Dakin Matthews
Melvin Richard "Dakin" Matthews (born November 7, 1940) is an American actor, playwright, theatre director, and theatrical scholar. Best known as Herb Kelcher in ‘’My Two Dads’’ (1987-1989), Hamlin Charleston in ‘’Gilmore Girls’’ (2000-2007), and as Reverend Sikes in ‘’Desperate Housewives’’ (2004-2012).
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 7.251 |
Birthday | 1940-11-07 |
Place of Birth | Oakland, California, USA |
Also Known As | Melvin Richard Matthews, Melvin Richard "Dakin" Matthews, |
1993
And the Band Played On
6.5/97
The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.
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And the Band Played On
1991
Child's Play 3
5.886/1562
Eight years after seemingly destroying the killer doll, teen Andy Barclay is placed in a military school, and the spirit of Chucky returns to renew hi...
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Child's Play 3
1994
The Swan Princess
6.6/948
The beautiful princess Odette is transformed into a swan by an evil sorcerer's spell. Held captive at an enchanted lake, she befriends Jean-Bob the fr...
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The Swan Princess
1997
Flubber
5.6/2322
Professor Phillip Brainard, an absent minded professor, works with his assistant Weebo, trying to create a substance that's a new source of energy and...
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Flubber
1987
Nuts
6.3/113
A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared mentally incompetent.
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Nuts
1988
Funny Farm
6.2/260
Sportswriter Andy Farmer moves with his schoolteacher wife Elizabeth to the country in order to write a novel in relative seclusion. Of course, seclus...
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Funny Farm
1988
Clean and Sober
6.3/75
Hotshot real estate salesman Daryl has a bad cocaine habit. After embezzling his company's money, he wakes up next to a girl who overdosed. To hide fr...
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Clean and Sober
1987
Like Father Like Son
5.7/135
Dr. Jack Hammond has best chances to become medical superintendent in the clinic. So he's completely absorbed in his work and has no understanding for...
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Like Father Like Son
1994
Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills
5.7/6
About the 1989 murders of Carolco Entertainment chairman, Jose Menendez, and his wife, Kitty, who were killed by their sons, Lyle and Erik, in Beverly...
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Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills
2010
True Grit
7.3/5199
Following the murder of her father by a hired hand, a 14-year-old farm girl sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. Ma...
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True Grit
2023
Waitress: The Musical
7.9/18
A waitress and expert pie-maker dreams of a way out of her small town and rocky marriage.
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Waitress: The Musical
1993
The Temp
4.6/61
A series of mysterious accidents at a food company lead a manager to suspect his impressive new temporary secretary.
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The Temp
1988
The Silence at Bethany
0/0
A young man, searching for meaning and focus in his life, returns to the Mennonite farm community where he was born.
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The Silence at Bethany
1989
Naked Lie
2/2
They are the perfect, and politically correct, couple. He is a judge, she is a high profile attorney. When she takes on a sensational murder case, the...
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Naked Lie
1988
Baby M
6/2
Baby M is a two-part TV movie predicated on a headline-making true event. In 1985, Mary Beth Whitehead accepted $10,000 to bear a child, which then wo...
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Baby M
2013
Zero Charisma
6.3/47
An obsessive fantasy nerd gradually becomes unhinged when a charismatic hipster joins his role-playing game.
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Zero Charisma
1992
Criminal Behavior
7.3/3
A female lawyer is stalked by a killer. The last in a long line of con artists, defense lawyer Jessie Lee Stubbs has every intention of staying on the...
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Criminal Behavior
1993
Rising Sun
6.157/739
When a prostitute is found dead in a Los Angeles skyscraper occupied by a large Japanese corporation, detectives John Connor and Web Smith are called...
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Rising Sun
1995
Stuart Saves His Family
5.2/25
A self-help advocate struggles to put his dysfunctional family in its place.
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Stuart Saves His Family
1991
In a Stranger's Hand
5.8/6
Jack Bauer, a workaholic businessman, accidentally gets involved in a case of child kidnapping when he returns a doll found in the subway.
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In a Stranger's Hand
2011
The Eagle
6.2/1273
In 140 AD, twenty years after the unexplained disappearance of the entire Ninth Legion in the mountains of Scotland, young centurion Marcus Aquila arr...
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The Eagle
1993
Undercover Blues
6/151
When fun-loving American agents Jeff and Jane Blue are called back from maternity leave for a special assignment in New Orleans, the spy parents decid...
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Undercover Blues
1989
Wired
3.5/20
The ghost of John Belushi looks back on his troubled life and career.
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Wired
1990
Ghost Dad
5.1/203
Elliot Hopper, a widower with three children, is working on a business deal to get his family out of financial straits when he is suddenly killed in a...
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Ghost Dad
1991
Jailbirds
10/1
Personalities clash when a city executive and a small town seamstress are thrown into jail for crimes they didn't commit and then escape, handcuffed t...
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Jailbirds
2012
Lincoln
6.857/3731
The revealing story of the 16th US President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln p...
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Lincoln
1993
Staying Afloat
0/0
In this comedy thriller, a prospective series pilot, Larry Hagman plays a disinherited socialite and high roller who, with the aid of a comely con art...
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Staying Afloat
1999
The Muse
5.2/134
With his career on the skids, a Hollywood screenwriter enlists the aid of a modern-day muse, who proves to test his patience.
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The Muse
1994
The Enemy Within
5.6/32
A officer with the Joint Chiefs of Staff uncovers a planned military coup of the U.S. government and has only one week to prevent the takeover.
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The Enemy Within
1991
The Whereabouts of Jenny
6/1
Jimmy O'Meara loves his daughter more than anything in the world. But when his ex-wife gets involved with a man who's involved with criminals, his wor...
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The Whereabouts of Jenny
2002
The Big Time
0/0
In 1948 Manhattan, a diverse group of people are committed to making the fledgling Empire Network a success. Among them: a naive young woman who's hir...
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The Big Time
1989
Out on the Edge
3.5/2
Danny is a troubled teen with a difficult home life. His parents' marriage has disintegrated, and his father's already found someone else he'd like to...
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Out on the Edge
2015
Bridge of Spies
7.234/6751
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison,...
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Bridge of Spies
1988
Sunset
5.648/85
Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp team up to solve a murder at the Academy Awards in 1929 Hollywood.
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Sunset
1991
Under Cover
0/0
A seasoned operative pursues a dangerous mission: to prevent the assassination of a high-ranking Soviet reformer. Meanwhile, his best friend believes...
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Under Cover
1989
The Fabulous Baker Boys
6.621/323
The lives of two struggling musicians, who happen to be brothers, inevitably change when they team up with a beautiful, up-and-coming singer.
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The Fabulous Baker Boys
1992
For Richer, for Poorer
5.5/10
Fresh out of college, a young man lazes about his family's estate, which irritates his father, a self-made millionaire who hatches a bankruptcy plan t...
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For Richer, for Poorer
1991
White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd
6/1
When '30s film star Thelma Todd dies mysteriously, her relationship with New York mobster Lucky Luciano is investigated.
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White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd
1989
My Brother's Wife
0/0
Barney is a guy who comes home for his father's funeral. Eleanor, his brother's wife who is Barney first love meets him and they go to the club where...
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My Brother's Wife
2000
Thirteen Days
7.025/730
The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the discovery by the Americans of missile bases establishe...
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Thirteen Days
2003
The Fighting Temptations
5.766/122
Darrin Hill, a slick-talking but down-on- his-luck NYC advertising exec, returns to his hometown in Georgia to claim the inheritance his aunt left him...
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The Fighting Temptations
1991
The Perfect Tribute
7.2/4
A boy risks life and limb to travel across the war-torn southern states of America during the height of hostilities in the Civil War, hoping to visit...
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The Perfect Tribute
1993
Rio Shannon
0/0
A widow and her family face new challenges when they relocate to a run-down guest ranch in New Mexico.
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Rio Shannon
1998
The Siege
6.302/1306
The secret US abduction of a suspected terrorist from his Middle East homeland leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York. An FBI senior agent...
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The Siege
2000
An Extremely Goofy Movie
6.403/629
It's all extreme sports and a life of freedom as Max sets off for college -- but Goofy misses Max so much he loses his job and goes to finish college...
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An Extremely Goofy Movie
1995
Virus
4.6/9
Who could have deliberately released a rare and deadly African plague that is now spreading uncontrollably throughout America's largest urban areas? A...
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Virus
1997
Bean
6.5/2369
Childlike Englishman, Mr. Bean, is an incompetent watchman at the Royal National Gallery. After the museum's board of directors' attempt to have him f...
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Bean
1992
Revolver
0/0
Nick Suster, a secret intelligence agent paralyzed by an assassin's bullet, sets out to track down his assailant and in the process, uncovers a major...
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Revolver
1988
Permanent Record
6.424/51
David Sinclair seems to have everything going for him: he's smart, musically talented, and very successful. To top off his senior year in high school,...
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Permanent Record
1998
The Siege
6.302/1306
The secret US abduction of a suspected terrorist from his Middle East homeland leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York. An FBI senior agent...
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The Siege
1993
Hart to Hart Returns
6.4/12
Jonathan Hart, the wealthy entrepreneur, and his charming investigative reporter wife, Jennifer, once again get caught up in a mystery, this time invo...
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Hart to Hart Returns
1998
Best Friends for Life
0/0
Sarah and Harriet have been best friends since childhood. They married at the same time, had children within the same year and now find themselves fac...
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Best Friends for Life
1994
White Mile
5.6/15
An ad-agency boss (Alan Alda) leads a white-water-rafting trip into danger.
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White Mile
1992
Grave Secrets: The Legacy of Hilltop Drive
4.6/14
Jean and Shag Williams locate a newly built house and decide it's perfect for them to buy. One thing the developers forgot to tell them about was that...
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Grave Secrets: The Legacy of Hilltop Drive
2024
Doc of Chucky
0/0
The story of the cult horror empire through interviews with cast, crew, and horror icons such as Don Mancini, Brad Dourif, Jennifer Tilly, Catherine H...
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