Biography
Kario Salem won the Emmy for Best Television Movie, The Peabody award, and Broadcast Film Critics’ award for writing HBO’s “Don King: Only in America.” In addition, Salem was nominated for the Emmy and PEN awards for writing HBO’s “The Rat Pack.” He also co-wrote “The Score” starring Robert De Niro and Marlon Brando.
Salem recently completed a screenplay based on Patricia Cornwell’s “Kay Scarpetta” book series for Fox 2000. He is currently working on an original true crime thriller, and the story of Martin Luther King and his assassination, both for DreamWorks.
Salem began his career as an actor, musician, and Juilliard School dropout who starred on Broadway as Scoop in “The Heidi Chronicles” and guest-starred in nearly 100 TV shows, including his role as the ghost of a dead soldier in an award winning episode of “M.A.S.H.” and as Mike Pasquinal in “Centennial.” He can also be seen as Jean, the French gangster, in the film “Killing Zoe,” directed by Roger Avary, and as ‘The Grand Inquisitor’ in “1492,” directed by Ridley Scott.
20th Century Fox
Actor
Movies | |
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1996 |
Savage |
1995 |
Mr. Stitch (TV movie) |
1994 |
Without Warning (TV movie) |
1993 |
Jericho Fever (TV movie) |
Killing Zoe |
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1992 |
1492: Conquest of Paradise |
1991 |
Kojak: Fatal Flaw (TV movie) |
The Boy Who Cried Bitch |
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1990 |
Kojak: Flowers for Matty (TV movie) |
1989 |
Kojak: Ariana (TV movie) |
Triumph of the Spirit |
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1988 |
Liberace (TV movie) |
Shooter (TV movie) |
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Starlight: A Musical Movie |
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The Red Spider (TV movie) |
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1986 |
Nomads |
Under the Influence (TV movie) |
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1982 |
Some Kind of Hero |
1981 |
Through the Magic Pyramid (TV movie) |
Underground Aces |
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1978 |
The Thirteenth Day: The Story of Esther (TV movie) |
Series | |
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2001 |
The Beast |
1995 |
Get Smart |
Melrose Place |
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Kiss, Kiss Bang, Bang (S03E28) |
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A Hose by Any Other Name (S03E27) |
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1994 |
The George Carlin Show |
1993 |
Murder, She Wrote |
Lone Witness (S09E19) |
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1991 |
Pacific Station |
Reasonable Doubts |
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1990 |
Gabriel's Fire |
1988 |
Sonny Spoon |
1986 |
Heart of the City |
L.A. Law |
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1985 |
Hometown |
The Equalizer |
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1984 |
Hawaiian Heat |
1983 |
The Yellow Rose |
1982 |
Magnum, P.I. |
Heal Thyself (S03E12) |
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T.J. Hooker |
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1981 |
Bret Maverick |
Lou Grant |
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Risk (S05E05) |
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M*A*S*H |
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Follies of the Living - Concerns of the Dead (S10E11) |
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1979 |
Centennial |
The Scream of Eagles (E12) |
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Trapper John, M.D. |
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1978 |
Centennial |
The Massacre (E05) |
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For as Long as the Waters Flow (E04) |
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The Wagon and the Elephant (E03) |
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The Yellow Apron (E02) |
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The Runaways |
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1977 |
CHiPs |
Testimony of Two Men |
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The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries |
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Westside Medical |
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What Really Happened to the Class of '65? |
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1976 |
M*A*S*H |
Deluge (S04E24) |
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Once an Eagle |
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Quincy M.E. |
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A Star Is Dead (S01E03) |
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1975 |
Baretta |
1972 |
The Rookies |
1968 |
Hawaii Five-O |
Screenwriter
Movies | |
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2019 |
Untitled Martin Luther King Jr. Project |
2012 |
Chasing Mavericks |
Performer
Shows | |
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1998 |
The 50th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards |