Christine Belford Filmography

Born:
January 14, 1949 in Amityville, NY
Occupation:
Actor
Biography:
Most 1970s-era couch potatoes first saw lissome leading lady Christine Belford when she portrayed insurance investigator Carlie Kirkland during the second season (1973-74) of the George Peppard TV series Banacek. It would not be the last time that Christine would appear as a series regular: In...Read More
  • Ruffian

    Actors: Sam Shepard, Frank Whaley, Nicholas Pryor, Christine Belford

    Synopsis: Prolific French filmmaker Yves Simoneau directs Sam Shepard and Frank Whaley in a sports drama detailing the remarkable racing career of the horse many believe to be the finest thoroughbred filly ever to run the tracks. In her first ten runs Ruffian was unbeaten, and continued to break Read More

    2006
  • Murder, She Wrote: Dead to Rights

    Synopsis: Molly Hagan is cast as Dana Ballard, a former research assistant of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury)--and a pathological liar. When Dana's current employer is killed and she is accused of the crime, she begs Jessica to clear her name. But Jessica can't help wondering if Dana is merely weaving Read More

    1993
  • Night Court: Opportunity Knock Knocks, Part 1

    Synopsis: In the first episode of the two-part Night Court series finale (originally networkcast as a single one-hour special), Judge Harry T. Stone (Harry Anderson) considers stepping down from the bench when he receives a number of lucrative (and rather offbeat) job offers. Meanwhile, Christine (Markie Read More

    1992
  • The Woman Who Sinned

    Actors: Susan Lucci, Tim Matheson, Michael Dudikoff, John Vernon, Christine Belford

    Synopsis: She sure did. Susan Lucci brings her daytime-drama flailing gestures to the prime time TV-movie scene in this melodramatic farrago. She plays a married woman who for the first and only time in her life succumbs to the charms of another man. Accused of murder, Lucci's only alibi is her adulterous Read More

    1991
  • Murder, She Wrote: Double Exposure

    Synopsis: While visiting Boston, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) runs into her former neighbor John Winslow (John Furlong)--who brusquely insists that he's never seen her before in her life. Quickly dialing up Winslow's wife Maude (Christine Belford), Jessica is informed that John died two weeks before! To solve Read More

    1989
  • The Ladies Club

    Actors: Karen Austin, Diana Scarwid, Christine Belford, Bruce Davison, Shera Danese

    Synopsis: A rare attempt by a female director to attack the issue of rape from a woman's perspective, this drama is sure to cause varied reactions. A sense of the film's perspective can be garnered from paraphrasing its publicity: "Rapists have two problems and the 'Ladies Club' is about to remove them Read More

    4/11/86
  • The Golden Girls: The Truth Will Out

    Synopsis: Rose's daughter Kirsten (Christine Belford) and granddaughter Charley (Bridgette Andersen) arrive in Miami to settle the estate of Rose's late husband. Their visit causes great consternation for Rose (Betty White), who has filled her daughter with all sorts of white lies about her hubby's "vast Read More

    1986
  • Murder, She Wrote: Murder by Appointment Only

    Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) attends a cosmetics convention, where her nephew Grady (Michael Horton) has landed a job with supremely bitchy perfume manufacturer Lila Lee Amberson (Jayne Meadows). Also present is Liz Gordon (Ann Dusenberry), who had been one of Jessica's most promising writing Read More

    1986
  • Outlaws

    Synopsis: In this sci-fi western four bank robbers and the sheriff that pursues them find themselves suddenly transported from the Old West into modern Houston during a tremendous electrical storm. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1986
  • Murder, She Wrote: We're Off to Kill the Wizard

    Synopsis: The duplicitous owner (James Coco) of a popular theme park engages Jessica (Angela Lansbury) to design a "house of horror". Shortly, thereafter, the owner is murdered in his underground office--an "impossible" crime, inasmuch as the office was securely locked from the inside. Inasmuch as the wife Read More

    1984
  • Christine

    Actors: Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, Robert Prosky, Harry Dean Stanton, Christine Belford

    Synopsis: Director John Carpenter returns to the suburban landscape he explored so chillingly in Halloween (1978) with this lean, stripped-down adaptation of the Stephen King best-seller about a haunted car with a devilishly bad attitude and the teen underdog who falls head-over-heels for her Read More

    1983
  • Sparkling Cyanide

    Actors: Anthony Andrews

    Synopsis: Scriptwriters Robert Malcolm Young, Sue Grafton and Stephen Humphrey transposed the Agatha Christie story Sparkling Cyanide from its veddy British locale to the plush environs of Pasadena for this 1983 TV-movie adaptation. Leading character Anthony Andrews is still a Briton, mingling with the rich Read More

    1983
  • The Neighborhood

    Actors: Ron Masak, Christine Belford, Ben Masters

    Synopsis: Based on a story by Jimmy Breslin, The Neighborhood takes place in an all-white, blue collar neighborhood in an unspecified big city. A "blockbuster" real estate agent begins selling houses to black families (among the new neighbors is recent Oscar nominee Howard Rollins Jr.), resulting in mixed Read More

    1982
  • Magnum, P.I.: Adelaide

    Synopsis: Magnum is hired to protect a prize racehorse named Norman, who has been receiving kidnapping threats.. It so happens that the horse's owner, Adelaide Malone (Christine Belford), is the niece of Charles Cathcart (Cameron Mitchell), a former military officer who saved Magnum's life in Vietnam, at Read More

    1981
  • The Gambler

    Actors: Kenny Rogers, Bruce Boxleitner

    Synopsis: When first telecast on April 8, 1980, this made-for-TV movie was titled Kenny Rogers as The Gambler. Jim Byrnes' teleplay is loosely inspired by Rogers' Grammy award-winning song. Rogers plays high-rolling gambler Brady Hawkes, who is en route from El Paso to Yuma to see the son he never knew. Read More

    1980
  • Desperate Voyage

    Synopsis: Christopher Plummer has all the best dialogue in the hokey made-for-TVer Desperate Voyage. Plummer plays a modern-day pirate who hijacks private yachts, steals the valuables on board, and, weeping crocodile tears, sends the passengers to Davy Jones' Locker. His captives on this voyage are Cliff Read More

    1980
  • High Midnight

    Actors: Christine Belford

    Synopsis: Though tenuously based on fact, High Midnight is the sort of TV movie that could only have been made in the fuzzy-headed 70s. David Birney is a blue-collar type whose wife and daughter are killed in a no-knock drug bust. Nasty narcotics officer Michael Connors refuses to admit that he's made a Read More

    1979
  • Breslin's Neighborhood

    Synopsis: Racism is explored in this drama that chronicles the attempts of an African-American family to buy a home in a white suburb. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1979
  • 1979
  • Battlestar Galactica: The Gun on Ice Planet, Zero Part 2

    Actors: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson, Jr., John Colicos

    Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, the fate of the Galactica rests in the hands of an army of criminals and misfits, under the command of Apollo (Richard Hatch) and Starbuck (Dirk Benedict). This ragtag band must destroy the Cylon pulsar cannon mounted on the ice planet Arcta. Can they depend Read More

    1978
  • Battlestar Galactica: The Gun on Ice Planet, Zero Part 1

    Actors: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson, Jr., John Colicos

    Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, the Galactica is again attacked by a fleet of Cylon fighters. The crew's only hope of escape is through a space corridor past the ice planet Arcta--which is guarded by a Cylon pulsar cannon. Commander Adama (Lorne Greene) is ultimately forced to place the Read More

    1978
  • To Kill a Cop

    Synopsis: Joe Don Baker stars as chief of detectives, Eischeid, in the 4-hour, 2-part TV film To Kill A Cop. Eischeid must contend with a series of seemingly unrelated bank robberies and the vicious murders of two police officers. Eischeid deduces that the culprits are members of a violent African-American Read More

    1978
  • Us Against the World

    Synopsis: Us Against the World stars Christine Belford, Meredith Baxter-Birney and Donna Mills as three interns in a busy metropolitan hospital. Chief among their many problems is dealing with the chauvinistic comments of a brilliant surgeon (Theodore Bikel). The interns also contend with the drawn-out Read More

    1977
  • Quincy, M.E.: Holding Pattern

    Synopsis: Five terrorists hijack a plane with eighteen passengers, forcing the vessel to land on an LAX runway. During the negotiations between the police and the terrorists, medical examiner Quincy (Jack Klugman) is summoned onto the plane to pick up the body of a passenger who died during the flight. Read More

    1977
  • The Million Dollar Rip-Off

    Synopsis: Comedian Freddie Prinze appeared in his only TV movie (in fact, his only movie of any kind) when he starred in The Million Dollar Rip-Off. Prinze plays an ex-convict who happens to be an electronics genius. He woos four toothsome young ladies and convinces them to participate in robbing the Read More

    1976
  • Kate McShane

    Synopsis: Anne Meara stars as Denver lawyer Kate McShane in this pilot film for the weekly CBS series of the same name. With the help of her two favorite "leg men" -- her ex-cop father, Pat (Sean McClory), and her Jesuit priest-law professor brother, Ed (Randy Quaid) -- Kate not only defends accused Read More

    1975
  • 1973
  • Pocket Money

    Actors: E. Baca, R. Camargo, R. Manning, Wynn Pearce, Paul Newman, Lee Marvin, Strother Martin, Christine Belford, Kelly Jean Peters

    Synopsis: Two modern day cowboys smuggle a herd of cows across the border in this loosely amiable comedy. Jim Kane (Paul Newman) is a cowboy who unexpectedly finds himself deep in debt and in need of some fast cash. A less-than-scrupulous businessman approaches Kane and offers him a handsome payday to Read More

    1972
  • The Groundstar Conspiracy

    Actors: George Peppard, Michael Sarrazin, Christine Belford, Cliff Potts, James Olson

    Synopsis: Filmed in Canada, The Groundstar Conspiracy was adapted from L.P. Davies' novel The Alien. Michael Sarrazin plays a research scientist who is the sole survivor when his secret laboratory in Vancouver is destroyed by an explosion. Assuming that Sarrazin has engineered the explosion so that he can Read More

    1972
  • Banacek

    Actors: George Peppard, Christine Belford, Don Dubbins, Murray Matheson, Russell Wiggins

    Synopsis: Banacek was the two-hour pilot film for the 1972-74 detective series starring George Peppard. The cigar-smoking, aphorism-spouting Peppard plays T. Banacek, Polish/American investigator for a major Boston insurance company. Independently wealthy, Banacek will only accept cases that have been Read More

    1972
  • The Million Dollar Misunderstanding

    Synopsis: A plot is developed by a private eye to even the score with a corrupt North American president. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

    1972
  • Ode to a Dying Love

    Synopsis: In this drama, a detective must solve three puzzling cases. One involves a terribly ill girl. Another deals with a young boy who has run away from his cruel stepfather. The final case deals with an undercover highway cop who has suddenly vanished. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1972
  • Cool Million

    Synopsis: Filmed in Greece and Italy, Cool Million was the pilot film for a shortlived 1972 TV series which ran as a recurring feature of the NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie. James Farentino stars as private eye Jefferson Keays, who takes cases only on the proviso that he is to be paid $1 million if he Read More

    1972
  • Ironside: Dear Fran

    Synopsis: Fran (Elizabeth Baur) is devastated when word arrives that her cousin Bobby has committed suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge. But the lack of a corpse, and the sudden appearance of several letters allegedly written by Bobby and declaring his unrequited love for Fran, lead Ironside Read More

    1971
  • Vanished

    Actors: Chet Huntley

    Synopsis: Vanished earned a niche in video history as the first two-part TV movie. Based on Fletcher Knebel's novel, the story concerns the sudden disappearance of a top Presidential adviser. Grilled by the media, the President's press secretary (James Farentino) reveals very little, simply because he Read More

    1970

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