David Ackroyd

Acting

David Ackroyd

Born 1940-05-30 · Orange, New Jersey, USA

Veteran stage and TV actor David Ackroyd was born on May 30, 1940 in Orange, New Jersey, the son of Arthur, an insurance adjuster, and Charlotte (nee Henderson) Ackroyd. He studied at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania where he received his BA in 1962 as a ROTC student. Following his graduation he appeared in community theater productions while serving in Arizona with the military. He then focused on the arts as a career after enrolling at the Yale Drama School where he earned his Masters of Fine Arts in 1968.

Acting credits

Dark Angel poster
6.2

Jack Caine is a Houston vice cop who's forgotten the rule book. His self-appointed mission is to stop the drugs trade and the number one supplier Victor Manning. While involved in an undercover operation to entrap Victor Manning, his partner is killed, and a sinister newcomer enters the scene...

Dark Angel

1990

Raven poster
4.4

Martin Grant has been hiding for years to escape his past as a ruthless mercenary in the elite force Raven Team. He's recently been engaged and are trying to forget the nightmares of murder and betrayal. Martin was convinced, that he could escape... But no one escapes from the Raven Teams ruthless leader Raven. At least not alive. Raven is back with a new team to hunt down and eliminate Grant...

Raven

1996

The Nativity poster
7.5

The Nativity is seen through the eyes of three young visitors from the 20th century who are transported back through time to the Holy City

The Nativity

1986

A Smoky Mountain Christmas poster
5.9

A country-western singer on a trip through the Tennessee mountains runs into a reclusive backwoodsman — and a witch.

A Smoky Mountain Christmas

1986

The Mountain Men poster
5.9

The story concerns two grizzled mountain men -- Bill Tyler and Henry Frapp -- during the dying days of the fur-trapping era. The plot begins when Running Moon runs away from her abusive husband Heavy Eagle and comes across the two seedy fur trappers. The mountain men take her in, unaware that Heavy Eagle has dispatched an army of Indian braves to reclaim her.

The Mountain Men

1980

Memories of Me poster
5.4

After a heart attack, Abbie Polin (Crystal), a New York doctor, goes to Los Angeles to see his father, Abe (King), who works in Hollywood as the "king of the extras." Their relationship has been strained for several years. Lisa, the romantic interest in Abbie's life, bonds with Abe, who gets along famously with everyone but his son. Abe begins having memory loss and eventually is diagnosed with a brain aneurysm. He and his son grow closer in time and, before it's too late, Abbie tries to get Abe a speaking role in a film.

Memories of Me

1988

Against the Wall poster
6.2

In 1971, a warden at Attica Penitentiary is caught up in a hostage crisis when inmates take over the prison to demand better living conditions.

Against the Wall

1994

Exo-Man poster
4.7

A professor, who has been paralyzed in an attack by mob hitmen, builds a suit that enables him to walk and fight crime.

Exo-Man

1977

Mind Over Murder poster
5.8

A young woman with precognition realizes she is being stalked by a killer -- a mass murderer she previously had used her psychic powers to identify to the skeptical police.

Mind Over Murder

1979

The Children of Times Square poster
6.3

An alienated teenage boy runs away from home and ventures to New York City where he falls in with a gang of juvenile delinquents working as drug dealers and pickpockets for a shady crime boss.

The Children of Times Square

1986

The Fear Inside poster
4.5

An agoraphobic children's book illustrator is trapped inside her home by two young psychos-in-love, who terrorize her. It is only when her young son is threatened that she manages to overcome her paralyzing fears and attempt to leave her home to save him...

The Fear Inside

1992

Love, Cheat & Steal poster
4.5

Paul Harrington thinks he has the perfect wife... stunning, kind, and ambitious. Yet behind Lauren's pretty face lies a wicked person who sent her former boyfriend to jail by setting him up. Reno Adams has lost seven years of his life in Jail and wants revenge. After escaping, he tracks Lauren down and intends to make her and her husband's life a living hell.

Love, Cheat & Steal

1993

Deadly Lessons poster
5.8

A psycho is stalking the students at an exclusive girls' school.

Deadly Lessons

1983

Cocaine: One Man's Seduction poster
6.9

A 47-year-old real estate salesman gets trapped in the insidious web of cocaine addiction.

Cocaine: One Man's Seduction

1983

Hell Hath No Fury poster
7.6

A woman is simultaneously framed for the murder of her husband and terrorized by the deranged woman who actually killed him.

Hell Hath No Fury

1991

No Strings Attached poster
2.8

A renowned journalist becomes a suspect in a series of murders after he becomes intimately involved with a mysterious woman. In an attempt to clear his name, he tries to find a connection between his lover and the increasing number of dead bodies.

No Strings Attached

1997

A Gun in the House poster
6.8

A woman who uses a handgun to defend herself and shoots a man who is assaulting her in her home is doggedly prosecuted by the district attorney, bent on making an example of her case.

A Gun in the House

1981

Circus Freaks and Sideshows poster
8.0

A trip through the bizarre world of midgets, giants, tattooed ladies, and other human curiosities as we trace the colorful history of a distinctly American form of entertainment--the circus sideshow. From the 1840s when P.T. Barnum exhibited Tom Thumb to the last remaining shows struggling to survive at New York's Coney Island, we learn the truth behind the sideshow adage that freaks are not born, but rather created, as performers share their memories of the magical midway.

Circus Freaks and Sideshows

2000

Tom and Joann poster
8.0

The story of Tom and Joann Hammil, a divorced couple who explore new relationships while maintaining their mutual affection a year after their sixteen-year marriage has ended. A sequel to Breaking Up (1978).

Tom and Joann

1978

The Sky's No Limit poster
4.5

Story of the lives, loves and personal problems of three women astronaut candidates planning to be the first women in space.

The Sky's No Limit

1984

Stark: Mirror Image poster
9.0

Sequel to the original movie about a hard-boiled Kansas City cop finds him tracking a colleague's killer to Las Vegas.

Stark: Mirror Image

1986

When Your Lover Leaves poster
7.0

Comedy about a woman dumped by her married boyfriend who gets involved in a short-lived relationship with a neighbor. When that also doesn't work out, she decides she must first do something to please herself.

When Your Lover Leaves

1983

History's Mysteries: The True Story of Gladiators poster
10.0

Though their ranks largely included slaves and prisoners of war, the gladiators of ancient Rome enthralled the masses, and the most successful fighters in the game were treated as superstars, as this thorough documentary reveals. Historians and scholars recount the amazing stories of these larger-than-life warriors -- who included women, senators and even an emperor -- in this episode of the History Channel series "History's Mysteries."

History's Mysteries: The True Story of Gladiators

2001

And I Alone Survived poster
6.3

Based on a true story, this tells the story of a young woman who is the only survivor of a plane crash in the Sierra Nevada mountains, and her struggle to get to safety despite her injuries, below-freezing temperatures and rough, and at times impassable, terrain.

And I Alone Survived

1978