Bobby TroupFilmography

Emergency!: Survival on Charter #220, Part 1

Synopsis: Emergency: Survival on Charter No. 220 was a special 2-part, 2-hour installment of the weekly TV series Emergency. The emphasis is on paramedics Gage (Randolph Mantooth) and DeSoto (Kevin Tighe), who spring to action when a small private plane collides with a chartered jetliner. The enormity of Read More

Benny and Barney: Las Vegas Undercover

Actors: Marty Allen, George Gobel, Bobby Troup

Synopsis: Terry Kiser is Benny and Tim Thomerson is Barney, two undercover cops operating in Vegas. So as not to attract attention to their sleuthing, Benny and Barney pose as nightclub entertainers. The case of the moment is the rescue of a kidnapped singer, which B and B pull off successfully within the Read More

Adam-12: Lost and Found

Synopsis: In this crossover episode with Adam-12's "sister" series Emergency!, mobile officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) join forces with doctors of Rampart Hospital and the paramedics of Emergency Squad 51. Their most urgent assignment consists of locating two runaways: a Read More

Adam-12: The Princess and the Pig

Synopsis: Officer Jim Reed (Kent McCord) goes undercover in hopes of smashing a particularly venal drug ring. He receives unexpected assistance from drug-addicted folksinger Kathy Royal, played by future General Hospital diva Leslie Charleson. Also in the cast is jazz musician-cum-actor Bobby Troup, who Read More

Emergency!

Actors: Robert Fuller, Julie London, Randolph Mantooth, Kevin Tighe, Bobby Troup

Synopsis: First telecast January 15, 1972, Emergency is of course the 2-hour pilot episode for the weekly series of the same name. Robert Fuller heads the cast as Dr. Kelly Brackett, head of the staff of LA's Ramparts General Hospital. Brackett oversees the activities of Paramedics Squad 51 of the Los Read More

M*A*S*H

Actors: Elliott Gould, Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman, Jo Ann Pflug, Robert Duvall, Roger Bowen, Gary Burghoff

Synopsis: Although he was not the first choice to direct it, the hit black comedy MASH established Robert Altman as one of the leading figures of Hollywood's 1970s generation of innovative and irreverent young filmmakers. Scripted by Hollywood veteran Ring Lardner, Jr., this war comedy details the exploits Read More

Dragnet

Synopsis: Filmed in 1966 (when screenwriter Richard Breen was still around), this made-for-TV feature marked the return of Jack Webb's classic 1950s cop series Dragnet after a seven-year absence. Ordered to cut his vacation short, Sgt. Joe Friday (played by Jack Webb) is assigned to investigate the Read More

Number One

Actors: Charlton Heston, Jessica Walter, Bruce Dern, John Randolph, Diana Muldaur

Synopsis: Ron Catlin (Charleton Heston) is a pro-football player who realizes his playing skills have eroded. His actions on the field have slowed to the point where retirement looms. His wife Julie (Jessica Walter) has her own fashion-designing business and his former teammate Richie (Bruce Dern) has Read More

First to Fight

Actors: Chad Everett, Marilyn Devin, Claude Akins, Dean Jagger, Bobby Troup

Synopsis: In this WW II drama, a tough-as-steel Medal of Honor-winning Marine finds himself training recruits on a stateside base and waiting for his wife to bear their first child. Unfortunately, he feels bad about being home when so many other soldiers are dying in the Pacific Theater and so asks to be Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Wrongful Writ

Synopsis: Contacted by a man claiming to be a US intelligence agent, lawyer Ward Toyama (James Shigeta) uses his influence with his father's export firm to help the self-proclaimed spy deliver a top-secret cargo to the Middle East. As a result, Toyama becomes innocently involved in an illegal gun-running Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Missing Melody

Synopsis: On the verge of marrying jazz musician Eddy King (James Drury), Polly Courtland (Jo Morrows) lets out a shriek and runs out of the church. It turns out that Polly had seen George Sherwin ({$Grant Richards]), who was waving an envelope containing compromising photos of Polly's sister Midge (Lorrie Read More

The Five Pennies

Actors: Danny Kaye, Barbara Bel Geddes, Louis Armstrong, Harry Guardino, Tuesday Weld, Bob Crosby

Synopsis: The Five Pennies is the life story of influential jazz cornetist Red Nichols, played here by a remarkably straight-faced Danny Kaye. The somewhat romanticized screenplay chronicles Nichols' rise from obscurity, annotates the many future bandleaders who would play with Nichols' "Five Pennies," and Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Jaded Joker

Synopsis: Singer Frankie Laine makes a rare acting appearance in this episode, which includes a truly offbeat characterizaton by musician-composer Bobby Troup). Laine is cast as comedian Danny Ross, whose long-awaited TV comeback is sabotaged by his duplicitous agent Charles Goff (Harry Jackson). Danny Read More

The Gene Krupa Story

Actors: Gene Krupa, Sal Mineo, Susan Kohner, James Darren, Susan Oliver, Yvonne Craig, Shelly Manne, Buddy Lester

Synopsis: Sal Mineo, who'd previously registered well as the lead in the TV drama Drummer Man, essays a strikingly similar role in The Gene Krupa Story. The film details Krupa's troubled home life: (he wanted to be a musician; his father wanted him to become a priest), his rise to fame as drummer for the Benny Goodman Read More

The Voice in the Mirror

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Richard Egan, Julie London, Arthur O'Connell, Walter Matthau, Troy Donahue

Synopsis: In this sensitive drama, a commercial artist is devastated by his tiny daughter's death and takes to drinking to numb the terrible pain. Soon he has become a full-blown alcoholic. His loving wife and caring doctor are unable to help. He wants to stop drinking, but he simply cannot until he meets Read More

The High Cost of Loving

Actors: José Ferrer, Gena Rowlands, Joanne Gilbert, Jim Backus, Edward Platt, Bobby Troup

Synopsis: After a string of such serious projects as The Shrike and I Accuse, director-star Jose Ferrer lightens up a bit with the frothy comedy The High Cost of Loving. Ferrer plays purchasing executive Jim Fry, who has doubts about his financial future when his company is taken over by a conglomerate. Read More

Bop Girl

Actors: Judy Tyler, Bobby Troup, Margo Woode, Lucien Littlefield, George O'Hanlon

Synopsis: Also known as Bop Girl, this diverting musical time capsule features several of the best Calypso performers of the late 1950s. Real-life jazz musician Bobby Troup stars as a college music student, writing a graduate thesis on rock 'n' roll. For research purposes, Troup persuades nightclub singer Judy Tyler Read More

Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Jayne Mansfield, Tony Randall, Betsy Drake, Joan Blondell, Mickey Hargitay, John Williams

Synopsis: Jayne Mansfield recreated her starmaking stage role in this film adaptation of George Axelrod's Broadway comedy. Mansfield plays a Monroe-like movie queen whom adman Tony Randall hopes to sign for a product endorsement. Through a fluke, the press believes that Randall is having an affair with Read More

The River's Edge

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Ray Milland, Anthony Quinn, Debra Paget, Harry Carey, Jr., Chubby Johnson

Synopsis: A bank robber's avarice and obsessive quest for freedom lead to his downfall in this adventure-packed crime drama that was shot on location in Mexico. After lifting a cool million from a U.S. bank, the crook is anxious to sneak across the border into Mexico, but to do so he must hire an Read More

The Great Man

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: José Ferrer, Dean Jagger, Keenan Wynn, Julie London, Joanne Gilbert

Synopsis: Based on a novel by television producer Al Morgan, The Great Man is a Citizen Kane-style look at the private life of a public figure. The Great Man is a beloved radio and television personality who dies suddenly. Jose Ferrer (who also directed) plays a writer/commentator who has a chance to break Read More

Rock, Pretty Baby

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Sal Mineo, John Saxon, Luana Patten, Edward Platt, Fay Wray

Synopsis: A must-see for students of 1950s pop culture, Rock, Pretty Baby was Universal-International's earliest acknowledgement of the rock 'n' roll craze. John Saxon plays 18-year-old high schooler Jimmy Daley, who intends to pursue a musical career despite the objections of his physician father (Edward Read More

The Girl Can't Help It

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Tom Ewell, Jayne Mansfield, Edmond O'Brien, Henry Jones, Julie London, Ray Anthony, John Emery

Synopsis: The inimitable writer-director Frank Tashlin once more aims his satiric barbs at modern culture (modern 1950s culture, that is) in The Girl Can't Help It. Much of the film is dominated by Edmond O'Brien as mob boss Murdock, who while serving a term in federal prison becomes a singing sensation Read More

Mr. Imperium

Actors: Lana Turner, Ezio Pinza, Marjorie Main, Barry Sullivan, Cedric Hardwicke

Synopsis: Ezio Pinza stars as the title character, a prince who falls for nightclub singer Fredda Barlo (Lana Turner) when the two meet on vacation in Italy. After more than a decade, they reunite, only now Barlo is a Hollywood superstar and Imperium has ascended to the throne of king. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Read More

Smart Politics

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Freddie Stewart, June Preisser, Frankie Darro, Warren Mills, Noel Neill

Synopsis: In this musical comedy, a group of clean-cut teens desire to turn an abandoned warehouse into a youth center. Unfortunately they and their two leaders are opposed by the mayor who wants to use the building for his own gain. The kids then put on a show and soon the mayor is convinced to give them Read More