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The Boy and the Bronc Buster (1973)
Character: Brewster
An orphan teen (Vincent Van Patten) follows a rider (Earl Holliman) on the rodeo circuit, unaware his hero is wanted for murder.
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Sitcom: The Adventures of Garry Marshall (1979)
Character: Self
A day-in-the-life documentary with Garry Marshall. Marshall was an executive producer for ABC and was responsible for such hit shows as Laverne and Shirley, Happy Days, and Mork and Mindy. This tape features several behind the scenes segments from these shows' productions. Marshall is also interviewed about the nature of television production and comedy.
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Hog Wild (1974)
Character: Jud
A Chicago man and his family move to an Idaho pig farm, where he's crippled by an angry sow.
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Jennifer: A Woman’s Story (1979)
Character: Wells
The widow of a wealthy shipbuilder tries to hold onto his business and becomes involved with boardroom intrigue in her bitter struggle to maintain control of the company. Based on British TV series "The Foundation." Pilot to a prospective series.
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Senior Year (1974)
Character: Laski
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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Richie Brockelman: The Missing 24 Hours (1976)
Character: Irv
A young private detective takes on his first case, a young woman with amnesia who doesn't know why a gunman is trying to kill her but believes she might be involved in a murder.
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Honky (1971)
Character: N/A
Sheila, an affluent black teenager, begins dating working class white teen Wayne, and asks him for help to sell a kilo of marijuana.
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The Whiz Kid and the Carnival Caper (1976)
Character: Officer Jim Moody
Daffy Fernald loses her brother's toy rocket when it flies into a storm drain. She knows Alvin will be upset if he finds out, so she climbs into the dark tunnel to search for it. She spots a stranger, Ernie Nelson, and sees that he's carying a gun. She races home and tells Alvin, but the would-be inventor refuses to believe her.
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U.S. Marshals: Waco & Rhinehart (1987)
Character: Truck Stop Manager
Two unorthodox, anything-goes law enforcement partners, unencumbered by regulations and the law, search for the killer of a fellow U.S. Marshal in this lighthearted, busted pilot film.
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Help Wanted: Male (1982)
Character: Dr. Merten
An unmarried career woman decides she wants a baby and finds a suitable partner, a sportswriter working for the magazine she publishes. After she maneuvers him into proposing marriage to her, she learns that he happens to be sterile.
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Who Is the Black Dahlia? (1975)
Character: A. Redfield
In 1947 Los Angeles, a police detective tries to solve the shocking and grisly murder of 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short.
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Jigsaw (1972)
Character: Deputy Sheriff Coley
In this pilot for the 1972-73 series, a detective specializing in missing persons cases finds himself accused of murder after being found unconscious in the apartment of a slain state official.
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Gone Are the Dayes (1984)
Character: Cook
After the Days family witnesses a gang shooting in a Japanese restaurant, the police persuades them to testify against mobster Delgado. Detective Mitchell gets the job to hide the four until the trial. But how shall he keep two nervous adults and their two teenage kids under control?
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Return of the Big Cat (1974)
Character: Hunk Purdy
A boy, Leroy McClaren, trains a wild dog to hunt the cougar that has been threatening the family.
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Hanging by a Thread (1979)
Character: Jim Croft
A group of old friends on an outing re-live various traumas and tragedies via flashback whilst trapped high above a ravine in a disabled cable-car.
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Ride a Northbound Horse (1969)
Character: Macklin
Fifteen-year-old Cav Rand purchases a racehorse and trains him into a winner, but a con artist is plotting to get the stallion away from the innocent Cav.
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Cop on the Beat (1975)
Character: Patrol Lieutenant
An aging street cop goes after a gang of toughs involved in several robbery-rapes on his beat in this pilot (a spin-off from "Police Story") for the 1975-76 series. The veteran cop concept also was the basis for "The Blue Knight" series at the same time — and that, too, was based on a Joseph Wambaugh creation. Also known as "The Return of Joe Forrester."
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Mackintosh and T.J. (1975)
Character: Donkin
Roy is a ranch hand and a drifter. He takes a young man into his care and helps him to grow up.
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Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic (1975)
Character: N/A
Finding herself unable to cope with the divorce of her parents and the stress of daily life, 15-year-old Sarah Travis starts drinking in secret. At first, alcohol provides comfort and release. Then it sends her life spiraling out of control.
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The Hindenburg (1975)
Character: Knorr
Colonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of security. As he races against the clock to uncover a possible saboteur aboard the doomed zeppelin he finds that any of the passengers and crew could be the culprit.
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Betrayal (1974)
Character: Police Sergeant
Wealthy widow Helen Mercer hires a young woman, Gretchen Addison, to act as her personal assistant and companion. Unfortunately, Helen is a poor judge of character, as Gretchen is part of a murderous extortionist duo with her boyfriend, Jay. However, Gretchen has second thoughts when she develops genuine affection for Helen. When Gretchen informs Jay that she wants to call off their plot, he refuses and carries on with the plan. Now both Helen and Gretchen may be in grave danger.
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The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982)
Character: Sheriff Chapman
When a Conservative TV crusader threatens to shut down beloved brothel, the Chicken Ranch, proprietress Miss Mona Stangley and her girls won't go down without a fight.
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The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979)
Character: Hank Starrett
Amos and Theodore, the two bumbling outlaw wannabes from The Apple Dumpling Gang, are back and trying to make it on their own. This time, the crazy duo gets involved in an army supply theft case -- and, of course, gets in lots of comic trouble along the way!
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Nickelodeon (1976)
Character: Stoneman
In the silent film era, attorney Leo Harrigan and gunslinger Buck Greenway are hired to stop an illegal film production. However, they soon team up with the filmmakers and become important players in the show business industry. Leo learns he has a talent for directing, and Buck's cowboy persona quickly earns him leading-man status — but both men fall for beautiful starlet Kathleen Cooke, leading to a heated personal rivalry.
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Deadhead Miles (1972)
Character: 1st Scale House Cop
A long-distance trucker, dressed like a sea captain, aimlessly sails the American highways in his 18 wheeler mumbling manic, southern accented non sequiturs; carnivalizing roadside stops and happenstance towns while out-weirding cops and weigh stations with his new cryptic, over-coated hitchhiker buddy.
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The Mad Bomber (1973)
Character: Police Chief Marc C. Forester
Los Angeles detectives Minelli and Blake must track down a serial rapist who may know the identity of a mentally disturbed bomber.
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The Culpepper Cattle Co. (1972)
Character: Tascosa Bartender
Working as an assistant on a long cattle drive, the young Ben Mockridge contends between his dream of being a cowboy and the harsh truth of the Old West.
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40 Guns to Apache Pass (1967)
Character: Barrett
The Apaches are on the warpath and the Army must defend them. Murphy's mission is to get a shipment of rifles, but it's stolen by greedy white traders with the help of mutinous soldiers
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Airport 1975 (1974)
Character: Mechanic (uncredited)
When an in-flight collision incapacitates the pilots of an airplane bound for Los Angeles, stewardess Nancy Pryor is forced to take over the controls. From the ground, her boyfriend Alan Murdock, a retired test pilot, tries to talk her through piloting and landing the 747 aircraft. Worse yet, the anxious passengers — among which are a noisy nun and a cranky man — are aggravating the already tense atmosphere.
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Wild Rovers (1971)
Character: Tucson Sheriff
Ross Bodine and Frank Post are cowhands on Walt Buckman's R-Bar-R ranch. Bodine is older and broods a bit about how he will get along when he's too old to cowboy. Post is young and rambunctious and ambitious for a better life than wrangling cows. When one of their fellow cowboys is killed in a corral accident, Post suggests a way into a better life for himself and his friend: robbing a bank. Bodine reluctantly joins in the plan and the two contrive to rob the local bank. They make good their escape initially, but Walt Buckman and his two sons, John and Paul, are incensed at this betrayal by their own trusted employees. John and Paul set out to bring Bodine and Post to justice.
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Viva Max! (1969)
Character: Customs Guard Collins
In order to prove his greatness to his unimpressed girlfriend, Mexican general Max takes a group of men across the border and recaptures the Alamo - international hijinks ensue!
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The Domino Principle (1977)
Character: Schnaible
Roy Tucker, a Vietnam war veteran with excellent shooting skills, is serving a long prison sentence when a mysterious visitor promises him that he will be released if he agrees to carry out a dangerous assignment.
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Monte Walsh (1970)
Character: Skimpy Eagans
Monte Walsh is an aging cowboy facing the ending days of the Wild West era. As barbed wire and railways steadily eliminate the need for the cowboy, Monte and his friends are left with fewer and fewer options. New work opportunities are available to them, but the freedom of the open prarie is what they long for. Eventually, they all must say goodbye to the lives they knew, and try to make a new start.
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Oklahoma Crude (1973)
Character: Wobbly
In 1913, in Oklahoma, oil derrick owner Lena Doyle, aided by her father and a hobo, is stubbornly drilling for oil despite the pressure from major oil companies to sell her land.
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The Memory of Eva Ryker (1980)
Character: Lt. Galbraith
A young woman has spent her life tormented by the death of her mother, who was on a ship torpedoed during World War II. When her father hires an investigator to look into the circumstances of the mother's death 30 years prior, it triggers a new rash of emotional turmoil for the young woman and uncovers a heinous crime.
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The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
Character: Marvin
Young businessman Thomas Crown is bored and decides to plan a robbery and assigns a professional agent with the right information to the job. However, Crown is soon betrayed yet cannot blow his cover because he’s in love.
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The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981)
Character: Dale Wesley Stillwell
When the young Texas Ranger, John Reid, is the sole survivor of an ambush arranged by the militaristic outlaw leader, Butch Cavendich, he is rescued by an old childhood Comanche friend, Tonto. When he recovers from his wounds, he dedicates his life to fighting the evil that Cavendich represents. To this end, John Reid becomes the great masked western hero, The Lone Ranger. With the help of Tonto, the pair go to rescue President Grant when Cavendich takes him hostage.
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The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981)
Character: Dale Wesley Stillwell (Cavendish gang)
When the young Texas Ranger, John Reid, is the sole survivor of an ambush arranged by the militaristic outlaw leader, Butch Cavendich, he is rescued by an old childhood Comanche friend, Tonto. When he recovers from his wounds, he dedicates his life to fighting the evil that Cavendich represents. To this end, John Reid becomes the great masked western hero, The Lone Ranger. With the help of Tonto, the pair go to rescue President Grant when Cavendich takes him hostage.
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The Night the Bridge Fell Down (1980)
Character: Police Chief
A group of random individuals get stranded on a bridge that begins collapsing at both ends. Not only that, but there's a gun-wielding bank robber using the bridge as his means of escape refusing to let any of the rescuers draw near the survivors. Time is running out ...
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The Parallax View (1974)
Character: Schecter - Hotel Clerk
An ambitious reporter gets in trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.
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Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (1975)
Character: Gas Station Owner
Hapless driving instructor and former Gunnery Sergeant Rafferty, living in squalor near Hollywood, California, doesn't put up too much of a fight when two ladies hitch a ride and attempt to kidnap him in their attempt to get to New Orleans; while initially put off, Rafferty finds he's charmed by the kooky pair of misfits and the three of them drive to Las Vegas, Nevada and later Tucson, Arizona, where their bond eventually unravels.
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The Rockford Files: Backlash of the Hunter (1974)
Character: Norm Mitchell
The hit 1974 series pilot aired on NBC March 27, 1974, as a 90-minute made-for-television movie. In the pilot, Lindsay Wagner also starred and later made a return appearance. The pilot was titled Backlash of the Hunter for syndication.
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Murphy's Romance (1985)
Character: Auctioneer
Emma, a divorced single mother seeking to start her life over, moves to a small town in Arizona. She befriends Murphy, the older local pharmacist, but things turn complicated when her ex-husband shows up.
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Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster? (1971)
Character: Lucas, Coyle's Crony
An alcoholic drifter decides to run for sheriff in a small town. However, in order to get elected, he must find out who killed a visiting preacher.
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Bad Company (1972)
Character: N/A
After Drew Dixon, an upright young man, is sent west by his religious family to avoid being drafted into the Civil War, he drifts across the land with a loose confederation of young vagrants.
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Are You in the House Alone? (1978)
Character: Billy
An average high school girl's life is turned upside down after she is attacked and savagely assaulted. When a mysterious person begins leaving her threatening messages and making unsettling phone calls, Gail realizes that the nightmare is only just beginning...
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Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
Character: Roy
Private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by ex-con Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend, a former lounge dancer. While also investigating the murder of a client and the theft of a jade necklace, Marlowe becomes entangled with seductress Helen Grayle and discovers a web of dark secrets that are better left hidden.
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B.J. and the Bear (1978)
Character: First Sheriff
In this pilot film, B.J. McKay, a guitar-playing independent trucker who travels with a fun-loving chimpanzee named Bear, finds himself caught up with a bunch of young women trying to flee a white slaver who happens to be the local sheriff.
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Wake Me When the War Is Over (1969)
Character: German Soldier
During the latter days of WWII an American Lieutenant accidentally falls out of an airplane into German territory. He is taken in by a Baroness who becomes smitten with him and doesn't want him to leave, so she doesn't tell him that the war has ended...for five years!
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Bound for Glory (1976)
Character: Connors
A biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s to find work, discovering the suffering and strength of America's working class.
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Gray Lady Down (1978)
Character: N/A
The USS Neptune, a nuclear submarine, is sunk off the coast of Connecticut after a collision with a Norwegian cargo ship. The navy must attempt a potentially dangerous rescue in the hope of saving the lives of the crew.
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Then Came Bronson (1969)
Character: Diner Owner
Jim Bronson is a young newspaperman who quits his job following the suicide of his best friend, and sets out on a cross-country trip on his motorcycle in his quest for the meaning of life in which he befriends a runway bride, another searching soul, in this pilot for the TV series of the same name, and theatrically released in some parts of the world including Spain.
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Out of Bounds (1986)
Character: Mr. Cage
Farm boy Daryl Cage's parents ship him off to the big city to live with his brother, hoping he will have a better life there. After a baggage mixup at the airport, Daryl finds himself in possession of a drug cache, which a ruthless drug dealer wants back. The dealer murders Daryl's brother and the small town boy ends up all alone in the big city, being pursued by both the drug dealer and the police, who suspect him of the murder.
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The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd (1974)
Character: Decker
A humanistic account of "The Robin Hood of the Cookson Hills," in which Charles Arthur Floyd is portrayed as a decent man who has a strong sense of family and duty.
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