Charles Napier Filmography

Monk: Mr. Monk Bumps His Head

Synopsis: After a blow on the head, Monk (Tony Shalhoub) awakens in the tiny backwater town of Purnell, Wyoming, with both his memory and all traces of his identification gone. As Monk tries to figure out what's happened, a local woman named Cora (Laurie Metcalf) appears, declaring that he is her Read More

Lords of Dogtown

Actors: Emile Hirsch, Victor Rasuk, John Robinson, Michael Angarano, Nikki Reed

Synopsis: The true story of the kids who created modern skateboard culture is recreated in this drama. In the early '70s, skateboards were seen as a fad of the 1960s that had all but died out, but in a rough-and-tumble Venice, CA, community known as "Dogtown," that was about to change. Tony Alva (Victor Rasuk Read More

Fielder's Choice

Actors: Chad Lowe, K'Sun Ray, Marin Hinkle, Bodhi Elfman, George Segal

Synopsis: Ambitious young advertising man Phillip Fielder (Chad Lowe) has no time for relationships, and seems to have affection only for his creature comforts -- a source of great dismay for his erstwhile girlfriend, Holly Ford (Marin Hinkle). When his orphaned nephew, an autistic eight-year-old named Read More

DinoCroc

Actors: Costas Mandylor, Charles Napier, Jane Longenecker, Joanna Pacula, Max Perlich

Synopsis: "It feeds on fear!" read the advertising tagline for this Roger Corman-produced shocker. What could be scarier than a rogue crocodile, except maybe a rogue dinosaur? How about a combination thereof -- a DinoCroc? Hoping to create a cheap alternative to expensive prescription medicines, the greedy Read More

Justice League Unlimited: Fearful Symmetry

Actors: Nicholle Tom, Kin Shriner, Jeffrey Combs, Robert Foxworth, Charles Napier

Synopsis: Superman's cousin, Supergirl (aka Kara), has been having weird nightmares in which she appears to be cast in the role of an assassin. When J'onn J'onnz is unable to telepathically decipher these dreams, Green Arrow and The Question try to help Supergirl -- who soon tumbles to the possibility that Read More

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron

Actors: Matt Damon, James Cromwell, Daniel Studi

Synopsis: Screenwriter John Fusco returns to the Western themes of his previous films Young Guns and Thunderheart with this animated children's adventure from Dreamworks. Matt Damon supplies the voice of Spirit, a wild Mustang stallion living free in the Old West of the late 19th century, where he's Read More

Forgive Me Father

Actors: Ivan Rogers, Charles Napier, Alexander Hill, Chris Elbert, Stephen Jon Cohen

Synopsis: Former champion kickboxer Ivan Rogers directs and stars in the revenge martial arts film Forgive Me Father. Rogers portrays Father Virgil Garrett who has abandoned his former life as a hitman. He learns that his brother has been killed and decides to avenge the death. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Read More

The Big Tease

Actors: Craig Ferguson, Frances Fisher, Chris Langham, Mary McCormack, Donal Logue

Synopsis: Craig Ferguson, best known to American audiences as Mr. Wick, the conniving boss who loves to fire people on The Drew Carey Show, co-wrote and starred in this mock-documentary about Crawford Mackenzie, Scotland's leading hairdresser. When Crawford receives an invitation to Los Angeles for the Read More

Down 'n Dirty

Actors: Fred Williamson, Bubba Smith, Gary Busey, David Carradine

Synopsis: Blaxploitation icon Fred Williamson produced, directed, and stars in this action thriller as Dakota Smith, a hard-nosed but scrupulously honest cop who has more than a few questions when his partner is murdered. As Smith sets out to find who killed his sidekick and bring him to justice, he Read More

Very Mean Men

Actors: Matthew Modine, Martin Landau, Ben Gazzara, Scott Baio, Burt Young

Synopsis: A crime caper that gaily spoofs such antecedents as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and nods its head more than a few times to the work of Quentin Tarantino, Very Mean Men opens in a bar, where a bartender (Matthew Modine) finds himself serving drinks to a tough-looking guy (Martin Landau) he Read More

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

Actors: Mike Myers, Heather Graham, Michael York, Robert Wagner, Rob Lowe, Seth Green

Synopsis: Austin Powers -- fashion photographer, denizen of Swingin' London, international espionage agent, and bane of dental hygienists everywhere -- returns in his second screen adventure. Powers (once again played by Mike Myers), a 1960s superspy stranded in the 1990s, discovers that his nemesis Read More

Cypress Edge

Actors: Damian Chapa, Brad Dourif, Ashley Laurence, Charles Napier, Rod Steiger

Synopsis: Reeling from the news of his sister's suicide, Beau McCammon returns home to his family after a long absence. His father, who has just barely won another term as senator, doesn't take things well when Beau approaches him with the sinking suspicion that the suicide may have actually been a murder. Read More

Lima: Breaking The Silence

Synopsis: In late 1996, a group of armed revolutionaries invaded the Japanese embassy in Lima, Peru, and took the staff (which included a number of high-echelon politicians) hostage in a bid to win freedom for 400 political prisoners being held in Peruvian jails. Lima: Breaking the Silence is a Read More

Armstrong

Actors: Frank Zagarino, Kimberley Kates, Richard Lynch

Synopsis: A man becomes the unwitting last barrier between terrorists and nuclear holocaust in this action thriller. Rod Armstrong (Frank Zagarino) is a former Navy SEAL who travels to Moscow with his old friend Bob (Charles Napier) and Bob's wife Susan (Kimberly Kates) on a vacation. However, Armstrong Read More

Fatal Pursuit

Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Shannon Whirry, L.P. Brown III

Synopsis: Two private eyes -- one a rugged ex-cop, the other a beautiful woman from England -- become warm for each other while hot on the trail of $8 million dollars in jewels -- the loot from a high-stakes robbery. However, as one might expect, the thieves aren't interested in giving up an $8 million Read More

Final Reckoning

Macon County Jail

Actors: Charles Napier, Ally Sheedy, David Carradine

Synopsis: This drama, which bears a certain resemblance to Jackson County Jail, also produced in part by Roger Corman, stars Ally Sheedy as a woman who ends up in a jail in the Deep South on trumped up charges, where she must fight to survive, with the unexpected help of fellow prisoner David Carradine. Read More

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

Actors: Mike Myers, Elizabeth Hurley, Robert Wagner, Michael York, Mindy Sterling, Seth Green

Synopsis: Less a parody of the early James Bond film than a parody of the films that parodied the early James Bond films, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery stars Mike Myers as Austin Powers, by day a hipster fashion photographer in mid-'60s swingin' London and by night a crime-fighting secret Read More

Steel

Actors: Shaquille O'Neal, Annabeth Gish, Judd Nelson, Richard Roundtree, Irma P. Hall

Synopsis: Low-rent, poorly-lit superhero action is the order of the day in this film from television director Kenneth Johnson -- who makes several references to his series Alien Nation throughout the course of the movie. NBA basketball superstar Shaquille O'Neal stars as John Henry Irons, a weapons designer Read More

Original Gangstas

Actors: Fred Williamson, Jim Brown, Pam Grier, Paul Winfield, Richard Roundtree

Synopsis: Larry Cohen, who directed a number of interesting and subversive exploitation films in the 1970s and 1980s, including Black Caesar and Hell Up in Harlem, reunited some of the biggest stars of the blaxploitation era for this tough-minded action opus. John Bookman (Fred Williamson) is a successful Read More

The Cable Guy

Actors: Eric Roberts, Ben Stiller, Andy Dick, Janeane Garofalo, Jim Carrey, Matthew Broderick, Leslie Mann, Jack Black, George Segal, Diane Baker

Synopsis: Originally planned as a silly vehicle for Chris Farley, in the hands of director Ben Stiller and star Jim Carrey, The Cable Guy became an opportunity for Carrey to flex some of his darker comedic muscles as stalker Chip Douglas. Matthew Broderick plays Steven, an average Joe who is forlorn over Read More

Riot

Actors: Gary Daniels, Sugar Ray Leonard, Paige Rowland, Patrick Kilpatrick, Dex Elliott Sanders

Synopsis: This martial arts actioner moves on the premise that the LA riots were the dirty work of the Irish Republican Army. Okay. Sure. The hero in this low-budget outing is British Special Air Service officer Shane who flies out to the LA ghettos to rescue the daughter of the British ambassador who also Read More

Alien Species

Synopsis: In this sci-fi thriller, huge alien spaceships from another galaxy circle the earth as UFO expert Edgar Chambers (Hoke Howell) tries to figure out who these visitors are -- and what they might want. As Sheriff Nate Bridges (Charles Napier) and his deputies are transporting prisoners to another Read More

The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest: Without a Trace

Actors: Quinton Flynn, John deLancie, Robert Foxworth, Rob Paulsen, Jennifer Hale

Synopsis: All-purpose villain Jeremiah Surd hijacks Air Force One and kidnaps the president. Unfortunately, Surd has planted evidence pointing the finger at Benton Quest and Race Bannon. With government agents hot on their heels, the Quest Team teenagers -- Jonny , Jessie, and Hadji -- endeavor to absolve Read More

3 Ninjas Knuckle Up

Actors: Victor Wong, Charles Napier, Michael Treanor, Max Elliott Slade, Chad Power, Crystle Lightning

Synopsis: In yet another sequel to the surprise family hit 3 Ninjas, the three young Ninja brothers, Rocky (Michael Treanor), Colt (Max Elliott Slade), and Tum Tum (Chad Power), are spending the summer with their grandfather (Victor Wong), who is tutoring them in the martial arts. However, there are foul Read More

Hard Justice

Actors: Charles Napier, Yuji Okumoto

Synopsis: In this action thriller, Nick Adams, an agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms, goes undercover to enter a prison run by the tyrannical but efficient warden, Pike. He does this after his partner is killed doing undercover work in the same prison. The prison presents a harsh Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Dream Team

Synopsis: Jessica's enterprising nephew Grady (Michael Horton) has become the partner of a pair of high-pressure land developers (John D'Aquino, Mary Gordon Murray) who have swept into Cabot Cove with grandiose plans of building an elaborate resort/marina complex. As local investors eagerly line up to get Read More

Jury Duty

Actors: Shelley Winters, Pauly Shore, Tia Carrere, Stanley Tucci, Brian Doyle-Murray, Abe Vigoda

Synopsis: A goofy slacker wreaks havoc after worming his way onto the jury of a high-profile court case in this broad comedy. The extremely unmotivated Tommy Collins (Pauly Shore) has found himself homeless after being kicked out by his mother, and he needs a place to stay. After hearing how the juries of Read More

Felony

Actors: Lance Henriksen, Leo Rossi, Joe Don Baker, Jeffrey Combs, David Warner

Synopsis: An eccentric police detective takes the case after a group of CIA agents go nuts and slaughter a dozen New Orleans cops during a drug bust. Somehow, a television cameraman managed to film the melee. Since then, the poor photo-journalist has been on the run with his damning tape. By the time the Read More

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 80: Little Green Men

Synopsis: A shuttle malfunction causes Quark, Rom, and Nog to crash-land on Earth. Normally, this would be a minor inconvenience: This time, however, the shuttle has passed through a timewarp, depositing the three travellers in Roswell, New Mexico, on that fateful day in 1947. As if the U.S. Air Force Read More

Max Is Missing

Actors: Toran Caudell, Victor Rojas, Rick Dean, Iris Peynado

Synopsis: In this youth-oriented made-for-cable adventure, 12-year-old Max accompanies his family on a vacation to ancient Incan ruins. While there he discovers an ancient and valuable mask. Suddenly the trip becomes lots more exciting, and dangerous. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Skeeter

Synopsis: In this sci-fi/horror outing a polluted pool of water spawns a deadly strain of gigantic mosquitoes eager to quaff human blood. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Jailbreakers

Synopsis: A 15-year-old cheerleader named Angel (Shannon Doherty) falls for Tony, a dope-smoking, leather-clad punk (Antonio Sabato Jr.). He robs two stores, making her a local pariah. Her family moves to Bakersfield to make a new beginning, and she falls in love with a local jock. But Tony breaks out of Read More

Fist of Justice

Actors: Marjean Holden, Cory Everson, Joel Beeson, Sam Jones, Charles Napier

Synopsis: When crooks kill her partner and a protected witness, a vengeful policewoman becomes a vigilante who is hell-bent on bringing the wrong-doers to final justice. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Frogtown 2

Synopsis: This bargain-basement budgeted sci-fi horror movie pays a kind of tribute to 1930s sci-fi serials such as "King of the Rocket Men." It is set just after the Frog Wars of the preceding film Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988). Following that terrible battle, the Froggie mutants were placed on the special Read More

Raw Justice

Actors: Pamela Anderson, Stacy Keach, Charles Napier, David Keith

Synopsis: Action genre veteran David A. Prior wrote and directed this thriller that unfolds like a B-movie version of Midnight Run (1988). David Keith stars as Mace, a former cop now working as a bounty hunter or "skip tracer." When his daughter is murdered, the mayor (Charles Napier) of a small Southern Read More

Philadelphia

Actors: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Jason Robards, Jr., Mary Steenburgen, Antonio Banderas, Ron Vawter, Joanne Woodward

Synopsis: At the time of its release, Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia was the first big-budget Hollywood film to tackle the medical, political, and social issues of AIDS. Tom Hanks, in his first Academy Award-winning performance, plays Andrew Beckett, a talented lawyer at a stodgy Philadelphia law firm. The Read More

National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1

Actors: Emilio Estevez, Samuel L. Jackson, Jon Lovitz, Tim Curry, Kathy Ireland

Synopsis: The Lethal Weapon series and the rest of the buddy-cop genre receives the parody treatment in this low-brow comedy. Emilio Estevez stars as Jack Colt, the Mel Gibson-like loose cannon, while Samuel L. Jackson assumes the Danny Glover role as Wes Luger, his exasperated partner. Together, Colt and Read More

Body Bags

Actors: Mark Hamill, Stacy Keach, David Warner, John Carpenter, Roger Corman, Wes Craven, Deborah Harry, Tobe Hooper, Sam Raimi

Synopsis: Horror virtuoso John Carpenter hosts this goofy horror anthology, originally produced for Showtime as a gory stepchild of HBO's Tales from the Crypt series. Playing an emaciated, eye-rolling "coroner," John introduces the audience to a triptych of creepy vignettes in the EC horror-comics mode Read More

Silk Degrees

Synopsis: Two federal agents are assigned to protect the beautiful star of a television series who was the witness to a terrorist murder. The agents decide to take her to a remote country lodge, but the terrorists find out where their hideout is and make plans to kill her, the agents, and any other Read More

Treacherous Crossing

Synopsis: A rich woman's new husband vanishes soon after they board a cruiseboat on their honeymoon--at least that is what she claims. This made-for-television movie is based on John Dickson Carr's radio play, Cabin B-13. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Center of the Web

Actors: Robert Davi, Charlene Tilton, Ted Prior, Bo Hopkins, Jennifer Massey, Tony Curtis

Synopsis: In this thriller that begins with a case of mistaken identity, a man is abducted and thrown into a mysterious car; he is assumed to be a professional assassin--who happens to be dead. After he becomes more involved in an investigative effort by the CIA, he and his girlfriend find themselves in the Read More

Homicidal Impulse

Actors: Vanessa Angel, Scott Valentine

Synopsis: Scott Valentine stars as an assistant D.A. who has an affair with an office intern (Vanessa Angel), who is the homicidal niece of his ill-fated boss. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Eyes of the Beholder

Actors: George Lazenby, Charles Napier, Lenny Von Dohlen

Synopsis: Institutionalized serial killer Janice Bickle (Lenny Von Dohlen) volunteers to undergo a radical medical experiment. If the operation is successful, he will be cured of his homicidal tendencies. Instead, the surgery goes horribly awry, turning him into a worse basket case than before. And then he Read More

Dragonfight

Actors: Paul Coufos

Synopsis: In this futuristic film, the controlling corporations of the world gain and lose power by competing with one another in one-on-one death matches. However when fighter Falchion (Paul Coufos) refuses to compete, he must run from the wrath of the big businessmen and his spurned opponent. ~ Iotis Read More

The Silence of the Lambs

Actors: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Anthony Heald, Brooke Smith

Synopsis: In this multiple Oscar-winning thriller, Jodie Foster stars as Clarice Starling, a top student at the FBI's training academy whose shrewd analyses of serial killers lands her a special assignment: the FBI is investigating a vicious murderer nicknamed Buffalo Bill, who kills young women and then Read More

Indio 2: La Rivolta

Actors: 'Marvelous' Marvin Hagler, Frank Cuervo, Dirk Galuba, Tetchie Agbayani, Maurizio Fardo

Synopsis: Former boxer Marvelous Marvin Hagler stars as a U.S. Marine sergeant who aids an Amazon rain forest tribe in their battle against land developers. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Soldier's Fortune

Actors: Gil Gerard, Dan Haggerty, Charles Napier, P.J. Soles, Barbara Bingham

Synopsis: With the help of a few of his veteran friends, an ex-Green Beret soldier arrives in Los Angeles from Central America to find his kidnapped daughter. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Lonely Hearts

Actors: Beverly D'Angelo, Eric Roberts, Joanna Cassidy, Herta Ware

Synopsis: Lonely Hearts is a modern film noir in which a lonely woman meets and falls for a man whom she refuses to let go. Alma (Beverly D'Angelo) is a wallflower who lives with her mother and works at a Social Security office. In her desperation to make some sort of social life for herself, she answers a Read More

The Grifters

Actors: John Cusack, Anjelica Huston, Annette Bening, Pat Hingle, J.T. Walsh

Synopsis: Director Stephen Frears' tense adaptation of Jim Thompson's novel The Grifters was one of a number of revival film noirs in the first half of the '90s. Updating the setting to contemporary Los Angeles, the film follows a trio of con artists who are intent on out-foxing each other. Roy Dillon (John Cusack Read More

Miami Blues

Actors: Alec Baldwin, Fred Ward, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Nora Dunn, Charles Napier

Synopsis: Based on the late Charles Willeford's series of hard-boiled crime novels featuring Miami cop Hoke Moseley, the Jonathan Demme-produced Miami Blues opens with the prison release of Frederick Frenger Jr. (Alec Baldwin), a deranged killer who has barely de-boarded his plane before he's killed a Hare Read More

Ernest Goes to Jail

Actors: Jim Varney, Gailard Sartain, Bill Byrge, Barbara Bush, Barry Scott

Synopsis: In Ernest Goes to Jail, Jim Varney returns as leering idiot savant Ernest P. Worrall, star of scores of TV commercials and feature films. Varney also takes on a second role in the film: an unrepentant, cold-blooded murderer named Felix Nash. When Ernest serves on the jury for Nash's murder trial Read More

Cop Target

Maniac Cop 2

Actors: Robert Davi, Claudia Christian, Michael Lerner, Bruce Campbell, Laurene Landon

Synopsis: "You have the right to remain silent . . . Forever!" This sequel to Maniac Cop pits Matt Cordell (Robert Z'dar), the crazed, murderout "Maniac Cop" of the first film (now horribly disfigured after a particularly brutal stay in prison), and Turkel (Leo Rossi), a serial killer who likes to murder Read More

Future Zone

Actors: David Carradine, Ted Prior, Gail Jensen, Pat Culliton, Ron Taft

Synopsis: When a police officer's life is threatened by some murderous thugs, his son must travel back in time to attempt to alter the past and save his father's life. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

One Man Force

Actors: John Matuszak, Ronny Cox, Charles Napier, Sharon Farrell, Sam Jones

Synopsis: In this actioner, an L.A. cop speeds off to get revenge upon the dirty drug-dealing dogs who killed his partner. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Hit List

Actors: Jan-Michael Vincent, Leo Rossi, Lance Henriksen, Charles Napier, Rip Torn

Synopsis: Lance Henriksen stars as hit man Chris Caleek, hired by the mob to off the prosecution's key witness. However, Caleek is given the wrong address, and instead kidnaps the child of innocent Jack Collins (Jan-Michael Vincent). ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Future Force

Actors: David Carradine, Robert Tessier, Anna Rapagna, William Zipp, Pat Culliton

Synopsis: In this futuristic film, law and order are things of the past as cops are driven off of the crime-infested streets. It is up to a group of vigilantes to set things straight. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Married to the Mob

Actors: Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Modine, Dean Stockwell, Mercedes Ruehl, Alec Baldwin

Synopsis: Michelle Pfeiffer is Married to the Mob in this comedy. The wife of Mafia hitman Alec Baldwin, Pfeiffer regularly chastizes her husband for his underhanded line of work. Baldwin refuses to entertain any thoughts of quitting the mob-and besides, he's got a good thing going with Nancy Travis, the Read More

The Incredible Hulk Returns

Actors: Bill Bixby, Lou Ferrigno, Jack Colvin, Eric Allan Kramer, Steve Levitt, Tim Thomerson

Synopsis: Bill Bixby stars as physicist Dr. David Banner, the mild-mannered alter ego of the raging green mutant The Hulk (Lou Ferrigno), in this made-for-TV film based on the 1978 series (which was inspired by the Marvel Comics characters). In this outing, Dr. Banner teams with Thor, the Norse god of Read More

Camping del Terrore

Actors: Charles Napier

Synopsis: Italian director Ruggero Deodato is best known for his notorious Cannibal Holocaust and the brutal action film Inferno in Diretta. In this derivative slasher entry, Deodato shows very little of the vicious realism which distinguished those films. A group of average teenager