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William Cain

William Cain

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1931-05-27
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA

Biography

William Cain is a former American stage, film and television actor.

Known For & Full Filmography16 Titles

#1Law & Order

Drama Series - 1990, 16 episodes • as Paul O'Farrell

7.3 / 10
CrimeDrama

In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.

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#2Quantum Leap

Drama Series - 1989, 16 episodes • as Roger Truesdale

8.0 / 10
Sci-Fi & FantasyAction & AdventureDrama

Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.

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#3American Playhouse

Drama Series - 1982, 16 episodes • as Dr. Mayberry

6.6 / 10
DramaComedy

American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.

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#4Kate & Allie

Drama Series - 1984, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role

6.1 / 10
ComedyDramaFamily

Kate & Allie is an American television situation comedy which ran from March 19, 1984, to May 22, 1989. Kate & Allie first aired on CBS as a midseason replacement series and only six episodes were initially commissioned, but the favorable response from critics and viewers alike easily convinced CBS to commit to a full season in the fall of 1984. The series was created by Sherry Coben.

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#5Spenser: For Hire

Drama Series - 1985, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role

6.9 / 10
DramaCrimeMystery

Mystery and suspense series based on Robert Parker's "Spenser" novels. Spenser, a private investigator living in Boston, gets involved in a new murder mystery each episode.

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#6The Ice Storm

Movie - 1997, 2h 15m • as Ted Shackley

6.9 / 10
Drama

In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hood family is skidding out of control. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century.

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#7Kane & Abel

Drama Series - 1985, 16 episodes • as H.T. Jilks

7.7 / 10
Drama

Polish immigrant Abel Rosnovski and Boston banker William Lowell Kane are two men born on the same day, and whose lifelong rivalry shapes their empires and families over decades. Their contrasting paths from poverty and wealth lead to a destructive, decades-long feud for power.

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#8The Mirror Has Two Faces

Movie - 1996, 2h 15m • as Mr. Jenkins

6.7 / 10
ComedyDramaRomance

Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union based on friendship and respect.

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#9Kennedy

Drama Series - 1983, 16 episodes • as Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer

6.3 / 10
DramaWar & Politics

Kennedy is a five-hour miniseries written by Reg Gadney and directed by Jim Goddard. The miniseries was produced by Central Independent Television and originally aired in the United States starting on 20 November 1983 around the time of the 20th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination. The TV miniseries was a biography of the 1961-1963 presidency of John F. Kennedy. The mini-series stars Martin Sheen as President John F. Kennedy, John Shea as Robert F. Kennedy, Blair Brown as Jacqueline Kennedy, E.G. Marshall as Joseph P. Kennedy, Vincent Gardenia as J. Edgar Hoover and Kelsey Grammer as Stephen Smith amongst many others. The series was broadcast on NBC, and was also sold to 50 Countries, with 27 of them broadcasting the series simultaneous. The series was nominated for 3 Golden Globes and 4 BAFTA, and won Baftas for Best Drama Series and Best Make Up.

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#10Separate but Equal

Drama Series - 1991, 16 episodes • as Judge J. Waties Waring

6.0 / 10
Drama

A two-part miniseries. Dramatizes the events leading up to the 1954 Supreme Court decision on school desegregation, "Brown vs. Board of Education."

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#11The Substance of Fire

Movie - 1996, 2h 15m • as Mr. Cox

6.4 / 10
Drama

Isaac Geldhart is a Holocaust survivor who, overcome by grief at the recent death of his wife, seems determined to run his publishing firm into the ground by printing books that have no hope of financial success. His son Aaron, who also works at the company, grows frustrated with Isaac's emotional decline and attempts to take over the firm. The resulting crisis involves Isaac's other two children, his daughter Sarah and his dying son Martin.

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#12Separate but Equal

Movie - 1991, 2h 15m • as Federal Judge J. Waties Waring

6.5 / 10
HistoryTV MovieDrama

A dramatization of the events of Brown vs. Board of Education, the American court case that destroyed the legal validity of racial segregation.

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#13Doubletake

Movie - 1985, 2h 15m • as Weehawken Police Captain

5.0 / 10
ActionThrillerTV Movie

Two corpses are found in different locations with their heads severed and exchanged. Frank Janek is called on to head the team of detectives investigating. Meanwhile, Janek is trying to find out why an old friend and colleague committed suicide, which eventually leads to a romantic situation with photographer Caroline Wallace and the discovery of some major corruption among his superiors, all of which has little or nothing to do with the murder story.

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#14I Never Sang for My Father

Movie - 1988, 2h 15m • as Dr. Mayberry

7.0 / 10
Drama

A man who wants to move on with his life by moving to California and marry his girlfriend, finds it difficult as he still lives in the towering shadow of his aging father.

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#15The Littlest Victims

Movie - 1989, 2h 15m • as Dr. Romney

8.0 / 10
DramaTV Movie

A true account of the life of pioneering AIDS doctor James Oleske.

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#16Sessions

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m • as Crying client

6.5 / 10
Drama

High-priced call girl Lee Churchill examines her life via therapy 'sessions'. Her double life is unknown to her parents, sister and the 'straight' man with whom she falls in love.

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