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Peter Donat

Peter Donat (born 20 January 1928) is a Canadian-American actor known for his roles in American television. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Donat, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. more

Starred In [23]
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The Godfather: Part II
(1974)
Crime, Drama
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
Runtime:
202 min
Director:
Francis Ford Coppola
Cast:
Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, Robert De Niro
9.0
96%
90
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The Game
(1997)
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a cold-hearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad: a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nary a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distin...
Runtime:
129 min
Director:
David Fincher
Cast:
Michael Douglas, Sean Penn, Deborah Kara Unger, James Rebhorn, Spike Jonze
7.7
76%
61
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The War of the Roses
(1989)
Comedy, Drama
The Roses, Barbara and Oliver, live happily as a married couple. Then she starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver, and likes what she sees. Both want to stay in the house, and so they begin a campaign to force each other to leave. In the middle of the fighting is D'Amato, the divorce lawyer. He gets to see how far both ...
Runtime:
116 min
Director:
Danny DeVito
Cast:
Kathleen Turner, Michael Douglas, Danny DeVito, Marianne Sägebrecht, Dan Castellaneta
6.8
85%
79
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The China Syndrome
(1979)
Drama, Thriller
While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, opportunistic reporter Kimberly Wells witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. Wells is determined to publicize the incident, but soon finds herself entangled in a sinister conspiracy to keep the full impact of the incident a secret.
Runtime:
122 min
Director:
James Bridges
Cast:
Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Scott Brady, James Hampton
7.4
87%
81
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School Ties
(1992)
Drama
When David Greene receives a football scholarship to a prestigious prep school in the 1950s, he feels pressure to hide the fact that he is Jewish from his classmates and teachers, fearing that they may be anti-Semitic. He quickly becomes the big man on campus thanks to his football skills, but when his Jewish background is discovered, ...
Runtime:
106 min
Director:
Robert Mandel
Cast:
Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Chris O'Donnell, Randall Batinkoff, Ben Affleck
6.9
60%
65
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Red Corner
(1997)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
An American attorney on business in China, ends up wrongfully on trial for murder and his only key to innocence is a female defense lawyer from the country.
Runtime:
122 min
Director:
Jon Avnet
Cast:
Richard Gere, Bai Ling, Bradley Whitford, Byron Mann, Peter Donat
6.3
30%
N/A
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The Deep End
(2001)
Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
With her husband Jack perpetually away at work, Margaret Hall raises her children virtually alone. Her teenage son is testing the waters of the adult world, and early one morning she wakes to find the dead body of his gay lover on the beach of their rural lakeside home. What would you do? What is rational and what do you do to protect ...
Runtime:
101 min
Director:
Scott McGehee, David Siegel
Cast:
Tilda Swinton, Goran Visnjic, Jonathan Tucker, Josh Lucas, Peter Donat
6.6
82%
78
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The Hindenburg
(1975)
Action, History, Thriller
In this highly speculative historical thriller, Colonel Franz Ritter (George C. Scott), a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of security. As he races against the clock to uncover a possible saboteur aboard the doomed zeppelin he finds that any of the passeng...
Runtime:
125 min
Director:
Robert Wise
Cast:
George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, William Atherton, Roy Thinnes, Gig Young
6.3
36%
N/A
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Skin Deep
(1989)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Hard-drinking novelist Zach Hutton spirals out of control after his wife and mistress both leave him. Alone and crippled by a bad case of writer's block, Zach slips in and out of casual relationships and one-night stands, while his drinking becomes more and more severe. With the help of a bartender and his therapist, Zach confronts his...
Runtime:
97 min
Director:
Blake Edwards
Cast:
John Ritter, Vincent Gardenia, Alyson Reed, Joel Brooks, Julianne Phillips
6.1
32%
43
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains
(1982)
Comedy, Drama, Music
Corrine Burns retreats far into plans for her band, The Fabulous Stains, after her mother's death.
Runtime:
87 min
Director:
Lou Adler
Cast:
Diane Lane, Ray Winstone, Peter Donat, David Clennon, John Lehne
6.9
N/A
N/A
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The Missiles of October
(1974)
Drama, TV Movie
Based in part on Robert F. Kennedy's book, "Thirteen Days," this film profiles the Kennedy Administration's actions during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Runtime:
150 min
Director:
Anthony Page
Cast:
William Devane, Ralph Bellamy, Howard Da Silva, James Hong, Martin Sheen
8.3
83%
N/A
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The Bay Boy
(1984)
Drama
A Roman Catholic teenage boy in Glace Bay, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia during the 1930s faces various growing-up problems: Should be become a priest? What should he do about the murder he witnessed, committed by a local cop and upstanding parishioner? And how far should he go with his girl friend, who happens to be the murderer's d...
Runtime:
107 min
Director:
Daniel Petrie
Cast:
Kiefer Sutherland, Liv Ullmann, Peter Donat, Alan Scarfe, Mathieu Carrière
6.5
N/A
N/A
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The Flying Misfits
(1976)
The dramatized World War II adventures of US Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington and his Marine Attack Squadron 214, AKA The Black Sheep Squadron. The film also acted as the pilot for the television series Baa Baa Black Sheep. Former U.S. Marine pilot Greg "Pappy" Boyington is flying with the American Volunteer Group (the Flying Tigers) i...
Runtime:
93 min
Director:
Russ Mayberry
Cast:
Robert Conrad, Simon Oakland, Dana Elcar, James Whitmore, Robert Ginty
7.7
N/A
N/A
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The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
(1976)
Crime, Drama, TV Movie
Fact-based story of the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh Jr., son and namesake of the famed pilot, and ensuing trial of accused and convicted killer, Bruno Hauptmann.
Runtime:
148 min
Director:
Buzz Kulik
Cast:
Cliff De Young, Anthony Hopkins, Denise Alexander, Sian Barbara Allen, Martin Balsam
6.9
N/A
N/A
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A Different Story
(1978)
Drama, Romance
A gay man and a lesbian enter into a marriage of convenience in order to prevent his deportation, and then gradually fall in love with one another.
Runtime:
108 min
Director:
Paul Aaron
Cast:
Perry King, Meg Foster, Valerie Curtin, Peter Donat, Richard Bull
5.9
N/A
N/A
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Seduced and Betrayed
(1995)
Drama, Thriller
A beautiful but equally dangerous widow won't take "no" for an answer as she draws a dedicated family man into a world of passion, deceit and betrayal, threatening to destroy him in the process.
Runtime:
87 min
Director:
Félix Enríquez Alcalá
Cast:
Susan Lucci, David Charvet, Mary Ellen Trainor, Peter Donat, Gabrielle Carteris
5.3
N/A
N/A
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Russian Roulette
(1975)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
An RCMP officer is ordered to discreetly take a Russian immigrant into custody in advance of a state visit by the Soviet premier. When the prisoner is kidnapped, the officer is drawn into a complicated assassination scheme.
Runtime:
93 min
Director:
Lou Lombardo
Cast:
George Segal, Cristina Raines, Bo Brundin, Denholm Elliott, Gordon Jackson
5.5
N/A
N/A
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Lost Lagoon
(1957)
Drama, Romance
Saddled with a loveless marriage and three ungrateful children, Charlie Walker (Jeffrey Lynn) dreams of escape. When he falls overboard on a boating trip and is presumed dead, his fantasy comes true. He washes up on a Caribbean island and meets a lovely local (Leila Barry). He gets a fresh start at life, opening a resort on his island ...
Runtime:
79 min
Director:
John Rawlins
Cast:
Jeffrey Lynn, Leila Barry, Peter Donat, Don Gibson
6.2
N/A
N/A
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Return Engagement
(1978)
A live-theater production which Elizabeth Taylor stars as Emily Loomis, a professor of ancient history at a small California college, who reluctantly agrees to rent a room in her house to one of the new students named Stewart Anderson. Both happen to be loners (she with a secret past) and although they initially get on each others nerv...
Runtime:
74 min
Director:
Joseph Hardy
Cast:
Elizabeth Taylor, Joseph Bottoms, Allyn Ann McLerie, Peter Donat, James Ray
7.3
N/A
N/A
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Highpoint
(1982)
Action, Comedy, Thriller
James Hatcher embezzles ten million dollars from a joint mafia/CIA operation, leaving them squabbling with each other. Unemployed Lewis Kinney gets caught up in the intrigue, and must try to recover the money, while saving the beautiful Lise Hatcher (hopefully for himself).
Runtime:
88 min
Director:
Peter Carter
Cast:
Richard Harris, Christopher Plummer, Beverly D'Angelo, Kate Reid, Peter Donat
4.9
N/A
N/A
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Mirrors
(1978)
Horror, Thriller
A newlywed couple checks into an old hotel in New Orleans where the wife begins having dreams in which she encounters a sinister group of people who seem to want her for some nefarious purpose. When people around her start dying, she realizes she is not dreaming.
Runtime:
88 min
Director:
Noel Black
Cast:
Kitty Winn, Peter Donat
4.8
N/A
N/A
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Mazes and Monsters
(1982)
Drama, Fantasy, TV Movie
Bound together by a desire to play "Mazes and Monsters," Robbie and his four college classmates decide to move the board game into the local cavern. Robbie loses his mind, and the line between reality and fantasy fuse into a harrowing nightmare.
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Steven Hilliard Stern
Cast:
Tom Hanks, Wendy Crewson, David Wallace, Chris Makepeace, Lloyd Bochner
4.2
N/A
N/A
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The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant
(1975)
Drama
A young doctor fresh out of medical school takes a job at a big-city hospital, and on his first day finds himself making life-and-death decisions.
Runtime:
73 min
Director:
Alexander Singer
Cast:
Scott Hylands, Lawrence Pressman, Katherine Helmond, Karen Carlson, Renne Jarrett
N/A
N/A
N/A