Dana Elcar
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Dana Elcar (October 10, 1927 – June 6, 2005) was an American television and movie character actor. Although he appeared in about 40 films, his most memorable role was on the 1980s and 1990s television series MacGyver as Peter Thornton, an administrator working for the Phoenix Foundation. Elcar had appeared in the pilot episode of MacGyver as Andy Colson (a completely different character), but was later cast as Peter Thornton, making his first regular appearance in the 11th episode of the first season.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 13.498 |
| Birthday | 1927-10-10 |
| Place of Birth | Ferndale, Michigan United States |
| Also Known As |
1984
2010
6.7/927
While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American scientists aboard the Leonov hurtles to a rendezvou...
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2010
1967
The Borgia Stick
7.8/2
A suburban couple discovers that they are pawns for a powerful crime syndicate. They try to break away from the cartel and go legitimate, but the synd...
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The Borgia Stick
1973
Catch-22
5/2
Bombardier Yossarian is stationed on the small island of Pianosa during World War II. In addition to the enemy trying to kill him, Yossarian also has...
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Catch-22
1986
Murder in Three Acts
5.5/57
In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural unt...
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Murder in Three Acts
1968
A Lovely Way to Die
4.423/13
A cop quits the force after too much disappointment in the system. He becomes a bodyguard of a rich recent widow. She is on trial for her husband's mu...
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A Lovely Way to Die
1973
The Sting
8/2598
A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pulling off the ultimate big con and swindling a fort...
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The Sting
1968
The Boston Strangler
6.7/218
Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through...
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The Boston Strangler
1980
The Nude Bomb
5.5/80
When KAOS develops a bomb that can dissolve all clothing, Maxwell Smart is brought in to foil the evil plot.
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The Nude Bomb
1982
Breach of Contract
0/0
A husband and wife, both of whom are career-oriented, agree never to step on the other's ambitions. Unfortunately, both become too ambitious for their...
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Breach of Contract
1972
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
5.7/48
The gangs of Jesse James and Cole Younger join forces to rob the First National Bank in Northfield, Minnesota, but things do not go as planned.
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The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
1965
The Fool Killer
6.8/13
After the Civil War, a southern boy, aged 12, runs away from his foster home, wanders the countryside, and meets various odd characters along the way,...
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The Fool Killer
1980
The Last Flight of Noah's Ark
5.5/51
The only chance to escape a desert island is to convert the plane carrying many different animals into a boat.
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The Last Flight of Noah's Ark
1970
Soldier Blue
6.86/196
After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive private devoted to his duty, and Cresta, a young woman w...
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Soldier Blue
1975
Report to the Commissioner
6.8/18
Police officer Patty Butler, alias "Chicklet," is the live-in girlfriend of Thomas 'Stick' Henderson to gather evidence. Detective Bo Lockley is instr...
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Report to the Commissioner
1982
The Day the Bubble Burst
2/1
A fictionalized account of how the 1929 stock market crash hurt the elite and the struggling, and the forces that may have caused the crash to occur.
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The Day the Bubble Burst
1976
St. Ives
5.7/46
A dabbler-in-crime and his assistant hire an ex-police reporter to recover some stolen papers.
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St. Ives
1969
The Whole World Is Watching
0/0
In this second pilot of "The Lawyers," a rotating segment of "The Bold Ones" series, the firm of Nichols, Darrell & Darrell defends the leader of a st...
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The Whole World Is Watching
1976
W.C. Fields and Me
7.8/5
In 1920s New York City, W. C. Fields is a successful headlining entertainer, but when his girlfriend leaves him and his broker loses his money, Fields...
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W.C. Fields and Me
1981
Condorman
5.524/128
Comic artist and writer Woody performs a simple courier operation for his friend Harry who works for the CIA. But when he successfully fends off hosti...
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Condorman
1968
Of Mice and Men
0/0
Two ranch workers, one of them simple-minded, look for work and happiness during the Great Depression, but luck is not in their cards.
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Of Mice and Men
1984
Sweet Revenge
6.2/4
While a major in the U.S. Army, Joe Cheever has a fling with his commanding officer's daughter that results in a pregnancy. Cheever convinces the girl...
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Sweet Revenge
1971
A Gunfight
5.8/32
Will Tenneray and Abe Cross are two aging, famous gunfighters, both in need of money. Tenneray comes up with the idea to stage a duel to the death in...
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A Gunfight
1987
Inside Out
6.3/3
An agoraphobic must give up his sheltered life and venture outside after a series of personal and financial problems.
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Inside Out
1970
Zig Zag
7.5/7
A dying man frames himself for murder so his widow can collect the reward.
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Zig Zag
1973
Dying Room Only
6.6/18
A married couple are traveling on a deserted desert road at night. They stop at a diner and the husband goes to the men's room. He never returns and t...
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Dying Room Only
1984
Jungle Warriors
3.9/19
A group of models fly into the jungle of some South American country to look for a photo location. Their plane is shot down and they are captured by a...
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Jungle Warriors
1980
Death Penalty
0/0
A strong-willed psychologist tries to rehabilitate a member of a Pittsburgh street gang who has been found guilty of the murder of two other teenagers...
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Death Penalty
1983
Quarterback Princess
6.9/11
The Maida family has moved to Oregon, and daughter Tami wants to play quarterback for the high school football team. There's just one problem. She's a...
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Quarterback Princess
2020
'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
0/0
Film critic J. Hoberman discusses the best-selling 1962 novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler on which "Fail-Safe" is based, along with the perva...
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'Fail-Safe' and the Cold War
1979
Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff
5.4/14
An abusive sexual relationship between a white spinster schoolteacher and a young black janitor in 1956 Kansas complicates her struggle to come to gri...
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Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff
1980
Mark, I Love You
0/0
A distraught widower is caught in a bitter custody battle with his late wife's parents over his 10-year-old son, following his plans to remarry and mo...
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Mark, I Love You
1971
Mrs. Pollifax — Spy
6.1/8
Mrs. Emily Pollifax of New Jersey goes to the CIA to volunteer for spy duty, being in her own opinion, expendable now that the children are grown and...
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Mrs. Pollifax — Spy
1971
The Death of Me Yet
7/2
The editor of a small-town newspaper has his past unexpectedly catch up with him: he finds out that a Soviet agent who knew him when he was a spy has...
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The Death of Me Yet
1959
Burning Bright
0/0
In this acclaimed production of John Steinbeck's classic morality tale, award-winning actress Colleen Dewhurst stars as Mordeen, a wife driven to desp...
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Burning Bright
1979
Crisis in Mid-Air
6/1
The life of a stressed-out air controller falls apart as he battles a court case involving a mid-air collision for which an investigator is trying to...
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Crisis in Mid-Air
1974
Heatwave!
5.9/8
A devastating heatwave hits the Los Angeles area and a young expecting couple try to evade it by escaping to a mountain resort town.
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Heatwave!
1969
Deadlock
0/0
The murder of a journalist, coming shortly after the killings of a black teenager and a white cop, threatens to inflame passions in the city. To preve...
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Deadlock
1971
Sarge: The Badge or the Cross
0/0
After his wife is murdered, a veteran cop quits the police department and becomes a priest. Several years later he is assigned to a parish where he me...
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Sarge: The Badge or the Cross
1974
Senior Year
0/0
Pilot for the short-lived series "Sons and Daughters" set in a high school in the 1950's and seen through the eyes of five carefree seniors.
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Senior Year
1976
The Flying Misfits
6.8/4
The dramatized World War II adventures of US Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington and his Marine Attack Squadron 214, AKA The Black Sheep Squadron. The fil...
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The Flying Misfits
1969
The Learning Tree
6.9/21
The story, set in Kansas during the 1920's, covers less than a year in the life of a black teenager, and documents the veritable deluge of events whic...
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The Learning Tree
1976
Baby Blue Marine
5.25/10
A would-be Marine fails basic training, and is sent home wearing the "baby blue" fatigues of a washout. En route, he is mugged by a battle-fatigued Ma...
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Baby Blue Marine
1981
Buddy Buddy
6.2/99
During a high profile Mafia testimony case, a contract killer checks-in a hotel room near the courthouse while his next door depressed neighbor wants...
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Buddy Buddy
1983
Blue Skies Again
5.2/3
A hard-hitting, fast, sure-handed baseball player tries to break into the sport by applying for a spot on a minor-league team. The only problem is tha...
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Blue Skies Again
1970
San Francisco International
3.7/9
This pilot for the TV series stars Pernell Roberts as Jim Conrad, who runs an airport, much to the chagrin of his boss, "his way." In this, two plots...
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San Francisco International
1969
The D.A.: Murder One
0/0
A Deputy District Attorney suspects that a nurse has been murdering her rich husbands and relatives by giving them unneeded insulin doses, but his sup...
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The D.A.: Murder One
1987
There Were Times, Dear
0/0
Bob and Susanne Millard deal with the onset of Bob's Alzheimer's disease.
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There Were Times, Dear
1979
The Champ
7/190
Billy used to be a great boxer, but he's settled into a hardscrabble life that revolves around drinking, training horses, and the one bright spot in h...
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The Champ
1976
Law of the Land
3.7/3
A frontier sheriff and his young deputies search for a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes.
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Law of the Land
1964
Fail Safe
7.8/390
Because of a technical defect an American bomber team mistakenly orders the destruction of Moscow. The President of the United States has but little t...
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Fail Safe
1969
The Maltese Bippy
5.2/4
A man buys a house and comes to believe that not only is the house haunted by werewolves, but a family of vampires lives next door.
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The Maltese Bippy
1982
Forbidden Love
4.7/6
A young doctor meets and falls in love with the older Joanna, who is on the board of directors at his hospital. The people around them, including thei...
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Forbidden Love
1972
The Bravos
5.7/3
The commander of an isolated frontier cavalry post tries to stop an Indian war and find his son, who has been kidnapped.
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The Bravos
1970
Adam at Six A.M.
4.7/11
A disenchanted young Professor of Semantics at a California college learns of a distant relative's death in Missouri. He journeys cross-country to the...
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Adam at Six A.M.
1969
Pendulum
5.5/6
On the evening of his decoration for bringing a murderer to justice, Washington DC Police Captain Frank Matthews' wife, and her lover are murdered in...
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Pendulum
1979
Samurai
0/0
Lee Cantrell, a young San Francisco attorney by day, at night becomes a samurai warrior, and battles a crazed multi-millionaire who is planning to des...
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Samurai
1968
The Sound of Anger
0/0
Two teenagers who have been engaged in pre-marital sex become the prime suspects when the girl's disapproving father is mysteriously murdered.
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The Sound of Anger
1982
Help Wanted: Male
5/1
An unmarried career woman decides she wants a baby and finds a suitable partner, a sportswriter working for the magazine she publishes. After she mane...
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Help Wanted: Male
1984
All of Me
6.5/335
Just before stubborn millionaire Edwina Cutwater dies, she asks her uptight lawyer, Roger Cobb, to amend her will so that her soul will pass to the yo...
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All of Me
1974
Panic on the 5:22
5.3/3
Three armed men take over a private railroad car, determined to rob and kill the passengers.
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Panic on the 5:22
1972
Fireball Forward
5/1
A hard-nose general takes over a division with a bad combat record.
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Fireball Forward
1962
Big Deal in Laredo
0/0
A timid man with money problems gets into a big card game with some high-rollers.
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Big Deal in Laredo
1983
I Want to Live
4/2
The movie tells the story of a woman who struggles and fights to escape the gas chamber being condemned with capital punishment because of her partici...
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I Want to Live
1985
Toughlove
5/1
The Charters family falls into despair over their drug-addicted son Gary. They discuss his problems through the "Toughlove" program in searching for a...
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Toughlove
1983
Inspector Perez
0/0
Failed crime TV pilot starring Anne Bloom.
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Inspector Perez
1967
The Crucible
3.5/2
Landmark TV adaptation of the Arthur Miller play. Nominated for 3 Emmy awards.
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