Known for Sound
Born
February 6, 1933
Died
September 8, 2016 (age 83)
Filmography
62 films, 4 shows


12:01 PM
1990 · 25m · US
12:01 PM is a 1990 short film directed by Jonathan Heap and starring Kurtwood Smith. It follows Myron Castleman, an everyman who keeps repeating the same hour of his life, from 12:01 PM to 1:00 PM.


The Ninth Configuration
1980 · 1h 58m · US
Army psychiatrist Colonel Kane is posted to a secluded gothic castle housing a military asylum. With a reserved calm, he indulges the inmates' delusions, allowing them free rein to express their fantasies.


French Postcards
1979 · 1h 35m · FR
French Postcards rings both comic and true. The believable, fresh-faced characters are young naives from American colleges spending their French-English dictionaries, they compulsively seek out hundreds of monuments, romanticize the nomadic artist's life, and look for grown-up love. The French tutor them well, as befits their reputation. Jean Rochefort is the harassed headmaster with a hankering for affairs, and Marie-France Pisier is his very sexy wife. Watch for a newcomer named Debra Winger, and another-Mandy Patinkin.


The Muppet Movie
1979 · 1h 37m · UK
The Muppets gather to watch their newly-finished big-budget rich-and-famous feature film: a talent agent persuades Kermit the Frog to leave the swamp to pursue a career in Hollywood. On his way there, he meets a bear, a pig, a whatever (his future muppet crew), and some special celebrity guest stars, while being chased by the desperate owner of a frog-leg restaurant!


Over the Edge
1979 · 1h 35m · US
A group of bored teenagers rebel against authority in the community of New Granada.


Smokey and the Good Time Outlaws
1978 · 1h 30m · US
Two guys come to Nashville and try to make it on the country music scene. Their vision is to play at the Grand IL' Opry. Rejection after rejection pushes them to the verge of quitting and moving back to wherever they came from.


Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1978 · 1h 51m · DE
A small town band makes it big, but loses track of their roots, as they get caught up into the big-time machinations of the music biz. Now, they must thwart a plot to destroy their home town. Built around the music of The Beatles, this musical uses some big name groups like Peter Frampton and Aerosmith.


Straight Time
1978 · 1h 54m · US
After being released on parole, a burglar attempts to go straight, get a regular job, and just go by the rules. He soon finds himself back in jail at the hands of a power-hungry parole officer.


Saturday Night Fever
1977 · 1h 58m · UK
Tony spends his Saturdays at a disco where his stylish moves raise his popularity among the patrons. But his life outside the disco is not easy and things change when he gets attracted to Stephanie.


Checkered Flag or Crash
1977 · 1h 39m · PH
Hard-charging race car driver "Walkaway" Madden, nicknamed so for his history of walking away from car crashes, just wants to win the big Manilla 1000 off-road race. Photojournalist C.C. Wainwright intends to ride with him in that race. But Walkaway just wants to get rid of her. Fast-talking promoter Bo Cochran wants the race completed by any means necessary.


Car Wash
1976 · 1h 37m · US
This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar's Car Wash in the Los Angeles ghetto. The team meets dozens of eccentric customers -- including a smooth-talking preacher, a wacky cab driver and an ex-convict -- while cracking politically incorrect jokes to a constant soundtrack of disco and funk. Some of the workers find romance as the day moves along, but most are just happy to get through another shift.


Take a Hard Ride
1975 · 1h 43m · IT
After his cattle rancher boss dies, right-hand man Pike is given the job of returning $86,000 to some families who live across the border in Sonora, Mexico. Honest Pike is joined on the trip through the wilderness by a dishonest gambler named Tyree.


The Reincarnation of Peter Proud
1975 · 1h 45m · US
When college professor, Peter Proud begins experiencing flashbacks of an earlier life, he's mysteriously drawn to a place he's never been to, but which seems familiar and where he soon finds his previous incarnation's wife.


The Ultimate Thrill
1974 · 1h 25m · US
At a Colorado ski resort, a jealous man's paranoia results in murder.


Mr. Majestyk
1974 · 1h 43m · US
A melon farmer battles organized crime and a hit man who wants to kill him.


Three the Hard Way
1974 · 1h 37m · US
After his wife is kidnapped by a group of White supremacists, a record producer teams up with a PR man and a martial artist to get her back and put a stop to their plot to poison the water supply with a toxin that only kills Black people.


The Hanged Man
1974 · 1h 13m · US
A gunfighter who survives his own hanging helps a young widow who is trying to keep a ruthless land baron from taking her ranch.


The Borrowers
1973 · 1h 21m · CA
An eight-year-old boy discovers a family of tiny people, only a few inches tall, living beneath the floorboards of a Victorian country home.


Arnold
1973 · 1h 34m · US
Karen marries Arnold at his funeral and continues to get his money as long as she stays by his coffin. Meanwhile, various oddball relatives after Arnold's wealth are being killed in a creative variety of ways.


White Lightning
1973 · 1h 41m · US
An ex-con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.


Hardcase
1972 · 1h 14m · US
A man thought-dead comes home to find that his wife has sold their ranch and married a Mexican revolutionary.


Evel Knievel
1971 · 1h 28m · US
Biography of the famed motorcycle daredevil, much of which was filmed in his home town of Butte, Montana. The film depicts Knievel reflecting on major events in his life just before a big jump.


The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell
1968 · 1h 32m · US
Sgt. O'Farrell an Army soldier on an island in the South Pacific during World War II is trying to bring the two basics of life to his fellow servicemen, women and beer. The supply ship carrying the beer is torpedoed and the contingent of nurses consists of six males and ugly nurse Nellie Krause. If he could at least try to salvage the shipment of beer.


Incubus
1966 · 1h 14m · US
On a strange island inhabited by demons and spirits, a man battles the forces of evil.


Ride Beyond Vengeance
1966 · 1h 41m · US
Jonas Trapp falls in love with the beautiful Jessie, a wealthy girl out of his humble class. Against the wishes of her snobbish aunt, she marries him, later faking a pregnancy to win her aunt's consent. But Jonas tires of living off of his wife's family, and eventually deserts her to become a buffalo hunter. 11 years later, with his self-made fortune, he sets out to return home, only to be set upon by three sadistic marauders, who steal his money and leave him for dead. Rescued by a farmer who nurses him back to health, Jonas becomes consumed by the desire for revenge. As fate would have it, all three men live close to Jonas' former home. Matters quickly get worse when Jonas reunites with his wife, only to discover that she is now engaged to Renne.


The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre
1964 · 1h 20m · US
Terrified of being buried alive, a woman installs a phone in her crypt. A few days after her death, the phone suddenly rings and paranormal investigator Nelson Orion is brought in to probe the case.