J. Patrick McNamara

Acting

J. Patrick McNamara

Born 1942-10-30 · New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

J. Patrick McNamara (1942 - January 2, 2023) was an American actor, known for Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) and 1941 (1979).

Acting credits

Close Encounters of the Third Kind poster
7.4

After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

1977

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure poster
6.8

Two rock-'n-rolling teens, on the verge of failing their class, set out on a quest to make the ultimate school history report after being presented with a time machine.

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

1989

Never Back Down 2: The Beatdown poster
6.5

Four fighters from different backgrounds come together to train under an ex MMA rising star and then ultimately have to fight each other and the traitor in their midst.

Never Back Down 2: The Beatdown

2011

Blow Out poster
7.4

While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger is already dead — a governor intending to run for president. As Jack does some investigating of his tapes, and starts a perilous romance with Sally, he enters a tangled web of conspiracy that might leave him dead.

Blow Out

1981

1941 poster
5.8

In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.

1941

1979

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey poster
6.3

Amiable slackers Bill and Ted are once again roped into a fantastical adventure when De Nomolos, a villain from the future, sends evil robot duplicates of the two lads to terminate and replace them. The robot doubles actually succeed in killing Bill and Ted, but the two are determined to escape the afterlife, challenging the Grim Reaper to a series of games in order to return to the land of the living.

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

1991

Mardi Gras: Spring Break poster
5.7

For three college guys, it’s senior year and the co-ed experience has left them high and dry. Their solution: A road trip to Mardi Gras, where beautiful babes are happy to lift their shirts and open containers are always welcome. But after dressing in drag, breaking into Carmen Electra’s hotel room, starring in a scandalous sex show and accidentally exploding a feces bomb in a swank hotel lobby, will the Mardi Gras magic kick in and their wildest fantasies come true?

Mardi Gras: Spring Break

2011

Phantasm II poster
6.2

Mike, after his release from a psychiatric hospital, teams up with his old pal Reggie to hunt down the Tall Man, who is at it again. A mysterious, beautiful girl has also become part of Mike's dreams, and they must find her before the Tall Man does.

Phantasm II

1988

Flight of the Intruder poster
5.8

U.S. Navy pilot Lt. Jake Grafton and his bombardier buddy, Lt. Cmdr. Virgil Cole, are two soldiers embedded in the Vietnam War growing frustrated by the military's constraints on their missions. Despite the best efforts of their commanding officer, Cmdr. Frank Camparelli, to re-engage them, this disillusioned pair decide to take the war effort into their own hands with an explosive battle plan that could well get them court-martialed.

Flight of the Intruder

1991

Obsession poster
6.7

A wealthy New Orleans businessman becomes obsessed with a young woman who resembles his late wife.

Obsession

1976

Warning Sign poster
5.9

An accident occurs in an ultra-secret government biological weapons laboratory spreading a sinister bacteria.

Warning Sign

1985

Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff poster
5.3

An abusive sexual relationship between a white spinster schoolteacher and a young black janitor in 1956 Kansas complicates her struggle to come to grips with her sexuality and emotions.

Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff

1979

The Hot Flashes poster
4.6

An unlikely basketball team of unappreciated middle-aged Texas women, all former high school champs, challenge the current high school girls’ state champs to raise money for breast cancer prevention. Sparks fly as the women go to comic extremes to prove themselves on and off the court, become a national media sensation, and gain a new lease on life.

The Hot Flashes

2013

The First Power poster
5.7

A dedicated L.A. police detective and a female psychic must stop a demonic serial killer who was given the powers of resurrection, teleportation and possession.

The First Power

1990

Gideon's Trumpet poster
6.5

True story of Clarence Gideon's fight to be appointed counsel at the expense of the state. This landmark case led to the Supreme Court's decision which extended this right to all criminal defendants.

Gideon's Trumpet

1980

Dead Women in Lingerie poster
3.4

A private detective is hired to catch a serial killer who makes immigrant garment workers his victims.

Dead Women in Lingerie

1991

Living Proof poster
6.5

Dr Dennis Slamon, an American oncologist, discovers a treatment that could possibly cure breast cancer without radiation or chemotherapy. He tries to look for ways to fund the medication.

Living Proof

2008

From the Rough poster
6.1

The coach of a women's swim team parlays her success into an opportunity to build her school's men's golf team.

From the Rough

2013

Remember Me poster
NR

An informational short reminding you that bland, passive-aggressive, businessmen deserve top-notch customer service at all times.

Remember Me

1981

Gross Anatomy poster
5.7

Joe Slovak is a brilliant first-year med student whose casual, nonconforming approach to life gets tested when he enrolls in Gross Anatomy, the toughest course in med school.

Gross Anatomy

1989

Mom poster
5.4

During a time when the city of Los Angeles is terrorized by animal attack style murders, a kindly elderly lady provides a nomad with room and board. It turns out that he is a werewolf and is responsible for the recent killings. He bites the elderly woman, turning her into a hungry werewolf. Now her adult son must try to prevent the both of them from doing any more harm.

Mom

1990