William Atherton
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William Atherton Knight (born July 30, 1947) is an American actor, best known for portraying Richard Thornburg in Die Hard and its sequel and Walter Peck in Ghostbusters.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 6.501 |
| Birthday | 1947-07-30 |
| Place of Birth | Orange, Connecticut, USA |
| Also Known As | William Atherton Knight , |
1988
Die Hard
7.8/10995
NYPD cop John McClane's plan to reconcile with his estranged wife is thrown for a serious loop when, minutes after he arrives at her office, the entir...
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Die Hard
2003
The Last Samurai
7.59/6767
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and th...
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The Last Samurai
1984
Ghostbusters
7.49/8826
After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting "ghostbusters" who...
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Ghostbusters
1990
Die Hard 2
7/5692
One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Chris...
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Die Hard 2
1974
The Sugarland Express
6.575/372
Married small-time crooks Lou-Jean and Clovis Poplin lose their baby to the state of Texas and resolve to do whatever it takes to get him back. Lou-Je...
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The Sugarland Express
1975
The Day of the Locust
6.3/87
Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with...
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The Day of the Locust
1991
Oscar
6.287/499
Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite...
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Oscar
2005
Into the Sun
4.511/142
After the assassination of Tokyo's Governor by Yakuza members, the CIA bureau chief (William Atherton) for Tokyo puts out a call to an agent (Steven S...
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Into the Sun
2000
The Crow: Salvation
5.567/336
Alex Corvis, a man wrongly executed for the murder of his girlfriend, returns from the dead and sets out to find the real killer.
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The Crow: Salvation
1996
Bio-Dome
4.5/357
Bud and Doyle are two losers who are doing nothing with their lives. Both of their girlfriends are actively involved in saving the environment, but th...
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Bio-Dome
1997
Mad City
6.2/331
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.
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Mad City
1993
The Pelican Brief
6.601/1533
A law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her in a far-reaching web of murder, corruption, and greed.
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The Pelican Brief
2005
Headspace
5.4/37
25-year-old Alex Borden's chance encounter with a mysterious stranger has found his intellect rapidly expanding, but as the power of his mind grows so...
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Headspace
1986
No Mercy
5.825/171
An unconventional undercover Chicago cop and his partner are recruited to commit the murder of a New Orleans criminal kingpin.
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No Mercy
1985
Real Genius
6.672/427
Chris is the top brain who just wants to party, Mitch is the 15-year-old college wiz kid. Supposedly hard at work on a lab project with a mysterious d...
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Real Genius
1994
Frank & Jesse
5.2/35
At the end of the Civil War, Frank and Jesse James and other former guerillas who rode with Quantrill and Bill Anderson take the oath of allegiance to...
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Frank & Jesse
2005
Gone But Not Forgotten
4.9/9
An Oregon woman vanishes. In her wake remains a single black rose & a note reading gone but not forgotten. Now a man stands accused: a private eye has...
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Gone But Not Forgotten
2007
Kush
2.9/4
A young drug dealer Dusty, is torn between the money and getting out. When his partner Christian, is caught up in a kidnapping and murder scheme.
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Kush
2007
The Girl Next Door
6.649/698
In a quiet suburban town in the summer of 1958, two recently orphaned sisters are placed in the care of their mentally unstable Aunt Ruth. But Ruth's...
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The Girl Next Door
2001
Race to Space
5.9/23
In the 1960s a young woman works at NASA as an animal trainer responsible for the chimpanzee who will go into space.
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Race to Space
1977
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
6.292/108
A dedicated schoolteacher spends her nights cruising bars, looking for abusive men with whom she can engage in progressively more violent sexual encou...
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Looking for Mr. Goodbar
1990
Buried Alive
6.674/149
A married woman and her lover plot to kill her husband to make off with the insurance money. However, their attempt to murder him using poisonous fish...
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Buried Alive
2010
The Kane Files: Life of Trial
5.1/14
Scott Kane (Drew Fuller), a man with a checkered past is trying to live a clean life. When his son Owen falls ill, Kane finds his only option is to tu...
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The Kane Files: Life of Trial
1975
The Hindenburg
6.301/123
Colonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of security....
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The Hindenburg
1990
Grim Prairie Tales
5.455/22
Two travelers meet on the open prairie, and pass their time together by trading stories with each other. Their tales become a sort of competition, eac...
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Grim Prairie Tales
2008
Aces 'N' Eights
6.4/24
Already taking a gamble settling in the uncharted west, the peaceful settlers of a town destined for railroad greatness suddenly find themselves being...
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Aces 'N' Eights
2014
Jinn
4.1/86
From the beginning, stories of angels and men have captured our imaginations and have been etched into our history crossing all boundaries of culture,...
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Jinn
1998
Michael Kael vs. the World News Company
3.4/8
A naive French reporter is sent to an African town to cover a sensational news story, unaware that it has been faked by an international news giant in...
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Michael Kael vs. the World News Company
2008
Ghouls
3.4/16
Stefan invites his daughter, Jennifer, to travel to Romania for the funeral of his mother. His mystic girlfriend Liz travels with them to the cursed v...
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Ghouls
1999
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
6.691/34
An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy still struggled with the challenge of her color, in a time that wouldn't let some stars in by the front door. Ye...
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Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
1982
Tomorrow's Child
0/0
The wife of a research geneticist agrees to the experimental procedure of a 'test-tube baby' by having her fetus brought to full term in a glass jar i...
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Tomorrow's Child
2024
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
6.633/1342
When the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to protect their home and save the world...
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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
2012
Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
5.476/127
Two guys get a billion dollars to make a movie, only to watch their dream run off course.
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Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie
2012
Jersey Shore Shark Attack
4.8/48
Many years ago, hundreds of locals and tourists were massacred by giant man-eating sharks in the infamous 1916 Jersey Shore attacks. But that's just a...
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Jersey Shore Shark Attack
1994
Saints and Sinners
4.3/3
After many years Pooch returns to his neighbourhood. To Big Boy, his best friend, Pooch is valuable asset in his plans of becoming local crime lord. T...
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Saints and Sinners
1992
Chrome Soldiers
4.7/3
Five ex-soldiers go to a small town in Oregon to help a friend investigate the murder of his brother.
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Chrome Soldiers
2001
Burning Down the House
10/1
A down-on-his-luck film director sets fire to his home so he can collect the insurance money and fund his new movie. But crime apparently does pay, be...
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Burning Down the House
2020
Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters
6.8/13
The documentary that tells us the full story from where it all started through to the future of the "Ghostbusters" franchise.
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Cleanin' Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters
1988
Intrigue
5.7/3
A spy is looking for his old colleague who now works for the other side.
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Intrigue
1972
The New Centurions
6.7/66
An idealistic rookie cop joins the LAPD to make ends meet while finishing law school, and is indoctrinated by a seasoned veteran. As time goes on, he...
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The New Centurions
1992
Diagnosis Murder: Diagnosis of Murder
8.3/10
Convinced that his long-time patient Nick Osborn didn't murder his boss, Mark Sloan starts investigating the case himself, supported by a junior docto...
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Diagnosis Murder: Diagnosis of Murder
1995
Broken Trust
5.2/5
A scrupulously honest judge finds he's a pawn in a federal sting to ferret out corrupt members of the bench, many of whom are his friends.
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Broken Trust
2000
Bread and Roses
6.308/117
Maya is a quick-witted young woman who comes over the Mexican border without papers and makes her way to the LA home of her older sister Rosa. Rosa ge...
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Bread and Roses
1995
A Night to Die For
0/0
TV special worth watching if only for the incongruous interviews with Wayne Newton, Wayne Gretzky, Kareem Abdul Jabar, Rudolph Giuliani, Mike Ditka, a...
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A Night to Die For
1997
Executive Power
6.5/5
While protecting the U.S. President, Secret Service agent Nick Sager helps him to dispose of the body of a young girl, who accidentally died during an...
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Executive Power
Midnight Men - A John Schlesinger & Michael Childers Story
0/0
A documentary on John Schlesinger and Michael Childers.
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Where Did the Adults Go?
0/0
Every year, on the anniversary of their parents’ death, Cynthia, Bryce, and Miles gather at the family summer home to reminisce and have brunch at the...
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Where Did the Adults Go?
1981
The House of Mirth
0/0
Lily Bart, a well-born, but penniless woman of the high society of New York City, who was raised and educated to become wife to a rich man. As an unma...
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The House of Mirth
2004
Who's Your Daddy?
4.907/81
An adopted Ohio high school senior discovers he is the inherited heir to a porn empire. Dropped into a bitter power struggle, his new flock of beautif...
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Who's Your Daddy?
1976
Independence
0/0
John Huston directs this film giving relevance and life to the hallowed buildings and ground making up Independence National Historical Park. Through...
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Independence
2008
Black Crescent Moon
3.9/7
A small town sheriff who's investigating a murder at the local diner ends up finding more than he bargained for in the town and in himself.
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Black Crescent Moon
2007
Towards Darkness
5.6/7
About a kidnapped hostage's life, and the frustration his family, a special ops team, and a man in charge of delivering the ransom money all feel as t...
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Towards Darkness
2016
Ghostheads
5.9/32
A documentary that explores the extreme side of the Ghostbusters fandom. Join us as we travel the world meeting extreme Ghostbusters fans. Every Ghost...
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Ghostheads
2017
Clinical
5.3/402
A psychiatrist tries to put her life back together after a violent attack by seeking to repair the life of a new patient, but he has his own terrifyin...
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Clinical
1996
Raven Hawk
4/8
A Native-American woman, who was framed for the murders of her parents years before, returns to her reservation to seek revenge.
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Raven Hawk
1997
Hoodlum
6.386/185
In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harle...
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Hoodlum
1987
The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine
8/2
Robert McCall is forced to work with a former terrorist turned monk by the name of Joseph Heiden(Telly Savalas), whom he despises and mistrusts, on a...
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The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine
1973
Class of '44
5.9/5
During the last years of World War II, Hermie, Oscy, and Benjie are coming of age. They went their separate ways when they graduated from high school...
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Class of '44
1986
A Fight for Jenny
7/2
When Kelsey remarries, her struggle to get custody of her daughter from her first marriage is complicated by her current husband being black.
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A Fight for Jenny
1983
Malibu
3/2
A young couple from Milwaukee moves into the fabled, high-society Malibu beach community and becomes involved with the lives of the various people liv...
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Malibu
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
1999
The Stranger
2/1
A young woman's dreams become real-life nightmares after a mysterious stranger comes into her life.
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