Michael Gorrin
Acting
Biography
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Born: November 7, 1914
Known For
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?
...And Justice for All
An ethical Baltimore defense lawyer disgusted with rampant legal corruption is forced to defend a judge he despises in a rape trial under the threat of being disbarred.
Stardust Memories
While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.
Slow Dancing In The Big City
An aging out of shape reporter falls for a pretty but seriously ill ballerina.
Cagney and Lacey: The Pilot
Cagney and Lacey are two female New York policewomen doing their job as best they can in a male-dominated police department in this feature-length pilot that sparked the popular, long-running series.
Hero at Large
An idealistic but struggling actor finds his life unexpectedly complicated when he stops a robbery while wearing the costume of Captain Avenger, a superhero character of a film he is hired to promote. He decides to dabble at being a superhero only to find that it is more difficult and dangerous than he ever imagined.
Deadly Hero
Officer Lacy is an 18-year veteran of the New York Police Department who finds himself demoted from detective back to patrol duty for his violent tendencies and trigger-happy behavior.
Windows
Emily Hollander becomes the subject of a lesbian obsession at the hands of Andrea Glassen, her next-door neighbour.
J.T.
J. T. Gamble, a shy, withdrawn Harlem youngster, shows compassion and responsibility when he takes on the care of an old, one-eyed, badly injured alley cat days before Christmas and secretly nurses it back to health.
Zalmen, or The Madness of God
This play takes place during Yom Kippur in a post-Stalinist Russian synagogue, where a Rabbi waits for a Western acting troupe and gets extremely angry about the repression of Jews in the Soviet Union.
Filmography
as Hasidic Broker
as Questions Askers - Screening
as Mr. Rothberg
as Sam Marx
as Elderly Man
as Lester Edelman
as Avrom
as The Old Man
as Mr. Rosen