Carl Schenkel Filmography

Born:: January 1, 1948 in Bern, Switzerland
Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: German director Carl Schenkel started out as an assistant director and script collaborator in the mid-'70s. In 1997, Schenkel, who had gained directing experience with television and theatrical movies, was assigned to helm Tarzan...And the Lost City (1998), the sequel to Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, of the Apes...Read More

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Murder on the Orient Express

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Previously filmed by director Sidney Lumet in 1974, Agatha Christie's classic mystery novel Murder on the Orient Express was updated from the 1930s to the early 21st century in this made-for-TV remake. To be sure, the ineffable, insufferable Belgian detective Hercule Poirot (here played by Alfred Molina Read More

2001
Missing Pieces

Crew: Director

Actors: Lisa Zane, James Coburn, Paul Kersey, Finn Carter, William R. Moses

Synopsis: Based on Atticus, a novel by Ron Hansen, this Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation stars James Coburn as widowed Colorado rancher Atticus Cody. In the months since Atticus' wife was killed in a car accident caused by his artist son Scott (Paul Kersey), the boy has ached for his father's forgiveness. Read More

2000
Tarzan and the Lost City

Crew: Director

Actors: Casper Van Dien, Jane March, Steven Waddington, Winston Ntshona, Rapulana Seiphemo

Synopsis: Carl Schenkel directed this Tarzan film "based on the stories by Edgar Rice Burroughs." In England of 1913, Tarzan (Casper Van Dien) is due to marry Jane (Jane March), but he suddenly chooses to return to the jungle to prevent villainous explorer Nigel Ravens (Steve Waddington) from burning and Read More

4/24/98
In the Lake of the Woods

Crew: Director

Actors: Peter Strauss, Kathleen Quinlan, Peter Boyle, Nancy Sorel

Synopsis: Based on Tim O'Brien's novel, In the Lake of the Woods is the story of a man driven by demons from his past and a mystery surrounding the disappearance of his wife. John Waylan (Peter Strauss), a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Minnesota, is leading in pre-election polls when a reporter for a Read More

1996
The Surgeon

Crew: Director

Actors: Isabel Glasser, James Remar, Sean Haberle, Charles Dance, Malcolm McDowell

Synopsis: Needles figure prominently in this blood-soaked entry in the slasher genre. It begins as psycho scientist Dr. Stein begins implanting things in baboons. Dr. Theresa McCann, a colleague at the hospital where they both work is suspicious as to the nature of the perverse professors experiments. Those Read More

1995
Beyond Betrayal

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Dean Anderson, Susan Dey

Synopsis: A woman lives in fear as she hides from her abusive husband in this made-for-television thriller. Susan Dey stars as Joanna Matthews, a woman who lives under an assumed name in order to hide from her husband Bradley Matthews (Richard Dean Anderson). A well-liked cop, Matthews has a dark side that Read More

1994
Knight Moves

Crew: Director

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Diane Lane, Tom Skerritt, Daniel Baldwin, Charles Bailey-Gates

Synopsis: This murder mystery from director Carl Schenkel stars Christopher Lambert (Highlander) as Peter Sanderson, an expert chess champion. When a woman Sanderson has recently slept with is among several women brutally murdered at a chess tournament, he becomes a suspect. But when the murderer contacts Read More

1992
Silhouette

Crew: Director

Actors: Faye Dunaway

Synopsis: Silhouette, an excellent made-for-cable thriller, is the story of a businesswoman who is stranded by car trouble in a small town and who is the only witness to a murder. Samantha Kimball (Faye Dunaway), while waiting for her car to be repaired, stays in a rundown hotel in a small town. There Read More

1991
Zwei Frauen

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jami Gertz, Martha Plimpton, George Peppard, Rip Torn

Synopsis: In this melodrama, a ballet dancer discovers that she is suffering from cancer and must re-evaluate her life. When she meets up with another young woman who is also ill, the two strike up a friendship. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1990
The Mighty Quinn

Crew: Director

Actors: Denzel Washington, Robert Townsend, James Fox, Mimi Rogers, M. Emmet Walsh

Synopsis: Xavier Quinn (Denzel Washington) is police chief of a tiny Caribbean island. Quinn's efforts to straddle the fence between the local blacks and the moneyed whites have lost him the respect of both groups. When a murder is committed, Quinn suspects that the killer is Maubee (Robert Townsend), a Read More

2/16/89
Bay Coven

Crew: Director

Actors: Tim Matheson, Pamela Sue Martin, Woody Harrelson, Susan Ruttan, Barbara Billingsley

Synopsis: This slow-moving occult thriller has Pamela Sue Martin and hubbie Tim Matheson menaced by a coven of witches when they move to an island off the coast of Massachusetts. Director Carl Schenkel -- who went on to make the interesting Knight Moves -- does the best he can with a tedious script and a Read More

1987
Abwärts

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Götz George, Renée Soutendijk, Wolfgang Kieling, Hannes Jaenicke, Klaus Wennemann

Synopsis: A stuck elevator is used as an allegory for modern German society in this provocative drama. Within the motionless box are four very different people. One is a light-fingered young courier, and another is an embezzler, while the other two are an unhappy couple on the verge of a breakup. Making it Read More

1984
The Hitchhiker [TV Series]

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Among the first original anthology series to be produced for cable television, The Hitchhiker was a collection of tales of the supernatural and bizarre. The title character, played during the first season by Nicholas Campbell and thereafter by Page Fletcher, was an unnamed drifter who wandered Read More

1983
Strike Back

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a convict becomes so desperate to see his beloved that he busts out of jail and risks getting caught by vengeful mobsters and the cops. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1980