Experience

2015

Lego Dimensions

Company: Plastic Wax Studios
Role: Lotney 'Sloth' Fratelli (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
When a mysterious and powerful vortex suddenly appears in various LEGO worlds. Batman, Gandalf and Wyldstyle bravely jump into the vortex. As they journey to locations beyond their wildest imaginations in search of their friends, they soon realize that Lord Vortech is summoning villains from across different LEGO worlds to help him gain control. As his power grows, worlds mix, unexpected characters meet and all boundaries are broken. Our heroes must travel through space and time to rescue their friends before the vortexes destroy all of LEGO humanity.
2010

The Making of a Cult Classic: The Unauthorized Story of 'The Goonies'

Company: Oxygen Productions
Role: Himself (archive footage)
Most of the cast show you how they made "The Goonies".
1990

Down the Drain

Company: Epic Productions
Role: Jed Stewart
A crooked lawyer brings together some of the clients he's gotten off and schemes to rob a bank vault. However, after the robbery, he discovers that the "goods" he's stolen is actually a top-secret microchip that foreign powers are after, and they will stop at nothing to get it.
1989

Heartbeat

Company: Aaron Spelling Productions
Role:  Warnick (1 episode, 1989)
Inspired by true events, follows the hardships and professional challenges of female doctors who decided to open a new medical center, Women's Medical Arts, in response to health care system not addressing many problems of female patients.
1989

Superboy

Company: Cantharus Productions
The adventures of the Man of Steel in his teenage years.
1989

Perfect Strangers

Company: Lorimar Productions
Role:  Cobra (1 episode, 1989)
A high strung and cynical man's life is never the same when his naive but good-natured cousin comes to America to live with him.
1989

T and T

Company: Nelvana
Role:  Rubberhead (1 episode, 1988)
T.S. Turner is a former boxer who is accussed of a murder he didn't commit. All was lost but, thanks to public defender Amanda Taler, he was proven innocent. Now he works as private eye and, along side Taler, sets out to help those who can't defend themselves in and out of the justice system.
1989

Aaron's Way

Company: Blinn/Thorpe Productions
Role:  Purque (2 episodes, 1988)
Aaron Miller finds out his oldest son Noah was killed in a surfing accident in California. Noah was living there at a winery with his girlfriend Susannah Lo Verde who is pregnant. Aaron attends the funeral and finds out about the baby. He then decides to move his Amish family from Pennsylvania to California to help Susannah with the winery and the baby. This means a lot of adjusting for both families after the Millers move in with Susannah. Mrs. Connie Lo Verde (Susannah's mother) and Mickey (Susannah's brother) live next door to Susannah. The baby girl is born and named Clarissa.
1989

One Man Force

Company: Maximum Force Joint Venture
Role: Jake
In this action packed film, an L.A. cop speeds off to get revenge upon the dirty drug-dealing dogs who killed his partner
1989

Ghost Writer

Company: Rumar Films
Role: Chuck Aaron
A writer moves into a Malibu beach house, and comes up against the ghost of an actress who supposedly had committed suicide there 30 years previously, but had been murdered by her boyfriend. The ghost asks the writer's help in proving her boyfriend the killer.
1989

The Princess and the Dwarf

Company: Grace Entertainment
1988

The Charmings

Company: Sternin & Fraser Ink
Role:  Rock (1 episode, 1987)
Snow White, Prince Charming and their family are transported through time to the present day. They try to fit into normal society, despite their unfamiliarity with technology.
1988

1st & Ten: The Championship

Company: Multicom Entertainment Group
The comical exploits of the "California Bulls" (a fictional professional football team) and the organization's players.
1988

Miami Vice

Company: Michael Mann Productions
Resplendent with authentic 1980's music, fashion and vibe, "Miami Vice" follows two undercover detectives and their extended team through the mean streets of Miami.
1988

The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission

Company: MGM/UA Television
Role: Fred Collins
A team of renegade soldiers in World War II tries to stop the creation of the Fourth Reich in the Middle East.
1987

All Star Blitz

Company: American Broadcasting Company (ABC)
Role:  Himself (1 episode, 1985)
Another in the long line of "Hollywood Squares" multi-celebrity games from Merrill Heatter Productions; this one saw two contestants determine if a celebrity was giving the correct answer and solve a word puzzle.
1987

Just Men!

Company: Century Towers Productions
Role:  Himself (1 episode, 1983)
Short-lived game show on NBC daytime. Two female contestant were asked questions about the lifestyles of seven male celebrities in the studio. For example, which of these men owns an answering machine? The contestants could get clues from the men to aid in answering the question. Correct answers earned the women keys that could be used in the bonus round. The player with the most keys won, and if one of the keys started the ignition to a car, the contestant won that car.
1987

Late Night with David Letterman

Company: Carson Productions
David Letterman hosted this popular late-night comedy/talk-show. Often, Dave would go on location or to the phone lines to play pranks. Some famous features of the show include the "Top Ten" lists and "Stupid Pet Tricks" (complete with slow-mo). Fans of the show will also remember Dave's use of unusual camera placements (Sky-Cam, Guest-Cam, etc.) and Dave's supporting cast (Paul Shaffer, Chris Elliott, Larry Bud Melman). Many famous guests and bands appeared on the show.
1987

NFL Monday Night Football

Company: American Broadcasting Company (ABC) Sports
Coverage of professional football featuring teams from the National Football League airing on Monday nights during the NFL's regular season.
1987

The NFL on CBS

Company: CBS Sports
Weekly series dedicated to current NFL games and news.
1987

P.K. and the Kid

Company: Sunn Classic Pictures
Role: Himself
P.K. runs away from home because her step-father keeps on harassing her sexually and her mother is ignoring the problem. She hides in the loading space of Kid Kane's pickup, who's on the way to the world championships in arm-pressing. When he discovers her, he wants to send her home at first, but after he knows the story he takes her with him - and gets himself into big trouble: her step-father is behind them furiously, trying to kidnap her and take revenge for the stress he got from her mother.
1986

The A-Team

Company: Stephen J. Cannell Productions
Four Vietnam vets, framed for a crime they didn't commit, help the innocent while on the run from the military.
1986

Amen

Company: Carson Productions
Role:  Elmo The Handyman (1 episode, 1986)
Deacon Frye, head of the First Community Church of Philadelphia, is trying to keep everything in his church firmly under control. His new assistant, Rev. Reuben Gregory, however, has some very different ideas of how do things. The parishoners, seeing that the best path probably lies between the two, play the two squabbling men off each other to keep things on a more or less even keel. Adding to the fray is the Deacon's daughter Thelma, who gradually becomes attracted to the new Reverend.
1986

Fathers and Sons

Company: 20th Century Fox Television
Role:  Mad Dog (1 episode, 1986)
1986

Hunter

Company: Stephen J. Cannell Productions
Rick Hunter is a renegade cop who breaks the rules and takes justice into his own hands. Partnered with the equally stunning and rebellious Sgt. McCall, the tough-minded duo set out to crack down on L.A.'s slimiest criminals.
1986

Tall Tales & Legends

Company: Showtime Networks
Role:  Mountain Man (1 episode, 1986)
An anthology series that showcases various mythical characters and incidents throughout history.
1986

Stir Crazy

Company: Columbia Pictures Television
Role:  Grossberger (1 episode, 1985)
1986

Charlie Barnett's Terms of Enrollment

Company: Charlie Barnett
Role: TV Spokesman
Charlie Barnett shows you how to succeed in college without trying.
1986

One Crazy Summer

Company: A&M Films
Role: Stain
An aspiring teenage cartoonist and his friends come to the aid of a singer trying to save her family property from developers.
1985

The Fall Guy

Company: 20th Century Fox Television
The adventures of a film stunt performer who moonlights as a bounty hunter when movie work is slow.
1985

Hollywood Beat

Company: Aaron Spelling Productions
Role:  George Grinsky (14 episodes, 1985)
Nick McCarren and Jack Rado work far from the glamorous area of LA, donning oddball outfits working undercover. The headquarters in the seedy area is a business run by out George Grinsky and they report to Capt. Wes Biddle.
1985

Silver Spoons

Company: Lightkeeper Productions
Role:  Elmer (1 episode, 1984)
Ricky Stratton is a spoiled rich kid who lives the life that many kids dream of, but he still suffers from the problems that many teens do.
1985

The Dukes of Hazzard

Company: Lou Step Productions
The adventures of the fast-drivin', rubber-burnin' Duke boys of Hazzard County.
1985

Command 5

Company: Paramount Television
Role: Nick Kowalski
Captain Blair Morgan is a military intelligence man, who wants to see some action, and if the military can't provide with some, he is recruited by a group that wants to form a crime fighting unit that they want to send into areas that are ill equipped or manned to handle certain criminals. He selects Jack Coburn, Nick Kowalski, J.D. Smith, and Chris Winslow, cops who are deemed loose cannons by their respective departments. But whose unorthodox behavior and methods, Morgan feels is necessary to combat the types of criminals that they are going to go up against.
1985

The Goonies

Company: Warner Bros.
Role: Sloth
In order to save their home from foreclosure, a group of misfits set out to find a pirate's ancient valuable treasure.
1984

Matt Houston

Company: Aaron Spelling Productions
Matt Houston is a wealthy Texan who moves to California to oversee his family's offshore drilling enterprises but spends most of his time dabbling in his private investigator hobby.
1984

Trapper John, M.D.

Company: 20th Century Fox Television
The Korean War MASH unit veteran operates as Chief Surgeon in a major city hospital with his colleagues.
1984

M*A*S*H

Company: 20th Century Fox Television
The staff of an army hospital in the Korean war find that laughter is the best way to deal with their situation.
1984

The Ice Pirates

Company: JF Productions
Role: Killjoy
In the far future water is the most valuable substance. Two space pirates are captured, sold to a princess, and recruited to help her find her father who disappeared when he found information dangerous to the rulers. A real Space Opera with sword fights, explosions, fighting robots, monsters, bar fights and time warps.
1981

Super Bowl XV

Company: NBC Sports
Role: Himself - Oakland Raiders Left Defensive End
1981

1980 AFC Championship Game

Company: National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
Role: Himself - Oakland Raiders Defensive End
1981

The Mike Douglas Show

Company: Westinghouse Broadcasting Company
The Mike Douglas Show was a variety show out of Cleveland OH and then Philadelphia PA, broadcast in the daytime. It's structure was similar to The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and The Merv Griffin Show and was very popular in its time. Mike Douglas was no relation to Michael nor Kirk Douglas.
1981

Caveman

Company: Turman-Foster Company
Role: Tonda
A cave-man seeks revenge on a much larger competitor for the hand of a beautiful cave-woman.
1979

The New Hollywood Squares

Company: Century Towers Productions
Updated version of the classic game show of Star bluffs (Zingers) and tick-tack-toe. But this time hosted by John Davidson. As before, the object was to win a standard game of tick-tack-toe by correctly agreeing or disagreeing with a star's answer to a question (The Directions are Across, Up & Down & Diagonally.) The 9 Stars were seated in a 3 X 3 tier (a la tick-tack-toe board); they were joined by 2 contestants--1 a returning champion (one competing as the "X" for Men & the other "O" for Women). The contestant chose a star on the square for which host Davidson read a general knowledge question. Correctly agreeing or disagreeing allowed that player to place their "Xs" & "Os" in that box; an incorrect answer meant the opponent's "Xs" & "Os" was placed there, unless it led to tic-tack-toe in which case the opposing contestant had to earn the box. During the 2nd game of each show is a "Secret Square" game offered the contestants a bonus prize (usually a trip) for a correct answer. The (1st 2) games on each show were worth $500 and Later in Season 1 with future games worth $1000; if an undefined time limit expired during a game in progress, the contestants won $100 (Later $200) for their own marks after the "Car Horn" sounded. The contestant with the highest cash total when after the "Car Horn" sounded and that became the champion and advanced to the 5-car round. In the car round ("Car Starting or Not"), the contestant chose a key from among 5 in a crystal bowl in each which was keyed to start 1 of 5 cars (i.e.: Mazdas, Toyotas, Jeeps, etc.) on stage as well as 1 good luck celebrity for each day as he or she was champion (ergo: 1/5). If the car started after counting 1-2-3 and sounded "Vroom" and the contestant won the car and left undefeated with the celebrated Balloons dropped down during the "Winning Tune & Sounded Alarm Effect." If not as that teaser's sound "Pitcher's Got a Big Butt & Loser" and he/she returned on the next show where future wins meant increased odds in winning a car (ergo: 1/4, 1/3, 1/2 & 1/1). Contestants competed until defeated or for up to 5 days (at which point they automatically won a new car and retired undefeated). In the 3rd & Last Season--The Championship Reign changed from 5 Days to forever that towards up to the day that car had started with a key as counted 1-2-3 and "Vroom!"
1979

North Dallas Forty

Company: Frank Yablans Presentations
Role: O. W. Shaddock
A semi-fictional account of life as a professional Football (American-style) player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.
1978

1977 AFC Championship Game

Company: National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
Role: Himself - Oakland Raiders Defensive End
1977

Super Bowl XI

Company: NBC Sports
Role: Himself - Oakland Raiders Left Defensive End
1976

1976 AFC Championship Game

Company: National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
Role: Himself - Oakland Raiders Defensive End
1976

The NFL on NBC

Company: National Broadcasting Company (NBC)
 
John Matuszak
 
John Matuszak
Actor
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John Daniel Tooz Matuszak was an American football defensive lineman in the National Football League and also an actor. Matuszak was born in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. He attended the University of Tampa and played for their football team. Matuszak also played for the Houston Oilers of the NFL and joined the Houston Texans of the World Football League, but never played for them. His first major role as an actor was in the 1979 movie "North Dallas Forty" as a football player. He also appeared in the movies "Caveman", "The Ice Pirates", and "One Crazy Summer" but is known for his role in "The Goonies". He also had guest appearances on popular TV shows "Perfect Strangers", "M*A*S*H", "The Dukes of Hazzard", "Hunter", "Silver Spoons", "The A-Team", "1st & Ten", "Miami Vice" and "Cheers". He died on June 17, 1989 aged 38 due to a heart failure.

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