J.A. Preston
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1932-11-13
Place of Birth:Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985)
An officially "dead" cop is trained to become an extraordinary unique assassin in service of the U.S. President.

Narrow Margin (1990)
An L.A. District Attorney attempts to take an unwilling murder witness back to the United States to testify against a top-level mob boss. Frantically...

MacShayne: Winner Takes All (1994)
MacShayne is a gambler and small time con-man. After serving a short stretch in jail, he goes to Las Vegas to see his son, but when he gets there,...

Body Heat (1981)
In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman convinces her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.

Fire Birds (1990)
A joint task force operation between the Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Army has been formed to dismantle one of the largest drug...

High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane (1980)
Former Marshal Will Kane and his Amish bride, Amy, return to Hadleyville a year after he resigned and find the town in the grip of a bounty-hunting...

Aftermath: A Test of Love (1991)
Based on a true story, an adoring wife and mother is taken hostage during a robbery and brutally murdered.

The White Lions (1981)
A college professor, his wife, and daughter go the the wilds of Africa to live, and study the rare white lions of the region.

Steel Justice (1992)
David Nash has lost his son and his will to live. But the boy appears in his dreams, as well as his Robosaurus toy ! A mythical figure will help Nash...

Desperate (1987)
In this thinly-veiled, though uncredited, new version of Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not," here a prospective series pilot, an ex-sailor living in...

Harvest of Fire (1996)
In a small Amish community, three barns are burnt down almost simultaneously. FBI agent Sally Russwell is sent in to investigate this possible hate...

The Plutonium Incident (1980)
A plutonium plant employee becomes the target of management, as well as union harassment, when she tries to blow the whistle on the company for...

Silver Streak (1976)
A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no...

The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson (1990)
A film about the early life of the baseball star in the army, particulary his court-martial for insubordination regarding segragation.

A Few Good Men (1992)
When cocky military lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee and his co-counsel, Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway, are assigned to a murder case, they uncover a hazing...

Contact (1997)
A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and...

Captain Ron (1992)
When mild-mannered Martin Harvey finds out that he has inherited a vintage yacht, he decides to take his family on a Caribbean vacation to retrieve...

The Gifted (1993)
Psychic descendents of an African tribe reunite to save Earth. 5000 years ago certain members of the Dogon tribe in West Africa were granted psychic...

Black Cop (1970)
Black Cop is a film documentary that shows the lives of individuals who are caught inexorably in intense community pressures that arise because they...

The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973)
A black man plays Uncle Tom in order to gain access to CIA training, then uses that knowledge to plot a new American Revolution.

Two-Minute Warning (1976)
A psychotic sniper plans a massive killing spree in a Los Angeles football stadium during a major championship game. The police, led by Captain Peter...

Infiltrating Hollywood: The Rise and Fall of the Spook Who Sat by the Door (2011)
A documentary looking at the making and legacy of The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973).

Real Life (1979)
A pushy, narcissistic filmmaker persuades a Phoenix family to let him and his crew film their everyday lives, in the manner of the ground-breaking...

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle (1994)
A former associate of Perry Mason returns to handle the defense of a world-class chess player accused of murdering a prominent TV personality.

The George McKenna Story (1988)
Washington plays a school principal in a tough inner city Los Angeles high school out to rid it of drugs, gangs, low moral of teachers, and restore...

Good Times (1974)
Good Times is an American sitcom that originally aired from February 8, 1974, until August 1, 1979, on the CBS television network. It was created by...

Martin (1992)
Sassy sitcom centering on radio and television personality Martin Payne. Series focuses on his romantic relationship with girlfriend Gina, her best...

seaQuest DSV (1993)
In the early 21st century, mankind has colonized the oceans. The United Earth Oceans Organization enlists Captain Nathan Bridger and the submarine...

All in the Family (1971)
Archie Bunker, a working class bigot, constantly squabbles with his family over the important issues of the day.

The Jeffersons (1975)
Sitcom following a successful African-American couple, George and Louise “Weezyö Jefferson as they “move on up” from...

Punky Brewster (1984)
An abandoned waif and her dog are taken in by a cranky apartment manager who becomes her guardian in this family-friendly sitcom.

Wonder Woman (1975)
With the strength of Hercules, the wisdom of Athena, the speed of Mercury and the beauty of Aphrodite, she’s Wonder Woman. Beautiful Amazon...

Gimme a Break! (1981)
Gimme a Break! is an American sitcom which aired on NBC for six seasons, October 29, 1981, until May 12, 1987. The series stars Nell Carter as the...

Dallas (1978)
The world's first mega-soap, and one of the most popular ever produced, Dallas had it all. Beautiful women, expensive cars, and men playing Monopoly...

Chicago Hope (1994)
Chicago Hope is an American medical drama television series, created by David E. Kelley. It ran on CBS from September 18, 1994, to May 4, 2000. The...

Carter Country (1977)
Carter Country is an American television sitcom that ran from 1977 to 1979 on ABC.

Amazing Stories (1985)
A truly amazing, fantastical, science fiction, funny and odd, and sometimes scary, sad and endearing anthology series presented by Steven Spielberg...

Hart to Hart (1979)
Wealthy couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart, a self-made millionaire and his journalist wife, moonlight as amateur detectives.

Moonlighting (1985)
After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency. Together they solve various...

The A-Team (1983)
A fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune while on the run from the Army after being branded as...

Tales from the Crypt (1989)
Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in...

21 Jump Street (1987)
21 Jump Street revolves around a group of young cops who would use their youthful appearance to go undercover and solve crimes involving teenagers...

House of Frankenstein (1997)
Detective Coyle is trying to solve several bizarre murders and is having no luck finding a suspect. But when his girlfriend turns into a werewolf and...

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993)
A much more lavish version of the popular Superman television series which had first aired forty years earlier, Lois & Clark focused more on the Man...

The Sentinel (1996)
The Sentinel is a Canadian-produced television series. In the jungles of peru, the fight for survival heightened his senses. Now, Detective Jim...

Hill Street Blues (1981)
A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.

Law & Order (1990)
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until...

Touched by an Angel (1994)
Monica, an angel, is tasked with bringing guidance and messages from God to various people who are at a crossroads in their lives.

The New Odd Couple (1982)
The New Odd Couple is an American sitcom that aired on ABC from 1982–1983, and was an updated version of the 1970s television series The Odd...

James at 16 (1977)
James at 15 (later James at 16) is an American drama series that aired on NBC during the 1977–1978 season. Protagonist James Hunter is the son...

Hardcastle and McCormick (1983)
Hardcastle and McCormick is an American action/drama television series from Stephen J. Cannell Productions, shown on ABC from 1983 through 1986. The...

Hill Street Blues (1981)
A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.

Simon & Simon (1981)
Simon & Simon is an American detective television series that originally ran from November 24, 1981 to January 21, 1989. The series was broadcast on...

T. J. Hooker (1982)
Sergeant Thomas Jefferson Hooker is a tough-as-nails veteran police officer with the LCPD who turns his back on a gold badge and goes back to...