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Acting

Val Avery

Career: Active from 1955 to 1994, busiest in 1971 with 3 main titles.

Leading roles: 4
top three billing

Average score: 57/100

Highest rated: Requiem for a Heavyweight
84/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 106 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Val Avery Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Fantasy
0.5, average 1.7
Uncanny
1.4, average 2.5
Coming of Age
1.9, average 3.0
Wonder
2.4, average 3.4

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character Study 5
Social Commentary 3
Character-Driven 3
Urban Alienation 2
70s Cinema 2
Dialogue-Driven 2
Psychological Drama 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

134

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2000s

2 titles · average score 41

Blueberry

36

as Judge

In the Shadows

47

as Carlo Pierazzi

1990s

5 titles · average score 60

A Fish in the Bathtub

46

as Abe

Donnie Brasco

80

as Santo Trafficante Jr.

Gold Coast

48

as Jimmy Capp

Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of Johnson Whittaker

50

as Gen. Sherman

Law & Order

74

TV show · as Dan Magadan Sr. / Max Schaeffer

1980s

23 titles · average score 59

Friday the 13th: The Series

70

TV show · as Russ Sharko

Cobra

40

as Chief Halliwell

Moonlighting

78

TV show · as Mr. Viola

Out of the Darkness

63

as Guido Pressano

Hunter

70

TV show · as Ray Sullivan

Easy Money

48

as Louie the Bartender

Hardcastle and McCormick

65

TV show

Jinxed!

40

as Milt Hawkins

Assignment Berlin

as Talaat Pasha

Cagney & Lacey

69

TV show

Continental Divide

63

as Yablonowitz

Choices

49

as Coach Rizzo

1970s

38 titles · average score 60

Heroes

37

as Mel

Harry and Walter Go to New York

48

as Chatsworth

Quincy, M.E.

74

TV show · as Rawley Dinehart

Starsky & Hutch

78

TV show

Baretta

44

TV show

The Laughing Policeman

50

as Insp. John Pappas SFPD

Kojak

72

TV show · as George Janis

Minnie and Moskowitz

65

as Zelmo Swift

Columbo

83

TV show · as Artie Jessup / Ralph Dobbs

The Anderson Tapes

63

as Parelli aka Socks

Cannon

67

TV show

The Odd Couple

52

TV show · as Elmo

1960s

45 titles · average score 66

A Dream of Kings

57

as Fatas

Faces

80

as Jim McCarthy

Ironside

45

TV show

Mannix

71

TV show

Mission: Impossible

79

TV show · as Al Ross / Constantine Victor

Get Smart

84

TV show · as KAOS Agent #1

The Wild Wild West

64

TV show · as John Crane

TV show

The Munsters

72

TV show · as The Commissar

The Fugitive

84

TV show · as Gordie Shiller / Jerry Kulik

Requiem for a Heavyweight

84

as Young fighter's promoter

Too Late Blues

75

as Milt Frielobe

1950s

21 titles · average score 74

The Twilight Zone

91

TV show · as Bartender

Rawhide

50

TV show · as Sheriff

Naked City

69

TV show · as Franko

Peter Gunn

73

TV show

The Long, Hot Summer

79

as Wilk (uncredited)

Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer

74

TV show · as Sherrif Jenkins

Edge of the City

72

as Brother

Have Gun, Will Travel

78

TV show

Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre

68

TV show · as Carson

The Harder They Fall

66

as Frank (uncredited)

Gunsmoke

76

TV show · as Trent / Dorner

Robert Montgomery Presents

TV show · as Philip Reilly (The Tall Dark Man)