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Stripes (film)

Stripes is a 1981 American military comedy directed by Ivan Reitman and starring Bill Murray as a cab driver who enlists in the U.S. Army with friend Harold Ramis.

Stripper

Stripper (exotic dancer): a performer doing erotic, partly nude dance, aka striptease; history from 1893 Little Egypt and Minsky burlesque to Gypsy Rose Lee, plus club typology, labor organizing, and male stripping research.

Stripperella

Stripperella (Stan Lee's Stripperella) is a 2003-2004 American adult animated superhero comedy created by Stan Lee for Spike TV, voiced by Pamela Anderson as Erotica Jones, a stripper by night and crime-fighting superhero by later night, in one 13-episode season.

Striptease

Striptease: an erotic dance of gradual disrobing, coined as a word in the late 1920s and born in American burlesque. Covers Gypsy Rose Lee, the Minsky-era New York scene, neo-burlesque, pole fitness mainstreaming, and UK SEV licensing effects on dancers.

Striptease (film)

Striptease is a 1996 American comedy-drama film directed by Andrew Bergman, based on Carl Hiaasen's 1993 novel, in which Demi Moore's former FBI assistant dances to fund a custody battle.

Stroker Ace

Stroker Ace: 1983 Hal Needham NASCAR comedy starring Burt Reynolds, based on the novel Stand on It; a $14 million Universal-Warner Bros. co-venture that flopped with $13 million gross and 18% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Strong Girl Bong-soon (힘쎈여자 도봉순)

Strong Girl Bong-soon (힘쎈여자 도봉순, Strong Woman Do Bong-soon) is a 2017 JTBC Korean romantic comedy, 16 episodes, starring Park Bo-young, Park Hyung-sik, and Ji Soo, about a woman with hereditary superhuman strength hired as a bodyguard by a gaming CEO; it ranks among cable history's highest-rated K-dramas.

Strong Girl Nam-soon (힘쎈여자 강남순)

Strong Girl Nam-soon (힘쎈여자 강남순, Himssenyeoja Kangnamsoon) is a 2023 JTBC fantasy-comedy, 16 episodes October 7 to November 26, 2023, a spin-off of Strong Woman Do Bong-soon starring Lee Yoo-mi, streamed on TVING and Netflix.

Stronger (film)

Stronger is a 2017 American biographical drama directed by David Gordon Green, with Jake Gyllenhaal as Jeff Bauman, who lost both legs in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.

Strongest Deliveryman (최강배달꾼)

Strongest Deliveryman (최강배달꾼) is a 2017 South Korean television series starring Go Kyung-pyo, Chae Soo-bin, Kim Seon-ho, and Go Won-hee, aired on KBS2 in 16 episodes.

Stroszek

Stroszek (1977) is Werner Herzog's West German drama starring Bruno S., Eva Mattes, and Clemens Scheitz; a Berlin busker, a prostitute, and an eccentric emigrate to Wisconsin and find the American dream hollow. Written in four days for Bruno S., it won the German Film Critics' Award.

Strother Martin

Strother Martin (Strother Douglas Martin Jr.; 1919 to 1980) was an American character actor whose many Western roles included the chain-gang Captain in Cool Hand Luke (1967).

Strung

Strung (formerly Help) is a 2026 psychological thriller directed by Malcolm D. Lee, written by Alan B. McElroy, starring Chloe Bailey as a violinist tutoring a wealthy family's daughter; a Blumhouse-Tyler Perry Peacock film.

Stryfe

Stryfe (Nathan Christopher Charles Summers) is a Marvel Comics supervillain, the mutant clone and nemesis of Cable, leader of the Mutant Liberation Front, and antagonist of the 1992 X-Cutioner's Song crossover, created and raised by Apocalypse.

Stuart Ashen

Stuart Ashen (Ashens), British comedian and YouTuber born 1976 in Norwich, reviews cheap and counterfeit products on his sofa-filmed channel; made the films Quest for the Gamechild and Polybius Heist.

Stuart Campbell (actor)

Stuart Campbell, also Stuart William David Campbell, Scottish actor born 1998 in Bellshill, known for Young Ruben in Half Man, Bill Fraser in SAS: Rogue Heroes, Derfel in The Winter King, and his 2019 Stage Debut Award nomination for The Hunt at the Almeida Theatre.

Stuart Damon

Stuart Damon (Stuart Michael Zonis, 1937–2021), American actor; played Dr. Alan Quartermaine on General Hospital 1977–2013, Emmy winner 1999; also the Prince in 1965's Cinderella and Craig Stirling in The Champions.

Stuart Fails to Save the Universe

Stuart Fails to Save the Universe is a 2026 HBO Max sci-fi comedy, the third Big Bang Theory spin-off, created by Chuck Lorre, Zak Penn, and Bill Prady; Stuart Bloom breaks a quantum device, causing multiverse Armageddon; renewed for 2027.

Stuart Gordon

Stuart Gordon (1947–2020), American director and playwright, founded Chicago's Organic Theater Company, directed the cult horror film Re-Animator (1985) and other H.P. Lovecraft adaptations, and co-created Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.

Stuart Little (film)

Stuart Little (1999) is a live-action/CGI family comedy directed by Rob Minkoff, based on E.B. White's 1945 novel, starring Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, and the voice of Michael J. Fox; it grossed over $300 million worldwide and spawned two sequels.

Stuart Little 2

Stuart Little 2 is a 2002 American live-action/computer-animated family comedy directed by Rob Minkoff, the sequel to Stuart Little (1999), with Michael J. Fox voicing Stuart.

Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild

Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild (2005) is an all-CG direct-to-video animated sequel directed by Audu Paden, with Michael J. Fox, Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, and Wayne Brady voicing characters; Stuart rescues Snowbell from the Beast near Lake Garland.

Stuart Margolin

Stuart Margolin (1940–2022), American character actor and TV director, won back-to-back Emmys (1979, 1980) as Evelyn "Angel" Martin on The Rockford Files; also directed episodic TV.

Stuart Pankin

Stuart Pankin (born 1946, Philadelphia) is an American comic character actor, CableACE winner for HBO's Not Necessarily the News and voice of Earl Sinclair on Dinosaurs.

Stuart Smalley

Stuart Smalley, Al Franken's recurring Saturday Night Live self-help parody character (1991–1995, returned 2002), host of Daily Affirmations, famous for the mirror mantra 'I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me' and the 1995 flop film Stuart Saves His Family.

Stuart Townsend

Stuart Townsend, Irish actor and director born 1972 in Howth, County Dublin; played Lestat in Queen of the Damned, was replaced by Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings, and directed Battle in Seattle.

Stuart Whitman

Stuart Maxwell Whitman (February 1, 1928 – March 16, 2020) was an American actor of Westerns and action films, Oscar-nominated for The Mark (1961), star of The Comancheros and TV's Cimarron Strip.

Stuart Wilson (actor)

Stuart Conan Wilson (born 1946, Guildford) is an English RADA-trained actor known for Vronsky in Anna Karenina, Jack Travis in Lethal Weapon 3, and Don Rafael Montero in The Mask of Zorro; distinct from the 1984-born Big Brother contestant of the same name.

Stubby Kaye

Stubby Kaye (Bernard Kotzin, 1918–1997), American comic actor and singer. Created Nicely-Nicely Johnson in Broadway's Guys and Dolls (1950) and Marryin' Sam in Li'l Abner (1956), repeating both roles on film, and played Marvin Acme in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Stuber (film)

Stuber is a 2019 American action comedy directed by Michael Dowse and starring Kumail Nanjiani as an Uber driver commandeered by Dave Bautista's detective for a manhunt.