Ben MurphyFilmography

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: Father's Day

Actors: Joe Lando, Chad Allen, Erika Flores, Shawn Toovey

Synopsis: Dr. Mike (Jane Seymour) faces the breakup of her adopted family when Ethan Cooper (Ben Murphy), father of Matthew (Chad Allen), Colleen (Erika Flores), and Brian (Shawn Toovey), shows up in Colorado Springs. Promising not to desert the kids again, Ethan fills their heads with fanciful stories of a Read More

Twenty-One

Actors: Patsy Kensit, Jack Shepherd, Patrick Ryecart, Rufus Sewell, Sophie Thompson

Synopsis: Patsy Kensit stars in Don Boyd's distaff version of Alfie, with Kensit playing 21-year-old Katie, an attractive and self-absorbed Londoner who has just reached this milestone of an age and is trying to make some sense out of it. Until now, Katie has enjoyed life and all its pleasures without Read More

Dancin' thru the Dark

Actors: Con O'Neill, Angela Clarke, Mark Womack, Julia Deakin

Synopsis: British playwright Willy Russell (Shirley Valentine, Educating Rita) adapts his play Stags and Hens for the screen and, with director Mike Ockrent, who also directed the stage production of Educating Rita, succeeds in conveying the cocky-eyed and aimless textures of working-class Liverpool ("It's Read More

The Dirty Dozen [TV Series]

Synopsis: This tape collection consists of selected episode from the Fox Network TV series The Dirty Dozen. Per the title, the series was inspired by the popular 1967 theatrical film of the same name. During World War II, a group of GI prisoners with nothing to lose are taken from their "home" in Marston Read More

Stark: Mirror Image

Synopsis: In this sequel to the 1985 TV movie Stark, Nicholas Surovy once again assumes the role of no-nonsense Wichita cop Evan Stark. When his former partner Steve Graves (Ben Murphy) is murdered, Stark exceeds his authority by tracking the killer to Las Vegas. In addition to Surovy, Dennis Hopper, Pat Corley Read More

Gidget's Summer Reunion

Synopsis: In this comedy, Gidget, the all-American surfer girl, has grown up, married Moondoggie, and become a travel agent. She and he, who have been married for seven years, are experiencing marital problems due to their careers and monetary pressure. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Reflections of the Mind

Synopsis: Ann Blyth guest stars as Franchesca Lodge, an old friend of mystery writer Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury). Recently married to a much-younger man named Scott (Stacey Nelkin), Franchesca has been terrorized of late by what seems to be the ghost of her first husband. Since Franchesca has had a Read More

Berrenger's

Synopsis: The short-lived prime-time TV soap opera Berrenger's was introduced with this 90-minute opener. Berrenger's is a fancy New York department store, owned by family patriarch Simon Berrenger (Sam Wanamaker). Simon announces his plans to merge with another store, much to the dismay of his son Paul (Ben Murphy Read More

Lottery

Synopsis: An international sweepstakes winner is hunted by an IRS agent and an Irish banker. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Uncommon Valor

Synopsis: The pilot for an unsold weekly series, Uncommon Valor stresses the courage and resourceful of a team of firefighters in Salt Lake City, Utah. Headed by dauntless batallion chief Tom Riordan (Mitchell Ryam), the unit tries to drench a raging conflagration at County General Hospital (a disaster Read More

The Cradle Will Fall

Actors: Lauren Hutton, Ben Murphy

Synopsis: Originally made for television and adapted from a novel by Mary Higgins Clark, the story focuses on an attorney (Lauren Hutton) who has witnessed a murder. She is unable to convince anyone of the truth, though a young doctor (Ben Murphy) wants to believe her. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Winds of War

Synopsis: This World War II epic drama, based on the book by Herman Wouk, follows the life and trials of a career naval officer (Robert Mitchum) sent to Germany during Hitler's rise to power, who witnesses the gradual escalation of the war. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Winds of War, Part 7: Into the Maelstorm

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Ali MacGraw, Jan-Michael Vincent, John Houseman, Polly Bergen

Synopsis: In the final episode of the seven-part, eighteen-hour miniseries The Winds of War, Ambassador-at-large "Pug" Henry (Robert Mitchum) represents the US in a series of conferences with the intansigent Russian premier Josef Stalin (Anatoly Chauginian). Dallying briefly with his erstwhile British Read More

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

The Secret War of Jackie's Girls

Synopsis: In this WW II adventure, a team of female pilots perform dangerous missions on both sides of enemy lines. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Chisholms

Synopsis: The Chisholms was a three-part miniseries adapted by Evan Hunter from his own novel. Covering the years 1842 through 1844, the dramatization follows the westward trek of the Chisholm family. Patriarch Robert Preston is driven from his midwestern homestead by a feud. Starting down the Ohio river, Preston Read More

Riding with Death

Synopsis: The Gemini Man (Ben Murphy) is a guy who was exposed to a laboratory mix-up that gave him the power to become invisible at will. With such a skill he's appointed a dangerous task that brings him into contact with a crazed scientist who's involved in a deadly scheme. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Bridger

Actors: John Anderson

Synopsis: Based on the exploits of real-life 1830s frontiersman James Bridger, this TV movie was supposed to have graduated to a weekly series, but the fates were against it. James Wainwright plays the title role with Gary Cooper-like stoicism. John Anderson guest stars as President Andrew Jackson, who Read More

Gemini Man

Synopsis: Code Name: Minus One is the syndication title for the TV movie The Gemini Man. Ben Murphy stars as a secret agent for an organization called INTERSECT (International Security Technics). When saboteurs blow up an underwater testing lab, Murphy is exposed to radiation; as a result, he finds that he Read More

Sidecar Racers

Actors: Ben Murphy, Wendy Hughes, John Clayton, Peter Graves, John Meillon

Synopsis: In this lively sports drama, Jeff Rayburn has no direction in his life since he competed in the Olympic games as a swimmer. The American had been simply bumming around Australia until he teamed up with biker Dave Ferguson and began sidecar racing. When not involved in racing, the two tussle for Read More

This Is the West That Was

Actors: Kim Darby, Stuart Margolin

Synopsis: The lighthearted title of this made-for-TV film deftly sets the mood for the 74 minutes to follow. Ben Murphy stars as a rogueish Wild Bill Hickok, carrying on with an incongruously glamorous Calamity Jane (Kim Darby). Amidst the gambling and lovemaking, Will Bill must fend off a gang of vengeful Read More

The West was Never Like This

Synopsis: In this western, Wild Bill Hickock and his gal Calamity Jane have numerous adventures. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Heat Wave

Synopsis: Ben Murphy and Bonnie Bedelia star in the made-for-TV suspenser Heat Wave. Murphy plays a young clerk, and Bedelia portrays his young and pregnant wife. During a record-breaking hot spell, the power in their mountain community goes out, and the water supply is dirty and stagnant. The balance of Read More

Griff [TV Series]

Actors: Lorne Greene, Ben Murphy, Vic Tayback, Patricia Stich

Death Follows the Psycho

Synopsis: The "feature film" Death Follows the Psycho is actually comprised of footage culled from the 1973-74 TV series Griff. Lorne Greene stars as Wayne "Griff" Griffin, a former police captain who becomes a private eye after the murder of his patrolman son. Ben Murphy costars as Griff's assistant Mike Read More

The Letters

Actors: John Forsythe, Pamela Franklin, Henry Jones, Ben Murphy, Leslie Nielsen, Jane Powell, Lesley Ann Warren, Ida Lupino

Synopsis: Letters begins with the crash of a U.S. mail plane. One year later, cheerful postman Henry Jones delivers the long-delayed letters. These overdue missives profoundly affect the lives of (a) a man who's deserted his wife; (b) a woman anxious to break up her daughter's romance; and (c) a pianist Read More

The Case of the Baltimore Girls

Actors: Lorne Greene

Synopsis: In this thriller an older detective and his side-kick look into a dating service that seems to deal in murder, extortion, and death. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Runaway!

Actors: Martin Milner, Ray Danton

Synopsis: Several familiar faces dot the cast of the made-for-TV Runaway! The scene is a treacherous mountainside, where several skiers have come to...well, ski. The mountain can only be reached by train-and that train is the "runaway" of the title. Just so no one would miss the point, the film was retitled Read More

The Long Chase

Synopsis: Crime is committed wherever 2 expert criminals go. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Day They Hanged Kid Curry

Synopsis: The Day They Hanged Kid Curry is the syndication title for the 90-minute second-season opener of the TV series Alias Smith and Jones. This Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid derivation stars Peter Deuel as Hannibal Heyes and Ben Murphy as Kid Curry, a pair of handsome and lovable old-west bandits Read More

Alias Smith and Jones

Actors: Ben Murphy, Roger Davis

Synopsis: First telecast January 5, 1971, Alias Smith and Jones was the pilot for the popular TV series of the same name. This genial rip-off of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid stars Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes and Ben Murphy as Kid Curry, two notorious Western bandits who have become folk heroes because Read More

The Gun and the Nun

Synopsis: Gun and the Nun is made up of snippets from several episodes of the 1971-73 TV series Alias Smith and Jones. Most of this 73-minute ersatz feature is comprised of an hour-long episode titled "The Reformation of Harry Briscoe," in which reformed outlaws Hannibal "Smith" Heyes (Pete Duel) and Kid Read More

The Thousand Plane Raid

Actors: Christopher George, Laraine Stephens, J.D. Cannon, Michael Evans

Synopsis: Colonel Greg Brandon (Christopher George) is the commander of a B-17 fighter unit. His plan to send 1000 planes to bomb a strategic German airplane factory meets with continual rejection by everyone except General Palmer (J.D. Cannon). The tough-guy Colonel alienates himself to his men and Read More

Yours, Mine and Ours

Actors: Lucille Ball, Henry Fonda, Van Johnson, Tom Bosley, Louise Troy

Synopsis: This story is taken from the real-life marriage of two people in the early 1960s. Helen North (Lucille Ball) is a widow with eight children who falls in love with Naval officer Frank Beardsley (Henry Fonda), a widower with ten children of his own. The two marry as comedy ensues from the sheer Read More