Fred Melamed
Date of birth: 1956-05-13
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
Biography
Fred Melamed (born May 13, 1956 in New York City) is an American actor and writer. He received his theatrical training at Hampshire College and the Yale School of Drama. At Yale, he was a Samuel F. B. Morse College Graduate Fellow. He was also a nominee for the Irene Ryan Award, a prize conferred upon the most promising young actors in the United States. While still at Yale, he was an instructor at the well-known performing arts camp, Stagedoor Manor.
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Cat Person
2023-10-06
When Margot, a college sophomore, goes on a date with the older Robert, she finds that IRL Robert do
A Serious Man
2009-10-02
It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been in
Suspect
1987-10-23
When a Supreme Court judge commits suicide and his secretary is found murdered, all fingers point to
Chicanery
2017-04-29
Darren Flare is an Emmy Award-winning, slightly dim newscaster, who is about to stumble on the story
Lovesick
1983-02-18
Sigmund Freud's ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient.
Kid Gambled
2017-08-16
Peer-pressured to steal a case of beer by his hooligan friends, a stoned anxiety-stricken teenager w
Rumble
2021-02-12
In a world where monster wrestling is a global sport and monsters are superstar athletes, teenage Wi
Fred Won't Move Out
2012-09-21
Fred (Elliott Gould) lives with his Alzheimers' struggling wife, Susan in their home of over fifty y
In a World...
2013-08-09
An underachieving vocal coach is motivated by her father, the king of movie-trailer voice-overs, to
The Manhattan Project
1986-06-13
A gifted high school student steals plutonium from the secret nuclear weapons facility in his home t
Don't Trip
2025-11-07
After getting fired from his assistant job, a young struggling screenwriter hatches a plan to befrie
Get on Up
2014-08-01
A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicia
Blumenthal
2013-08-03
A comedy that follows the relatives of Harold Blumethal, a legendary playwright who made his career
Dinner with Friends with Brett Gelman and Friends
2014-04-24
You are cordially invited to join Brett Gelman and his Hollywood friends for a lively night of dinin
Diary of a Spy
2022-07-14
Anna is a washed-up intelligence officer whose last mission left 7 people dead. Drunk, broke, and al
Ishtar
1987-05-15
Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in
The Mission
1986-09-06
When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of conv
Interpersonal Exopolitics
Mankind's relationship with Extraterrestrials, itself, and its vices are explored through sex, song
Little Death
2024-01-19
A middle-aged filmmaker on the verge of a breakthrough. Two kids in search of a lost backpack. A sma
Bone Tomahawk
2015-10-23
During a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. The doctor's assistant, w
Some Kind of Beautiful
2015-07-16
By day, Richard Haig is a successful and well-respected English professor at renowned Trinity Colleg
Fuzzy Head
2023-01-20
Insomnia-ridden Marla is on the run after the murder of her mother. Now, Marla must confront her eve
Smart Pipe
2014-11-17
Everything in our lives is connected to the internet, so why not our toilets? Take a tour of Smart P
Peak Season
2024-08-08
An emotionally adrift young woman forges an unexpected bond with a wilderness guide when she and her
Radio Days
1987-01-30
The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York
Crimes and Misdemeanors
1989-10-13
A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murde
You Are Whole
2015-06-20
A spiritual missionary is mistaken for a serial killer in a sleepy British seaside town.
Hail, Caesar!
2016-02-05
When a Hollywood star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming, the studio sends their fixer
The Mission
1986-09-06
When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of conv
Brawl in Cell Block 99
2017-09-23
After working as a drug courier and getting into a brutal shootout with police, a former boxer finds
The Bookie & the Bruiser
In 1959 New York, a pensive Jewish fellow named Rivner befriends an oversized Italian-American tough
Lemon
2017-01-22
Isaac has seen better days. His acting career is tanking, his blind girlfriend of 10 years plans to
Another Woman
1988-10-13
Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to wor
Hannah and Her Sisters
1986-02-07
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondri
Passengers
2016-12-21
A spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet and transporting thousands of people has a malfunc
Silver Lake
2018-10-21
The story centers on Nathan (Starr) as he examines his life and relationships with friends, his girl
The Spy Who Dumped Me
2018-08-02
A couple of thirtysomething best friends unwittingly become entangled in an international conspiracy
The Pick-up Artist
1987-09-18
A womanizer meets his match when he falls for the daughter of a gambling addict who is in debt to th
Dragged Across Concrete
2019-02-21
Two policemen, one an old-timer, the other his volatile younger partner, find themselves suspended w
The Dictator
2012-05-15
The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the c
Adult Beginners
2014-09-08
A young, hipster entrepreneur crashes and burns on the eve of his company’s big launch. With his ent
Lying and Stealing
2019-07-12
Hoping to leave his criminal lifestyle behind him, a successful art thief teams up with a sexy con w
The Vigil
2020-07-01
A man providing overnight watch to a deceased member of his former Orthodox Jewish community finds h
Hairbrained
2013-11-25
A fourteen-year-old genius gets rejected by Harvard and ends up at a much lower ranked school where
Shiva Baby
2021-03-26
College student Danielle must cover her tracks when she unexpectedly runs into her sugar daddy at a
Hollywood Ending
2002-05-03
Woody Allen stars as Val Waxman, a two-time Oscar winner turned washed-up, neurotic director in desp
Together Together
2021-04-23
When young loner Anna is hired as the surrogate for Matt, a single man in his 40s, the two strangers
Shadows and Fog
1991-12-05
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante g
Husbands and Wives
1992-09-18
When their best friends announce that they're separating, a professor and his wife discover the faul
Sticky Fingers
1988-05-06
Two dippy roommates, struggling musicians Lolly and Hattie, are asked by a drug-dealing friend-of-a-
The Good Mother
1988-11-04
After finding a sexually liberated boyfriend, a divorced woman gets sued over daughter's custody, by
Villa Hollywood
Inspired by real events, a washed-up teen TV star is stuck managing a Hollywood apartment building t
Easy's Waltz
2025-09-11
A down-on-his-luck comedian-crooner navigates modern Las Vegas with old-school Vegas personalities.
Father Joe
Set in 1990s Manhattan, the film will see Sutherland play a priest who declares a one-man war on the
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass
2026-01-25
A Midwestern bride-to-be, Gail Daughtry, has a celebrity hall pass agreement with her fiancé… who us
Adventure Time - Come Along With Me
2018-09-03
BMO narrates "The Great Gum War" in which Finn, Jake, Marceline, PB and the Candy Kingdom go to war