Leonard Termo

Acting

Leonard Termo

Born 1935-03-06 · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Leonard Termo (March 6, 1935 – October 30, 2012) was an American character actor whose numerous film and television roles included Fight Club, Johnny Dangerously, and Seinfeld.

Acting credits

Fight Club poster
8.4

A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.

Fight Club

1999

Lost Highway poster
7.5

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.

Lost Highway

1997

Godzilla poster
5.7

French nuclear tests irradiate an iguana into a giant monster that viciously attacks freighter ships in the Pacific Ocean. A team of experts, including Niko Tatopoulos, conclude that the oversized reptile is the culprit. Before long, the giant lizard is loose in Manhattan as the US military races to destroy the monster before it reproduces and it's spawn takes over the world.

Godzilla

1998

Ali poster
6.7

In 1964, a brash, new pro boxer, fresh from his Olympic gold medal victory, explodes onto the scene: Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an entirely new image for African Americans in sport with his proud public self-confidence and his unapologetic belief that he is the greatest boxer of all time. Yet at the top of his game, both Ali's personal and professional lives face the ultimate test.

Ali

2001

Ed Wood poster
7.5

The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his strange friends, filmed countless B-movies without ever becoming famous or successful.

Ed Wood

1994

Nowhere to Run poster
6.6

Escaped convict Sam Gillen single-handedly takes on ruthless developers who are determined to evict a widow with two young children.

Nowhere to Run

1993

The Cotton Club poster
6.5

Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.

The Cotton Club

1984

Barfly poster
6.9

Downtrodden writer Henry and distressed goddess Wanda aren't exactly husband and wife: they're wedded to their bar stools. But, they like each other's company—and Barfly captures their giddy, gin-soaked attempts to make a go of life on the skids.

Barfly

1987

Gone Fishin' poster
4.9

Two fishing fanatics get in trouble when their fishing boat gets stolen while on a trip.

Gone Fishin'

1997

Gettysburg poster
7.0

In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania with the goal of marching through to Washington, D.C. The Union Army of the Potomac, under the command of General George G. Meade, forms a defensive position to confront the rebel forces in what will prove to be the decisive battle of the American Civil War.

Gettysburg

1993

Mobsters poster
6.3

The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoods to their rise in the world of organized crime...

Mobsters

1991

Johnny Dangerously poster
6.3

An honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.

Johnny Dangerously

1984

The Pope of Greenwich Village poster
6.3

Charlie and his troublesome cousin Paulie decide to steal $150,000 in order to back a "sure thing" race horse that Paulie has inside information on. The aftermath of the robbery gets them into serious trouble with the local Mafia boss and the corrupt New York City police department.

The Pope of Greenwich Village

1984

Year of the Dragon poster
6.8

In New York, racist Capt. Stanley White becomes obsessed with destroying a Chinese-American drug ring run by Joey Tai, an up-and-coming young gangster as ambitious as he is ruthless. While pursuing an unauthorized investigation, White grows increasingly willing to violate police protocol, resorting to progressively violent measures -- even as his concerned wife, Connie, and his superiors beg him to consider the consequences of his actions.

Year of the Dragon

1985

A Prayer for the Dying poster
5.9

Martin, an I.R.A. hitman, is seen by a Catholic priest while carrying out a hit. He grows a bond with the priest and his niece. But his past and his former employers put all their lives in danger.

A Prayer for the Dying

1987

Bloodhounds of Broadway poster
5.7

On New Year's Eve 1928, in the New York underworld, a gambler sells his body to science, a gangster needs a transfusion, and a gambler is on the run

Bloodhounds of Broadway

1989

29th Street poster
6.9

After winning $6.2 million in the 1976 New York State Lottery, he is arrested for throwing rocks at a church. He then tells his story at the police station.

29th Street

1991

The Preppie Murder poster
5.6

This is the story of a young woman who was found dead. Now the police investigate, and evidence points to a man she was seen leaving a party with. Now when questioned, he claims that her death was accidental, as a result of rough sex. Now her family doesn't believe this, so they press the district attorney's office to try him for murder, but he has a good lawyer who plays his defense right down to putting the dead girl on trial.

The Preppie Murder

1989

Hider in the House poster
5.9

A deranged man hides in the attic of a new house and becomes obsessed with the unsuspecting family that moves in.

Hider in the House

1989

Lies of the Twins poster
4.5

An ex-model is seduced into danger by her psychotherapist boyfriend's wicked identical twin.

Lies of the Twins

1991

Lover Girl poster
5.9

Jake is a 16-year-old girl whose mother left her. She finds her older sister Darlene in L.A., but Darlene turns her away. Darlene's neighbor Marci takes pity on Jake, allowing her to stay over. When Jake discovers that Marci is a manager in a massage parlor, she convinces Marci to hire her.

Lover Girl

1997

Ruby poster
5.5

Fact and fiction are combined in this story about Jack Ruby and a stripper, Candy Cane, and how they become involved in a conspiracy to kill J.F.K.

Ruby

1992

Double Bang poster
4.9

An honest cop enters the dark world of murder and corruption.

Double Bang

2001

Midnight Cabaret poster
4.0

A Broadway producer puts on a play with a Devil character in it. Soon the actors begin having nightmares, and events that are mentioned in the play really start happening.

Midnight Cabaret

1990