Chuck Bail Filmography

Occupation:: Actor, Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Stunts, Screen Story, Screenwriter

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The Sinister Saga of Making 'The Stunt Man'

Actors: Richard Rush, Peter O'Toole, Steve Railsback, Barbara Hershey, Chuck Bail

Synopsis: In honor of the DVD release of the 1980 cult film The Stunt Man, director Richard Rush recounts the trials and tribulations he confronted while making that much praised film. Speaking from a variety of quirky settings including his private plane and a UCLA sculpture garden, he openly admits that Read More

2000
Conan [TV Series]

Crew: Director

Actors: Ralph Moeller, Danny Woodburn, T.J. Storm, Robert McCray, Jeremy Kemp

Synopsis: The hour-long fantasy adventure TV series Conan was originally broadcast from September 1997 to May 1998. Set in a mystical prehistoric fantasy world, Conan battles evil forces, fulfills prophecies, and fights demonic creatures in a quest to return freedom to Cimmeria. Starring Ralph Moeller as Read More

1997
Street Corner Justice

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Marc Singer, Steve Railsback, Kim Lankford, Willie Gee, Tom "Tiny" Lister, Jr.

Synopsis: In this exciting actioner, maverick ex-Philadelphia cop Mike "Street" Justus lands in Southern California, rounds up a gang of ex-cons who owe him favors and violently purges a Los Angeles suburb of the hard-core crooks who plague it. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1996
Choke Canyon

Crew: Director

Actors: Stephen Collins, Janet Julian, Lance Henriksen, Bo Svenson, Victoria Racimo

Synopsis: Choke Canyon is a fast-paced, entertaining cautionary thriller about the effects of unloading toxic waste into the environment. Scientist David Lowell (Stephen Collins) comes into conflict with the owners of a nuclear power plant and the assassin they have hired to kill him. He must now run for Read More

1986
Rainy Day Friends

Actors: Chuck Bail, Janice Rule, Carrie Snodgress

Synopsis: This is a winning, upbeat story about a Hispanic kid from the streets who suffers through a battle against cancer and discrimination at the same time. When Neekos Valdez (Esai Morales) was swiping a radio from a pickup one night, he was accidentally dragged along the street behind the pickup. Read More

1985
L.A. Bad

1985
The Stunt Man

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Steve Railsback, Barbara Hershey, Allen Garfield, Alex Rocco

Synopsis: Adapted from Paul Brodeur's novel, Richard Rush's story of a Machiavellian movie director and his accidental employee takes a darkly comic look at movie reality vs. "real" reality. Running from the law, Vietnam vet Cameron (Steve Railsback) stumbles on a movie shoot just in time to interfere with Read More

1980
The Gumball Rally

Crew: Director, Producer, Screen Story

Actors: Michael Sarrazin, Norman Burton, Gary Busey, John Durren, Susan Flannery

Synopsis: For better or worse, The Gumball Rally was the catalyst for a short-lived cycle of "illegal cross-country race" flicks. As thick-headed cop Roscoe (Norman Burton) does his best to stop the titular rally, a vast and varied contingent of contestants prepare to burn rubber from New York to Read More

1976
Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold

Crew: Director

Actors: Tamara Dobson, Magali Noël, Janet Agren, Stefano Satta Flores, Mirando Martino

Synopsis: This sequel to the blaxploitation hit Cleopatra Jones mixes in elements of the kung-fu genre and James Bond-styled spy adventures as it sends its colorful heroine to a high-flying adventure in an exotic locale. When fellow operatives (and childhood friends) Matthew Johnson (Albert Popwell) and Read More

1975
Black Samson

Crew: Director

Actors: John Alderman, William Smith, Carol Speed, Rockne Tarkington

Synopsis: William Smith and a gang of white drug-dealers try to muscle in on black nightclub owner Rockne Tarkington in this silly blaxploitation film. What they don't know is that Tarkington -- who has a pet lion -- is skilled at martial arts and will not give in without a fight. Abby's Carol Speed Read More

1974
The Last Movie

Crew: Stunts

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Stella Garcia, Samuel Fuller, Peter Fonda, Julie Adams

Synopsis: With a barrage of cinematic distancing devices at hand (flashbacks and flash-forwards, super-imposed titles, missing frames, projectionist cue-marks placed in the wrong locations in a film reel), Dennis Hopper concocts a hallucinatory acid-trip concerning an American movie company making a western Read More

1971
Bonanza: A Matter of Faith

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Lou Frizzell

Synopsis: Originally telecast September 20, 1970, "A Matter of Faith" served to introduce new Bonanza regular Mitch Vogel in the role of Jamie Hunter. The son of an itinerant rainmaker, Jamie is unofficially adopted after his dad's death by Ponderosa hand Dusty Rhodes (Lou Frizzell. Despite the skepticism Read More

1970
Getting Straight

Crew: Stunts

Actors: Elliott Gould, Candice Bergen, Robert F. Lyons, Jeff Corey, Max Julien

Synopsis: "Movies like Getting Straight are ceasing to be tolerable" complained one conservative movie magazine of 1970. Today, the once-relevant but now merely entertaining Getting Straight is not only tolerable, but downright user-friendly. Elliot Gould plays a Vietnam vet who decides to attend college Read More

1970
Bonanza: Mrs. Wharton and the Lesser Breeds

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Mildred Natwick

Synopsis: Mildred Natwick guest-stars as the formidable Mrs. Wharton, a snobbish Englishwoman living by her wits and will in the Wild, Wild West. When the stage on which she is travelling is held up by outlaws, the snooty Mrs. Wharton must rely upon that "uncouth creature" Candy to retrieve her valuables. Read More

1969
Bonanza: To Stop a War

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Steve Forrest, Miriam Colon

Synopsis: An epidemic of rustling has fueled the flames of a possible range war between the cattlemen and the nesters. Ex-sheriff Dan Logan (Steve Forrest) is hired to stop the war before it starts, while rancher Slater (Warren Kemmerling), convinced that the nesters are responsible for the trouble, offers Read More

1969
The Cycle Savages

Crew: Stunts

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

1969
The Devil's 8

Crew: Stunts

Actors: Christopher George, Fabian, Tom Nardini, Leslie Parrish, Ross Hagen

Synopsis: Faulkner (Christopher George) is an ATF agent who shut down the moonshine operation of Burl (Ralph Meeker) in his Southern state hideaway. Along with agent Martin (Ron Rifkin), the duo uses eight escaped prisoners for the job, promising their freedom should the mission succeed. Fabian stars as one Read More

1969
The Scavengers

Crew: Stunts

Actors: Ben Adams, Fig Blackman, Ben Cadlett, James Gorden, Warren James, Freddy Mizrahi, John Riazzi, Claudia Siefried, Tom Siegel, Karen Swanson

Synopsis: In this exploitation western, a renegade unit of Confederates conspire to rob a Union payroll wagon. Unfortunately, they don't realize that the war is over when they ride into a little town to await the shipment. While there, they amuse themselves by raping and murdering the townsfolk. Fortunately Read More

1969
The Green Berets

Actors: John Wayne, David Janssen, Jim Hutton, Aldo Ray, Raymond St. Jacques

Synopsis: The Green Berets is an exciting war film that was lambasted by critics who at the time of its release opposed the war in Vietnam. Wayne's role is similar to his part in The Longest Day (1963), but it was evident to the worldwide public that the same bravado that flew well in World War II Read More

1968
The Savage Seven

Actors: Robert Walker, Jr., Larry Bishop, Joanna Frank, John Garwood, Adam Roarke

Synopsis: This violent motorcycle gang drama finds the outlaws riding onto an Indian reservation to take over. A rival gang has other ideas. There are few likeable characters in this feature, the possible exception being Johnnie (Robert Walker), and he is a convicted thief. Rock-guitar legend Duane Eddy Read More

1968