Burr de BenningFilmography

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Actor
  • Love Field

    Actors: Michelle Pfeiffer, Dennis Haysbert, Stephanie McFadden, Brian Kerwin, Louise Latham

    Synopsis: Jonathan Kaplan directs this drama which grafts a nostalgic mood piece with a race-to-the-finish road movie. Lurene Hallett (Michelle Pfeiffer) is an insulated middle-class wife living in Texas in the early 1960s who adores the Kennedys, particularly Jackie, whom she feels is a kindred soul. When Read More

    12/11/92
  • The Game

    Synopsis: A gang of rich, sadistic killers captures people and then sets them loose so they can be hunted down and killed. Joseph Campanella stars as a man who infiltrates the gang to avenge the murders of his family. This film is a variation of The Most Dangerous Game, which has been filmed as Hard Target, The Hounds of Zaroff Read More

    1989
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child

    Actors: Robert Englund, Lisa Wilcox, Kelly Minter, Joe Seely, Danny Hassel, Erika Anderson

    Synopsis: In the fifth installment in the Nightmare on Elm Street series, Alice (Lisa Wilcox) begins the film with the notion that she is safe after she vanquished the evil Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) by learning how to battle the dreamworld psychopath within her own unconscious mind. But somehow Freddy Read More

    1989
  • Armed Response

    Actors: David Carradine, Lee Van Cleef, Mako

    Synopsis: Fred Olen Ray always manages to attract major names to his bargain-basement actioners, and Armed Response is no exception. The scene is Chinatown, where Yakuza boss Mako yearns to get his hands on a stolen jade statue. David Goss, son of retired cop Lee van Cleef and the brother of Vietnam Read More

    1986
  • Quincy, M.E.: Give Me Your Weak

    Synopsis: In this followup to the Season Six episode "Who Speaks for the Children", Quincy (Jack Klugman) continues his crusade to push forward the stalled "Orphan Drug Act" in congress, creating funding to develop curative drugs for rare diseases. The big problem is money, or lack of it: the major Read More

    1982
  • Magnum, P.I.: The Jorro Kill

    Synopsis: Magnum (Tom Selleck) is reunited with journalist Kate Sullivan (Tyne Daly), whom he'd met while she was covering the Vietnam war. At the moment, Kate has been assigned to interview a visiting dignitary from the Jororo Islands. . .or at least that's what she claims. As the story unfolds, it becomes Read More

    1982
  • Wolfen

    Actors: Albert Finney, Diane Venora, Edward James Olmos, Gregory Hines, Tom Noonan

    Synopsis: Wolfen, a frightening horror movie based upon a novel by Whitley Strieber, is an absorbing update on the werewolf legend. Detective Dewey Wilson (Albert Finney) is assigned to investigate the strange murder of a millionaire and his wife in a downtown park. Wilson and his friend, city coroner Read More

    1981
  • Code Red

    Synopsis: In this action film, firefighters fight a series of arson fires and try to figure out who set them and why. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1981
  • Cruising

    Actors: Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino, Karen Allen, Richard Cox, Don Scardino

    Synopsis: New York City detective Steve Burns Al Pacino receives orders from Captain Edelson Paul Sorvino to solve a series of brutal murders in the gay community. Steve scours the gay bars that caters to same-sex sadomasochism in a desperate attempt to solve the crime. As he infiltrates the scene, he Read More

    1980
  • The Return of Frank Cannon

    Actors: William Conrad

    Synopsis: As made obvious by its title, this TV movie was an attempt to revive the once-popular private eye series Cannon, which ran from 1971 to 1976. Emerging from self-imposed retirement, corpulent gumshoe Frank Cannon (William Conrad) investigates the death of an old friend who formely worked for the Read More

    1980
  • Hanging by a Thread

    Synopsis: "Master of disaster" Irwin Allen was so confident of his talents in 1979 that he actually thought he could stretch out a suspense tale for a full 200 minutes. Originally telecast in two parts, Allen's Hanging by a Thread concerns a group of friends and tourists, trapped in a sightseeing tram that Read More

    1979
  • Quincy, M.E.: Aftermath

    Synopsis: Quincy (Jack Klugman) is a member of the medical/legal team investigating the crash of an airliner which occurred some 40 miles away from LAX. All 121 passengers and crew members were killed, and Quincy and his staff must perform autopsies on all of them. During this grim assignment, Quincy Read More

    1979
  • House of the Dead

    Actors: John Ericson, Charles Aidman, Bernard Fox, Ivor Francis

    Synopsis: This low-budget horror anthology from Oklahoma presents a quartet of eerie tales, told by a strange mortician (Ivor Francis) to a young man on the run from his lover's irate husband (John Ericson). The tales involve a crotchety old woman whose hatred of children sparks an attack from a group of Read More

    1978
  • The Amazing Captain Nemo

    Actors: Mel Ferrer, Lynda Day George, Burgess Meredith

    Synopsis: We'll confess not to having seen The Amazing Captain Nemo, principally because we can't find it anywhere. It's our loss, because it certainly sounds fascinating. Jose Ferrer stars as Nemo, the demented but essentially well-meaning technological genius created by Jules Verne in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Read More

    1978
  • The Incredible Melting Man

    Actors: Alex Rebar, Burr de Benning, Myron Healey, Michael Alldredge, Ann Sweeney

    Synopsis: Essentially a seedy '70s version of The Quatermass Experiment, this painfully cheap production from writer/director William Sachs involves the horrific plight of returning astronaut Steve West (Alex Rebar), the sole survivor of a disastrous expedition to the rings of Saturn. The fatal outcome of Read More

    1977
  • Little House on the Prairie: To Run and Hide

    Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Sue Anderson, Kevin Hagen

    Synopsis: Doc Baker (Kevin Hagen) wonders if he is truly cut out for his job after losing one of his patients, the husband of a pregnant woman (Collin Wilcox). Dolefully, Baker decides to relinquish his practice to the younger and seemingly more efficient Dr. Logan (Burr deBenning). But Doc's defection Read More

    1977
  • Brink's: The Great Robbery

    Actors: Darren McGavin, Leslie Nielsen, Carl Betz, Stephen Collins, Jenny O'Hara

    Synopsis: In this crime drama, two dogged FBI agents are on the case to investigate one of the U.S.'s most infamous bank robberies. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1976
  • St. Ives

    Actors: Charles Bronson, John Houseman, Jacqueline Bisset, Maximilian Schell, Harry Guardino

    Synopsis: Ex-crime reporter turned novelist Raymond St. Ives (Charles Bronson) is drawn back into the world of his former profession by wealthy Abner Procane (John Houseman). St. Ives is hired to locate a stolen set of ledgers that, if made public, could trigger an all-out mob war. Amazingly, St. Ives fails Read More

    1976
  • The Rockford Files: Counter Gambit

    Synopsis: Though there's no love lost between Jim Rockford (James Garner) and fellow ex-con Moss Williams (Eddie Fontaine), Jim agrees to help Moss locate his missing girlfriend Maria Heller (Mary Frann). What Williams doesn't tell Jim is that he isn't interested in Maria but in the girl's pearl 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
  • The Streets of San Francisco: License to Kill

    Synopsis: Murray Hamilton guest stars as Barney Lujack, former partner of SFPD detective Mike Stone (Karl Malden). Barney returns to San Francisco after a long absence, but not for a reunion with his old pal Mike. Instead, Lujack intends to kill the hired gun (Burr DeBanning) who murdered his son--and he Read More

    1974
  • Kojak: A Very Deadly Game

    Synopsis: In his efforts to capture a narcotics thief who has killed a cop, Kojak (Telly Savalas) clashes with Federal agents who want the fugitive for themselves. What follows is a jurisdictional turf battle, with neither side yielding an inch. Finally, Kojak decides to defy both the Feds and his own Read More

    1974
  • The F.B.I.: The Two Million Dollar Hit

    Synopsis: Taking time off from his villainous duties as "Wo Fat" on Hawaii Five-O, Khigh Deigh is no less sinister in this episode as a Hong-Kong based "fence" named John Chong. After a gang of hijackers led by Stan Chasen (Henry Silva) goes to a lot of trouble--including attempted murder--to steal an Read More

    1974
  • The F.B.I.: A Desperate Journey

    Synopsis: A genuine DC-9 was used in this episode to simulate a wrecked aircraft. The purpose for this crash is to set up a tense situation, wherein convicted murderer John Stahl (Vic Morrow) is set loose in the Lake Tahoe area. Meanwhile, Stahl's captors Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) and Colby (William Read More

    1973
  • Ironside: Mind for Murder

    Synopsis: Ross Martin guest stars as Damien, a nightclub psychic who lately has been experiencing disturbing visions of fire and flame. Ironside (Raymond Burr) becomes interested in what Damien has seen (and what he WILL see) when the psychic insists that he can predict where an arsonist who is terrorized Read More

    1973
  • Ironside: Death by the Numbers

    Synopsis: Raymond Burr tackles what amounts to a triple role in this episode, in which Chief Ironside investigates a series of murders that share a common bond. Each of four victims had in his possession a numbered disk: the current holder of Disk Number Five is none other than the police commissioner (Gene Read More

    1972
  • The F.B.I.: The Set-Up

    Synopsis: Even while on the lam from the Feds, brash bank robber Larry Kulhane (Gerald O'Loughlin) masterminds another major heist. This time, Kulhane's prospective victim is elderly Ardyth Nolan (Jessica Tandy), who has recently come into possession of $200,000. Planning his caper with meticulous care Read More

    1972
  • Iron Horsemen

    Synopsis: Anyone who adopts the initials "J.C." as a nickname probably has a Messianic complex. In Iron Horseman, the hero, the head of a motorcycle gang, wigs out on LSD. While day-tripping, he has a prophetic religious vision. This leads him back to his home town, where he challenges the local church Read More

    1971
  • The Face of Fear

    Actors: Ricardo Montalban, Elizabeth Ashley, Jack Warden, Dane Clark, Roy Poole

    Synopsis: Made for TV, The Face of Fear resuscitates a plot gimmick that probably wasn't new when it was used in Doug Fairbanks' 1916 vehicle Flirting With Fate. Elizabeth Ashley plays a Midwestern schoolmarm who is dying of leukemia. Hoping to end the suffering as expeditiously as possible, she hires a mob Read More

    1971
  • Ironside: Grandmother's House

    Synopsis: Jesse Royce Landis, who in an earlier episode played the aunt of Chief Ironside (Raymond Burr), is here cast as business executive Margaret Brainard, the widow of one of Ironside's oldest friends. When Margaret's purse is stolen, she asks Ironside to solve the crime--and to keep secret that the Read More

    1971
  • City Beneath the Sea

    Actors: Whit Bissell, Robert Colbert

    Synopsis: Irwin Allen, praised in some circles as a science fiction genius and damned in others as a shameless schlockmeister, produced and directed this fanciful TV-movie. Set in the 21st century, the film concentrates on a group of colonists dwelling in a modernistic underwater city called Pacifica. The Read More

    1970
  • Bonanza: Is There Any Man Here?

    Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Mariette Hartley

    Synopsis: In her third Bonanza appearance, Mariette Hartley is here cast as Jennifer, the daughter of Ben Cartwright's old friend Harry Carlis (John McLiam). Slated to be wed to influential banker Tuttle Ames (Burr DeBennings, Jennifer leaves her intended at the altar and makes a beeline to the Ponderosa Read More

    1970
  • The F.B.I.: Nightmare Road

    Synopsis: Having killed Federal officer Doug Mercer, criminal Gerald Wilson (Robert Duvall) manages to escape an FBI dragnet. Hoping to make it to Mexico, Wilson forces a thief named Jack Collins (Burr De Benning) to act as his accomplice. To make certain that Collins cooperates, Wilson holds the man Read More

    1969
  • The F.B.I.: The Ninth Man

    Synopsis: Having captured seven of the nine men responsible for a two-million-dollar armored car robbery, Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) is anxious to locate the other two men--and of course, the money. Meanwhile, Anita Hale (Anne Helm), the wife of "robber number eight" Emory Hale (Murray Read More

    1968
  • Ironside: Due Process of the Law

    Synopsis: When his girlfriend is murdered in Golden Gate Park, Mark (Don Mitchell) is bound and determined to take the law in his own hands to catch the killer. As a result, Mark is himself held for murder when the chief suspect turns up dead. In his efforts to clear, Mark, Ironside (Raymond Burr) instills Read More

    1968
  • Sweet November

    Actors: Sandy Dennis, Anthony Newley, Theodore Bikel, Burr de Benning, Sandy Baron

    Synopsis: Sarah Deever (Sandy Dennis) is an idealistic young woman living in Brooklyn. Her altruistic nature finds her taking in visitors for a month at a time to help them in their time of need. Charlie Blake (Anthony Newley) is her latest reclamation project, a cardboard-box factory worker and owner of an Read More

    1968
  • The F.B.I.: The Intermediary

    Synopsis: FBI Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) agrees to act as go-between for jeweler Victor Toler (played by eminent Shakespearian Maurice Evans), who wants to ransom a fortune in stolen diamonds. This requires the Inspector to take a crash course in the diamond business, the better to convince the Read More

    1968
  • Beach Red

    Actors: Cornel Wilde, Rip Torn, Burr de Benning, Patrick Wolfe, Jean Wallace

    Synopsis: Cornel Wilde produced, directed, and stars in this sincere, hard-edged look at World War II that doesn't flinch from the horrors of battle. The action takes place during a single American campaign to take an island held by the Japanese. Brief flashbacks to civilian life are the only escape from Read More

    1967

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