Dana Elcar Filmography

Born:: October 10, 1927 in Ferndale, MI
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Brusque character actor Dana Elcar was usually assigned roles calling for blunt imperiousness. He became especially handy in films and TV shows of the 1970s, portraying curt, dour, meticulously groomed authority figures at odds with dishevelled "hippie" and "gonzo" types. Elcar's first film after...Read More

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ER: Damage Is Done

Synopsis: Rachel (Hallee Hirsh) accidentally causes Elizabeth's (Alex Kingston) infant daughter, Ella, to OD on Ecstasy. Abby (Maura Tierney) gives shelter to the battered Joyce (Christina Hendricks), incurring the terrible wrath of Joyce's husband, Brian (Matthew Settle). Carter's mother (Mary McDonnell) Read More

2002
Law & Order: Virus

Synopsis: Havoc reigns supreme at a diabetes clinic where several patients suddenly die or go into a coma at an alarming rate. The detectives trace this disastrous situation to a hacker that has invaded the clinic's computer system. Then things take a surprising turn when a vengeance-driven blind man Read More

1993
MacGyver: Season 07

Actors: Richard Dean Anderson, Dana Elcar

Synopsis: The seventh and final season of MacGyver finds the eponymous hero (played by Richard Dean Anderson) continuing to favor intellect over violence in his ongoing battle for justice on behalf of the Phoenix Organization. Longtime fans of the series will notice that Dana Elcar, the actor who plays Read More

1991
MacGyver: Season 06

Actors: Richard Dean Anderson, Dana Elcar

Synopsis: Richard Dean Anderson stars as the titular crime fighter as MacGyver launches its sixth season. As in years past, MacGyver prefers to use brains and ingenuity rather than violence when vanquishing villains on behalf of the Phoenix Organization. And as before, Mac takes his orders from Phoenix's Read More

1990
MacGyver: Season 05

Actors: Richard Dean Anderson, Dana Elcar

Synopsis: Season five of MacGyver opens with an elaborate Indiana Jones takeoff, the two-part "The Legend of the Holy Rose." Once this is settled, the resourceful MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson) resumes his normal duties as special op for the vast crime-fighting concern, the Phoenix Organization, where he Read More

1989
MacGyver: Season 04

Actors: Richard Dean Anderson, Dana Elcar

Synopsis: Season four of MacGyver finds the titular hero still performing awesome (albeit nonviolent) acts of courage and derring-do on behalf of the Phoenix Organization, a think tank devoted to fighting crime and righting wrongs. And as in previous seasons, no one can top MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson) Read More

1988
Inside Out

Actors: Elliott Gould, Howard Hesseman, Jennifer Tilly, Beah Richards, Nicole Norman

Synopsis: Agoraphobia (Greek for "fear of the marketplace") is the focus of this drama starring Elliott Gould as Jimmy Morgan. Morgan seems fairly well-adjusted considering that deeply afflicted agoraphobics live in fear and even terror of human relationships and other people; a fear of going outside is Read More

8/21/87
MacGyver: Season 03

Actors: Richard Dean Anderson, Dana Elcar

Synopsis: Professional do-gooder MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson) is still fighting crime on behalf of the Phoenix Organization -- and still adroitly fashioning weapons and escape devices out of whatever ordinary household items that happen to be on hand -- as MacGyver begins its third season. Returning Read More

1987
Murder in Three Acts

Actors: Tony Curtis, Peter Ustinov

Synopsis: Agatha Christie's Murder in Three Acts represents Peter Ustinov's fifth appearance as Dame Agatha's brilliant, insufferable Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. The scene is Acapulco, where retired actor Tony Curtis hosts two separate parties--both of them were blighted by the fatal poisoning of a Read More

1986
MacGyver: Season 02

Actors: Richard Dean Anderson, Dana Elcar

Synopsis: Season two of MacGyver finds TV's most resourceful and inventive crime fighter (played, of course, by Richard Anderson) continuing to battle bad guys on behalf of the Phoenix Organization, still taking his marching order from Phoenix's director of field operations Peter Thornton (Dana Elcar). Read More

1986
MacGyver: Season 01

Actors: Richard Dean Anderson, Dana Elcar

Synopsis: Television's most inventive and resourceful crime fighter is on the job as MacGyver launches its first season. A special operative for the Phoenix Foundation, a private think tank dedicated to fighting evil everywhere, MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson) is sent out on missions ranging from "rescue" Read More

1985
A Time to Live

Actors: Liza Minnelli, Jeffrey DeMunn, Swoosie Kurtz

Synopsis: Adapted from Mary-Lou Weisman's book Intensive Care, this made-for-television movie stars Liza Minnelli (in her first TV appearance) as a woman who must remain strong and contend with her son's muscular dystrophy and all the problems within the family that accompany the illness. ~ Kristie Hassen Read More

1985
There Were Times, Dear

Actors: Shirley Jones, Len Cariou, Cindy Eilbacher, Dana Elcar, Alan Haufrect

Synopsis: This excellent docudrama is an affecting dramatization of the decline of an Alzheimer's victim and the emotional and psychological toll his fatal illness takes on his family. Bob Millard (Len Cariou) is an active outdoorsman, he is strong and healthy and vibrant with life when the symptoms of Read More

1985
MacGyver [TV Series]

Actors: Richard Dean Anderson

Synopsis: Whether or not one thinks that MacGyver was the best TV adventure hero to come down the pike, one cannot dispute that he was one of the most inventive and resourceful. Played by Richard Dean Anderson, MacGyver (we never knew he had a first name -- "Angus" -- until the series' last season!) was a Read More

1985
The A-Team: Judgement Day

Synopsis: Season Four of The A-Team begins with part one of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode). Despite increasing threats of capture by their old nemesis Col. Decker (Lance LeGault), the A-Team agrees to help Judge Mordente (Dana Elcar), whose daughter Lori (LaGena Hart) is Read More

1985
Toughlove

Actors: Bruce Dern, Piper Laurie, Jason Patric, DeDee Pfeiffer, Lee Remick

Synopsis: This made-for-TV drama was inspired by the real-life Toughlove program, set up to help parents of kids with severe alcohol, drug and behavior problems. Lee Remick and Bruce Dern star as a middle-aged couple who have completely lost control of their teen-aged son Jason Patric. When all else fails Read More

1985
All of Me

Actors: Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin, Victoria Tennant, Madolyn Smith, Richard Libertini

Synopsis: On her deathbed, mean-spirited millionairess Lily Tomlin has her will amended so that her soul will pass into the body of young, healthy Victoria Tennant. Thanks to a mix-up in transmutation, Tomlin winds up instead trapped in the body of upright (and uptight) attorney Steve Martin. The plot Read More

1984
Code of Honor

Actors: Kevin Dobson, Kelly McGillis, Alec Baldwin, Savannah Smith, Wings Hauser

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Code of Honor covers a time span of over a dozen years. Merritt Butrick plays Captain Paul Dennison, whose career-and life-is unfairly snuffed out by fellow officer Joseph Cheever (Kevin Dobson). Fourteen years later, Cheever, now a highly decorated and universally respected major Read More

1984
2010

Actors: Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban, Keir Dullea

Synopsis: This belated sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is directed by Peter Hyams. Roy Scheider plays the astronaut/skipper of a U.S.-Soviet space mission, sent to find out what happened to the missing Discovery flight that carried Keir Dullea into the beyond in the original 2001 Read More

1984
The A-Team: Double Heat

Synopsis: Dana Elcar of MacGyver fame guest-stars as accountant George Olson, whose daughter Jenny (Leah Ayres) has been kidnapped to prevent him from testifying against mobster Tommy Largo (Michael Baseleon). It turns out that both George and Jenny are mere pawns in a power play between Largo and the real Read More

1984
Jungle Warriors

Actors: Paul L. Smith, John Vernon, Alex Cord, Sybil Danning

Synopsis: This routine actioner is about several models caught in a South American jungle battle between drug lords and drug busters. Cesar (Paul L. Smith) and Don Vito (John Vernon) are about to conclude a cocaine deal in Peru, and a drug enforcement agent is about to bust both men by sending a secret Read More

1984
I Want to Live

Synopsis: This drama is adapted from the true story of Barbara Graham, a woman sentenced to die in the mid-1950s after she allegedly committed a murder during a robbery. Graham pleaded innocent until the day she died in the San Quentin gas chamber. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1983
Blue Skies Again

Actors: Harry Hamlin, Mimi Rogers, Kenneth McMillan, Dana Elcar, Robyn Barto

Synopsis: This is a baseball comedy with a twist. This time, the young player striving to make it big in the major leagues is a plucky, talented young woman who attends spring training camp. The team's wealthy owner is a male-chauvinist bachelor who finds himself attracted to the young second baseperson's Read More

1983
Quarterback Princess

Actors: Helen Hunt, Don Murray, John Stockwell, Barbara Babcock, Dana Elcar

Synopsis: This fact-based youth-oriented drama chronicles the courage and determination of a teenage girl who stands tall in the face of sexist traditionalism and fights for her right to play on the varsity football team. Not only does she succeed, she also manages to become the homecoming queen. ~ Sandra Read More

1983
The Day the Bubble Burst

Synopsis: An all-star (or rather, "all-TV star") cast distinguishes this three-hour filmed re-creation of the great stock market crash on October 29, 1929. Though inspired by a fact-based book on "Black Tuesday," the film is chock full of fabricated soap-opera complications involving dozens of fictional Read More

1982
Forbidden Love

Synopsis: This made-for-television drama chronicles an atypical May-December romance involving a twenty-something doctor and a middle-aged woman. The two soon fall passionately in love and this causes a little friction between the woman and her full-grown daughters. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1982
Help Wanted: Male

Actors: Suzanne Pleshette, Gil Gerard, Bert Convy, Dana Elcar, Harold Gould

Synopsis: A career woman is so desperate to conceive a child that when her boyfriend the sportswriter comes up short, she goes looking for a fertile stranger in this made-for-TV comic outing. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1982
Buddy Buddy

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Paula Prentiss, Klaus Kinski, Dana Elcar

Synopsis: As if in some way Billy Wilder sensed that Buddy Buddy would ultimately turn out to be his final feature film, Wilder lets loose scatter-shot stingers at a wide range of pop-culture targets -- from sex clinics, to 60 Minutes, to movie references, to disco, to Betamax video recorders. Based on Read More

1981
Condorman

Actors: Michael Crawford, Oliver Reed, Barbara Carrera, James Hampton, Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Synopsis: The creator of a comic-book series (Michael Crawford) is recruited by a friend in the CIA (James Hampton) to rescue a beautiful Soviet defector (Barbara Carrera). He agrees, as long as he is permitted to don the persona of his most famous character, Condorman. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1981
Death Penalty

Synopsis: Colleen Dewhurst stars as psychologist Elaine Lipton in the made-for-TV Death Penalty. A strong opponent of the eponymous punishment, Dr. Lipton struggles valiantly to rehabilitate street gang member Carlos Rivera (David Labiosa). Convicted of murdering two rival gang members, Carlos faces the gas Read More

1980
Mark, I Love You

Synopsis: Based on Hal W. Painter's autobiography, Mark, I Love You stars Kevin Dobson as Painter. Recently and suddenly widowed, Painter is so emotionally distraught that he permits his in-laws (James Whitmore and Peggy McCay) to gain custody of his son Mark (Justin Dana). Now that he has recovered, found Read More

1980
The Last Flight of Noah's Ark

Actors: Elliott Gould, Geneviève Bujold, Rick Schroder, Tammy Lauren, John Fujioka

Synopsis: Even animal lovers may balk at this light, light drama about how a missionary (Genevieve Bujold) and Bobby (Rick Schroder), a young boy manage to populate a deserving island with critters of all types. Noah Dugan (Elliott Gould) is a pilot in need of escaping his creditors and he agrees to fly the Read More

1980
The Nude Bomb

Actors: Don Adams, Sylvia Kristel, Rhonda Fleming, Dana Elcar, Pamela Hensley

Synopsis: Maxwell Smart, the infamous Agent 86 from the '60s television sitcom Get Smart makes his feature-film debut in this goofy espionage spoof. This time, Smart and his cohorts must stop enemy spies from detonating a bomb that would destroy all the world's clothing. On television, the film was renamed Read More

1980
Crisis in Mid-Air

Synopsis: Crisis in Mid-Air is essentially a "problem drama" concentrating on a single individual. George Peppard plays a veteran air traffic controller who holds himself responsible for a mid-air collision. With an FAA investigator breathing down his neck, Peppard gets a chance to prove his value when Read More

1979
The Champ

Actors: Jon Voight, Faye Dunaway, Rick Schroder, Jack Warden, Arthur Hill, Strother Martin

Synopsis: Billy (Jon Voight) is on the road with his son T.J. (Ricky Schroder), fighting low-end boxing matches for drinking money before moving on to the next town for another match. When his ex-wife (and T.J.'s mother) Annie (Faye Dunaway) shows up, it's to tell him that she wants custody of the boy. She Read More

1979
Samurai

Synopsis: Lee Cantrell (Joe Penny) is a half-Asian, half-Anglo assistant district attorney in San Francisco. By day he helps to prosecute criminals through the justice system, but at night he straps on his samurai sword and does battle with the underworld in his own way. His main enemy is a power-crazed Read More

1979
Tower of Babel

1979
The Rockford Files: The Attractive Nuisance

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Rocky (Noah Beery Jr.) decides to open up a roadside restaurant with a chance acquaintance named Vinnie Whithead (Ken Lynch). From the outset of this enterprise, Rocky can't help but notice that an elderly man is watching every move he and Vinnie make. . .and no sooner has the restaurant opened Read More

1978
Centennial

Actors: William Atherton, Raymond Burr, Richard Chamberlain, Timothy Dalton, Alex Karras, Robert Conrad

Synopsis: The longest (26-1/2 hours), most expensive ($25 million) and most complicated (four directors, five producers, five cinematographers, almost 100 speaking parts, several hundred extras) project made for television up to that time, Centennial was shown in two- and three-hour installments over a Read More

1978
Baby Blue Marine

Actors: Jan-Michael Vincent, Glynnis O'Connor, Katherine Helmond, Dana Elcar, Bert Remsen

Synopsis:
In this WWII-era drama, Jan-Michael Vincent plays Marion Hedgepeth, a young Marine who fails out of a boot camp in 1943 and gets sent home wearing a baby blue suit to symbolize shame and dishonor. In Los Angeles, he runs into a veteran who -- eager to be discharged -- k.o.'s him and switches Read More

1976
St. Ives

Actors: Charles Bronson, John Houseman, Jacqueline Bisset, Maximilian Schell, Harry Guardino

Synopsis: Ex-crime reporter turned novelist Raymond St. Ives (Charles Bronson) is drawn back into the world of his former profession by wealthy Abner Procane (John Houseman). St. Ives is hired to locate a stolen set of ledgers that, if made public, could trigger an all-out mob war. Amazingly, St. Ives fails Read More

1976
Law of the Land

Synopsis: Charles Martin Smith and Don Johnson highlight the cast of this TV movie about a prostitute-stalking serial killer plaguing the Old West. Johnson and Smith play tough lawmen who set out to capture the murderer. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide Read More

1976
Flying Misfits

Synopsis: This film relates the efforts of World War II flying ace "Pappy" Boyington to control his highly decorated and unmanageable Pacific theater squadron. The film also acted as the pilot for the television series Baa Baa Black Sheep. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1976
Gemini Man

Synopsis: Code Name: Minus One is the syndication title for the TV movie The Gemini Man. Ben Murphy stars as a secret agent for an organization called INTERSECT (International Security Technics). When saboteurs blow up an underwater testing lab, Murphy is exposed to radiation; as a result, he finds that he Read More

1976
W.C. Fields and Me

Actors: Rod Steiger, Valerie Perrine, John Marley, Jack Cassidy, Bernadette Peters

Synopsis: W.C. Fields and Me is the film version of the Fields biography written by the comedian's former mistress Carlotta Monti. W. C. Fields was a great comedian in vaudeville and early talking films, who was noted for his ability to say the most hilariously cutting and mean things in a cheery, bright Read More

1976
Baretta [TV Series]

Actors: Robert Blake, Dana Elcar, Tom Ewell, Michael D. Roberts, Chino "Fats" Williams

Synopsis: Created by Stephen J. Cannell, the weekly, hour-long crime series Baretta rose from the ashes of 1973's Toma, a short-lived weekly based on the exploits of David Toma, a real-life undercover cop with a penchant for elaborate disguises. For the "new" series, only two vestiges of the original Toma Read More

1975
Baretta: He'll Never See Daylight Again

Actors: Robert Blake, Dana Elcar, Tom Ewell, Michael D. Roberts, Chino "Fats" Williams

Synopsis: In this first episode of Baretta, gonzo undercover cop Tony Baretta sets up a phony numbers bank to trap prominent mobster Frank Cassell (Joseph Mascolo). In his off hours, Baretta romantically pursues the lovely Sharon Fowler (Madlyn Rhue), whom he wants to marry despite her protests that living Read More

1975
Baretta: The Five and a Half Pound Junkie

Actors: Robert Blake, Dana Elcar, Tom Ewell, Michael D. Roberts, Chino "Fats" Williams

Synopsis: Tony Baretta (Robert Blake) is determined to bring a suspected cop killer out of hiding. To do this, Baretta uses the fugitive's pregnant girlfriend (Ayn Ruymen) as bait. While waiting for the alleged killer to appear, Baretta agonizes over the fact that the girl is a junkie -- and that her unborn Read More

1975
Baretta: Woman in the Harbor

Actors: Robert Blake, Dana Elcar, Tom Ewell, Michael D. Roberts, Chino "Fats" Williams

Synopsis: According to police records, paroled female convict Virginia Marriott (Ann Coleman) has committed suicide. Thus, when Virginia's parole officer sees the girl, very much alive, wandering near the harbor, he is amazed. But not for long: The officer is promptly murdered, bringing maverick undercover Read More

1975
Baretta: Half-a-Million Dollar Baby

Actors: Robert Blake, Dana Elcar, Tom Ewell, Michael D. Roberts, Chino "Fats" Williams

Synopsis: Much against his better judgment, undercover cop Tony Baretta (Robert Blake) allows his girlfriend Andrea (Ann Prentiss), a freelance photographer, to tag along with him on his latest investigation. Somewhere along the line, Andrea stumbles upon a sack containing 500,000 dollars in Syndicate Read More

1975
Baretta: If You Can't Pay the Price

Actors: Robert Blake, Dana Elcar, Tom Ewell, Michael D. Roberts, Chino "Fats" Williams

Synopsis: Tony Baretta (Robert Blake) maintains a 24-hour surveillance on drug kingpin Durone (John Marley), who is expecting a multi-million-dollar shipment. Durone knows that he's being watched, and Baretta knows that he knows. The relentless undercover cop is also fully aware that Durone is in mourning Read More

1975
Baretta: The Secret of Terry Lake

Actors: Robert Blake, Dana Elcar, Tom Ewell, Michael D. Roberts, Chino "Fats" Williams

Synopsis: Margot Kidder guest stars as Terry Lake, the erstwhile girlfriend of small-time hood Danell (Nicholas Colasanto). A murder has been committed, and Tony Baretta (Robert Blake) is convinced that Danell is the guilty party. Protesting his innocence, the hoodlum is confident that Terry will supply him Read More

1975
Baretta: Keep Your Eye on the Sparrow

Actors: Robert Blake, Dana Elcar, Tom Ewell, Michael D. Roberts, Chino "Fats" Williams

Synopsis: Future Rocky supporting player Burt Young guest stars as Willy, the mentally challenged friend of undercover cop Tony Baretta (Robert Blake). Though he'd like to spend more time with Willy, Baretta must first solve a series of bizarre burglaries. As the evidence mounts up, Baretta comes to the Read More

1975
The Rockford Files: The Great Blue Lake Land and Development Company

Synopsis: While delivering $10,000 in bail money to a client, Jim (James Garner) develops car trouble in the town of Great Blue Lake. Figuring that he hasn't much choice, Jim deposits the money in the safe of the local real estate firm that is developing the community. Unfortunately, the money turns up Read More

1975
Baretta: This Ain't My Bag

Actors: Robert Blake, Dana Elcar, Tom Ewell, Michael D. Roberts, Chino "Fats" Williams

Synopsis: Undercover cop Tony Baretta (Robert Blake) may be at home on the Mean Streets, but he is totally out of his element amongst the rich and privileged. Nonetheless, Baretta is forced to "invade" an upscale village community, in search of a missing heiress. One thing is certain to the hero: Bad guys Read More

1975
Baretta: The Mansion

Actors: Robert Blake, Dana Elcar, Tom Ewell, Michael D. Roberts, Chino "Fats" Williams

Synopsis: "The Mansion" is a huge estate in which vices of all sorts are bought and sold. With the Syndicate holding the Mansion in an iron grip, the police have been unable to shut the place down. Hoping to succeed where his colleagues have failed, Tony Baretta (Robert Blake) gains entrance to the Mansion Read More

1975
Baretta: The Coppelli Oath

Actors: Robert Blake, Dana Elcar, Tom Ewell, Michael D. Roberts, Chino "Fats" Williams

Synopsis: Baretta (Robert Blake) is marked for death after fatally wounding a drug pusher named Coppelli (Joe Stefano). It turns out that the dead man had a teenaged brother named Niki (John Friedrich), an unbalanced youth with a psychotic dedication to family honor. As Niki moves in for the kill, Baretta Read More

1975
Baretta: Walk Like You Talk

Actors: Robert Blake, Dana Elcar, Tom Ewell, Michael D. Roberts, Chino "Fats" Williams

Synopsis: Tony Baretta (Robert Blake) is partnered with neurotic, pill-popping police officer Scotty (Michael Parks) during a frustratingly long drug stakeout. What Baretta doesn't know -- at least not at first -- is that Scotty is at the end of his financial rope, having been spent into the poorhouse by Read More

1975
Baretta: Ragtime Billy Peaches

Actors: Robert Blake, Dana Elcar, Tom Ewell, Michael D. Roberts, Chino "Fats" Williams

Synopsis: Tony Baretta (Robert Blake) investigates when the wife of a high-profile attorney is found murdered. It turns out that the dead woman was once a "lady of the evening" -- and that she made several enemies amongst the Syndicate while plying her trade. Hoping to trap the killers, Baretta enlists the Read More

1975
Panic on the 5:22

Synopsis: In this made-for-television disaster thriller, a carload rich commuters are held hostage by a trio of thugs. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1974
Report to the Commissioner

Actors: Michael Moriarty, Yaphet Kotto, Susan Blakely, Hector Elizondo, William Devane

Synopsis: A young NYPD detective learns (the hard way) about the politics that govern a big-city police department. He kills a lady-detective/colleague whose undercover garb concealed her profession and he gets caught up in a department cover-up. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1974
Heat Wave

Synopsis: Ben Murphy and Bonnie Bedelia star in the made-for-TV suspenser Heat Wave. Murphy plays a young clerk, and Bedelia portrays his young and pregnant wife. During a record-breaking hot spell, the power in their mountain community goes out, and the water supply is dirty and stagnant. The balance of Read More

1974
Senior Year

Synopsis: In this drama a young couple suffer a terrible tragedy that forces them to begin acting like mature adults. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1974
The F.B.I.: Fatal Reunion

Synopsis: After a decade's absense, an affable gent named Hamilton (Ed Nelson) returns to his home town. The locals welcome him effusively, never suspecting that Hamilton is a professional thief--and that he is currently being sought after by the FBI. Inevitably, Hamilton's past catches up to him in a