Allan ArbusFilmography

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Mad About You: The Last Scampi

Synopsis: Paul (Paul Reiser) and Jamie (Helen Hunt) refuse to take sides when their respective mothers are locked in a heated disagreement. But Jamie's sister Lisa (Anne Ramsay) is willing to take full advantage of the situation, even to the point of playing one side against the other. Meanwhile, the Read More

Law & Order: Animal Instinct

Synopsis: A genetics researcher is found murdered in his trashed laboratory. At first, it appears that a militant animal-rights group was responsible for the killing. But the detectives and the lawyers unearth another possible avenue of prosecution when it is revealed that the dead woman's husband, Donald Read More

Josh and S.A.M.

Actors: Jacob Tierney, Noah Fleiss, Martha Plimpton, Stephen Tobolowsky, Joan Allen

Synopsis: In this road movie, the motorists are a pair of preteens--brothers Josh (Jacob Tierney) and Sam (Noah Fleiss)--who hit the highway after their parents announce their pending divorce. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Too Much Sun

Actors: Robert Downey, Jr., Eric Idle, Andrea Martin, Jim Haynie, Laura Ernst

Synopsis: In this riotous British satire, a conniving Catholic priest convinces a dying tycoon into writing the church into his will by having him add the following proviso: the tycoon's children will only inherit the fortune if one of them can produce an heir within one year after his death. If they fail Read More

Hunter: Unfinished Business

Synopsis: McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) becomes nervous and hostile when she and Hunter (Fred Dryer) are temporarily teamed with Hunter's former coworker, Lt. Megan Malone (Karen Austin). Things get worse after the robbery suspect targetted by the trio escapes. To relieve the tension, Captain Devane ($Charles Read More

Chief Zabu

Actors: Allen Garfield, Zack Norman, Allan Arbus, Manu Tupou, Lucianne Buchanan

Synopsis: Two aspiring real estate moguls try to convince the Polynesian chief Zabu (Manu Topou) into going along with their harebrained scheme in this uneven comedy. Ben (Allen Garfield) and his partner Sammy (Zack Norman) offer Zabu lucrative concessions in exchange for bribes that will get the island Read More

The Preppie Murder

Actors: William Baldwin

Synopsis: Based on a true story, The Preppie Murder begins on August 26, 1986. This was the day that 18-year-old Jennifer Levin (Lara-Flynn Boyle) was strangled to death in Central Park. The prime suspect, Jennifer's 19-year-old boyfriend Robert Chambers (William Baldwin), confesses to the crime. The Read More

From the Hip

Actors: Elizabeth Perkins, John Hurt, Darren McGavin, Dan Monahan

Synopsis: Director Bob Clark, whose previous cinematic endeavors ran the gamut from Porky's to A Christmas Story, called the shots on From the Hip. Fresh out of law school, Robin Weathers (Judd Nelson) is hired by a law firm not known for its ethics. Weathers' first client is a man who, up to trial time Read More

Crossroads

Actors: Ralph Macchio, Joe Seneca, Jami Gertz, Joe Morton, Robert Judd

Synopsis: A passion for blues music is evident in this drama based on a contest-winning script by former blues musician John Fusco -- and featuring one of the decade's best-received motion picture soundtracks, written and performed by Ry Cooder. Eugene Martone Ralph Macchio is a classically trained Read More

A Fighting Choice

Synopsis: Originally telecast on The Disney Sunday Movie, A Fighting Choice stars Patrick Dempsey as an epileptic teen suffering from grand mal seizures. When the possibility arises that an experimental form of brain surgery may alleviate his agony, Dempsey wants to go for it. His parents (Beau Bridges Read More

Volunteers

Actors: Tom Hanks, John Candy, Rita Wilson, Tim Thomerson, Gedde Watanabe

Synopsis: Tom Hanks and John Candy were reunited for the first time since Splash in this period comedy about Peace Corps worker during the optimistic period of the Kennedy presidency. Lawrence Bourne III (Tom Hanks) is an upper-class heel who has to flee the country to escape his gambling debts and so Read More

Quincy, M.E.: For Love of Joshua

Synopsis: After the death of a Down's Syndrome Child, pediatrician Barbara Lubow (Colleen Dewhurst) asks Quincy (Jack Klugman) to perform an autopsy. Much to his dismay, Quincy determines that the child had been starved to death by his parents--at the encouragement of their family doctor. Appalled by this Read More

M*A*S*H: Pressure Points

Synopsis: Upset by a bungled operation that may or may not have been his fault, Colonel Potter (Harry Morgan) completely loses his composure at a medical lecture. An impromptu session with soft-spoken psychiatrist Sidney Freedman (Allan Arbus) compels Potter to come face to face with his internal demons. As Read More

M*A*S*H: Bless You, Hawkeye

Synopsis: No one at the 4077th can discern a logical medical reason for Hawkeye's (Alan Alda) uncontrollable sneezing fits. Enter funky psychiatrist Sidney Freedman (Allan Arbus), who tries to determine if Hawkeye's plight is more mental than olfactory. The answer is almost as explosive and surprising as Read More

M*A*S*H: Goodbye, Cruel World

Synopsis: Hawkeye (Alan Alda) and psychiatrist Sidney (Allan Arbus)tackle the problem of Sgt. Yee (Clyde Kusatsu), a much-decorated war hero. It seems that Yee's fearlessness on the battlefield is a direct result of his trying to kill himself. Meanwhile, Klinger (Jamie Farr) begins to wonder if it was such Read More

The Last Married Couple in America

Actors: George Segal, Natalie Wood, Richard Benjamin, Dom DeLuise, Arlene Golonka, Valerie Harper, Allan Arbus

Synopsis: Natalie Wood and George Segal star in this labored and old-fashioned sex farce, directed by Gilbert Cates. Wood and Segal play Mari and Jeff Thompson, a happily married couple who are thunderstruck when they see all their friends and acquaintances are headed for divorce court. Eventually their own Read More

Americathon

Actors: Peter Riegert, Harvey Korman, Fred Willard, Zane Buzby, Nancy Morgan

Synopsis: In the future (the distant year of 1997), the United States of America is in crisis. The oil shortage has grown to epic proportions, leading to people living in their cars and bicycling to work. Cigarettes and meat have been outlawed, gold coins are needed to operate common household appliances Read More

Working Stiffs [TV Series]

Actors: James Belushi, Michael Keaton

The Electric Horseman

Actors: Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Valerie Perrine, John Saxon, Willie Nelson

Synopsis: A cowboy-turned-huckster unexpectedly finds love as he tries to regain his self-respect in this romantic comedy drama. Sonny Steele (Robert Redford) is a one-time rodeo star whose career as a cowboy has ground to a halt. He makes a good living as a spokesman for Ranch Breakfast, a sugar-coated Read More

M*A*S*H: The Billfold Syndrome

Synopsis: Obsessing over the possibility of losing a future civilian medical position, Charles (David Ogden Stiers) vows never to speak to his colleagues at the 4077th again. Normally, Charles' silence would be a consummation devoutly to be wished, but Hawkeye (Alan Alda) and B.J. (Mike Farrell) cannot Read More

The Rockford Files: Black Mirror, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first half of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single two-hour "TV movie"), Jim (James Garner) tries to save Dr. Megan Dougherty (Kathryn Harrold), a blind psychologist, from a mysterious stalker. There's a strong possibility that Megan's tormentor is one of her own patients, but Read More

Damien: Omen II

Actors: William Holden, Lee Grant, Jonathan Scott-Taylor, Robert Foxworth, Lew Ayres, Lucas Donat

Synopsis: Satan's son comes of age in this horror sequel. Shortly after the events of The Omen, a pair of anthropologists uncovers an ancient crypt that depicts the face of the Antichrist -- that of Damien Thorn (Jonathan Scott-Taylor), recently orphaned scion of a wealthy industrialist. Before they can Read More

Raid on Entebbe

Actors: Peter Finch, Charles Bronson, Horst Buchholz, Martin Balsam, John Saxon, Jack Warden

Synopsis: Raid on Entebbe constitutes one of two all-star made-for-TV reenactments of the Entebbe rescue of July 4, 1976. On June 27, 1976, a jet carrying an international mix of passengers is hijacked by pro-Palestinian revolutionaries. The plane lands in Entebbe, Uganda, where President-for-life Idi Amin (Yaphet Kotto Read More

M*A*S*H: War of Nerves

Synopsis: Psychiatrist Sidney Freedman (Allan Arbus) makes a return visit to the 4077th--at the personal request of Col. Potter (Harry Morgan). It seems that the entire camp is at each other's throats, thanks to the nervous tension built up over a period of several weeks. Ultimately, the doctors and nurses Read More

M*A*S*H: Dear Sigmund

Synopsis: The focus is on psychiatrist Sidney Freedman (Allan Arbus) in this whimsical episode. Hoping to find an island of sanity during the Korean Conflict, the depressed Dr. Freedman settles for a few days surrounded by the merry insanity of the 4077th. In a letter to his "mentor" Sigmund Freud (one Read More

M*A*S*H: Hawk's Nightmare

Synopsis: It just might be that Hawkeye (Alan Alda) is cracking under the strain of the war. For several nights, Hawkeye has been robbed of slumber by a series of horrifying nightmares and a few spells of treacherous sleepwalking. It is up to the 4077's favorite funky psychiatrist, Dr. Sidney Freedman Read More

W.C. Fields and Me

Actors: Rod Steiger, Valerie Perrine, John Marley, Jack Cassidy, Bernadette Peters

Synopsis: W.C. Fields and Me is the film version of the Fields biography written by the comedian's former mistress Carlotta Monti. W. C. Fields was a great comedian in vaudeville and early talking films, who was noted for his ability to say the most hilariously cutting and mean things in a cheery, bright Read More

Stalk the Wild Child

Synopsis: An Americanized version of Truffaut's The Wild Child, this drama centers on the attempts of a behavioral psychologist to educate a boy, raised in the wilds by dogs, and teach him how to function in society. This film spawned a brief television series, Lucan. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Law and Order

Actors: Art Hindle

Synopsis: Former policewoman Dorothy Uhnak wrote the book upon which this 150-minute TV movie was based. The central characters of Law and Order are the male members of an Irish-American family--three generations of police officers. The bulk of the drama concerns the conflicts between Deputy Chief of Public Read More

M*A*S*H: Quo Vadis, Captain Chandler

Synopsis: The staff of the 4077th is confounded by Captain Chandler (Alan Fudge), a wounded soldier who claims to be Jesus Christ. While compassionate psychiatrist Sidney Freedman (Allan Arbus) tries to talk sense to Chandler, paranoid CIA man Col Flagg (Edward Winter) treats the would-be Messiah as a Read More

The Law

Synopsis: This acclaimed muckraking drama by future Hollywood A-lister John Badham (Saturday Night Fever, WarGames) peels the lid off of the Los Angeles criminal justice system for a sobering glimpse of its many facets -- exploring every angle, from defense attorneys to solicitors to prosecutors. The Read More

Law and Disorder

Actors: Adam Lessuck, Ed Madsen, Bill Richert, Sydney Sherrif

Synopsis: Fed up with an escalating crime rate and an increasingly ineffective police force, blue-collar New Yorkers Willie and Cy (Carroll O'Connor and Ernest Borgnine) join a citizen's vigilante group. Their efforts to act as an auxiliary police force are comically inept, but director Ivan Passer lulls us Read More

Cinderella Liberty

Actors: Kirk Calloway, Marsha Mason, Eli Wallach, James Caan

Synopsis: A "Cinderella Liberty" is Navy jargon for a pass that runs out at midnight. Sailor John Baggs, Jr. (James Caan) has such a pass, and intends to make the most of it while his ship is docked in Seattle. He "wins" prostitute Maggie (Marsha Mason) in a pool game, but backs off at a "wham-bam-thank you Read More

The Young Nurses

Synopsis: This crime drama is the fourth in Roger Corman's series of sexy "nurseploitation" films. Three curvaceous health care workers in a big city hospital expose a drug ring that is operating from inside the facility. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Coffy

Actors: John Perak, Pam Grier, Booker Bradshaw, Robert DoQui, William Elliott, Allan Arbus

Synopsis: Writer-director Jack Hill (Spider Baby, Switchblade Sisters) managed to beat Death Wish to the screens by a year with this violent tale of a citizen touched by crime and deciding to fight back. Her little 11-year old sister is a hopeless addict, the police can't help, and poor Nurse "Coffy" Coffin Read More

Scream, Pretty Peggy

Actors: Bette Davis

Synopsis: Bette Davis stars in the TV movie Scream, Pretty Peggy. She isn't Peggy, but instead the secretive matriarch of a spooky household. Peggy, played by Sian Barbara Allen, is a goggle-eyed college student hired by Davis as a housekeeper. Ted Bessell plays Davis's son, a crazed sculptor; but no one Read More

Greaser's Palace

Actors: Elsie Downey, Jackson Haynes, Alex Hitchcock, John Paul Hudson, Larry Moyer, Don Smolen

Synopsis: In Greaser's Palace, Alan Arbus plays a zoot-suited character named Jesse, who is not only a Christlike figure, he is Christ. En route to Jerusalem, where he hopes to find work as a "singer-dancer-actor," Jesse finds himself in a dusty western town. At first, he is targeted for extermination by Read More

The Christian Licorice Store

Actors: Dawn Cleary, Louis DeFarra, Rusty Durrell, Bruce Graziano, Dido Renoir, Gary Rose

Synopsis: In this comedy a golden-boy tennis player in search of Life's meaning is corrupted by Hollywood, too much praise, and the temptation to sell out. His life therefore, becomes a metaphor for the morals of Hollywood society. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Cisco Pike

Actors: Hugh Romney

Synopsis: This crime-drama follows the exploits of a rock star who is finally freed from prison after being convicted of drug dealing. Though he wants to go straight, he is blackmailed by a crooked cop who forces him to sell marijuana. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Putney Swope

Actors: Stanley Gottlieb, Allen Garfield, Arnold Johnson, Ramon Gordon, Buddy Butler

Synopsis: After several years working along the margins of the underground film scene in New York, director Robert Downey broke through to wider recognition with the arthouse hit Putney Swope, a wildly irreverent satire of race and advertising in America. Putney Swope (Arnold Johnson) is the token Read More

Hey, Let's Twist!

Actors: Joey Dee, Teddy Randazzo, Kay Armen, Zohra Lampert

Synopsis: Set within New York's Peppermint Lounge, and starring the once popular Joey Dee and the Starliters, this lively musical seeks to cash in on their hit "The Peppermint Twist. " The story centers on two brothers who originally opened the sweet hangout to give teens a place to bop and boogie. It used Read More

Daniel and the Towers

Synopsis: This drama is from the Wonderworks series and centers upon the mischievous Daniel and his pals who have great fun taunting the artist Sam Rodia as he endeavors to construct the famous glass towers in Watts, the notorious Los Angeles ghetto. One day young Daniel accidentally breaks a shop window Read More