Allan Rich
Allan Rich (born Benjamin Norman Schultz; (February 8, 1926 – August 22, 2020) was an American character actor, author and activist.
Allan Rich was one of the many alleged communist sympathizers blacklisted in the 1950s Hollywood blacklist. He mentored Rene Russo in the world of acting and also played a judge in Hill Street Blues.
Rich was the co-founder of non-profit organization We Care About Kids, which produces educational short films for middle and high school youths.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 4.852 |
Birthday | 1926-02-08 |
Place of Birth | The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA |
Also Known As | Benjamin Norman Schultz, |
2007
Rise: Blood Hunter
5.358/265
A reporter on the trail of a sinister cult wakes up in a morgue to find herself a member of the undead. She goes on a personal vendetta for a group a...
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Rise: Blood Hunter
1977
A Killing Affair
5.2/4
A white female detective is partnered with a black male detective to find the person who is committing a series of particularly vicious murders. Durin...
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A Killing Affair
1994
Quiz Show
7.3/880
Herbert Stempel's transformation into an unexpected television personality unfolds as he secures victory on the cherished American game show, 'Twenty-...
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Quiz Show
1991
Highlander II: The Quickening
4.71/834
In the year 2024, the ozone layer is believed to have been destroyed, and it's up to MacLeod and Ramirez to set things right. Opposition comes from bo...
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Highlander II: The Quickening
1997
Amistad
7.023/1270
In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are th...
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Amistad
1982
The Entity
6.642/465
Single mother Carla Moran is raped and attacked by an invisible force. She begins therapy with Dr. Phil Sneiderman, a psychiatrist who believes Carla'...
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The Entity
1977
Tail Gunner Joe
6/2
Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to give him a national power base when he later plann...
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Tail Gunner Joe
1974
The Gambler
6.7/102
New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling add...
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The Gambler
1995
Two Much
5.336/146
Art Dodge is a painter-turned-gallerist drowning in debt. He gets in over his head when a con job leads to an engagement with a rich divorcee. He gets...
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Two Much
1997
Out to Sea
5.6/99
Care-free Charlie cons his widower brother-in-law Herb into an expenses-paid luxury cruise in search of rich, lonely ladies. The catch is that they ar...
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Out to Sea
2007
The Memory Thief
5/4
A Los Angeles tollbooth clerk becomes obsessed with the Holocaust after meeting a survivor.
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The Memory Thief
1981
The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire
5.5/11
A rugged warrior is on a quest to avenge his father's brutal slaying and in search of a legendary sorcerer who can help him. Joining him on his missio...
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The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire
1988
Checking Out
4.3/17
When his best friend dies of a heart attack, Ray Macklin becomes a man obsessed with his own mortality. Convinced that all his aches and pains are an...
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Checking Out
1985
J.O.E. and the Colonel
2/1
Scientists create "the perfect soldier" in a lab experiment by recombining his molecules. He is then sent out on dangerous but vital missions.
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J.O.E. and the Colonel
1978
Uncle Joe Shannon
0/0
A trumpet player, self-destructive after the death of his wife and child in a fire, befriends a crippled youngster and together they battle obstacles...
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Uncle Joe Shannon
1977
The Hostage Heart
0/0
When billionaire industrialist goes into a hospital for a heart operation, some people who claim to be revolutionaries enter the operating room and dr...
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The Hostage Heart
1982
Frances
6.87/104
The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
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Frances
1979
Voices
3/2
An up-and-coming nightclub singer falls in love with a shy young deaf teacher who aspires to be a dancer.
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Voices
1989
Another Chance
2.7/3
A womanizer tries to redeem himself to win over the girl of his dreams.
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Another Chance
2016
The Last Laugh
6.9/20
Feature documentary about humor and the Holocaust, examining whether it is ever acceptable to use humor in connection with a tragedy of that scale, an...
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The Last Laugh
1996
Miami Hustle
3.6/5
Marsha, a con artist with a conscience, has agreed to take on an unusual scheme in order to pay off a debt to a lawyer who helped out her brother. An...
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Miami Hustle
1980
Gideon's Trumpet
6.2/10
True story of Clarence Gideon's fight to be appointed counsel at the expense of the state. This landmark case led to the Supreme Court's decision whic...
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Gideon's Trumpet
1991
Ragin Cajun
3.8/4
After his girlfriend is kidnapped by a vicious mobster, Cage rips into action with a vengeance. Retired from kickboxing to pursue dreams of being an e...
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Ragin Cajun
1996
The Rich Man's Wife
5.4/49
A rich man's wife finds she has a bad prenuptial agreement with an even worse husband. Over drinks with a stranger, she fantasizes about doing her hus...
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The Rich Man's Wife
1976
Scott Free
0/0
A professional gambler finds himself on the run from the mob, the federal government, and a band of Indians, all of whom have an interest in a piece o...
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Scott Free
1976
Mallory: Circumstantial Evidence
0/0
In this pilot film, Mallory is a prominent lawyer with a tarnished reputation who defends a young man charged with committing homicide against a sexua...
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Mallory: Circumstantial Evidence
2011
Troupers
0/0
Takes a look at twelve working actors in Hollywood over 80 and how they have managed to survive this crazy business.
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Troupers
1994
Disclosure
6.256/1149
A computer specialist is sued for sexual harassment by a former lover turned boss who initiated the act forcefully, which threatens both his career an...
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Disclosure
1978
The Millionaire
0/0
Three people's lives are drastically changed when they are suddenly given one million dollars each by an eccentric billionaire in this pilot to a pros...
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The Millionaire
1990
Matters of the Heart
4/2
A noted concert pianist in her early forties, totally obsessed with her music, retreats to a small town to be alone and to write a concerto, but there...
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Matters of the Heart
1998
Exposé
3/3
Jason Davis is a reporter who gets an anonymous tip that turns him into an eyewitness to a judge's murder.
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Exposé
1973
Serpico
7.543/1879
Frank Serpico is an idealistic New York City cop who refuses to take bribes, unlike the rest of the force. Frank's actions get him shunned by the othe...
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Serpico
1996
Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen
4.7/3
Explores sexuality and censorship over a hundred years of motion pictures.
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Sex, Censorship and the Silver Screen
1993
Amore!
3.8/4
Saul Schwartz, a married successful businessman, is bored with his life and decides he has had enough. So he gets a divorce, quits his job, and goes o...
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Amore!
1981
A Gun in the House
6.3/3
A woman who uses a handgun to defend herself and shoots a man who is assaulting her in her home is doggedly prosecuted by the district attorney, bent...
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A Gun in the House
2007
Man in the Chair
6.933/15
The story of an aspiring young filmmaker's encounter with a grumpy fount of movie lore.
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Man in the Chair
1981
The Ordeal of Bill Carney
0/0
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...
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The Ordeal of Bill Carney
1994
A Part of the Family
0/0
A bright young New York physician takes her husband, a jokey/cynical tabloid reporter, home to Illinois to meet her parents.
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A Part of the Family
2008
The Last Word
5.878/63
An odd-but-gifted poet, Evan Merck makes his living writing suicide notes for the soon-to-be departed. So when he meets Charlotte, the free-spirited s...
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The Last Word
1986
Bad Guys
10/1
Two LA cops turn to professional wrestling for money and revenge after being suspended from the force for a bar brawl.
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Bad Guys
1992
Dead On: Relentless II
5.4/6
Detective Sam Dietz is paired with a shady FBI agent to track down another serial killer terrorizing Los Angeles.
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Dead On: Relentless II
1982
Eating Raoul
6.483/121
A relatively boring Los Angeles couple discover a bizarre, if not murderous way to get funding for opening a restaurant.
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Eating Raoul
1991
Guilty by Suspicion
6.481/158
Owing to his alleged involvement with communist parties, film director David Merrill is forbidden from working in Hollywood. He decides to fight for h...
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Guilty by Suspicion
1996
Jack
6.3/1234
Jack Powell suffers from an affliction that makes him grow four times faster than normal, so the 10 year old boy looks like a 40 year old man. After y...
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Jack
1984
Kidco
6.353/17
A boy who lives at a country club where his father works decides to make some extra money by selling composted horse manure as fertilizer, and has his...
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Kidco
1979
The Seekers
0/0
This follow-up to "The Bastard" and "The Rebels" continues the account of Philip Kent's life and career from his emigration to colonial Massachusetts...
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The Seekers
1979
The Frisco Kid
6.138/146
Rabbi Avram arrives in Philadelphia from Poland en route to San Francisco where he will be a congregation's new rabbi. An innocent and inexperienced t...
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The Frisco Kid
1977
Terraces
4.75/4
Story of the various joys and crises of neighbors who share terraces in a high-rise apartment building.
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Terraces
2006
The Alibi
5.678/107
Con man Ray Elliot decides to leave crime behind to start a company that sells fake alibis to clients who have been unfaithful to their significant ot...
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The Alibi
2002
The Dogwalker
2/1
Jerry Cooper is The Dogwalker, a Tom Sawyer grown up for the nineties, who having fallen on hard times, is struggling with the reality of having to sl...
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The Dogwalker
2010
Father and Son
0/0
A grown man's quest to find love and acceptance from his stepdad and win a magazine contest.
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Father and Son
1975
The Happy Hooker
4/13
Having emigrated to New York and immediately got the kiss-off from her mother-besotted fiance, a Dutch lass takes a well-paid office job and starts li...
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The Happy Hooker
1975
Strike Force
6.5/4
A New York City detective teams up with a federal agent and a state trooper to bust up a drug ring.
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Strike Force
2014
Wish I Was Here
6.549/712
Aidan Bloom, a struggling actor, father and husband, is 35 years old and still trying to find a purpose for his life. He and his wife are barely getti...
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Wish I Was Here
1981
Chicago Story
6/1
A pair of cops, a pair of doctors, and a pair of lawyers examine a crime — the wounding of a ten-year-old girl by a sniper — from three different angl...
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Chicago Story
1980
Hero at Large
6.128/39
An idealistic but struggling actor finds his life unexpectedly complicated when he stops a robbery while wearing the costume of Captain Avenger, a sup...
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Hero at Large
2001
Skippy
8/1
A half-wit falls in love with a beautiful movie star.
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Skippy
1990
Betsy's Wedding
5.7/45
Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé Jake Lovell just want an intimate little wedding reception, but B...
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