Chuck Connors Filmography

The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw

Actors: Gene Barry, James Drury, Doug McClure, Rick Rossovich, Kenny Rogers, Reba McEntire

Synopsis: The fourth of Kenny Rogers' Gambler TV movies, 1991's The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw is regarded by many Western diehards as the best. This time, gambler Brady Hawkes is en route to a high-stakes poker game in San Francisco. His travelling companions are a trouble-prone frontier Romeo (Rick Rossovich Read More

Last Flight to Hell

Synopsis: In this action thriller, Reb Brown plays a DEA operative sent to South America to rescue a kidnapped drug czar and bring him back to the U.S. to face justice. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Three Days to a Kill

Synopsis: Fred Williamson directed and stars in this average action film as Col. Wright, who teams up with a paroled thief (Bo Svenson) and the former lover of a Colombian druglord to rescue the kidnapped World Security Ambassador. Henry Silva is the kingpin, and the film is full of nudity and violence, but Read More

One Last Run

Synopsis: Featuring eye-popping skiing footage, this downhill drama centers on three friends who head to Utah for their annual ski trip. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

High Desert Kill

Actors: Chuck Connors

Synopsis: The made-for-cable sci-fi thriller High Desert Kill is about three hunters and a cowboy (Chuck Connors) who become the prey of a group of predatory aliens while they are on a trip to New Mexico. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Skinheads

Skinheads: The Second Coming of Hate

Synopsis: In this exploitation film, a group of violent neo-Nazis invade a small town, causing murder and destruction wherever they go. However, when the skinheads make the mistake of murdering a tough man's girlfriend, he sets out to avenge her death ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Once Upon a Texas Train

Actors: Angie Dickinson, Richard Widmark, Willie Nelson

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Once Upon a Texas Train offers us the once-in-a-lifetime teaming of Richard Widmark, Willie Nelson and Angie Dickinson. Nelson plays a veteran outlaw who robs a bank less than 6 hours after being paroled from jail. He uses the money to reunite his old gang, then sets about to Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Coal Miner's Slaughter

Synopsis: A pre-Will and Grace Megan Mullally guest stars in this episode as Molly Connors, the feisty daughter of West Virginia coal miner Eben Connors (Denver Pyle). When Eben dies in a suspicious mining accident, Molly sweeps into town to accuse the mine's owner of being responsible for her dad's death. Read More

Summer Camp Nightmare

Actors: Chuck Connors, Charles Stratton, Adam Carl, Harold Pruett, Melissa Brennan

Synopsis: Offering an updated take on William Golding's Lord of the Flies, complete with anti-fascist metaphors, this drama is set at a summer camp where the kids rise up against their counselors and start running things themselves. It is based on a novel by William Butler, The Butterfly Revolution. Read More

Terror Squad

Actors: Chuck Connors, Brodie Greer, Bill Calvert, Kerry Brennan, Kavi Raz

Synopsis: Police Chief Rawlings (Chuck Conners) defends the town of Kokomo, Indiana from an invasion of Libyan terrorists in this grade "B" action feature. The villains attack a nuclear power plant and hold a high-school class hostage. Rawlings' negotiations are comically taken from Dog Day Afternoon as he Read More

Werewolf

Synopsis: Werewolf was the pilot film for the Fox network TV series of the same name. John J. York plays Eric, a handsome young man who is bitten by a werewolf. He must find the source of the lycanthropic bloodline if he's to save himself from a lifetime of requiring sudden shaves and baying at the moon. Read More

Sakura Killers

Actors: Chuck Connors, Michael Kelly, George Nichols, Manji Otsuki

Synopsis: Chuck Connors stars in this routine martial arts feature as the Colonel. He sends agents Sonny (Mike Kelly) and Dennis (George Nichols) to Taiwan in search of microfilm containing experiments on genetic engineering. The agents soon find themselves up against Japanese killers known as the Sakura Read More

Spenser: For Hire [TV Series]

Actors: Ron McLarty, Barbara Stock, Robert Urich, Avery Brooks

Synopsis: Based on a series of suspense novels by Robert B. Parker, the weekly, hour-long Spenser: For Hire starred Robert Urich as the title character. The TV series was filmed on location in Boston, the home-based of private investigator Spenser (no other name), who in addition to being wily and Read More

The Vals

Actors: Jill Carroll, Michelle Laurita, Gina Calabrase, Chuck Connors

Synopsis: Filmed in 1982 but unreleased until after the success of 1983's Valley Girl, this is a low-budget mix of valley-speak, trendiness, and message. In the end, it may have proved too difficult to combine dialogue such as "grody to the max," sex scenes, a bubbly teenager or two, the noble objective of Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Joshua Peabody Died Here...Possibly.

Synopsis: Over the protests of several local residents, shady tycoon Henderson Wheatley (John Ericson) intends to build a high-rise hotel in Cabot Cove. During excavation, a set of bones comes to surface, supposedly belonging to Revolutionary war hero Joshua Peabody. Almost immediately, those who oppose the Read More

Target Eagle

Actors: Jorge Rivero, Maud Adams, George Peppard, Max von Sydow, Chuck Connors

Synopsis: In this well-acted but very standard action thriller, Spanish police chief O'Donnell Max von Sydow) hires the tough mercenary David (Jorge Rivero) with the code name "Eagle" to infiltrate an international drug cartel. Carmen (Maud Adams), a policewoman, is to be David's contact. The plot thickens Read More

Virus

Actors: Sonny Chiba, Chuck Connors, Stephanie Faulkner, Glenn Ford, Stuart Gillard

Synopsis: A double disaster film with both an American and a Japanese cast, Virus presents some pretty wild probabilities to viewers. First of all, a virus has been developed that gets loose and starts to destroy humanity on a grand scale. The only people who are remotely safe are a group of eight hundred Read More

Balboa

Actors: Tony Curtis, Carol Lynley, Jennifer Chase, Chuck Connors, Lupita Ferrer

Synopsis: This is a soap opera about a rich, suave, but self-aggrandizing villain and the women who either love or hate him. The melodrama sudses up with Ernie Stoddard's (Tony Curtis) determination to bring legal gambling to an island off the California coast and a local councilman's equally strong Read More

The Capture of Grizzly Adams

Actors: Dan Haggerty, Chuck Connors, Kim Darby, June Lockhart, Sydney Penny

Synopsis: A wilderness-loving man must clear himself of a wrongful murder charge and rescue his daughter who may be sent to an orphanage in this made-for-TV movie. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Airplane II: The Sequel

Actors: Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Peter Graves, William Shatner

Synopsis: With the Jerry Zucker-Jim Abrahams-David Zucker team absent, this sequel to the cash-cow 1980 spoof Airplane once again finds garrulous man-with-a-past Ted Striker (Robert Hays) compelled to take over the controls of crippled aircraft, all the while trying to patch up his relationship with Read More

Day of the Assassin

Actors: Chuck Connors

Synopsis: Treasure hunters from around the world race to Mexico after a Middle Eastern luxury yacht explodes, sending a fortune in gold to the bottom of the ocean. An agent (Chuck Connors) must stop the ruthless fortune hunters. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Garden of Venus

Synopsis: An Arizona ranch set on top of a copper deposit is the focus of mercenary neighbors who plot to get rid of the resident family. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Tourist Trap

Actors: Chuck Connors, Jon Van Ness, Jocelyn Jones, Robin Sherwood, Tanya Roberts

Synopsis: In this horror outing, a seemingly abandoned desert gas station turns out to be a grotesque museum filled with murderous mannequins who come to life when visitors come to call. The ill-fated "guests" are lured in by a strange siren's song. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Bordello

Synopsis: A houseful of prostitutes and a few cowboys have some fun in this made-for-TV spoof on westerns. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Standing Tall

Synopsis: Made for television, Standing Tall guest-stars Chuck Connors as one Major Roland Hartline. A proud, ruthless Depression-era cattle baron, Major Hartline carries on a range war with half-breed rancher Luke Shasta (Robert Forster). This isn't The Rifleman, so Chuck Connors is the bad guy. On Luke Read More

Wolf Larsen

Synopsis: In this exciting adaptation of Jack London's novel The Sea Wolf a brutal and mad sea captain terrorizes his crew. He rescues the wealthy survivor of a shipwreck and forces the fellow to join his crew. After observing and taking considerable abuse from the cruel captain, the young man stages a Read More

The Night They Took Miss Beautiful

Synopsis: In this drama, five beauty aspiring beauty queens are abducted in a hijacked airplane. Also upon the plane is a strain of deadly virus. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Roots

Actors: LeVar Burton, Louis Gossett, Jr., John Amos, Ben Vereen

Synopsis: This award-winning six-part historical epic was one of the first examples of the miniseries format and one of the highest-rated television programs in broadcasting history. Based on the best-selling novel by author Alex Haley, Roots chronicles the progress of Haley's own family across many Read More

Banjo Hackett

Actors: Don Meredith, Ike Eisenmann, Jennifer Warren, Chuck Connors, Dan O'Herlihy

Synopsis: Also known as Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free, this TV pilot film stars Don Meredith in the title role. Banjo Hackett is a western horsetrader, circa 1885, who travels in the company of his orphaned nephew (Ike Eisenmann). While searching for a rare Arabian mare stolen from the nephew's late mother Read More

Baseball: The Now Career

Legend of the Sea Wolf

Synopsis: Jack London's novel inspired this tale of a brutal sea captain who dominates his crew. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

99 and 44/100 Percent Dead

Actors: Richard Harris, Edmond O'Brien, Bradford Dillman, Ann Turkel, Constance Ford

Synopsis: John Frankenheimer's bizarre, satirical gangster film is not for all tastes but has acquired a minor cult following. Elderly mobster Edmond O'Brien hires a hitman (Richard Harris) to eliminate his rival (Bradford Dillman) in a dystopic setting of not-quite reality. There are albino alligators Read More

Police Story

Actors: Chuck Connors

Synopsis: Originally networkcast on March 20, 1973, Police Story was the 2-hour pilot for the long running anthology weekly which officially debuted seven months later. Created by novelist (and ex-police officer) Joseph Wambaugh, Police Story was set in Los Angeles, and each week detailed a different aspect Read More

Soylent Green

Actors: Charlton Heston, Edward G. Robinson, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck Connors, Joseph Cotten, Brock Peters

Synopsis: Richard Fleischer directed this nightmarish science fiction vision of an over-populated world, based on the novel by Harry Harrison. In 2022, New York City is a town bursting at the seams with a 40-million-plus population. Food is in short supply, and most of the population's food source comes Read More

Pancho Villa

Synopsis: This biopic chronicles the exciting and colorful life of Mexico's most illustrious revolutionary/bandit. A thrilling train crash provides the story's best moment. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Night of Terror

Actors: Eddie Egan

Synopsis: It took several years and several TV movies like Night of Terror for Donna Mills to outgrow her "woman in jeopardy" period. Here she is pursued by a syndicate hit man. Mills doesn't know why, but she does know that her stalker has already killed two people in order to get to her. The lynchpin of Read More

Horror at 37,000 Feet

Actors: Chuck Connors, Russell Johnson, Buddy Ebsen, William Shatner

Synopsis: Featuring a smorgasbord of has-beens and never-weres only a Love Boat casting director could love, this silly '70s movie-of-the-week involves a demonically-possessed Druid artifact from an English monastery coming to supernatural life aboard a transatlantic airline flight, taking control of one of Read More

Set This Town on Fire

Synopsis: In this drama a newspaper publisher begins to doubt the guilt of a hero convicted of murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Embassy

Actors: Leila Buheiry, Edmond Rannania, Dean Turner

Synopsis: In this spy thriller, Gorenko (Max Von Sydow) is on the run from his Russian spymasters, and wants to defect. The Americans hide him in their Beirut embassy until they can sneak him into the States. Colonel Kesten (Chuck Connors) appears to be an American, but is actually a Russian double agent Read More

The Mad Bomber

Actors: Nancy Honnold

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a hard-nosed cop is assigned to find a psychotic rapist in order to stop a mad bomber with delusions of grandeur who has been razing Los Angeles buildings to punish the evil sinners that live therein. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Deserter

Actors: Bekim Fehmiu

Synopsis: A captain convicted of deserting his cavalry (Bekim Fehmiu) is released to lead a band of deputized renegades. Together, the force must defeat a band of Apache braves. The film was released to video as Ride to Glory. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Support Your Local Gunfighter

Actors: James Garner, Suzanne Pleshette, Jack Elam, Joan Blondell, Harry Morgan

Synopsis: This Western action/comedy is told in the same tongue-in-cheek manner as its predecessor, Support Your Local Sheriff. Goldie (Marie Windsor), a madam, is a formidable woman, and Latigo Smith (James Garner) knows perfectly well that his disreputable ways will be trimmed considerably should she Read More

Under the Sign of Capricorn

Synopsis: In this chilling drama, a unit of American scientists go Down Under to study Aborigines. The trouble begins when they start disappearing or turning up dead. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Escape of the Birdmen

Actors: Doug McClure

Synopsis: Some prisoners pin their hopes for freedom on a homemade aircraft in this made-for-television thriller. Based on a true World War Two story, Doug McClure stars as Harry Cook, an Allied soldier who tries to escape a Nazi prison camp with a scientist in tow, using a glider built by their fellow Read More

The Broken Puzzle

Synopsis: The Broken Puzzle is a third-season installment of the weekly TV adventure series Name of the Game. Chuck Connors guest-stars as the governor of an unnamed state. Though popular with his constituents, Connors runs the state like a banana-republic dictatorship, complete with uniformed thugs. Read More

Ammazzali tutti e torna solo

Actors: Chuck Connors, Frank Wolff, Franco Citti

Synopsis: In this spaghetti western, the head of a band of desperadoes steals the gold from a Union fort and hides it before the leader is captured by Yankee soldiers. In captivity, the outlaw is tortured by a sadistic Army officer, formerly the trader who conned him into the heist. The torture will not Read More

Captain Nemo and the Underwater City

Actors: Robert Ryan, Chuck Connors, Nanette Newman, Luciana Paluzzi, Bill Fraser

Synopsis: Captain Nemo and the Underwater City thrusts several "name" actors into the specialized world of Jules Verne. Six 19th-century shipwreck victims are rescued by a modernistic submarine. The skipper is Captain Nemo (Robert Ryan), who had not died at the end of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea as viewers Read More

The Profane Comedy

Synopsis: Filmed in 1969 as Set This Town on Fire, the made-for-TV The Profane Comedy didn't make it to the tube until 1973. Chuck Connors has the leading role as a small town hero, recently exonerated of a manslaughter conviction when an old drunkard confesses to the crime. Now Connors is back in his home Read More

The Proud and the Damned

Actors: Chuck Connors, Aron Kincaid, Cesar Romero, Jose Greco, Henry Capps

Synopsis: Will (Chuck Connors) leads a group of American Civil War veterans into San Carlos, Columbia. The local mayor (Cesar Romero) welcomes the quintet, unaware they are scouting out the town for Columbian General Martinez (Andre Maruis). Soon the visitors are reveling with gypsies Mila (Anita Quinn) and Read More

To Set This Town on Fire

Ride Beyond Vengeance

Actors: Chuck Connors, Michael Rennie, Kathryn Hays, Joan Blondell, Gloria Grahame

Synopsis: Told via flashback by a saloon keeper to a census taker in a tiny Texas town, this brutal, adult-oriented western offers the tale of a drifter who settles down to marry a woman he doesn't love so he can get at her inheritance. When that is exposed, the drifter flees and does not return for eleven Read More

Branded: The Assassins, Part 2

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In the second episode of a two-part story, Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) has infiltrated a group of insurrectionists who plan to assassinate President Grant. When Jason's cover is blown, the assassins boldly make a public attempt on both his life and Grant's--leaving an incriminating dagger behind. Read More

Branded: Season 02

Actors: Chuck Connors

Synopsis: Switching from black and white to color for its second and final season, the NBC western Branded offers 32 more half-hour opportunities for disgraced ex-Cavalry officer Jason McCord (Chuck Connors to prove that he did not run away like a cowardly rat from the infamous Battle of Bitter Creek, of Read More

Branded: The Assassins, Part 1

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) is again summoned to Washington by President Grant (William Bryant). This time, Jason is asked to infiltrate a group of insurrectionists who may or may not be plotting to assassinate the President and overthrow the government. Read More

Blade Rider

Branded: Season 01

Actors: Chuck Connors

Synopsis: Unjustly booted out of the US Cavalry on a charge of desertion and cowardice--he'd been the only survivor of the fabled Battle of Bitter Creek--former West Pointer and Army captain Jason McCord (Churck Connors spends the first season of Branded wandering throughout the west, ever hoping to clear Read More

Synanon

Actors: Edmond O'Brien, Chuck Connors, Stella Stevens, Alex Cord, Richard Conte

Synopsis: The difficulties faced by drug addicts attempting to kick their habits provide the basis of this gritty, realistic drama that was filmed at a real rehab house in Santa Monica, California. The story centers on Zankie (Alex Cord), an ex-con who is having trouble following the strict rules of the Read More

Broken Sabre

Synopsis: In this western, after being branded as a coward by the army, an ex-soldier succumbs to his former finacee's pressure and breaks a treaty with the Apaches. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Arrest and Trial [TV Series]

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Chuck Connors

Flipper

Actors: Chuck Connors, Luke Halpin, Connie Scott, Kathleen Maguire, Jane Rose, Joe Higgins

Synopsis: The surprise hit of the summer of 1963, Flipper is a thoroughly captivating outdoor adventure from the Ivan Tors factory. Sandy Ricks (Luke Halpin), the young son of Florida fisherman Porter Ricks (Chuck Connors), nurses a wounded dolphin back to health. His father would prefer that Sandy allow Read More

Move Over, Darling

Actors: Doris Day, James Garner, Polly Bergen, Chuck Connors, Thelma Ritter

Synopsis: A man makes the highly unexpected discovery that he has two wives in this romantic comedy. Widower Nick Arden (James Garner) has just set off on his honeymoon with his new wife Bianca (Polly Bergen) when his mother Grace (Thelma Ritter) receives a very unexpected guest -- Nick's late wife Ellen (Doris Day Read More

Geronimo

Actors: Chuck Connors, Kamala Devi, Ross Martin, Patrick Conway, Adam West

Synopsis: In the saga of Hollywood's slow, slow maturation in the depiction of Native Americans, Geronimo highlights an early '60s turning point -- his character is drawn with sympathy -- but no more than that. Chuck Connors, an obviously Caucasian actor, plays the great chief, and there is not a single Read More

The Rifleman: The Mind Reader

Actors: Chuck Connors, Johnny Crawford, John Carradine, Paul Fix, Milly Mathis

Synopsis: John Carradine and Michael Landon guest star in this early episode of The Rifleman. The only one in town to own a shotgun, young Billy Mathis (Landon) becomes the obvious suspect when Hallager (Robert Bice) is shot in the back. Especially when Sheriff Torrance (Paul Fix) learns that the victim had Read More

The Rifleman: Bloodlines

Actors: Chuck Connors, Johnny Crawford, Buddy Hackett, Paul Fix, Rhys Williams

Synopsis: Done up to look much older than his tender years, Buddy Hackett guest stars in this unusually violent segment of The Rifleman. Hackett plays uncouth Daniel Malakie, arriving in town to bail out his three hell-raising sons. When he learns that one of the sons, Ben (Christopher Dark), mistakenly Read More

The Rifleman: The Money Gun

Actors: Chuck Connors, Johnny Crawford, Paul Fix, John Dehner, Bert Freed

Synopsis: In this episode of The Rifleman, Lucas McCain (Chuck Connors) finds himself in the odd position of having to defend an old nemesis, Oat Jackford (Bert Freed), when a hired killer (John Dehner) come gunning for him. Paul Fix co-stars in his recurrent role of Marshal Micah Torrance in this episode Read More

The Rifleman: The Sheridan Story

Actors: Chuck Connors, Johnny Crawford, Royal Dano, Lawrence Dobkin, Frank Wilcox

Synopsis: The Civil War is revisited in this taut episode of The Rifleman, which has a crippled Confederate soldier (Royal Dano) arriving at Lucas McCain's ranch at the same time as a visiting General Sheridan (Lawrence Dobkin). But the War is well over and Lucas (Chuck Connors), with Sheridan's assistance Read More

The Rifleman: The Sharpshooter

Synopsis: Created and written by Sam Peckinpah, the premiere episode of The Rifleman stars Chuck Connors and Johnny Crawford as Lucas and Mark McCain, father and 10-year-old son in search of settling down near North Fork, New Mexico. But when Lucas, a noted crack shot with a rifle, enters the local turkey Read More