Craig WassonFilmography

Ghost Rock

Actors: Gary Busey, Michael Worth, Jeff Fahey, Adrienne Barbeau

Synopsis: A boy grows to manhood with revenge on his mind in this martial arts-influenced Western. When John Slaughter (Michael Worth) was a boy, his family was killed by a gang of bloodthirsty outlaws. Twenty years on, Slaughter has become a sure hand with a gun and has learned the mysteries of Asian Read More

Boa

Actors: Dean Cain, Craig Wasson, Elizabeth Lackey, Mark A. Sheppard, Dean Biasucci

Synopsis: Former TV Superman Dean Cain stars in this sci-fi horror film reminiscent of James Cameron's 1986 classic Aliens. Boa sets its action in the not-too-distant future, where volatile criminals are shipped off to a place called Facility Number One, a super-high-security prison located -- just to be Read More

Epoch

Actors: David Keith, Ryan O'Neal, Stephanie Niznik, Shannon Lee

Synopsis: Science must confront a power greater than our own in this unusual sci-fi-thriller. As seismic activities around the world begin going haywire, causing untold damages in major cities and claiming thousands of lives, the President of the United States orders Kasia Czaban, one of his top scientific Read More

The Pornographer

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Michael DeGood, Craig Wasson, Monique Parent, Katheryn Cain, Todd Feder

Synopsis: One man's fascination with pornography leads him down a path of destruction, hurting both himself and others. In this independent drama, Paul (Michael DeGood) is a young man who has problems with women, who falls into the habit of purchasing pornography and hiring prostitutes. After making a few Read More

Escape Under Pressure

Actors: Larisa Miller, Stanley Kamel, Harry Van Gorkum, Craig Wasson

Synopsis: The discovery of a long-lost relic leads to danger on the high seas in this action-suspense drama. The Icon of Artemis, a rare and highly valuable religious artifact, is uncovered during an archeological dig. The Greek Government immediately lays claim to the piece, and it is soon placed aboard an Read More

The Last Best Sunday

Actors: Douglas Spain, Angela Bettis, William Lucking, Kim Darby, Daniel Beer

Synopsis: Two teenagers, each dealing with a different set of emotional burdens, find love and understanding with each other in The Last Best Sunday. Lolly Ann (Angela Bettis) is a high-school student in Pickley, a small agricultural community in California where she's growing up under the thumb of her Read More

Velocity Trap

Actors: Jorja Fox, Olivier Gruner, Bruce Weitz, Alicia Coppola, Ken Olandt

Synopsis: In this sci-fi adventure, an honest cop is given an assignment that will supposedly keep him out of trouble, but it soon lands him in a maelstrom of deadly danger. In the year 2150, the economic needs of most people on Earth and the surrounding galaxy are satisfied by on-line exchanges, but a Read More

Harvest of Fire

Actors: Lolita Davidovich, Patty Duke, J.A. Preston, Jean Louisa Kelly, Tom Aldredge

Synopsis: At first glance, the made-for-TV Harvest of Fire would seem to be a gender-switch variation on the theatrical feature Witness (1985), but it is much more than that. Assigned to investigate the possibility of a hate crime when three barns are burned in an Amish community in Iowa, FBI agent Sally Read More

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Hard Time

Synopsis: Convicted of espionage by the Argathia, O'Brien is punished by having memories of 20 years' imprisonment implanted in his brain. As a result, when he returns to DS9 he is convinced that two decades have passed, and he refuses to be persuaded otherwise. The painful false memories of his prison time Read More

Touched by an Angel: In the Name of God

Synopsis: Paul Winfield makes his first series appearance as Special Agent Angel Sam. After completing an assignment in the town of Roxford, Tess (Della Reese) makes a return visit to help Dr. Joanne Glassberg (Talia Balsam) open an AIDs hospice. Unfortunately, Joanne is injured in a bombing masterminded by Read More

Sister-in-Law

Actors: Kate Vernon, Shanna Reed, Craig Wasson, Kent Williams, Kevin McCarthy

Synopsis: Sociopathic Rae Phillips (Kate Vernon) lives only to avenge the past wrong in her life that made her the monster she is today. Stealing the identity of a woman named Kelly Richards, our "heroine" persuades Kelly's wealthy Southern in-laws that she is the genuine article, and is invited to move in Read More

Murder, She Wrote: A Murderous Muse

Synopsis: This story revolves around piano prodigy Leslie Walden (Jenny Lewis) and her demanding mentor Byron (Ronald Guttman). Believing that Leslie would be nothing without him, Byron bristles at the likelihood that he is losing control of the girl's career. Soon afterward, Byron is found murdered--and it Read More

Strapped

Actors: Michael Biehn, Kia Joy Goodwin, Bokeem Woodbine

Synopsis: An impoverished African American teen, raised in a grim and desperate Brooklyn project finds himself forced to set aside his dreams in order to face the realities of daily survival. This well-wrought and disturbing portrait of a young man's life was penned by New York Times reporter Dena Kleiman. Read More

Malcolm X

Actors: Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Angela Bassett, Al Freeman, Jr., Delroy Lindo, Albert Hall

Synopsis: Writer-director Spike Lee's epic portrayal of the life and times of the slain civil rights leader Malcolm X begins with the cross-cut imagery of the police beating of black motorist Rodney King juxtaposed with an American flag burning into the shape of the letter X. When the film's narrative Read More

Midnight Fear

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Craig Wasson, Page Fletcher, David Carradine

Synopsis: Filmed for cable TV, Midnight Fear focuses on a down-and-out sheriff (David Carradine) who is investigating a murder and the two suspicious fugitives (Craig Wasson, Page Fletcher) who are linked to the killing. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Bum Rap

Actors: Craig Wasson, Blanche Baker, Al Lewis, Anita Gillette, Frances Fisher

Synopsis:
First-timer Daniel Irom wrote and directed Bum Rap, which represents something of a variation on Fielder Cook's superior Seize the Day (1986). The picture concentrates on taxi driver and striving actor Paul Colson (Craig Wasson of Four Friends and Go Tell the Spartans), whose life goes Read More

Schizoid - Murder by Mail

Synopsis: This is a Whodunit-type film, where someone is using a nasty pair of scissors to play a one-by-one elimination game with a troop of group-therapy patients. The group is made up of attractive women who soon realize that they could be next. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

Actors: Heather Langenkamp, Patricia Arquette, Laurence Fishburne, Priscilla Pointer, Craig Wasson, Robert Englund

Synopsis: The best of the Elm Street sequels, this creepy, surreal fantasy features terrific effects, a fine young cast, and an air of grim fatalism that sets it apart from its giggly successors. Patricia Arquette stars as Kristen, whose nightmare leads to a slashed wrist which looks suspiciously like a Read More

The Men's Club

Actors: Roy Scheider, Frank Langella, Harvey Keitel, Treat Williams, Richard Jordan

Synopsis: Based on a 1981 book by Leonard Michaels, focuses on a lawyer (Richard Jordan) who brings together a singularly dysfunctional group of men in a kind of venting, loquacious therapy session. All that talk brings out the worst in everyone. Cavanaugh (Roy Scheider) is a retired baseball star whose Read More

Why Me?

Actors: Glynnis O'Connor, Armand Assante

Synopsis: Made for television, Why Me? is the true story of Air Force nurse Leola Mae Harmon (Glynnis O'Connor), whose face is all but destroyed in a head-on automobile accident. As Leola recuperates in a military hospital, her will to live is seriously tested, not only by her shattered face, but also by Read More

Body Double

Actors: Craig Wasson, Gregg Henry, Melanie Griffith, Deborah Shelton, Guy Boyd

Synopsis: In Body Double, director Brian DePalma pays homage to the Alfred Hitchcock movies Vertigo and Rear Window, adding a few grotesque touches all his own. Craig Wasson plays Jake, a struggling actor who keeps losing jobs because of his claustrophobia. To make matters worse, his girlfriend has walked Read More

The Innocents Abroad

Actors: Craig Wasson, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: Filmed on location in France, Italy, Greece, and Egypt, Innocents Abroad was adapted by Dan Wakefield from the 1869 book by Mark Twain. The Twain original was an amusing, semi-satiric account of the author's Grand Tour of Europe and the Holy Land in 1867. Most of the humor derived from the Read More

Second Thoughts

Actors: Lucie Arnaz, Craig Wasson, Ken Howard, Anne Schedeen, Arthur Rosenberg

Synopsis: In this skewed, unreal view of a woman's choice in men, almost nothing is believable. Amy (Lucie Arnaz) is a savvy, well-educated lawyer in Santa Fe who divorces her husband, an exec in the banking business, to become involved with Will (Craig Wasson) a street musician with the same iron-clad Read More

M*A*S*H: Give and Take

Synopsis: It is Charles' (David Ogden Stier turn to handle the collection charities, an assignment he devoutly wishes to dodge. As he tries to pass his responsibilities along to others, things inevitable come full-circle back to him. And on a less amusing note, a GI (Craig Wasson) resents the fact that the Read More

Mark Twain Classics: Innocents Abroad

Ghost Story

Actors: Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., John Houseman, Craig Wasson

Synopsis: This 1981 John Irvin picture constitutes an adaptation of Peter Straub's colossal, bestselling novel. The central plot -- shared by both book and film -- revolves around the four elderly members of the Chowder Society (Fred Astaire, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and John Houseman), who Read More

Four Friends

Actors: Craig Wasson, Jodi Thelen, Jim Metzler, Michael Huddleston, Reed Birney

Synopsis: Also known as Moritorium and Georgia's Friends, Four Friends follows the titular quartet from high school to young adulthood. The film is set during the tumultuous 1960s, an era when everyone's values were turned inside out, shaken around, and reassembled. The central character is Read More

Nights At O'Rear's

Actors: Craig Wasson, Linda Gillin, Louise Hoven

Synopsis: Mildred (Linda Gillin) is a young woman caught in the vise of a gender conflict, made worse by the fact that she has bought into all the female stereotypes against her own nature. Mildred fantasizes about "true love" and is sure that she has found it in the person of Max (Craig Wasson), a Read More

Thornwell

Synopsis: Thornwell was based on a documentary directed by Harry Moses, which formed the nucleus of a 60 Minutes piece. Moses also directed this TV-movie dramatization of the incident, a truly shameful chapter in the history of the American military. James Thornwell (Glynn E. Turman), an African American Read More

Schizoid

Actors: Klaus Kinski, Marianna Hill, Craig Wasson, Donna Wilkes, Richard Herd

Synopsis: When Dr. Peter Fales's (Klaus Kinski) patients start getting annhilated by an unknown serial killer, he and his daughter Alison (Donna Wilkes) both come under suspicion. Part slasher film and part psychological thriller, Schizoid co-stars Marianna Hill as Julie, a syndicated "Dear Abby"-style Read More

Carny

Actors: Gary Busey, Jodie Foster, Robbie Robertson, Elisha Cook, Jr., Meg Foster

Synopsis: In Robert Kaylor's Carny, the world of the carnival is an illusion manipulated by the carnies to fleece the suckers. The marks generally deserve what they get, because of their greed, corruption, or just plain stupidity. It's share and share alike for Frankie (Gary Busey) and Patch (Robbie Robertson Read More

The Outsider

Actors: Craig Wasson, Sterling Hayden, Patricia Quinn, Niall O'Brien, T.P. McKenna

Synopsis: The ugly conflict between Irish and British forces in Northern Ireland provides the backdrop for this drama set in the early 1970s. Michael Flaherty (Craig Wasson) is an American of Irish descent who, after returning home from a tour of duty in Vietnam, is deciding what to do with his life. Since Read More

Skag

Synopsis: The short-lived TV series Skag was introduced with a 3-hour premiere on January 6, 1980. Karl Malden stars as Pete "Skag" Skagska, Pittsburgh steel mill foreman and family man. In the pilot, Skag attempts to deal with several family crises: his father's debilitating stroke, his strained Read More

Go Tell the Spartans

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Craig Wasson, Jonathan Goldsmith, Marc Singer, Joe Unger

Synopsis: Go Tell the Spartans is set in Vietnam during that period in which American troops were euphemistically termed "advisors". Reluctantly dispensing much of that advice is veteran American major Asa Barker (Burt Lancaster). Though he knows what works and what doesn't on the battlefield, Barker is Read More

The Boys in Company C

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Stan Shaw, Andrew Stevens, Jim Canning, Michael Lembeck, Craig Wasson

Synopsis: Cowritten by director Sidney J. Furie, The Boys in Company C charts the fortunes of five young Marine recruits. Led by Stan Shaw, the quintet is shipped off to Vietnam. The film makes no bones about the demoralizing effect the war has on its participants, nor the pigheadedness of the military Read More

Rollercoaster

Actors: George Segal, Richard Widmark, Timothy Bottoms, Henry Fonda, Harry Guardino

Synopsis: Rollercoaster was a by-product of the brief "Sensurround" craze of the 1970s. Nutsoid Timothy Bottoms sabotages an amusement-park roller coaster, killing several innocent revelers. After several other acts of terrorism, Bottoms (whose character is credited as Young Man) presents his demands to the Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: Halls of Hartley

Actors: Bob Newhart, Suzanne Pleshette, Bill Daily, Peter Bonerz, Marcia Wallace

Synopsis: Weary of the exigencies of life in the big city, Bob applies for a professorial post at a small-town college. The institute, located in Iowa, is essentially a farming college, so one can guess the direction of the episode's comic thrust. The supporting cast includes Tresa Hughes as Dr. Doctor Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: In Case of Madness

Synopsis: In a rare dramatic appearance, Desi Arnaz Jr. appears as B.J. Palmer, the lead singer of a popular rock group. When the group's avaricious manager David Breen (Conrad Janis) is bludgeoned to death, B.J. is convinced that he himself is the guilty party. After all, the troubled young singer suffers Read More

The Silence

Synopsis: The Silence is based on the true story of Stanley Greenberg, a finer West Point cadet who broke one of the Point's most intimidating traditions. Richard Thomas plays Greenberg, a young man to whom being in the right is something of an obsession. Already an unpopular cadet, Greenberg is accused by Read More