Acting

Ryan MacDonald

Born 1930-09-04 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Acting credits

JFK poster
7.6

Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.

JFK

1991

Newsies poster
6.7

A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When their publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, tries to squeeze a little more profit out of their labours, they organize a strike, only to be confronted with the Pulitzer's hard-ball tactics.

Newsies

1992

The Enemy Within poster
5.8

A officer with the Joint Chiefs of Staff uncovers a planned military coup of the U.S. government and has only one week to prevent the takeover.

The Enemy Within

1994

Starchaser: The Legend of Orin poster
6.3

Set on the subterranean Mine-World, a band of human worker are treated like slaves under the power of the evil overlord Zygon until one, Orin, unearths the hilt of a mythical sword that only he can master. Escaping the planet, he runs into the rogue smuggler Dagg and a pair of helpful droids and the princess, who all team up to return to the Mine-World with a plan to defeat Zygon and free Orin's enslaved people.

Starchaser: The Legend of Orin

1985

Thursday's Child poster
5.5

Sam Alden is the 17-year-old high school star player in baseball who seems to have it all. However, his family notices that he is often bothered with fits of coughing. Worried, his parents decide to take him to the hospital, where they are shocked to find out that he has a life-threatening heart disease. Sam has trouble dealing with his illness, but he pretends to still be a joyful teenager to not have his parents worrying even more than they already do. His health is deteriorating, though, and it is eventually revealed that he needs a heart transplant if he wants to survive. This is the beginning of a long journey, which is mentally and physically exhausting. Sam has countless operations, and tests. The search for a donor seems endless to him. Even before the final operation, Sam is forced to deal with several setbacks in his life.

Thursday's Child

1983

Temptress poster
3.8

Karin brings a statue home from her travels to Asia and it soon begins to have a strange effect on her. She has an insatiable sexual appetite and develops strange fetishes such as pain and death. Soon, she gets out of control and only her boyfriend Matt has the power in his love to exorcise the demon spirits from Karin's body.

Temptress

1995

Future Kick poster
4.3

In the far-flung future of 2025, where man is a victim of his own technology and corporations deal to a black market that trades in human body parts, a cyborg bounty hunter is hired by a wealthy woman to find out who murdered her husband.

Future Kick

1991

The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom poster
6.4

A Texas housewife plots hire a hit man to kill the girl who beat out her daughter for a place on the cheerleading squad.

The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom

1993

Grace Kelly poster
6.4

The fairy tale story of the actress who became a princess is told in this biography that traces her rise from Philadelphia socialite to Hollywood movie star.

Grace Kelly

1983

Love Hate Love poster
5.9

Ryan O'Neal plays Russ Emery, a glib engineer who steals the heart of a fashion model named Sheila Blunden. She in turn leaves her jet setter fiance who turns out to be a psychotic who will not let go of Sheila that easily.

Love Hate Love

1971

The Brady Girls Get Married poster
5.4

Made-for-tv movie, the pilot for a "Brady Bunch" revival series, "The Brady Brides." Jan and Marcia have met the men of their dreams and decide to tie the knot. They agree to hold the weddings together in the family's back yard, but fight over whether to have a modern ceremony or a traditional one. Can the marriages be saved? All of the original cast members (except cousin Oliver) put in a return appearance.

The Brady Girls Get Married

1981

The Great American Beauty Contest poster
6.3

The pursuit by America's loveliest girls for a coveted beauty crown is threatened by a scandal which implicates a judge, a former winner, and one of the five finalists.

The Great American Beauty Contest

1973

Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model? poster
9.0

A female private detective goes undercover as a porno actress to find a millionaire's missing daughter.

Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model?

1977

No artwork available
1.3

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 being gay and battling AIDS during a special segment of the nightly news. Originally episode eight of LifeStories, it was moved to later in the season due to the subject matter.

LifeStories: Steve Burdick

1990

Black Dawn poster
5.3

Jake Killian, ex-cop, searches for a mysteriously abducted US-banker, with the help of the single living witness, a stripper called Extasy.

Black Dawn

1997

No artwork available
NR

An artist falls in love with the woman he is hired to paint, and her upper class fiancée uses black magic against him as revenge.

Reflections of Passion

1975