Stanley Kamel

Acting

Stanley Kamel

Born 1943-01-01 · South River, New Jersey, USA

Stanley Kamel (January 1, 1943 – April 8, 2008) was an American actor, best known for his role as Dr. Charles Kroger on the American television series Monk. Kamel was born to a Jewish family and raised in South River, New Jersey, and attended Rutgers Preparatory School. He started his acting career off-Broadway and broke into television with a role in Days of Our Lives as Eric Peters. Kamel had a recurring role on Melrose Place in 1994 as Bruce Teller, the chief executive officer of D&D Advertising, where Amanda (Heather Locklear) and Allison (Courtney Thorne-Smith) were employed. During the first part of the sixth season of Beverly Hills, 90210, Kamel appeared on several episodes as Anthony Marchette, an organized crime figure. Kamel was most known for his role as Dr. Charles Kroger in the USA Network television series Monk, playing the infinitely patient and ever-supportive psychiatrist to the main character, Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub). Though his last appearance was in the sixth season of Monk, clips of his character were seen later in the series finale.

Acting credits

Inland Empire poster
7.0

When actress Nikki Grace gets the lead role in a cursed film, her world becomes more and more surreal, blending realities and ideas of infidelity, reincarnation, and supernatural forces.

Inland Empire

2006

Domino poster
5.9

The story of the life of Domino Harvey, who abandoned her career as a Ford model to become a bounty hunter.

Domino

2005

Running Red poster
5.5

Upset over his brother’s murder, Soviet special agent Gregori Wallace leaves Russia to start a new life in the United States. Now happily married to a beautiful woman and the father of a little girl, Gregori soon realizes that he can’t outrun the past.

Running Red

1999

Star 80 poster
6.5

Paul Snider is a narcissistic, small time hustler who fancies himself a ladies man. His life changes when he meets Dorothy Stratten working behind the counter of a Dairy Queen. Under his guidance Dorothy grows to fame as a Playboy Playmate. But when Dorothy begins pursuing an acting career, the jealous Paul finds himself elbowed out of the picture by more famous men.

Star 80

1983

Automatic poster
4.9

Robgen industries newest security system is "The J Series Automatic", an android model designed and programmed to protect humans from violent attacks. But one night, an Automatic named J269 discovers a Robgen executive trying to rape a female employee named Nora Rochester. While trying to stop the crime, he inadvertently kills the executive. At this point, J269 then calls Goddard Marx (his creator and a Robgen chairman) to inform him of the incident. Marx tells the android to stay there with Rochester until help arrives, but Marx is intent on sweeping the fiasco under the rug by sending mercenaries to eliminate both J269 and Rochester. Now the two are fugitives on the run from a para-military hit squad.

Automatic

1995

Captain America II: Death Too Soon poster
3.8

Crimefighting Captain America rights more wrongs by doing battle with a fanatical terrorist who uses his deadly drug that causes accelerated aging to finance his world revolution.

Captain America II: Death Too Soon

1979

Making Love poster
6.9

A perfect typical LA couple find their happily-ever-after life broken when the husband confronts his long-repressed attraction for other men.

Making Love

1982

Corvette Summer poster
5.5

Ken loves to design and build exotic cars. When the High School shop class project car, a fully tricked out dream Corvette, is stolen, he begins searching for it. His search leads him to Las Vegas, where Vanessa, a teenaged prostitute wannabe, helps him try to track it down.

Corvette Summer

1978

Mallory: Circumstantial Evidence poster
9.0

In this pilot film, Mallory is a prominent lawyer with a tarnished reputation who defends a young man charged with committing homicide against a sexual predator in prison.

Mallory: Circumstantial Evidence

1976

My Mother's Secret Life poster
8.0

16 year old Tobi has just lost her father, whom she has been living with. She finds her mother's address in his papers. So Tobi builds up a fantasy of what her mother, Ellen Blake, must be like. But when she goes to see her, she finds out her mother is a high priced call-girl.

My Mother's Secret Life

1984

Eat Your Heart Out poster
4.5

A womanizer gets his own cooking show and, ironically, the females who call in end up airing their relationship problems to him.

Eat Your Heart Out

1997

The Red-Light Sting poster
3.5

Government agent Frank Powell is determined to bring down racketeering crime lord Oliver Sully but cannot find any evidence. Powell concocts a plan to have the Justice Department buy a brothel, set up a professional call girl named Kathy Dunn as a hostess, and get the crime boss on extortion.

The Red-Light Sting

1984

A Bunny's Tale poster
5.3

A dramatization of Gloria Steinem's undercover investigation of the working conditions Bunnies faced at the Playboy Clubs.

A Bunny's Tale

1985

Come the Morning poster
5.0

In search of her estranged husband, a mother brings her 3 children to Los Angeles in the hope of finding him. With no prospects they wander the streets; becoming beggars before long. Things start to turn around for them when the mother meets a Christian missionary.

Come the Morning

1993

Victims for Victims: The Theresa Saldana Story poster
7.5

Before stalking was a well-known crime in North America, there was Theresa Saldana's story. A drifter from the U.K., Arthur Jackson, flies to the U.S. to seek Saldana out. His twisted mission: Jackson planned to murder Saldana, then request the death sentence for himself so he "could join her in paradise." The psychopathic Jackson confronts Saldana on the street in front of her home and stabs her violently several times. No one comes to Theresa's aid except water deliveryman Jeff Fenn, who overpowers Jackson and gets the knife away from him. Jackson is arrested & charged with attempted murder...and Theresa Saldana tells her story of terror and survival as herself in this TV movie.

Victims for Victims: The Theresa Saldana Story

1984

Like Father, Like Santa poster
5.8

An unscrupulous businessman, embittered by years of neglect from his true father, who happens to be Santa Claus, finds that after years of taking over numerous toy factories, he must save the holidays for the children of the world.

Like Father, Like Santa

1998

Dancing with Danger poster
5.8

A Portland taxi dancer is a suspect in a series of murders involving her former customers.

Dancing with Danger

1994

Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice poster
10.0

Ray investigates the murder of a psychiatrist.

Ray Alexander: A Taste For Justice

1994

Short Walk to Daylight poster
6.7

Eight people have to find their way out of a New York subway after being trapped following an earthquake.

Short Walk to Daylight

1972

Honor Thy Father and Mother: The True Story of the Menendez Murders poster
7.3

TV movie based on the novel "Blood Brothers," about the murder of Jose Menéndez and his wife Kitty by their sons, Erik and Lyle.

Honor Thy Father and Mother: The True Story of the Menendez Murders

1994

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8.0

Failed series pilot about a pair of mismatched law partners who struggle to stay ahead of their creditors.

Bar Girls

1990

The Rape of Richard Beck poster
6.8

The tables turn for cynical police officer Richard Beck when he's viciously attacked by two homicidal crooks. Having never been empathetic toward the victims he's dealt with on a daily basis, Beck must now confront the tough system he was a part of. As he struggles to regain his status at work, he also must make sure those responsible for his attack are prosecuted.

The Rape of Richard Beck

1985

In the Glitter Palace poster
4.0

The ex-girlfriend of a lawyer, who left him for a lesbian lover, asks him to defend her lover in a murder case.

In the Glitter Palace

1977

Jane Doe: How to Fire Your Boss poster
6.0

Jane Doe sets out to track down a killer who is targeting fellow CSA agents.

Jane Doe: How to Fire Your Boss

2007