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Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging (1977)
Character: Editor
A California rancher hires a private detective to deliver the rancher's long-lost daughter to him. However, several people, including the rancher's new wife, his foreman and a crooked sheriff, don't want the girl--who would inherit the rancher's large spread if he died--to make it to the ranch alive.
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The Gun (1974)
Character: Howie
The odyssey of an American handgun and the dramatic way it reshapes the lives of its various owners.
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Louis Armstrong: Chicago Style (1976)
Character: N/A
The story of how jazz great Louis Armstrong got his start playing in Chicago clubs, how he was framed on a drug charge, and his travels throughout Europe, where he first gained worldwide fame.
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Senior Year (1974)
Character: Dr. Arnold
Pilot for the short-lived series "Sons and Daughters" set in a high school in the 1950's and seen through the eyes of five carefree seniors.
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Tail Gunner Joe (1977)
Character: Speaker
Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President.
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Secrets of a Mother and Daughter (1983)
Character: Jimbo - the Barman
A widowed mother, Ava Pryce (Katharine Ross) and daughter Susan Decker (Linda Hamilton) clash over the same man, a West Coast restaurant the owner named Alex Shepherd (Michael Nouri).
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Brimstone, the Amish Horse (1968)
Character: N/A
An Amish minister buys a crippled championship steeplechase horse and nurses him back to health. But the horse has not lost his yearning for the racetrack, a trait not appreciated in the strict Amish world.
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Foster & Laurie (1975)
Character: Commissioner
The story of two New York City police officers, one white and one black, their ambush and murder by black revolutionaries and the efforts to hunt down and capture their killers.
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Rehearsal for Murder (1982)
Character: Ernie
A year after his fiancée's death, a playwright schedules a rehearsal for his new play, which proves to be a trap for her killer.
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Desperate Characters (1971)
Character: Man on Subway
Sophie and Otto Bentwood are a middle-aged, middle class, childless Brooklyn Heights couple trapped in a loveless marriage. He is an attorney, she a translator of books. Their existence is affected not only by their disintegrating relationship but by the threats of urban crime and vandalism that surround them everywhere they turn, leaving them feeling paranoid, scared, and desperately helpless.
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Say Yes (1986)
Character: Annie's Grandfather
A wealthy man leaves all his money to his grandson on the condition that he marries within 24 hours. If not the money will go to the boy's father...
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World in My Corner (1956)
Character: Nelson
A scrappy fighter from Jersey City named Tommy Shea -- "born in a dump, educated in an alley" -- catches the eye of wealthy businessman, Robert Mallinson, who allows him to train at his Long Island estate. Shea soon falls for Mallinson's daughter, Dorothy, but fears he doesn't have the money to support her in proper style. To get this money, Shea decides to work with crooked fight-promoter Harry Cram, even though this means dropping his honest manager, Dave Bernstein. As the big fight approaches, however, Shea begins to have second thoughts.
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Damn Yankees (1967)
Character: Commissioner
Joe Boyd, an aging Washington Senators fan, would sell his soul for the Senators to beat the New York Yankees and win the pennant. Enter Mr. Applegate, who offers to turn Boyd into Joe Hardy, a powerful young baseball player, in exchange for his soul. When Boyd agrees, he becomes Hardy and leads the Senators on a winning streak. When he starts to miss his wife, though, and questions the deal, Applegate sends temptress Lola into the mix.
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The Exorcist (1973)
Character: Bishop Michael
When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.
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