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Alex McArthur

Alex McArthur

Highest Rated: 90% Desert Hearts (1985)

Lowest Rated: 27% Dischord (2003)

Birthday: Mar 6, 1957

Birthplace: Telford, Pennsylvania, USA

Alex McArthur played roles in a host of made-for-television movies in the 1980s and 1990s, in addition to appearing in numerous films and television series. His most prominent film appearance is as Detective Davey Sikes in the 1997 Morgan Freeman-Ashley Judd thriller, "Kiss the Girls." At the beginning of his career, small roles on TV series such as "Scarecrow and Mrs. King" and "Hill Street Blues" led to a five-episode stint on nighttime soap "Knots Landing" as hoodlum Ken Forest. McArthur's biggest early splash, however, came in 1986 when Madonna plucked him out of obscurity to co-star as her wrong-side-of-the-tracks boyfriend in the video for her teen-pregnancy drama, "Papa Don't Preach," which also featured Danny Aiello as Madonna's irate father. McArthur then landed one of his most memorable roles, honest cowboy Duell McCall in "Desperado," which was originally a pilot for a TV series but instead became a series of made-for-television movies. The "Desperado" films were set apart from the usual made-for-TV fare by novelist Elmore Leonard's participation (he created the story and wrote the script for the first movie), and a superior supporting cast that included at different times Billy Dee Williams, Robert Vaughn, Rod Stieger, and John Rhys-Davies.

Highest rated movies

90% 77% Desert Hearts
57% 64% Conspiracy Theory
52% 17% Suspended Animation
50% 50% Rampage
34% 62% Kiss the Girls
33% 30% Devil in the Flesh 2
27% Dischord

Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet 50% The Spearhead Effect Fuller (Character) - 2017
No Score Yet 12% Hydra Vincent Camden (Character) - 2009
No Score Yet 22% Lost Colony John White (Character) - 2007
No Score Yet 25% Out for Blood Jake Vincent (Character) - 2004
No Score Yet 26% Stealing Candy Fred Dowd (Character) - 2003
27% No Score Yet Dischord Recording Studio Executive (Character) - 2003
52% 17% Suspended Animation Tom Kempton (Character) $6.9K 2002
No Score Yet 27% Route 666 Nick (Character) - 2001
33% 30% Devil in the Flesh 2 Dr. John Sims (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet 0% The Spiral Staircase Steven Warren (Character) - 2000
No Score Yet No Score Yet Running Home Jack (Character) - 1998
No Score Yet 45% Devil in the Flesh Peter Rinaldi (Character) - 1997
57% 64% Conspiracy Theory Cynic (Character) $76.1M 1997
34% 62% Kiss the Girls Det. Davey Sikes (Character) $60.5M 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ladykiller Richard Darling (Character) - 1996
No Score Yet No Score Yet 87th Precinct: Lightning Detective Bert Kling (Character) - 1995
No Score Yet 22% Sharon's Secret Bodin (Character) - 1995
No Score Yet No Score Yet 87th Precinct Detective Bert Kling (Character) - 1995
No Score Yet 12% Perfect Alibi Keither Bauers (Character) - 1994
No Score Yet No Score Yet Woman on the Run: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story Unknown (Character) - 1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel Tom Vaughan (Character) - 1992
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Fifth Corner Richard Braun (Character) - 1992
No Score Yet No Score Yet Shoot First: A Cop's Vengeance Stephen Smith (Character) - 1991
No Score Yet No Score Yet Desperado: Badlands Justice Duell McCall (Character) - 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet Desperado: The Outlaw Wars Duell McCall (Character) - 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet De l'or et des fusils Duell McCall (Character) - 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet L.A. Takedown Patrick McLaren (Character) - 1989
No Score Yet 78% Race for Glory Cody Gifford (Character) $67.0K 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet Desperado: Avalanche at Devil's Ridge Duell McCall (Character) - 1988
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Return of Desperado Duell McCall (Character) - 1988
No Score Yet 60% Desperado Duell McCall (Character) - 1987
50% 50% Rampage Charlie Reece (Character) $322.5K 1987
90% 77% Desert Hearts Walter (Character) $2.5M 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet Silent Witness Joey Caputo (Character) - 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet Urge to Kill Bo Reinecker (Character) - 1984

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Chicago Hope Unknown (Guest Star) 1999
No Score Yet 90% Charmed Gabriel (Guest Star) 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dead Man's Gun Johnny Coburn (Guest Star) 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Outer Limits Josh Butler (Character) 1998
No Score Yet No Score Yet Touched by an Angel Unknown (Guest Star) 1997
No Score Yet No Score Yet Woman on the Run: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story Unknown (Character) 1993
97% 82% Hill Street Blues Brent (Guest Star) 1985