Cliff De Young Filmography

The Hunt

Actors: Cliff De Young, Robert Rusler, Joe Michael Burke

Synopsis: Cliff De Young, Robert Rusler, and Joe Michael Burke star in Children of the Corn director Fritz Kiersch's tale of a man and his son who set out to make a hunting video, but quickly learn that what was once the predator has now become the prey. The forest can be a dangerous place, and after Read More

Last Flight Out

Actors: Richard Tyson, Bobbie Phillips, Adriano Gonzalez, Rene L. Moreno, Cliff De Young

Synopsis: A down-on-his-luck pilot stuck repossessing private jets is offered one last shot at redemption in the form of a dangerous rescue mission in director Jerry Jameson's Christian-themed adventure. Dan Hogan's (Richard Tyson) once-promising stint in the skies has come to a standstill, and now the only Read More

Touched by an Angel: Virtual Reality

Synopsis: 17-year-old Victor Jackson (Billy Kay) is accused of using his car as a lethal weapon, deliberately running over a pedestrian while imitating the ultra-violent video game "Carjack 2000: Millenium Mayhem." That Victor's trial is not an ordinary one is tipped off by the fact that Tess (Della Reese) Read More

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Revenge Is Best Served Cold

Synopsis: The influence of the popular action film The Fast and the Furious hangs heavily over the first episode of CSI's third season. Catherine (Marg Helgenberger) and Nick (George Eads) investigate when the mutilated corpse of Jace Felder, a champion in the field of illegal street-racing, is found at an Read More

Secret Life of Zoey

Actors: Mia Farrow, Cliff De Young, Julia Whelan, Andrew McCarthy, Caroline Aaron

Synopsis: Originally titled On the Edge, this Lifetime cable network feature film is the story of Zoey Carter (Julia Whelan), the superachieving "perfect" daughter of professional couple Marcia and Larry Carter (Mia Farrow and Cliff De Young). Traumatized by her parents' divorce, Zoey begins experimenting Read More

Almost a Woman

Actors: Wanda De Jesus, Miriam Colon, Ana Maria Lagasca, Cliff De Young, Francesco Quinn

Synopsis: A girl poised on the brink of adolescence finds herself shouldering a whole new set of responsibilities in this made-for-TV drama based on the autobiographical book by Esmeralda Santiago. In 1961, Mami Santiago (Wanda De Jesus) decides to leave her life in a Puerto Rican farming community behind Read More

Getting Away with Murder: The JonBenet Ramsey Mystery

Actors: Cliff De Young, Judi Evans Luciano, MacKenzie Rosman, Stephen Pocock, Brad Greenquist

Synopsis: Technically a one-hour dramatic special, Getting Away With Murder: The JonBenet Ramsey Mystery was advertised as a "mini-movie" by the Fox Network. In its recounting of the events preceding and following the brutal Christmas 1996 murder of five-year-old JonBenet Ramsey (here played by Seventh Read More

The Last Man on Planet Earth

Actors: Veronica Cartwright, Cliff De Young, Julie Bowen, Tamlyn Tomita

Synopsis: Women are in charge of a futuristic society were almost all of the globe's male population have been decimated due to biological warfare. In hopes of restocking the population, so to speak, a top scientist creates a new type of male genetically unable to commit acts of violence. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Get a Clue!

Actors: Cliff De Young, Ashley Peldon, Ray Walston, Sally Kirkland, Diane Ladd

Synopsis: Based on the acclaimed children's book The Westing Game, the movie version of this tale, Get a Clue!, draws young viewers into the strange mysteries encountered by 13-year-old "Turtle" Wexler. After moving into a new town, Turtle learns the house next door is the notoriously haunted Westin Read More

Suicide Kings

Actors: Christopher Walken, Denis Leary, Henry Thomas, Sean Patrick Flanery, Jay Mohr, Johnny Galecki

Synopsis: Television director Peter O'Fallon made his feature film debut with this independent film that pays obvious homage to the style of Quentin Tarantino, with plenty of violence and funny, talkative hit men. Suave gangster Charlie Barrett (Christopher Walken) meets four young men who have taken over Read More

The Last Don

Actors: Danny Aiello, Joe Mantegna, Daryl Hannah, Jason Gedrick, Penelope Ann Miller

Synopsis: This crime drama, based on the best-selling novel by Mario Puzo, follows 20 years in the long reign of powerful Mafia kingpin Don Domenico Clericuzio (Danny Aiello). For years, the Clericuzios have been warring with a rival crime family, the Santadios, which is not helped when Domenico's daughter Read More

The Substitute

Actors: Tom Berenger, Ernie Hudson, Diane Venora, Marc Anthony, Glenn Plummer

Synopsis: An ex-mercenary (Tom Berenger) becomes a take-no-prisoners teacher in a drug-ridden, gang-infested Miami high school in this campy morality tale about restoring lost American virtues to the inner city. Berenger's character, Shale, has no first name, a shadowy past as a patriotic gun-for-hire, and Read More

The Craft

Actors: Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell, Rachel True, Skeet Ulrich

Synopsis: After killing her mother in childbirth, growing up in San Francisco with her father and stepmother, attempting suicide, and moving to Los Angeles, Sarah (Robin Tunney) makes a brief stab at popularity at her new Catholic high school. Ostracized due to the untrue kiss-and-tell tales of football Read More

Star Quest

Actors: Alan Rachins, Emma Samms, Brenda Bakke, Steven Bauer, Ming-Na Wen

Synopsis: In this sci-fi drama, eight deep-space astronauts awaken from a century of suspended animation to discover that the human race no longer exists. To make things worse, someone or something has murdered their captain. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Carnosaur 2

Actors: John Savage, Cliff De Young

Synopsis: The dinosaurs are back, and they're getting hungrier by the minute in this sequel to the terror tale Carnosaur. There's been a call for help from a secret underground military facility deep in the Nevada desert, so a rescue team led by Maj. McQuade (Cliff De Young) and trouble-shooter Reed (John Savage Read More

Revenge of the Red Baron

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Tobey Maguire, Laraine Newman, Cliff De Young, Ronnie Schell

Synopsis: In this "sequel" to Roger Corman's 1971 Von Richtofen and Brown (produced by Corman himself), a toy World War I plane belonging to a young boy (Tobey Maguire) is possessed by the spirit of the deceased Red Baron. The possessed plane begins killing people with real bullets from a toy machine gun. Read More

The Skateboard Kid

Synopsis: When his father's job forces the family to relocate, Zack Tyler (Trevor Lissauer) finds himself friendless and unhappy in a strange new town ruled by skateboarding cretins. However, when he purchases a used skateboard, Zack discovers that his new set of wheels has strange and unusual powers that Read More

The Tommyknockers

Actors: Jimmy Smits, Marg Helgenberger, Joanna Cassidy

Synopsis: Adapted for TV, this is a Stephen King story in which an aspiring writer and an alcoholic poet (with a metal plate in his head, no less) literally stumble over a long-buried spaceship while walking in the woods. It starts glowing green when uncovered and soon everyone in town has green eyes, their Read More

Precious Victims

Actors: Park Overall

Synopsis: The seemingly heartbroken parents of a murdered child make a sheriff suspicious, in this made-for-television drama. Park Overall and Robby Benson star as The Sims, a couple whose infant daughter is kidnapped and later found dead. By all accounts the Sims appear to be the victims, but when another Read More

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 12: Vortex

Synopsis: Just when it seemed as if the first season of Deep Space Nine had degenerated into reruns, along came this first-run episode on April 17, 1993. The focus of the episode is Odo, the crew's resident shape shifter. Odo is tempted to forsake his responsibilities by alien criminal Croden (Cliff DeYoung Read More

Dr. Giggles

Actors: Larry Drake, Holly Marie Combs, Cliff De Young, Glenn Quinn, Keith Diamond

Synopsis: Jumping fairly late on the slasher-movie bandwagon, this stylish but hollow effort from director Manny Coto stars L.A. Law's Larry Drake as the psychopathic Evan Rendell, who fancies himself a misunderstood medical genius. In an inventive opening scene, Rendell performs a bit of impromptu surgery Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Badge of Honor

Synopsis: Gerald S. O'Loughlin guest stars as Ben Oliver, a former Army buddy of Cabot Cove physician Seth Hazlitt (William Windom). Arriving in town to pay Seth a visit, Ben is clearly carrying around a great deal of emotional baggage. Subsequently, Ben's new boss is murdered, and Ben is implicated in the Read More

Love Can Be Murder

Actors: Corbin Bernsen, Jaclyn Smith

Synopsis: Corbin Bernsen plays a hard-boiled 1940s private eye operating in the 1990s in the made-for-TV Love Can Be Murder. No, he's not a senior citizen: he's dead. It is the ghost of Bernsen who teams with the very much alive Jaclyn Smith, a contemporary PI. She's trying to solve the decades-old homicide Read More

Criminal Behavior

Actors: Farrah Fawcett, A. Martinez, Dakin Matthews, John Hancock, Andrew Robinson

Synopsis: Farrah Fawcett stars as a struggling defense lawyer in the made-for-TV Criminal Behavior. Defending a nurse on theft charge, Farrah ends up ferreting out clues in a ticklish LA murder case. The path to the truth is labyrinthine, and no one can be trusted. A. Martinez, Andy Robinson and Cliff DeYoung Read More

Nails

Actors: Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: Maniacal Dennis Hopper plays a high-strung L.A. homicide detective who embarks upon a vengeful hunt for the drug pushers who brutally murdered his partners. His investigation soon reveals that the dealers' influence extends to the highest echelons of city government. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

Besos En la Oscuridad

Actors: Maryam D'Abo, Cliff De Young, Shari Shattuck

Synopsis: This sex-horror film from producer Roger Corman was filmed in Spain with a mostly American cast. Cliff De Young (Shock Treatment) is Michael, the heir to a cursed castle, who marries pretty Susan (Maryam d'Abo) and moves her in. Unfortunately for the newlyweds, an oversexed succubus named Diana (Shari Shattuck Read More

N.Y.P.D. Mounted

Synopsis: The New York Mounted Police division teams up a former rodeo cowboy and a veteran police officer. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Flashback

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Kiefer Sutherland, Carol Kane, Paul Dooley, Cliff De Young

Synopsis: A yuppie and a hippie are the offbeat pairing of this character comedy in the tradition of earlier mismatched buddy films such as Midnight Run (1988). Kiefer Sutherland is uptight, 26-year-old FBI agent John Buckner, who's been assigned to escort an aging counterculture radical named Huey Walker (Dennis Hopper Read More

Fourth Story

Actors: Cliff De Young, Mark Harmon, Mimi Rogers

Synopsis: In this complicated and exciting above-average made-for-cable suspense thriller, a woman searches for her missing husband with surprising results. When Valerie's (Mimi Rogers) husband Darryl (Cliff De Young) leaves for work one morning and never returns, she hires private-eye Shepard (Mark Read More

To Die Standing

Actors: Robert Beltran, Jamie Rose, Orlando Sacha, Kevin Reidy

Synopsis: Peruvian film producer and documentarian Luis Llosa, delves far and wide into the South American drug scene in this 1991 action thriller. A brash American DEA agent Shaun Broderick (Cliff DeYoung) and a staid Peruvian counterpart Lt. Delgado (Robert Beltran) are forced into working together to Read More

Where Pigeons Go to Die

Actors: Robert Hy Gorman, Michael Landon

Synopsis: Michael Landon produced, directed and wrote the 1990 TV movie Where Pigeons Go to Die. Landon also narrated the story as the adult counterpart of young protagonist Robert Hy Gorman. When Landon returns to his grandfather's house with the intention of selling it, he flashes back 40 years and Read More

Glory

Actors: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Cary Elwes, Cliff De Young, Andre Braugher

Synopsis: Glory is a celebration of a little-known act of mass courage during the Civil War. Simply put, the heroes involved have been ignored by history due to racism. Those heroes were the all-black members of the 54th Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, headed by Col. Robert Gould Shaw (Matthew Broderick Read More

Rude Awakening

Actors: Cheech Marin, Eric Roberts, Julie Hagerty, Robert Carradine, Buck Henry

Synopsis: Cheech Marin and Eric Roberts play two draft-dodging hippies who flee to a commune in Central America where they stay for 20 years. When they return in 1989 and seek out some of their old NYC buddies, they find they've turned yuppie and things just aren't what they'd expected. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Pulse

Actors: Cliff De Young, Roxanne Hart, Joey Lawrence, Matthew Lawrence, Charles Tyner

Synopsis: Household appliances are generally useful and beneficent items, and most of us who own them take them for granted, but should we? This sci-fi thriller shows what happens when electricity gets a mind of its own, becomes evil and turns every-day gadgets into evil killers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Murder Through the Looking Glass

Synopsis: This week, Jessica is in Hartford, Connecticut--in the vicinity of Trinity College, to be exact. While walking along minding her business, Jessica is witness to the slaying of Adam Cosgrove,who with his dying breath confesses that he is a professional hit man. Before long, Jessica finds herself Read More

Dangerous Company

Actors: Ray Johnson

Synopsis: Adapted from a true story and made for the video stores, Dangerous Company concerns convicted criminal Ray Johnson, who spent almost 30 years in prison before rehabilitating himself. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide 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

Forbidden Sun

Actors: Lauren Hutton, Cliff De Young, Robert Beltran, Viveka Davis, Renée Estevez

Synopsis: Olympic gymnastics coach Francine Lake (Lauren Hutton) and her 12 students train on the Island of Crete. The rigors of training preclude most sexual activity with the locals, thus the girls spend their evenings in quiet frustration. Likewise repressed is training-school janitor Ulysses (Svestislav Goncic Read More

In Dangerous Company

Actors: Cliff De Young, Tracy Scoggins, Steven Keats, Chris Mulkey, Henry Darrow

Synopsis: This low-budget melodrama is a misfired attempt at film noir. Blake (Cliff DeYoung) is a former Vietnam veteran and occasional hitman who hangs out with his buddies in the Little Saigon section of Los Angeles. He falls for the beautiful Evelyn (Tracy Scoggins) when she asks him for help. Evelyn is Read More

Dance 'til Dawn

Synopsis: While at the high-school prom, a group of students find romance and fun, while their parents enjoy the same. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Fear

Actors: Cliff De Young, Kay Lenz, Robert Factor, Scott Schwartz, Geri Betzler

Synopsis: As Don Haden (Cliff DeYoung) and his family travel to their cabin retreat, they are kidnapped and held hostage by a bunch of escaped prisoners. When one of the convicts (Robert Factor) turns out to be a crazed Vietnam war veteran, both kidnappers and victims must struggle to survive. ~ Iotis Read More

The Survivalist

Actors: Steve Railsback, Marjoe Gortner, Cliff De Young, Susan Blakely

Synopsis: This low-budget actioner is set in a world gone mad with the fear that WW III is imminent and centers on a survivalist who has stashed away a veritable armory of high-tech weapons to protect his family. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Her Secret Life

Actors: Cliff De Young

Synopsis: Kate Capshaw plays a schoolteacher and suburban housewife who happens to be an ex-spy. Nobody knows of Capshaw's previous espionage activities, least of all her somewhat obtuse husband Cliff De Young. When Capshaw's ex-lover Jeroen Krabbe, an intimate of Castro, lands in a Cuban prison, she is Read More

Flight of the Navigator

Actors: Joey Cramer, Veronica Cartwright, Cliff De Young, Sarah Jessica Parker, Matt Adler

Synopsis: The year is 1978: 12-year-old Joey Cramer, playing in the woods near his home, is knocked unconscious. He awakens and heads home, only to find strangers living there. He also finds that the year is 1986, and that he's been officially missing for eight years. NASA officials determine that Cramer Read More

F/X

Actors: Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy, Diane Venora, Cliff De Young, Mason Adams

Synopsis: A man who simulates death for a living finds himself unwittingly tied into the real thing in this suspense drama. Special effects man Rollie Tyler (Bryan Brown) makes his living simulating gory mayhem and photogenic violence for movies such as "I Dismember Mama." Tyler is given a chance to expand Read More

Hero in the Family

Synopsis: Even without observing the opening credits, or noting that the film was first shown on The Disney Sunday Movie, the casual viewer could tell in a minute that Hero in the Family was a Disney production. Cliff De Young plays an American astronaut who, through a freakish occurrence in space Read More

Annie Oakley

Synopsis: This made-for-TV biography appeared as part of the Shelley Duvall series, Tall Tales and Legends, and stars Jamie Lee Curtis as Annie Oakley and Brian Dennehy as Buffalo Bill Cody, who Ms. Oakley accompanied on a hugely successful Wild West show. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Deadly Intentions

Actors: Michael Biehn, Madolyn Smith, Morgana King

Synopsis: Originally shown in two parts, this four-hour TV movie stars Michael Biehn as the outwardly "perfect" doctor husband of Madolyn Smith. But Biehn is actually a psychopath, who is carefully plotting the murder of his wife. As the horrible truth slowly dawns upon Madolyn, she must find some way to Read More

Shelley Duvall's Tall Tales and Legends: Annie Oakley

Synopsis: This episode of Shelley Duvall's American Tall Tales tells the rip-roaring story of Annie Oakley, one of the Old West's greatest sharpshooters and popular star of Buffalo Bill's traveling Wild West Show. The program includes some legendary episodes -- part fact, part fiction -- and shows some Read More

Secret Admirer

Actors: C. Thomas Howell, Lori Loughlin, Fred Ward, Kelly Preston, Dee Wallace, Cliff De Young

Synopsis: Produced at the height of the teen sex comedy cinema craze in the mid-1980s, Secret Admirer (1985) was the directorial debut of David Greenwalt, who would later move from screwball comedy to horror with the television series The X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. C. Thomas Howell stars Read More

Master of the Game

Actors: Dyan Cannon, Harry Hamlin, Ian Charleson, Cliff De Young, Fernando Allende

Synopsis:

Another of the many Sidney Sheldon novels given the TV-miniseries treatment in the 1970s and '80s, Master of the Game yielded a three-part, nine-hour extravaganza, with enough corporate and romantic intrigue to fill an entire television season. Covering nearly 100 years, the story (which Read More

Protocol

Actors: Goldie Hawn, Chris Sarandon, Richard Romanus, Andre Gregory, Gail Strickland

Synopsis: In this routine spoof of government and media foibles, Sunny (Goldie Hawn) is an ordinary cocktail waitress, someone who graduated in the top 75% of her class. When she dramatically prevents the assassination of a visiting dignitary, an Emir (Richard Romanus) from an Arab country. the event puts Read More

Reckless

Actors: Aidan Quinn, Daryl Hannah, Kenneth McMillan, Cliff De Young, Lois Smith

Synopsis: Reckless is the word for rebellious teenaged Johnny Rourke (Aidan Quinn). With a drunken dad and a police-blotter rap sheet as long as his arm, Quinn pursues an "impossible" romance with Tracey Prescott (Daryl Hannah), a girl from a wealthy, highly respected family. Tracey is thrilled at the Read More

Robert Kennedy and His Times

Synopsis: This epic docudrama mini-series boasts a stellar cast and a script based on the tell-all bestseller by Kennedy friend Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Midnight Express' Brad Davis plays Bobby; River Phoenix, Veronica Cartwright, and Ned Beatty all co-star. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide Read More

The Hunger

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon, Cliff De Young, Beth Ehlers

Synopsis: The exquisitely beautiful Catherine Deneuve plays Miriam, a centuries-old vampire capable of bestowing the gift of immortality on her lovers -- namely her current partner John (David Bowie). To sustain their sanguinary requirements, the pair cruises New York nightclubs in search of victims (as Read More

This Girl for Hire

Synopsis: In this detective drama set in Hollywood, a private investigator uses logic to solve the murder of a famous mystery writer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

An Invasion of Privacy

Synopsis: Based on Joan Taylor's novel Asking for It, the made-for-TV An Invasion of Privacy stars Valerie Harper as recently divorced book illustrator Kate Bianchi. Moving into a remote, cloistered island community in Maine, Kate has barely arrived when she is raped by a local handyman. The hostile, inbred Read More

Independence Day

Actors: Kathleen Quinlan, David Keith, Frances Sternhagen, Cliff De Young, Dianne Wiest

Synopsis: In this run-of-the-mill romantic drama, the title Independence Day refers to the usual Fourth of July fireworks festival in the U.S. but also to the dilemma of Mary Ann Taylor (Kathleen Quinlan) who lives in a small town but has a big ambition to go to the city and study photography for a Read More

Shock Treatment

Actors: Cliff De Young, Richard O'Brien, Patricia Quinn, Charles Gray

Synopsis: The sequel to the cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show, this film follows the further adventures of Brad (Cliff De Young) and Janet (Jessica Harper), as the now-married couple travels to a small town to appear on a game show. However, once on-stage, they discover that they are trapped on the Read More

The Awakening of Candra

Actors: Blanche Baker, Cliff De Young, Richard Jaeckel, Jeffrey Tambor, Paul Regina

Synopsis: This TV film is spawned by a true story where a marauding fisherman accosts a pair of newlyweds in the Northwest wilderness. He kills the young groom, rapes the bride, and then forces her to live with him as he attempts to convince her that it was just an unfortunate accident. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Fun and Games

Synopsis: In Fun and Games, a professional career woman is harassed by her boss, who then rejects her for promotion. The woman then sues her boss for sexual harassment ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Scared Straight! Another Story

Synopsis: Scared Straight! was a 1978 Oscar-winning documentary about the crime-deterring Juvenile Awareness Program set up by the Rahway (New Jersey) State Prison. In this program, incorrigible teenagers were escorted into the prison's maximum security facilities, where a team of "lifers," using the Read More

The Seeding of Sarah Burns

Synopsis: In this dark drama, a woman allows