Alan North

Alan North

1920-12-23 The Bronx, New York, USA 33 Credits

Biography

After wartime naval service, Alan North began his show business career as a stage manager in New York. He first worked on Broadway in "Plain and Fancy", doubling up as understudy for the small part of Isaac Miller. The play had a successful run between 1955 and 1956 (461 performances) and this led to further acting work in diverse productions, ranging from musical comedy to straight dramatic parts, both on and off Broadway. Alan last appeared as a quaint curmudgeonly character in "Lake Hollywood...

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I'll Take You There

I'll Take You There

1999

as Max

6.0
Acting

Still nursing wounds from a breakup, a woman is forced by her sister into a blind date that turns into a nightmare.

Cafe Society

Cafe Society

1997

as Frank Hogan

5.0
Acting

New York 1952. Mickey Jelke inherits a big sum of money and spends his nights in Manhattan, painting the city red. Night after night, he can be found ...

I'm Not Rappaport

I'm Not Rappaport

1996

as Grocery Customer

5.6
Acting

Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter, who is half-blind, but still ...

The Long Kiss Goodnight

The Long Kiss Goodnight

1996

as Earl

6.6
Acting

Samantha Caine is a small-town schoolteacher and mom with no memory of her life before washing up on a beach eight years ago. After a car accident and...

The Jerky Boys

The Jerky Boys

1995

as Micky Crump

4.2
Acting

When two unemployed telephone pranksters decide to use their vocal "talents" to impersonate a Chicago mob boss and curry favor with organized crime in...

Twenty Bucks

Twenty Bucks

1993

as Bruce Adams

5.8
Acting

A story about the life of a twenty dollar bill as it weaves in and out of the various lives of several people.

Lincoln and the War Within

Lincoln and the War Within

1992

Acting

First few weeks of Lincoln's presidency where crucial for the direction the country would take. He had to bridge the gap between the victorious North ...

Darrow

Darrow

1991

as Harrison Gray Otis

5.3
Acting

The life and career of Clarence Darrow, the noted American lawyer and civil libertarian.

Eyes of a Witness

1991

Acting

Roy Baxter is concerned for his daughter Christina's safety. She's working as a doctor among the Masai in Kenya. Poaching gangs are slaughtering prote...

Crazy People

Crazy People

1990

as Judge

5.8
Acting

A bitter ad executive, who has reached his breaking point, finds himself in a mental institution, where his career actually begins to thrive with the ...

Kojak: It's Always Something

Kojak: It's Always Something

1990

as Harvey Schoenbrun

6.0
Acting

After discovering the connection between a corrupt city commissioner and Colombian killers, Kojak is framed for the murder of a call girl and is prose...

Glory

Glory

1989

as Gov. John Albion Andrew

7.5
Acting

Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates.

Penn & Teller Get Killed

Penn & Teller Get Killed

1989

as Old Cop

5.5
Acting

The "bad boys of magic" go over the edge in this mind-blowing, role-switching comedy murder mystery set in the dizzying world of Atlantic City casinos...

See No Evil, Hear No Evil

See No Evil, Hear No Evil

1989

as Braddock

6.7
Acting

A murder takes place in the shop of David Lyons, a deaf man who fails to hear the gunshot being fired. Outside, blind man Wally Karue hears the shot, ...

Lean On Me

Lean On Me

1989

as Mayor Don Bottman

7.3
Acting

When principal Joe Clark takes over decaying Eastside High School, he's faced with students wearing gang colors and graffiti-covered walls. Determined...

Clinton and Nadine

Clinton and Nadine

1988

as Detective Rayburn

3.6
Acting

Eager to find his brother's murderer, Clinton enlists the aid of Nadine, an expensive call girl. Together they get sucked into a plot to smuggle guns ...

Rachel River

Rachel River

1988

as Beske

7.0
Acting

A divorced mother pursues her career as a radio personality in rural Minnesota.

The Fourth Protocol

The Fourth Protocol

1987

as Govershin

6.3
Acting

Led by Kim Philby, Plan Aurora is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A cr...

The Christmas Star

The Christmas Star

1986

as Captain Whittaker

5.6
Acting

Horace McNickle (Edward Asner) is a two-time felon serving prison time for counterfeiting. On the week before Christmas, he escapes from prison dresse...

Billy Galvin

Billy Galvin

1986

4.0
Acting

Conflict arises between a steelworker and his son. The father wants the boy to have a chance to make more of himself than he did, but the son wants to...

Act of Vengeance

Act of Vengeance

1986

as Albert Pass

5.6
Acting

In 1969, an administrator runs against the corrupt president of the United Coal Miners Union, and becomes the target of a murder plot.

Liberty

Liberty

1986

as Ulysses S. Grant

Acting

Drama about how the Statue of Liberty came to be erected in New York Harbor in the early 1880s and the people responsible for its creation.

Highlander

Highlander

1986

as Lieutenant Frank Moran

6.9
Acting

He fought his first battle on the Scottish Highlands in 1536. He will fight his greatest battle on the streets of New York City in 1986. His name is C...

Thief of Hearts

Thief of Hearts

1984

as Sweeney

5.3
Acting

A woman trapped in a boring marriage begins an affair with a handsome man who seems able to read her mind. She doesn't know that he has broken into he...

Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer

Trackdown: Finding the Goodbar Killer

1983

as Lieutenant Walter Belden

Acting

A New York detective and a victim's colleague hunt a killer who preys on single women.

Muggable Mary: Street Cop

Muggable Mary: Street Cop

1982

as Mary's Father

Acting

Mary is a single mother with a disabled child who makes a living as a undercover cop catching johns, muggers, and rapists.

The Formula

The Formula

1980

as Nolan

5.5
Acting

While investigating the death of a friend and fellow cop, Los Angeles police officer Barney Caine stumbles across evidence that Nazis created a synthe...

...And Justice for All

...And Justice for All

1979

as Deputy Sheriff

7.1
Acting

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 o...

The Deadliest Season

The Deadliest Season

1977

as Detective Forscher

6.0
Acting

Gerry Miller, a professional hockey player, gives in to internal and outside pressures and adopts a more aggressive style on the ice. During one parti...

Serpico

Serpico

1973

as Brown

7.5
Acting

New York cop Frank Serpico blows the whistle on the rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.

Bordellet

Bordellet

1972

as Mormonpræsten

5.7
Acting

A young country girl moves to Copenhagen for adventure and ends up working in a brothel.

Plaza Suite

Plaza Suite

1971

as Mr. Eisler

6.1
Acting

Film version of the Neil Simon play has three separate acts set in the same hotel suite in New York's Plaza Hotel with Walter Matthau in a triple role...

Unholy Matrimony

Unholy Matrimony

1966

as Mr. M - First Swinging Husband

4.0
Acting

Sexual indiscretions are used as a basis for blackmail.