Doug Abrahams - Turner Classic Movies

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Doug Abrahams was a big screen film actor known for powerful performances. He additionally landed roles in the TV movies "The Trial of the Incredible Hulk" (NBC, 1988) and "Shame" (Lifetime, 1991-92). He also worked in film during these years, including roles in the action flick "Run" (1991) with Patrick Dempsey and the Rick Moranis comedy "Big Bully" (1996). He next focused his ente...

Filmography

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All Summer Long (2019)

Man of Steel (2013)

Stalkers (2013)

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (2012)

Double Cross (2006)

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The Ascent (1977) -- (Movie Clip) You Work For The Germans?

The Ascent (1977) -- (Movie Clip) You Shoot Pretty Good

Biography

Doug Abrahams was a big screen film actor known for powerful performances. He additionally landed roles in the TV movies "The Trial of the Incredible Hulk" (NBC, 1988) and "Shame" (Lifetime, 1991-92). He also worked in film during these years, including roles in the action flick "Run" (1991) with Patrick Dempsey and the Rick Moranis comedy "Big Bully" (1996). He next focused his entertainment career on film, appearing in the horror feature "Disturbing Behavior" (1998) with Bruce Greenwood, the Kevin Costner action film "3,000 Miles to Graceland" (2001) and the comedic drama "How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog" (2002) with Kenneth Branagh. He also lent his voice to "Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade" (2001) with Michael Richard Dobson. He spent the early 2000s tackling film roles in the Anna Faris comedy sequel "Scary Movie 4" (2006), "Like Mike 2" (2006) with Jascha Washington and the Henry Czerny horror flick "Fido" (2007). He also appeared in "Hot Rod" (2007). Most recently, Abrahams worked on the fantasy "Seventh Son" (2015) with Jeff Bridges.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

All Summer Long (2019)

Man of Steel (2013)

Stalkers (2013)

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (2012)

Double Cross (2006)

12 Hours to Live (2006)

Like Mike 2 (2006)

Scary Movie 4 (2006)

Fantastic Four (2005)

Premonition (2004)

The Ranch (2004)

Wildfire 7: The Inferno (2003)

DC Sniper: 21 Days of Terror (2003)

3000 Miles to Graceland (2001)

The Linda McCartney Story (2000)

Press Coordinator

How to Kill Your Neighbor's Dog (2000)

Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (1999)

Road Rage (1999)

A Cooler Climate (1999)

Disturbing Behavior (1998)

My Husband's Secret Life (1998)

The Inspectors (1998)

Killers in the House (1998)

Five Desperate Hours (1997)

Convictions (1997)

Parole Chairman

Abducted: A Father's Love (1996)

Murder at My Door (1996)

Brothers of the Frontier (1996)

Big Bully (1996)

Deadlocked: Escape From Zone 14 (1995)

The Trial of the Incredible Hulk (1989)

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

Welcome to Marwen (2018)

Power Rangers (2017)

Seventh Son (2015)

She's the Man (2006)

Cast (Special)

The Christmas Clause (2008)

Cast (TV Mini-Series)

The Man Who Used to Be Me (2000)

Catch Me If You Can (1998)

Medusa's Child (1997)

Life Events

Photo Collections

Little Women - Take Me Out to the Ball Game - Behind-the-Scenes Still

In a behind-the-scenes photo, Elizabeth Taylor (in costume for Little Women - 1949) poses with Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra (in costume for Take Me Out to the Ball Game - 1949). Both were filming at MGM at the same time.

Anchors Aweigh - Publicity Photos - Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly

Here is a group of publicity stills from Anchors Aweigh (1945), featuring Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly. Publicity stills were specially-posed photos, usually taken off the set, for purposes of publicity or reference for promotional artwork.

Anchors Aweigh - Behind-the-Scenes Photos

Here are a number of photos taken behind-the-scenes during production of MGM's Anchors Aweigh (1945). Look for stars Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, and Kathryn Grayson, director George Sidney, and even MGM cartoon stars Tom & Jerry!

Anchors Aweigh - reissue Pressbook

Here is the campaign book (pressbook) for Anchors Aweigh (1945). Pressbooks were sent to exhibitors and theater owners to aid them in publicizing the film's run in their theater. This pressbook was prepared for the 1955 reissue.

Videos

The Ascent (1977) -- (Movie Clip) You Work For The Germans? With Sotnikov (Boris Plotnikov) now shot as well as ill with fever, his Belarusian resistance comrade Rybak (Vladimir Gotyukhim) hope to persuade stranded mom Demchikha (Lyudmila Polyakova), whose kids let them into her house, to help, during what the Soviets called the Great Patriotic War (World War II) against the invading Germans, in Larisa Shepitko's The Ascent, 1977.

The Ascent (1977) -- (Movie Clip) You Shoot Pretty Good Dispatched from their starving fugitive band of partisans, fleeing Nazi patrols in 1942 Belarus, Larisa Shepitko directs Vladimir Gotyukhim as voluble Rybak and Boris Plotnikov as his relatively-new comrade Sotnikov, hoping to reach an isolated homestead where they found help once before, in The Ascent, 1977.

The Ascent (1977) -- (Movie Clip) We've Got Partisans With Sotnikov (Boris Plotnikov) now shot as well as ill with fever, his Belarusian resistance comrade Rybak (Vladimir Gotyukhim) hopes to persuade stranded mom Demchikha (Lyudmila Polyakova), whose kids let them into her house, to help, during what the Soviets called the Great Patriotic War (World War II) against the invading Germans, in Larisa Shepitko's The Ascent, 1977.

The Ascent (1977) -- (Movie Clip) Open, Punishment Squad Artful opening of Ukranian-born Soviet director Larisa Shepitko's celebrated final feature, a band of partisans in 1942 Belarus emerge in flight from German occupiers, from the novella by Vasili Bykov, briefly introducing Vladimir Gotyukhim as Rybak, from The Ascent, 1977.

That's Dancing! (1985) -- (Movie Clip) That's Where Style Comes In Gene Kelly’s narration from the beginning through Busby Berkeley, now introducing and turning over the MC duties to Sammy Davis Jr., who takes us along to Fred Astaire, in Roberta, 1935, in the MGM documentary That’s Dancing!, 1985.

That's Dancing! (1985) -- (Movie Clip) The Public Doesn't Suspect Mikhail Baryshnikov, just introduced by Sammy Davis Jr. in an original performance for the MGM documentarty, brings in the ballet tradition, with reference to Loie Fuller and Isadora Duncan, in That’s Dancing!, 1985, from directed by Jack Haley Jr., from executive producer Gene Kelly.

That's Dancing! (1985) -- (Movie Clip) Primitive Man Discovered Dance Opening with executive producer Gene Kelly’s narration, an ambitious assembly of ideas about dance, directed and written by Jack Haley Jr., from the documentary That’s Dancing!, 1985, featuring Sammy Davis Jr., Liza Minnelli, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Ray Bolger.

Spirit Of The Beehive, The (1973) -- (Movie Clip) Your Last Mushroom Beekeeper Fernando (Fernando Fernan-Gomez) with his daughters Ana (Ana Torrent) and Isabel (Isabel Telleria), discussing mushrooms, in post-Civil War Spain, in Victor Erice's The Spirit Of The Beehive, 1973.

Spirit Of The Beehive, The (1973) -- (Movie Clip) My Constant Prayer In rural Spain, 1940, the introduction of beekeeper Fernando (Fernando Fernan-Gomez), then his wife Teresa (Teresa Gimpera), writing to an unknown correspondent, in Victor Erice's The Spirit Of The Beehive, 1973.

Oh! What A Lovely War (1969) -- (Movie Clip) Ready For The Shot The historical fantasy opening from the first movie directed by Richard Attenborough, Ralph Richardson as the British foreign secretary, Meriel Forbes his wife, Ian Holm the French president, John Gielgud the Austrian foreign minister, Kenneth More the Kaiser, Paul Daneman the Czar, many others, in the sprawling WWI farce Oh! What A Lovely War, 1969.

Oh! What A Lovely War (1969) -- (Movie Clip) These French Generals Director Richard Attenborough's comic fantasy proceeds, from the music hall at Brighton to France for cameos by Michael Redgrave and Laurence Olivier as bully Brit generals, back to the beach where men of the Smith family, John Rae as grandpa, shoot their way to the front, in Oh! What A Lovely War, 1969.

Tess (1980) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, Goodnight Sir John After graphic credits for the actors, director Roman Polanski obscures a spectacular opening shot behind further credits, with a glimpse of the title character Nastassia Kinski, and the dedication to the director's late wife Sharon Tate, in Tess (a.k.a. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles), 1980.

Viva Knievel! (1977) -- (Original Trailer) vivianievel_TR

Risky Business - (Original Trailer) A high school student (Tom Cruise) practices his business skills by turning his suburban home into a bordello in Risky Business (1983).

DIsability In Film -- (Movie Promo) Stereotypes Actors Robert David Hall, Danny Woodburn, Kurt Yaeger and Marlee Matlin are featured in this discussion on stereotyping of disabled people in the movies, part of TCM's October programming The Projected Image: Disability In Film, Wednesday evenings throughout the month.

Spencer Tracy -- (Movie Promo) Inherit The Wind, 1960 A TCM original on our October, 2012 Star Of The Month, Spencer Tracy, and his performance in Inherit The Wind, 1960, airing Monday the 29th at 8pm ET.

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