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.
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Alex McArthur
Filmography
Movies
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The Spearhead Effect | Fuller (Character) | - | 2017 |
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Hydra | Vincent Camden (Character) | - | 2009 |
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Lost Colony | John White (Character) | - | 2007 |
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Out for Blood | Jake Vincent (Character) | - | 2004 |
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Stealing Candy | Fred Dowd (Character) | - | 2003 |
27% | No Score Yet | Dischord | Recording Studio Executive (Character) | - | 2003 |
52% |
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Suspended Animation | Tom Kempton (Character) | $6.9K | 2002 |
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Route 666 | Nick (Character) | - | 2001 |
33% |
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Devil in the Flesh 2 | Dr. John Sims (Character) | - | 2000 |
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The Spiral Staircase | Steven Warren (Character) | - | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Running Home | Jack (Character) | - | 1998 |
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Devil in the Flesh | Peter Rinaldi (Character) | - | 1997 |
57% |
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Conspiracy Theory | Cynic (Character) | $76.1M | 1997 |
34% |
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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 |
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Sharon's Secret | Bodin (Character) | - | 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 87th Precinct | Detective Bert Kling (Character) | - | 1995 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Desperado | Duell McCall (Character) | - | 1987 |
50% |
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Rampage | Charlie Reece (Character) | $322.5K | 1987 |
90% |
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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
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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 |