James Keane

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1952-09-26

Buffalo, New York, USA

Biography

James Keane (born September 26, 1952) is an American film and television actor. He is known for playing the role of Willis Thomas Bell in the American drama television series The Paper Chase.

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {79}

Vanzant

1982-12-07 6.68

48 Hrs.

A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer. ...

Genre :Crime, Action, Comedy

Radio Telescope Team

1977-12-14 7.351

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen. ...

Genre :Science Fiction, Drama

Senator Banner

2005-05-26 5.1

Silent Partner

Gordon Patrick, a young CIA analyst is assigned to investigate the mysterious death of a major Russian political figure. ...

Genre :Crime, Action

Eddie

1982-02-12 5.767

Cannery Row

Doc, who has just moved to Cannery Row, realizes that the only entertainment is the brothel. There he meets the spunky Suzy and they fall in love, giving them both a renewed chance at life. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Harv

1993-07-23 5.462

Coneheads

A pair of aliens arrive on Earth to prepare for invasion, but crash instead. With enormous cone-shaped heads, robotlike walks and an appetite for toilet paper, aliens Beldar and Prymatt don't exactly ...

Genre :Comedy, Science Fiction

Jonathan White

2001-02-01 0

The Vampire Hunters Club

Genre :Comedy, Horror

Whitey

2003-03-08 5.3

Assassination Tango

John J. is a seasoned hit man sent on a job to Argentina. When the General he's sent to kill delays his return to the country, John passes the time with Manuela, a beautiful dancer who becomes his tea ...

Genre :Drama, Romance, Thriller

American Politics Director

1998-05-15 6.318

Bulworth

A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop music and cul ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Crime, Thriller, Romance

Lambert

1982-01-05 9

The Ambush Murders

An African-American political activist is wrongfully imprisoned for killing two white policemen; he is unwary of yet another white lawyer who claims that he will help free him. ...

Genre :TV Movie, Drama

1982-12-31 0

The Sound of Murder

The wife of a cynical children's author and her navy man lover decide to murder him because he won't give her a divorce. Their plan is so diabolically complicated it just might work, but the wife has ...

Genre :Drama, Thriller, TV Movie

Jimmy

1989-03-10 6.2

New York Stories

Three tales of love, ambition, and neurosis unfold in the city that never sleeps. In "Life Lessons" (Martin Scorsese), a tormented painter channels heartbreak into his art. In "Life Without Zoë" (Fran ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Jeels

1978-01-01 7

Uncle Joe Shannon

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 through each other's encouragement. ...

Genre :Drama

Graydon Wofford

2013-04-14 0

Emit

In a world where time flows backwards, an old man eagerly awaits meeting his wife for the first time. His 7-year granddaughter contemplates her upcoming mortality. ...

Genre :Science Fiction

Wes

2002-03-14 6

Don't Let Go

Scott Wilson plays Jimmy Ray in 'Don't Let Go'. He's a Rockabilly star who's a legend both because of his great hits and because he gave up music very young when his brother was killed. Now, years lat ...

Genre :

Jerry

1983-03-11 6.211

10 to Midnight

Warren Stacy, an office equipment repairman, begins murdering women after they reject his advances. To minimize the evidence, Stacy always kills while naked, wearing nothing but gloves, and further ev ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

Ray Coffey

1991-04-26 6.25

Talent for the Game

Virgil Sweet is on the verge of losing his job as a talent scout with the California Angels when he discovers Sammy Bodeen, a country boy with no pro ball experience, but with a pitching arm no one ha ...

Genre :Drama

Police Chief Dan

1998-09-17 7.259

Pleasantville

Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and find a world where everything is peachy keen all ...

Genre :Fantasy, Comedy, Drama

Pete the Cop

1996-07-05 6.474

Phenomenon

An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance, Science Fiction, Fantasy

Corporal

1979-05-03 6.2

Ike

Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other wartime leaders, and, very discreetly, his personal relationship with his driver, Kay Summersby. ...

Genre :Drama, History, War, TV Movie

Girlie Bar Bartender

1978-06-23 4.286

Zero to Sixty

A divorced man hooks up with a street-smart 16-year-old who makes her living by repossessing cars from their owners. ...

Genre :Comedy

Car Customer

2003-07-22 7.058

Seabiscuit

True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation. ...

Genre :Drama, History

Maitre d'

1995-01-11 5.1

Here Come the Munsters

The Munsters come to America to search for Herman's brother-in-law Norman Hyde, only to find out that he has turned himself into Brent Jekyll, who is running for congress, and Grandpa must make a form ...

Genre :Horror, Comedy, Family, TV Movie

Kilgore's Gunner

1979-05-19 8.268

Apocalypse Now

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterio ...

Genre :Drama, War

Extra

2019-05-22 5

The Rizen: Possession

A group of young urban explorers and a private military unit could become the final pieces in a 60-year plan to reopen a door that should have stayed closed. But what they unleashed could almost tear ...

Genre :Action, Horror, Science Fiction

Veteran Cop

1997-01-01 3

The Fumbleheads

When his town's beloved football team, the Buzzards, moves out of state, diehard fan Charlie confronts the team's greedy owner. With the help of his nephew and a nervous accountant, Charlie embarks on ...

Genre :Comedy

Duck Hunter Bubba

1984-08-10 5.988

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension

Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the 8th dimension. ...

Genre :Science Fiction, Comedy, Adventure, Romance

Preacher

2008-09-20 5.25

A Gunfighter's Pledge

After killing former sheriff Matt Austin's wife and son for revenge, a quest begins. An escaped prisoner shows that he remembers who sent him to do time in jail so long ago. In a small town saloon Aus ...

Genre :Western, Action, TV Movie

Charlie

1978-01-29 5.5

Night Cries

A young woman whose baby died in childbirth refuses to believe it and has dreams that her child is still alive and in danger. A scientist who is conducting experiments about dreams tries to help her. ...

Genre :Horror, Drama, TV Movie

Marty Green / Riot Cop (voice)

2002-06-28 6.482

Hey Arnold! The Movie

Arnold and his friends must recover a stolen document in order to prevent the neighborhood from being bulldozed. ...

Genre :Animation, Comedy, Family, Adventure, Drama, Thriller

Pat Patton

1990-04-05 6.147

Dick Tracy

The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob. ...

Genre :Adventure, Comedy, Crime

Store Clerk

1975-09-24 7.278

Three Days of the Condor

When bookish CIA researcher Joe Turner finds all his co-workers dead, he, together with a woman he has kidnapped, must work together to outwit those responsible until he determines who he can really t ...

Genre :Thriller, Mystery

Hugh Bob

1977-12-12 0

Sunshine Christmas

A musician, brooding over the marriage of his sometime girlfriend, decides to take his adopted daughter to his home in Texas to celebrate Christmas with his family. While there, he begins to rekindle ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Detective Keene

1993-02-26 7.389

Falling Down

An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

1980-11-24 9

Life on the Mississippi

Most mid-19th-century Mississippi River boys dreamed of occupying that pinnacle of power and glamour, the pilot house of a riverboat. In a riot of local color, this film tells how, unlike many, Sam's ...

Genre :Music, Drama, TV Movie

Chaplain

2011-04-15 6.941

Water for Elephants

In this captivating Depression-era melodrama, impetuous veterinary student Jacob Jankowski joins a celebrated circus as an animal caretaker but faces a wrenching dilemma when he's transfixed by angeli ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Rusty Fenton

1977-11-11 5

Intimate Strangers

The pressures of problems at home and at work are taking a tremendous toll on a middle-aged husband, and he begins to take it out on his wife. ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Garage Patrolman

1991-12-13 6.835

The Last Boy Scout

Somewhere in Los Angeles, the city of broken dreams, a stripper is murdered. Now, the private detective she had hired and her ex-footballer boyfriend are going to find her murderer... if they don't ki ...

Genre :Action, Thriller

Doctor

1979-04-05 5.9

Love and Bullets

Jackie Pruit is the girlfriend of notorious gangster Joe Bomposa. When it looks as if Bomposa's goons are threatening Jackie's life, the FBI moves in to protect her, hoping that she'll have incriminat ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Action

Coach

1995-09-15 6.595

Angus

Angus is a large, pathetic 14-year-old whose thoughts are most often filled with the image of only one girl, Melissa Lefevre. Angus is shy and thinks that he has no chance of ever 'getting' her. Being ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance

Manager

2009-12-16 6.9

Crazy Heart

When reporter Jean Craddock interviews Bad Blake—an alcoholic, seen-better-days country music legend—they connect, and the hard-living crooner sees a possible saving grace in a life with Jean and her ...

Genre :Drama, Music, Romance

Al King

1986-10-31 6.2

Let's Get Harry

Harry Burck has been kidnapped by South American terrorists, and when the US Government refuses to intervene, Harry's friends decide to take matters into their own hands! ...

Genre :Action

Rick (voice)

1996-10-26 0

Journey Beneath the Sea

Jack Pumpkinhead, a pal of the Oz Kids, who wants to take a boat ride with all of his friends. During the ride, the boat begins to sink and Jack and the Oz Kids enter the water. There they discover tw ...

Genre :Animation, Adventure, Family

Pinky

1980-06-20 7.1

Brubaker

The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Tom

2016-11-23 5.745

Rules Don't Apply

It's Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes, arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank F ...

Genre :Romance, Comedy, Drama

Father Peter

2014-09-12 5.902

Miss Meadows

Miss Meadows is a school teacher with impeccable manners and grace. However, underneath the candy-sweet exterior hides a ruthless gun-toting vigilante who takes it upon herself to right the wrongs in ...

Genre :Drama

Fats

1982-02-01 0

Pray TV

A newly ordained minister accepts a summer job with a dynamic TV evangelist only to find deep conflicts between the latter's conventional activities servicing his community's spiritual needs and his p ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Dealer

1979-11-07 6.7

The Rose

Rock-and-roll singer Mary Rose Foster's romantic relationships and mental health are continuously imperilled by the demands of life on the road. ...

Genre :Drama, Music, Romance

Mr. Peters

2011-11-05 6.7

Love's Christmas Journey

While still mourning the loss of her husband and daughter, recently widowed Ellie King visits her brother Aaron Davis and his children for Christmas. Ellie does her best to enjoy the holidays, even ma ...

Genre :Drama, Romance, Western, Family, TV Movie

Laughing Man

2024-09-25 5.175

Megalopolis

In a futuristic New York known as New Rome, visionary architect Cesar Catilina dreams of building "Megalopolis," a utopian city that redefines society’s limits. Opposing him is the corrupt Mayor Frank ...

Genre :Science Fiction, Drama, Fantasy

Sam Burke

1998-08-25 8

Todd McFarlane's Spawn 2

Spawn - having become plagued by nightmares - discovers that his former Special Forces partner, Chapel, was the one who murdered him. Their paths inevitably cross when Chapel attempts to steal militar ...

Genre :Action, Adventure, Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Sam Burke

1999-05-23 6.5

Spawn 3: The Ultimate Battle

As Spawn struggles to control his own destiny, he is caught between the forces of Heaven and Hell. Heaven has sent merciless angels to destroy him, while Hell has its own forces beckoning him to serve ...

Genre :Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Man

1993-10-29 7.1

Diagnosis: Murder

Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders. ...

Genre :Drama, Family, Mystery, Crime

1999-09-20 8.2

Family Law

Family attorney and mom, Lynn Holt, has had to scramble to keep her family and her law firm together, since her husband left her and took most of their joint law practice with him. Although the attorn ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy, Crime

Sam Burke (voice)

1997-05-16 7.99

Spawn

Todd McFarlane's Spawn is an animated television series which aired on HBO from 1997 through 1999. It is also released on DVD as a film series. It is based on the Spawn comic series from Image Comics, ...

Genre :Action & Adventure, Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

George Anderson

2000-10-06 7.633

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery

Willis Bell

1978-09-09 7.6

The Paper Chase

Critically lauded drama about the life and pressures of a group of students at a prestigious Eastern law school, with a strict and domineering contract-law professor named Charles Kingsfield, who alte ...

Genre :Drama

Hospital Orderly (voice)

1996-10-07 8

Hey Arnold!

The daily life of Arnold--a fourth-grader with a wild imagination, street smarts and a head shaped like a football. ...

Genre :Family, Animation, Comedy, Drama

Mr. Green (voice)

1996-10-07 8

Hey Arnold!

The daily life of Arnold--a fourth-grader with a wild imagination, street smarts and a head shaped like a football. ...

Genre :Family, Animation, Comedy, Drama

Mr. Green (voice; uncredited)

1996-10-07 8

Hey Arnold!

The daily life of Arnold--a fourth-grader with a wild imagination, street smarts and a head shaped like a football. ...

Genre :Family, Animation, Comedy, Drama

Mr. Green / EBN Announcer (voice)

1996-10-07 8

Hey Arnold!

The daily life of Arnold--a fourth-grader with a wild imagination, street smarts and a head shaped like a football. ...

Genre :Family, Animation, Comedy, Drama

Mr. Green / Judge (voice)

1996-10-07 8

Hey Arnold!

The daily life of Arnold--a fourth-grader with a wild imagination, street smarts and a head shaped like a football. ...

Genre :Family, Animation, Comedy, Drama

Self

1999-01-02 0

Cult Movies TV

In 1999, Cult Movies TV was inspired in part by two earlier video documentaries that Copner and Barnett produced, Bela Lugosi Then And Now and On The Trail Of Ed Wood. ...

Genre :Documentary, Talk

Principal Turk

2000-06-06 3

M.Y.O.B.

Genre :Comedy

Husband

1992-09-21 6.2

Love & War

A woman running a bar in New York City while trying to maintain a romance with an egotistical opinion columnist. ...

Genre :Comedy

Night Manager

2007-07-19 8.1

Mad Men

Set in 1960-1970 New York, this sexy, stylized and provocative drama follows the lives of the ruthlessly competitive men and women of Madison Avenue advertising. ...

Genre :Drama

Pete

1996-08-26 6.38

7th Heaven

Reverend Eric Camden and his wife Annie have always had their hands full caring for seven children, not to mention the friends, sweethearts and spouses that continually come and go in the Camden house ...

Genre :Family, Drama, Comedy

Hartsfield's Landing Registrar of Voters

1999-09-22 8.3

The West Wing

The West Wing provides a glimpse into presidential politics in the nation's capital as it tells the stories of the members of a fictional presidential administration. These interesting characters have ...

Genre :Drama

Dick Carver

2002-09-26 7.236

Without a Trace

The series follows the ventures of a Missing Persons Unit of the FBI in New York City. ...

Genre :Crime, Mystery, Action & Adventure, Drama

Workman

1994-09-19 7.831

ER

ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room. ...

Genre :Drama

Boss

2005-09-22 8.069

Everybody Hates Chris

Chris is a teenager growing up as the eldest of three children in Brooklyn, New York during the early 1980s. Uprooted to a new neighborhood and bused to a predominantly white middle school two-hours a ...

Genre :Comedy

Mr. Ealer

1971-01-28 5.818

Great Performances

The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performan ...

Genre :Comedy, Documentary, Drama

Doctor Walters

2010-09-21 7.42

Raising Hope

James "Jimmy" Chance is a clueless 24-year-old who impregnates a serial killer during a one-night-stand. Earning custody of his daughter after the mother is sentenced to death, Jimmy relies on his odd ...

Genre :Comedy, Family

Joshua

2011-01-17 7.31

Harry's Law

Harriet, Matthew and Malcolm couldn't be any more different, but when they cross paths, they realize they're all looking for a fresh start. The most unlikely of people are starting a law practice in t ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Crime Analyst Michael Hallbrenner

1997-03-04 7.648

The Practice

A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The show's forte is its storylines about “people who walk a moral tightrope.” ...

Genre :Drama

Fred Martins

2005-09-20 5.9

Close to Home

Close to Home is an American crime drama television series co-produced by Warner Bros. Television and Jerry Bruckheimer Television for CBS. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime, Mystery

Joe Gordon

2004-10-03 7.902

Boston Legal

Alan Shore and Denny Crane lead a brigade of high-priced civil litigators in an upscale Boston law firm in a series focusing on the professional and personal lives of brilliant but often emotionally c ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Night Dispatcher

1979-02-18 7.5

Roots: The Next Generations

Roots: The Next Generations is a television miniseries, introduced in 1979, continuing, from 1882 to the 1960s, the fictionalized story of the family of Alex Haley and their life in Henning, Lauderdal ...

Genre :Drama

Corporal

1979-05-03 6.5

Ike

Ike, also known as Ike: The War Years, is a 1979 television miniseries about the life of Dwight D. Eisenhower. The screenplay by Melville Shavelson is based on Kay Summersby's 1948 memoir Eisenhower W ...

Genre :Drama, War & Politics

Lawyer

1982-10-26 5.572

St. Elsewhere

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 Flanders, Norman Lloyd and William Daniels as teach ...