James B. Sikking is still probably best known for his yeoman work on the TV series "Hill Street Blues" throughout most of the 80s. The Los Angeles native was born in 1934, the son of Unity ministers. His full name -- James Barrie Sikking -- was given to him as James M. Barrie (of "Peter Pan" fame) was his parents' favorite author at the time. Graduating from El Segundo High School, Sikking's inter ... show all
James B. Sikking is still probably best known for his yeoman work on the TV series "Hill Street Blues" throughout most of the 80s. The Los Angeles native was born in 1934, the son of Unity ministers. His full name -- James Barrie Sikking -- was given to him as James M. Barrie (of "Peter Pan" fame) was his parents' favorite author at the time. Graduating from El Segundo High School, Sikking's interest in acting started after participating in various college plays while a student at the University of California-Santa Barbara, UCLA and the University of Hawaii. He made his professional stage debut with a production of "Damn Yankees" and broke into films with unbilled work in the films Five Guns West (1955) and The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956). He finally started receiving billing in the 1960s, albeit bit parts in films and TV, as minor villains or in-charge types with such roles as a professional assassin in Point Blank (1967), the head of vice squad in The New Centurions (1972), and a CIA agent in Scorpio (1973) coming his way. Sikking's first steady TV job was playing Dr. James Hobart for three years on the daytime soap "General Hospital" during the 1970s. Moving into "Grade A" quality films in the early 1980s, he still stayed pretty much in the background with little chance to shine such as his playing of Donald Sutherland's white-collar business buddy in the Oscar-winning Ordinary People (1980). It took his scene-stealing role as the gung-ho, often volatile and emotionally unpredictable Lt. Howard Hunter on "Hill Street Blues," however, to alter the course of his career. Following the show's demise after six seasons, Sikking continued to move around in the top supporting ranks, finding steady work on TV as David Howser, Neil Patrick Harris' doctor dad on "Doogie Howser, M.D." and in important roles in such mini-movies as "Doing Time on Maple Drive." Continuing in such movies as Star Trek 3: The Search for Spock (1984), Narrow Margin (1990) and The Pelican Brief (1994), typically playing various authoritarians, he had a rare movie co-lead in Final Approach (1991). Long married to wife Florine, whom he met while at UCLA, his son Andrew is also an actor. hide
Genres:Drama | Mystery | Thriller Countries:USA Directors:Alan J. Pakula Actors:Julia Roberts | Denzel Washington | Sam Shepard | John Heard | Tony Goldwyn | James Sikking | William Atherton | Robert Culp | Stanley Tucci | Hume Cronyn | John Lithgow | Anthony Heald | Nicholas Woodeson | Stanley Anderson | John Finn
Two Supreme Court Justices have been killed. Now a college professor, who clerked for one of the two men, who's also having an affair with one of his students, is given a brief by her, that states who probably, wanted to see these two men dead. He then gives it to one of his friends, who works for the FBI. When the FBI director reads it, he is fascinated by it. One of the preseident's men who read it, is afraid that if it ever got out, the president could be smeared. So, he adivises the president to tell the director to drop it, which he does. But later the professor and the girl were out and he was drunk and when he refused to give her the keys she stepped out of the car. When he started it, it blew up. She then discovers that her place has been burglarized and what was taken were her computer and her disks. Obviously, her brief has someone agitated. She then turns to her boyfriend's friend at the FBI, he agrees to come meet her but before he does someone shoots him and takes his place. At the meeting, he was about to kill her when someone shoots him. She then decides to turn to Gray Grantham, an investigative reporter, who was contacted by someone who says he has info on the killings but backed out at the last minute. He then meets her and tells her what her brief is, and basically, the man she suspects is a good friend of the president, who is trying to manipulate the outcome of a trial that is now before the Supreme Court. Grantham tells her that her brief can harm the president and all what they have are theories, he asks her to help him but she wants to leave the country. When Grantham's editor tells him that they have nothing that he should drop cause the man she implicated is extremely powerful. Grantham's about to drop it when she says that she will help him. But can they stay alive? Download:1080p720p
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