Matt Mitler

Acting

Matt Mitler

Born

1955-05-27 (71)

Known for

Acting

Credits

35 titles

Matt Mitler (born May 27, 1955) is an American actor. He is also founding director (1997) of Dzieci Theatre (the polish word for "children"), which balances its work on performance with work of service, through creative and therapeutic interaction in hospitals and a variety of institutional settings. The company is firmly dedicated to process and includes in its repertory the critically acclaimed Fools Mass, which was presented at the Parliament of the World's Religions in Barcelona in 2004 and has been a staple since 1999 at The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine. Mr. Mitler and Dzieci Theatre are profiled in Working on the Inside: The Spiritual Life Through the Eyes of Actors by Ret…

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 9 titles

Basket Case 2 poster
5.7

Duane and his basket-bound mutant brother are taken in by a secret home for wayward freaks.

Basket Case 2

1990

Bums poster
5.5

After his homeless brother Matthew is murdered, Sgt. Andrew Holloman trains a group of bums in order to catch the killers.

Bums

1993

Manic a Go-Go poster
7.0

A female comedian bombs on a TV show and hooks up with a guy being chased by crazy NYC gangsters.

Manic a Go-Go

1992

Thrill Kill Video Club poster
8.0

Four bored serial killers turn to shooting snuff movies and the Thrill Kill Video Club is born. Enter their looney upside down world of comedy, carnage, laughter and mayhem.

Thrill Kill Video Club

1991

Dick and Jane Drop Acid and Die poster
7.5

Dick and Jane Drop Acid. They Die

Dick and Jane Drop Acid and Die

1991

Cracking Up poster
8.0

Danny Gold is a Lenny Bruce-style performance artist whose brilliance is only exceeded by his urge to self-destruct. Cad, shark, comic, addict, Danny Gold rockets and ricochets through Manhattan's seedy Lower East Side, leaving in his wake a mass of mutilated relationships and burnt bridges. Comedy...it's no laughing matter.

Cracking Up

1994

Macbeth, King of Scoutland poster
7.0

A comedic retelling of William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth that relocates the action to a scout camp.

Macbeth, King of Scoutland

1993

I Was a Teenage Bride of Christ poster
7.0

Part of Matt Mitler and Robert Prichard's Surf Reality Movie of the Month series, this featurette follows marriage-hungry Sarah as she's helped by a magic homeless man to find her true calling. Maybe.

I Was a Teenage Bride of Christ

1992

Kid Scarface poster
7.0

An entry of Surf Reality's underground 'Movie of the Month Club.' Mitler & company deliver a no-budget, SOV, one-day-wonder, loose interpretation of the Scarface story with 1991's New York as a backdrop.

Kid Scarface

1991

1980s · 7 titles

Breeders poster
4.7

An otherwordly perpetrator has been attacking female virgins in Manhattan. As Dr. Pace and Detective Andriotti work together to identify the strange organic materials found on the women, the victims begin arising in a trance and leaving the hospital.

Breeders

1986

The Mutilator poster
5.1

As a child, Ed was cleaning his father’s hunting rifles - a surprise birthday treat for the old man - when one of them went off, hitting and killing his mother. On seeing the bloodshed, his father flew into a murderous rage - Ed just barely escaped with his life. Now in his teens, he returns home; he doesn’t expect to find his father, still there, waiting for a chance to settle the score . . .

The Mutilator

1985

Deadtime Stories poster
4.9

A babysitting uncle tells his charges three horror stories: about a killer witch; Little Red Riding Hood and a werewolf; and Goldi Lox and the three bears.

Deadtime Stories

1986

Not Just Any Flower poster
NR

The narrative unfolds as a timid young man, Cal, arrives for a date at the penthouse of June whose house resembles a whimsical modern art installation almost like Pee-Wee's Playhouse. He offers her roses, only to have them immediately rejected. What follows is a series of absurd, slapstick-inspired events—breaking a decorative bust, accidentally putting a fish in the June’s drink—that culminate in Cal posing shirtless on her indoor “beach” set, sparking June's creative epiphany and leading her to photograph him for a Vogue ad campaign. This short film was created in 1987 under the mentorship of Martin Scorsese while Gruber was a student at Columbia Film School, and has since earned a place in exhibitions at New York’s MoMA, cementing its status as a noteworthy artistic work.

Not Just Any Flower

1988

Battle for the Lost Planet poster
4.7

To escape his captors an industrial spy hijacks a space shuttle only to find the controls malfunctioning. Catapulting through outerspace, he sights alien battleships approaching earth. Many years later when the arc of his flight path returns him to earth, he discovers the planet is completely under alien domination, totally devastated by thermo-nuclear battles. Desperate and alone, he searches for any human existence. Finding a group of survivors, together they fight the aliens to save mankind.

Battle for the Lost Planet

1986

The Occultist poster
4.7

A cyborg private eye is hired to protect a Caribbean president visiting New York City. Unknown to him, the president's daughter is in league with his country's rebels who are trying to assassinate him.

The Occultist

1988

Mutant War poster
4.1

The sequel to 'Galaxy Destroyer' which finds our hero Harry Trent wandering Earth's post-apocalyptic landscape full of mutants, monsters, and fragmented human tribes. Harry's attempt to help a young girl rescue her sisters, leads him to a group of armed mutants led by a human madman attempting to breed them and take over the world.

Mutant War

1988

Series credits

Behind the camera

Manic a Go-Go poster
7.0

A female comedian bombs on a TV show and hooks up with a guy being chased by crazy NYC gangsters.

Manic a Go-Go

1992

Les Enfants Miserables poster
6.0

Part of Matt Mitler and Robert Prichard's Movie of the Month series.

Les Enfants Miserables

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Thrill Kill Video Club poster
8.0

Four bored serial killers turn to shooting snuff movies and the Thrill Kill Video Club is born. Enter their looney upside down world of comedy, carnage, laughter and mayhem.

Thrill Kill Video Club

1991

Dick and Jane Drop Acid and Die poster
7.5

Dick and Jane Drop Acid. They Die

Dick and Jane Drop Acid and Die

1991

Cracking Up poster
8.0

Danny Gold is a Lenny Bruce-style performance artist whose brilliance is only exceeded by his urge to self-destruct. Cad, shark, comic, addict, Danny Gold rockets and ricochets through Manhattan's seedy Lower East Side, leaving in his wake a mass of mutilated relationships and burnt bridges. Comedy...it's no laughing matter.

Cracking Up

1994

Cracking Up poster
8.0

Danny Gold is a Lenny Bruce-style performance artist whose brilliance is only exceeded by his urge to self-destruct. Cad, shark, comic, addict, Danny Gold rockets and ricochets through Manhattan's seedy Lower East Side, leaving in his wake a mass of mutilated relationships and burnt bridges. Comedy...it's no laughing matter.

Cracking Up

1994

Cracking Up poster
8.0

Danny Gold is a Lenny Bruce-style performance artist whose brilliance is only exceeded by his urge to self-destruct. Cad, shark, comic, addict, Danny Gold rockets and ricochets through Manhattan's seedy Lower East Side, leaving in his wake a mass of mutilated relationships and burnt bridges. Comedy...it's no laughing matter.

Cracking Up

1994

Macbeth, King of Scoutland poster
7.0

A comedic retelling of William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth that relocates the action to a scout camp.

Macbeth, King of Scoutland

1993

Macbeth, King of Scoutland poster
7.0

A comedic retelling of William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth that relocates the action to a scout camp.

Macbeth, King of Scoutland

1993

I Was a Teenage Bride of Christ poster
7.0

Part of Matt Mitler and Robert Prichard's Surf Reality Movie of the Month series, this featurette follows marriage-hungry Sarah as she's helped by a magic homeless man to find her true calling. Maybe.

I Was a Teenage Bride of Christ

1992

Kid Scarface poster
7.0

An entry of Surf Reality's underground 'Movie of the Month Club.' Mitler & company deliver a no-budget, SOV, one-day-wonder, loose interpretation of the Scarface story with 1991's New York as a backdrop.

Kid Scarface

1991