Conrad BainFilmography

Postcards From the Edge

Actors: Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Richard Dreyfuss, Rob Reiner

Synopsis: Mike Nichols lends some comic structure to Carrie Fisher's best-selling confessional novel concerning a woman's struggles with drug addiction and mother-daughter rivalry (subjects Fisher admits to understanding all too well). Meryl Streep, in her most full-blown comic performance up to that point Read More

Diff'rent Strokes: Season 08

Actors: Gary Coleman, Conrad Bain, Todd Bridges, Dana Plato

Diff'rent Strokes: Season 07

Actors: Gary Coleman, Conrad Bain, Todd Bridges, Dana Plato

Diff'rent Strokes: Season 06

Actors: Gary Coleman, Conrad Bain, Todd Bridges, Dana Plato

Diff'rent Strokes: Season 05

Actors: Gary Coleman, Conrad Bain, Todd Bridges, Dana Plato

Diff'rent Strokes: Season 04

Actors: Gary Coleman, Conrad Bain, Todd Bridges, Dana Plato

The Child Bride of Short Creek

Synopsis: Originally made for television and based on a true story from the '50s, this film concerns a rural Arizona town that deals in polygamy. Specifically, a boy is shocked that his father (Christopher Atkins), a veteran of the Korean War, wishes to take a 15-year-old girl for another wife. ~ John Bush Read More

Diff'rent Strokes: Season 03

Actors: Gary Coleman, Conrad Bain, Todd Bridges, Dana Plato

Diff'rent Strokes: Season 02

Actors: Gary Coleman, Conrad Bain, Todd Bridges, Charlotte Rae, Dana Plato

A Pleasure Doing Business

Synopsis: In this comedy, three middle-aged men renew their boyhood friendship at a stag party and hatch a crazy scheme that involves making money off of a luscious prostitute. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

C.H.O.M.P.S.

Actors: Wesley Eure, Valerie Bertinelli, Conrad Bain, Chuck McCann, Red Buttons

Synopsis: Brian Foster (Wesley Eure) is a young inventor who creates a mechanical dog as part of a home protection system. When he falls out of favor with his boss Ralph Norton (Conrad Bain), the boss' pretty daughter Casey (Valerie Bertinelli) uses her pull to save the company and Brian's job. Mr. Gibbs (Jim Backus Read More

Diff'rent Strokes: Season 01

Actors: Gary Coleman, Conrad Bain, Todd Bridges, Charlotte Rae, Dana Plato

Up the Sandbox

Actors: Barbra Streisand, David Selby, Jane Hoffman, John C. Becher, Jacobo Morales

Synopsis: Up The Sandbox is a complex and difficult film, and it is ambiguous on many points, particularly on whether the protagonist Margaret Reynolds (Barbara Streisand) is a women's liberationist, a closet lesbian, or a masochist. Based on the novel by Anne Richardson Rolphe, it follows Margaret's Read More

A Fan's Notes

Actors: Julia Robinson

Synopsis: Football is the focus of this drama, adapted from Frederick Exley's famous novel. It tells the tale of an aspiring writer obsessed with football. His father was a football star, and the writer, wanting to follow in his dad's illustrious footsteps, constantly berates himself for not having any Read More

Jump

Actors: Tom Ligon, Logan Ramsey

Synopsis: Chester Jump (Tom Ligon) grew up hard, in a family as grim as the rural Southern countryside they lived in. His passion for automobiles transformed into a passion to run them, drive them, and race them. He took advantage of any chance to enter a drag race, or a demolition derby. This fierce Read More

The Anderson Tapes

Actors: Frank Macetta, Sean Connery, Dyan Cannon, Martin Balsam, Alan King, Ralph Meeker

Synopsis: This breathlessly paced high-tech thriller stars Sean Connery as Anderson, a career criminal who's just been released from his latest prison term. Seeking a quick financial turnover, Anderson uses mob funding to finance an ambitious robbery. With a gang of expert thieves, Anderson sets about to Read More

Bananas

Actors: Woody Allen, Louise Lasser, Carlos Montalban, Natividad Abascal, Jacobo Morales

Synopsis: One of Woody Allen's earlier, more slapstick-oriented efforts, Bananas tells the story of Fielding Mellish (Allen), a neurotic New Yorker who follows the object of his affections, Nancy (Louise Lasser), to the fictional Central American country of San Marcos, where she is involved in a revolution. Read More

Who Killed Mary What's 'er Name?

Actors: Ellen Faison, Ellen Gurin, Stella Longo, Donald Marye, Dee Timberlake

Synopsis: Death of a Hooker was the spell-it-out alternate title for Ernest Pintoff's unorthodox murder mystery Who Killed Mary Whats'ername. At first, Red Buttons seems an illogical choice for a hero, especially since he plays a diabetic ex-boxer who isn't all that quick on the uptake. But Buttons Read More

I Never Sang for My Father

Actors: Melvyn Douglas, Gene Hackman, Dorothy Stickney, Estelle Parsons, Elizabeth Hubbard

Synopsis: Based on the play by Robert Anderson, I Never Sang for My Father is devoted to the prickly relationship between aged Tom Garrison (Melvyn Douglas) and his grown son Gene (Gene Hackman). A college professor who feels that he has never been fully accepted by his self-made dad, Gene announces that he Read More

Last Summer

Actors: Barbara Hershey, Richard Thomas, Bruce Davison, Cathy Burns, Ralph Waite

Synopsis: Last Summer is a frank coming-of-age tale that refuses to prettify its young characters or their activities. A group of aimless teens get together for sex, drugs and rock-and-roll on Fire Island. Timid, overweight Rhonda (Catherine Burns) is goaded into aberrant behavior by her peers, especially Read More

Madigan

Actors: Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Inger Stevens, Harry Guardino, James Whitmore

Synopsis: It's a seemingly peaceful spring morning in New York City -- graduation day at the Police Academy -- and Police Commissioner Anthony X. Russell (Henry Fonda) is looking forward to giving a speech to the new officers. But all isn't well: Russell's been given apparently incontrovertible evidence Read More

Coogan's Bluff

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Lee J. Cobb, Susan Clark, Tisha Sterling, Don Stroud

Synopsis: Clint Eastwood stars as Walt Coogan, an Arizona deputy sheriff who has been sent to New York City to extradite escaped killer James Ringerman (Don Stroud). On arrival, he's forced to wait by NYPD detective Lieutenant McElroy (Lee J. Cobb), who informs him that Ringerman is recovering from a bad Read More

Star!

Actors: Julie Andrews, Richard Crenna, Michael Craig, Daniel Massey, Robert Reed

Synopsis: Touted by 20th Century-Fox as a follow-up to their enormously successful The Sound of Music, Star! reteams that earlier film's leading lady Julie Andrews and director Robert Wise. Andrews plays legendary musical comedy star Gertrude Lawrence, while Daniel Massey appears as Lawrence's friend Read More

Dark Shadows: Episode 632

Synopsis: Not realizing that Nicholas (Humbert Allen Astredo) plans to use her as the life force in his experiment to revive Eve, Maggie (Kathryn Leigh Scott) agrees to marry him. Chris Jennings (Donald Briscoe), the twin brother of the vampiric Tom Jennings, has a number of strange and frightening Read More

A Lovely Way to Die

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Sylva Koscina, Eli Wallach, Kenneth Haigh, Sharon Farrell

Synopsis: Schuyler (Kirk Douglas) is a hard-boiled detective who turns in his badge when he believes the criminals are being handled with kid gloves and too much respect. He is hired by prominent attorney Fredericks (Eli Wallach) as a bodyguard for his client Rena (Sylva Koscina), who is accused of Read More

Dark Shadows: Episode 1

Synopsis: Victoria Winters, a young woman in search of her past, arrives in the New England town of Collinsport. She has received an offer to be governess to David Collins, son of Roger Collins, mysterious master of Collinwood, who doesn't welcome the girl's arrival. En route, Victoria makes the Read More

Dark Shadows: Episode 11

Synopsis: Escorting Carolyn back to Collinwood, Burke confronts Carolyn's mother, Elizabeth, with an ultimatum. If his demands are not meant, Burke threatens to reveal a secret that will destroy everyone in the Collins family. This episode first aired on July 11, 1966. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide Read More

Dark Shadows: Episode 61

Synopsis: Victoria (Alexandra Moltke) tells Burke (Mitchell Ryan) that Roger and Malloy quarrelled on the night of Malloy's death. Burke offers his version of the auto accident which sent him to prison ten years earlier. Sam (David Ford) tries to retrieve a letter which he'd written to his daughter, Maggie (Kathryn Leigh Scott Read More

Gentle Annie

Actors: James Craig, Donna Reed, Marjorie Main, Henry Morgan

Synopsis: Marjorie Main's first solo starring vehicle for MGM finds the formidable character actress cast as a tough-but-tender female outlaw. Living on her tumbledown ranch in Oklahoma territory, Annie Goss (Main) shelters her desperado sons (Henry Morgan, Paul Langton) from the authorities. While planning Read More