Wes Bishop Filmography

Occupation:
Actor, Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter
Biography:
Wes Bishop is known for producing exploitation films during the 1960s and 1970s. Born Charles Pellettieri in Nashville, he was a paratrooper and an intelligence officer during the Korean War. Afterward he changed his name to Wes Bishop and moved to Hollywood. He and his partner, director Lee...Read More

  • Dixie Dynamite

    Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

    Actors: Kathy McHaley

    Synopsis: Two sisters (Jane Johnstone, Kathy McHaley) seek vengeance when they are evicted from their farmhouse and a gunslinging sheriff shoots down their moonshining father. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

    1976

  • Race with the Devil

    Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

    Actors: Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Loretta Swit, Lara Parker, R.G. Armstrong

    Synopsis: This novel fusion of car-chase film and spooky horror became a surprise box-office hit in 1975. The story begins with car enthusiasts Frank (Warren Oates) and Roger (Peter Fonda) taking their wives, Kelly (Lara Parker) and Alice (Loretta Swit), on a vacation in a recreational vehicle. Their Read More

    1975

  • The Black Gestapo

    Crew: Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter

    Actors: Rod Perry, Charles P. Robinson, Phil Hoover, Ed Cross, Angela Brent

    Synopsis: An interesting (if extremely violent) twist on the standard blaxploitation formula, this crime film deals with a black militant-group, led by Charles P. Robinson, whose members decide to clean up their Watts neighborhood by ridding it of white gangsters. Extreme mayhem follows, with slimy Read More

    1975

  • Policewomen

    Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Lee Frost's police action film Policewomen stars Sondra Currie as officer Lucy Bond. She goes undercover to bring down a group of female convicts who have escaped from jail and joined forces with smugglers. After her true identity is revealed, she must fend off a number of adversaries. ~ Perry Read More

    1973

  • The Thing with Two Heads

    Crew: Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter

    Actors: Jane Kellem, Rod Steele, Ray Milland, Roosevelt Grier, Don Marshall

    Synopsis: The good campy fun in this sci-fi horror movie really begins when the head of a racist mad scientist (Ray Milland) is sewn onto the shoulders of a large black convict (Rosie Grier) and the two heads begin fighting--literally trying to punch each other out--to control their shared body. The whole Read More

    1972

  • Chain Gang Women

    Synopsis: A model prisoner and a desperate thug become unwilling partners in this low-budget action picture. Weed (Michael Sterns) is patiently waiting out the last six months of a sentence for dealing marijuana when he loses his job in the prison library and is put on a rural work gang. Weed finds himself Read More

    1972

  • Chrome and Hot Leather

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Tony Young, Marvin Gaye

    Synopsis: This film is notable for singer Marvin Gaye's debut acting performance. In Chrome and Hot Leather, Green Beret sergeant Mitch's (Tony Young) girlfriend has been mortally injured, and just before her death divulges that a motorcycle gang called "The Devils" were responsible. Mitch and his sergeant Read More

    1971

  • Bonanza: Gideon, the Good

    Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Richard Kiley, Terry Moore

    Synopsis: Guest star Richard Kiley is cast as Sheriff Gideon Yates, one of Nevada's most admired lawmen. When Joe Cartwright comes to Yates claiming that he has witnessed a murder, the Sheriff realizes to his horror that the killer was his own wife Lydia (Terry Moore). With grim determination, Yates quietly Read More

    1970

  • The Scavengers

    Actors: Ben Adams, Fig Blackman, Ben Cadlett, James Gorden, Warren James, Freddy Mizrahi, John Riazzi, Claudia Siefried, Tom Siegel, Karen Swanson

    Synopsis: In this exploitation western, a renegade unit of Confederates conspire to rob a Union payroll wagon. Unfortunately, they don't realize that the war is over when they ride into a little town to await the shipment. While there, they amuse themselves by raping and murdering the townsfolk. Fortunately Read More

    1969

  • Hot Spur

    Synopsis: Filled with brutal sex and graphic violence this western centers on the vengeful quest of a Mexican caballero who gets even with those who viciously gang raped his sister while he stood helplessly by and watched. The hero knows exactly who the perpetrator is and carefully bides his time until he Read More

    1968

  • Combat!: Decision

    Synopsis: James Franciscus guest stars as PFC Charles Harris, a demolitions expert assigned to Saunders' squad for a mission to blow up a German communications center. As the mission progresses, Saunders can't help but wonder why Harris, a former doctor, would give up the medical profession and dedicate Read More

    1966

  • Perry Mason: The Case of the Absent Artist

    Synopsis: Pete Manders (Wynn Pearce), chief assistant to cartoonist Gabe Philips (Mark Roberts), cannot believe his good fortune when Philips sells him the rights to his popular comic strip "Zingy" at a bargain rate. Philips claims that he wants to retire from the daily grind and set up residence in the Read More

    1962

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