Ed Bishop Filmography

The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax

Actors: Angela Lansbury, Thomas Ian Griffith, Ed Bishop, Paul Birchard, Michelle Read

Synopsis: Based on the first of Dorothy Gilman's popular novels about a senior citizen who joins the CIA, The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax stars Angela Lansbury as Emily Polifax, an elderly woman who feels out of sorts and unsure of what to do with herself after the death of her husband. Her doctor tries to Read More

French & Saunders: At the Movies

Actors: Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders

Synopsis: This collection of skits from the fourth series of French & Saunders lives up to its title. Although the comedic duo takes aim at British culture, BBC TV, pop stars, and the Middle Ages, most of the material focuses on Hollywood parody. Dawn French takes on a pair of box-office villains as she Read More

Funny Man

Actors: Tim James, Christopher Lee, Benny Young, Ingrid Lacey, Pauline Chan

Synopsis: This British horror-comedy is set in haunted house and features a series of assorted nuts getting butchered by a hellish clown. Lucky Max, a record producer has just won a decrepit old mansion from the enigmatic Callum Chance in a poker game. To celebrate, Max invites his family and hitchhikers to Read More

Born to Ride

Actors: Teri Polo, John Stamos, John Stockwell

Synopsis: TV star John Stamos makes a game transition to the big screen in Born to Ride. Stamos plays a motorcycle whiz, who in 1939 is assigned to motorize a US cavalry troop. His irreverence and slovenliness makes Stamos a pariah to his superior officer John Stockwell -- and just to complicate matters Read More

Redneck Zombies

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: After an army transport vehicle loses its poorly secured cargo of nuclear waste, a family of illiterate moonshiners fails to take heed of the warnings printed on the side of the barrel and proceeds to use it to cook up a batch of sour mash. The brew is a foul-tasting, lime-green concoction, but it Read More

Testimony

Actors: Ben Kingsley, Sherry Baines, Magdalen Asquith, Mark Asquith, Terence Rigby

Synopsis: Ben Kingsley stars as celebrated Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich in this lengthy historical biography. Along with Prokofiev, Shostakovich is considered among the elite of the 20th-century composers to emerge from his country. Striving to be true to his art form, the composer was caught in the Read More

Turn Around

Synopsis: After a malicious gang attacks the residents of a small town, a magician decides to use his trade to exact revenge. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Restless Natives

Actors: Vincent Friell, Joe Mullaney, Teri Lally, Ned Beatty, Robert Urquhart

Synopsis: In this Scottish comedy, two young fellows disguise themselves as a clown and a wolf-man and begin robbing tourist buses. Somehow the two end up considered national heroes. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Three Wishes for Jamie

Actors: Jack Warden, Stevan Rimkus, Anna Livia Ryan, Peter Marinker

Synopsis: Three Wishes for Jamie was adapted from a bestseller by Charles O'Neal. The film is set in Ireland at the turn of the century. Lovelorn Hibernian youth Stevan Rimkus is granted three wishes by a fairy queen; will he choose wisely, or....? Jack Warden does the "faith 'n' begorrah" bit as a twinkly Read More

The Fifth Missile

Actors: David Soul, Sam Waterston, Robert Conrad

Synopsis: Filmed in Malta, this three-hour TV movie nailbiter was based on the novel The Gold Crew by Thomas M. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson. David Soul plays the commander of a Trident submarine, engaged in an test designed to measure the crew's psychological reaction to an actual nuclear missile launch. Read More

Master of the Game

Actors: Dyan Cannon, Harry Hamlin, Ian Charleson, Cliff De Young, Fernando Allende

Synopsis:

Another of the many Sidney Sheldon novels given the TV-miniseries treatment in the 1970s and '80s, Master of the Game yielded a three-part, nine-hour extravaganza, with enough corporate and romantic intrigue to fill an entire television season. Covering nearly 100 years, the story (which Read More

Philip Marlowe, Private Eye: Finger Man

Synopsis: "Powers Boothe recreates Bogart's famous sleuth" read the ad campaign for the five-part HBO series Philip Marlowe, Private Eye. Hey, how about a little credit for Raymond Chandler, who only created the character of hard-bitten, eloquent gumshoe Marlowe? First telecast April 23, 1983 Read More

The Lords of Discipline

Actors: David Keith, Robert Prosky, G.D. Spradlin, Barbara Babcock, Michael Biehn

Synopsis: Adapted from a long novel by Pat Conroy, the story is shortened to focus on a harrowing account of institutional racism in the 1960s American South. David Keith stars as Will McLean, a senior student at the fictional Carolina Military Institute. When the school admits its first black student Read More

The Lonely Lady

Actors: Pia Zadora, Lloyd Bochner, Bibi Besch, Joseph Cali, Anthony Holland

Synopsis: This undistinguished drama goes no further than clichéd views about women who gain success by bedding down those who have it. Pia Zadora stars as Jerilee, just out of high school and married to a prominent Hollywood screenwriter, with her own heart-felt aspirations to get her screenplays noticed Read More

Whoops! Apocalypse [TV Series]

Actors: Barry Morse, John Barron, Richard Griffiths, Peter Jones, Geoffrey Palmer

Synopsis: Imagine Monty Python's Flying Circus crossed with Dr. Strangelove, and you'll have a pretty good idea of what went on in the uproarious "black" British sitcom Whoops! Apocalypse. Three of the world's superpowers collide head-on in their efforts to replace the recently deposed Shah of Iran: U.S. Read More

Nutcracker

Actors: Joan Collins, Carol White, Paul Nicholas, Finola Hughes, William Franklyn

Synopsis: In this sudsy drama, a Russian dancer defects and joins a London ballet school headed by a manipulative madam who uses the school as a front for her call-girl business. All of her employees are students whom she has forced to become prostitutes for prominent politicians. Meanwhile the Read More

Silver Dream Racer

Actors: David Essex, Beau Bridges, Cristina Raines, Clarke Peters, Harry H. Corbett, Diane Keen

Synopsis: Coming in around the middle of the pack, this so-so drama about motorcycle racing features David Essex, the British pop star, as Nick Freeman. Nick's brother has died before he is able to test and race the motorcycle he developed, and now Nick has inherited that responsibility. In spite of a Read More

Saturn 3

Actors: Farrah Fawcett, Kirk Douglas, Harvey Keitel, Ed Bishop, Douglas Lambert

Synopsis: In a futuristic setting, two research scientists (a guy and a gal) are set up in an orbiting space station. The guy is Kirk Douglas, and the gal is Farah Fawcett. They are doing just fine until a run-away scientist comes to visit, lusts for Fawcett, and builds a robot that also lusts for her. Mr. Douglas Read More

S.O.S. Titanic

Actors: David Janssen, Cloris Leachman

Synopsis: An Anglo-American co-production, S.O.S. Titanic is a costly, 150-minute reenactment of the infamous sea disaster of 1912. Heading the cast is David Janssen as millionaire John Jacob Astor, who went down with the Titanic, and Cloris Leachman as raucous Denver dowager Molly Brown, who didn't Read More

Brass Target

Actors: Sophia Loren, John Cassavetes, George Kennedy, Robert Vaughn, Patrick McGoohan

Synopsis: What if General George S. Patton didn't die in a car accident, as history tells us, but at the hands of a paid assassin? That's the premise of Brass Target, another in a series of espionage thrillers, like The Eagle Has Landed, that speculates on the fates of real-life figures from World War II. Robert Vaughn Read More

Twilight's Last Gleaming

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Charles Durning, Melvyn Douglas, Paul Winfield

Synopsis: Soured on America by his experiences as a POW in Vietnam, General Lawrence Dell (Burt Lancaster) hopes that his government will someday tell the truth about the Southeast Asian debacle, thereby allowing his country to embark upon a healing process. Regarded as a dangerous embarrassment by the Read More

Quiller: Price of Violence

Synopsis: In this espionage drama, a British agent journeys to the Middle East and discovers that he is to be an assassin's next victim. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Devil's Web

Synopsis: When she's hired to nurse the daughter of an American ambassador, a woman begins influencing the girl's actions, as well as those of her two sisters. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Games Girls Play

Actors: Christina Hart

Synopsis: In this film, the mischievous girls at a British boarding school concoct a competition to see who can seduce visiting dignitaries. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Pets

Synopsis: Slimy villain Berry Kroeger keeps a harem of lovely young women as his own personal pets. Whenever one of the girls protests against this treatment, Kroeger settles matters with a whip. Eventually the women form a united front against their cruel master. What is most distressing about Pets is the Read More

Diamonds Are Forever

Actors: Sean Connery, Jill St. John, Charles Gray, Lana Wood, Jimmy Dean

Synopsis: After George Lazenby portrayed James Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Sean Connery returned to the tux, gimmicks, and catchphrases of Secret Agent 007 in his penultimate Bond outing, Diamonds Are Forever. Fragments of Ian Fleming's original 1954 novel remain, including the characters of Read More

UFO [TV Series]

Journey to the Far Side of the Sun

Actors: Roy Thinnes, Patrick Wymark, Ian Hendry, Lynn Loring, Loni von Friedl

Synopsis: Gerry Anderson, the producer of the popular science fiction puppet shows Supercar and Thunderbirds produced this live-action science-fiction fantasy, directed by Robert Parrish. Roy Thinnes stars as Colonel Glenn Ross, who is assigned by Jason Webb (Patrick Wymark) to accompany John Kane (Ian Hendry Read More

Battle Beneath the Earth

Actors: Kerwin Mathews, Vivienne Ventura, Robert Ayres, Peter Arne, Al Mulock

Synopsis: In this rabid anti-communist science fiction tract, scientist Arnold Kramer (Peter Arne) convinces the Pentagon that the communist Chinese are digging a complex series of tunnels from China and beneath the United States, from which they plan to detonate nuclear weapons and destroy the free world. Read More

The Bedford Incident

Actors: Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, James MacArthur, Martin Balsam, Wally Cox, Donald Sutherland

Synopsis: The Bedford Incident was an attempt by Columbia Pictures -- which had previously made Dr. Strangelove and released Fail-Safe -- to tap the well of public anxiety surrounding nuclear weapons and the Cold War one more time. Reporter Ben Munceford (Sidney Poitier) is allowed aboard a navy ship on Read More

Man in the Middle

Actors: Robert Mitchum, France Nuyen, Barry Sullivan, Trevor Howard, Keenan Wynn

Synopsis: Based on Howard Fast's novel The Winston Affair, this WW II-era crime drama is set in India and chronicles the attempts of an American military attorney to defend a lieutenant who shot a British officer in cold blood. Many witnesses were present and the question the lawyer must answer is whether Read More

The Mouse on the Moon

Actors: Margaret Rutherford, Bernard Cribbins, Ron Moody, David Kossoff, Terry-Thomas

Synopsis: From Richard Lester, the director of 1980's Superman II and the 1964 A Hard Day's Night, comes this less-successful sequel to the The Mouse that Roared. The Prime Minister of the Duchy of Grand Fenwick (Ron Moody) is in a bind because he has no money to renovate his castle and there is a serious Read More

The War Lover

Actors: Al Waxman, Steve McQueen, Robert Wagner, Shirley Ann Field, Gary Cockrell, Michael Crawford

Synopsis: Loosely based on a novel by John Hersey, this standard wartime drama stars Steve McQueen as Buzz Rickson, command pilot of a B17 bomber, and Robert Wagner as Ed Bolland, his co-pilot. When Buzz first comes on the scene, Ed admires him for his daring and skill in executing the bombing raids over Read More