Known for Acting
Born
May 10, 1933
Died
January 18, 2020 (age 86)
Birthplace
Los Angeles, California, USA
Filmography
39 films, 35 shows
Shadow People
Shadow People
2007 · 1h 36m · US
Dan and Gretchen, a couple with a secretive past and a failing relationship, rent a guest house from another couple in California's San Fernando Valley. But jealousy and betrayal turn a casual friendship into a game of manipulation and deception.


In the Name of Justice
1999 · 1h 25m
A plot against a family is revealed and sets the stage for revenge.


Indecent Behavior
1993 · 1h 31m · US
Rebecca Mathis is a sex therapist. One of her patients is found dead. At first it is presumed he died of a heart attack...


Netherworld
1992 · 1h 27m · US
A young man arrives at his father's mansion in Louisiana to discover that a secretive cult is using winged creatures to raise the dead to do their bidding.


The Arrival
1991 · 1h 43m · US
An old man, who has been near a fallen meteor, starts to get younger and younger, with a terrible thirst for blood.


Good Cops, Bad Cops
1990 · 1h 33m · US
Made-for-TV drama about one of the largest crimes in history—the 1980 robbery of the Boston Depositors Trust by a group of policemen. Capt. Gerry Clemente is the leader of a gang of rotten cops who take their piece of Boston's criminal offerings. The crimes are petty at first, but soon, Clemente sets his sights on a bank that promises a big score. Can the gang pull it off before a case is built against them?


Robot Jox
1990 · 1h 25m · US
50 years after a nuclear war, the two superpowers handle territorial disputes in a different way. Each fields a giant robot to fight one-on-one battles in official matches, each piloted by a man inside, known as robot jockeys or jox. The contest for possession of Alaska will be fought by two of the best. The conscientious Achilles fights for the Americans. Opposing him is a Russian, Alexander.


The Dark Side of the Moon
1990 · 1h 31m · US
It is the year 2022. A mysterious systems failure causes the crew of a spaceship to be stranded on the dark side of the moon, while rapidly running out of fuel and oxygen. They are surprised to discover a NASA space shuttle floating in space, and board it in the hope of salvaging some supplies. One by one, the crew is possessed and killed, and it is up to Paxton Warner to find the links between the dark side of the moon, the Bermuda Triangle, and the Devil himself.


Double Revenge
1988 · 1h 35m · US
An innocent bystander goes on a vendetta against a bank robber.


Shattered: If Your Kid's on Drugs
1986 · 57m · US
A made-for-TV propaganda short created during the height of 'the war on drugs' to expose drug usage amongst teenagers. Only two men who are aware of such a dire situation, Burt Reynolds and Judd Nelson, can lay their insight on the epidemic that's preying upon the youth of America.


Re-Animator
1985 · 1h 26m · US
Conducting clandestine experiments within the morgue at Miskatonic University, scientist Herbert West reveals to a fellow graduate student his groundbreaking work concerning the re-animation of fresh corpses.


The Jerk, Too
1984 · 1h 32m · US
Navin Johnson heads to Los Angeles to attend the wedding of his pen pal, Marie. On the way, he runs across a gang of hobos whose leader, Diesel, takes him to Las Vegas after learning of his skills at poker.


Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls "1981"
1981 · 3h 53m · US
Updated version of the Jacqueline Susann best selling 1960's novel shows the lives of three very different women who come to New York City to achieve fame and fortune in show business and get all messed up in the process.


City of the Living Dead
1980 · 1h 33m · IT
A psychic seemingly dies of fright during a séance where she sees a vision of a Dunwich priest hanging himself in a church cemetery. New York City reporter Peter Bell investigates and learns that the priest's suicide has somehow opened a portal to Hell that must be sealed by All Saints Day, or else the dead will overtake humanity.


The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank
1978 · 1h 38m · US
A comedy-drama about a New York couple who decides to dump the hassle of the big city, pack up the kids and move to what they think is the easy life of suburbia.


In the Glitter Palace
1977 · 1h 37m · US
The ex-girlfriend of a lawyer, who left him for a lesbian lover, asks him to defend her lover in a murder case.


Kingston
1976 · 1h 40m · US
In this pilot for the "Kingston: Confidential" series, an investigative reporter, backed by the head of a newspaper and TV chain, uncovers a plot to utilize nuclear power plants in a scheme to take over the world.


The Dark Side of Innocence
1976 · 1h 30m · US
A suburban housewife's feeling that her life is standing still causes her to divorce her husband. This causes tension with her daughter, who bitterly resents her walking out on the family, and her mother, whose own beliefs about marriage and family are jolted by her daughter's divorce.


The Secret of the Pond
1975 · 1h 29m · US
A spoiled city youngster learns the hard way that there may be some truth to the legend of a mysterious man roaming the backwaters of Virginia.


Shell Game
1975 · 1h 11m · US
A convicted con artist sets out to expose the head of a charity fund who has been embezzling money to cover his huge gambling losses.


Switch
1975 · 1h 30m · US
In this pilot film that led to the series, an ex-con and a retired cop, partners in a private investigation agency, try to prove that a safecracker has been framed for a diamond robbery.


Mr. Ricco
1975 · 1h 38m · US
Accused murderer Frankie Steele walks free, thanks to the efforts of San Francisco defense lawyer Joe Ricco. Then a pair of cop killings strikes the city. All signs point to the newly released Steele as the perpetrator. Has Ricco sprung a killer? Dean Martin keeps his affable ease but abandons his hipster Matt Helm-series swagger to portray Ricco in his final leading-role film, a whodunit mystery set in the city that also was the gritty center of action for the era’s Bullitt and Dirty Harry. Convinced that Steele isn’t behind the murders, Ricco launches an inquiry and runs up against a police lieutenant assigned to birddog him, evidence planted by a racist cop and several assassination attempts on Ricco himself. As the mystery deepens, so does the danger. And behind it all is someone the attorney never suspected. The pre-Laverne & Shirley Cindy Williams plays Ricco’s office assistant.


The Sky's the Limit
1975 · 1h 27m · US
A family is thrown into turmoil when a grandson convinces his grandfather to teach him to fly.


Thursday's Game
1974 · 1h 40m · US
Harry Evers and Marvin Ellison have been playing poker Thursday nights with their friends for years. When a disagreement breaks up the game, they decide to continue meeting and doing different things together, instead of staying home with their wives. When the wives find out that the games stopped some time ago, they are a quite upset. Just what have they been doing on Thursday nights?


Sorority Kill
1974 · 1h 14m · US
A psychotic killer holds six people captive in a sorority house, each of them realizing that their captor's mind is like a defective time bomb and could go off at any moment.


The Priest Killer
1971 · 1h 40m · US
A police chief, confined to a wheelchair, and a former cop, who is now a priest, team up to discover who has been committing a series of murders of local priests. This TV movie was a backdoor pilot for the crime series SARGE and aired as a special-event spinoff of IRONSIDE.


Zig Zag
1970 · 1h 45m · US
A dying man frames himself for murder so his widow can collect the reward.


Lassie: Well of Love
1970 · US
In this touching drama a disparate group of people rally together to save a dog that has fallen into a deep well.


Fear No Evil
1969 · 1h 38m · US
A psychiatrist specializing in the occult becomes involved in the case of a man who is possessed by a spirit in an antique mirror. The man's fiance discovers that the mirror is able to bring back her former boyfriend, who had been killed in a car accident, from the dead.


For Pete's Sake
1966 · 1h 30m
"For Pete's Sake" is the heartfelt and inspiring story of a man (Robert Sampson) struggling to come to terms with his wife's (Pippa Scott) untimely death, while raising their young son (Johnny Jenson). Sam Groom portrays the family's pastor and Terri Garr debuts as a wayward young woman in this entertaining and thought-provoking comedy-drama.


The Restless Ones
1965 · 1h 43m · US
A reporter doing a story on a Christian pastor who ministers to troubled teens doesn't realize that his own son is getting mixed up with a disturbed young girl and that both of them are headed for trouble.


Della
1964 · 1h 8m · US
Della Chappell is a very wealthy and incredibly reclusive woman. When a big company wants to develop some land that Della owns, the town sends out Barney Stafford to talk to her. She invites Barney over to negotiate the proposal. Barney soon takes a liking to Della's equally reclusive daughter Jenny Chappell. After spending some time with Jenny, he realizes that Della has a dark secret, one that keeps them from the outside world.


Ethan
1964 · 1h 31m · US
Ethan, a missionary priest in the Phillipines, falls in love and falls from grace. He sinks into a world of alcohol, loneliness and self-doubt, but dies a hero fighting for the life of the woman he loved.


Hero's Island
1962 · 1h 34m · US
A family shipwrecked on an island must deal with escaped convicts and pirates.


The Broken Land
1962 · 1h · US
A cowboy rides into a small town that is ruled with an iron fist by a corrupt sheriff. He becomes involved with a pretty young town girl and some residents who are trying to oust the sheriff, resulting in a robbery, a murder and his being pursued by a vengeful posse.


Look in Any Window
1961 · 1h 27m · US
A teenager's parents finally realize how bad their home life is when their son is arrested for prowling.


Young Jesse James
1960 · 1h 13m · US
When Missouri farm boy Jesse James witnesses the lynching of his father by the Yankees, he forsakes his family's homestead to find his brother Frank, a soldier in Quantrill's Raiders, a renegade band of Confederates. Bent on revenge, Jesse begs to join the raiders.


5 Against the House
1955 · 1h 24m · US
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.


Captain Fathom
1955 · 26m · US
While traveling in enemy waters, Captain Fathom and his crew detect an anomalous reading of radioactivity. The submariners investigate and discover a huge bomb lying on the ocean bottom. While Fathom fastens an explosive to destroy the atomic device, his ship is attacked by an enemy submarine. He orders the vessel to flee leaving the Captain and his team of scuba divers behind with a dwindling supply of oxygen in their tanks.