Chris RobinsonFilmography

JFK

Actors: Kevin Costner, Sissy Spacek, Joe Pesci, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman

Synopsis: The November 22, 1963, assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy shocked the nation and the world. The brisk investigation of that murder conducted under the guidance of Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren distressed many observers, even though subsequent careful investigations have been Read More

Viper

Actors: Linda Purl, James Tolkan, Jeff Kober, Ken Foree, Chris Robinson

Synopsis: Director-producer Peter Maris directed this suspense drama based on a script by Frank Kerr. James Macalla (Chris Robinson) is a prominent university researcher whose mysterious death is not investigated to the satisfaction of his distraught wife, Laura (Linda Purl). Laura sets off to find the real Read More

Like Father, Like Son

Actors: Dudley Moore, Kirk Cameron, Sean Astin, Patrick O'Neal, Margaret Colin, Catherine Hicks

Synopsis: Dr. Jack Hammond (Dudley Moore) is a noted heart surgeon whose personality is switched with his teenage son Chris (Kirk Cameron) in this uninspired comedy. The ingestion of a brain transference serum is the catalyst for the comic catastrophe and the confusion that follows. Sean Astin and Patrick O'Neal Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Corpse Flew First Class

Synopsis: During a non-stop flight to London, a valuable necklace is stolen and the courier hired to guard the necklace is poisoned. One of the passengers is Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury), who of course offers her services to Scotland Yard as they try to retrieve the gems and catch the killer. Among Read More

Savannah Smiles

Actors: Mark Miller, Donovan Scott, Bridgette Andersen, Peter Graves, Chris Robinson

Synopsis: Savannah Smiles is a sweet little film that proved a surprising hit on the Saturday matinee circuit. Mark Miller and Donovan Scott play a pair of good-natured escaped convicts who cross the path of precocious runaway Bridgette Andersen. When Andersen explains that she's hit the road because her Read More

Amy

Actors: Jenny Agutter, Barry Newman, Kathleen Nolan, Chris Robinson, Lou Fant

Synopsis: Amy Medford (Jenny Agutter) is a dutiful housewife of the early 1900s. But when her husband objects to a wife with a career, Amy leaves her husband and comfortable lifestyle. She goes on to devote her life to teaching sight-and-hearing-impaired students at a tradition-bound special school. This Read More

The Dream Merchants

Actors: Vincent Gardenia, Robert Goulet, Mark Harmon

Synopsis: Old-time Hollywood director Vincent Sherman brings a glossy studio-bound look to The Dream Merchants, a two-part, four-hour adaptation of Harold Robbins' novel. The story follows the career of a pioneer filmmaker (Mark Harmon), who comes to Hollywood in the early 20th century with a pocketful of Read More

Sunshine Run

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this exciting adventure, two slaves escape and along with a widow go searching for Spanish treasure in the potentially deadly Florida Everglades. The film is titled Black Rage on video. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Ace of Hearts

Synopsis: Mickey Rooney stars in The Ace of Hearts as a zillionaire who offers a fortune to have himself killed. Down-at-heel Chris Robinson takes the job. Is that all there is to it, or is Rooney up to something? The plot isn't bad, but production values are spotty. Ace of Hearts was filmed partly on Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: No Place to Hide

Synopsis: The convicts in a maximum-security prison have developed a diabolically clever method to smuggle drugs in and out of the institution, using as their "mules" the prisoners' wives who show up on visiting day. When one of the convicts resists getting involved in the drug traffic, his wife on the Read More

The F.B.I. Story - The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number

Actors: Harris Yulin

Synopsis: This somewhat clunkily titled TV movie was an offshoot of producer Quinn Martin's series The FBI. Robert Foxworth plays Depression-era desperado Alvin Karpis, who for nearly five years eluded capture while committing bank robberies, kidnappings and murders. Karpis finally comes acropper when the Read More

Women's Prison Escape

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this exploitation adventure, four female inmates bust out and head for the Everglades, where they face untold dangers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Stanley

Synopsis: A Seminole Indian and Vietnam veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome uses his cold-blooded companions to seek vengeance against the people who killed his father in this horrific frightener from director William Grefe. Tim Ochopee (Chris Robinson) has been deeply scarred by his Read More

Sweet, Sweet Rachel

Synopsis: Although the actors and character names aren't the same, Sweet Rachel was the pilot film for the TV series Sixth Sense. Alex Dreier plays a paranormal researcher whose patient, Stefanie Powers, suffers from disturbing ESP flashes. The source of these ghoulish images is a psychic murderer, who uses Read More

Revenge Is My Destiny

Synopsis: 1970s favorite Chris Robinson and the venerable Sidney Blackmer star in Revenge is My Destiny. Robinson plays a Vietnam vet who returns home to his wife. His home is there, but his wife isn't. When the authorities prove to be no help, Robinson cuts a violent swath across the countryside in search Read More

The Aquarians

Actors: Ricardo Montalban

Synopsis: Ricardo Montalban heads a team of undersea explorers dealing in below-the-surface scientific research. At the moment, a mysterious pollutant is killing all the fish off the coast of a fictional East African nation. The cause is a sunken ship that is leaking a deadly nerve gas. Montalban must race Read More

Darker Than Amber

Actors: Rod Taylor, Suzy Kendall, Theodore Bikel, Jane Russell, James Booth

Synopsis: John D. McDonald was not altogether pleased with what Hollywood did to his novel Darker Than Amber, but audiences were generally satisfied. Private eye Travis McGee (Rod Taylor) and his cohort Meyer (Theodore Bikel) rescue the beautiful Vangie (Suzy Kendall) from drowning. Vangie has been Read More

The Hawaiians

Actors: Charlton Heston, Geraldine Chaplin, John Phillip Law, Tina Chen, Alec McCowen

Synopsis: The Hawaiians is the sequel to 1969's Hawaii; both films were adapted from the same sprawling novel by James A. Michener. Charlton Heston is top-billed as a sailor who returns to his Hawaiian homestead, only to learn that his grandfather's fortune has been bestowed upon his hated cousin Alec McCowan Read More

Travis Logan, D.A.

Actors: Hal Holbrook, Vic Morrow

Synopsis: Travis Logan, D.A. is a TV pilot film, originally telecast in March of 1971. Vic Morrow heads the cast as Logan, while Hal Holbrook earns "special guest star" billing as a clever murderer. Logan is prepared to go around with Holbrook's defense team when they try to cop an insanity plea. But a Read More

Hogan's Heroes: The Missing Klink

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Hogan plots to kidnap General Burkhalter as part of a hostage swap that will free Underground leader Hans Wagner (Chris Robinson). Unfortunately, things go awry, and it is Klink who ends up kidnapped. Worse still, negotiations for the release of Wagner fall through when Gestapo decides that Klink Read More

The Cycle Savages

Actors: Bruce Dern, Chris Robinson, Melody Patterson, Maray Ayres, Karen Ciral

Synopsis: Film editor Bill Brame directed this violent biker film featuring an intense performance by Bruce Dern as Keeg, the sadistic leader of a vicious gang of cyclists. When Keeg's girlfriend Lea (Melody Patterson) poses nude for an artist named Romko (Chris Robinson), the hooligan goes on a drunken Read More

Seven Against the Sun

Synopsis: Set in South Africa during 1941, this war drama chronicles the battle waged by British troops trying to defeat the invading Italian army. Grossly outnumbered, a courageous British lieutenant enacts a daring and potentially catastrophic scheme. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Deadly Debt

Synopsis: Quitting the police force when his father dies of a heart attack, detective Danny Talbert (Robert Quarry of Count Yorga, Vampire fame) holds his shiftless brother Carl (Chris Robinson) responsible for their dad's demise. Up to his ears in debt, Carl has begged his father to get him off the hook Read More

The Young Sinner

Actors: Tom Laughlin, William Wellman, Jr., Chris Robinson

Synopsis: Not to be confused with the 1987 movie of the same name, this is one of the early films that Tom Laughlin directed before he became famous from his series on Billy Jack, an anti-hero of his time. Laughlin also stars in this uneven teen drama as its only developed character, Christopher Wotan, a Read More

12 O'Clock High: Season 02

Actors: Paul Burke, Frank Overton, Barney Phillips, Andrew Duggan, Paul Newlan

Synopsis: The second season of 12 O'Clock High opened with a shocker of an episode, in terms of killing off a central character. That simply wasn't done on television in those days, even in a series set in wartime. In the pre-credit sequence of the first episode, "The Loneliest Place In The World" -- which Read More

The Young Sinner

Actors: Tom Laughlin, Stefanie Powers

Synopsis: In this realistic, nonexploitative drama, a high school athlete confesses his life story to a priest. The story is told in flashback. First he is seen as a top football player hoping for a scholarship so he can go to school and get away from his alcoholic father and his hard-working mother. The Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Forecast - Low Clouds and Coastal Fog

Actors: Dan O'Herlihy, Inger Stevens, Chris Robinson, Christopher Dark, Richard Jaeckel

Synopsis: When his car runs out of gas on an oceanside road, Manuel Sanchez (Christopher Dark) shows up at the beach house owned by Karen Wilson (Inger Stevens), begging Karen to look after his girlfriend while he goes for gas. Not believing Manuel's story, Karen refuses -- and shortly afterward, Manuel's Read More

Combat!: Reunion

Synopsis: When the Americans capture the village of Beauville, Saunders (Vince Morrow) grants permission to Pvt. Paul Villers (Chris Robinson) to search for his father, whom he hasn't seen since childhood. Catching up with the elder Villers (Will Kuluva), Paul finds that his dad is the town's physician. He Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: The Dividing Wall

Actors: Chris Robinson, James Gregory, Katharine Ross, Norman Fell, Rusty Lane

Synopsis: Paroled from jail, Terry (Chris Robinson), Fred (James Gregory), and Al (Norman Fell) manage to find honest jobs at a garage. Unfortunately, once a thief, always a thief, and before long the trio has broken into a safe in the payroll office next door. Even more unfortunately, they have also Read More

The Fugitive: See Hollywood and Die

Synopsis: During a gas station holdup, Richard Kimble (David Janssen) and Joanne Spencer (Brenda Vaccaro) are taken hostage by psychotic gunmen Miles (Chris Robinson) and Vinnie (Lou Antonio). In an effort to save Joanne's life, Kimble pretends to be a master criminal, offering to cut the two thugs in on a Read More

Birdman of Alcatraz

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter, Neville Brand, Betty Field, Telly Savalas

Synopsis: In this film based on a true story, Burt Lancaster plays Robert Stroud, a withdrawn prison inmate who cures a sick bird that flies into his cell and eventually becomes a world-renowned ornithologist -- all while serving a life sentence. An overbearing warden (Karl Malden) eventually transfers Read More

Shootout at Big Sag

Synopsis: In this western, originally designed as the pilot of a television show that never made it to air, a self-designated preacher desires to control the Big Sag territory of Montana. To do this, he must first force two newly arrived Texans off of their land. Meanwhile, the preacher's wife knows that he Read More

13 West Street

Actors: Alan Ladd, Rod Steiger, Michael Callan, Dolores Dorn, Kenneth MacKenna

Synopsis: Leaning heavily on violence to ostensibly deliver a pacifist message, this standard drama by Philip Leacock looks at the problem of teen gangs from a slightly different angle -- these teens are all wealthy. Everything starts off when aerospace engineer Walt Sherill (Alan Ladd) is accosted and Read More

The Young Savages

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Shelley Winters, Edward Andrews, Larry Gates, Vivian Nathan

Synopsis: The Young Savages is what used to be called a "thinking man's picture" about a potentially lurid subject: urban juvenile delinquency. A blind Puerto Rican boy is knifed to death in Spanish Harlem, and three teenage gang members are accused of the crime. Politically ambitious assistant DA Burt Lancaster Read More

The Long Rope

Actors: Hugh Marlowe, Alan Hale, Jr., Robert J. Wilke, Chris Robinson

Synopsis: Talented action film director William Witney shows the depth of his skills in turning this one-week-in-production wonder into a passable, entertaining, one-hour western. The focus of attention is a trial in a town with no respect for the law, where the federal judge (Hugh Marlowe) valiantly tries Read More

Beast From Haunted Cave

Actors: Michael Forest, Sheila Carol, Frank Wolff, Richard Sinatra, Wally Campo

Synopsis: Director Monte Hellman (who would later direct a young Jack Nicholson on two low-budget westerns) earned his low-budget wings on Filmgroup's bizarre fusion of hostage/crime thriller and big-rubber-monster flick -- a quirky juxtaposition employed to similar effect 35 years later in From Dusk Till Dawn Read More

Because They're Young

Actors: Dick Clark, Michael Callan, Victoria Shaw, Roberta Shore

Synopsis: This fast-paced, entertaining drama set in a high school is directed by Paul Wendkos who has a talent for turning teen-oriented movies into hits, as proven just before this release (his 1959 Gidget). The ever-young Dick Clark plays Neil, a new, dedicated history teacher who becomes involved with Read More

Diary of a High School Bride

Actors: Anita Sands, Ron Foster, Chris Robinson, Wendy Wilde, Louise Arthur

Synopsis: This socially-conscious drama claims to provide an examination of the problems inherent in teen-age marriages. It centers on a 17-year-old girl who marries a much older medical student. Her parents are terribly upset, but her former boyfriend nearly goes berserk with jealousy. One day she Read More