Known for Acting
Born
February 23, 1924
Died
September 9, 2010 (age 86)
Birthplace
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Filmography
33 films, 26 shows


Audrey's Rain
2003 · 1h 24m · US
Audrey Walker has given up her hopes and dreams, until an ex-love returns to town and helps her realize a second chance at life.


Night at the Golden Eagle
2002 · 1h 27m · US
Two elderly criminals spend their final night in Los Angeles, California at the Golden Eagle Hotel prior to their departure to Las Vegas, Nevada, to lead a life without crime. Unfortunately, on the hottest night of the summer, these two ex-criminals seemingly get caught in the malice of prostitutes, pimps, drunken bums, fighting monkeys, and young runaways.


Killer Bud
2001 · 1h 32m · US
After losing another job, two idiots embark on an adventure of mythic proportion: to acquire "Feed Bags," the discontinued entire-meal-in-a-bag, to impress their two equally dim-witted dates. When the only convenience store in town that carries the discontinued food item is found closed, Waylon and Buzz break in and can't break out.


Sparkler
1997 · 1h 36m
Melba is a Californian trailer-park girl who is told to look for three kings by a phone psychic, and when she meets three guys - Trent, Brad and Joel traveling to Las Vegas, she decides they are those kings and joins them on their trip.


Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders
1996 · 1h 32m · US
Two creepy "horror" films joined together by Merlin's Shop which is, in turn, introduced by a Grandpa telling the story.


Fatal Instinct
1993 · 1h 30m · US
Ned Ravine is a police officer and lawyer who occasionally defends the delinquents he arrests. He crosses paths with seductive Lola Cain during an assignment and promptly begins an affair with her. Meanwhile, Ned's wife, Lana, is deep in an affair of her own. Lana and her lover are planning to murder Ned in an elaborate fashion so they can collect on his triple indemnity life insurance policy.


Russian Holiday
1992 · 1h 29m · US
American tourist Susan runs into trouble when she tries to smuggle precious artifacts out of St Petersburg. The government suspects her and her companions and, to make matters worse, a killer starts stalking her group.


Faith
1990 · 1h 41m · US
Faith is a young dancer, whose parents are killed in a plane crash. Dancing is her refuge, but the streets of Los Angeles can be dangerous for a lonesome woman.


Skinheads
1989 · 1h 30m
A group of students traveling to California are menaced by a vicious group of skin-heads in the Colorado mountains. A WW2 vet living in the mountains comes to their rescue.


The Wrong Guys
1988 · 1h 26m · US
Five former cub scouts have a reunion and go camping on the mountain they never conquered. High jinks ensue due to their childhood enemies and a group of escaped convicts who mistake them for an FBI unit.


Tax Season
1988 · 1h 32m · US
An idealistic and slightly naive accountant buys a tax preparation business in Hollywood. His first big client accidentally gives him an account ledger with details of his cocaine trafficking.


Outrageous Fortune
1987 · 1h 40m · US
Refined actress Lauren Ames finally has a chance to study with the great theatre professor Stanislav Korzenowski. Sandy Brozinsky, a brash, loud actress, decides through happenstance to also study with Korzenowski. The two women end up dating the same man (who turns out to be a double agent) and follow him across the country to force him to choose between them.


From Beyond
1986 · 1h 25m · US
The Resonator, a powerful machine that can control the sixth sense, has killed its creator and sent his associate into an insane asylum. When a psychiatrist becomes determined to continue the experiment, she unwittingly opens the door to a hostile parallel universe.
Sylvan in Paradise
Sylvan in Paradise
1986 · 24m
"Sylvan In Paradise" was a half-hour comedy pilot for NBC that was never picked up for production. It followed the adventures of Sylvan Sprayberry, a bell captain at a resort in Hawaii, as well as the other staff - manager Clinton C. Waddle, the owner of Polly's Puka Gift Shop and bell boy Sparky and his romance with Sylvan's niece.


The Ladies Club
1986 · 1h 25m · US
A policewoman who was raped forms a vigilante group of various rape victims. They abduct and castrate men who have committed repeated violations of women and gotten away with it through legal technicalities.


Second Serve
1986 · 1h 38m · US
Fact-based story about tennis pro Renee Richards, whose player status was challenged in 1976 when it was revealed that she was a trans woman. Flashback to 1964 before she was out as trans, a successful New York doctor with a great lifestyle, a flashy girl friend, and a secret life. Her psychiatrist mother refuses to deal with her and sends her to a colleague who diagnoses with a psychotic gender confusion, which he says can be unlearned. After a failed marriage and parenthood, she comes out as trans, with a new life in California.


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 Last Starfighter
1984 · 1h 41m · US
Video game expert Alex Rogan finds himself transported to another planet after conquering the video game The Last Starfighter, only to find out it was just a test. He was recruited to join the team of best Starfighters to defend their world from the attack.


Weekend Pass
1984 · 1h 29m · US
Four Navy recruits fresh from boot camp graduation in San Diego spend a weekend pass together out on the town in Los Angeles before shipping out for further training.


The Awakening of Candra
1983 · 1h 36m · US
Based on the true-life story of teenage bride Candra Torres who was abducted in 1976 while on a honeymoon camping trip in the High Sierras.


The Kid with the 200 I.Q.
1983 · 1h 36m · US
A 13-year-old genius goes to college and tries to cope not only with campus social life, but also with his professor.


Skeezer
1982 · 1h 36m · US
A nurse-therapist uses her dog to reach emotionally disturbed children where she works.


Choices
1981 · 1h 30m
A popular high school student seems to have it all; a spot on the football team, the love of playing music in the school orchestra and a girlfriend. His world seems to come apart when the school doctor discovers he is partially deaf, causing him to be cut from the football team on the advice of the doctor. The student's friends fight to keep him on the team; while he struggles with his problem by withdrawing from everything he loves and starts falling in with the wrong crowd.


Stand by Your Man
1981 · 1h 35m · US
The rags-to-riches tale of country western queen, Tammy Wynette, from her impoverished childhood to country's First Lady and her two rocky marriages to fellow superstar George Jones, who had been her childhood idol.


Portrait of a Rebel: The Remarkable Mrs. Sanger
1980 · 1h 36m · US
The dramatized biography of Margaret Sanger, the crusader who founded America's first birth control clinic during World War I and was tried in court under obscenity laws.


Diary of a Young Comic
1979 · 1h 7m
A time capsule of the L.A. comedy scene in the 1970s, "Diary of a Young Comic" casts Richard Lewis as a fictionalized version of himself - a young New York comic who comes out to Los Angeles to seek his fame and fortune.


Jokes My Folks Never Told Me
1978 · 1h 22m · US
Most viewers have probably heard a great portion of these racy knee-slappers before. The film is little more than a series of blackouts, concentrating on anatomical humor. And oh, yes: there's lots of buxom females.


The World's Greatest Lover
1977 · 1h 29m · US
When frustrated movie studio mogul Adolph Zitz announces a talent search for a romantic leading man to rival the great Rudolph Valentino, thousands of hopefuls decend upon Hollywood. Rudy Valentine, a neurotic baker from Milwaukee, knows little about romance or acting. But when his wife leaves him for the real Valentino, Rudy goes to outrageous lengths to win the role of a lifetime and win back the love of his life.


The Good Good Good Good Good Life
1974 · 10m · US
A consumerist family tries to sway one of their members to take part in mass consumption.


Fuzz
1972 · 1h 33m · US
Police in Boston search for a mad bomber trying to extort money from the city.


Doctors' Wives
1971 · 1h 42m · US
The wives of several high-powered doctors feel neglected due to their husbands' focus on their careers, so they embark on a regimen of sex, drugs and booze.


You Haven't Changed a Bit
1970 · 15m
A couple fights, then go on separate vacations with to their parents.


The Love God?
1969 · 1h 41m · US
Ornithologist Abner Peacock sells off his modest-selling birdwatching periodical to a charlatan who turns it into a girlie mag, making it a massive financial success. After Peacock and the magazine are taken to court on obscenity charges, he unwillingly becomes a reluctant hero and ends up a swinging libertine.