Bradford DillmanFilmography

Born:: April 14, 1930 in San Francisco, CA
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Yale graduate Bradford Dillman began his career in the sort of misunderstood-youth roles that had previously been the province of Montgomery Clift and James Dean. His first significant stage success was as the younger son in the Pulitzer Prize-winning Eugene O'Neill play Long Day's Journey Into...Read More

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Murder, She Wrote: Twice Dead

Synopsis: To escape his persistent--and dishonest--corporate sponsors, a Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist fakes his own death. It's a clever ruse, but not a particularly healthy one: soon afterward, the missing scientist turns up murdered for real. Typically, the wrong man is accused of the crime Read More

1995
Murder, She Wrote: Wheel of Death

Synopsis: Season Ten of Murder, She Wrote concludes as a small-time carnival pitches its tents just outside Cabot Cove. The troupe's arrival coincides with a series of mysterious burglaries which plagued the town. Then, the carnival's larcenous magician Carl Dorner (Bradford Dillman) is murdered--and that's Read More

1994
Murder, She Wrote: Final Curtain

Synopsis: Cabot Cove has been chosen as the location for the pre-Broadway staging of a new play starring David North (Peter Donat), a prominent actor who is emerging from a 10-year retirement. No sooner have rehearsals started than a murder occurs, with North's business manager Eric Benderson (Bradford Read More

1993
The Heart of Justice

Actors: Eric Stoltz, Jennifer Connelly, Dermot Mulroney, Dennis Hopper, Vincent Price

Synopsis: In this tense drama a reporter tries to figure out the reason a wealthy young man shot a popular pulp-fiction writer and then shot himself. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1993
Murder, She Wrote: Unauthorized Obituary

Synopsis: Not long after ruthless journalist Jane Dawson (Jessica Walter) informs Jessica (Angela Lansbury) of her plans to publish an unauthorized biography of former movie star Ellen Lombard (Barbara Bain), Jane is found electrocuted in a hot tub, thanks to a TV set which "accidentally" tumbled into the Read More

1991
Murder, She Wrote: Hannigan's Wake

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) agrees to finish a book that was inaugurated by recently deceased Pulitzer-winning journalist Daniel Hannigan (Van Johnson). The book was intended to reopen a 16-year-old murder case, and to prove that the man convicted of murdering one Lydia Thurlow was really innocent. Read More

1990
Heroes Stand Alone

Actors: Chad Everett, Bradford Dillman, Wayne Grace, Rick Dean, Michael Chieffo

Synopsis: Set in a grim future world, a special U.S. task force is sent to Central America to rescue a downed spy plane. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

9/8/89
Lords of the Deep

Actors: Bradford Dillman, Priscilla Barnes, Melody Ryane, Daryl Haney, Eb Lottimer

Synopsis: An alien breed attacks the crew members of an ocean-floor seabase in this Roger Corman sci-fi thriller production. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

4/21/89
Hot Pursuit

Synopsis: After they're framed for murder, a young couple must outrun the police--and a one-eyed hit man--in order to find the real killers. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1989
Christine Cromwell: Easy Come, Easy Go

Synopsis: In this drama, legal eagle Cromwell must protect her client who has been wrongly accused of killing a grifter. She is up against a crafty, and earnest police officer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1989
Murder, She Wrote: Death Takes a Dive

Synopsis: Jerry Orbach makes a return appearance as Boston P.I. Harry McGraw, who in this episode has given up sleuthing to enter the world of professional boxing. No, Harry hasn't donned the gloves himself, but he is a suspect in the murder of a crooked boxing manager. Enter Jessica (Angela Lansbury), who Read More

1987
Murder, She Wrote: Steal Me a Story

Synopsis: No sooner has Jessica (Angela Lansbury) shipped her latest book to the publisher than someone plagiarizes its plotline for an episode of a TV crime series. Arriving in Hollywood to track down the culprit, Jessica crosses the path of an unscrupulous producer who specializes in stealing other Read More

1987
Man Outside

Actors: Robert Logan, Kathleen Quinlan, Bradford Dillman, Levon Helm

Synopsis: After his wife is killed, a lawyer (Robert Logan) relocates to backwoods Arkansas to begin again, but must prove his innocence-- with help from a professor friend (Kathleen Quinlan)--when a local boy is kidnapped and the perpetrator has framed him for the crime. Levon Helm (from the Band) plays Read More

1986
Greed

Synopsis: Greed was originally released as Treasure of the Amazon, the literal translation of its Spanish-language title. Ostensibly based on a true story, the film stars Stuart Whitman as Gringo, an aging but still virile soldier of fortune. Right now, Gringo is foraging deep into headhunter country in Read More

1985
The Covenant

Synopsis: In this horror film an influential family, whose wealth comes from Nazi gold, in San Francisco must preserve an ancient evil rite that enables them to keep a supernatural power under their control. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1985
Murder, She Wrote: Murder to a Jazz Beat

Synopsis: The setting is New Orleans, where a prominent jazz musician is killed onstage in full view of a nightclub audience. It turns out that the victim was done in by a rare South American poison. So what does all this have to do with Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury? Well, it seems that a similar Read More

1985
The Treasure of the Amazon

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Emilio Fernández, Donald Pleasence, Bradford Dillman, John Ireland

Synopsis: An action adventure about a group of fortune hunters who search for gold and jewels in the jungles of South America. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1984
Sudden Impact

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, Bradford Dillman, Paul Drake

Synopsis: In this fourth installment of the Dirty Harry series, Harry has been banished temporarily from San Francisco because his superiors are uncomfortable about his feud with a local crime boss. He goes to an oceanside small town for a little rest and recuperation but finds the town has been traumatized Read More

1983
The Legend of Walks Far Woman

Actors: Raquel Welch, Bradford Dillman, Nick Mancuso

Synopsis: Raquel Welch stars in this made-for-TV film about a 19th-century Native American woman who avenges her husband's death at the hands of the white man. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1982
King's Crossing

Synopsis: A playwright is forced to move his family to his wife's hometown in California in order to accept her inheritance due to worsening finances. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1982
Back in the USA

Synopsis: Back in the USA is a penny-pinching exploitation flick which barely hit the theatres before it was picked up by cable and videocassette. The setting is the Everglades, where three teenagers stumble across a terrorist organization. This is excuse enough for an interminable but fitfully exciting Read More

1981
Force: Five

Actors: Joe Lewis, Pam Huntington, Richard Norton, Benny Urquidez

Synopsis: In this martial arts film, a twisted cult lead by the evil Reverend Rhee (Bong Soo Han) has kidnapped a young girl, and it is up to renegade Jerry Martin (Joe Lewis) and his friends to rescue her before it is too late. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1981
The Memory of Eva Ryker

Actors: Natalie Wood

Synopsis: Donald A. Stanwood's original novel The Memory of Eva Ryker used the Titanic tragedy as its launching pad. This made-for-TV adaptation of Stanwood's book moved the action up some 27 years, motivating its plotline with the torpedoing of an Athenia-type luxury liner in 1939. The film flashes forward Read More

1980
Tourist

Synopsis: In this drama, an American tourist visits some of the world's most glamorous capitals. The tale is based on a Gerald Green novel. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1980
One Away

Synopsis: In this actioner, an ingenious gypsy breaks free from a South African correctional facility and despite a massive manhunt, manages to keep ahead of the cops. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1980
Guyana, Cult of the Damned

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Gene Barry, John Ireland, Joseph Cotten, Bradford Dillman

Synopsis: "Names have been changed to protect the innocent" in this infamous fictionalization of the tragic mass suicide of 914 followers of Jim Jones' "People's Temple" in Guyana in the fall of 1978. Rev. James Johnson (Stuart Whitman) is a charismatic but deeply paranoid man of the cloth who moves his Read More

1980
Jennifer: A Woman's Story

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery

Synopsis: Apparently weary of playing victim-of-the-week, Elizabeth Montgomery goes the Joan Crawford route playing a fabulously wealthy and stupendously bored matron who is about to be divorced by her wealthy husband. Hubby conveniently expires while dallying with his mistress. The upshot is that Ms. Read More

1979
Before and After

Actors: Patty Duke, Bradford Dillman, Barbara Feldon, Betty White, Art Hindle

Synopsis: The "before" version of Patty Duke is obese and slovenly. Emerging from a "fat farm," the "after" version of Patty Duke discovers that her husband (Bradford Dillman) has been playing the field while she's been trying to shed her excess poundage. Duke then takes up with a handsome artist (Art Hindle Read More

1979
Running Scared

Actors: Ken Wahl, John Saxon, Judge Reinhold, Annie McEnroe

Synopsis: Ken Wahl and Judge Reinhold are returning from service in the Army in the Panama Canal Zone. Reinhold kept a few Army-issue items, including a camera. He takes an aerial photo to check out the camera, unknowingly photographing a secret base to be used in the Bay of Pigs operation. Authorities find Read More

1979
Love and Bullets

Actors: Charles Bronson, Rod Steiger, Jill Ireland, Strother Martin, Bradford Dillman, Michael Vincente Gazzo

Synopsis: Charles Bronson is out for revenge (and doesn't that sound familiar) in this action drama. Jackie Pruit (Jill Ireland) is the girlfriend of notorious gangster Joe Bomposa (Rod Steiger). When it looks as if Jackie's life is being threatened by Bomposa's goons, the FBI moves in to protect Read More

1979
The Swarm

Actors: Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Richard Chamberlain, Olivia de Havilland

Synopsis: Killer bees migrate to the United States from Africa via South America in this disaster film produced and directed by the genre's chief architect, Irwin Allen, and written by Stirling Silliphant, scribe of The Poseidon Adventure. Haughty entomologist Brad Crane (Michael Caine) shows up at a secret Read More

1978
Piranha

Actors: Bradford Dillman, Heather Menzies, Kevin McCarthy, Keenan Wynn, Dick Miller

Synopsis: The sophomore effort for director Joe Dante, a future protégé of Steven Spielberg, this low-budget, high-camp horror spoof of Jaws (1977) features several chiller stars of yesteryear. Insurance investigator Maggie McKeown (Heather Menzies) is dispatched to find two missing teenage hikers near Lost Read More

1978
The Lincoln Conspiracy

Synopsis: Scandalizing historians with its blithe disregard for the historical record, this American Civil War docudrama poses the theory that President Lincoln's Secretary of War, Edward Stanton, was behind a plot to kill him at Ford's Theater. His motive was his opposition to Lincoln's adamant refusal to Read More

1977
The Hostage Heart

Synopsis: When a billionaire checks into the hospital for a heart operation, he becomes the object of a massive terrorist attack, as they hold him for $10 million ransom. Complicating the problem is his absolute obsession with his privacy, a la Howard Hughes. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

1977
The Amsterdam Kill

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Bradford Dillman, Richard Egan, Leslie Nielsen, Keye Luke

Synopsis: Robert Mitchum seems more aloof and detached than usual in the Hong Kong-produced crime caper Amsterdam Kill. Mitchum plays a washed-up police officer, hired by DEA agent Bradford Dillman to help plug up a security leak. Someone is blabbing the name of the department's contacts in Hong Kong, and Read More

1977
The Enforcer

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Bradford Dillman, John Mitchum, DeVeren Bookwalter, Tyne Daly

Synopsis: Number three in the Dirty Harry series, The Enforcer equips macho cop Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) with a female assistant, Kate Moore (Tyne Daly). Their quarry is a terrorist organization which has kidnapped the mayor of San Francisco (John Crawford). Harry goes undercover, attempting to root Read More

1976
Widow

Synopsis: In this drama, based on a story by Lynn Caine, a vulnerable widow tries to deal with her own substantial grief, that of her children, and the prospect of raising them alone with no money. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1976
Street Killing

Synopsis: In this detective drama, a prosecutor investigates a murder and finds that it is connected to a recent mugging. In the end, he is led to convict a high-ranking crime lord. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1976
Kingston: The Power Play

Synopsis: This TV film stars Raymond Burr as R. B. Kingston, a fiercely independent free-lance journalist. Kingston's boss, publishing mogul Lenka Peterson, asks him to find out why the editorial policy of one of her newspapers has changed so radically. Kingston agrees to do Ms. Peterson's legwork--but only Read More

1976
Demon, Demon

Synopsis: Bradford Dillman and Juliet Mills stars in the British TV movie Demon, Demon. Dillman plays an archeology professor who wants to divorce his wife Mills. The grounds include incompatability-as well they should since Juliet sometimes behaves (literally) like a woman possessed. It transpires that she Read More

1975
The Streets of San Francisco: Murder By Proxy

Synopsis: This time, Stone (Michael Douglas) and Keller (Michael Douglas) comes up against a ruthless international executive determined to force several stubborn homeowners off their property. Carefully keeping his name out of the proceedings, the executive hires several sinister minions to get what he Read More

1975
Adventures of the Queen

Synopsis: The Queen is a luxury cruise ship, "played" by the Queen Mary in this made-for-TV thriller. The villain has it in for one of the ship's millionaire passengers. Accordingly, he (or she-we're not telling) plans to destroy the vessel and everyone on board. The producer of this all-star disasterfest Read More

1975
Force Five

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Force Five can be described as "The Dirty Dozen Minus Seven." All that's missing is the WW II backdrop and the murderous impulses of the protagonists. Lt. Roy Kessler (Gerald Gordon) heads a police undercover unit, consisting of former convicts with unique lawbreaking skills (one Read More

1975
The Next Voice You See

Synopsis: Look Back in Darkness is a 90-minute taped-for-TV thriller. Bradford Dillman plays a jazz pianist who was blinded by his wife's murderer. One day, while performing, Dillman hears the voice of his assailant. The rest of the story concerns Dillman's efforts to bring the criminal to heel before he Read More

1975
Please Call it Murder

Synopsis: Kathleen Widdoes plays a suburban housewife who opens the door to her husband's study one day and finds him stone cold dead. A detailed suicide note lies near the body. Terrified that she'll lose out on her husband's valuable insurance policies, Widdoes burns the note and rearranges the evidence Read More

1975
Bug

Actors: Bradford Dillman, Joanna Miles, Richard Gilliland, Jamie Smith Jackson, Alan Fudge

Synopsis: The last gasp of gimmick-horror auteur William Castle (who produced and co-wrote), Bug is an entertaining throwback to the mutant-monsters-amok theme of the 1950s (themselves throwbacks of another kind) that he found so profitable. The film stars Bradford Dillman as a kinder, gentler mad scientist Read More

1975
The Disappearance of Flight 412

Actors: Glenn Ford, Bradford Dillman, Guy Stockwell, David Soul, Robert F. Lyons

Synopsis: US Air Force colonel Glenn Ford has a dilemma on his hands. He knows for a fact that two jets under his command were last seen chasing a UFO. But the military higher-ups have no intention of filling Ford in on further developments. Despite these stonewalling tactics, Ford steps up his own Read More

1974
The Last Bride of Salem

Synopsis: As supernatural forces work to take control of her family, a woman fights back. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1974
Deborah

Actors: Marina Malfatti, Bradford Dillman, Gig Young

Synopsis: Marina Malfatti stars as Deborah in this low-wattage horror piece. A childless bride, Deborah begins suffering bizarre hallucinations regarding her barren state. She also possesses psychic powers, which take on dangerous dimensions as she drifts into insanity. American leading men Bradford Dillman Read More

1974
99 and 44/100 Percent Dead

Actors: Richard Harris, Edmond O'Brien, Bradford Dillman, Ann Turkel, Constance Ford

Synopsis: John Frankenheimer's bizarre, satirical gangster film is not for all tastes but has acquired a minor cult following. Elderly mobster Edmond O'Brien hires a hitman (Richard Harris) to eliminate his rival (Bradford Dillman) in a dystopic setting of not-quite reality. There are albino alligators Read More

1974
Gold

Actors: John Bay, Roger Moore, Susannah York, Ray Milland, Bradford Dillman, John Gielgud

Synopsis: Peter Hunt directed this old fashioned -- if not reactionary -- action film about gold-mining in South Africa. The story concerns a nefarious scheme to control the international price of gold by sabotaging the country's largest gold mine, flooding it with an underground sea. Hurry Hirschfeld (Ray Milland Read More

1974
Chosen Survivors

Actors: Bradford Dillman

Synopsis: This speculative horror film details the tribulations endured by a specially-selected test group of 11 people who are informed that they will be the only occupants of a nuclear fallout shelter built half a mile below the Earth's surface. Chosen by project coordinator Peter Macomber (Bradford Dillman Read More

1974
Deliver Us From Evil

1974
Murder or Mercy

Synopsis: Made for television in 1974, a doctor (Melvyn Douglas) is accused of murdering his terminally ill wife. The defense receives a shot in the arm when a famed lawyer returns from retirement to help the case. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1974
Death in Deep Water

Synopsis: After working for years as a gangland thug, a man attempts a fresh start by moving to a small fishing village in Great Britain. He finds, however, that death can follow him anywhere. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1974
The Iceman Cometh

Actors: Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, Fredric March, Jeff Bridges

Synopsis: John Frankenheimer's screen version of Eugene O'Neill's 1947 Broadway play The Iceman Cometh is set in 1912 at Harry Hope's dingy waterfront saloon. On the occasion of Hope's birthday, several derelicts enter the scene to pontificate on the lives they'd planned, the lives they still dream about Read More

1973
The Way We Were

Actors: Sally Kirkland, James Woods, Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford, Bradford Dillman, Patrick O'Neal, Viveca Lindfors

Synopsis: "Gorgeous goyish guy" meets Jewish radical girl in Sydney Pollack's glossy romance. In 1937, frizzy-haired Red co-ed Katie Morosky (Barbra Streisand) briefly captures the attention of preppy jock Hubbell Gardiner (Robert Redford) with her passionate pacifism, while the writing talent beneath his Read More

1973
Deliver Us From Evil

Synopsis: In this action adventure, five wilderness greenhorns on a hiking trip stumble across the remains of a skyjacker. They also find a fortune in cash. This causes nothing but grief as the greedy quintet battle their way back to civilization. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1973
Moon of the Wolf

Synopsis: Filmed for television, this story concerns a series of killings in the Louisiana bayou. The sheriff on the case believes that a werewolf is behind the murders. The film was adapted from a book by Leslie H. Whitten. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1972
Mission: Impossible: Stone Pillow

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Bradford Dillman

Synopsis: Although crooked private eye Larry Edison (Bradford Dillman) has been thrown into prison, he still wields a great deal of power over Syndicate boss Vincent Vochek (Robert Ellenstein). Edison has in his possession a roll of film proving Vochek's involvement in a recent murder. The IMF hopes to get Read More

1972
The Delphi Bureau

Actors: Celeste Holm

Synopsis: Delphi Bureau was the pilot film for a short-lived TV espionage series. Lawrence Luckinbill plays an operative for a secret agency that answers only to the US President. His current mission is to locate an entire fleet of obsolete Air Force planes that have vanished without a trace. Very ordinary Read More

1972
The Eyes of Charles Sand

Synopsis: Eyes of Charles Sand is a TV-movie variation of Roger Corman's X -- the Man with the X-Ray Eyes. Peter Haskell plays an ordinary mortal who inherits "The Sight," a heightened sense of ocular awareness. With this gift, Haskell is able to see hazily into the future and to probe the minds of Read More

1972
The Mephisto Waltz

Actors: Terence Scammell, Alan Alda, Jacqueline Bisset, Barbara Parkins, Bradford Dillman, William Windom

Synopsis: Adapted from a Fred Mustard Stewart novel, this offbeat occult thriller stars Alan Alda (just prior to his eleven-year stint on M*A*S*H) as journalist and burgeoning musician Myles Clarkson, whose long-sought interview with ailing concert pianist (and closet Satanist) Duncan Ely (Curt Jurgens) Read More

1971
The F.B.I.: The Mastermind, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) has managed to capture one of the three men involved in a daring $1,800,000 amusement park robbery. Though Erskine knows where to find the other two criminals, Curtis Breer (Bradford Dillman), the criminal genius who Read More

1971
The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler

Actors: Jim Healey, Richard Schuyler

Synopsis: Television newsman Harry Walsh (Leslie Nielsen) holds fast to the maxim "seeing is believing" in this political/medical thriller, with science-fiction overtones. Harry saw a well-known U.S. Senator (Bradford Dillman) have a car accident, and took video coverage on the scene. When he arrives at the Read More

1971
Bonanza: Face of Fear

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Bradford Dillman

Synopsis: Neta (Jewel Blanch), a teenaged friend of Ben Cartwright's adopted son Jamie, witnesses the murder of Mr. Trunkett, but is too frightened to say anything about it. Meanwhile, the murderer, a man named Bannon (Bradford Dillman), impersonates the dead man in order to inherit a fortune. The danger to Read More

1971
The F.B.I.: The Mastermind, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, criminal genius Curtis Breer (Bradford Dillman) masterminds a $1,800,000 amusement park robbery with three confederates. Though it looks like the perfect crime, the conspirators have failed to bring into consideration such intagibles as greed, betrayal Read More

1971
Escape from the Planet of the Apes

Actors: Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter

Synopsis: Escape From the Planet of the Apes is the third in the series of films based upon the Planet of the Apes characters created by novelist Pierre Boulle. At the end of the second film, the centuries-in-the-future world colonized by simians was destroyed, but apes Cornelius (Roddy McDowall) and Zira (Kim Hunter Read More

1971
Five Desperate Women

Actors: Anjanette Comer, Joan Hackett, Stefanie Powers, Denise Nicholas

Synopsis: Five Desperate Women debuted as an ABC Movie of the Week on September 28, 1971. Anjanette Comer, Joan Hackett, Denise Nicholas and Stefanie Powers are four of five graduates of an exclusive girl's college, meeting together for a reunion on a remote island. The fifth girl (whose name we'll withhold Read More

1971
The F.B.I.: The Traitor

Synopsis: In desperate need of money to square a debt, Neil Stryker (Bradford Dillman) enters into an unholy alliance with Communist spy Bryan Carlson (Wayne Rogers). Stryker agrees to steal top-secret information from the Boston research firm where he works. A discarded cellophane cigar wrapper puts FBI Read More

1970
Brother John

Actors: Bradford Dillman, Beverly Todd, Sidney Poitier, Will Geer

Synopsis: Sidney Poitier stars as John Kane, a heavenly emissary who pays a visit to the Alabama town where he was born. Making it his mission to purge the community of all hatred and prejudice, "Brother John" is nothing less than the Messiah returned to earth. Trouble is, he's black, and it's Alabama-so Read More

1970
Longstreet

Synopsis: Longstreet was the pilot for one of the better "gimmick" detective series of the 1970s. The title role of Michael Longstreet is played by James Franciscus. Longstreet is a New Orleans insurance investigator who has been permanently blinded in a mysterious bombing which has killed his wife. As he Read More

1970
Ironside: Good Will Tour

Synopsis: Famous for some rather embarrassing international incidents, Crown Prince Mikhail (Bradford Dillman) arrives in San Francisco on a good-will tour. Assigned to keep the prince out of trouble--and out of danger--are Chief Ironside (Raymond Burr) and his team. When the merry monarch decides to take Read More

1970
Ironside: This Could Blow Your Mind

Synopsis: In order to qualify for a top-secret assignment, Ironside (Raymond Burr) must first undergo an evaluation conducted by psychologist William Danner (Bradford Dillman). This involves a "stress test" to see how far Ironside can be pushed before he will break. Unfortunately, Danner has a hidden agenda Read More

1970
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?

Actors: Brian Keith, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Ivan Dixon, Suzanne Pleshette

Synopsis: War Games is the streamlined reissue title for the satirical Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came? The story is set in a sleepy Southern town, the site of a tranquil army base. Commanding officer Col. Flanders (Don Ameche), anxious to win the hearts and minds of the locals, invites the populace Read More

1970
The Bridge at Remagen

Actors: George Segal, Robert Vaughn, Ben Gazzara, Bradford Dillman, E.G. Marshall

Synopsis: This bleak World War II action drama, directed by John Guillermin, concerns the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen -- the last remaining span across the Rhine into Germany during the final days of the war in 1945. German General von Brock (Peter Van Eyck) is ordered to blow up the bridge rather than let Read More

1969
Black Water Gold

Actors: Keir Dullea, Bradford Dillman, France Nuyen, Aron Kincaid, Ricardo Montalban

Synopsis: Black Water Gold stars Aron Kincaid as a self-styled "scuba bum" living in Nassau. Kincaid teams up with marine archaeologist Keir Dullea and historian Ricardo Montalban in seeking out a gold-laden sunken Spanish galleon. With so many veteran movie villains involved, there has to be some dirty Read More

1969
Fear No Evil

Synopsis: Richard Alan Simmons, scriptwriter of Fear No Evil, evidently held fond memories of the old British chiller Dead of Night (a cornucopia of inspiration for programs like The Twilight Zone). The "Mirror Sequence" in the earlier film was gussied up for the basic plotline of this 1969 TV-movie. Bradford Dillman Read More

1969
Mastermind

Synopsis: This hilarious parody pokes fun at Charlie Chan movies and features Zero Mostel as an inscrutable Asian detective, Inspector Hoku, who must keep international spies from getting hold of a newly developed robot. In-jokes abound and slapstick mayhem ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1969
Sergeant Ryker

Synopsis: It's 1951 in Korea, a time that the United States Army doesn't like to remember. The Communists, led by Chinese forces, are tearing up the battlefield and overrunning American and South Korean positions, and in the midst of it, Sgt. Paul William Ryker (Lee Marvin), decorated World War II hero Read More

1968
Jigsaw

Actors: Harry Guardino, Bradford Dillman, Hope Lange, Pat Hingle, Diana Hyland

Synopsis: In this thriller, Jonathan Fields (Bradford Dillman) awakens in a strange apartment and finds a dead woman floating in the bathtub after he suffered an LSD-flashback the night before. Finding blood upon his hand, he can only wonder how he is involved in the woman's death. He hires private Read More

1968
The Helicopter Spies

Synopsis: Helicopter Spies is a Man From UNCLE "feature film"--actually spliced together from a two-part adventure from the UNCLE TV series, then shown theatrically overseas. The Men from UNCLE, as always, are Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn), Ilya Kuryakin (David McCallum) and Alexander Waverly (Leo G. Carroll Read More

1968
Mission: Impossible: Recovery

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: When a SAC bomber crashes in a Communist country, the palne's fail-safe mechanism falls into the hands of American defector Paul Shipherd (Bradford Dillman). The IMF agents must retrieve the mechanism before Shipherd inadvertently triggers its self-destruct device. Posing as the husband-and-wife Read More

1968
The F.B.I.: Southwind

Synopsis: Heavily in debt to a homicidal gambler named Burton (John Vernon), San Francisco banker Lawrence Reynolds (Bradford Dillman) embezzles two million dollars and heads to Puerto Rico with his Bostonian fiancee Beverly Kingman (Davey Davison), who is unaware of Reynolds' crime and is convinced that Read More

1968
The F.B.I.: Sky on Fire

Synopsis: Escaped killer George Bellamy (Bradford Dillman) covers his tracks by setting a series of forest fires. Bellamy's strategy is to throw the FBI off the trail; while they're searching for an unknown arsonist, he will be able to flee the country. It is up to Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) to capture Read More

1967
The Plainsman

Synopsis: The Plainsman was a Technicolor remake of the 1936 Cecil B. DeMille film, all about the fictional romantic triangle of Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill. DeMille had the advantage of a topnotch cast: Gary Cooper as Hickok, Jean Arthur as Calamity (complete with a Wally Westmore Read More

1966
The F.B.I.: The Divided Man

Synopsis: The FBI investigates a possible case of sabotage when a chemical plant is blown up. What Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) doesn't realize is that the "saboteur", research chemist Roger Mason (Bradford Dillman), was driven by neither politics or monetary gain, but by mental illness. A schizophrenic Read More

1966
A Rage to Live

Actors: Suzanne Pleshette, Bradford Dillman, Ben Gazzara, Peter Graves, Bethel Leslie

Synopsis: This soapy melodrama based on the novel by John O'Hara earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Costume Design. Suzanne Pleshette stars as Grace Caldwell, a newspaper heiress and nymphomaniac whose numerous dalliances threaten to destroy her wealthy Pennsylvania family's image. Taken on a Read More

1965
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Isabel

Actors: Bradford Dillman, Barbara Barrie, Edmon Ryan, Les Tremayne, Doris Lloyd

Synopsis: Sentenced to 15 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Howard Clements (Bradford Dillman) is released after serving only two years. Shortly afterward, he pays a visit to Isabel Smith (Barbara Baxley), the woman whose testimony put him behind bars. Though Isabel is worried that he seeks Read More

1964
Crazier Than Cotton

Synopsis: This 60-minute TV drama stars Bradford Dillman as Matt, a 34-year-old sculptor. Spectacularly unsuccessful, Matt knows he's hit rock bottom when he has to borrow money from his girlfriend in order to attend his father's funeral. As he stands at graveside, Matt vows to do something "worthwhile" Read More

1964
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: To Catch a Butterfly

Actors: Bradford Dillman, Diana Hyland, Ed Asner, June Dayton, Mickey Sholdar

Synopsis: Moving into a new house, Bill and Janet Nelson (Bradford Dillman, Diana Hyland) try to make friends with their neighbors the Standers, only to be put off by the taciturn attitude of Jack Stander (Edward Asner) -- and especially the bizarre behavior of Jack's young son, Eddie (Mickey Sholdar). It Read More

1963
Francis of Assisi

Actors: Bradford Dillman, Dolores Hart, Stuart Whitman, Pedro Armendáriz, Cecil Kellaway

Synopsis: This penultimate film by director Michael Curtiz, perhaps best known for his 1942 Casablanca, is a verbose, routine religious drama on the life of St. Francis of Assisi. After quickly passing over St. Francis' early life as the son of a wealthy cloth merchant in Assisi, the story notes his talents Read More

1961
A Circle of Deception

Actors: Suzy Parker, Bradford Dillman, Harry Andrews, Paul Rogers

Synopsis: A British officer is slated to parachute into Normandy. What he doesn't know is that he is being set up by British Intelligence to be captured by the enemy and reveal erroneous information to the Nazis. Officer Raine (Bradford Dillman) is the unknowing soldier who has intentionally been given Read More

1961
Sanctuary

Actors: Lee Remick, Yves Montand, Bradford Dillman, Harry Townes, Odette

Synopsis: Combining elements from William Faulkner's novel Sanctuary, its sequel Requiem for a Nun, and a stage adaptation of Requiem for a Nun by Ruth Ford, director Tony Richardson's film is set in 1920s Mississippi and recounts the story of Temple Drake (Lee Remick), a young, lustful white woman who Read More

1961
Crack in the Mirror

Actors: Orson Welles, Juliette Greco, Bradford Dillman, Alexander Knox, Catherine Lacy

Synopsis: Three stars appear in two separate but intertwined stories of romantic triangles gone wrong in this ambitious drama. In the first segment, Hagolin (Orson Welles) is a loutish construction worker with an unhappy wife, Eponine (Juliette Greco). The wife becomes involved with a swarthy working man Read More

1960
Compulsion

Actors: Orson Welles, Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman, Diane Varsi, E.G. Marshall

Synopsis: Compulsion is a compelling, stylish thriller, loosely based on the famous 1924 murder trial of thrill-killers Loeb and Leopold, two homosexual students who murdered a young boy to demonstrate their intellectual superiority. Artie Straus (Bradford Dillman) is a sadistic, mother-dominated bully. Read More

1959
A Certain Smile

Actors: Rossano Brazzi, Joan Fontaine, Bradford Dillman, Christine Carère, Eduard Franz

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Francoise Sagan, A Certain Smile was a vehicle for Darryl F. Zanuck's latest protegee, Christine Carere. Parisian student Carere spats with her boyfriend Bradford Dillman, then impulsively agrees to accompany Dillman's worldly uncle Rossano Brazzi to the Riviera. At first Read More

1958
In Love and War

Actors: Robert Wagner, Dana Wynter, Jeffrey Hunter, Hope Lange, Bradford Dillman

Synopsis: Based on the Anton Myrer novel The Big War, In Love and War is an entertaining showcase for several of 20th Century-Fox's younger contract players. Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter and Bradford Dillman plays three young San Francisco residents who sign up for the Marines at the outbreak of WW2. The Read More

1958
Hallmark Hall of Fame: There Shall Be No Night

Actors: Charles Boyer, Katharine Cornell, Ray Walston, Bradford Dillman, Theodore Bikel

Synopsis: First staged on Broadway in 1940 with Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne and Montgomery Clift in the starring roles, Robert Sherwood's Pulitzer Prize-winning play There Shall Be No Night was originally set in Finland in the years before the outbreak of WW2. For this Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation, the Read More

1957
Kraft Television Theatre: A Night to Remember

Synopsis: One of the most ambitious productions ever undertaken during the era of "live" television, this adaptation of Walter Lord's best-seller A Night to Remember successfully conveys the full scope and horror of the sinking of the superliner Titanic on April 14, 1912. Utilizing seven cameras, 31 Read More

1956

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