gang mother attempt to live as normal a life as possible under the circumsta ... view
Character:
Mr. Simms
Mar 1985 (first aired)
After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency. Together they solve various cases, ... view
Character:
Captain Renault (1 ep.)
1985
Young and shy Jeff discovers his attraction to men. After struggling with himself he comes out to his parents. Mum eventually listens to his son and t ... view
Character:
Dr. Mark Waldo
1983
This story tells those self-denials of an honest man what necessary to reach his object of life. ... view
Character:
Louis Brock
1983
The fairy tale story of the actress who became a princess is told in this biography that traces her rise from Philadelphia socialite to Hollywood movi ... view
Character:
Gary Cooper
Feb 1983 (first aired)
Against the backdrop of world events that led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Victor 'Pug' Henry is a career naval officer who, along ... view
Character:
Aloysius Whitman (1 ep.)
Jan 1983 (first aired)
A fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune while on the run from the Army after being branded as ... view
Character:
City Councilman Michael Prescott (1 ep.)
Oct 1982 (first aired)
St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. The series starred Ed F ... view
Character:
Josiah Bartlett (2 ep.)
1982
A wildcatter and a geologist prospect for oil and love in West Texas. ... view
Character:
Bill Wrather
Sep 1982 (first aired)
Former 1960s flower children Steven and Elyse Keaton raise their conservative son Alex, daughters Mallory and Jennifer, and later, youngest child Andr ... view
Character:
Mr. Wertz (3 ep.)
Ed Nelson (1 ep.)
Mar 1982 (first aired)
Sergeant Thomas Jefferson Hooker is a tough-as-nails veteran police officer with the LCPD who turns his back on a gold badge and goes back to patrolli ... view
Character:
Peter Weston (1 ep.)
1981
Henry Hawksworth is a man menaced by a multiple personality. There is Dana, the conservative family man; Johnny, violent and sociopathic; Peter, creat ... view
Character:
Neurologist
1981
The true story of a nurse who spent her life caring for terminally ill patients. ... view
Character:
Dr. Laurie
1980
An aspiring singer unwittingly comes into possession of several tapes for which her engineer husband and his partner, in their electronic eavesdroppin ... view
Character:
Ken Pentoff
1980
Based on the true story of film actress Ina Balin and her efforts with American Red Cross volunteer Betty Tisdale, as well as a compassionate Vietname ... view
Character:
Dr. Wayne R. McKinney
1980
Jake Blues, just released from prison, puts his old band back together to save the Catholic home where he and his brother Elwood were raised. ... view
Character:
Father
1980
William Conrad stars as a retired L.A.P.D. detective who has moved to Hawaii and taken a job as a college security chief and assistant football coach ... view
Character:
Dr. John Spencer
Sep 1979 (first aired)
Paris is an American television series that appeared on the CBS television network from September 29, 1979 to January 15, 1980. A crime drama, the sho ... view
Character:
Fred Latimore (1 ep.)
Character:
Roger Piggott
Sep 1978 (first aired)
A hospital director in line for a federal cabinet post discovers that his private life may jeopardize the opportunity and then finds himself in the mi ... view
Character:
Dr. Henry de Jong (2 ep.)
Apr 1978 (first aired)
The world's first mega-soap, and one of the most popular ever produced, Dallas had it all. Beautiful women, expensive cars, and men playing Monopoly w ... view
Character:
Walt Driscoll (6 ep.)
1978
A little girl convinces her attorney father to defend a mute war veteran accused of murdering a store owner. ... view
Character:
Herman Grasser
1977
The story of Caryl Chessman, a convicted California rapist who spent 12 years on death row before finally being executed. ... view
Character:
Bill Edmunds
1977
A disturbed and institutionalized 16-year-old girl struggles between fantasy and reality. ... view
Character:
Jay Blake
Dec 1976 (first aired)
Once An Eagle is a 1976 nine-hour American television mini-series directed by Richard Michaels and E.W. Swackhamer. The picture was written by Peter S ... view
Character:
Capt. Jerome (7 ep.)
1976
An aging, down-on-his-luck ex-minor leaguer coaches a team of misfits in an ultra-competitive California little league. ... view
Character:
Councilman Whitewood
1975
The story of John Henry Faulk, a radio/TV personality of the 1950s, who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era. Faulk sued the organization that was ... view
Character:
Harry
Sep 1975 (first aired)
Switch is an American action-adventure, tongue-in-cheek detective series starring Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner, who work as private eyes, for a dece ... view
Character:
Ernie Riker (1 ep.)
Jan 1975 (first aired)
Barney Miller is the kind of cop we'd all like to run into. Always sensible, he maintains order over a band of detectives who gamble, hit on anything ... view
Character:
Arthur Minch (1 ep.)
David Shulton (1 ep.)
John Essex (1 ep.)
1974
An American submarine leaves Tierra Del Fuego, and one of its crew has secretly brought aboard a container full of poisonous snakes which escape stora ... view
Character:
Lieutenant Whitehead
Sep 1974 (first aired)
After being shot in the line of duty, Harry Orwell was forced to retire from the San Diego Police Department. To supplement his police pension, Harry ... view
Character:
Frank Cabot (1 ep.)
1974
Dramatization of the trial of General Yamashita. ... view
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Oct 1973 (first aired)
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City. ... view
Character:
Irving Abernathy (1 ep.)
1973
A nonverbal autistic boy stumbles upon a teenage heiress who has been kidnapped by a trio of young psychopaths, who are intent on extorting diamonds f ... view
Character:
Avery
Jan 1973 (first aired)
Barnaby Jones is a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as father- and daughter-in-law who run a private detective firm ... view
Character:
Eugene Armstrong (1 ep.)
Original title: Un homme est mort
1972
A French hit man is hired by a crime family to end the life of a rival mobster, but things fall apart when the boss who hired him is killed. ... view
Character:
Desk Clerk
1970
The story of three wildly neurotic characters: a facially disfigured girl, a homosexual paraplegic, and an introvert epileptic who, after leaving the ... view
Character:
Jesse
Sep 1963 (first aired)
Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allow ... view
Character:
Blaine Hagerman (1 ep.)
Oct 1962 (first aired)
Stoney Burke is an American western television series broadcast on ABC from October 1, 1962 until May 20, 1963. Six years before the premiere of his C ... view
Character:
Dayton Hill (1 ep.)
1962
The Valet enters a hotel room with Joseph Garcin in tow. The windowless room has a single entrance and no mirrors. Two women, Inès Serrano and Estell ... view
Character:
Camarero
1959
Joseph "Doc" Frail is a doctor with a past he's trying to outrun. While in Montana, he comes across a mining camp with a hanging tree and rescues a ma ... view
Character:
Rune
1958
A 1958 TV special celebrating westerns featuring John Wayne, John Ford, Gary Cooper, Gene Autry, Gabby Hayes and more. ... view
Character:
Self
1957
Teenage lovers are continually thwarted in their attempts to get married. ... view
Character:
David