Billy Jayne Filmography

The Crew

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Burt Reynolds, Dan Hedaya, Seymour Cassel, Carrie-Anne Moss, Jennifer Tilly

Synopsis: In this dark comedy, a group of retirees wants to save their homes -- but they're not typical senior citizens trying to make the most of their Social Security checks. Four aging former mobsters -- Joey "Bats" Pistella (Burt Reynolds), Bobby Bartellemeo (Richard Dreyfuss), Mike the Brick (Dan Hedaya Read More

Road Kill

Actors: Jennifer Rubin, Erik Palladino, Billy Jayne, Tony Denison, Jon Polito

Synopsis: A film student discovers the action movie project of his dreams is happening around him in real life in this offbeat independent drama. Alex (Erik Palladino) is a nerdy student studying film production and not doing especially well with it. One day, Erik and his roommate Lars (Billy Jayne) Read More

Charmed: The Wendigo

Actors: Jocelyn Seagrave, Billy Jayne, J. Karen Thomas, Charles Chun, Cristine Rose

Synopsis: Tipped off by a man (Billy Jayne) whose fiancée has been killed in a grisly manner, Andy (T.W. King) teams with FBI agent Fallon (Jocelyn Seagrave) to hunt down the Wendigo, a vicious creature who tried to attack Piper (Holly Marie Combs). Alas, it soon develops that the hunted beast is a lot Read More

Breaking Through

Actors: Kellie Martin, JoBeth Williams, Alan Rosenberg, Aaron Kubey, Thomas Kopache

Synopsis: This fact-based TV movie stars JoBeth Williams as Pam Willis, a case worker for the Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women. In the course of a standard investigation, Pam comes upon Laura Keyes (Kellie Martin), a 14-year-old deafmute girl who has been locked up since childhood and never Read More

Spring Fling!

Actors: James Eckhouse, Joyce DeWitt, Pat Harrington, Jr., Jason Hervey, Christopher Daniel Barnes

Synopsis: Teenage spring-break hijinx highlight this made-for-TV comedy. Joyce DeWitt stars as Linda Hayden, a teacher assigned to take an all-male class on a trip to L.A. After a series of typical road trip shenanigans, the gang winds up at a hotel owned by her former boyfriend George (James Eckhouse). Read More

Parker Lewis Can't Lose [TV Series]

Dr. Alien

Actors: Judy Landers, Olivia Barash, Stuart Fratkin, Raymond O'Connor

Synopsis: This comical, erotic sci-fi adventure is every nerd's fantasy come true as it tells the story of ultra-geeky Wesley Littlejohn who readily volunteers to participate in his voluptuous substitute biology professor Ms. Xenophia's (an alien from outer space) extra credit research experiment. Once in Read More

Party Camp

Actors: Andrew Ross, Kerry Brennan, Jewel Shepard, Peter Jason

Synopsis: In this adolescent-oriented comedy, a handsome young man gets a job as a counselor at a military summer camp so he can be near his dream girl. He isn't there long before he turns the formerly well-run outfit into a riotous all-day party. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Demonwarp

Actors: George Kennedy, David Michael O'Neill, Pamela Gilbert, Colleen McDermott

Synopsis: Moronic teens vacationing in Demonwood Forest are terrorized by a shambling Neanderthal -- not the director, but a big goon in a fuzzy ape suit who attacks George Kennedy and hauls his daughter off into the woods to a fate worse than death... perhaps to a screening of this movie. As it turns out Read More

The A-Team: The Trouble With Harry

Synopsis: The title character in this episode is a boozy ex-boxer (played by Paul Gleason), who is currently being persecuted by a gangster named Fats (John Hancock). At the request of his old pal Hulk Hogan, B.A. (Mr. T) tries to help Fats out for the sake of the old drunkard's son Jeffrey (Billy Jayne). Read More

The B.R.A.T. Patrol

Actors: Sean Astin, Brian Keith

Synopsis: The acronymic B.R.A.T. Patrol originally aired as a 2-hour entry on The Disney Sunday Movie. The appropriately named title characters are the children of a group of Marine non-coms. Running roughshod around a UMC base, the "patrol's" reputation is so bad that no one believes the kids' story Read More

Just One of the Guys

Actors: Joyce Hyser, Clayton Rohner, Billy Jayne, William Zabka, Toni Hudson, Sherilyn Fenn, Arye Gross

Synopsis: In this uneven teen comedy, an aspiring female high-school journalist assumes a fake male identity after her essay on just that subject -- a woman posing as a male jock -- is rejected in a contest. Miffed by what she assumes is a bias against her gender in the rejection of her essay, Terry (Joyce Hyser Read More

Highway to Heaven: Dust Child

Synopsis: The wife (Jenny Sullivan) of Vietnam veteran Richard Gaines (James Whitmore Jr.) is delighted when Richard's 15-year-old Vietnamese daughter Nguyen (Denice Kumagai) comes to the United States to live with their family. Alas, Richard's spiteful son Brad (Billy Jayne) wants nothing to do with his Read More

Superstition

Actors: Albert Salmi, Lynn Carlin, Larry Pennell, Maylo McCaslin

Synopsis: Flamboyant, giallo-style gore effects are the only highlight of this otherwise pedestrian supernatural horror film, which was originally filmed in 1981 as The Witch and shelved for four years, before it experienced a mild midnight-movie revival in the wake of The Evil Dead's success. The ghastly Read More

Reckless

Actors: Aidan Quinn, Daryl Hannah, Kenneth McMillan, Cliff De Young, Lois Smith

Synopsis: Reckless is the word for rebellious teenaged Johnny Rourke (Aidan Quinn). With a drunken dad and a police-blotter rap sheet as long as his arm, Quinn pursues an "impossible" romance with Tracey Prescott (Daryl Hannah), a girl from a wealthy, highly respected family. Tracey is thrilled at the Read More

Cujo

Actors: Dee Wallace, Danny Pintauro, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Christopher Stone, Ed Lauter

Synopsis: Based on a Stephen King novel, Cujo is not as menacing or as frightening as other film adaptations of King's popular stories and especially cannot compare to the 1976 Carrie. Cujo is a happy St. Bernard until he is bitten on the nose by a rabid bat and slowly begins manifesting the symptoms of his Read More

Nightmares

Actors: Cristina Raines, Joe Lambie, Anthony James, William Sanderson, Emilio Estevez

Synopsis: Divided into four separate independent films originally made as a television pilot, Nightmares begins with "Terror in Topanga," a story about a young woman who goes out one night to buy a pack of cigarettes, knowing full well that the infamous "canyon killer" is on the loose -- and sure enough, a Read More

Man, Woman and Child

Actors: Martin Sheen, Blythe Danner, Sebastian Dungan, Arlene McIntyre, Missy Francis

Synopsis: In this melodramatic story, a college professor and his family experience trauma and tears when the professor discovers that his one-time lover in France has recently died and left a son behind -- his son. When the young boy shows up on the doorstep because the shocked father can only do what is Read More

The Beastmaster

Actors: Marc Singer, Tanya Roberts, Rip Torn, John Amos, Josh Milrad

Synopsis: This low-budget entry into the sword-and-sorcery cycle of the early '80s wasn't successful during its initial release, but has steadily built a strong cult following over the years. The Beastmaster tells the story of Dar (Marc Singer), the son of a king who was stolen from his mother's womb by a Read More

Alice: Alice's Halloween Surprise

Synopsis: Hoping for a romantic rendezvous with her new boyfriend Mitch (Philip R. Allen), Alice (Linda Lavin) is instead saddled with the responsibility of escorting Mitch's four kids as they go trick-or-treating on Halloween. The situation turns out to be more trick than treat when one of the youngsters Read More

Hospital Massacre

Actors: Barbi Benton, Chip Lucia, Jon Van Ness, John Warner Williams, Den Surles

Synopsis: This lurid, misogynist slasher opus employs the usual "20 years later" motif in its presentation of a heavy-breathing maniac (Chip Lucia) who has been relentlessly stalking the now-grown object of a jilted childhood crush (former Playboy playmate and '80s television staple Barbi Benton). He Read More

Back Roads

Actors: Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, David Keith, Miriam Colon, Michael Vincente Gazzo

Synopsis: For his follow-up to 1979's Academy Award-winning Norma Rae, director Martin Ritt re-teams with that film's star, Sally Field, for this gritty romantic road comedy. Reportedly Ritt's homage to Frank Capra's films of the 1930s, Back Roads stars Field as Amy Post, a no-nonsense prostitute in the Read More

Crazy Times

Synopsis: In this socially conscious drama, set in 1955, three tough New York youths must learn to deal with a troubled world. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Bloody Birthday

Actors: Susan Strasberg, José Ferrer, Lori Lethin, Melinda Cordell, Julie Brown

Synopsis: Sort of a triple-threat Bad Seed with a more overtly violent streak, this film tells the tale of trio of cherubic youngsters whose births all coincided with a solar eclipse, which somehow initiated a kind of time-release evil reaction that reaches its climax on the kids' tenth birthday, causing Read More

Angel on My Shoulder

Actors: Peter Strauss, Richard Kiley, Barbara Hershey, Janis Paige, Seymour Cassel

Synopsis: A gangster who was wrongfully executed for a killing is promised leniency from Satan if he returns to earth in the body of a lawman who is trying to stamp out evil. Trouble is, the dead man has a hard time being evil enough to get revenge. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Runner Stumbles

Actors: Dick Van Dyke, Kathleen Quinlan, Maureen Stapleton, Ray Bolger, Tammy Grimes

Synopsis: Director Stanley Kramer ended his career with this absorbing drama, adapted from the play by Milan Stitt and based on a real-life event from 1927. Dick Van Dyke stars as Father Rivard, an intellectual priest in a small, impoverished mining town in the state of Washington. A lonely man with low Read More