Rance Howard

Rance Howard

Born: November 17, 1928
Died: November 25, 2017
in Newkirk, Oklahoma, USA
Rance Howard (born Harold Engle Beckenholdt; November 17, 1928 – November 25, 2017) was an American actor who starred in film and on television. He was the father of actor and filmmaker Ron Howard and actor Clint Howard, and grandfather of actresses Bryce Dallas Howard and Paige Howard.

Howard appeared in films such as Cool Hand Luke (1967), Chinatown (1974), Splash (1984), Ed Wood (1994), Apollo 13 (1995), Independence Day (1996), A Beautiful Mind (2001), Cinderella Man (2005), Frost/Nixon (2008), Nebraska (2013), and Max Rose (2016). He received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program for co-producing the television film The Time Crystal (1981).

Movies for Rance Howard...

Dads
Title: Dads
Character: Self
Released: September 6, 2019
Type: Movie
A joyful exploration of modern fatherhood, this doc gathers the testimonies of dads around the world, from famous comedians to everyday parents. Their unfiltered stories speak to the beauty, struggles, and ridiculous hilarity of being a dad today.
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The Christ Slayer
Title: The Christ Slayer
Character: Devil as Old Man
Released: April 19, 2019
Type: Movie
Takes place at the Passover and the days that follow the crucifixion. A mix of scripture and Christian legend woven to try and create a more complete picture. It follows Longinus as the Roman soldier who put the spear to Jesus on the cross.
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Apple Seed
Title: Apple Seed
Character: Carl
Released: April 14, 2019
Type: Movie
On a cross country road trip to rob his home town bank Prince Mccoy finds himself having to rely on the help of an ex convict hitchhiker named Carl Robbins. Along the way the people they meet and the friendships they build begin to heal the ghosts of their pasts. However, they both have one final crossroad to face in the small town of Apple Seed.
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Chasing the Star
Title: Chasing the Star
Character: Devil as an Old Man
Released: September 5, 2017
Type: Movie
Three Magi Priests from different regions of the world journey through the unforgiving desert in hopes of finding proof of an age old prophecy. But Kings of men and fallen angels will stop at nothing to destroy the Magi and the baby boy they hold dear. These evils force the Magi to confront and make peace with old demons in order to prepare for the arrival of the new born King.
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Broken Memories
Title: Broken Memories
Character: Jasper
Released: June 15, 2017
Type: Movie
“Broken Memories” is a romantic drama that depicts the often-untold story of a family caregiver tending to an elderly parent. Once estranged from his family, Levi (Ivan Sergei), puts his life on hold to care for his father, Jasper (Rance Howard), who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease. After Jasper wanders off one too many times, Levi eventually is resigned to hiring a beautiful and somewhat mysterious caregiver named Maggie (Kelly Greyson). Her patience and warmth begin to rebuild a bridge between father and son as the old family house begins to resemble a home once again. Unfortunately, Maggie has her own turbulent past that eventually catches up with her and changes everything in a burst of violence.
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Kalebegiak
Title: Kalebegiak
Character: José Mari
Released: September 20, 2016
Type: Movie
Twelve short films, twelve portraits of the city of San Sebastian.
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40 Nights
Title: 40 Nights
Character: Devil as an Old Man
Released: June 7, 2016
Type: Movie
Examines the pre-ministry life of Jesus starting with his baptism with John the Baptist. From there Jesus embarks on his self- exploration journey into the wilderness for 40 nights. He is tempted by the Devil thrice in various forms.
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Talk Radio
Title: Talk Radio
Character: Lou
Released: February 13, 2016
Type: Movie
Lou spent so many years listening to talk radio that he was left wondering whether there was actually any reason to live.
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Solemates
Title: Solemates
Character: Older Man
Released: February 12, 2015
Type: Movie
Told from the perspective of shoes, this film tells the story of a couple's journey through life - the ups, the downs, the passion, and the dedication it takes to share your life with the one you love.
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Gone Dark
Title: Gone Dark
Character: Charles
Released: November 1, 2013
Type: Movie
Five years ago Jack faked his death. Now his little sister is hunting down his ex-partners who she thinks killed him. On top of that, the company send in the cleaners and everything gets bloody.
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Nebraska
Title: Nebraska
Character: Uncle Ray
Released: September 21, 2013
Type: Movie
An aging, booze-addled father takes a trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim what he believes to be a million-dollar sweepstakes prize.
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The Lone Ranger
Title: The Lone Ranger
Character: Engineer
Released: July 3, 2013
Type: Movie
The Texas Rangers chase down a gang of outlaws led by Butch Cavendish, but the gang ambushes the Rangers, seemingly killing them all. One survivor is found, however, by an American Indian named Tonto, who nurses him back to health. The Ranger, donning a mask and riding a white stallion named Silver, teams up with Tonto to bring the unscrupulous gang and others of that ilk to justice.
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Second Chances
Title: Second Chances
Character: Wilbur
Released: May 20, 2013
Type: Movie
Jenny McLean is a single mom working at a 911-call center struggling to make ends meet and raise her two kids, Elsie and Luke. Although still reeling from her divorce, Jenny can’t help but flirt when she gets emergency calls from Jeff, a local firefighter she nicknames “Cowboy” for his handsome voice. When Jeff is hurt in the line of duty, he finds himself unable to climb stairs and needing to rent a first floor room from Jenny. It isn't long before the sparks are flying but can Jenny allow herself to take the risk?
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Huff
Title: Huff
Character: Scotty
Released: April 5, 2013
Type: Movie
A woman steals her abusive boyfriend's drug money for her three teenage daughters to seek better lives for themselves and a bloody pursuit ensues.
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Let Go
Title: Let Go
Character: Dimples
Released: October 25, 2011
Type: Movie
Walter Dishman, a married and melancholy parole officer, deals with three eccentric ex-convicts who have been placed under his supervision.
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Redemption: For Robbing the Dead
Title: Redemption: For Robbing the Dead
Character: Doctor
Released: October 16, 2011
Type: Movie
For Robbing the Dead is a story of compassion - compassion toward those who may seem the least deserving of Christian love. It follows the story of Henry Heath, a law officer in 1862 Salt Lake City. Heath finds himself responsible for the well-being of a prisoner whom he despises - an impoverished French immigrant named Jean Baptiste who is convicted of robbing the graves of the recently deceased. Baptiste is exiled to Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake. With no one willing to look after this man, Henry Heath becomes Baptiste's sole defense against the hostile isolation of Antelope Island and the contempt of an entire community. Through his somewhat reluctant service, Heath's heart softens and his own sorrows find relief.
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Rosewood Lane
Title: Rosewood Lane
Character: Fred Crumb
Released: October 15, 2011
Type: Movie
Radio talk show therapist Sonny Blake moves back to her childhood home on seemingly idyllic Rosewood Lane after her alcoholic father dies. But upon arrival in the old neighborhood, Sonny discovers her neighbors are terrified of the local paperboy. She thinks this is ridiculous, until she encounters the boy himself. It turns out that he is a cunning and dangerous sociopath, one who may have gruesomely killed her father - and others.
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Spooky Buddies
Title: Spooky Buddies
Character: Mr. Johnson
Released: September 20, 2011
Type: Movie
Disney's irresistible talking puppies are back in an all-new movie that takes them far across town to a mysterious mansion where something very spooky is going on.
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InSight
Title: InSight
Character: Cemetery Presider
Released: September 2, 2011
Type: Movie
While tending to a stabbing victim, Kaitlyn is electrocuted and awakens to find that she is experiencing the memories of the now-deceased woman.
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Harley's Hill
Title: Harley's Hill
Character: Charlie
Released: August 17, 2011
Type: Movie
Harley, a runaway thoroughbred, is found by a rancher and his daughter. Unable to find the owner, they nurture him back to health, and the girl includes Harley as her partner in her horse club competitions.
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Night Club
Title: Night Club
Character: Chuck
Released: April 11, 2011
Type: Movie
Three friends - aided by one of the residents - start a night club in a retirement home, after taking a job there working the night shift to put themselves through USC.
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Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2
Title: Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2
Character: Preacher
Released: February 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Puppy mayhem turns the lives of newlywed Chihuahua parents Papi and Chloe upside down when their rambunctious, mischievous puppies present one challenge after another. But when their human owners end up in trouble, the tiny pups will stop at nothing to save them - because in good times and hard times, the family always sticks together. So Papi, Chloe and the puppies embark on a heroic adventure, proving once again that big heroes come in small packages.
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The Dilemma
Title: The Dilemma
Character: Burt
Released: January 13, 2011
Type: Movie
Longtime friends Ronny and Nick are partners in an auto-design firm. They are hard at work on a presentation for a dream project that would really launch their company. Then Ronny spots Nick's wife out with another man, and in the process of investigating the possible affair, he learns that Nick has a few secrets of his own. As the presentation nears, Ronny agonizes over what might happen if the truth gets out.
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Once Fallen
Title: Once Fallen
Character: Harry
Released: November 2, 2010
Type: Movie
When Chance (Brian Presley) returns home after five years in jail, he is determined to escape his past, start a new life and make peace with his father, (Ed Harris, Golden Globe® winner), who is the head of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang and serving a life sentence for murder. Upon his release, his dreams of a crime-free future begin to disintegrate when he is forced to assume his best friend's outrageous debt to a local mobster. Despite being thrust back into a world of organized fighting, drug dealing and ties to corrupt police agents, Chance falls in love with Pearl (Academy Award® nominee Taraji P. Henson) and the prospect of living a normal life seems almost within reach. But will he be able to escape the crimes of his father and his past?
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The Trial
Title: The Trial
Character: Judge Danielson
Released: September 10, 2010
Type: Movie
After the horrific death of his wife and two sons, suicide seems to be the only escape for small town attorney Kent "Mac" McClain... until he's assigned a capital punishment case that begins to transform his life and those around him forever.
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The Genesis Code
Title: The Genesis Code
Character: Dr. Tolley
Released: August 25, 2010
Type: Movie
A college hockey player and a female journalism student struggle to find common ground with their spiritual faith and scientific studies.
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Jonah Hex
Title: Jonah Hex
Character: Telegrapher
Released: June 18, 2010
Type: Movie
Gunslinger Jonah Hex is appointed by President Ulysses Grant to track down terrorist Quentin Turnbull, a former Confederate officer determined on unleashing hell on earth. Jonah not only secures freedom by accepting this task, he also gets revenge on the man who slayed his wife and child.
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The Child Wanderers
Title: The Child Wanderers
Character: Old Knut
Released: March 26, 2010
Type: Movie
In the 1890s, 10-year-old Yohan is sent away from home to survive on his own as a child laborer. He experiences hardships and overcomes his fears by relying on bravery and hope to make the best of his circumstances.
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Valentine's Day
Title: Valentine's Day
Character: Bistro Gardens Diner
Released: February 10, 2010
Type: Movie
More than a dozen Angelenos navigate Valentine's Day from early morning until midnight. Three couples awake together, but each relationship will sputter. A grade-school boy wants flowers for his first true love. Two high school seniors plan first-time sex at noon. A TV sports reporter gets the assignment to find romance in LA. A star quarterback contemplates his future. Two strangers meet on a plane. Grandparents, together for years, face a crisis. An 'I Hate Valentine's Day' dinner beckons the lonely and the lied to.
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Within
Title: Within
Character: Deli Owner
Released: June 3, 2009
Type: Movie
Rachel is a sweet girl with a troubled soul, caused by a unique gift - she can see evil spirits within others. After witnessing the brutal killing of her mother, Rachel and her father look for a fresh start by moving to a new town. After befriending classmate Michelle Lowe, Rachel soon realizes that her new 'best friend' may not be the girl she first appeared to be. Rachel's visions could be the key to stopping a series of violent attacks against the town's children and unlocking the puzzle behind a grim murder
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Angels & Demons
Title: Angels & Demons
Character: Cardinal Beck
Released: April 23, 2009
Type: Movie
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is recruited by the Vatican to investigate the apparent return of the Illuminati - a secret, underground organization - after four cardinals are kidnapped on the night of the papal conclave.
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Play the Game
Title: Play the Game
Character: Mervin Lavine
Released: February 27, 2009
Type: Movie
When ladies' man David Mitchell (Paul Campbell) gives his lonely grandfather, Joe (Andy Griffith), some pointers on dating, Joe becomes a big hit with the women in his retirement community. But David strikes out with his own tricks when he tries to woo a girl named Julie (Marla Sokoloff). Now it's up to Joe to teach his grandson how to win at love without playing games. Doris Roberts and Liz Sheridan co-star in this award-winning comedy.
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Title: Lie to Me
Character: Joe Metz
Released: January 21, 2009
Type: TV
The world's leading deception researcher, Dr. Cal Lightman, studies facial expression, body language and tone of voice to determine when a person is lying and why, which helps law enforcement and government agencies uncover the truth. But his skills also make it easier for him to deceive others.
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Boppin' at the Glue Factory
Title: Boppin' at the Glue Factory
Character: Walker Bill
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
A junkie nurse rules the night shift at a convalescent hospital.
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Frost/Nixon
Title: Frost/Nixon
Character: Ollie
Released: October 15, 2008
Type: Movie
For three years after being forced from office, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to sit for one all-inclusive interview to confront the questions of his time in office and the Watergate scandal that ended his presidency. Nixon surprised everyone in selecting Frost as his televised confessor, intending to easily outfox the breezy British showman and secure a place in the hearts and minds of Americans. Likewise, Frost's team harboured doubts about their boss's ability to hold his own. But as the cameras rolled, a charged battle of wits resulted.
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Ghost Town: The Movie
Title: Ghost Town: The Movie
Character: Sheriff Tom Parker
Released: October 8, 2008
Type: Movie
An 1800’s western set in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. It’s a story of love, hate, revenge, honor. It showcases the most famous villains of all time from John Boorman’s “Deliverance” filmed in 1972. Voted number one movie villains of all time in “Maxim Magazine”, 2005, Bill McKinney and Herbert “Cowboy” Coward scared audiences with their mountain man delivery that struck fear in millions of movie goers. They were reunited in this film after 37 years.
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Keith
Title: Keith
Character: Old Man (uncredited)
Released: September 13, 2008
Type: Movie
Natalie is high school royalty, but her queen bee status falls apart when she falls for the new guy at school. Although Keith ignores her at first, they soon become friends -- even though Natalie suspects that Keith has something to hide. As the free-spirited Keith shows Natalie how to embrace what life offers, they grow closer -- until a secret tests the bounds of their relationship
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Grizzly Park
Title: Grizzly Park
Character: Ranger Howard
Released: February 7, 2008
Type: Movie
A giant grizzly bear stalks 8 troubled young adults and a park ranger in a forest reserve called Grizzly Park after making the demise of an escaped serial killer.
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Drillbit Taylor
Title: Drillbit Taylor
Character: Older Man
Released: February 4, 2008
Type: Movie
Dealing with a sociopathic school bully, three high school freshmen hire a low-budget bodyguard to protect them, not realizing he is just a homeless beggar and petty thief looking for some easy cash.
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Audie & the Wolf
Title: Audie & the Wolf
Character: Dr. Maleosis
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
When the moon is full, a friendly WOLF turns into a savage, bloodthirsty MAN and goes on a kill spree in a starlet's Hollywood mansion.
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Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Title: Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Character: Preacher
Released: December 21, 2007
Type: Movie
Following a childhood tragedy, Dewey Cox follows a long and winding road to music stardom. Dewey perseveres through changing musical styles, an addiction to nearly every drug known and bouts of uncontrollable rage.
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Be My Baby
Title: Be My Baby
Character: Zippy
Released: May 29, 2007
Type: Movie
After dating several cheating husbands who pretended to be single, Rylee devises a scheme for revenge. She gets a married man drunk, convinces him that they slept together, then shows up a year later with a baby and demands money. Her blackmail plan is successful, but then she meets a single man, Max, who wants to be with her and keep the baby.
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Georgia Rule
Title: Georgia Rule
Character: Dog Bite Man
Released: May 10, 2007
Type: Movie
Rebellious, uncontrollable teenager, Rachel is hauled off by her dysfunctional mother to spend the summer with her estranged grandmother, Georgia. Her journey will lead all three women to revelations of buried family secrets and an understanding that - regardless what happens - the ties that bind can never be broken.
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Sasquatch Mountain
Title: Sasquatch Mountain
Character: Harris Zeff
Released: September 9, 2006
Type: Movie
A lonely tow-truck driver gets caught in a deadly struggle between a pair of bank robbers with a beautiful hostage, local cops, and a monster that has come down from the Arizona mountains to eat human flesh.
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Harrison Bergeron
Title: Harrison Bergeron
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
The year was 2081 and everybody was finally equal. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger than anybody else, quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th & 213th amendments to the Constitution and the unceasing vigilance of the agents of the United States Handicapper General. They were not only equal before God & the law, everybody was equal every which way. Harrison Bergeron is an adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's short story by the same name
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Miracle at Sage Creek
Title: Miracle at Sage Creek
Character: Doctor Babcock
Released: November 25, 2005
Type: Movie
Two families overcome prejudice and tragedy in 1888 Wyoming when a special Christmas miracle saves the life of a small boy.
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Title: Ghost Whisperer
Character: Dirk Abrams
Released: September 23, 2005
Type: TV
Newlywed Melinda Gordon tries to help the dead communicate with loved ones, but sometimes the messages she receives are intense and confusing. Most of Melinda's efforts involve resolving conflicts that are preventing the spirits from passing over.
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Title: Bones
Character: Jerold Norsky
Released: September 13, 2005
Type: TV
Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.
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Cinderella Man
Title: Cinderella Man
Character: Announcer Al Fazin
Released: June 2, 2005
Type: Movie
The true story of boxer Jim Braddock who, following his retirement in the 1920s, makes a surprise comeback in order to lift his family out of poverty.
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Title: Grey's Anatomy
Character: Martin Carroll
Released: March 27, 2005
Type: TV
Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.
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Back By Midnight
Title: Back By Midnight
Character: Priest
Released: January 25, 2005
Type: Movie
The warden of a small, rundown, minimum-security prison plots revenge against the the prison's dishonest owner by having four inmates break out and plan a department store robbery to spruce up the prison's faculties.
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Toolbox Murders
Title: Toolbox Murders
Character: Chas Rooker
Released: November 12, 2004
Type: Movie
Young couple Steve and Nell move into a once fashionable but now decaying apartment block in Hollywood, and soon realise that a number of young residents have met unusually violent deaths. Before long, Nell makes some disturbing discoveries about the building's manager and her fellow tenants.
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Title: CSI: NY
Character: Samuel Cooper
Released: September 22, 2004
Type: TV
Follow the investigations of a team of NYPD forensic scientists and police officers identified as "Crime Scene Investigators".
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Ghost Rock
Title: Ghost Rock
Character: Cash
Released: June 8, 2004
Type: Movie
Set in 1882, John Slaughter and his sidekick Savannah Starr return to a town where an almost forgotten massacre took place 20 years ago. They are determined to find the man responsible.
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The Alamo
Title: The Alamo
Character: Governor Smith
Released: April 7, 2004
Type: Movie
Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna's forces at the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas.
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Death and Texas
Title: Death and Texas
Character: Circuit Court Judge
Released: March 12, 2004
Type: Movie
Barefoot Bobby Briggs, the legendary running back for the Austin Steers was today sentenced to die for his role in the armed robbery/murder at a downtown Stop 'n Go convenience store... It's five years later, and Bobby's appeals have all but run out, and the Austin Steers are - once again - on the march to the Superbowl, with a lock on the playoffs, when their wide receiver has a season ending injury. With their playoff hopes in shambles, the Governor of Texas controversially offers Bobby a furlough -- from death row -- to help rescue the Steers' post-season hopes, and even play in the Superbowl.
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The Missing
Title: The Missing
Character: Telegraph Operator
Released: November 26, 2003
Type: Movie
When rancher and single mother of two Maggie Gilkeson sees her teenage daughter, Lily, kidnapped by Apache rebels, she reluctantly accepts the help of her estranged father, Samuel, in tracking down the kidnappers. Along the way, the two must learn to reconcile the past and work together if they are going to have any hope of getting Lily back before she is taken over the border and forced to become a prostitute.
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Title: Arrested Development
Character: Himself
Released: November 2, 2003
Type: TV
The story of a wealthy family that lost everything, and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together.
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Title: Cold Case
Character: Buddie
Released: September 28, 2003
Type: TV
The Philadelphia homicide squad's lone female detective finds her calling when she is assigned cases that have never been solved. Detective Lilly Rush combines her natural instincts with the updated technology available today to bring about justice for all the victims she can.
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The Long Ride Home
Title: The Long Ride Home
Character: Old Man
Released: March 27, 2003
Type: Movie
A man fights the law and the lawless in order to reunite with his wife and son in the 1860s west.
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Legend of the Phantom Rider
Title: Legend of the Phantom Rider
Character: Doc Fisher
Released: February 11, 2003
Type: Movie
Two ancient entities reincarnated through the centuries face off time and again for an innocent soul.
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Title: That's So Raven
Character: Murphy
Released: January 17, 2003
Type: TV
No ordinary teenager; Raven Baxter can see glimpses of the future! Watch her schemes and misadventures as she enlists the help of friends, including best friends Eddie and Chelsea, to change life's little outcomes. Raven's younger brother, Cory, is obsessed with money and creates get-rich-quick schemes to try to earn cash.
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Jumping For Joy
Title: Jumping For Joy
Released: October 25, 2002
Type: Movie
Bobbie Dean is a great basketball player who takes a rag-tag bunch of boys and turns them into a real team. But There's one big problem, Bobbie is a girl and the boys don't know it. It's 1964 when girls aren't allowed to play boys basketball. Are Bobbie's dreams worth sacrificing to help her team win a state championship?
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Title: That '80s Show
Released: January 23, 2002
Type: TV
That '80s Show is an American sitcom that aired from January through May 2002. Despite having a similar name, show structure, and many of the same writers and production staff, it is not considered a direct spin-off of the more successful That '70s Show. The characters and storylines from both shows never crossed paths. It was a separate decade-based show created because of That '70s Show's popularity at the time.
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D-Tox
Title: D-Tox
Character: Geezer
Released: January 4, 2002
Type: Movie
A disgraced FBI agent with a drinking problem joins nine other troubled law enforcement officers at an isolated detox clinic in the wilds of Wyoming. But the therapeutic sanctuary becomes a nightmarish hellhole when a major snowstorm cuts off the clinic from the outside world and enables a killer on the inside to get busy.
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A Beautiful Mind
Title: A Beautiful Mind
Character: White-Haired Patient
Released: December 14, 2001
Type: Movie
In a decades-spanning biopic, brilliant mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. makes history in his field as schizophrenia sets in.
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Ping!
Title: Ping!
Character: Old Man
Released: September 4, 2001
Type: Movie
Ping is a chihuahua rescued from the pound by nearsighted Ethel, who thinks he's a cat. When a pair of bumbling thieves try to break into Ethel's house to steal the money they think she has stashed away, only Ping can foil their plans.
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Rat Race
Title: Rat Race
Character: Feed the Earth Spokesman
Released: August 17, 2001
Type: Movie
In an ensemble film about easy money, greed, manipulation and bad driving, a Las Vegas casino tycoon entertains his wealthiest high rollers -- a group that will bet on anything -- by pitting six ordinary people against each other in a wild dash for $2 million jammed into a locker hundreds of miles away. The tycoon and his wealthy friends monitor each racer's every move to keep track of their favorites. The only rule in this race is that there are no rules.
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A Crack in the Floor
Title: A Crack in the Floor
Character: Floyd Fryed
Released: April 24, 2001
Type: Movie
After witnessing his mother's brutal rape and murder at a young age, Jeremiah Hill turns to a life of seclusion in a small mountain town. Six friends enter the town for a weekend camping trip and stumble upon Jeremiah's lonely cabin in the woods, which shatters his 33 years of solitude and turns their trip into a nightmare of survival.
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Joe Dirt
Title: Joe Dirt
Character: Bomb Squad Cop
Released: April 10, 2001
Type: Movie
Joe Dirt is a janitor with a mullet hairdo, acid-washed jeans and a dream to find the parents that he lost at the Grand Canyon when he was a belligerent, trailer park-raised eight-year-old. Now, blasting Van Halen in his jacked-up economy car, the irrepressibly optimistic Joe hits the road alone in search of his folks.
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Title: How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Character: Elderly Timekeeper
Released: November 17, 2000
Type: Movie
The Grinch decides to rob Whoville of Christmas - but a dash of kindness from little Cindy Lou Who and her family may be enough to melt his heart...
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Title: The Huntress
Released: July 26, 2000
Type: TV
The Huntress is an American TV series that appeared on the USA Network over subsequent summers of the 2000 and 2001 television seasons. It was inspired by a book about the real bounty hunter, Dottie Thorson, and is also a belated sequel to the 1980 Steve McQueen film, The Hunter.
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Love & Sex
Title: Love & Sex
Character: Earl
Released: July 26, 2000
Type: Movie
When her rather explicit copy is rejected, magazine journalist Kate is asked by her editor to come up with an article on loving relationships instead, and to do so by the end of the day. This gets Kate thinking back over her own various experiences, and to wondering if she is in much of a position to write on the subject.
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Title: Son of the Beach
Released: March 14, 2000
Type: TV
A parody of "Baywatch" featuring Malibu Adjacent's Notch Johnson, the world's greatest lifeguard (hardly), and his unit SPF-30.
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Big Wind on Campus
Title: Big Wind on Campus
Character: Grandpa Morton
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
A man and his buddies learn to deal with love, sex, and passing gas.
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Happy, Texas
Title: Happy, Texas
Character: Ely
Released: December 3, 1999
Type: Movie
Two escaped convicts roll into the village of Happy, Texas, where they're mistaken for a gay couple who work as beauty pageant consultants. They go along with it to duck the police, but the local sheriff has a secret of his own.
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Title: Angel
Character: Marcus Roscoe
Released: October 5, 1999
Type: TV
The vampire Angel, cursed with a soul, moves to Los Angeles and aids people with supernatural-related problems while questing for his own redemption. A spin-off from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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Abilene
Title: Abilene
Character: Arliss
Released: March 13, 1999
Type: Movie
When he finds out that his estranged brother is dying, a proud but stubborn old man decides to drive in his lawnmower all the way to the far away hospital. Local sheriff keeps helping him along the way and they start to form a bond.
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Malevolence
Title: Malevolence
Character: Dr. Burns
Released: February 1, 1999
Type: Movie
A young prisoner tells his story to an FBI agent. How unjust judicial system, systematic abuse inside and political corruption and machinations outside turn someone who killed in defense into a hardened criminal.
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Psycho
Title: Psycho
Character: Mr. Lowery
Released: December 4, 1998
Type: Movie
A young female embezzler arrives at the Bates Motel, which has terrible secrets of its own.
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Land of the Free
Title: Land of the Free
Character: Hotel Manager
Released: November 24, 1998
Type: Movie
A politician's campaign manager (Speakman) discovers that the candidate (Shatner) is a front for a military organization plotting a political overthrow of the government. In trying to expose the candidate's right-wing activities, he puts himself and his family in danger of being killed.
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Title: Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
Character: Reginald Hannon (segment "The Viewing")
Released: November 4, 1998
Type: TV
Can you tell the difference between fact and fiction? Several stories of strange, mysterious and incredible occurrences are chronicled during each episode. It is up to the viewer to decide which stories actually happened and which were completely fabricated by the show’s writers. The answer is revealed by Jonathan Frakes at the conclusion of each episode.
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Title: Two of a Kind
Released: September 25, 1998
Type: TV
Two of a Kind is an American sitcom that aired on ABC as part of the network's TGIF line-up, starring Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. The show aired from September 25, 1998 to July 9, 1999. The series was produced by Griffard/Adler Productions, Dualstar Productions, and Miller-Boyett-Warren Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television. It was the last series to be produced by Miller-Boyett Productions in any of its identities.
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The Night Caller
Title: The Night Caller
Character: Hank
Released: July 13, 1998
Type: Movie
For 11 years, Beth's life is limited to working nights in a convenience store while her daytime hours are spent caring for her bed-ridden, bitter and abusive mother. All that keeps her going is a voice on the radio of a psychologist, Dr Roland. Her obsession grows to the point where nothing, not even murder, will stop her from getting to the woman she desires!
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Small Soldiers
Title: Small Soldiers
Character: Husband
Released: July 10, 1998
Type: Movie
When missile technology is used to enhance toy action figures, the toys soon begin to take their battle programming too seriously.
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Chairman of the Board
Title: Chairman of the Board
Character: Rev. Hatley
Released: March 13, 1998
Type: Movie
Surfer Edison isn't able to make ends meet with his inventions or his lifestyle. But then he meets billionaire Armand McMillian, who takes a shine to the young bum — so much so that he leaves his invention company to him upon his death. Unfortunately, Armand's nephew, Bradford, only gets a surfboard. While Edison manages to run the company successfully, with the help of pretty Natalie, Bradford conspires to take him down.
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Evasive Action
Title: Evasive Action
Character: Train Engineer
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
When Redwood Federal Penitentiary closes, there are going to be several hundred prisoners looking for a new home. Several of the most dangerous, all killers, will be transported by train to Santa Ana, a new high tech prison for the worst of the worst. Included in this transfer are: -Ian Kelly, explosions expert who has set off terrorist bombings worldwide. -Lorenzo "Enzo" Martini, a mafia kingpin who enjoyed nationwide fame before finally being put away. -Karl "The Killer" Miller, a serial killer with absolutely no conscience and an unquenchable thirst for blood. -Tommy "Zimm" Zimmer, a man who's serving life for killing his wife and her lover. -Luke Sinclair, who's finishing up the last nine months of a fifteen-year sentence for killing the man who murdered his wife. When the prisoners, under heavy security, board the last car of the train, it quickly becomes clear that an escape plan has been hatched
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Holiday in Your Heart
Title: Holiday in Your Heart
Character: Blind Man
Released: December 14, 1997
Type: Movie
LeAnn Rimes plays herself from her childhood in Nashville to her performing around the country as a country-western singer, until she has to make a choice: Does she perform at the Grand Ole Opry, following her dreams? Or does she not go to the concert, and stay at her dying grandmother's bedside? The made-for-tv film is based in part on LeAnn's autobiographical novel.
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The Second Civil War
Title: The Second Civil War
Character: Arnold Tooney, jr.
Released: December 4, 1997
Type: Movie
When a planeload of Pakistani orphans are shipped to his state for permanent relocation, the governor of Idaho defies the president and closes the state's border. News Net Television, a cable news program that makes hay by reporting on political scandals, quickly spins the racist act into an overnight media sensation, creating a divide in national opinion over the issue.
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Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
Title: Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest
Character: Jarvis Bean
Released: November 2, 1997
Type: Movie
Jessica Fletcher searches for a woman who witnessed the murder of a man trying to expose a serious flaw in a top-secret government satellite code.
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Money Talks
Title: Money Talks
Character: Reverend
Released: August 22, 1997
Type: Movie
Sought by police and criminals, a small-time huckster makes a deal with a TV newsman for protection.
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Traveller
Title: Traveller
Character: Farmer
Released: April 18, 1997
Type: Movie
A young man, Pat, visits the clan of gypsy-like grifters (Irish Travellers) in rural North Carolina from whom he is descended. He is at first rejected, but cousin Bokky takes him on as an apprentice. Pat learns the game while Bokky falls in love and desires a different life. Written by Jeff Hole
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Title: Just Shoot Me!
Character: Blind Flower Guy
Released: March 4, 1997
Type: TV
Just Shoot Me! is an American television sitcom that aired for seven seasons on NBC from March 4, 1997, to August 16, 2003, with 148 episodes produced. The show was created by Steven Levitan, the show's executive producer.
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Busted
Title: Busted
Character: Mayor Davies
Released: February 17, 1997
Type: Movie
In the town of Amity, the cops take crime off of the streets and put it into the police station where it belongs.
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Where Truth Lies
Title: Where Truth Lies
Character: Judge Bloom
Released: December 28, 1996
Type: Movie
Doctor Ian Lazarre is a hopeless alcoholic. After the tragic death of his wife and the failure of his second marriage, liquor is his only friend. As a last resort, he commits to an experimental rehab with bizarre methods.
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Ghosts of Mississippi
Title: Ghosts of Mississippi
Character: Ralph Hargrove
Released: December 20, 1996
Type: Movie
A Mississippi district attorney and the widow of Medgar Evers struggle to bring a white supremacist to justice for the 1963 murder of the civil rights leader.
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Mars Attacks!
Title: Mars Attacks!
Character: Texan Investor
Released: December 13, 1996
Type: Movie
A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world's major cities and all of humanity waits to see if the extraterrestrial visitors have, as they claim, "come in peace." U.S. President James Dale receives assurance from science professor Donald Kessler that the Martians' mission is a friendly one. But when a peaceful exchange ends in the total annihilation of the U.S. Congress, military men call for a full-scale nuclear retaliation.
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Title: Clueless
Released: September 20, 1996
Type: TV
CLUELESS is a television series spun off from the 1995 teen film of the same name. The series originally premiered on ABC on September 20, 1996 as a part of the TGIF lineup during its first season. The show then spent its last two seasons on UPN ending on May 25, 1999.
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Title: 7th Heaven
Character: Old Man in Park
Released: August 26, 1996
Type: TV
Reverend Eric Camden and his wife Annie have always had their hands full caring for seven children, not to mention the friends, sweethearts and spouses that continually come and go in the Camden household.
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Tiger Heart
Title: Tiger Heart
Character: Mr. Johnson
Released: August 8, 1996
Type: Movie
A teen martial arts expert takes on a bunch of thugs who are forcing a community to sell their property in order to build a mall.
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Independence Day
Title: Independence Day
Character: Chaplain
Released: June 25, 1996
Type: Movie
On July 2, a giant alien mothership enters orbit around Earth and deploys several dozen saucer-shaped 'destroyer' spacecraft that quickly lay waste to major cities around the planet. On July 3, the United States conducts a coordinated counterattack that fails. On July 4, a plan is devised to gain access to the interior of the alien mothership in space, in order to plant a nuclear missile.
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Sgt. Bilko
Title: Sgt. Bilko
Character: Mr. Robbins
Released: March 29, 1996
Type: Movie
The US army is known for churning out lean mean fighting machines intent on protecting our great nation. Sergeant Ernie Bilko is the leader of a ragtag group of the sorriest soldiers ever to enlist in the armed forces.
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Title: Baywatch Nights
Released: September 30, 1995
Type: TV
Baywatch Nights is an American police and science fiction drama series that aired in syndication from 1995 to 1997. Created by Douglas Schwartz, David Hasselhoff, and Gregory J. Bonann, the series is a spin-off from the popular television series, Baywatch.
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The Colony
Title: The Colony
Character: Stan Benson
Released: September 13, 1995
Type: Movie
A man and his family move from a crime-ridden inner city suburb to a self-proclaimed violence-free haven overseen by a godlike businessman. However, they soon discover that life in The Colony is much more sinister than it first appeared.
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Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest
Title: Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest
Character: Employer
Released: September 12, 1995
Type: Movie
After a couple adopts a pair of orphaned brothers, it becomes alarmingly clear the boys are much more than they seem.
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Killing Cupid
Title: Killing Cupid
Character: Zeke
Released: July 11, 1995
Type: Movie
This "Best Fiction Film Winner"* follows Valentine, a female assassin who is trapped in a room with one of her marks during the last few minutes of his life. The moment changes her own life as she vows to give up the business and seek redemption by finding the son of the man she has killed. But once in the small desert town of "Godfree", which may or may not be stranger than the world she has just left, her old life returns to haunt her. Convinced she has joined forces with an elusive ex-assassin named "Cupid", her former comrades hunt her down and soon discover that some things are not what they appear.... *Hollywood Documentary And Fiction Film Festival (2006)
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Apollo 13
Title: Apollo 13
Character: Reverend
Released: June 30, 1995
Type: Movie
The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew, with the failed journey turning into a thrilling saga of heroism. Drifting more than 200,000 miles from Earth, the astronauts work furiously with the ground crew to avert tragedy.
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Problem Child 3
Title: Problem Child 3
Character: The Janitor
Released: May 13, 1995
Type: Movie
Now a pre-teen, Junior has fallen head over heels for a classmate who doesn't even notice him, but does notice three other boys – a child star, a hockey player and a Boy Scout – who are rivals to Junior. This means war!
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Little Giants
Title: Little Giants
Character: Father Kelly
Released: October 14, 1994
Type: Movie
When Danny O'Shea's daughter is cut from the Peewee football team just for being a girl, he decides to form his own team, composed of other ragtag players who were also cut. Can his team really learn enough to beat the elite team, coached by his brother, a former pro player?
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Ed Wood
Title: Ed Wood
Character: Old Man McCoy (uncredited)
Released: September 27, 1994
Type: Movie
The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his strange friends, filmed countless B-movies without ever becoming famous or successful.
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Terminal Velocity
Title: Terminal Velocity
Character: Stunt Pilot/Chuck
Released: September 23, 1994
Type: Movie
A maverick skydiver and a former KGB agent team up to stop the Russian mafia from stealing gold.
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Title: ER
Character: Dr. Oliver Kostin
Released: September 19, 1994
Type: TV
ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
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Runaway Daughters
Title: Runaway Daughters
Character: Minute Man 3
Released: August 12, 1994
Type: Movie
Angie, Mary, and Laura are teenage girls who are fed up with their bland and unexciting small town lives. Mary discovers that she's pregnant after having sex with her boyfriend.
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Forced to Kill
Title: Forced to Kill
Character: Rance
Released: May 18, 1994
Type: Movie
A repo man tries to deliver a repossessed Jaguar. He's captured by a bizarre family, straight out of the backwoods, who force him to fight in an illegal, bare-fist tournament run by an insane sheriff.
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The Paper
Title: The Paper
Character: Alicia's Doctor
Released: March 18, 1994
Type: Movie
Henry Hackett is the workaholic editor of a New York City tabloid. He loves his job, but the long hours and low pay are leading to discontent. Also, publisher Bernie White faces financial straits, and has hatchet-man Alicia Clark—Henry's nemesis—impose unpopular cutbacks.
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Title: Babylon 5
Character: David Sheridan
Released: January 26, 1994
Type: TV
Babylon 5 is a five-mile long space station located in neutral space. Built by the Earth Alliance in the 2250s, its goal is to maintain peace among the various alien races by providing a sanctuary where grievances and negotiations can be worked out among duly appointed ambassadors. A council made up of representatives from the five major space-faring civilizations - the Earth Alliance, Minbari Federation, Centauri Republic, Narn Regime, and Vorlon Empire - work with the League of Non-Aligned Worlds to keep interstellar relations under control. Aside from its diplomatic function, Babylon 5 also serves as a military post for Earth and a port of call for travelers, traders, businessmen, criminals, and Rangers.
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Bigfoot: The Unforgettable Encounter
Title: Bigfoot: The Unforgettable Encounter
Character: Todd
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
When Cody gets lost while exploring in the woods, he finds a friend in the legendary creature, Bigfoot.
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Snapdragon
Title: Snapdragon
Character: Priest
Released: December 1, 1993
Type: Movie
An erotic amnesiac lures a police psychologist into a world of lust and danger.
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Title: Diagnosis: Murder
Character: Driver
Released: October 29, 1993
Type: TV
Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders.
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Fearless
Title: Fearless
Character: Bald Cabby
Released: October 15, 1993
Type: Movie
After a terrible air disaster, survivor Max Klein emerges a changed person. Unable to connect to his former life or to wife Laura, he feels godlike and invulnerable. When psychologist Bill Perlman is unable to help Max, he has Max meet another survivor, Carla Rodrigo, who is wracked with grief and guilt since her baby died in the crash which she and Max survived.
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Ticks
Title: Ticks
Character: Sheriff Parker
Released: October 12, 1993
Type: Movie
Teens camping in a northern California retreat are terrorized by mutant insects created by evil, polluting pot farmers.
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Title: The X-Files
Character: Old Man
Released: September 10, 1993
Type: TV
The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.
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Ed and His Dead Mother
Title: Ed and His Dead Mother
Character: Rev. Praxton
Released: June 4, 1993
Type: Movie
A mourning son makes a deal to reanimate his one year dead mother, however things turn into an unexpected direction.
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Universal Soldier
Title: Universal Soldier
Character: John Devreux
Released: July 10, 1992
Type: Movie
An American soldier who had been killed during the Vietnam War is revived 25 years later by the military as a semi-android, UniSols, a high-tech soldier of the future. After the failure of the initiative to erase all the soldier's memories, he begins to experience flashbacks that are forcing him to recall his past.
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Title: Melrose Place
Released: July 8, 1992
Type: TV
Follow the lives of a group of young adults living in a brownstone apartment complex on Melrose Place, in Los Angeles, California.
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Far and Away
Title: Far and Away
Character: Tomlin
Released: May 22, 1992
Type: Movie
A young man leaves Ireland with his landlord's daughter after some trouble with her father, and they dream of owning land at the big giveaway in Oklahoma ca. 1893. When they get to the new land, they find jobs and begin saving money. The man becomes a local barehands boxer, and rides in glory until he is beaten, then his employers steal all the couple's money and they must fight off starvation in the winter, and try to keep their dream of owning land alive. Meanwhile, the woman's parents find out where she has gone and have come to America to find her and take her back.
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I Don't Buy Kisses Anymore
Title: I Don't Buy Kisses Anymore
Character: Elderly Man
Released: April 24, 1992
Type: Movie
Bernie Fishbine is overweight. He stops at the neighborhood store to buy some chocolate kisses every day. This is where he meets Theresa Garabaldi. Then they take the same bus route every evening. Theresa invites Bernie to see her play piano at her father's restaurant. It is here that she gets him to join a gym. Theresa is in college and gets the idea to write about Bernie's weight problem for her thesis. She does this without telling Bernie. Meanwhile, Bernie is falling in love with Theresa, and vice versa.
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Boris and Natasha
Title: Boris and Natasha
Character: Polygraph Man
Released: April 17, 1992
Type: Movie
Sent by Fearless Leader to America to find an important microchip, dastardly Pottsylvanian spies Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale begin questioningvwho they're working for and why.
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Switched at Birth
Title: Switched at Birth
Character: Frank Hill
Released: April 28, 1991
Type: Movie
This is the story of the two babies who were switched at birth. A few years later when one of the girls gets sick and tests revealed that she was not the daughter of the couple who raised her. Eventually she dies. And the couple most especially the mother, search for their real daughter. Eventually they suspect that it's a widower who has their child. Now while they try to find out if she is their daughter, the widower is advised by his attorney not to be so hasty to cooperate, cause if she is their daughter, he might lose her, and she is all he has.
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Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter
Title: Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter
Character: Bernie
Released: February 10, 1991
Type: Movie
Lucy & Desi: Before the Laughter is described by CBS as "a dramatic love story" about the lives of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.
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9 1/2 Ninjas!
Title: 9 1/2 Ninjas!
Character: Ninja Negotiator
Released: January 24, 1991
Type: Movie
When corrupt real estate mogul Arnold Gruber evicts Joe and Lisa from their dwellings to make way for new buildings, martial arts-trained Joe turns sexy Lisa into his ninja disciple, and the two team up to fight back in this erotic action comedy. Gruber sends his own ninjas to eliminate Joe and Lisa, who may have trouble focusing on the enemy as they're consumed by their lust for each other.
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Trust Me
Title: Trust Me
Character: Vern
Released: November 10, 1989
Type: Movie
An art dealer murders one of his artists in the hopes of increasing the market value of his work.
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Limit Up
Title: Limit Up
Character: Chuck Feeney
Released: November 2, 1989
Type: Movie
Casey is the assistant of commodity trader Peter Oak, but wants to get a license herself. When the diabolic Nike appears and promises to make her successful by use of her supernatural abilities, Casey hesitantly accepts. By correctly predicting the price of soy beans, she manages to make a career, but the price that Nike demands is high: she wants Casey's soul!
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B.O.R.N.
Title: B.O.R.N.
Character: Robert Morrison
Released: October 26, 1989
Type: Movie
A speeding ambulance abducts three beautiful young women to a sinister medical center where someone is making a killing selling healthy human organs on the black market.
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Parenthood
Title: Parenthood
Character: Dean at College
Released: July 31, 1989
Type: Movie
The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the 'black sheep' of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the rebellious teenagers.
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Title: Seinfeld
Character: Farmer
Released: July 5, 1989
Type: TV
A stand-up comedian and his three offbeat friends weather the pitfalls and payoffs of life in New York City in the '90s. It's a show about nothing.
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Title: Seinfeld
Character: Blind Man
Released: July 5, 1989
Type: TV
A stand-up comedian and his three offbeat friends weather the pitfalls and payoffs of life in New York City in the '90s. It's a show about nothing.
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Title: Tales from the Crypt
Character: Des
Released: June 10, 1989
Type: TV
Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?
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Title: Baywatch
Character: Fireman
Released: April 23, 1989
Type: TV
Join the Baywatch lifeguards on their thrilling adventures filled with beautiful beaches and those iconic red swimsuits.
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Title: Baywatch
Character: Joe
Released: April 23, 1989
Type: TV
Join the Baywatch lifeguards on their thrilling adventures filled with beautiful beaches and those iconic red swimsuits.
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Title: Quantum Leap
Character: Doc Graves
Released: March 26, 1989
Type: TV
Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, facing mirror images that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Al, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Sam can see and hear. And so Dr. Beckett finds himself leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.
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The 'Burbs
Title: The 'Burbs
Character: Detective #2
Released: February 17, 1989
Type: Movie
When secretive new neighbors move in next door, suburbanite Ray Peterson and his friends let their paranoia get the best of them as they start to suspect the newcomers of evildoings and commence an investigation. But it's hardly how Ray, who much prefers drinking beer, reading his newspaper and watching a ball game on the tube expected to spend his vacation.
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Title: B.L. Stryker
Released: February 13, 1989
Type: TV
B.L. Stryker is an American detective drama that aired on ABC from February 13, 1989 to May 5, 1990 as part of the ABC Mystery Movie along with Gideon Oliver, Columbo and Kojak. The series was executive produced by Tom Selleck.
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Title: Superboy
Released: October 8, 1988
Type: TV
Superboy is a half-hour live-action television series based on Kal-El's early years as Superboy. It depicted Superboy's adventures during his college years, his meetings with Lex Luthor and his romance with Lana Lang. The series was brought to the screen by executive producers Ilya and Alexander Salkind, who were the producers of the first three Superman movies and the 1984 Supergirl movie.
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Dark Before Dawn
Title: Dark Before Dawn
Character: Logan
Released: January 2, 1988
Type: Movie
The good people of Milo, Kansas combine forces to battle against the evil agribusiness Farmco that conspires to drive up the price of bread to six dollars a loaf.
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Title: Wiseguy
Character: Ernest Haynes
Released: September 16, 1987
Type: TV
Vinnie Terranova does time in a New Jersey penitentiary to set up his undercover role as an agent for the OCB (Organized Crime Bureau) of the United States. His roots in a traditional Italian city neighborhood form the underlying dramatic base throughout the series, bringing him into conflict with his conservative mother and other family members while acting undercover as syndicate enforcer.
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Innerspace
Title: Innerspace
Character: Supermarket Customer
Released: July 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Test pilot Tuck Pendleton volunteers to test a special vessel for a miniaturization experiment. Accidentally injected into a neurotic hypochondriac, Jack Putter, Tuck must convince Jack to find his ex-girlfriend, Lydia Maxwell, to help him extract Tuck and his ship and re-enlarge them before his oxygen runs out.
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Title: Married... with Children
Character: Edwin
Released: April 5, 1987
Type: TV
Al Bundy is an unsuccessful middle aged shoe salesman with a miserable life and an equally dysfunctional family. He hates his job, his wife is lazy, his son is dysfunctional (especially with women), and his daughter is dim-witted and promiscuous.
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A Smoky Mountain Christmas
Title: A Smoky Mountain Christmas
Character: Dr. Jennings
Released: December 14, 1986
Type: Movie
A country-western singer on a trip through the Tennessee mountains runs into a reclusive backwoodsman — and a witch.
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Return to Mayberry
Title: Return to Mayberry
Character: Preacher
Released: April 13, 1986
Type: Movie
After being away for awhile, Andy Taylor returns home to Mayberry to visit Opie, now an expectant father. While there he ends up helping Barney Fife mount a campaign for sheriff.
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Two Soldiers
Title: Two Soldiers
Character: Paw
Released: April 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Charming tale of a small farm boy who runs away from his rural environment in search of his older brother who has joined the Army to fight the Japanese in World War II.
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Gung Ho
Title: Gung Ho
Character: Mayor Conrad Zwart
Released: March 14, 1986
Type: Movie
When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt Stevenson faces the tricky challenge of mediating the assimilation of two clashing corporate cultures. At one end is the Japanese plant manager and the sycophant who is angling for his position. At the other, a number of disgruntled long-time union members struggle with the new exigencies of Japanese quality control.
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Title: The Long Hot Summer
Character: Wilk
Released: October 6, 1985
Type: TV
When drifter Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town, Will Varner, a family patriarch, sees Ben as a better choice to inherit the family business than his only son, Jody. Will therefore tries to push Ben and his daughter Clara into marriage. Clara is initially reluctant to court Ben, and Jody senses that Ben threatens his position.
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Creator
Title: Creator
Character: Mr. Spencer
Released: September 20, 1985
Type: Movie
With the help of student assistant Boris and stolen university equipment, Dr. Harry Wolper plans to clone his dead wife. But then he meets Meli, an egg donor for his experiment, and they fall in love. Faced with choosing between his deceased wife and Meli, Dr. Wolper sees his situation in a new light when Boris' own new love, Barbara, falls into a coma. Meanwhile, another professor tries shutting down the cloning project.
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Cocoon
Title: Cocoon
Character: St. Petersburg Dectective
Released: June 21, 1985
Type: Movie
When a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor.
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Playing with Fire
Title: Playing with Fire
Character: Fireman Goodwin
Released: April 13, 1985
Type: Movie
Gary Coleman stars as a teenage arsonist. The authorities, friends, and neighbors warn his absentee parents until it is too late.
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Scandal Sheet
Title: Scandal Sheet
Character: Mr. Bell
Released: January 21, 1985
Type: Movie
The publisher of a celebrity gossip tabloid sets out to destroy an aging actor, whose career is foundering and who is also facing a battle with alcoholism.
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Title: Murder, She Wrote
Character: Fillmore
Released: September 30, 1984
Type: TV
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases.
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Title: Finder of Lost Loves
Character: Hank
Released: September 22, 1984
Type: TV
The Finder of Lost Loves TV show was a 60 minute drama series on ABC about a private investigator who specialized in finding lost loves from the past for his heartbroken clients.
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Splash
Title: Splash
Character: McCullough
Released: March 9, 1984
Type: Movie
A successful businessman falls in love with the girl of his dreams. There's one big complication though; he's fallen hook, line and sinker for a mermaid.
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The Fantastic World of D.C. Collins
Title: The Fantastic World of D.C. Collins
Character: Policeman
Released: February 10, 1984
Type: Movie
Gary Coleman plays the son of a U.S. diplomat who imagines himself in fantastic situations.
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The Lonely Guy
Title: The Lonely Guy
Character: Minister
Released: January 27, 1984
Type: Movie
A writer for a greeting card company learns the true meaning of loneliness when he comes home to find his girlfriend in bed with another man.
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Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess
Title: Rita Hayworth: The Love Goddess
Character: Still Photographer
Released: November 1, 1983
Type: Movie
The life and times of silverscreen goddess Rita Hayworth.
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Forever and Beyond
Title: Forever and Beyond
Character: Technician
Released: October 15, 1983
Type: Movie
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Love Letters
Title: Love Letters
Character: Joseph Chesley
Released: April 1, 1983
Type: Movie
After discovering a box of old love letters sent to her mother by a mysterious stranger, Anna, a young radio deejay, begins a torrid affair with a married man. Burning attraction brings them together, but the reality does not come close to the passion expressed in the letters.
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Title: The Thorn Birds
Character: Doc Wilson
Released: March 27, 1983
Type: TV
The story based on a novel by Colleen McCullough focuses on three generations of the Cleary family living on a sheep station in the Australian outback.
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The Kid with the 200 I.Q.
Title: The Kid with the 200 I.Q.
Released: February 6, 1983
Type: Movie
A 13-year-old genius goes to college and tries to cope not only with campus social life, but also with his professor.
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The Executioner's Song
Title: The Executioner's Song
Character: Lt. Nelson
Released: September 10, 1982
Type: Movie
In this fact-based made-for TV film, Gary Gilmore, an Indiana man who just finished serving a lengthy stay in prison, tries to start anew by moving to Utah. Before long, Gary begins an ill-advised romance with the troubled Nicole Baker, a teenage single mother. As their relationship quickly deteriorates, Gary goes on a murderous rampage, leaving two dead. During his trial, he demands capital punishment; a media circus ensues and outsiders look to profit from his story.
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The Kid with the Broken Halo
Title: The Kid with the Broken Halo
Character: Coach Ramsdell
Released: April 5, 1982
Type: Movie
Andy LeBeau is a fallen angel of sorts. He keeps messing up and causing trouble in angel training. The archangel, Michael, decides to give him one more shot. His mission: Help out the problems of three cases. First, the Desautel family, who are on the edge of breaking up. Then, the McNulty family, who are workaholics. Finally, Dorothea Powell who is a secluded, grumpy old woman. Andy's guide on earth is Blake, who is none too thrilled to work with Andy.
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The Miracle of Kathy Miller
Title: The Miracle of Kathy Miller
Character: Dr. Jewell
Released: October 5, 1981
Type: Movie
With the support of her parents, an Arizona adolescent overcomes severe injuries to run in a 10K race.
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Smokey Bites the Dust
Title: Smokey Bites the Dust
Character: Football Coach
Released: October 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Follows the rivalry between a small-town Southern sheriff and a small-town delinquent who steals cars and then destroys them with the sheriff’s daughter by his side.
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Title: Dynasty
Released: January 12, 1981
Type: TV
The saga of a wealthy Denver family in the oil business: Blake Carrington, the patriarch; Krystle, his former secretary and wife; his children: Adam, lost in childhood after a kidnapping; Fallon, pampered and spoiled; Steven, openly gay; and Amanda, hidden from him by his ex-wife, the conniving Alexis. Most of the show features the conflict between 2 large corporations, Blake's Denver Carrington and Alexis' ColbyCo.
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Skyward
Title: Skyward
Character: Pilot #2
Released: November 20, 1980
Type: Movie
Billie Dupree is a flight instructor at an old Texas airport. When a young girl in a wheelchair finds the airport by watching gliders fly, she decides she wants to learn how to fly. Dupree teaches her to fly with some special controls compensating for her handicap. Koup Trenton runs an aircraft repair service and is trying desperately to get an old airplane back in the air. The three, together, put the young girl and the old plane up in the air.
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Scout's Honor
Title: Scout's Honor
Character: The Captain
Released: September 30, 1980
Type: Movie
Gary Coleman stars as little Joey Seymour, a clever but lonely orphan shuffled from one foster home to the next, who is also determined to be the best Cub Scout ever. Pearl Bartlett (Katherine Helmond) is a hard-working executive who dislikes children, but she must take on a troop of Cub Scouts and become a den mother to save her job. Somewhere along the way, Joey teaches Pearl the true meaning of caring.
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The Kid from Left Field
Title: The Kid from Left Field
Character: Harry the Bartender
Released: September 30, 1979
Type: Movie
A bat boy guides the San Diego Padres to the World Series with the secret help of his dad, a baseball has-been who now sells refreshments in the stands.
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Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers
Title: Flatbed Annie & Sweetie Pie: Lady Truckers
Character: Mr. Murray
Released: February 10, 1979
Type: Movie
This engaging made-for-television movie follows the adventures of Ginny "Sweetie Pie" LaRosa (Kim Darby), who needs money after her trucker husband, Jack (Fred Willard), is shot by hijackers. Fortunately, she finds a partner in Flatbed Annie (Annie Potts), a freewheelin' driver. The women form an unlikely but profitable friendship while fending off the repo man who wants the truck and the criminals who are after the cocaine hidden in it.
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Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy
Title: Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy
Character: Self
Released: November 22, 1978
Type: Movie
Steve Martin's first network special for NBC offers part concert footage (shot at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles) and part sketch comedy.
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Cotton Candy
Title: Cotton Candy
Character: Mr. Bremmercamp
Released: October 26, 1978
Type: Movie
An uncool high-schooler forms his own group to beat the local hotshots in a battle of the bands.
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Title: Battlestar Galactica
Character: Farnes
Released: September 17, 1978
Type: TV
When the 12 Colonies of Man are wiped out by a cybernetic race called the Cylons, Commander Adama and the crew of the battlestar Galactica lead a ragtag fleet of human survivors in search of a "mythical planet" called Earth.
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Title: Mork & Mindy
Character: Guard
Released: September 14, 1978
Type: TV
A wacky alien comes to Earth to study its residents and the life of the human woman he boards with is never the same.
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Mr. No Legs
Title: Mr. No Legs
Character: Lou's Sidekick
Released: May 1, 1978
Type: Movie
A double amputee known as Mr. No Legs oversees a drug syndicate while cavorting around in his double shotgun-equipped wheelchair. When one of the syndicate's drug dealers accidentally kills his own girlfriend—whose brother is a cop—after she announces plans to leave him, the game is on to bury the evidence, protect the syndicate and evade the long arm of the law.
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Another Man, Another Chance
Title: Another Man, Another Chance
Character: Wagonmaster
Released: September 28, 1977
Type: Movie
Young Jeanne falls in love with photographer Francis, who soon takes her with him when he emigrates to America. In a small town in the still wild west, they build up a small photo shop. Meanwhile, animal doctor David lives on his lonesome farm together with his unlucky wife. It takes years and two tragic accidents until Jeanne and David meet. She has already decided to return to France as soon as possible, but love, and fate, have other plans.
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Grand Theft Auto
Title: Grand Theft Auto
Character: Ned Slinker
Released: June 16, 1977
Type: Movie
A rich girl steals her dad's Rolls Royce and heads off to Las Vegas to get married. However, her angry parents, a jealous suitor, and a bunch of reward seekers are determined to stop her.
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The Legend of Frank Woods
Title: The Legend of Frank Woods
Character: Howard Blacker
Released: April 30, 1977
Type: Movie
Legendary Quick-shot Frank Woods is caught in a shootout and kills three drunks in self-defense. In fear for his life, Frank escapes to the Arizona desert.
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The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe
Title: The New Daughters of Joshua Cabe
Released: May 29, 1976
Type: Movie
Three young women who posed as the daughters of an elderly homesteader find out that he has been falsely accused of murder, convicted, and sentenced to hang. They hatch a plot to smuggle him out of prison.
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Eat My Dust
Title: Eat My Dust
Character: Clark
Released: April 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Hoover Nielbold is a car-crazy teenager who, in order to impress the hottest girl in school, takes her for a ride in a souped-up race car owned by local racer Big Bubba Jones. Hoover's father Harry, who's also the local sheriff is furious at the situation and orders his bumbling deputies to go after him. With the Sheriff's office overflowing with concerned parents and citizens and his deputies failing to catch him. He enlists the help of Jones and fellow racers to capture him. It culminates in a thrilling car chase finale through the rural countryside.
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Title: Laverne & Shirley
Released: January 27, 1976
Type: TV
Laverne & Shirley is an American television sitcom that ran on ABC from January 27, 1976 to May 10, 1983. It starred Penny Marshall as Laverne De Fazio and Cindy Williams as Shirley Feeney, single roommates who worked as bottlecappers in a fictitious Milwaukee brewery called "Shotz Brewery." The show was a spin-off from Happy Days, as the two lead characters were originally introduced on that series as acquaintances of Fonzie. Set in roughly the same time period, the timeline started in approximately 1958, when the series began, through 1967, when the series ended. As with Happy Days, it was made by Paramount Television, created by Garry Marshall, and executive produced by Garry Marshall, Edward K. Milkis, and Thomas L. Miller.
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Huckleberry Finn
Title: Huckleberry Finn
Character: Pap Finn
Released: March 25, 1975
Type: Movie
Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River. Accompanying him is Jim, a slave running away from being sold. Together the two strike a bond of friendship that takes them through harrowing events and thrilling adventures.
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Locusts
Title: Locusts
Character: Aaron
Released: October 9, 1974
Type: Movie
A swarm of locusts appears on the horizon near a Midwestern town and the inhabitants must find a way to destroy or divert them before the insects devour the area's valuable crops
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Title: Little House on the Prairie
Released: September 11, 1974
Type: TV
Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert, and Karen Grassle, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s.
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Chinatown
Title: Chinatown
Character: Irate Farmer
Released: June 20, 1974
Type: Movie
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.
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Where the Lilies Bloom
Title: Where the Lilies Bloom
Character: Roy Luther
Released: April 10, 1974
Type: Movie
A family of children decide not to tell anyone their father has died, and to live on their own in the backwoods of rural North Carolina. If the state finds out they are on their own, they will be split up and sent to live in foster homes.
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Title: Happy Days
Released: January 15, 1974
Type: TV
In 1950s Milwaukee the Cunningham family must contend with Fonzie, a motorcycle riding Casanova.
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The Red Pony
Title: The Red Pony
Character: Sheriff Bill Smith
Released: March 17, 1973
Type: Movie
A young farmboy who can't seem to communicate with his father develops an attachment to a young red pony.
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Title: Kung Fu
Released: October 14, 1972
Type: TV
The adventures of a Shaolin Monk as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in Kung Fu.
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Title: ABC Afterschool Special
Character: Myron Faraday
Released: October 4, 1972
Type: TV
Dramatically presented situations, often controversial, of interest to children and teenagers. Several episodes were either in animated form or presented as documentaries. Topics included illiteracy, substance abuse and teenage pregnancy.
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Title: The Waltons
Character: Dr. McIvers
Released: September 14, 1972
Type: TV
The Waltons live their life in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II.
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Title: The Waltons
Released: September 14, 1972
Type: TV
The Waltons live their life in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II.
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Title: The Rookies
Released: September 11, 1972
Type: TV
The Rookies is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1972 until 1976. It follows the exploits of three rookie police officers working in an unidentified city for the fictitious Southern California Police Department.
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Bloody Trail
Title: Bloody Trail
Character: Jake
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
A Union soldier travels through the South right after the Civil War ends, and runs up against angry ex-slaves, murderous former Confederates and desperate women.
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Title: Nichols
Character: Deputy
Released: September 16, 1971
Type: TV
Nichols is an American Western television series starring James Garner broadcast in the United States on NBC during the 1971-72 season. Set the fictional town of Nichols, Arizona, in 1914, Nichols differed from traditional Western series of the era. The main character, a sheriff, rode on a motorcycle and in an automobile rather than on the traditional horse. The hero did not carry a firearm and was generally opposed to the use of violence to solve problems, preferring other means. Margot Kidder portrayed Ruth, the love interest/barmaid of Nichols.
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The Wild Country
Title: The Wild Country
Character: Cleve
Released: December 16, 1970
Type: Movie
Uprooted from their comfortable home in Pennsylvania, James and Kate Tanner, along with their sons, Virgil and Andy, journey to the wild country of 1890s Wyoming to become farmers. Soon, they come face-to-face with tornadoes, bears and wolves. But through the hardships their love for each other endures, even when a local rancher sees the newcomers as "squatters" on his land, and will stop at nothing – including murder – to drive them out.
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Title: Night Gallery
Released: December 16, 1970
Type: TV
Rod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a macabre museum. A chilling work of art serves as the connective link between the stories.
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Title: Then Came Bronson
Released: September 17, 1969
Type: TV
Then Came Bronson is an American adventure/drama television series starring Michael Parks that aired on NBC from 1969 to 1970, and was produced by MGM Television. The series, created by Denne Bart Petitclerc, began with a movie pilot on Monday, March 24, 1969. The series was approved for one year and began its first run on September 17, 1969. The pilot was also released in Europe as a feature film.
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Cool Hand Luke
Title: Cool Hand Luke
Character: Sheriff
Released: November 1, 1967
Type: Movie
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.
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Gentle Giant
Title: Gentle Giant
Character: Tater Coughlin
Released: October 25, 1967
Type: Movie
The Story of a boy and his bear.
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Title: Gentle Ben
Character: Henry Boomhauer
Released: September 10, 1967
Type: TV
Gentle Ben is an American family series that aired on CBS from September 10, 1967 to April 27, 1969. The series follows the adventures, in the Florida Everglades, of a game warden, Tom Wedloe, his wife Ellen, his son Mark and Ben the grizzly bear.
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Title: The Monroes
Released: September 7, 1966
Type: TV
The Monroes is a 26-segment Western television series which originally aired on ABC during the 1966-1967 season. The series centers around the story of five orphans trying to survive as a family on the frontier in the area around, what is now, Grand Teton National Park near Jackson, Wyoming.
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An Eye for an Eye
Title: An Eye for an Eye
Character: Harry
Released: June 1, 1966
Type: Movie
A former bounty hunter teams up with a younger one, to track down and kill the wanted gang leader who murdered his wife and little boy.
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Village of the Giants
Title: Village of the Giants
Character: Deputy
Released: October 20, 1965
Type: Movie
"Genius" accidentally invents "goo" which causes living things to rapidly grow to an enormous size. Seeing an opportunity to get rich, some delinquent teenagers steal the "goo" and, as a result of a sophomoric dare, consume it themselves and become thirty feet tall. They then take over control of the town by kidnapping the sheriff's daughter and dancing suggestively.
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Title: The F.B.I.
Character: Ranger
Released: September 19, 1965
Type: TV
The F.B.I. is an American television series that was broadcast on ABC from 1965 to 1974. It was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, and the characters almost always drove Ford vehicles in the series. Alcoa was co-sponsor of Season One only.
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The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Title: The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Character: Camp Counselor (uncredited)
Released: March 27, 1963
Type: Movie
Although he's only seven, Eddie's got it all figured out. He wants his father, a widower, to get remarried — to the girl next door. Unfortunately, she's not one of the women that his dad's been dating.
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Title: The Virginian
Character: Luka
Released: September 19, 1962
Type: TV
The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is the setting for a variety of stories, many more based on character and relationships than the usual western.
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Title: The Mike Douglas Show
Character: Self
Released: December 11, 1961
Type: TV
The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.
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Title: The Andy Griffith Show
Character: Treasury agent
Released: October 3, 1960
Type: TV
The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife, a spinster aunt and housekeeper, Aunt Bee, and a precocious young son, Opie. Local ne'er-do-wells, bumbling pals, and temperamental girlfriends further complicate his life. Andy Griffith stated in a Today Show interview, with respect to the time period of the show: "Well, though we never said it, and though it was shot in the '60s, it had a feeling of the '30s. It was when we were doing it, of a time gone by." The series never placed lower than seventh in the Nielsen ratings and ended its final season at number one. It has been ranked by TV Guide as the 9th-best show in American television history. Though neither Griffith nor the show won awards during its eight-season run, series co-stars Knotts and Bavier accumulated a combined total of six Emmy Awards. The show, a semi-spin-off from an episode of The Danny Thomas Show titled "Danny Meets Andy Griffith", spawned its own spin-off series, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., a sequel series, Mayberry R.F.D., and a reunion telemovie, Return to Mayberry. The show's enduring popularity has generated a good deal of show-related merchandise. Reruns currently air on TV Land, and the complete series is available on DVD. All eight seasons are also now available by streaming video services such as Netflix.
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Title: The Andy Griffith Show
Character: The Governor's Chauffeur
Released: October 3, 1960
Type: TV
The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife, a spinster aunt and housekeeper, Aunt Bee, and a precocious young son, Opie. Local ne'er-do-wells, bumbling pals, and temperamental girlfriends further complicate his life. Andy Griffith stated in a Today Show interview, with respect to the time period of the show: "Well, though we never said it, and though it was shot in the '60s, it had a feeling of the '30s. It was when we were doing it, of a time gone by." The series never placed lower than seventh in the Nielsen ratings and ended its final season at number one. It has been ranked by TV Guide as the 9th-best show in American television history. Though neither Griffith nor the show won awards during its eight-season run, series co-stars Knotts and Bavier accumulated a combined total of six Emmy Awards. The show, a semi-spin-off from an episode of The Danny Thomas Show titled "Danny Meets Andy Griffith", spawned its own spin-off series, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., a sequel series, Mayberry R.F.D., and a reunion telemovie, Return to Mayberry. The show's enduring popularity has generated a good deal of show-related merchandise. Reruns currently air on TV Land, and the complete series is available on DVD. All eight seasons are also now available by streaming video services such as Netflix.
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Title: The Andy Griffith Show
Character: Bus Driver
Released: October 3, 1960
Type: TV
The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed sheriff of the fictional small community of Mayberry, North Carolina. His life is complicated by an inept, but well-meaning deputy, Barney Fife, a spinster aunt and housekeeper, Aunt Bee, and a precocious young son, Opie. Local ne'er-do-wells, bumbling pals, and temperamental girlfriends further complicate his life. Andy Griffith stated in a Today Show interview, with respect to the time period of the show: "Well, though we never said it, and though it was shot in the '60s, it had a feeling of the '30s. It was when we were doing it, of a time gone by." The series never placed lower than seventh in the Nielsen ratings and ended its final season at number one. It has been ranked by TV Guide as the 9th-best show in American television history. Though neither Griffith nor the show won awards during its eight-season run, series co-stars Knotts and Bavier accumulated a combined total of six Emmy Awards. The show, a semi-spin-off from an episode of The Danny Thomas Show titled "Danny Meets Andy Griffith", spawned its own spin-off series, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., a sequel series, Mayberry R.F.D., and a reunion telemovie, Return to Mayberry. The show's enduring popularity has generated a good deal of show-related merchandise. Reruns currently air on TV Land, and the complete series is available on DVD. All eight seasons are also now available by streaming video services such as Netflix.
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Title: Bat Masterson
Character: Fletcher
Released: October 8, 1958
Type: TV
Bat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of the life of real-life marshal/gambler/dandy Bat Masterson. The title character was played by Gene Barry and the half-hour black-and-white shows ran on NBC from 1958 to 1961. The series was produced by Ziv Television Productions, the company responsible for such hit series as Sea Hunt and Highway Patrol.
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Frontier Woman
Title: Frontier Woman
Character: Prewitt
Released: July 4, 1956
Type: Movie
Tennessee, 1838. Polly Crockett, the daughter of the legendary hero Davy Crockett of Alamo, and makes a living from hunting in the forests. These forests are still inhabited by the Indians. Most of them live in peace but some of them are negatively affected by white traders. One day Polly, who is accompanied by her faithful Indian friend Neshoba, goes to the town to sell her hides. Polly meets Catawampus Jones. Jones and his father fought in the Alamo too. Indians influenced by Prewitt, an employee of a hide company, and Redbud, are killing settlers and burning down their homes. Polly's house is destroyed too and her maid Birdie, Neshoba's mother, is killed.
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Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Judge Alan Franklin
Released: September 10, 1955
Type: TV
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
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Title: Gunsmoke
Character: Frank Benton
Released: September 10, 1955
Type: TV
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place in and around Dodge City, Kansas, during the settlement of the American West. The central character is lawman Marshal Matt Dillon, played by William Conrad on radio and James Arness on television.
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Title: Kraft Television Theatre
Released: May 7, 1947
Type: TV
Kraft Television Theatre is an American drama/anthology television series