Joel Polis
An American television, film and stage actor. He has appeared in over one hundred television programs and films during his career. Polis' first film role was the character 'Fuchs' in the science fiction film The Thing. He appeared in numerous television series including Cheers, Alien Nation, Northern Exposure, Star Trek: Voyager, Roseanne, Seinfeld, Chicago Hope, Boston Legal and CSI. He appeared in a recurring role on the television series Cheers as the mischievous Gary, owner of the rival bar, Gary's Olde Towne Tavern. Polis's theater credits include performances at the Astor Place Theatre, Hartford Stage, Old Globe Theater, South Coast Repertory, Mark Taper Forum, Odyssey Theatre, Laguna Playhouse, Lillian Theater and the Pasadena Playhouse.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.0692 |
| Birthday | 1951-10-03 |
| Place of Birth | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Also Known As |
1982
The Thing
8.1/7868
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
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The Thing
1990
Burning Bridges
4/3
Fact-based story of a woman who suffered a nervous breakdown after having an extra-marital affair.
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Burning Bridges
2000
Shadows
0/0
Joshua and his father are among the Jewish prisoners in a concentration camp. When the assistant leader of their work crew is gunned down by mistake,...
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Shadows
1995
Serial Killer
4.714/14
As a member of FBI Psychological Profile Unit, Selby Younger tracks Morrano, vicious and intelligent serial killer. Before getting caught, Morrano att...
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Serial Killer
1991
Deadly Medicine
4/2
A pediatrician becomes trapped in a web of betrayal and guilt when her best friend, a nurse, seems to be a baby-killer.
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Deadly Medicine
1997
Prison of Secrets
5.188/8
Lynn Schaffer is willfully irresponsible once too often, gets fired and refuses a plea-bargain with her employer. She's now convicted and because of t...
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Prison of Secrets
1996
Twilight Man
7.5/4
Jordan Cooper, a professor in Durham, has everything going for him. A beautiful girlfriend named Kathy, a good job and a nice place to live. But when...
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Twilight Man
2000
Rocket's Red Glare
5/3
A troubled 17-year-old Todd Baker restores a Mercury Redstone rocket as a science project with the help of his ex-astronaut grandfather. When a NASA e...
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Rocket's Red Glare
1989
Those She Left Behind
6.7/3
Scott and Sue Grimes are a happily married and affluent young couple who are about to start a family together. Unfortunately, that plan gets turned co...
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Those She Left Behind
1998
The Thing: Terror Takes Shape
7.448/29
An in-depth look at the making of John Carpenter's cult classic sci-fi horror The Thing, telling the story of a group of researchers in Antarctica who...
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The Thing: Terror Takes Shape
1984
All The Kids Do It
10/1
High school diving champion Buddy Elder (Scott Baio) can't seem to stop drinking and driving.
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All The Kids Do It
1984
Best Defense
4.335/130
An engineer fails to get the bugs out of a tank before an Army officer has to use it in Kuwait.
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Best Defense
1990
The Rookie
5.897/614
Veteran cop Nick Pulovski is used to playing musical partners; many of the partners he's had in the past have died on the job, and often as a result o...
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The Rookie
2009
Chasing a Dream
6.3/6
When high school football player Cam Stiles loses his best friend, he decides to drop football and focus on attaining his friend's goal of running a...
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Chasing a Dream
2003
Alien Hunter
5.12/146
Government agents find evidence of extraterrestrial life at the South Pole.
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Alien Hunter
1989
True Believer
6.233/118
Eddie Dodd is a burnt out former civil rights lawyer who now specializes in defending drug dealers. Roger Baron, newly graduated from law school, has...
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True Believer
1990
My Blue Heaven
6.102/270
FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Antonelli. In the witness protection program one is s...
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My Blue Heaven
2001
Attraction
6.92/100
A writer/radio advice show host fails to heed his own advice as he stalks his ex-girlfriend and then becomes involved with an actress friend of hers.
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Attraction
2004
Swallow
8/1
Lacking the grades and money for college, a Florida high school senior takes assignment as a cocaine mule.
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Swallow
1999
Tumbleweeds
6.44/50
Whenever trouble strikes in one of her relationships, single mother Mary Jo Walker and her daughter, Ava, pack up and move to another city, a routine...
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Tumbleweeds
1982
Born Beautiful
7/1
This is the story of Betsy a model who is nearly 30. Now in the world of modeling that is considered to be the age of retirement. She then sets out to...
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Born Beautiful
2026
The Thing Expanded
0/0
The ultimate companion to John Carpenter’s "The Thing", digging deep into the proverbial iceberg to enhance your viewing experience with new insights,...
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The Thing Expanded
1996
Dark Angel
3.2/5
Homicide detective Walter D'Arcangelo is the only link to a serial killer who preys on adulterous women. Walter must confront his past in order to pro...
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Dark Angel
2007
Fallen Angels
3/10
When a turn of the century prison reformatory is slated for demolition, a grisly discovery is made. Hidden deep underground beneath the west cell bloc...
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Fallen Angels
1997
The Sleepwalker Killing
5.875/8
Mark Schall kills his mother-in-law and wounds his father-in-law in the middle of the night, then turns himself in. He claims, however, that he cannot...
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The Sleepwalker Killing
1996
It's My Party
6.211/37
Nick, a gay, HIV-positive architect, begins to display severe symptoms of AIDS and makes preparations to kill himself before he is unable to function...
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