Mel Winkler

Acting

Mel Winkler

Born 1941-10-23 · St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Mel Winkler (October 23, 1941 - June 11, 2020) was an American actor.

Acting credits

Coach Carter poster
7.6

Based on a true story, in which Richmond High School head basketball coach Ken Carter made headlines in 1999 for benching his undefeated team due to poor academic results.

Coach Carter

2005

City Hall poster
6.0

The accidental shooting of a boy in New York City leads to an investigation by the Deputy Mayor, and unexpectedly far-reaching consequences.

City Hall

1996

Devil in a Blue Dress poster
6.5

In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Daphne Monet, who he suspects is hiding out in one of the city's black jazz clubs. Strapped for money and facing house payments, Easy takes the job, but soon finds himself in over his head.

Devil in a Blue Dress

1995

All the Right Moves poster
5.8

Sensitive study of a headstrong high school football star who dreams of getting out of his small Western Pennsylvania steel town with a football scholarship. His equally ambitious coach aims at a college position, resulting in a clash which could crush the player's dreams.

All the Right Moves

1983

Doc Hollywood poster
6.4

After leaving Washington D.C. hospital, plastic surgeon Ben Stone heads for California, where a lucrative practice in Beverly Hills awaits. After a car accident, he's sentenced to perform as the community's general practitioner.

Doc Hollywood

1991

Heaven Help Us poster
6.4

Sixteen-year-old Michael Dunn arrives at St. Basil's Catholic Boys School in Brooklyn circa 1965. There, he befriends all of the misfits in his class as they collide with the repressive faculty and discover the opposite sex as they come of age.

Heaven Help Us

1985

A Life Less Ordinary poster
6.2

A couple of angels, O'Reilly and Jackson, are sent to Earth to make sure that their next supervised love-connection succeeds. They follow Celine, a spoiled rich girl who has just accidentally shot a suitor and, due to a misunderstanding, is kidnapped by janitor Robert. Although Celine quickly frees herself, she stays with Robert for thrills. O'Reilly and Jackson pursue, hoping to unite the prospective lovers.

A Life Less Ordinary

1997

Off Beat poster
4.7

Joe Gower's job is skating through library shelves, fetching books. A police officer/friend of his is chosen to participate in a charity dance performance. Gower agrees to take his place in the show by posing as a police officer. He falls for a female officer in the show and gets into various scrapes with fellow cops and also crooks. And he dances.

Off Beat

1986

Midnight Run Around poster
6.7

Bounty hunter Jack Walsh heads for a small rural community in Oklahoma to bring back a young bail jumper, only to discover that the entire town has united to defend the young man.

Midnight Run Around

1994

Across 110th Street poster
6.7

In a daring robbery, some $300,000 is taken from the Italian mob. Several mafiosi are killed, as are two policemen. Lt. Pope and Capt. Mattelli are two New York City cops trying to break the case. Three small-time criminals are on the run with the money. Will the mafia catch them first, or will the police?

Across 110th Street

1972

Full Eclipse poster
5.1

The LA police department have a special team of officers with a talent for reducing big-time crime. The team leader has an excellent track record for crime reduction in other big cities, but his methods are unconventional, and so is he - he's a werewolf.

Full Eclipse

1993

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays poster
NR

The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broadway's brightest luminaries. Culled from clips from the Tony Awards shows, this unique collection features acting powerhouses James Earl Jones, Annette Bening, Joan Allen, Joe Mantegna, Gary Sinise and Maggie Smith, among others, performing works by such playwrights as August Wilson, David Mamet, Wendy Wasserstein and more.

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

2006

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1.7

Documentary about actors who detail their ups and downs as they struggle to forge careers in Hollywood.

That Guy... Who Was In That Thing 3: Trek Stars

2019

Hollywood Palms poster
5.5

Set entirely in the Hollywood Palms apartment building and its yard, this movie looks at how people there live, and the intertwining stories of the residents who develop interesting relationships with one another.

Hollywood Palms

2000

The Day the Music Died poster
8.0

This documentary film is mostly about the New York Pop Festival, which began on July 17, 1970 at Randall's Island, NY, and lasted for three days

The Day the Music Died

1977

The Less Than Perfect Daughter poster
7.8

A demanding woman and her daughter knock heads when the daughter, aspiring to be less reliant on her family, moves in with a troubled friend.

The Less Than Perfect Daughter

1991