Michael Bishop Filmography

Occupation:: Actor, Director, Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision, Songwriter, Producer

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Rage: 20 Years of Punk Rock

Crew: Director, Musical Direction/Supervision, Producer

Actors: Jack Grisham, Keith Morris, Duane Peters, Jello Biafra, Don Bolles

Synopsis: While the American punk rock revolution started on the East Coast in the mid-'70s, by 1978 California boasted once of the most interesting and important punk scenes in the world, spawning a number of great bands who would change the shape of underground rock & roll and blaze the trails for the Read More

2001
Mercy Mission: The Rescue of Flight 771

Actors: Robert Loggia, Scott Bakula, Rebecca Rigg, Alan Fletcher, Michael Bishop

Synopsis: In this suspenseful drama, a medium sized plane en route from the U.S. to New Zealand gets hopelessly lost over the vast Pacific after his companion plane crashes. Now his only hope for salvation is the small commercial jet liner with whom the lost pilot is in radio contact. As his plane runs out Read More

1993
Survive the Savage Sea

Synopsis: When a family's boat is capsized by a school of whales, they are left adrift in the shark-infested waters of the Pacific Ocean in this true survival story. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

1992
Time Troopers

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: This Austrian sci-fi film set in post-nuclear Earth is about a pair of policemen whose jobs consist (among other things) of executing people who have prematurely used up all their "energy clip" credits in an Orwellian society. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

1989
Salsa

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Robi Rosa, Rodney Harvey, Magali Alvarado, Miranda Garrison, Moon Orona

Synopsis: Disco-gone-Latin, that's what's happening in Salsa, where a grease monkey who's sick and tired of knuckle-busting lives for his nights on the dance floor where he gyrates to the salsa beat. Not much plot but plenty of dancing is the fare here, as the lead guy (Robby Rosa) is out to show he's the Travolta Read More

5/6/88
Brain Damage

Actors: Rick Herbst, Gordon MacDonald, Jennifer Lowry, Theo Barnes, Lucille Saint-Peter

Synopsis: Basket Case director Frank Henenlotter explores another bizarre symbiotic human-monster relationship in this surreal horror comedy about a young man named Brian (Rick Herbst) who emerges from a night of bizarre hallucinations to find a jovial talking slug attached to his body. The creature, a Read More

1988
Shy People

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Barbara Hershey, Martha Plimpton, Merritt Butrick, John Philbin

Synopsis: Writer Jill Clayburgh wants to remove her coke-addicted daughter Martha Plimpton from the corruptive environs of Manhattan. When assigned to write an article about family trees, Clayburgh, with daughter in tow, heads to the bayous of Louisiana, there to seek out an elusive great-uncle--and, it is Read More

12/4/87
Three Kinds of Heat

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Robert Ginty, Victoria Barrett, Shakti, Sylvester McCoy, Barry Foster

Synopsis: A trio of agents are summoned by Interpol to trail the villain Harry Pimm (Sylvester McCoy) in this low-budget spy feature. Elliot Cromwell (Robert Ginty), Sergeant Terry O'Shea (Victoria Barrett), and Major Shan (Shakti) combine forces to track down the international crime boss ~ Dan Pavlides Read More

6/5/87
Future Schlock

Actors: Mary-Anne Fahey, Michael Bishop, Tiriel Mora, Simon Thorpe

Synopsis: Technical flaws abound in this "punk" movie about an imaginary, 21st-century ghetto in Melbourne, Australia created by white-color, middle-class suburbanites to contain all the wild and wooly nonconformists in their society. At the center of ghetto life is a pub that features Sarah (Maryanne Read More

1984
The Clinic

Actors: Chris Haywood, Simon Burke, Gerda Nicolson, Rona McLeod, Suzanne Roylance

Synopsis: Fresh out of medical school, Paul Armstrong (Simon Burke) has landed a job at an Australian urban venereal and sexual disease clinic. While he understands the medical stuff he learned in school pretty well, he is stuffy and a bit of a prude. Most of all, he hasn't yet adjusted to the idea that Read More

1982