Michael Paré

Highest Rated: 100% The Shelter (2016)

Lowest Rated: 0% Gangster Land (In the Absence of Good Men) (2017)

Birthday: Oct 9, 1958

Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA

An American leading man with hooded eyes and curled lip, Pare worked as a sous-chef at Cafe Europa on New York's Upper West Side after training at the New York Culinary Institute. While there he was spotted by a modeling agent and soon began to model. Later he spent two years studying acting with Uta Hagen and Marvin Nelson, and was hired to play the lead in a TV series, "The Greatest American Hero." The series fell through (though it was later produced without him), but he managed to get the lead in a TV movie, Crazy Times, which led to the role of the rock icon Eddie in the film Eddie and the Cruisers (1983). Filmmaker Walter Hill spotted him in that part and cast him in Hill's next film, Streets of Fire (1984). After that film did very poorly at the box office, his career faltered and he made a string of silly B-movies. He has yet to break back into major films.

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
No Score Yet	Christmas Collision	Actor	—	2021
45%	South of Heaven	Actor	—	2021
No Score Yet	Raunch and Roll	Actor	—	2021
83%	Painkiller	Actor	—	2021
No Score Yet	Emerald Run	Actor	—	2020
No Score Yet	Cranial Sacral	Dr. Jason	—	2020
No Score Yet	Middleton Christmas	Actor	—	2020
No Score Yet	Once Upon a Time in Deadwood	Swearengen	—	2019
No Score Yet	Mayday	Actor	—	2019
No Score Yet	Hollow Point	Actor	—	2019
70%	Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich	Detective Brown	—	2018
No Score Yet	A Christmas in Royal Fashion	Actor	—	2018
17%	Astro	Allen Smith	—	2018
No Score Yet	A Christmas in Royal Fashion	Carson	—	2018
No Score Yet	Battle Drone	Actor	—	2018
53%	Reborn	Actor	—	2018
No Score Yet	The Wrong Friend	Actor	—	2018
No Score Yet	Global Meltdown	Actor	—	2018
83%	The Debt Collector	Mad Alex	—	2018
0%	Gangster Land (In the Absence of Good Men)	O'Connor	—	2017
No Score Yet	The Neighborhood	Actor	—	2017
No Score Yet	American Violence	Martin Bigg	—	2017
No Score Yet	A Doggone Hollywood	Actor	—	2017
No Score Yet	The Wrong Man	Actor	—	2017
No Score Yet	Jason's Letter	Brad Macaulay	—	2017
No Score Yet	Chuck Hank and the San Diego Twins	Actor	—	2017
38%	Abattoir	Richard Renshaw	—	2016
100%	The Shelter	Thomas	—	2016
No Score Yet	Decommissioned	Detective Tom Weston	—	2016
72%	The Infiltrator	Barry Seal	$15.5M	2016
40%	Traded	Clay Travis	—	2016
No Score Yet	Weaponized	Captain Doug Rice	—	2016
No Score Yet	Nessie & Me	Dad	—	2016
91%	Bone Tomahawk	Mr. Wallington	—	2015
20%	The Vatican Tapes	Detective Harris	—	2015
No Score Yet	Awaken	Xander	—	2015
No Score Yet	No Deposit	Actor	—	2015
No Score Yet	Operator	Howard	—	2015
No Score Yet	4Got10	Sheriff Olson	—	2015
No Score Yet	SWAT: Unit 887	Capt. Mike Ryan	—	2015
No Score Yet	Checkmate	Captain Howard	—	2015
No Score Yet	Snapshot	Actor	—	2014
No Score Yet	The Last Outlaw	Actor	—	2014
No Score Yet	The Hunt For Johnny Ringo	Actor	—	2014
No Score Yet	Suddenly	Agent Benny Conklin	—	2013
No Score Yet	Real Gangsters	Actor	—	2013
0%	How Sweet It Is	Mike	—	2013
No Score Yet	Road To Hell	Actor	—	2013
No Score Yet	Maximum Conviction	Blake	—	2012
12%	Gone	Lt. Ray Bozeman	$11.4M	2012
No Score Yet	The Philadelphia Experiment	Hagan	—	2012
83%	The Lincoln Lawyer	Detective Kurlen	$58M	2011
No Score Yet	Blubberella	Commandart	—	2011
No Score Yet	Amphibious: Creature Of The Deep	Jack Bowman	—	2011
No Score Yet	Tales of an Ancient Empire	Oda	—	2010
No Score Yet	Bloodrayne: The Third Reich	Ekart Brand	—	2010
No Score Yet	Cool Dog	Dean	—	2010
No Score Yet	Direct Contact	Clive Connelly	—	2009
No Score Yet	1968 Tunnel Rats	Actor	—	2009
No Score Yet	Rampage	Sheriff	—	2009
No Score Yet	Far Cry	Paul Summers	—	2008
No Score Yet	Alone in the Dark II	Wilson	—	2008
No Score Yet	100 Feet	Mike Watson	—	2008
No Score Yet	Furnace	Actor	—	2008
No Score Yet	Dark World	Harry	—	2008
No Score Yet	BloodRayne 2: Deliverance	Pat Garrett	—	2007
9%	Postal	Panhandler	—	2007
No Score Yet	Kinky Killers	Detective Barry Harper	—	2007
No Score Yet	Seed	Det. Matt Bishop	—	2007
No Score Yet	Ninja Cheerleaders	Victor Lazzaro	—	2007
4%	BloodRayne	Iancu	$1.6M	2006
No Score Yet	Furnace	Detective Michael Turner	—	2006
No Score Yet	Komodo vs. Cobra	Mike	—	2005
No Score Yet	Saurian	Actor	—	2005
20%	Heart of America (Home Room)	Actor	—	2004
No Score Yet	Gargoyle	Ty "Griff" Griffin	—	2004
No Score Yet	Crash Landing	Captain Williams	—	2004
No Score Yet	Red Serpent	Actor	—	2003
No Score Yet	Fate	Actor	—	2003
11%	Blackwoods	Sheriff Harding	—	2002
No Score Yet	Sanctimony	Jim Renart	—	2001
No Score Yet	Peril	Vincent	—	2001
No Score Yet	A Month of Sundays	Tomas McCabe	—	2001
No Score Yet	In the Dead of Space	Actor	—	2000
77%	The Virgin Suicides	Trip Fontaine '97	—	2000
No Score Yet	October 22	Actor	—	1998
No Score Yet	Men Of Means	Actor	—	1998
No Score Yet	Back to Even	Boyle	—	1998
27%	Hope Floats	Bill Pruitt	$60.1M	1998
No Score Yet	Falling Fire, (The Cusp)	Actor	—	1998
No Score Yet	Falling Fire	First Officer Daryl Boden	—	1998
No Score Yet	Strip Search	Robby Daniel	—	1997
No Score Yet	2103: The Deadly Wake	Actor	—	1997
No Score Yet	Merchant of Death	Actor	—	1997
33%	Bad Moon	Ted	—	1996
No Score Yet	Sworn Enemies	Pershing Quinn	—	1996
No Score Yet	Raging Angels	Colin Gramercy	—	1995
No Score Yet	Solar Force	Joe	—	1995
31%	Village of the Damned	Frank McGowan	—	1995
No Score Yet	Triplecross	Teddy Cooper	—	1995
No Score Yet	Carver's Gate	Actor	—	1995
No Score Yet	Deadly Heroes	Brad Cartowski	—	1994
No Score Yet	Warriors	Actor	—	1994
No Score Yet	Lunar Cop	Brodie	—	1994
No Score Yet	The Dangerous	Random	—	1994
No Score Yet	Point of Impact	Jack Davis	—	1993
No Score Yet	Blink of an Eye	Sam Browning	—	1992
No Score Yet	Into The Sun	Capt. Paul Watkins	—	1992
No Score Yet	Dragonfight	Moorpark	—	1992
No Score Yet	Sunset Heat	Eric Wright	—	1992
No Score Yet	Killing Streets	Chris/Craig Brandt	—	1991
No Score Yet	Last Hour	Jeff	—	1991
No Score Yet	Empire City	Joey Andre	—	1991
No Score Yet	The Last Hour	Actor	—	1991
No Score Yet	The Closer	Larry Freed	—	1990
0%	Moon 44	Felix Stone	—	1990
No Score Yet	Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives!	Eddie Wilson	—	1989
No Score Yet	World Gone Wild	George Landon	—	1988
No Score Yet	Instant Justice (Marine Issue)	Scott Youngblood	—	1987
No Score Yet	The Women's Club	Patrick	—	1987
No Score Yet	Space Rage	Grange	—	1986
50%	The Philadelphia Experiment	David	—	1984
67%	Streets of Fire	Tom Cody	—	1984
No Score Yet	Music Video from "Streets of Fire"	Actor	—	1984
38%	Eddie and the Cruisers	Eddie Wilson	—	1983
No Score Yet	Undercover	Max Wylde	—	1983
No Score Yet	The Dark Avenger (The Warriors)	Colin Neal	—	1955

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
92%	Leverage 2008-2012	Special Agent Powell	2012
15%	South Beach 2006	Charlie Evans	2006
No Score Yet	Cold Case 2003-2010	Randy Price	2005
No Score Yet	The Greatest American Hero 1981-1983	Tony Villicana	1981

Quotes from Michael Paré's Characters

Birdee Pruitt:

Then you should take it. If that's how you feel then you should take it. You and Connie deserve each other. You were lucky to have me. But you know what? I think I already got the best part of you. And she's standin' right out there, and she's waitin' for me. I don't know... what's left just doesn't look so good anymore. So why'd you come back? You want my permission? You want my... condolences? Why did you come back?

Bill Pruitt:

Well, I didn't wanna do this to you now, Birdee, but I want a divorce.

Birdee Pruitt:	I would have stayed with you forever. I would have turned myself inside out for you
Bill Pruitt:	Birdee, I wouldn't have let you! People grow. They change. They have to!
Birdee Pruitt:	You think that I don't know that? I know that I'm not what I once was. I know that! But I haven't changed so much, that I would go and lie to someone that I love. God, I would walk through fire before I'd let them feel like they were nothin'! And I would never break up anybody's home. Because I am not a quitter. I care about my family! I may not be the same person, but then again, neither are you. You're sad, you're weak, and you're... shorter. If you wanna know the truth.
Bill Pruitt:	I'm in love with Connie. And this is my chance for a fresh start, and I'm takin' it, I'm sorry!

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