Alan Rachins Filmography

Born:: October 10, 1947 in Cambridge, MA
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Lanky, dark haired, and balding supporting actor Alan Rachins is best known for playing the insufferable legal eagle Douglas Brackman Jr. on the long-running drama L.A. Law (1986-1994), but he has also appeared in a few feature films. Born in Boston, Rachins studied at the prestigious Wharton...Read More

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L.A. Law: The Movie

Actors: Corbin Bernsen

Synopsis: This two-hour TV movie served as a reunion for the cast of L.A. Law, a popular NBC legal series which originally aired from 1987 to 1994. Virtually all of the series' regulars were back on the job, with the noteworthy exception of Jimmy Smits. Most of the story takes place within the walls of the Read More

2002
The Retrievers

Actors: Robert Hays, Mel Harris, Robert Wagner, Betty White, Alan Rachins

Synopsis: The Retrievers stars Bettie White, Robert Hays, and Robert Wagner in the kid-friendly tale of a family who discovers a dog and her newborn litter of puppies. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

2001
Meet Wally Sparks

Actors: Rodney Dangerfield, Debi Mazar, Cindy Williams, Burt Reynolds, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: Comic Rodney Dangerfield co-wrote and stars in this outrageous comedy. Wally Sparks (Dangerfield) is the host of a sleazy tabloid-style talk show who makes Jerry Springer seem genteel by comparison. Wally's show has become so foul that he's alienated his not-especially-discriminating viewers, and Read More

1997
Leave It to Beaver

Actors: Christopher McDonald, Janine Turner, Cameron Finley, Erik Von Detten, Adam Zolotin

Synopsis: The Cleaver Family makes the jump from the small black and white screen to color and Panavision in this updated version of the classic TV sit-com. Eight-year-old Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver (Cameron Finley) is a good natured kid with a habit of getting in trouble; he's not bad, mind you, just a bit Read More

1997
Unwed Father

Synopsis: A young father endures to learn that parenthood can be a rewarding venture despite the weight responsibilities that go hand-in-hand with the job in this heartfelt tale of fatherhood starring Brian Austin Green and featuring music by Mark Mothersbaugh. A typical teenage who divides his free time Read More

1997
The Stepsister

Synopsis: It is not merely jealousy that prompts psychology major Darcy Canfield (Rena Sofer) to mistrust her widowed father Derek's new bride Joan (Linda Evans) and Joan's daughter Melinda (Bridgette Wilson). In fact, the audience is way ahead of Darcy: Joan is revealed early on to be a serial killer of Read More

1997
Stargate SG-1: The Enemy Within

Synopsis: Having successfully escaped the parasitic Goa'ulds, the SG-1 team returns to earth. Along for the ride is O'Neill's (Richard Dean Anderson) new ally, the Jaffa Teal'c (Christopher Judge)--who, though he carries a larval Goa'uld in his belly, has renounced the parasites and their megalomaniac ruler Read More

1997
Dharma & Greg [TV Series]

Actors: Jenna Elfman, Thomas Gibson

1997
Showgirls

Actors: Elizabeth Berkley, Gina Gershon, Kyle MacLachlan, Robert Davi, Alan Rachins, William Shockley

Synopsis: "I'm gonna dance," Nomi Malone (Elizabeth Berkley) insists in the opening scene of Showgirls, and dance she does. In this quasi-update of All About Eve, Nomi is a drifter whose sole ambition is to headline the "Goddess" topless dance show at the Stardust in Las Vegas. Of course, even Nomi must pay Read More

1995
Star Quest

Actors: Alan Rachins, Emma Samms, Brenda Bakke, Steven Bauer, Ming-Na Wen

Synopsis: In this sci-fi drama, eight deep-space astronauts awaken from a century of suspended animation to discover that the human race no longer exists. To make things worse, someone or something has murdered their captain. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1995
North

Actors: Elijah Wood, Bruce Willis, Jon Lovitz, Matthew McCurley, Alan Arkin, Richard Belzer

Synopsis: A boy divorces his parents in this comic fantasy for the family. North (Elijah Wood) is the sort of kid most parents dream of -- he's bright, well-behaved, a good student, and a great baseball player. But North's Mom and Dad (Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Jason Alexander) are so busy with their lives Read More

1994
Hart to Hart: Crimes of the Hart

Actors: Robert Wagner, Stefanie Powers, Lionel Stander, Alan Rachins, Richard Belzer

Synopsis: Television's fabulously wealthy amateur crime-fighting duo, Jennifer (Stephanie Powers) and Jonathan Hart (Robert Wagner) returns. This time the well-groomed twosome and their trusty valet Max team up with a Big Apple gumshoe to discover the identity of the villain who has been sabotaging Read More

1994
Tales From the Crypt: Spoiled

1991
She Says She's Innocent

Actors: Katey Sagal, David Lascher, Charlotte Ross

Synopsis: She Says She's Innocent stars off as a standard "legal issue of the week" TV movie. Katey Sagal refuses to believe that her daughter Charlotte Ross is guilty as charged of murder. Usually this is a cue for a feature-length fight against the legal system: Not so here. Instead, Sagal spends the last Read More

1991
Heart Condition

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Denzel Washington, Chloe Webb, Roger E. Mosley, Ja'net DuBois

Synopsis: Jack Moony (Bob Hoskins) is a vice detective, but he is also an intense and crazed, racist lout. Jack has had a brief fling with a hooker named Crystal (Chloe Webb), but Crystal left him for Napoleon Stone (Denzel Washington), a suave, handsome, cosmopolitan lawyer, who becomes the object of Read More

2/2/90
Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason represents a former student who is accused of murdering a singing star. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1990
Always

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, Brad Johnson, John Goodman, Audrey Hepburn

Synopsis: For all its state-of-the-art special effects, Always is essentially a remake of the 1943 Spencer Tracy-Irene Dunne fantasy vehicle A Guy Named Joe--minus the wartime context. Richard Dreyfuss stars as a reckless fire-fighting pilot who is killed in what was to have been his final mission. Read More

12/22/89
Single Women, Married Men

Synopsis: In this drama, a psychotherapist takes a long, hard look at her life when she joins a support group for women involved with married men. She does this after her husband leaves her for a younger woman. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1989
Mistress

Actors: Victoria Principal, Don Murray, Kerrie Keane, Alan Rachins, Guy Boyd

Synopsis: A kept woman learns to live independently in this made-for-TV melodrama. Her troubles begin after her successful and much loved "sugar daddy" suddenly dies, leaving her with nothing but her own strong will and very few real job skills to survive. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1987
Thunder Run

Actors: Forrest Tucker, John Ireland, Jill Whitlow, Wally Ward

Synopsis: In this Road Warrior clone, an aging trucker spends his retirement mining an old cobalt mine with the assistance of his devoted grandson. A good friend lures the trucker out of retirement by offering him a quarter of a million dollars to drive some plutonium from Nevada to a high-security Read More

5/30/86
L.A. Law [TV Series]

Synopsis: Though the series proper debuted on Friday, October 3, 1986, L.A. Law was heralded by a two-hour TV movie, which aired Monday, September 15. The Steven Bochco production gets off to a good start, with no fewer than three cases resolved within the first installment. We first meet law-firm partner Read More

1986
Always

Actors: Patrice Townsend, Henry Jaglom, Joanna Frank, Alan Rachins, Melissa Leo

Synopsis: Henry Jaglom, the best professional "home movie" maker in the business, produced, directed, wrote and starred in Always. Also appearing is Jaglom's ex-wife Patrice Townsend, here cast as...his ex-wife. Showing up one night at Jaglom's home to finalize the divorce decree, Townsend is persuaded to Read More

1985
The Retrievers

Actors: Max Thayer, Shawn Hoskins, Lenard Miller, Bud Cramer

Synopsis: This martial arts action film is about Tom, a man conned into joining the CIA and then forced into fighting against it when his ethics lead him to protect those connected with an exposé of the agency. Danny has written the exposé and when he is taken into custody by the CIA, Tom sees his partner Read More

1982
Time Walker

Actors: Ben Murphy, Nina Axelrod, Kevin Brophy, James Karen, Robert Random

Synopsis: In this horror outing, a California archaeologist has obtained the sarcophagus of King Tutankhamen and has taken it to his lab to be x-rayed. Unfortunately, the radiation levels he uses are too high and something begins to happen inside the coffin. Suddenly the mummy within storms out. Inside all Read More

1982
Fear on Trial

Actors: William Devane, George C. Scott, Dorothy Tristan, William Redfield

Synopsis: William Devane stars as John Henry Faulk, a popular radio and TV entertainer of the 1950s. In 1956, Faulk is blacklisted on the basis of an attack from the self-appointed anticommunist group AWARE. Fired by CBS, Faulk decides to sue AWARE for libel. His attorney Louis Nizer (George C. Scott) warns Read More

1975