Known for Acting
Alan Fudge (born February 27, 1944) was an American actor known for being part of the cast of four television programs: Man from Atlantis, Eischied, Paper Dolls, and Bodies of Evidence, along with a recurring role on 7th Heaven. He has scores of credits, including appearances on many of the top-rated shows in the US, such as Banacek, Kojak, Marcus Welby, M.D., Little House on the Prairie, The Streets of San Francisco, Hawaii Five-O, MAS*H, Starsky and Hutch, Charlie's Angels, Wonder Woman, Lou Grant, Knots Landing, Magnum, P.I., Cagney & Lacey, The A-Team, St. Elsewhere, Highway to Heaven, Dallas, MacGyver, Dynasty, Matlock, Falcon Crest, L.A. Law, The Wonder Years, Northern Exposure, Murder, She Wrote, Home Improvement, Beverly Hills, 90210, Baywatch, and Dawson's Creek. Fudge has also appeared in many television movies, some of which are based on popular series, such as Columbo: Columbo Goes to the Guillotine, Columbo: Columbo Goes to College, Matlock: The Witness Killings, and Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For. Well-known movies Fudge has appeared in include Airport 1975, Capricorn One, The Natural, and Edward Scissorhands. He has appeared on Broadway, including being part of the original cast of War and Peace at the Lyceum Theatre, in 1967.
Born
February 27, 1944
Died
October 10, 2011 (age 67)
Birthplace
Wichita, Kansas, USA
Filmography
57 films, 78 shows


Aces 'N' Eights
2008 · 1h 26m · US
Already taking a gamble settling in the uncharted west, the peaceful settlers of a town destined for railroad greatness suddenly find themselves being ruthlessly gunned down. With no law and order to be found, justice falls onto the shoulders of an elderly rancher and an accomplished, but retired, gunslinger.


Shark Swarm
2008 · 2h 38m · US
A fisherman and his family fight to take down a greedy real estate developer who has released toxins into the ocean, turning the area's sharks into bloodthirsty hunters.


Wild Hearts
2006 · 1h 24m · US
When Bob Hart, a widowed police detective trying to raise a rebellious teenage daughter, inherits a Montana horse ranch, he jumps at the opportunity to leave Los Angeles for the open range. Soon after arriving, Bob accepts the position as county sheriff and discovers that the seemingly bucolic countryside is far from tranquil. His problems include wolves who attack his stock, ruthless developers trying to take over the town and a female veterinarian with a chip on her shoulder, while trying to build a new home.


The Man Who Wasn't There
2001 · 1h 56m · UK
A tale of murder, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small California town, is dissatisfied with his life, but his wife Doris' infidelity and a mysterious opportunity presents him with a chance to change it.


Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For
2000 · 1h 35m · US
Jessica Fletcher, lecturing at a writers' conference, finds herself called on to solve the killing of a guest speaker, an arrogant Russian author who'd written a nonfiction, tell-all book about his tenure as head of the KGB.


Dark Skies
1996 · 1h 29m · US
In 1960s America, a young couple struggle to expose the truth about a hidden alien invasion, while a secret government organization follows its own agenda in dealing with the threat.


If Someone Had Known
1995 · 1h 20m · US
A young wife and mother is abused by her husband and keeps the secret from her friends and family.


The Liars' Club
1994 · 1h 35m · US
The loyalty of a tight group of friends is put to the test when there's a date rape within the circle.


Witness to the Execution
1994 · 1h 36m · US
This movie deals with a television network hoping to draw the biggest ratings ever while televising an execution live into the home of every American family.


M.A.N.T.I.S.
1994 · 1h 35m · US
A brilliant, wheelchair-bound scientist invents a form of exo-skeleton called the Mechanically Augmented Neuro Transmitter Interception System (M.A.N.T.I.S.) that turns him into a superhero and gives him the ability to fight the crime wave that is engulfing his city.


Deadly Medicine
1991 · 1h 32m · US
A pediatrician becomes trapped in a web of betrayal and guilt when her best friend, a nurse, seems to be a baby-killer.


Edward Scissorhands
1990 · 1h 45m · US
A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.


Nightmare on the 13th Floor
1990 · 1h 30m · US
In this made-for-cable television horror thriller, a travel writer visits a historic hotel to write a story about it and inadvertently finds herself on the 13th floor where she witnesses a Satanic rite and tangles with an axe-wielding killer. She escapes, but no one believes her story because the hotel has no 13th floor.


Too Young to Die
1990 · 1h 32m · US
An abused 15 year old is charged with a murder that carries the death penalty in this fact-based story.


The Final Days
1989 · 2h 30m · US
The Final Days concerns itself with the final months of the Richard Nixon presidency.


Shootdown
1988 · 1h 40m · US
Nan Moore is a U.S. government employee whose son is killed when Korean Air Flight 007 is shot down by Soviets on September 1, 1983. While the "official" story maintains that the flight accidentally veered too far into Soviet territory, was mistaken as a spy plane and shot down when it failed to identify itself, Ms. Moore suspects otherwise. However, in the course of her struggles to get to the bottom of what actually happened, she finds herself constantly stonewalled. Facing a conspiracy of silence and the increasing hostility of the authorities, Ms. Moore attempts to find out exactly what occurred, but with every answer she discovers, new questions arise...


I Saw What You Did
1988 · 1h 33m · US
Two teens, Lisa and Kim, are playing games making prank calls on the phone. But when they call Adrian Lancer who has some mental problems, and say "I saw what you did", they ignite a human time bomb. Adrian has just killed someone and thinks they saw him do it. Now he is trying to find them.


My Demon Lover
1987 · 1h 30m · US
Denny has yet again been left by her thug boyfriend Chip. It seems as if she is doomed to be stuck with awful guys, this time she has to choose between nerdy Charles and the strange Kaz, who turns into a monster when sexually aroused.


A Different Affair
1987 · 1h 40m · US
A single radio psychiatrist takes in a runaway boy she sponsors in a foster parents program.


The Abduction of Kari Swenson
1987 · 1h 36m · US
Based on the shocking true story of Olympic medalist Kari Swenson who was abducted by two "Mountain Men" while jogging in the foothills of the Rockies in Montana.


Oceans of Fire
1986 · 1h 34m · UK
Ben, a former Navy officer now works on a rig as the guy in charge, but since a lot of crew keeps dying whilst diving and planting the rig in the sea he needs men who are willing to take the risk. He gets in touch with an old friend from the Navy who works in a prison as sort of an diving training base and there Ben selects out the best to complete the task, but with superiors breathing down his neck, a camera crew now jumping on board and a deadline to meet he wants to finish the job and make sure the men stay alive, but not all things work out as he plans.


Chiller
1985 · 1h 40m · US
A wealthy industrialist arranges for his body to be kept on ice in a high-tech cryonic chamber. When the instructions are not followed properly, he emerges from the frozen crypt as an empty, soulless creature with an appetite for destruction.
Attack on Fear
Attack on Fear
1984 · 1h 35m · US
Married journalists who run a small town newspaper expose corruption and cultism at a once respected rehab center.


The Natural
1984 · 2h 17m · US
An unknown middle-aged batter named Roy Hobbs with a mysterious past appears out of nowhere to take a losing 1930s baseball team to the top of the league.


Brainstorm
1983 · 1h 46m · US
Two brilliant research scientists have invented a device capable of recording and playing back sensory experiences only to have devastating results when one of them records their own death.


M.A.D.D.: Mothers Against Drunk Drivers
1983 · 1h 37m
A mother relentlessly tries to spearhead a movement for national anti-drunk driver legislation after her own daughter becomes the victim of a hit-and-run by a drunk driver.


Thursday's Child
1983 · 1h 40m · US
Sam Alden is the 17-year-old high school star player in baseball who seems to have it all. However, his family notices that he is often bothered with fits of coughing. Worried, his parents decide to take him to the hospital, where they are shocked to find out that he has a life-threatening heart disease. Sam has trouble dealing with his illness, but he pretends to still be a joyful teenager to not have his parents worrying even more than they already do. His health is deteriorating, though, and it is eventually revealed that he needs a heart transplant if he wants to survive. This is the beginning of a long journey, which is mentally and physically exhausting. Sam has countless operations, and tests. The search for a donor seems endless to him. Even before the final operation, Sam is forced to deal with several setbacks in his life.


The Border
1982 · 1h 48m · US
A corrupted border agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.


The Children of An Lac
1980 · 1h 40m · US
Based on the true story of film actress Ina Balin and her efforts with American Red Cross volunteer Betty Tisdale, as well as a compassionate Vietnamese woman running a Saigon orphanage, to rescue as many children as possible and fly them out of the country before South Vietnam's fall in the spring of 1975 through the An Lac baby-lift.
Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand
Young Maverick - Dead Man's Hand
1979 · 1h 50m · US
Ben Maverick (Charles Frank) inherits the poker hand of a friend who died during a high stakes game.


Chapter Two
1979 · 2h 7m · US
George Schneider is an author whose wife had just died. His brother Leo gives him the number of Jennie Malone, and somehow they hit it off. And just when things are moving along, the memory of his first wife comes between them.


The Golden Gate Murders
1979 · 1h 44m · US
An elderly, venerable priest goes over the side of the Golden Gate Bridge and everyone except his nurse, Sister Benecia, believes that it was suicide. Sister Benecia finally manages to convince the police department to assign a detective, the cynical, irascible Paul Silver, to investigate. The "Mad Nun" and the "Mad Cop" become a formidable investigative team -- and much, much more.


The Child Stealer
1979 · 1h 40m · US
A young mother battles to get her children back after her ex-husband kidnaps them and the law won't help her in her efforts.


The Ordeal of Patty Hearst
1979 · 2h 19m · US
The story of the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst by members of a radical guerrilla organization, as seen by the FBI agent in charge of her case.


Crisis in Mid-Air
1979 · 1h 40m · US
The life of a stressed-out air controller falls apart as he battles a court case involving a mid-air collision for which an investigator is trying to hold him responsible.


Are You in the House Alone?
1978 · 1h 36m · US
An average high school girl's life is turned upside down after she is attacked and savagely assaulted. When a mysterious person begins leaving her threatening messages and making unsettling phone calls, Gail realizes that the nightmare is only just beginning...


Police Story: No Margin for Error
1978 · 1h 40m
Two policemen are suspected of excessive violence and causing two deaths. The investigation brings to light, little by little, the whole truth.


To Kill a Cop
1978 · 3h 6m · US
Earl Eischied is a man with his hands full. As the Chief of Detectives in New York City he is trying to break up a group of black militants that are on a crime spree including the killing of a police officer. He is also trying to battle with a mayor and police commissioner that want him out of his job.


Capricorn One
1977 · 2h 3m · UK
In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of NASA administrators turn the first Mars mission into a phony Mars landing. Under threat of harm to their families the astronauts play their part in the deception on a staged set in a deserted military base. But once the real ship returns to Earth and burns up on re-entry, the astronauts become liabilities. Now, with the help of a crusading reporter, they must battle a sinister conspiracy that will stop at nothing to keep the truth hidden.


Escape from Bogen County
1977 · 1h 35m · US
A political despot controls his town and his wife Maggie. When Maggie tries to escape his control, he swears a warrant out for her arrest and sends the law after her. The arresting officer, however, takes pity on Maggie and tries to help her escape the despot's clutches.


Man from Atlantis IV: The Disappearances
1977 · 1h 13m
Elizabeth is kidnapped, one of dozens of scientists held prisoner on the island of Felicitos, controlled by special mineral springs that render their victims completely happy and compliant. Dr. Smith is using them to build a rocket to take her away from our troubled planet in search of some better world, and Mark must find a way to counter the brain-washing and free the captives.


Man from Atlantis III: Killer Spores
1977 · 1h 37m
The Cetacean is called upon to recover a space probe that crashes in the sea, and Mark soon learns that the probe is covered with thousands of tiny alien beings. They intend to learn all they can about the human race by invading host bodies and controlling them. Mark must return them to space before they destroy all humanity.


Man from Atlantis II: The Death Scouts
1977 · 1h 37m · US
A human scientist capable of living underwater discovers similar alien life inhabiting human bodies, and looks to them for a clue to his origin.


The Invasion of Johnson County
1976 · 1h 40m · US
A free-spirited Bostonian recently arrived in the West teams up with a crusty Wyoming cowboy to stop a land baron's attempts to drive out a group of small ranchers and take over their property.


Kiss Me... Kill Me
1976 · 1h 30m · US
A female investigator in the district attorney's office sets out to track down the person who murdered a young schoolteacher.


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


Man on the Outside
1975 · 1h 50m · US
A retired police captain storms angrily out of retirement when his son is shot down before his eyes and his grandson is kidnapped by a syndicate killer in this pilot for Lorne Greene's brief "Griff" series, which went off the air 18 months before this film was aired.


Bug
1975 · 1h 39m · US
An earthquake releases a strain of mutant cockroaches with the ability to start fires, which proceed to cause destructive chaos in a small town. The studies carried out by scientist James Parmiter, however, reveal an intent with much more far-reaching consequences.


Kate McShane
1975 · 1h 13m · US
A flamboyant Denver lady lawyer, with the help of her father, a retired cop who does the legwork for her investigations, and her brother, a Jesuit priest and university law professor, unravels a murder case of a society woman who allegedly stabbed her husband. This was the pilot for Anne Meara's short-lived TV series.


Queen of the Stardust Ballroom
1975 · 1h 38m · US
A middle-aged woman finds herself simply a widow, a grandmother and a person when a friend takes her to the Stardust Ballroom, a dance hall which recreates the music and atmosphere of the 1940s. There she encounters a most unlikely Prince Charming, a middle-aged mailman. With this encounter, life takes on a new meaning for the film's heroine.


Airport 1975
1974 · 1h 47m · US
When an in-flight collision incapacitates the pilots of an airplane bound for Los Angeles, stewardess Nancy Pryor is forced to take over the controls. From the ground, her boyfriend Alan Murdock, a retired test pilot, tries to talk her through piloting and landing the 747 aircraft. Worse yet, the anxious passengers — among which are a noisy nun and a cranky man — are aggravating the already tense atmosphere.


The Chadwick Family
1974 · 1h 13m · US
A father finds himself taking care of a family that, in addition to his son and three daughters, also consists of two sons-in-law and his youngest daughter's Chinese boyfriend.
The Man from Independence
The Man from Independence
1974 · 1h
The Story of Harry S. Truman as he begins his political career in 1929.


The Blue Knight
1973 · 3h 8m · US
Bumper Morgan is a veteran Los Angeles Police Department street cop. He is due to retire after 20 years on the job, but is not letting up on the criminal element on his beat.


Sunshine
1973 · 2h 1m · US
A young woman living in the woods with her husband, a struggling musician, and her young daughter, discovers she has terminal cancer. She begins to tape-record a journal of the time she has left so her daughter will know something of her when she grows up.


Linda
1973 · 1h 13m · US
A woman kills her lover's wife, then sets out to frame her husband for the murder.


Two People
1973 · 1h 40m · US
Evan Bonner is a deserter from the Vietnam war; he is on his way back to America to give himself up when he meets Deirdre McCluskey, a beautiful if petulant model. The two make an unlikely couple, but once in France the magic of Paris works its charm and these two vulnerable people finally find each other.