Robert Prosky
Robert Prosky (born Robert Joseph Porzuczek, December 13, 1930 – December 8, 2008) was an American actor. He became a well-known supporting actor in the 1980s with his roles in Thief (1981), Christine (1983), The Natural (1984), and Broadcast News (1987).
Prosky's other notable movies include Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990), Hoffa (1992), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), Last Action Hero (1993), Rudy (1993), Miracle on 34th Street (1994), Dead Man Walking (1995), and Mad City (1997). His most notable television role was of Sgt. Stan Jablonski on the TV police drama Hill Street Blues.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.9169 |
| Birthday | 1930-12-13 |
| Place of Birth | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Also Known As | رابرت پروسکی, |
1990
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
6.523/2876
Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soon reunite with the friendly and lovable Gizmo. But...
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Gremlins 2: The New Batch
1995
Dead Man Walking
7.326/1492
A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.
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Dead Man Walking
1993
Mrs. Doubtfire
7.195/6572
Loving but irresponsible dad Daniel Hillard, estranged from his exasperated spouse, is crushed by a court order allowing only weekly visits with his k...
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Mrs. Doubtfire
1988
The Great Outdoors
6.462/594
It's vacation time for outdoorsy Chicago man Chet Ripley, along with his wife, Connie, and their two kids, Buck and Ben. But a serene weekend of fishi...
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The Great Outdoors
1987
Outrageous Fortune
6/124
Refined actress Lauren Ames finally has a chance to study with the great theatre professor Stanislav Korzenowski. Sandy Brozinsky, a brash, loud actre...
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Outrageous Fortune
1981
Thief
7.2/818
Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to use his ill-gotten income to retire from crime an...
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Thief
1992
Far and Away
6.8/1289
A young free-spirited Irish woman from an affluent Protestant family spontaneously befriends a street-smart commoner cheated by her family’s hostile l...
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Far and Away
1984
The Natural
6.898/654
An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the lea...
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The Natural
1996
The Chamber
5.974/270
Idealistic young attorney Adam Hall takes on the death row clemency case of his racist grandfather, Sam Cayhall, a former Ku Klux Klan member he has n...
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The Chamber
1990
Loose Cannons
5/113
Mac, the two-fisted, savvy cop finds that he's being saddled with a new partner, a known burnout, to work with him on a new and difficult case. The ne...
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Loose Cannons
1983
Christine
6.876/2213
Nerdy high schooler Arnie Cunningham falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes obsessed with restoring the classic automobile to he...
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Christine
1987
Broadcast News
6.763/459
A high-strung news producer finds herself in a love triangle between a talented but self-doubting reporter and a charming news anchor who embodies the...
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Broadcast News
1997
Mad City
6.2/362
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
1983
The Keep
5.6/307
Set during World War II, a German army garrison is sent to guard a mountain pass in a village in Romania's Carpathian mountains and sets up barracks i...
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The Keep
1990
Funny About Love
4.7/37
As political cartoonist Duffy and his bride Meg fail to conceive, he and sorority girl Daphne succeed.
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Funny About Love
1999
Dudley Do-Right
4.103/200
Royal Canadian Mountie Dudley Do-right is busy keeping the peace in his small mountain town when his old rival, Snidely Whiplash, comes up with a plot...
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Dudley Do-Right
1983
The Lords of Discipline
6.6/51
Will arrives for his last year at Military Academy, in the Deep South USA, in the 1960's. A black student, Pearce, has been accepted, for the first ti...
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The Lords of Discipline
1988
Things Change
6.1/76
Jerry, a misfit Mafia henchman, is assigned the low-level job of keeping an eye on Gino, a shoe repairman fingered by the Mob to confess to a murder h...
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Things Change
1987
Big Shots
6.3/14
Following the death of his father, a suburbanite runs away from home and winds up on Chicago's South Side. After being mugged, the boy befriends a you...
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Big Shots
1990
The Love She Sought
6.6/7
An aging school teacher (Lansbury) at a Catholic grammar school in Minnesota questions her life's existence when she has to start battling a new bisho...
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The Love She Sought
2005
Suits on the Loose
4/4
Suits on the Loose is the story of two rebellious teens, Justin and Ty, and their breakout from a desert survival camp. When two naive Mormon missiona...
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Suits on the Loose
1982
Monsignor
4.278/18
The vows of an ambitious young American priest are tested during World War II. Not only does Father John Flaherty get involved with the black market t...
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Monsignor
1987
Washington Monuments
0/0
Washington Monuments captures the beauty and history of the Capital's major landmarks in a presentation that is informative, picturesque and entertain...
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Washington Monuments
2000
Pasta For War
0/0
A humorous retooling of wartime propaganda films as troops of rigatoni march in stunning symmetry beneath squadrons of glorious mostacciloli.
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Pasta For War
1991
Age Isn't Everything
2/3
Young man gives up his dream of becoming an astronaut to go into business — and finds himself turned into a little old man.
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Age Isn't Everything
2002
NBC 75th Anniversary Special
0/0
A celebration of NBC's 75 year history, featuring clips of special moments.
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NBC 75th Anniversary Special
1999
Swing Vote
5.5/11
A newly-appointed Supreme Court Justice must settle a controversial moral and legal dilemma with his tie-breaking decision which may also have serious...
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Swing Vote
1990
Johnny Ryan
0/0
An honest, hard-working cop has to go up against the mob in 1949 New York City.
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Johnny Ryan
1998
The Lake
5.4/13
Jackie Ivers is a Los Angeles nurse who returns home to the small town of San Vicente to find that her friends and family have taken on bizarrely diff...
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The Lake
1990
Dangerous Pursuit
5.6/7
A young woman's past catches up with her five years later and nearly shatters her life. As a footloose cocktail waitress, she unwittingly once spent t...
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Dangerous Pursuit
1989
From the Dead of Night
5.5/2
After having a near death experience Joanna finds her life in constant danger. She begins to believe that certain forces are trying to bring her back...
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From the Dead of Night
1995
The Scarlet Letter
6.124/518
Set in puritanical Boston in the mid 1600s, the story of seamstress Hester Prynne, who is outcast after she becomes pregnant by a respected reverend....
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The Scarlet Letter
1990
Green Card
6.119/533
Urban horticulturalist Brontë Mitchell has her eye on a gorgeous apartment, but the building's board will rent it only to a married couple. Georges Fa...
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Green Card
1992
Hoffa
6.263/357
A portrait of union leader James R. Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend, Bobby Ciaro. The film follows Hoffa through his countless battles w...
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Hoffa
2007
The Valley of Light
6.5/21
The Valley of Light is a beautifully-filmed, sentimental movie of a young man's quest to make sense of his experiences and find new meaning in life. W...
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The Valley of Light
1982
Hanky Panky
5.3/65
Naïve Michael Jordon is drawn into a web of government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him. When she's later m...
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Hanky Panky
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
1993
Rudy
7.337/745
Rudy grew up in a steel mill town where most people ended up working, but wanted to play football at Notre Dame instead. There were only a couple of p...
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Rudy
1989
Home Fires Burning
6.4/6
When a WW2 veteran comes back home, he realizes how the war affected Americans by seeing the changes in his wife, family, and best friend.
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Home Fires Burning
2002
D-Tox
5.578/703
A disgraced FBI agent with a drinking problem joins nine other troubled law enforcement officers at an isolated detox clinic in the wilds of Wyoming....
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D-Tox
1993
Last Action Hero
6.472/2966
After his father's death, a young boy finds solace in action movies featuring an indestructible cop. Given a magic ticket by a theater manager, he is...
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Last Action Hero
1985
Into Thin Air
7/7
Ellen Burstyn stars as Joan Walker, a mother whose college student son vanishes while traveling from Canada to Colorado. When police fail to investiga...
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Into Thin Air
2009
The Skeptic
5.4/105
After the mysterious death of his Aunt, a confirmed skeptic lawyer, Bryan Becket, dismisses reports that her house is haunted and moves in. Immediatel...
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The Skeptic
1990
LifeStories: Steve Burdick
1.3/3
Steve Burdick is closeted television anchorman whose lover dies of an AIDS-related illness. Steve decides to come out and then tells his story about...
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LifeStories: Steve Burdick
1989
The Heist
4.9/19
Ex-con Neal Skinner seeks revenge against track owner Ebbet Berens for framing him in an emerald smuggling deal.
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The Heist
2006
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
0/0
The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broadway's brightest luminaries. Culled from clips fro...
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The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
1988
A Walk in the Woods
0/0
A true story about one US and one USSR delegate who, during 1982 talks in Geneva between USA and USSR on limiting medium-range nukes in Europe, met by...
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A Walk in the Woods
1992
Double Edge
3/2
In this fast paced action-thriller, daytime's top star Susan Lucci plays two roles: both a crack FBI agent and the elusive killer-for-hire who she sta...
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Double Edge
1975
Zalmen, or The Madness of God
0/0
This play takes place during Yom Kippur in a post-Stalinist Russian synagogue, where a Rabbi waits for a Western acting troupe and gets extremely angr...
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Zalmen, or The Madness of God
2002
Death to Smoochy
5.9/429
Tells the story of Rainbow Randolph, the corrupt, costumed star of a popular children's TV show, who is fired over a bribery scandal and replaced by s...
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Death to Smoochy
1978
The Brink's Job
6.1/68
In 1950, a group of unlikely criminal masterminds commits the robbery of the century. Led by Tony Pino, a petty thief fresh out of prison, and Joe McG...
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The Brink's Job
1994
Miracle on 34th Street
6.751/1139
Six-year-old Susan Walker has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle—Santa Claus. Her mother told her the secret about Santa a long time ago,...
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Miracle on 34th Street
1992
Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story
5.2/5
For a generation, the mobs main money machine was the Teamsters Union. When Jimmy Hoffa disappeared, the fight was on to see who could follow him. Jac...
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Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story
2002
Death to Smoochy: Bloopers & Outtakes
0/0
Bloopers and Outakes featured on the Death to Smoochy DVD.
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Death to Smoochy: Bloopers & Outtakes
2002
Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
0/0
A short documentary about the making of Danny Devito’s film Death to Smoochy.
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Death to Smoochy: Behind the Scenes Documentary
1974
Lincoln: Trial by Fire
0/0
Cliff Robertson narrates this dramatization focuses on the little-known life-and-death struggle of power between President Lincoln and his general in...
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Lincoln: Trial by Fire
1999
The Rodney King Incident: Race and Justice in America
0/0
The beating of Rodney King by four LAPD officers was a defining moment of the nineties. It caused one of the worst race riots in American history and...
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