Virgil Frye Trailers
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Character actor Virgil Charles Frye was born on August 21, 1930 in Estherville, Iowa. A former Golden Gloves boxing champion, Frye worked in the cornfields in Iowa and was active in the civil rights movement in Alabama before he first began acting in films and TV shows in the mid-1960's. Virgil often played either tough guys or police officers. The father of both Sean Frye and Soleil Moon Frye, Frye also ran his own successful acting school in the Hollywood Hills. Virgil suffered from Pick's Disease or Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in his latter years and was the subject of the documentary Sonny Boy (2004) made by his daughter Soleil. Frye died at a nursing home in Orange County, California on May 7, 2012.
Most Popular Virgil Frye Trailers
Total trailers found: 33
08 October 1984
An abused battered wife has had enough of husband beating up on her. Everywhere she turns for help, there's not much anyone will do.
08 August 1972
A long-distance trucker, dressed like a sea captain, aimlessly sails the American highways in his 18 wheeler mumbling manic, southern accented non sequiturs; carnivalizing roadside stops and happenstance towns while out-weirding cops and weigh stations with his new cryptic, over-coated hitchhiker buddy.
01 October 1980
An ugly, misshapen podiatrist ingests a formula made by a colleague and turns into a handsome, devil-may-care (but violent) ladies' man.
24 April 1981
A junior executive is ordered to boost output in the hometown brewery where his old friends work.
26 June 1969
Wyatt and Billy, two Harley-riding hippies, complete a drug deal in Southern California and decide to travel cross-country in search of spiritual truth.
12 October 1990
Upon arriving to a small town, a drifter quickly gets into trouble with the local authorities — and the local women — after he robs a bank.
01 May 1981
After the death of a high school track star during a race, a mysterious killer in a fencing mask begins murdering her friends and teachers.
11 December 1973
When a rich man dies, some items from a collection of his are stolen- an ancient Egyptian gold amulet and the mummy that was wearing it.
15 April 1988
A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of Los Angeles, where the gang culture is enforced by the colors the members wear.
01 January 1989
A group of treasure-seekers embark on a expedition into high adventure as they race to discover what's really located in the mysterious ice cave.
13 September 1972
Convicts on a chain gang sniff formaldehyde fumes to get high. They attempt a prison break and are shot down by the guards.
01 January 1971
A traveling gravedigger during an (unspecified) war adopts a orphan he finds alone in the desert. After the war with the orphan grown and business slow, the orphan begins to generate business himself by shooting people.
01 January 1978
A trumpet player, self-destructive after the death of his wife and child in a fire, befriends a crippled youngster and together they battle obstacles through each other's encouragement.
20 March 1981
The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.
01 June 1979
A menacing shark-like predator attacks a Hawaiian tourist area in this low-budget creature feature. An uncredited Roger Corman served as executive producer.
14 November 1995
Marines on a deserted island are ordered to defuse bombs, but then an alien creature terrorizes them.
03 April 1987
A patrician family's estranged, black-sheep son forsakes his blue-collar life to return home and soon finds himself wrongly accused of his father's murder, with his old childhood friend determined to convict him.
07 September 1983
After his family is killed in Japan by ninjas, Cho and his son Kane come to America to start a new life.
01 February 1984
A teen convicted of murdering his father escapes from authorities and heads for Arizona with a prostitute.
25 October 1974
A small southern town has just been rocked by a tragedy: a young white woman has been raped by a black man.
14 May 1969
The disfigured curator of a wax museum murders his enemies and then uses their bodies as exhibits in his museum.
01 March 1966
A spaceship is sent to Mars after an alien distress signal is picked up. They find one survivor, but when a crew member is found drained of blood it's evident they have rescued a bloodsucking monster.
01 August 1971
When the police discover that their motorcycles are concealing heroin, Waco and his motorcycle gang hides out in a desert convent.
23 October 1995
Two men, both hiding a deadly secret, are on a murderous rampage through the desert.
10 November 1972
In Los Angeles, black motorcycle police officer Mark Johnson patrols gang-infested neighborhoods with his white partner and best friend, Jeff McMillan.
19 May 1976
When vigilante land baron David Braxton hangs one of the best friends of cattle rustler Tom Logan, Logan's gang decides to get even by purchasing a small farm next to Braxton's ranch.
17 July 1992
A sleazy but affable guard dog trainer is blackmailed to steal a manuscript for a tell-all book from one of his clients.
04 April 2004
Actress-Director Soleil Moon Frye's second work focuses on her often troubled relationship with her father actor Virgil Frye who suffers on Alzheimer's disease.
01 March 1976
A young country-star wannabe takes off from her carhop career to join with a young, modern Billy the Kid wannabe for an adventure in theft, murder and mayhem.
27 February 1987
Billy Robinson has become the hottest hot-rodder on the professional motorcycle-racing circuit. But when he returns in triumph to his hometown to bask in all the adulation, he also skids into some pretty rank jealousy from envious motorcycling wanna-bes.
28 March 1990
A woman from Paris, Bernadette, comes to the United States after being promised a job. When she arrives, however, she learns that she is a victim to a hoax.
19 December 1980
Jeb Maynard is a patrolman guarding the U.S.-Mexican border, whose partner and buddy Scooter has just been murdered.
04 October 1984
Four friends, annoyed at how almost everyone else they know is having sex but them, agree to do what they can to help each other lose their virginity before the end of the summer.
