Michael D. Roberts

Acting

Michael D. Roberts

Born 1947-12-25 · Brooklyn, New York, USA

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Michael D. Roberts (born December 25, 1947) is an American actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael D. Roberts, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Rain Man poster
7.8

When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.

Rain Man

1988

A Star Is Born poster
7.5

Seasoned musician Jackson Maine discovers — and falls in love with — struggling artist Ally. She has just about given up on her dream to make it big as a singer — until Jack coaxes her into the spotlight. But even as Ally's career takes off, the personal side of their relationship is breaking down, as Jack fights an ongoing battle with his own internal demons.

A Star Is Born

2018

Street Kings poster
6.7

Tom Ludlow is a disillusioned L.A. Police Officer, rarely playing by the rules and haunted by the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he's been a part of his entire career, ultimately leading him to question the loyalties of everyone around him.

Street Kings

2008

Hostage poster
6.4

When a mafia accountant is taken hostage on his beat, a police officer – wracked by guilt from a prior stint as a negotiator – must negotiate the standoff, even as his own family is held captive by the mob.

Hostage

2005

American Dreamz poster
5.1

The new season of "American Dreamz," the wildly popular television singing contest, has captured the country's attention, as the competition looks to be between a young Midwestern gal and a showtunes-loving young man from Orange County. Recently awakened President Staton even wants in on the craze, as he signs up for the potential explosive season finale.

American Dreamz

2006

The Ice Pirates poster
5.7

In the not too distant future, where by far the most precious commodity in the galaxy is water. The last surviving water planet was somehow removed to the unreachable centre of the galaxy at the end of the galactic trade wars. The galaxy is ruled by an evil emperor presiding over a trade oligarchy that controls all mining and sale of ice from asteroids and comets.

The Ice Pirates

1984

The Hunter poster
5.9

During his long career, bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson has caught over 5,000 criminals. Now, while he is working on apprehending fugitives in Illinois, Texas and Nebraska, he himself is being hunted by a psychotic killer.

The Hunter

1980

Sleepstalker poster
4.5

Seventeen years after slaughtering all but one member of a family, a vicious serial killer known only as "The Sandman" awaits execution. But first, his jailers allow a minister to visit the killer to give him last rites, unaware that the minister is a voodoo priest and an ally of the condemned prisoner. The priest places a hex on the Sandman so that when he is executed, his soul migrates into a new body made of sand. To sever his ties with his former life and achieve absolute power, the sandman must find and kill a man named Griffin, the sole survivor of the last family murdered by the killer

Sleepstalker

1995

Suckers poster
5.7

A fiercely dishonest car salesman hires a new employee who owes a serious debt to loan sharks.

Suckers

1999

Dark Shadows poster
8.1

The pilot for a proposed remake of the '60s gothic soap opera. It was produced in 2004 for The WB network, but was not picked up and has never aired on television. The pilot instead premiered in 2005 at the Dark Shadows Festival in Los Angeles and has screened at various such festivals in the years since.

Dark Shadows

2005

Orientation: A Scientology Information Film poster
3.0

An introduction and overview to Scientology.

Orientation: A Scientology Information Film

1996

Heartbreaker poster
4.2

Car clubs in East LA provide the background for gang rivalry and a blossoming romance between Beto and the blonde newcomer to the neighborhood, Kim.

Heartbreaker

1983

Hitman's Run poster
4.9

A former mob hitman, now in witness protection, is forced to come out of retirement when his family is threatened by his cohorts. He teams up with a skateboarding kid, who has a computer disk that the mob wants to get their hands on that has a list of new names for individuals in the FBI witness protection program. The list includes his dad, who separated from his mother years before and hadn't been seen since.

Hitman's Run

1999

Nightside poster
6.0

Danny Dandoy is a good-humored, streetwise cop working the dusk-to-dawn shift in Los Angeles with his somewhat naive new partner, Macey, in this proposed pilot for a new TV series.

Nightside

1980

Knight Rider: Knight of the Phoenix poster
5.5

After Detective Michael Long is shot and left for dead, he is saved by the eccentric billionaire Wilton Knight. He is given a new face by plastic surgery, a new identity as Michael Knight, and the Knight Industries Two Thousand (KITT) – a dream car with super-spy gadgets and nearly invulnerable armor.

Knight Rider: Knight of the Phoenix

1982

The Last Halloween poster
6.1

Four Martians crash-land on Earth in search of candy for their home planet.

The Last Halloween

1991

Back to Freedom poster
7.0

South African adventure

Back to Freedom

1988

No artwork available
7.0

The laughs never stop in this action/comedy about good samaritan Frank Pellet, who uses police monitors and CB radios to do his "Herowork"-saving people, burning buildings and the like. -- Amazon

Herowork

1977

Manhunter poster
7.0

FBI Agent Will Graham, retired after catching notorious cannibal Hannibal Lecter, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecter to capture a new killer.

Manhunter

1986