Known for Acting
Noble Henry Willingham, Jr. (August 31, 1931 – January 17, 2004) was an American actor who appeared in more than thirty films and in many television shows. He was best known for his role as C.D. Parker on the television series Walker, Texas Ranger. His many other TV credits include guest appearances on Bonanza, Gunsmoke, The Waltons, Mary Tyler Moore, The Rockford Files, Alice, Dallas, CHiPs, The Dukes of Hazzard, The A-Team, L.A. Law, Home Improvement, and Murder, She Wrote. He also co-starred with Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell in a 1991 episode of Quantum Leap.
Born
August 31, 1931
Died
January 17, 2004 (age 72)
Birthplace
Mineola, Texas, USA
Filmography
70 films, 35 shows


Blind Horizon
2003 · 1h 39m
country: United States
Left for dead in the remote Southwest, Frank is found clinging to life and in a state of amnesia. As he recovers, ominous memories begin to flash back...


The Corndog Man
1999 · 1h 23m
country: Unknown
A foul-mouthed and bigoted boat salesman in rural South Carolina is targeted for ruthless and never-ending telephone terrorism by a mysterious man claiming to be his son...


Up Close & Personal
1996 · 1h 59m
country: United States
Tally Atwater has a dream: to be a prime-time network newscaster. She pursues this dream with nothing but ambition, raw talent and a homemade demo tape. Warren Justice is a brilliant, hard edged, veteran newsman. He sees Tally has talent and becomes her mentor. Tally’s career takes a meteoric rise and she and Warren fall in love. The romance that results is as intense and revealing as television news itself. Yet, each breaking story, every videotaped crisis that brings them together, also threatens to drive them apart...


City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
1994 · 1h 56m
country: United States
Mitch Robbins' 40th birthday begins quite well until he returns home and finds his brother Glen, the black sheep of the family, in his sofa. Nevertheless he is about to have a wonderful birthday-night with his wife when he discovers a treasure map of Curly by chance. Together with Phil and unfortunately Glen he tries to find the hidden gold of Curly's father in the desert of Arizona.


Walker Texas Ranger 3: Deadly Reunion
1994 · 1h 28m
country: Unknown
An experienced member of Texas Rangers, a special police unit, arrives to compete in a pistol shooting tournament, but so does a hitman who's planing to assassinate a US senator who will be among the spectators.


The Hudsucker Proxy
1994 · 1h 51m
country: United Kingdom
A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.


Guarding Tess
1994 · 1h 36m
country: United States
Doug is a Secret Service Agent who has just completed his stint in charge protecting Tess Carlisle—the widow of a former U.S. President, and a close personal friend of the current President. He finds that she has requested that he not be rotated but instead return to be her permanent detail. Doug is crushed, and—after returning—wants off her detail as she is very difficult to guard and makes her detail crazy with her whims and demands.


Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
1994 · 1h 26m
country: United States
He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. The Ace is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to eyeball with a man-eating shark, stakes out the Miami Dolphins and woos and wows the ladies. Whether he's undercover, under fire or underwater, he always gets his man… or beast!


Men Don't Tell
1993 · 1h 35m
country: United States
This movie shows another side to spousal abuse that not too many people thought is possible--the husband being abused and the wife the abuser.


Fire in the Sky
1993 · 1h 49m
country: United States
After clearing brush for the government, a group of men return to town claiming their friend was abducted. Despite no apparent motive or evidence of foul play, no-one believes their story and his disappearance is treated as murder.


The Distinguished Gentleman
1992 · 1h 52m
country: United States
A Florida con man uses the recent death of the long time Congressman from his district, who he just happens to share a last name with, to get elected to his version of paradise, the U.S. Congress, where the money flows from lobbyists.


Of Mice and Men
1992 · 1h 51m
country: United States
Two drifters, one a gentle but slow giant, try to make money working the fields during the Depression so they can fulfill their dreams.


Article 99
1992 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Dr. Richard Sturgess leads a team of compassionate doctors at a veteran's hospital. Along with Drs. Morgan, Handleman and Van Dorn, he fights to deliver adequate care to needy veterans in the face of funding cuts and a corrupt administration. To succeed, the staff may have to bend the rules and circumvent the villainous "Article 99," a bureaucratic loophole that prevents veterans from receiving the benefits they deserve.


Woman With a Past
1992 · 1h 35m
country: United States
A woman lives a normal life with her second husband and her two sons of the first marriage. One day she is caught by her past and the film reveales in flashbacks her stations of life until the day the police found her in her new life: First marriage, alcohol addiction, robberies, prison, escape from prison, search for work, second marriage, fight for the children,... In the end she has not only to fight for her freedom but also for the respect and love of her betrayed children and husband.


The Last Boy Scout
1991 · 1h 45m
country: United States
Somewhere in Los Angeles, the city of broken dreams, a stripper is murdered. Now, the private detective she had hired and her ex-footballer boyfriend are going to find her murderer... if they don't kill each other first. But the more they dig, the deeper they become enmeshed in a web of extortion, blackmail and corrupt politics hidden beneath the surface of professional football.


Sweet Poison
1991 · 1h 40m
country: United States
A convict on the run from the law kidnaps a couple who are on their way to a funeral. He finds that he got more than he bargained for when he realizes the man's sexy wife is falling for him.


City Slickers
1991 · 1h 54m
country: United States
Three New York businessmen decide to take a "Wild West" vacation that turns out not to be the relaxing vacation they had envisioned.


Career Opportunities
1991 · 1h 23m
country: United States
After falling asleep in a Target dressing room, an unhappy heiress wakes up locked inside the store overnight with a local slacker and notorious liar, leading the two unlikely companions to bond over their shared desire to escape their lives.


Pastime
1990 · 1h 34m
country: United States
A veteran minor league pitcher in 1957 tutors a young phenomenon.


The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson
1990 · 1h 40m
country: United States
A film about the early life of the baseball star in the army, particulary his court-martial for insubordination regarding segragation.


The Heist
1989 · 1h 37m
country: United States
Ex-con Neal Skinner seeks revenge against track owner Ebbet Berens for framing him in an emerald smuggling deal.


Blind Fury
1989 · 1h 26m
country: United States
A blind Vietnam vet, trained as a swordfighter, comes to America and helps to rescue the son of a fellow soldier.


The Road Raiders
1989 · 1h 36m
country: United States
Filled with anachronisms and rip offs from "The 'A' Team" and "The Dirty Dozen" - It's 1942 in Manila and an American saloon owner organizes a misfit group to fight in WWII.


Unconquered
1989 · 1h 53m
country: United States
In 1962 in Montgomery, Alabama, State Attorney Richmond Flowers, Sr. is one of few willing to fight racial injustices even if it costs him his family's peace.
Quiet Victory: The Charlie Wedemeyer Story
Quiet Victory: The Charlie Wedemeyer Story
1988 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Film that tells the story of Los Gatos (California) high school football coach Charlie Wedemeyer. At 31, onetime football pro Wedemeyer is living the American dream; a winning team, a happy marriage and public adulation.


A Stoning in Fulham County
1988 · 2h
country: United States
Religious beliefs clash with the law when an Amish infant is killed in a rural community.


Shooter
1988 · 1h 40m
country: Unknown
"Shooter" (a.k.a., Matt Thompson, a.k.a., Gruwald) is a photographer in 1967 Saigon, Vietnam. Working out of a news agency for a major magazine, Thompson gets involved in the lives of the soldiers he meets and "shoots." There's Ngoc, the Vietnamese photo lab tech; Klause, a German photographer swiping Buddhas; Rene, a French photographer who carries an AK-47; Stork, Matt's superstitious roommate who is also a photographer; Rizzo, the irascible editor; Lan, an American-educated Vietnamese reporter; and Tracey, an embassy worker who is Matt's former flame.


Splash, Too
1988 · 1h 27m
country: United States
A sequel to the popular romantic mermaid drama, in which Allen and Madison return to New York - one to save his business, the other to save a Dolphin in captivity. You can guess which does which.


Longarm
1988 · 1h 13m
country: United States
A showdown is staged between a U.S. deputy marshal and the outlaw gang that raised him in the New Mexico Territory of 1887.


Good Morning, Vietnam
1987 · 2h 1m
country: United States
A disk jockey goes to Vietnam to work for the Armed Forces Radio Service. While he becomes popular among the troops, his superiors disapprove of his humor.


The Alamo: Thirteen Days to Glory
1987 · 2h 20m
country: United States
Against orders and with no help of relief Texas patriots led by William Travis, Jim Bowie, and Davy Crockett defend the Alamo against overwhelming Mexican forces.


Born in East L.A.
1987 · 1h 24m
country: United States
Rudy, an American of Hispanic descent, whose south-of-the-border looks show him no mercy during an immigration raid in a migrant worker factory. As his luck goes, he is caught with neither money nor his ID and is deported to Mexico - without speaking a word of Spanish!


La Bamba
1987 · 1h 48m
country: United States
Los Angeles teenager Ritchie Valens becomes an overnight rock 'n' roll success in 1958, thanks to a love ballad called "Donna" that he wrote for his girlfriend. But as his star rises, Valens has conflicts with his jealous brother, Bob, and becomes haunted by a recurring nightmare of a plane crash just as he begins his first national tour alongside Buddy Holly.


Summer Heat
1987 · 1h 20m
country: United States
The young wife of a tobacco farmer falls in love with their handsome hired hand.


Badge of the Assassin
1985 · 1h 36m
country: United States
Three black revolutionaries gun down two New York City police officers. The subsequent investigation puts a white assistant DA and a black police detective on the trail of the killers that leads from New York to San Francisco and down to New Orleans.


Living Proof: The Hank Williams Jr. Story
1983 · 1h 29m
country: United States
TV movie based on the singer's life, under his mother's thumb, competing with the ghost of one of the most famous singers in C&W music history, and aspiring to rise above it all.


Independence Day
1983 · 1h 50m
country: United States
Mary Ann Taylor loves the comforts of her hometown in Mercury, Texas. She has a steady job as a waitress in her father's diner, yet she can't help but feel unfulfilled by a life of pouring coffee and grilling hamburgers. Her real passion is photography, but pursuing her dream of becoming a photographer means leaving Mercury behind.


Missing Children: A Mother's Story
1982 · 1h 32m
country: United States
A young mother hands her children into what she thinks is a childcare center while she finds a new home, but returns to find that they have been adopted out without her knowledge.


The Children Nobody Wanted
1981 · 1h 40m
country: United States
True story of Tom Butterfield and his crusade to provide family life for homeless children, becoming not only the first bachelor caretaker, but the youngest single adult to become a legal foster parent in the state of Missouri.


Coward of the County
1981 · 1h 35m
country: United States
A lifelong yellow-belly who made a deathbed promise to his father to be a pacifist seeks bloody revenge on the men who gang-raped his wife.


First Monday in October
1981 · 1h 38m
country: United States
For the first time in history a woman is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, where she becomes a friendly rival to a liberal associate.


Harry's War
1981 · 1h 38m
country: United States
After his aunt dies of a heart attack while fighting the IRS, Harry Johnson decides to take up the cause.


The Howling
1981 · 1h 31m
country: United States
After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.


The Georgia Peaches
1980 · 1h 40m
country: United States
A Southern gal who runs her family's auto repair shop, her aspiring country singer sister, and their stock-car racing friend who runs moonshine on the side are conned into working as government undercover agents to track down a dangerous criminal in this pilot to a prospective series.


Brubaker
1980 · 2h 11m
country: United States
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.


The Gambler
1980 · 1h 34m
country: United States
This Western adventure, inspired by Kenny Rogers' hit song, tells how fictional gambler Brady Hawkes, going in search of a young son he never knew he had, teams up with an impetuous young admirer and a shady lady on his journey, which also involves him with an arrogant railroad owner and a gang of villains.


Butch and Sundance: The Early Days
1979 · 1h 51m
country: United States
Before the adventures that made them legends, they were charming mastermind Robert Leroy Parker, alias Butch Cassidy, and crack-shot outlaw Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, soon to be known as The Sundance Kid. This is the 'prequel' of how they met, their first clumsy robberies, the heroic dangers that abound them together, the secret that nearly tore them apart, and the impossible train heist that made them notorious for life. Saddle up and ride with the showdowns, shootouts, bad guys and good times in the days before the fame when fun was the name of the game.


Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider
1979 · 1h 38m
country: United States
A World War I deserter competes in the first long-distance motorcycle race.


Norma Rae
1979 · 1h 50m
country: United States
Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. Together, they undertake the difficult, and possibly dangerous, struggle to unionize her factory.


Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story
1979 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Based on the life of Kitty O'Neil, a young girl who overcame her deafness to become one of the top stuntwomen in Hollywood, and the holder of the women's land-speed record for driving a rocket-powered racing car.


Just Me and You
1978 · 1h 40m
country: United States
A salesman travels cross country with a quirky New Yorker.


Cindy
1978 · 1h 38m
country: United States
A revisionist twist on Cinderella with an all-black cast and set in Harlem during WWII. Cindy is a country bumpkin who moves from South Carolina to live with her father and his new family. When her stepmother and two stepsisters refuse to take her to the Sugar Hill Ball, her draft-dodging, chauffeur neighbor whips up a little "magic" and at the ball she catches the eye of the richest man in Harlem.


Thaddeus Rose and Eddie
1978 · 1h 40m
country: United States
The adventures of two good old boys from Texas, no-account buddies who are finally forced to face reality for themselves and for their girlfriends.


The Boys in Company C
1978 · 2h 5m
country: Hong Kong
Disheartened by futile combat, appalled by the corruption of their South Vietnamese ally, and constantly endangered by the incompetence of their own company commander, the young men find a possible way out of the war. They are told that if they purposely lose a soccer game against a South Vietnamese team, they can spend the rest of their tour playing exhibition games behind the lines.


Greased Lightning
1977 · 1h 36m
country: United States
The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper-tier NASCAR race.
Liza’s Pioneer Diary
Liza’s Pioneer Diary
1976 · 1h 27m
country: United States
The story of a gentle, unsure young woman who grows in maturity and self-reliance as she travels across the American plains in 1848 in a wagon train with her young husband and his family.


Fighting Mad
1976 · 1h 30m
country: United States
An evil corporation tries to pressure a bunch of Arkansas farmers and ranchers to sell their land so they can strip-mine it for coal. The fiercely proud and stubborn Hunter family refuse to give in. This leads to a bitter conflict that results in several casualties. Eventually the take-charge no-nonsense Tom Hunter exacts a harsh revenge on the villains with the help of his bow and arrow.


Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York
1975 · 1h 53m
country: United States
Sheila Levine – an innovative, bright, but painfully introverted individual – arrives in New York City to take an apartment with a partygoing roommate. There, she experiences love and heartache in equal measure.


Aloha Bobby and Rose
1975 · 1h 28m
country: United States
Bobby and Rose, two youngsters who are in love, have to run away from home when they are falsely accused to have committed a robbery and an assassination.


Black Bart
1975 · 24m
country: United States
A television series titled Black Bart was produced for CBS based on Andrew Bergman's original story for Blazing Saddles (Black Bart was the movie's original title). It featured Lou Gossett, Jr. as Bart and Steve Landesberg as his drunkard sidekick, a former Confederate officer named "Reb Jordan". The Humour was much more toned down than it's feature film predecessor Other cast members included Millie Slavin and Noble Willingham. Bergman is listed as the sole creator. CBS aired the pilot once on April 4, 1975 as a CBS Special Presentation. The pilot featured guest appearances by Gerrit Graham and Brooke Adams and was written by Michael Elias and Rich Eustis. Elias and Eutis later created and executive produced the ABC sitcom Head of the Class (1986-1991).


Where Have All the People Gone
1974 · 1h 14m
country: United States
A strange series of solar flares proves fatal for inhabitants of the Earth, except for the fortunate few who are somehow immune from the effects. Animals go insane and human beings turn to white powder, leaving behind only empty clothing. A handful of survivors attempt to rebuild their lives on the de-populated Earth.


Big Bad Mama
1974 · 1h 24m
country: United States
Circumstances force a mother and her two daughters to get into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country pursued by the law.


Chinatown
1974 · 2h 10m
country: United States
Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.
Evel Knievel
Evel Knievel
1974 · 30m
country: United States
Pilot for an adventure/comedy series starring Sam Elliott as the title character and Gary Barton as his sidekick. In the pilot Evel Knievel must compete against a female motorcycle daredevil.


Sunshine
1973 · 2h 1m
country: United States
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.


Hit!
1973 · 2h 15m
country: United States
A federal agent whose daughter dies of a heroin overdose is determined to destroy the drug ring that supplied her. He recruits various people whose lives have been torn apart by the drug trade and trains them. Then they all leave for France to track down and destroy the ring.


Paper Moon
1973 · 1h 42m
country: United States
During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.


The Girls of Huntington House
1973 · 1h 14m
country: United States
An unmarried teacher in a school for unwed mothers finds herself becoming too emotionally attached to her students and their problems.


The Last Picture Show
1971 · 1h 59m
country: United States
High school seniors and best friends, Sonny and Duane, live in a dying Texas town. The handsome Duane is dating a local beauty, while Sonny is having an affair with the coach's wife. As graduation nears and both boys contemplate their futures, Duane eyes the army and Sonny takes over a local business. Each struggles to figure out if he can escape this dead-end town and build a better life somewhere else.


My Sweet Charlie
1970 · 1h 37m
country: United States
A pregnant white Southern girl and a black New York lawyer, both on the run in rural Texas, meet up in a boarded-up, abandoned house and realize they both need each other in order to survive.