Dan Frazer Filmography

Law & Order: Baby, It's You

Synopsis: In the second of Law & Order's three "crossovers" with the Baltimore-based NBC crime series Homicide: Life on the Street, a teenaged model dies on the streets of New York, apparently the victim of toxic-shock syndrome. An autopsy reveals that the girl had been raped, a crime that would have to Read More

The Belarus File

Actors: Max von Sydow

Synopsis: After a seven-year absence from the small screen, NYPD detective Theo Kojak (Telly Savalas) made a comeback in the TV-movie The Belarus File (originally Kojak: The Belarus File). Adapted from John Loftus' best-selling spy novel The Belarus Secret, the film teams Kojak with federal agent Dana Read More

Kojak: The Belarus File

Actors: Telly Savalas, Suzanne Pleshette, Max von Sydow, Herbert Berghof, Dan Frazer

Synopsis: Seven years after the cancellation of the CBS TV series Kojak, the network attempted to revive the property with this adaptation of John Loftus' novel The Bellarus Secret. Telly Savalas returns to the role of lollipop-sucking New York police detective Lt. Theo Kojak, with George Savalas, Vince Read More

A Good Sport

Synopsis: Advertised as a "return" to the spirit of the old Spencer Tracy/Katharine Hepburn films (not all of which were that spirited--try watching Keeper of the Flame sometime), the made-for-TV Good Sport is essentially a reworking of 1941's Woman of the Year. Ralph Waite plays a gritty sports columnist Read More

The Waltons: The Move

Synopsis: Freed from a Japanese POW camp and safely returned to Walton's Mountain, Ben intends to enter the postwar working world as a professional engineer. His dad John (Ralph Waite), however, wants Ben to give up his plans and become a full partner at the family lumber mill. The situation changes Read More

Kojak: Season 05

Actors: Telly Savalas, Dan Frazer, Kevin Dobson, George Savalas

Synopsis: The fifth and final season of Kojak (the original version, that is) begins with a typically brutal entry, "The Queen of Hearts Is Wild," in which smooth, cynical New York police detective Lt. Theo Kojak (Telly Savalas) tries convince the girlfriend of one of his old enemies to provide eyewitness Read More

Kojak: Season 04

Actors: Telly Savalas, Dan Frazer, Kevin Dobson, George Savalas, Vince Conti

Synopsis: Beginning with its fourth season, Kojak was largely filmed on location in New York City, moving production out of its previous Hollywood confines. Telly Savalas is of course back as bald, sarcastic, lollipop-loving police detective Lt. Theo Kojak, as are Dan Frazer as Theo's boss (and former Read More

Kojak: Season 03

Actors: Telly Savalas, Dan Frazer, Kevin Dobson, George Savalas, Vince Conti

Synopsis: Question: "Who loves ya, baby?" Answer: "The whole world." By the time the gritty detective drama Kojak entered its third season in the fall of 1975, the series had been exported to dozens of countries outside the U.S., and star Telly Savalas had become an international celebrity. Savalas' Read More

Kojak: Season 02

Actors: Telly Savalas, Dan Frazer, Kevin Dobson, George Savalas, Vince Conti

Synopsis: Bald, cynical, lollipop-sucking New York police detective Lt. Theo Kojak returns in the person of Telly Savalas for a second season of thrill-packed episodes. Likewise returning to the fold are supporting characters Chief Frank McNeil (Dan Frazer), Lt. Crocker (Kevin Dobson), and Detective Stavros Read More

The Super Cops

Actors: David Greenberg, Robert Hantz, Joseph P. McCartney, Charles Turner, Ron Leibman, David Selby, Sheila Frazier, Pat Hingle, Dan Frazer

Synopsis: "Batman and Robin" are the principal characters in the fact-based The Super Cops. Well, not the real Batman and Robin; these just happen to be the nicknames of two irrepressible New York City cops, Dave Greenberg (Ron Leibman) and Bob Hantz (David Selby). Flying in the face of departmental Read More

Kojak: Season 01

Actors: Telly Savalas, Dan Frazer, Kevin Dobson, George Savalas

Synopsis: Having scored big with the public when he was introduced in the 1973 TV movie The Marcus-Nelson Murders, crafty, cynical, lollipop-sucking New York city police detective Theo Kojak is given his own weekly, one-hour series as Kojak launches its first season. As before, Telly Savalas essays the Read More

Kojak [TV Series]

Actors: Telly Savalas, Dan Frazer, Kevin Dobson, George Savalas, Vince Conti

Synopsis: The character of tough, sarcastic, lollipop-sucking New York City police detective Theo Kojak was introduced in The Marcus-Nelson Murders, a 1973 TV movie based on the novel by Selwyn Raab, which in turn was inspired by the real-life Wylie-Hoffert murder case of 1963 that ultimately led to the Read More

Call to Danger

Synopsis: Call to Danger was a title that had already been applied to two unsold pilot films before this TV movie made its first appearance in February of 1973. Like the previous 1968 Call to Danger, the 1973 film stars Peter Graves as a federal agent who enlists "ordinary" people to solve crimes. Read More

Cleopatra Jones

Actors: Tamara Dobson, Bernie Casey, Brenda Sykes, Antonio Fargas, Bill McKinney

Synopsis: Tamara Dobson stars as Cleopatra Jones in Jack Starrett's blaxploitation programmer that, in its own way, deals effectively with the ravages of drugs in inner-city black communities. Cleopatra Jones is a jive female James Bond, a special drug agent for the United States government who wears sleek Read More

Fuzz

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Jack Weston, Tom Skerritt, Yul Brynner, Raquel Welch

Synopsis: Fuzz treads the line between raucous comedy and gut-churning melodrama. Based on an "87th Precinct" novel by Ed McBain (aka Evan Hunter), the film stars Burt Reynolds and Jack Weston as, respectively, detectives Steve Carella and Meyer Meyer. Their current assignment is to bring in Deaf Man (Yul Brynner Read More

The Stoolie

Actors: Poppy Fields, Gigi Gaus, Frank Goldstein, Jack Kagel, Mary McKennedy, Ronnie Mellen, Babette New, Jerome Rudolph, Mildred Smith, Sean Walch, Leonard York

Synopsis: Comedian Jackie Mason made one of his many comeback attempts after the 1966 Ed Sullivan Show "flipping the finger" debacle with the low-budget The Stoolie. Mason plays a cheap crook who cops a plea with the law by offering to trap other thieves with bait money. But Mason can't leave well enough 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

Tick, Tick, Tick

Actors: Jim Brown, George Kennedy, Fredric March, Lynn Carlin, Don Stroud

Synopsis: When Jimmy Price (Jim Brown) wins an upset victory for sheriff, he becomes the first black man ever to hold the job (or any elective office) in anyone's memory in his rural southern county. He also sets off an ominous rumblings as the entire county seems split apart by his presence -- Mayor Parks Read More

Counterpoint

Actors: Charlton Heston, Maximilian Schell, Kathryn Hays, Leslie Nielsen, Anton Diffring

Synopsis: The beauty of classical music confronts the ugliness and treachery of war in this unusual drama. Lionel Evans (Charlton Heston) is the director of a well-respected symphony orchestra touring European concert halls in 1944. In the midst of one concert, the city where they are playing is attacked by Read More

The F.B.I.: The Courier

Synopsis: World-renowned humanitarian Juliet Sinclair (Ruth Roman) has arrived in America to deliver a cute Chinese orphan girl named Linh (Cherylene Lee) to loving couple named Kenyon (Gene Hackman, Phyllis Love). What the general public doesn't know is that Juliet is also a Communist courier, and that her Read More

The F.B.I.: The Chameleon

Synopsis: Using the alias Stephen Fitzgerald, con artist Andrew Cook (James Daly) has married the widow of a bank owner, embezzled the bank funds, and murdered his wife--a pattern he has followed for years in several other cities. Now the homicidal Cook has targeted wealthy Amy Hunter (Margaret Leighton) as Read More

Lord Love a Duck

Actors: Roddy McDowall, Tuesday Weld, Lola Albright, Martin West, Ruth Gordon

Synopsis: An intelligent, eccentric high school senior devotes his life to indulging the every whim of the beautiful girl he adores in this quirky, dark-humored comedy. Roddy McDowall plays Alan Musgrave, an odd duck who immediately falls for the school's new student, Barbara Ann Greene (Tuesday Weld). Read More

The Untouchables: One Last Killing

Synopsis: John "The Cropper" Cropsey (Don Gordon) is fed up with doing the dirty work for bootlegger Jules Flack (Harold J. Stone), so he cooks up a plan to go into business for himself. Stealing 50,000 gallons of industrial alcohol, Cropsey sells it to Flack for a cool million bucks. What "The Cropper" Read More

Lilies of the Field

Actors: Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Lisa Mann, Stanley Adams, Isa Crino, Dan Frazer, Francesca Jarvis

Synopsis: Sidney Poitier plays Homer Smith, an aimless ex-GI who takes a temporary handyman job at a Southwestern farm maintained by five German nuns. It is the cherished dream of the Mother Superior (Lilia Skala) to build a chapel (or, as she says, a "shapel"). She is convinced that the personable Homer Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Mayberry Goes Hollywood

Actors: Howard McNear

Synopsis: The town of Mayberry is agog when a Hollywood producer and his entourage breeze into town. Captivated by the community's rustic charm, the producer decides to use Mayberry as the setting for his newest film. Almost immediately, the local merchants begins catering to the moviemakers' every whim-but Read More