Allan Rich Filmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Not every blacklistee spent his or her life as a victim -- some of them, such as Lionel Stander and Selena Royale, ended up pursuing successful second careers, and a few, including Stander and Jeff Corey, went on to very busy late-in-life acting careers. Allan Rich fits into both categories. Born...Read More

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The Memory Thief

Actors: Mark Webber, Rachel Miner, Jerry Adler, Allan Rich, Peter Jacobson

Synopsis: For Lukas (Mark Webber), an ambitionless, socially isolated tollbooth worker, each day is indistinguishable from the next -- filled, from the onset of work until the end of shift, with thousands of cars that slide through his station. Day in and day out, he must contend with the monotony of the Read More

5/9/08
Man in the Chair

Actors: Christopher Plummer, Michael Angarano, M. Emmet Walsh, Robert Wagner, Joshua Boyd

Synopsis: A young man learns something about making his fantasies into reality from an older man who has already been there in this coming-of-age drama. Cameron (Michael Angarano) is a teenage film buff living in Los Angeles who dreams of making movies himself someday, an ambition that doesn't impress his Read More

12/7/07
Rise: Blood Hunter

Actors: Lucy Liu, Michael Chiklis, Carla Gugino, James D'Arcy, Samaire Armstrong

Synopsis: A woman who joins the undead against her will seeks vengeance against the ghouls who transformed her in this thriller. Sadie Blake (Lucy Liu) is a journalist who becomes acquainted with a group of beautiful but doomstruck partiers while following a story, led by the charismatic Bishop (James Read More

6/1/07
Lies & Alibis

Actors: Steve Coogan, Rebecca Romijn, Selma Blair, James Brolin, Sam Elliott

Synopsis: When a reformed grifter currently running a prosperous alibi service for adulterous husbands inadvertently becomes an accessory to murder, he is forced to execute one last, well-timed con as a means of clearing his name in this lightning fast caper comedy starring Steve Coogan, Rebecca Romijin Read More

2006
Intoxicating

Actors: Kirk Harris, Eric Roberts, John Savage, Camilla Overbye Roos

Synopsis: A man is forced to examine his headlong dive into chemically induced oblivion when he starts dragging someone else along with him in this independent drama. Dorian (Kirk Harris) is a gifted surgeon who has a severe problem outside the operating room -- he is an alcoholic and cocaine abuser who is Read More

11/5/04
The Dogwalker

Actors: Will Foster Stewart, Stephanie Kramer, Tony Todd, John Randolph, Allan Rich

Synopsis: In Paul Duran's witty comedy-drama, down-and-out Jerry (Will Stewart) chances upon an old woman Alma (Carol Gustafson) walking her dog. The lucky encounter leads to a job when Alma's daughter Helen (Stepfanie Kramer) hires him to look after her mother and the dog. Jerry quickly realizes that the Read More

9/13/02
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Pilot

Synopsis: In the premiere episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Jim Brass (Paul Guilfoyle), head of the Las Vegas PD's forensic team, resents the presence of novice team member Holly Gribbs (Chandra West). Brass' efforts to scare Holly result in tragedy, but not before the unit investigates a Read More

2000
Tons of Trouble

Actors: Karen Black, John Laughlin

Synopsis: Where does a seven-ton elephant sleep? That's the question four kids ask when they find themselves looking after a pachyderm in this family adventure. Malaika the elephant is captured by a mean-spirited hunter, but when she escapes, several children find her and try to help her get well as well as Read More

1997
Jack

Actors: Robin Williams, Diane Lane, Jennifer Lopez, Brian Kerwin, Fran Drescher

Synopsis: In this film by director Francis Ford Coppola, Robin Williams stars as Jack, a boy who is growing normally, but at many times the normal rate. In a bizarre flashback, we see that he was born when his mother was only ten weeks pregnant. Kept out of school for years, the neighborhood children Read More

1996
Miami Hustle

Actors: Kathy Ireland, John Enos, Audie England, Richard Sarafian, Allan Rich

Synopsis: Also known as Hello, She Lied, this made-for-cable drama stars Kathy Ireland as Marsha Thomas, a professional con artist with a conscience and a surprisingly strong sense of scruples. Be that as it may, Marsha is heavily in debt to a crooked lawyer who had saved her brother Frankie (Shareef Read More

1996
Two Much

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Melanie Griffith, Daryl Hannah, Joan Cusack, Danny Aiello

Synopsis: This Spanish-American production stars Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith, whose romance on the set helped the film set box-office records in Spain. Director Fernando Treuba, who won an Oscar for Belle Epoque, made his English-language debut with Two Much, an updated screwball comedy. Banderas Read More

1995
Disclosure

Actors: Michael Douglas, Demi Moore, Donald Sutherland, Caroline Goodall, Dylan Baker

Synopsis: Michael Douglas runs afoul of a treacherous supervisor in this film version of Michael Crichton's novel. Douglas plays Tom Sanders, an executive at DigiCom, a leading computer software firm. DigiCom is about to launch a new virtual reality-based data storage system that is expected to Read More

1994
Quiz Show

Actors: John Turturro, Rob Morrow, Ralph Fiennes, Paul Scofield, David Paymer

Synopsis: It's 1958, and the producers of the quiz show 21 have a problem. Their current champ, Herbert Stempel (John Turturro), has a phenomenal memory and a broad range of knowledge. He's also a pudgy loudmouth with a grating personality, so Herbert is encouraged to "take a dive" and allow Charles Read More

1994
Nickel and Dime

Actors: C. Thomas Howell, Wallace Shawn, Lise Cutter, Roy Brocksmith

Synopsis: In this drama, the ingenious and lucrative scam of an excellent con artist comes crashing down when the IRS catches on. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1992
Highlander II: The Quickening

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery, Virginia Madsen, Michael Ironside, John C. McGinley, Allan Rich

Synopsis: At the end of Highlander, Juan Ramirez (Sean Connery) died and Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) was rendered mortal. "Highlander 2: The Quickening begins in 1999 when Connor solves the problem of an ever-depleting ozone layer on the earth by devising a giant shield around the entire planet. Read More

11/1/91
Guilty by Suspicion

Actors: Robert De Niro, Annette Bening, George Wendt, Patricia Wettig, Sam Wanamaker

Synopsis: The directorial debut of producer Irwin Winkler, Guilty by Suspicion is a sobering account of one movie executive's woes in dealing with the political fallout from the McCarthy Era Hollywood blacklist. Robert De Niro stars as David Merrill, a film director in the 1950s whose obsession with his Read More

3/15/91
Dead on the Money

Actors: Corbin Bernsen, Amanda Pays, John Glover, Eleanor Parker, Kevin McCarthy

Synopsis: Plot twists abound in this suspenseful made-for-television thriller as a beautiful actress tries to save her cousin from the schemes of a conniving murderer who just may be her lover. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1991
Dead On: Relentless 2

Actors: Meg Foster, Miles O'Keeffe, Leo Rossi, Ray Sharkey

Synopsis: Not to be confused with the 1994 exchange-of-murders melodrama Dead On, this 1991 film was originally shipped out under the title Relentless 2: Dead On. You may recall that in the first Relentless in 1989, Judd Nelson starred as a serial killer. Nelson isn't around for the sequel, though two of Read More

1991
Betsy's Wedding

Actors: Alan Alda, Madeline Kahn, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Anthony LaPaglia

Synopsis: Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper (Molly Ringwald) and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé, Jake Lovell(Dylan Walsh), just want an intimate little wedding reception, but Betsy's father, Eddie (Alan Alda), a Long Island construction contractor, feels so threatened by Jake's rich WASP Read More

6/22/90
Matters of the Heart

Actors: Jane Seymour

Synopsis: Based on The Country of the Heart by Barbara Wershba, this cable-TV film concerns a young pianist (Christopher Gartin) who falls in love with an older musician (Jane Seymour). ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1990
Another Chance

Actors: Bruce Greenwood, Vanessa Angel, Frank Annese, Jeff East, Robert Sacchi

Synopsis: In this lively comedy, a womanizing actor dies and is granted a second chance at life on the condition that he remain faithful to only one woman. That's easier said than done, and once he's back on Earth he must choose between a virtuous lass and a shady lady. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

5/19/89
Checking Out

Actors: Jeff Daniels, Melanie Mayron, Michael Tucker, Kathleen York, Allan Havey

Synopsis: Jeff Daniels stars in this tedious situation comedy concerning the middle-aged terror of illness and mortality. Scripted by Joe Eszterhas, Daniels plays Southern Californian Ray Macklin, who thinks he will live forever but realizes the fallacy of his idea when his best friend drops dead in front Read More

4/21/89
Jake and the Fatman

Actors: Bruce Greenwood, Joe Penny, William Conrad

1987
Night Court: Rabid

Synopsis: When a mangy street dog saves his life in a fire, Harry (Harry Anderson) brings the mutt to the courtroom as a pet. Almost immediately, the dog takes a dislike to Dan (John Larroquette) and bites him--then runs off into the night. Now a desperate Harry must scour the city to locate the dog in Read More

1987
Sweet Liberty

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Alan Alda, Michael Caine, Michelle Pfeiffer, Bob Hoskins, Lise Hilboldt

Synopsis: Alan Alda wrote, directed, and starred in this satirical film about the corruption of the film industry's approach to history. Alda plays Michael Burgess, a college professor who has written a historical novel about the American Revolution. The book has been turned into a script, and a Hollywood Read More

5/14/86
Kidco

Actors: Scott Schwartz, Cinnamon Idles, Tristine Skyler, Elizabeth Gorcey

Synopsis: Prominently displaying red-white-and-blue title colors, this subtly patriotic fact-based movie about kids who succeed is dated by the fact that all these daring youngsters are white, without any discernible ethnicity. Dickie (Scott Schwartz) is an enterprising kid on a ranch in southern California Read More

1983
The Entity

Actors: Barbara Hershey, Ron Silver, David Labiosa, George Coe, Margaret Blye

Synopsis: Another "true story" of dubious authenticity, The Entity concerns a libidinous invisible presence. This unseen force repeatedly rapes poor Barbara Hershey, who can't get anyone to believe her stories of sexual assault. Frankly, she doesn't believe them herself until she undergoes therapy conducted Read More

1982
Frances

Actors: Robert Harris, Jessica Lange, Kim Stanley, Sam Shepard, Bart Burns, Jeffrey DeMunn

Synopsis: As played by Jessica Lange, Frances Farmer is a rebel from the word go, winning a high school essay award by writing a piece in defense of Communism. Determining to become an actress, Frances is equally determined not to play the Hollywood game: she refuses to acquiesce to idiotic publicity Read More

1982
Eating Raoul

Actors: Paul Bartel, Mary Woronov, Robert Beltran, Susan Saiger, Ed Begley, Jr.

Synopsis: Eating Raoul was celebrated at the time of its release as the perfect marriage between mainstream moviemaking and the so-called "underground" cinema. Cult-film icons Mary Woronov and Paul Bartel (both of whom directed) play a married couple who decide to cash in on the sexual perversions of Read More

1982
Magnum, P.I.: From Moscow to Maui

Synopsis: Soviet fighter pilot Yuri Dolgof (Jeff Pomerantz), who defected a year or so ago, wants Magnum to help his track-star fiancee Nina Marcova (Susan Helfond) likewise escape to the West. Unfortunately, the KGB is watching every move that Nina makes during her stopover in Hawaii for a big track meet. Read More

1981
Alice: Comrade Mel

Synopsis: This episode could well have been mistaken as an "answer" to the Robin Williams movie Moscow on the Hudson, were it not for the fact that the "answer" came three years before the "question." When a Russian ballet troupe performs in Phoenix, the troupe's towel boy Treplev (Robert Peirce) chooses to Read More

1981
The Chicago Story

Synopsis: The Chicago Story was the two-hour pilot film for the subsequent TV series. The wounding of a 10-year-old girl by a sniper is seen through the eyes of three sets of Chicago professionals. Vincent Baggetta and Craig T. Nelson are the defense and prosecuting attorneys respectively (they'd been Read More

1981
The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire

Actors: Belinda Bauer, Lane Caudell

Synopsis: The plan was to develop a Star Wars type TV series with heavy injections of Sword N Sorcery. The title of the pilot was Archer: Fugitive From the Empire (the Archer part was lopped off when the film went into syndication). Soap opera refugee Lane Caudell plays a prince on a faraway planet who has Read More

1981
A Gun in the House

Synopsis: When Stockard Channing agreed to co-produce the made-for-TV Gun in the House, she fully intended to play the leading role of Emily Cates herself. But schedule conflicts intervened, and Channing was forced to relinquish the role to Sally Struthers, who was quite good. Attacked in her home by two Read More

1981
Gideon's Trumpet

Actors: Henry Fonda, John Houseman, José Ferrer, Fay Wray

Synopsis: In the tradition of his earlier work in Grapes of Wrath and Twelve Angry Men, Henry Fonda played another social-protest role in the Hallmark Hall of Fame TV presentation Gideon's Trumpet. Clarence Earl Gideon (Fonda) is a poor, ill-tempered Florida handyman who is arrested for petty larceny in Read More

1980
Hero at Large

Actors: John Ritter, Anne Archer, Bert Convy, Kevin McCarthy, Harry Bellaver

Synopsis: John Ritter plays an unsuccessful actor who takes a job posing as comic-book hero Captain Avenger at comics stores and conventions. While thus garbed, Ritter foils a grocery store robbery. He skedaddles from the scene when the cops show up, leading witnesses to assume that he is a genuine costumed Read More

1980
Leo and Loree

Actors: Don Most, Linda Purl, David Huffman, Jerry Paris, Shannon Farnon

Synopsis: The cliches about actors fighting an uphill battle in Tinseltown are all found in this film, its own actors an example of its message. Donny Most stars as Leo, an aspiring thespian with less than an ingratiating manner and Linda Purl is Loree, an actress who just might get her foot in the door Read More

1980
The Seekers

Synopsis: The Seekers was the third and last TV movie based on John Jakes' Kent Family Chronicles (the others were The Bastard and The Rebels). Heading the huge all-star cast is Randolph Mantooth as Abraham Kent, son of elderly Revolutionary War vet Andrew Kent (played by Martin Milner, replacing the first Read More

1979
The Frisco Kid

Actors: Gene Wilder, Harrison Ford, Ramon Bieri, Val Bisoglio, William Smith, George DiCenzo

Synopsis: Robert Aldrich returns to the western-spoof genre he'd previously explored in Four for Texas with The Frisco Kid. Gene Wilder plays Polish rabbi Avram Belinsky, who intends to set up a congregation in San Francisco. Eminently unsuited for life in the Old West, poor Avram is victimized by everyone Read More

1979
Voices

Actors: Michael Ontkean, Amy Irving, Alex Rocco, Viveca Lindfors, Barry Miller

Synopsis: Amy Irving plays a deaf woman whose ambition is to become a professional dancer in this drama. Rosemarie Lemon is unhappy with the support she is getting from her family for her dreams. She meets a sensitive truck driver, Drew Rothman (Michael Ontkean), and they become lovers. Rothman's family is Read More

1979
Kojak: Chain of Custody

Synopsis: Kojak (Telly Savalas) vows to avenge the death of his friend, a garment manufacturer who is killed when he stands up to the Mob. After the killer escapes police custody, Kojak makes a public statement, blaming a shady district attorney for the blunder. As a result, the detective is suspended from Read More

1978
Alice: The Bus

Synopsis: Mel (Vic Tayback) battens down the hatches and gets ready for a big-business bonanza when a busload of hungry customers are slated to arrive at the diner. But the event turns into something less than festive when the bus driver speeds off, leaving his passengers stranded. Contrary to several Read More

1978
Arthur Hailey's Wheels

Actors: Rock Hudson, Lee Remick, Blair Brown, John Beck, Ralph Bellamy

Synopsis: Another of the many Arthur Hailey literary properties which were transformed into TV miniseries in the 1970s, the five-part, ten-hour Wheels took place in Detroit sometime in the late 1960s. Rock Hudson starred as Adam Trenton, executive in charge of project development at the fictional Read More

1978
Uncle Joe Shannon

Actors: Burt Young, Doug McKeon, Madge Sinclair, Jason Bernard, Bert Remsen

Synopsis: In this tearjerker, an impoverished jazz musician falls into a deep depression following the deaths of his wife and child in a terrible fire. Just as the man begins to contemplate suicide, he encounters a handicapped youth. The two become friends and manage to shore each other up through their Read More

1978
Little House on the Prairie: The Inheritance

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson

Synopsis: When Charles (Michael Landon) comes into an unexpected inheritance, everyone tries to tell him how best to spend the money -- including the troublesome Mrs. Oleson (Katherine MacGregor). Only after getting deeply into debt with the Olesons does Charles discover that his windfall consists of Read More

1978
All in the Family: Archie's Chair

Actors: Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers, Michael Pataki

Synopsis: While in the furniture shop for repairs, Archie's beloved easy chair is accidentally given to the wrong customer. Tracking down the precious piece of furniture, Archie discovers that the chair become the centerpiece of an avant-garde exhibition created by an artist named Lichtenrauch (Michael Pataki Read More

1977
A Killing Affair

Actors: Dean Stockwell, Elizabeth Montgomery, O.J. Simpson, John Mahon

Synopsis: Ingredients essential to this made-for-TV movie are a famous former pro football player, an interracial romance, and a brutal murder. Yes, the football player is O.J. Simpson, but the film was made a full 17 years before the death of Nicole Brown Simpson. In A Killing Affair, Simpson is cast as Read More

1977
Scott Free

Actors: Michael Brandon

Synopsis: Producer Stephen Cannell may have had James Garner in mind for the TV movie Scott Free, but what he got was Michael Brandon. Brandon plays Tony Scott, a suave confidence artist who pulls one scam too many and nearly ends up in federal prison. The feds offer to cut a deal: They'll drop the charges Read More

1976
The Rockford Files: The Hammer of C Block

Synopsis: Isaac Hayes makes his first appearance as ex-convict Gandolph "Gandy" Fitch--and in the bargain, contributes his own character's theme music. Released from San Quentin after 20 years, Gandy hires Jim (James Garner) to prove that he was innocent of the crime for which he was convicted: namely, the Read More

1976
Baretta: The Secret of Terry Lake

Actors: Robert Blake, Dana Elcar, Tom Ewell, Michael D. Roberts, Chino "Fats" Williams

Synopsis: Margot Kidder guest stars as Terry Lake, the erstwhile girlfriend of small-time hood Danell (Nicholas Colasanto). A murder has been committed, and Tony Baretta (Robert Blake) is convinced that Danell is the guilty party. Protesting his innocence, the hoodlum is confident that Terry will supply him Read More

1975
The Happy Hooker

Actors: Lynn Redgrave, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Lovelady Powell, Elizabeth Wilson

Synopsis: Lynn Redgrave stars as New York madam Xaviera Hollander in this romp based on Hollander's rise to the top of the sex-for-hire industry. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1975
Serpico

Actors: Al Pacino, Tony Roberts, Jack Kehoe, Cornelia Sharpe, Barbara Eda-Young

Synopsis: Adapted by Waldo Salt and Norman Wexler from Peter Maas's book, Sidney Lumet's drama portrays the real-life struggle of an honest New York City cop against a corrupt system. Neophyte officer Frank Serpico (Al Pacino) is determined not to let his job get in the way of his individuality. Despite his Read More

2/21/74
The Gambler

Actors: Starletta DePaur, James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Lauren Hutton, Morris Carnovsky, Jacqueline Brookes

Synopsis: James Toback made his screenwriting debut with this taut drama, loosely adapted from the story by Dostoevsky. Axel Freed (James Caan) is an intelligent and well-respected professor of literature at a noted New York university, who uses great writing as a springboard for examining moral and Read More

1974

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