William Forsythe

William Forsythe
Date of Birth: 07 Jun 1955
Country: USA
Total Credits at Criticker: 87 (Actor), 1 (Writer)
Biography submitted by MacSwell
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Blue Hill Avenue
Inspired by the true story of four neighborhood friends, this is a story of redemption told in Shakespearean proportion. (Cahoots Productions)
Blue Streak
A thief turned ex-con poses as a cop to retrieve a diamond he stole years ago.
City by the Sea
The gripping story of a dedicated police officer who discovers that the chief suspect in his current murder investigation is his own son. (Warner Bros.)
Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
Deuce Bigalow is a less than attractive, down on his luck aquarium cleaner. One day he runs into a male gigolo who asks him to look after his precious fish while he is away on business. However, he wrecks the house and needs quick money to repair it. The only way he can make it is to become a gigolo himself, taking on an unusual mix of female clients...
Raising Arizona
A surreal, hyperactive farce in which a bumbling petty thief and the lady cop who keeps arresting him fall in love and decide to start a family. When they discover they can't have babies, they steal one from a furniture mogul who has just sired a set of quintuplets. The joys of parenthood are soon marred, however, by the difficulties of raising an infant on the run. The none-too-bright couple must flee across the southwestern desert in order to elude the villainous biker that has been hired to retrieve the tyke. (20th Century Fox)
The Rock
All of San Francisco is taken hostage when a vengeful general seizes control of Alcatraz Island, threatening to launch missiles loaded with deadly poison gas. With time running out, only a young FBI chemical weapons expert and a notorious federal prisoner have the skills to penetrate the island fortress and defuse the lethal situation.
Things to Do in Denver When You\
When a powerful mob boss (Walken) gives ex-gangster Jimmy the Saint (Garcia) one last job, it's an offer he can't refuse. But when someone gets killed, Jimmy and his partners are marked for death, leaving Jimmy just 48 hours to put things right for his buddies and the woman of his dreams (Anwar). (Miramax)
The Devil\
From the visionary mind of acclaimed musician Rob Zombie comes the follow-up to his smash hit "House of 1000 Corpses." Written and directed by Zombie, this film further explores the Dr. Satan Cult Murders by blending traditional horror elements with the Western genre to paint a shocking portrait of vigilante justice. (Lions Gates Films)
Freedomland
A criminal investigation into an alleged kidnapping of a child by a suspect who is presumed to be a local from the projects ignites racial tension between two neighboring New Jersey towns.
Once Upon a Time in America
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to Brooklyn over 30 years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life (imdb)
American Me
This epic depiction of thirty years of Chicano gang life in Los Angeles focuses on a teen named Santana who... (imdb)
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. (imdb)
Out for Justice
Brooklyn cop Gino Felino is about to go outside and play catch with his son Tony when he receives a phone call alerting him that his best friend Bobby Lupo has been shot dead in broad daylight on 18th Avenue in front of his wife (imdb)
Palookaville
Jerry and his two pals, Russ and Syd, are just looking for some easy money to help them break out of their nowhere lives in their nowhere town... (imdb)
Stone Cold
Joe Huff is a tough, go-it-alone cop with a flair for infiltrating dangerous biker gangs. The FBI blackmail... (imdb)
The Substitute
After a botched mission in Cuba, professional mercenary Shale and his crew Joey Six, Hollan, Rem, and Wellman head home to Miami... (imdb)
Cloak & Dagger
11-year-old Davey, whose mother is dead and whose father is preoccupied with his own problems, has retreated... (imdb)
Hell\
When a robbery goes awry, the bandits all end up in a puddle of blood and only one (Mekhi Phifer) lives and goes to jail for five years. (imdb)
The L.A. Riot Spectacular
An equal opportunity offender, this film is a surreal, funny and provocative view of the participants and psychology that fueled the epochal 1992 events. (Image Entertainment)
Virtuosity
A virtual-reality serial killer manages to escape into the real world. (imdb)
The Immortals
A crafty nightclub owner (Jack) brings together a group of small time hoods and teams them up in unusual pairs (black man and white racist, Ivy Leaguer and simpleton) for a set of multiple heists which turn out to be an elaborate double cross against a notorious gangster (Domenic)... (imdb)
88 Minutes
A thriller about a college professor who, while moonlighting as a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI, receives a death threat telling him that he has only 88 minutes to live. (ifilm.com)
Gotti
Gotti (1996) - TV Movie
John Gotti, the head of a small New York mafia crew breaks a few of the old family rules. He rises to become the head of the Gambino family and the most well-known mafia boss in America. He is known as the Dapper Don for his expensive taste in suits, and the Teflon Don because none of the FBI charges against him will stick. Life is good, but suspicion creeps in, and greed, rule-breaking and his high public profile all threaten to topple him. (imdb)
Extreme Prejudice
When they were kids Texas Ranger Jack Benteen used to be best friends with drug kingpin Cash Bailey. At present, however, the only element linking them together is Jack's girlfriend Sarita, who used to be with Cash. She returns to Cash as a voluntary hostage to make certain that Jack keeps his hands off the drug lord's operation. On top of that, there is a meticulously planned drug bust... (imdb)
Halloween
After young Michael Myers killed his older sister one Halloween night he was committed for 15 years to a mental institution were he soon broke out and is in search for his little sister Laurie Strode as he returns back to his home town Haddonfield and finds his sister she and hers friends must put up a battle to survive as Michael Myers tries to kill them. (imdb)
Camouflage
Marty Mackenzie (Lochlyn Munro) is an unsuccessful stage actor who takes an interest in private investigating. He takes a job working with Jack Potter (Leslie Nielsen) a crusty private eye. They both take a case in Beaver Ridge, a seedy small town where a murder is being planned against a rich gravel pit owner. Marty realises that private investigating is not as it seemed to be. (imdb)
The Waterdance
This is a semi-autobiographical film for co-director Neal Jimenez who became a paraplegic after a hiking accident.
Patty Hearst
The true story of a rich girl who was abducted by American revolutionaries in the 1970's. Her time spent with her captors made her question herself and her way of life and she joined forces with the cause that her abductors were fighting for. This created a US scandal and Patty Hearst has become a pop culture fixture. (imdb)
We All Scream for Ice Cream
Years ago, they pulled a disastrous childhood prank on the neighborhood ice cream delivery man that got him killed, but now as they've become adults with families of their own, the last thing anyone expected was for that man to come back in the form of a vengeful, bloodthirsty spirit. (imdb)
Stiletto
The seemingly random killings of an assassin puzzle her lover, a wealthy Greek crime boss whose organization is jeopardized by his love for her and the return of his ruthless criminal cohort, and the detective following her rising body count. (imdb)
Hack!
Wanting to raise their grades, a handful of college kids are randomly selected for a field trip to study wildlife, but don't get the chance as cliché horror film-style murders occur. (imdb)
Dollar for the Dead
In this tribute to the old time spaghetti westerns with a liberal dose of modern Hong Kong film-making thrown in... (imdb)
Firestorm
Firefighter Jesse Graves has to save ornithologist Jennifer and other people caught in a forest fire, which was set up by the lawyer of convicted killer Earl Shaye, who escaped from the prison with several of his inmates posing as firefighters to recover $37,000,000 in stashed loot. (imdb)
Hammerhead: Shark Frenzy
The horror film Hammerhead concerns a scientist who creates a creature with the fused DNA of a man and a killer shark. His fellow scientists send him to a deserted island as punishment, but the creature is on the prowl and looking to get revenge for his creator. (allmovie)
Relentless 3
Relentless 3 (1993) - Direct-to-Video
Los Angeles detective Sam Dietz (Leo Rossi) is back and on the trail of another serial killer (William Forsythe) -- a misogynistic psychopath who's been coldly carving up the remains of his female victims and mailing the pieces to police. Dietz consults officers on the gruesome case, but when his girlfriend becomes the murderer's prey, he joins the urgent hunt for the killer in this pulse-pounding third installment of the action-thriller franchise.
Luck of the Draw
Hoping to be dealt a new hand in life, ex-con Jack Sweeney (James Marshall) tries to go straight -- till he chances upon a robbery that leaves him in possession of counterfeiting plates worth millions. Sweeney turns to his former partner in crime (Michael Madsen) to help make a quick profit, but it doesn't take long to discover the bloody cost of Sweeney's plan.
iMurders
A mysterious love triangle leads to a tragic shooting. Months later, eight members of a MySpace-esque chat room are being gruesomely murdered in the privacy of their own homes.
Dead Bang
A cop is gunned down on Xmas eve. Jerry Beck, the homicide cop given the job of hunting the killer, investigates some leads which bring him into contact with a group of white supremacy extremists. In addition to the racists, Beck also has to contend with an unhelpful FBI agent. (imdb)
Soundman
Igby Walter, a do-gooder sound-mixing engineer (Wayne Pere), meets and falls in love with untalented violinist Juliet (Elaine Chappius) while both are working on a low-budget cowboy film version of "Hamlet." In order to win her over, he promises to help her get scoring gigs in Hollywood movies ... but his hard-sell approach to studio mavens does more harm than good.
Larva
Larva (2005) - TV Movie
It's a bug's life for residents of Host, Mo., when mutant insect larvae develop a taste for human flesh. What begins as a parasitic outbreak in the local livestock quickly threatens to swallow (literally) the whole community. It's up to veterinarian Eli (Vincent Ventresca), a newcomer to the once-sleepy small town, to stamp out the rapidly reproducing ravenous creatures.
Final Approach
FBI hostage negotiator Jack Bender (Dean Cain) finds himself on a plane overtaken by terrorists (led by Anthony Michael Hall) demanding a billion-dollar ransom in order to prevent them from detonating a nuclear bomb over Los Angeles. Jack must use his skills to talk the terrorists down to avoid the only other option: blowing up the aircraft in the sky.
Beyond Desire
Fresh out of a 14-year stint in prison, Ray "Elvis" Patterson (William Forsythe) hits the streets of Las Vegas, looking for a taste of adventure. He finds it in Rita (Kari Wuhrer), a hot girl in a hot car who seems plenty interested in getting to know him. Hot or not, Ray's not about to trust a stranger -- especially since word got out that he's got a big stash of cold, hard cash hidden somewhere around Sin City.
Direct Hit
Direct Hit (1994) - Direct-to-Video
Veteran hit-man Hatch wants to retire, but they have one, final, important job for him. Even though he's cold-blooded, he realizes he feels compassion for Savannah and tries to figure out a way to mislead his boss James Tronson into believing he has fulfilled the contract. (imdb)
G-Men from Hell
Two G-Men, returning from hell, must perform good deeds to save themselves from a doomed fate. (imdb)
Weeds
A San Quentin inmate, sentenced to life without parole, writes a play that catches the interest of a reporter. (imdb)
First Time Felon
Inspired by the true story of Greg Yance. In the film, Yance (Epps) is a hood who goes to jail for possession of drugs. He is given a choice: 5 years in jail or a couple of months in boot camp. He chooses boot camp and finds out it is tougher than he thought it would be. He braves it through and comes home a better man. He then has to deal with the real world, and never gives up no matter what the odds. (imdb)
The Last Marshal
Marshall McClary, one of the most violent, racist, foul- mouthed Marshalls in Texas, is in the middle of resolving a hostage situation (by shooting everyone he sees) when the FBI agents show up, interfering with his negotiation, and ending the event with McClary being wounded and two of the criminals escaping. After hearing that the two fugitives has fled to Miami, McClary follows behind them, working with the local police and offending every single person he encounters. (imdb)
The Lightship
A trio of robbers, two brothers and their twisted genius leader, invade a lightship, but don't reckon on the crew fighting back. (imdb)
Dear Mr Gacy
Based on a true story: A chronicle of the interaction between college student Jason Moss and the object of his obsession, serial killer John Wayne Gacy. (imdb)
Born to Ride
Casper van Dien is a kind-hearted biker who, while riding with his buddy to Sturgis, gets caught up in hotelman's plan to extort a criminal who is trying to buy off a senator...while also trying to find information on his father AND delivering the personal belongings of a dead veteran to his daughter.
Big City Blues
A collection of characters threaten to cross paths, unknowingly, during a night in the big city. The film focuses on two hit men (Reynolds and Forsythe) who are bound to collide with Cates, a beautiful prostitute. (imdb)
Loosies
A young pickpocket in the New York subways, living a fast, free, lifestyle is confronted by a woman whom he had a one night affair with, she informs him that she is now pregnant with his child, he must now choose between continuing the lifestyle he lead or take responsibility for his actions. (imdb)
Strike Force
A woman searching or her missing sister in Miami's dark underbelly makes a horrific discovery in the third feature from stuntman-turned-director Mike Kirton. Sandi (Erika Eleniak)'s sister has disappeared after traveling to Miami. Upon arriving in the bustling city to seek out her sister, Sandi's discovery of an underworld kidnapping ring soon leads her to a group of undercover vigilantes led by a man named Simon (William Forsythe). (allrovi.com)
Ambushed
Jim Natter, the leader of a violent Kuk Klux Klan lodge, is shot dead. His teenage son Eric Natter is found nearby, and taken into police custody for his protection pending the investigation. While four cops drive him to a safe-house, they are ambushed. Three of them shot dead, including Deputy Lawrence, and his black partner Jerry Robinson is accused of the murders. (imdb)
Command 5
Command 5 (1985) - TV Movie
Captain Blair Morgan is a military intelligence man, who wants to see some action, and if the military can't provide with some, he is recruited by a group that wants to form a crime fighting unit that they want to send into areas that are ill equipped or manned to handle certain criminals. He selects Jack Coburn, Nick Kowalski, J.D. Smith, and Chris Winslow, cops who are deemed loose cannons by their respective departments. (imdb)
Savage Dawn
A motorcycle gang take over a small city in Arizona. (imdb)
Inkubus
Inkubus tells the story of a skeleton crew working the final shift at a soon to be demolished police station. The night takes a gruesome turn when the demon, Inkubus, calmly walks into the station holding the severed head of a murdered girl. Inkubus toys with the crew, allowing himself to be restrained, and begins to proudly confess to his litany of crimes, some dating back to the Middle Ages. (imdb)
The Gun in Betty Lou\
An ignored, small-town librarian confesses to a murder she didn't commit to get attention. (imdb)
Torrents of Spring
In 1840, a young Russian aristocrat, Dimitri Sanin, is returning home after a long tour of Europe. In Germany, he falls in love with a beautiful pastry shop girl, Gemma Rosselli, who soon starts sharing his feelings. They decide to get married and, in order to finance the wedding, Dimitri goes back to Russia to sell his family estate. (imdb)
The Pass
After his wife leaves him, a businessman with a compulsive gambling problem travels to Reno, Nev., for some gambling therapy -- which takes a turn when he picks up a psychotic serial killer posing as a hitchhiker.
Infected
A blood virus infects a small group of hunters turning a father & son trip into a fight for survival.
The Long Hot Summer
The made-for-TV The Long Hot Summer was based on the 1958 theatrical film of the same name-which, in turn, was based on two William Faulkner short stories. Don Johnson plays Ben Quick, a Southern drifter who is under suspicion as a "barn burner." Ben secures a job at the Mississippi mansion of town-boss Will Varner (Jason Robards). (allmovie.com)
The Rig
In the midst of a tropical storm, the crew of an offshore oil rig must survive the rampage of a creature after invading its undersea habitat.
For Which He Stands
Based upon actual incidents, this is a very romantic and cliché-burdened tale of a man struggling to correct a situation that will bring danger to his wife and child. A Las Vegas casino owner, after an unwanted clash with a Colombian crime family member, becomes deeply engaged with several unsavory groups in his attempt to achieve safety for him and his family. (imdb)
Echoes of War
A Civil War veteran returns home to the quiet countryside, only to find himself embroiled in a conflict between his family and the brutish cattle rancher harassing them. (imdb)
Laugh Killer Laugh
A Jewel thief named Frank Stone is a very deeply disturbed, anti social, milquetoast who finds no joy or humor in anything - until he awakens from a deep coma. (imdb)
Jam
A minor car accident on an old back road into the mountains leads to a traffic jam that will change the lives of fifteen people.
The Midnight Man
When Grady, an assassin with a genetic disorder that renders him unable to feel pain, is sent on a high-stakes assignment, his world is turned upside-down after an attack when he awakens to discover that he can feel pain for the first time in his life. With the clock ticking and his greatest asset gone, Grady will go head-to-head with his greatest fears and unspeakable enemies, while experiencing a tactile world he never could have imagined. (imdb)
John Doe
John Doe (2002) - TV Series
A man who seems to know everything but his own name helps police solve crimes as he searches for his identity. (imdb)
Hidden in the Woods
Hidden in the Woods tells the story of two sisters who have been raised in isolation, subjected to the torment of their abusive, drug dealing father. When they finally decide to report him to the police, he kills the two officers and is put in jail. But things go from bad to worse when the girls must answer to their Uncle Costello, a psychotic drug kingpin, who shows up looking for his missing merchandise which is hidden in the woods
Check Point
Port City North Carolina: During a routine camp out, a local vagrant discovers plans for an invasion in America. When he tries to notify the local Sheriff about his discovery, the Sheriff dismisses his claims and has him locked up for loitering. When the Sheriff notices odd interactions with other towns folk he begins to look into the vagrants' claim of a sleeper cell living amongst the locals within this small town.
The Bronx Bull
Based on the tumultuous real-life experiences of legendary boxing champion Jake LaMotta, THE BRONX BULL chronicles his rise as a world-class boxer and his struggles with life outside of the ring, offering an unflinchingly honest look into the heart of a champion. (imdb)
Cold Pursuit
A snowplow driver seeks revenge against the drug dealers he thinks killed his son. Based on the 2014 Norwegian film 'In Order of Disappearance'. (imdb)
Vault
Vault tells a story about a group of small time criminals in 1975 who attempt to pull off the biggest heist in American history; stealing over $30 million from the Mafia in the smallest state in the union, Rhode Island. (imdb)
Awake
A man wakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of who he is, and learns that he's wanted by the police for a committing a series of murders.
Jesse
Nassau County, New York Police detective Jesse turns vigilante as she investigates her brother's murder and enters into a world of crime, corruption, and shocking deception.
Sons
Three sons take their incapacitated father on a trip to Normandy to find his long lost love. (BFI)
Four Days
A teenager gets caught in the middle of a bank heist gone awry.
The Hollow
When a U.S. congressman's daughter passing through a small town in Mississippi dies in a mysterious triple homicide, a team of F.B.I. agents descends to investigate. They find a struggling and corrupt sheriff's department, a shadowy and much-feared figure, who seems to be pulling all of the town's strings from his mansion on the edge of town and a local victim with a strange connection to a number of the town's most prominent figures
Run with the Hunted
Oscar, a young boy, defends his best friend, Loux, and kills her abusive father in the process, forcing him to run away from his rural hometown. His innocence slips away as he is introduced to love, crime and corruption. 15 years later, he has all but forgotten his past and become the leader of a band of lost children. When Loux moves to the same city in search of a better life, she finds a job with a curmudgeonly private investigator... (imdb)
Ida Red
Ida "Red" Walker may not survive her terminal illness while incarcerated for armed robbery. She turns to her son, Wyatt, for one last job and a chance to regain her freedom.
Justified - Season 5
Open
Kristina comes to regret pursuing her long-time fantasy of dating her teen idol when she and her husband explore sharing an open marriage. (366weirdmovies.com)
The Mob Doctor
A young thoracic surgeon becomes indebted to the South Chicago mafia and is forced to moonlight as a mob doctor, while also working full time at Chicago's most prominent hospital. (imdb)
A Kiss to Die For
William, a Harvard psychology professor is having trouble dealing with life after the death of his wife when he meets a beautiful woman named Ali. As their relationship grows, he begins to question her secretive past, which he discovers is linked to a series of murders that the police are investigating. (imdb)
The Untouchables
In 1930s Chicago, the seemingly invincible crime boss Al Capone is opposed by a team of incorruptible U.S. Treasury Agents, led by the indefatigable Eliot Ness. (imdb)
UC: Undercover
A federal team takes down elite criminals across the nation, led by Frank Donovan with undercover agents Jake Shaw and Alex Cross running surveillance ops. (imdb)