A. MartinezFilmography

Debating Robert Lee

Actors: Daniel Letterle, Beau Bridges, Kaley Cuoco, Dale Midkiff

Synopsis: A group of typical high-school students finds their foundations shaken and their beliefs challenged by a newly arrived debate teacher who makes it his mission to explore their innermost feelings on the subject of life and death. The setting is Palos Verdes, CA, and the teacher is Robert Lee (Dale Midkiff Read More

Fist of the Warrior

Actors: Ho Sung Pak, Roger Guenveur Smith, Peter Greene, Sherilyn Fenn, A. Martinez

Synopsis: A retired hit man is drawn back into the fray in this martial arts action thriller starring Ho-Sung Pak (Drunken Master II, Alone in the Dark). Lee Choe (Pak) moved to San Francisco to escape a life of crime and live in peace with his beautiful girlfriend Sarah. Any hope for a happy future is Read More

Ordinary Sinner

Actors: Kris Park, Elizabeth Banks, Brendan P. Hines

Synopsis: A young man struggles to sort out his feelings and his future as a wave of intolerance sweeps through a college town in this drama. Peter Thompson (Brendan P. Hines) was a student at a seminary studying to be an Episcopalian minister, until a tragic incident involving another student caused him to Read More

Killer Instinct: From the Files of Agent Candace Long

Actors: Jean Smart, A. Martinez, Robert Joy, Peter MacNeill, Robin Brûlé

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this made-for-cable crime drama stars Jean Smart as veteran FBI agent and divorced mother Candace Long. Burned out by years of tracking down this most vicious criminals in America, Long is about to take a well-deserved retirement and devote her energies to her family and her Read More

What's Cooking?

Actors: Alfre Woodard, Dennis Haysbert, Ann Weldon, Mercedes Ruehl, Victor Rivers, Kyra Sedgwick, Julianna Margulies, Joan Chen, Kristy Wu, Will Yun Lee

Synopsis: Kenyan-born, London-educated Indian filmmaker Gurinder Chadha follows up on her debut hit Bhaji on the Beach (1994) with this gentle look at multiculturalism in Los Angeles. The film details the lives of four ethnically diverse families -- black, Latino, Jewish, and Asian -- during one frantic Read More

A Memory in My Heart

Synopsis: Jane Seymour stars in this made-for-TV drama as Rebecca Blake, a bookstore employee who lives contently in San Pedro, California with her construction-worker husband Joe (A Martinez). A chance meeting with a woman named Lynn Wyman (Cathy Lee Crosby), coupled with her recent nightmares and searing Read More

Cruel Justice

Synopsis: Not to be confused with the cable-television movie Strange Justice, which aired the same evening on August 29, 1999, the NBC TV movie Cruel Justice stars A. Martinez as Jerry Metcalf, the intensely protective single father of 16-year-old Amy Metcalf (Nicki Lynn Aycox). Already distraught over the Read More

Last Rites

Actors: Randy Quaid, Embeth Davidtz, A. Martinez, Clarence Williams III, Tracey Ellis

Synopsis: Not at all sorry for committing a heinous crime, a convicted killer awaits his execution. By some miracle he survives the execution and demonstrates some profound changes. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Wind River

Synopsis: In 1854 Utah, 13-year old Nick Wilson (Blake Heron), bored by life on the family farm with his widowed mother (Karen Allen), accepts an invitation to join a local Shoshone tribe. The Indians are anxious to have the boy among them because he fulfills the prescient dreams of one of the elders, Anuba Read More

Double Tap

Actors: Stephen Rea, Heather Locklear, Peter Greene

Synopsis: Action-veteran Joel Silver produced this taut tale of a female FBI agent who puts her career and life on the line when she falls in love with an enigmatic vigilante assassin. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Cherokee Kid

Actors: Sinbad, James Coburn, Gregory Hines, A. Martinez, Ernie Hudson

Synopsis: In this Western, a young sodbuster learns the ways of a gunfighter from one of the best quick-draw artists and then uses his knowledge for revenge. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Touched By an Angel: Rock 'N' Roll Dad

Synopsis: The "perfect" family life of rock star Jon Mateos (A Martinez) is shattered when his Evie (Rosalind Allen) dies in a car accident while rushing to make a TV appearance with her husband. Now Jon must shoulder the burden of looking after his three children, whom Evie had raised all by herself while Read More

Grand Avenue, Part 1

Actors: A. Martinez, Irene Bedard, Tantoo Cardinal, Sheila Tousey, Diane Debassige

Synopsis: In this provocative drama, three Native American families attempt the difficult task of living successfully in modern society while still remaining true to their cultural tradition and heritage. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Sweet Dreams

Synopsis: Years after the accident that rendered her comatose, Alison Sullivan (Tiffani-Amber Thiessen) awakens with no memory of her past life or of the events leading up to the event that caused her amnesia. As she goes from person to person asking details of her life history, Alison is unaware that some Read More

One Night Stand

Actors: Ally Sheedy, A. Martinez, Frederic Forrest, Diane Salinger, Don Novello

Synopsis: When a woman hopes that a night of passion will grow into something deeper, she finds that her new beau may have some secrets in this erotic thriller. Ever since her divorce, Michelle Sanderson (Ally Sheedy) has tried to focus on her career in advertising, but she's become terribly lonely, and Read More

Where's the Money, Noreen?

Synopsis: After a botched armored-car-robbery, survivor Noreen spends 12 1/2 years in prison. As she is the only one who knows the location of the long-missing loot, she finds herself dogged by greedy fellows wanting to get their hands upon it. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Deconstructing Sarah

Actors: Sheila Kelley, Rachel Ticotin

Synopsis: A friend's determination to uncover the truth is the basis for the made-for television drama. Sheila Kelley stars as Sarah Vincent, a woman who leads a bizarre double-life as a woman in business by day, and a sleazy bar-hopper by night. After Sarah is mysteriously killed, her best friend Elizabeth Read More

She Led Two Lives

Actors: Connie Sellecca, A. Martinez, Perry King, Patricia Clarkson, David Wohl

Synopsis: In this fact-based made-for-television drama, a woman engages in polyandry. The trouble is neither husband knows about the other. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Expectant Father

In the Nick of Time

Actors: Lloyd Bridges, Michael Tucker, Alison La Placa

Synopsis: When a North Pole bookkeeping boo-boo threatens to destroy the magic of Christmas, poor Santa is left with very little time in which to find a suitable replacement. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Criminal Behavior

Actors: Farrah Fawcett, A. Martinez, Dakin Matthews, John Hancock, Andrew Robinson

Synopsis: Farrah Fawcett stars as a struggling defense lawyer in the made-for-TV Criminal Behavior. Defending a nurse on theft charge, Farrah ends up ferreting out clues in a ticklish LA murder case. The path to the truth is labyrinthine, and no one can be trusted. A. Martinez, Andy Robinson and Cliff DeYoung Read More

Not of This World

Synopsis: Uh oh. An alien blob has oozed from the sky and is attempting to suck all the electricity from the earth in this sci-fi film. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Hunt for the Night Stalker

Synopsis: Based on a true story, the made-for-television Hunt for the Night Stalker is about a pair of Los Angeles police detectives who hunted down the satanic Californian serial killer Richard Ramirez during the mid-'80s. The film was originally aired under the title Manhunt: Search for the Night Stalker Read More

She-Devil

Actors: Meryl Streep, Roseanne, Ed Begley, Jr., Linda Hunt, Sylvia Miles

Synopsis: Susan Seidelman directed this loose adaptation of Fay Weldon's novel The Life and Loves of a She-Devil concerning the extreme revenge exacted by a dumpy housewife on her philandering husband. Mary Fisher (Meryl Streep) is a best-selling romance novelist of the manner of Danielle Steel or Jackie Collins Read More

Powwow Highway

Actors: A. Martinez, Gary Farmer, Amanda Wyss, Joanelle Nadine Romero, Sam Vlahos

Synopsis: The road movie gets a smart update with this seriocomic tale of two Cheyenne men traveling from their reservation in Montana to New Mexico. For one of them, Buddy Red Bow (A Martinez), a quick-tempered activist, the journey is a practical one; his sister has been arrested and he is the only family Read More

Manhunt: Search for the Night Stalker

Actors: A. Martinez

Synopsis: Manhunt: Search for the Night Stalker was a made-for-TV factual drama about the elusive killer who terrorized Southern California in the summer of 1985. Richard Jordan and A. Martinez star as the two LA detectives heading up the investigation. So much time is taken up with police procedure that Read More

Miracles

Actors: Tom Conti, Teri Garr, Paul Rodriguez, Christopher Lloyd, A. Martinez

Synopsis: A doctor (Tom Conti) and his wife (Teri Garr), recently divorced, are kidnapped and brought to South America by an inept jewel thief (Paul Rodriguez), just in time to help cure a tribal chief's daughter of appendicitis. Then, a series of circumstances brings the entire family together. ~ John Read More

Walking the Edge

Actors: Robert Forster, Joe Spinell, A. Martinez, Aarika Wells, Wayne Woodson

Synopsis: In this action-crime drama, Jason Walk, an L.A. cab driver, suffers a luckless life. He not only has marital woes at home, he is unable to collect the money from the people he runs numbers for. One day the luck changes when the gun-toting Christine enters his hack. She is out to get revenge upon Read More

Beyond the Limit

Actors: Michael Caine, Richard Gere, Bob Hoskins, Elpidia Carrillo, Joaquim de Almeida

Synopsis: John Mackenzie directed this schematic adaptation of Graham Greene's best-selling thriller The Honorary Consul. Richard Gere stars as Dr. Eduardo Plarr, a brilliant doctor who has chosen to practice in the provinces rather than the teeming city of Buenos Aires because his father remains a Read More

Seguin

Synopsis: Originally telecast on January 26, 1982, Seguin was the third presentation of PBS' American Playhouse. Though not top-billed, A Martinez plays the central role of the controversial real-life Mexican Juan Nepomuenco Seguin (1803-49). A hero in Mexico's war against the United States Read More

Roughnecks

Synopsis: One of several syndicated TV miniseries of the 1980s, Roughnecks was part of the same "Golden Circle" project that previously yielded the multipart Wild Times. The title refers to a group of two-fisted oil wildcatters, among them self-made millionaire Paul Marshall (Steve Forrest), his lifelong Read More

Quincy, M.E.: No Way to Treat a Patient

Synopsis: A Martinez guest stars as Antonio Carbo, a compassionate young physician on the threshold of a brilliant career. Unfortunately, Carbo is in danger of losing his license--and his future--when he is accused of mishandling a gunshot victim who died while being transported from an emergency clinic to Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Walk Softly Through the Night, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story (originally telecast in a single two-hour timeslot), Quincy investigates when the son of TV kiddie host Brock Campbell (Michael Constantine), dies of a quaalude overdose. The grieving Campbell had no idea that his son was a junkie--nor could he have ever Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Walk Softly Through the Night, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Quincy (Jack Klugman) is still work hand in glove with idealistic pre-med student Marty Herrera in his efforts to bring a shady, drug-pushing doctor named Mason Colella to justice. Hampering Quincy's efforts is the fact that young Herrera's method of "curing" Read More

Centennial

Actors: William Atherton, Raymond Burr, Richard Chamberlain, Timothy Dalton, Alex Karras, Robert Conrad

Synopsis: The longest (26-1/2 hours), most expensive ($25 million) and most complicated (four directors, five producers, five cinematographers, almost 100 speaking parts, several hundred extras) project made for television up to that time, Centennial was shown in two- and three-hour installments over a Read More

All in the Family: Archie and the Super Bowl

Actors: Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers, Jason Wingreen

Synopsis: Archie fully expects that his bar will make a fortune on Super Bowl Sunday. What Archie hadn't counted on was the fact that two holdup men would likewise covet the contents of the bar's cash register. This is the episode in which virtually the entire cast is stripped to their undies. Written by Read More

All in the Family: Archie and the KKK, Part One

Actors: Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers, Dennis Patrick

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Archie is offered membership in a secretive "patriotic" organization. Only when it is too late does Archie realize that he's been "rushed" by the KKK, who have designated his own son-in-law, Mike, as their latest target for persecution. Dennis Patrick and Roger Bowen Read More

All in the Family: Archie's Bitter Pill, Part One

Actors: Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers, Danny Dayton

Synopsis: In this first episode of a two-part story, the pressures of the saloon business lead Archie to begin taking unprescribed pep pills. Inevitably, he develops a dangerous addiction to amphetamines. The script was written by Mel Tolkin and Larry Rhine in collaboration with medical consultant William Read More

All in the Family: Archie's Bitter Pill, Part Two

Actors: Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers, A. Martinez

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Archie's dependency upon "pep pills" -- brought about by the pressures of owning a bar -- has gotten completely out of hand. Fortunately, he is able to make a complete withdrawl from amphetatimes; unfortunately, this "cold turkey" approach has left him Read More

The Exo-Man

Synopsis: Exo-Man is a made-for-TV attempt to prolong the Six Million Dollar Man concept into yet another series. David Ackroyd stars as physics professor Nick Conrad, who is shot and crippled while trying to prevent a holdup. Returning to his lab, Conrad invents a superpowered suit that will enable him to Read More

Joe Panther

Actors: Brian Keith, Ricardo Montalban, Alan Feinstein, Cliff Osmond, A. Martinez, Robert Hoffman

Synopsis: Ray Tracey plays Joe Panther, a young Seminole Indian who is ambivalent toward the white world. Although he has achieved some recognition as an alligator wrestler, he seeks the wisdom of an old chieftain in his efforts to understand the white society he finds himself in. However, Turtle George (Ricardo Montalban Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Alien Country

Synopsis: Previously seen on Streets of San Francisco as a Latino cop determined to purge his old barrio neighborhood of drug pushers, A Martinez appears in this episode in the radically different role of a hapless illegal alien named Rudy Costa. During a raid by immigration officials, a security guard is Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: False Witness

Synopsis: A Martinez heads the guest cast in this episode as Hispanic SFPD officer Jimmy Vega. Outraged that his old neighborhood is in the grip of elusive drug pusher Roberto Perez (Lloyd Battista), Jimmy is willing to do anything to bring Perez to justice--even if it means planting false evidence. Once Read More

Death Among Friends

Synopsis: Canadian actress Kate Reid plays a lady p.i. in Death Among Friends. Kate is hired to solve the murder of a multimillionaire financier. As tipped off by the title, she need look no farther than the dead man's circle of friends. Refreshingly, both the heroine and her police contact, John Anderson Read More

Mrs. R - Death Among Friends

Synopsis: When an international financier is killed in a strange fashion, a female homicide detective investigates. (AKA Death Among Friends) ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Starbird and Sweet William

Synopsis: Starbird and Sweet William was originally released as The Adventures of Starbird in 1975. A Martinez heads the cast as a Native American youth. While on plane trip en route to his home village, Martinez crashes in the wilderness. Here he is forced to emulate his forebears by fending for himself. Dan Haggerty Read More

The Abduction of St. Anne - They've Kidnapped Anne Benedict

Actors: E.G. Marshall, Kathleen Quinlan, Robert Wagner

Synopsis: They've Kidnapped Anne Benedict is the rerun title for the made-for-TV movie The Abduction of St. Anne. Robert Wagner stars as detective who is hired by Vatican for $100,000. It's his job to find out if it's true that a mobster's 17-year-old daughter (Kathleen Quinlan) has miraculous and healing Read More

The Take

Actors: Frankie Avalon

Synopsis: In this action adventure, the trouble begins when a police lieutenant begins accepting bribes while simultaneously trying to impress his superiors by breaking up a big gang. Keep a sharp eye out for Frankie Avalon playing a sneaky crook. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Shoot the Sun Down

Synopsis: In this adventurous western set in 1836, four misanthropic people band together to find a golden treasure. But as they progress, members of the group, including a scalper, a gunman, an indentured female servant, and an aging sea captain begin double and triple-crossing each other in hopes of Read More

Once Upon a Scoundrel

Synopsis: In this comedy, a greedy Mexican don, the biggest landowner around, is used to getting his own way. The trouble begins when he casts his avaricious eyes upon a pretty lass who is most inconveniently betrothed to another. He takes care of that by tossing her beloved into jail. Knowing that only the Read More

Probe

Synopsis: This pilot for the TV adventure series Search stars Hugh O'Brian as Hugh Lockwood, a secret agent implanted with a electronic transmitter which allows everything he sees and hears to be beamed back to police headquarters. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Cowboys

Actors: Sam O'Brien, Mike Pyeatt, John Wayne, Roscoe Lee Browne, Bruce Dern, Colleen Dewhurst, Slim Pickens

Synopsis: In one of John Wayne's more interesting late Westerns, "The Duke" plays Will Anderson, a crusty veteran cattleman preparing a 400-mile drive to get a herd of steers to market. Shortly before the trip is scheduled to begin, Will's crew quits when they get word of a nearby gold strike. With little Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Hall of Mirrors

Synopsis: While Stone (Karl Malden) is on disability leave, Keller (Michael Douglas) is partnered with Inspector Jim Martin (played by future Starsky and Hutch costar David Soul), a man notorious for his short temper and strongarm tactics. Conducting a manhunt in the Barrio, Keller is taken aback by the Read More

Hard Frame

Synopsis: Hard Frame is the syndication title for the made-for-TV film Hunters Are for Killing. Burt Reynolds plays a man who returns home after serving six years in prison for manslaughter. Reynolds knows that he was framed; so does someone else in town. The most nervous citizens are Burt's father (Melvyn Douglas Read More

Bonanza: Gideon, the Good

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Richard Kiley, Terry Moore

Synopsis: Guest star Richard Kiley is cast as Sheriff Gideon Yates, one of Nevada's most admired lawmen. When Joe Cartwright comes to Yates claiming that he has witnessed a murder, the Sheriff realizes to his horror that the killer was his own wife Lydia (Terry Moore). With grim determination, Yates quietly Read More

Adam-12: Log 114: The Hero

Synopsis: Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) are duly impressed when a young civilian, Lauro Perez (A Martinez), performs an act of heroism by rescuing a man from a warehouse fire. Curiously, however, Lauro balks at being awarded with a police citation; indeed, he seems Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Code

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Michael Constantine

Synopsis: Leonard Nimoy joins the Mission:Impossible cast as The Great Paris, master of disguise and jack of all trades, in the series' fourth-season opener, "The Code." The IMF heads to the Latin American democracy of San Cristobal, presently in danger of invasion by dictator Vincente Bravo (Harold Gould). Read More

Ironside: The Machismo Bag

Synopsis: Mark (Don Mitchell) comes face to face with the Blue Berets, a group of Chicano dropouts turned freedom fighters. The leader of the group is Manolo Rodriguez (played by former UCLA drama student A Martinez in his first important TV role), who is determined to fight for the rights of his Read More

Little Girl Lost: The Delimar Vera Story

Actors: Judy Reyes, Ana Ortiz, A. Martinez, Hector Luis Bustamante, Marlene Forte