Known for Camera
Born
January 1, 1935
Died
December 1, 2008 (age 73)
Birthplace
Lubbock, Texas, USA
Filmography
28 films, 4 shows


Moment of Truth: Cradle of Conspiracy
1994 · 1h 36m · US
Kristin (Danica McKellar), daughter of upper middle class parents, can hardly stand the immense pressure to fulfill her mother's (Dee Wallace Stone) dream of success in sports and high school. In this tense situation she gets emotional support by Kenny, who secretly plans to make her pregnant and sell the baby for adoption. Based on a true story.


Moonwalker
1988 · 1h 33m · US
This fantastical movie inspired by the music of Michael Jackson features imaginative interpretations of hit tracks from the iconic 1987 album “Bad”.


Destination: America
1987 · 1h 35m · US
A patrician family's estranged, black-sheep son forsakes his blue-collar life to return home and soon finds himself wrongly accused of his father's murder, with his old childhood friend determined to convict him. Pilot to a prospective TV series.


The Making of Captain EO
1986 · 48m · US
Documentary of the making of Michael Jackson's Captain EO film for the Disney theme parks.


Club Med
1986 · 1h 40m · US
Various romantic entanglements occur among the week's visitors to a Club Med resort in Ixtapa, Mexico. The "chef du village" is shocked when a former lover turns up, and must also cope with the troubled son of a close pilot friend killed on a rescue flight.


16 Days of Glory
1985 · 4h 45m · US
The definitive photographic record of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, told "from the inside" through the lives of the participants, the words of David Perry, and the singing voice of Placido Domingo. From the opening to closing ceremonies, this unique style of storytelling shows a side of the Olympic Games not seen by television audiences.


Generation
1985 · 1h 36m · US
Futuristic prospective series pilot, a distant cousin the 1975 theatrical violent sport movie "Rollerball," revolves around a turn-of-the-millennium family on the Great Eve (the night before the year 2000 begins) planning for a reunion. Son Richard Beymer is an inventor working with prosthetic devices to help young athlete brother Drake Hogestyn perfect his game of combat hockey to maintain his skills as a national hero, and Cristina Raines is a socially conscious doctor who wants nothing to do with their prideful father, Bert Remsen, to the distress of their loving mother, Priscilla Pointer.


The Hoboken Chicken Emergency
1984 · 58m · US
Arthur is asked to pick up a bird for Thanksgiving dinner, so he brings home a 266-pound chicken named Henrietta. The family welcome her with open arms, but the neighbors are not so sure and then Henrietta escapes.


Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper
1984 · 1h 32m · US
Miami detective Sonny Crockett reluctantly teams with New York City cop Rico Tubbs when both of them end up pursuing a drug dealer who killed their respective partners.


Packin' It In
1983 · 1h 35m · US
In quest of a wholesome place to live: at first the Webbers laugh at their neighbors when they leave L.A. for the mountains of Oregon. But when they recognize the same symptoms in their family that made the neighbors leave, they follow them. However their new domicile is a bit more apart from the civilization than expected. Even then it's not a paradise: their neighbors are weird, the next shop is miles away and their house lacks even the most basic comfort. How long will it take until they're packin' it in again?


Americana
1981 · 1h 31m · US
In a small town in rural Kansas, a troubled veteran attempts to restore an old merry-go-round ride.


High Ice
1980 · 1h 44m · US
A grizzled veteran forest ranger finds himself in conflict with a decisive but impatient Army Search and Rescue officer who does not want to share command of an operation to rescue several stranded weekend climbers from a mountain ledge.


The Gathering, Part II
1979 · 1h 37m · US
Two Christmases have passed and widow Kate Thornton has taken over Thornton Industries and is wooed by a courtly financier.


The Gift
1979 · 1h 40m · US
A sailor on Christmas leave visits his boozing, one-legged father and dreamer mother in 1950s Brooklyn.


Hart to Hart
1979 · 1h 36m · US
In this pilot film, a friend of Jonathan Hart's is killed in a motor accident just after he has left a health farm, apparently committing suicide. There was no warning of him being troubled so the Harts go undercover to find out what happened at the farm.


It's a Mile from Here to Glory
1978 · 46m · US
A high school track star is involved in a life-threatening accident and now must learn to depend on others for his day-to-day living.


The Kentucky Fried Movie
1977 · 1h 23m · US
A series of loosely connected skits that spoof news programs, commercials, porno films, kung-fu films, disaster films, blaxploitation films, spy films, mafia films, and the fear that somebody is watching you on the other side of the TV.


Cracking Up
1977 · 1h 9m · US
What would happen if a 9.7 magnitude earthquake were to strike the L.A. area? This is what "Cracking Up" looks at from the lighter side. The movie is composed of individual skits of original material by the actors spun around this hypothetical disaster.


Danger in Paradise
1977 · 1h 40m · US
A young man has to battle his greedy stepmother for control of his father's huge estate.


Revenge for a Rape
1976 · 1h 40m · US
When three men attack and rape a man's wife while on a camping trip, he takes it upon himself to hunt them down.


You and Me
1975 · 1h 33m · US
A young boy and a biker become friends on the road.


Dead Man on the Run
1975 · 1h 30m · US
A government agent who is investigating a colleague's murder discovers a conspiracy to cover up a political assassination.


Schlock
1973 · 1h 20m · US
A quiet suburb in Southern California is terrorized by a mysterious murderous monster living in a cave. As the bodies pile up -- with incriminating banana peels always near by the crime scene -- a group of teens stumble on the guilty party: a 20-million-year-old Schlockthropus, an ape-like creature with a sense of the absurd.


On Any Sunday
1971 · 1h 36m · US
Documentary on motorcycle racing featuring stars of the sport, including film star Steve McQueen, a racer in his own right.