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Sonic Boom (1974)
Character: Co-Pilot
Comedy short about a supersonic jet that lands in a small town and creates hysteria about an impending sonic boom that never happens.
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Television: The First Fifty Years (1999)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Trace the history of television and its impact on American culture with clips, newsreels, and exclusive interviews from television greats like Walter Cronkite, Carol Burnett, and Jay Leno.
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Disneyland '59 (1959)
Character: Self
Walt Disney and Art Linkletter co-host a live celebration of Disneyland's 1959 expansion that consisted of the debuts of Matterhorn Bobsleds, the Disneyland-Alweg Monorail, and the Submarine Voyage, a project so massive that it was called "The Second Opening of Disneyland". Highlights include a mammoth, star-studded parade and the official launching of the Disneyland submarines by U.S. Navy officers. Among the guests are then-Vice-President Richard Nixon and family, Clint Eastwood, and Meredith Willson, who leads the Disneyland band in his own "76 Trombones." Sponsored by Kodak, the commercial spokespersons include Ozzie and Harriet Nelson.
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Smash-Up on Interstate 5 (1976)
Character: Berman
In this made-for-TV disaster movie, the lives of a group of motorists are chronicled retrospectively after they're involved in a 39-car pile-up on California's Interstate 5 over 4th of July weekend.
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Cry-Baby (1990)
Character: Wanda's Father
A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her society grandmother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.
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The Courtyard (1995)
Character: Cop
Architect Jonathan moves into an LA courtyard apartment complex; then one of his neighbors is murdered ... by mistake ... Jonathan was the intended victim!
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Off the Mark (1987)
Character: Current Resident
A teenaged boy's family once hosted a Russian exchange student in their home for a year. Several years later, as adults, the two find themselves competing against each other in a Triathlon competition.
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High School U.S.A. (1983)
Character: Mr. Krinsky, Janitor
Set in a senior high school class, J.J. pursues the girlfriend of a rival from a higher clique which culminates in a race at the end of the movie between the two rivals in this light comedy.
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The Big Circus (1959)
Character: Tommy Gordon
A circus owner tries to keep his financially troubled circus on the road, despite the efforts of a murderous saboteur who has decided that the show must not go on.
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The Movie Orgy (1968)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
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Up in Smoke (1978)
Character: Roxy Doorman
An unemployed pot-smoking slacker and amateur drummer, Anthony Stoner ditches his strict parents and hits the road, eventually meeting kindred spirit Pedro de Pacas. While the drug-ingesting duo is soon arrested for possession of marijuana, Anthony and Pedro get released on a technicality, allowing them to continue their many misadventures and ultimately compete in a rock band contest, where they perform the raucous tune "Earache My Eye."
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Here Come the Nelsons (1952)
Character: David Nelson
The homespun Nelson family must deal with various comical situations, including an encounter with gangsters.
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-30- (1959)
Character: Earl Collins
A newspaper editor deals with a particularly stressful day in the newsroom.
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The Big Show (1961)
Character: Eric Solden
A European circus family is torn apart by greed and jealousy.
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Love and Kisses (1965)
Character: Cameo Appearance
Two teenagers elope and take up residence at the groom's home with his parents and sister, but the newlyweds quickly discover married life is much different from high-school.
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Day of the Outlaw (1959)
Character: Gene, Bruhn's Gang
Blaise Starrett is a rancher at odds with homesteaders when outlaws hold up the small town. The outlaws are held in check only by their notorious leader, but he is diagnosed with a fatal wound and the town is a powder keg waiting to blow.
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Peyton Place (1957)
Character: Ted Carter
In the outwardly respectable New England community of Peyton Place, shopkeeper Constance McKenzie tries to make up for a past indiscretion -- which resulted in her illegitimate daughter Allison -- by adopting a chaste, prudish attitude towards all things sexual. In spite of herself, Constance can't help but be attracted to handsome new teacher Michael Rossi. Meanwhile, the restless Allison, who'd like to be as footloose and fancy-free as the town's "fast girl" Betty Anderson, falls sincerely in love with mixed-up mama's boy Norman Page.
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The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker (1959)
Character: Henry Pennypacker
In early 1900s' Pennsylvania, Mr. Pennypacker has two company offices and two families with a combined total of 17 children. With an office in Harrisburg and an office in Philadelphia, he has successfully kept two separate homes. However, when an emergency requires his oldest son to find him, Mr. Pennypacker's dual life is revealed.
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