Robert Ginty (born November 14, 1948 in New York, New York) is an American movie actor, producer, scenarist, and director of movies and TV series episodes. He is mostly famous for his many B-movie appearances.
Born in New York, Ginty was involved in several rock bands from a young age, playing and hanging out with several rock legends, including Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Carlos Santana and John Lee Hooker. He studied at Yale and trained at the Neighborhood Playhouse and the Actor's Studio. Ginty worked in the regional theater circuit, and moved to Broadway after Harold Prince hired him as his assistant after seeing him perform Shakespeare in New Hampshire.
Eventually Hollywood beckoned and Ginty transplanted himself to the western shore where he found frequent work as a strong-armed player on TV action, appearing in different series in the mid-1970s. In 1976, he attained some popularity after finding a steady role staring with Robert Conrad in Baa Baa Black Sheep a successful TV...
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Madhouse is a 1990 film starring Kirstie Alley and John Larroquette as a successful married couple whose idyllic California life is ruined when their house is overrun by unwelcome houseguests. This begins when their mail is delayed due to forwarding issues and they find out a cousin, Fred, and his wife, Bernice are coming to visit on the day they are expected to arrive. Though a little unpleasant, this only lasts five days...until Bernice falls on the way to the airport and is instructed by her doctor not to leave until she delivers (six months.) Things progressively get worse as a series of unfortunate events finds Fred gone to find himself and more and more people moving into the house, destroying it in the process. Ultimately, after fifty days of hell, the couple reclaim their home in a violent act of revenge....
Exterminator 2 is a 1984 action film written and directed by Mark Buntzman and starring Robert Ginty and Mario Van Peebles, with a cameo by Arye Gross.
Following somewhat incongrously from the previous film, it shows Eastland walking freely on the streets of New York, without any hint that his dual identiy was compromised. He meets up with another old army buddy, Bee Gee (Frankie Faison), who owns a garbage truck. As seen at the beginning of the film, Eastland wears a welders' mask and wields a flame thrower, while listening to a police scanner for possible crimes to stop. Slaying the brother of a gang leader named Ronni, the Exterminator gains the gang's enimity. Coincidentally, his army buddy happens to see the gang during a robbery of an armoured car, and scares them away with his truck. However, they get the truck's plate numbers, and vow revenge. Following the truck one night when the buddy loans it to Eastland, they follow Eastland to his home, and, not having seen who the...,
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The Big Stuffed Dog is a 1981 children's film about the adventures of a plush Snoopy. ...,
The Exterminator is a 1980 action movie directed by James Glickenhaus and starring Robert Ginty as John Eastman, aka 'The Exterminator', who takes out the street punks and those involved in organized crime when the law fails to do justice.
The film begins in Vietnam, establishing the friendship between John Eastland (Robert Ginty) and Michael Jefferson (Steve James). The film then shifts to New York, where Eastland and Jefferson work in a food warehouse. One day, a group of thugs called the Ghetto Ghouls attacked Eastland while he was working after Eastland catches them trying to steal beer, and Jefferson came to his aid. They defeated the thugs, but the gang would return to cripple Jefferson, leaving him paralyzed. Eastland, taking the law into his own hands, kills the Ghetto Ghouls except for one seen later in the hospital after interrogating one of the members with a flame thrower while he was tied up. His vigilante justice does not end there. The warehouse that he works at has...,
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