Known for Acting
Martin West (born Martin Weixelbaum; August 28, 1937 – December 31, 2019), was an American actor of film and television, best known for playing Lawson in John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) and the lead role in Freckles (1960).
Born
August 28, 1937
Died
December 31, 2019 (age 82)
Birthplace
Southampton, New York, USA
Filmography
16 films, 5 shows


La Classe américaine
1993 · 1h 12m
country: France
George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of these intriguing final words, asks his three best investigators, Dave, Peter and Steven, to solve the mystery. (Sixteen French actors dub scenes from various Warner Bros. films to create a parody of Citizen Kane, 1941.)


Manhunt: Search for the Night Stalker
1989 · 1h 35m
country: United States
Based on the true story of Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez who terrorized California in 1985 and the two Los Angeles police detectives who try to track him down.


Listen to Me
1989 · 1h 47m
country: United States
It was the best time of their lives. A kid from Oklahoma. An immigrant's daughter. A senator's son, a society girl, and a college professor with a dream. They had one thing in common...the will to win. A group of college debaters learn about the world, friendships, love, dreams and family.


Mac and Me
1988 · 1h 39m
country: United States
A Mysterious Alien Creature (MAC) escaping from nefarious NASA agents, is befriended by a young boy in a wheelchair. Together, they try to find MAC's family from whom he has been separated.


Hellhole
1985 · 1h 36m
country: United States
An unlucky woman’s mother is murdered by a scarf-wielding killer named Silk, leaving the woman injured, traumatised and suffering from amnesia. She’s committed to a mental institution, where Silk follows her, looking for the papers he was trying to get from her mother. And Silk’s only the beginning of her problems, since the asylum is run by a mad doctor, performing experiments in chemical lobotomies!


The Price of Survival
1980 · 1h 43m
country: France
Jefferson City, Missouri: Joseph Randolph, a VIP in a fictional electronics company, has just gotten the sack. The company bigwigs insist it is simply because of downsizing, but Randolph is not buying it. Enraged, he gets a handgun and shoots five managers to death. Then he turns himself in and is eventually put in a psychiatric hospital by the police. His family suffers a series of tragedies that leave only his daughter to wonder about why her father was committed to an institution. She joins with a visiting reporter from Chicago and another interested man, and all three start digging deeper into the company's history.


Assault on Precinct 13
1976 · 1h 31m
country: United States
A highway patrol officer, two criminals, and a station secretary form an unlikely alliance to defend a defunct Los Angeles precinct against a siege by a bloodthirsty street gang.


Family Plot
1976 · 2h
country: United States
Spiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.


Soldier Blue
1970 · 1h 55m
country: United States
After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive private devoted to his duty, and Cresta, a young woman who had lived with the Cheyenne two years and whose sympathies lie more with them than with the US government. Together, they must try to reach the cavalry's main base camp. As they travel onward, Honus is torn between his growing affection for Cresta.


Sweet November
1968 · 1h 54m
country: United States
A woman refuses to let her romances last longer than one month.


Harper
1966 · 2h 1m
country: United States
Harper is a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved along the way with an assortment of unsavory characters and an illegal-alien smuggling ring.


Lord Love a Duck
1966 · 1h 45m
country: United States
From his prison cell, young Alan Musgrave relates his experiences of the previous year dedicated to fulfilling every whim of beautiful and self-absorbed high school senior Barbara Ann Greene.


The Girls on the Beach
1965 · 1h 20m
country: United States
The girls of Alpha Beta need to raise $10,000 in two weeks to save the sorority house. Among their schemes to raise the funds are a beauty contest, a newspaper puzzle, and a baking contest. But when three guys hit the beach with love on their minds, bragging that they know the Beatles, the girls plan a concert with the Fab Four as the main attraction.


A Swingin' Summer
1965 · 1h 20m
country: United States
Beach party escapade features a bookworm with glasses who learns to "groove", as she attempts to sing "Ready to Groove."


The Man from Galveston
1963 · 57m
country: United States
Circuit-riding Texas lawyer Timothy Higgins defends a former girlfriend against a murder charge stemming from an extortionist's threat to reveal her shady past. Through adroit courtroom work, Higgins is able to acquit her and reveal who actually shot the fatal bullet.


Freckles
1960 · 1h 23m
country: United States
A young man with only one hand gets a job at a timber camp and falls for his boss's daughter.