Daryl DukeFilmography

Columbo: Caution - Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health

Crew: Director

Actors: Peter Falk, George Hamilton, Peter Haskell, Penny Johnson, Rick Najera

Synopsis: Peter Falk is Lieutenant Columbo, and the murderer is known to the audience from the get-go. This much we know before ever tuning in to Columbo: Caution--Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health. The special guest killer this time is George Hamilton, host of an America's Most Wanted-style TV show. Read More

Hang Tough

Crew: Director

Actors: Carl Marotte, Charlaine Woodard, Grand L. Bush, Lisa Langlois

When We Were Young

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This drama chronicles the relationships between eight Northern California high-school graduates living on the cusp of 1960. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Tai-Pan

Crew: Director

Actors: Bryan Brown, Joan Chen, John Stanton, Tim Guinee, Bill Leadbitter

Synopsis: Daryl Duke directed this epic adventure, based on James Clavell's best-selling novel, concerning the battle for control of the China trade in early 19th-century Hong Kong. The film takes place in 1842 on the China Coast, where the Chinese object to the British imperialist policy of buying opium Read More

Florence Nightingale

Crew: Director

Actors: Jaclyn Smith, Timothy Dalton

Synopsis: Jaclyn Smith is a curious choice to play the title character in the made-for-TV biopic Florence Nightingale. This fact, however, never enters into the consciousness of the viewer, thanks to Smith's excellent performance. Some liberties are taken with the details of the life of "The Lady with the Read More

The Thorn Birds, Part 2

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Barbara Stanwyck, Christopher Plummer, Bryan Brown

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel by Colleen McCullough, the 1983 miniseries The Thorn Birds was set in Australia and covered the life of Ralph de Bricassart (Richard Chamberlain), a Roman Catholic priest engaged in a constant struggle between his calling and his carnal desires. In part two, which Read More

The Thorn Birds, Part 4

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Barbara Stanwyck, Christopher Plummer, Bryan Brown

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel by Colleen McCullough, the 1983 miniseries The Thorn Birds was set in Australia and covered the life of Ralph de Bricassart (Richard Chamberlain), a Roman Catholic priest engaged in a constant struggle between his calling and his carnal desires. The miniseries Read More

The Thorn Birds, Part 1

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Barbara Stanwyck, Christopher Plummer, Bryan Brown

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel by Colleen McCullough, the 1983 miniseries The Thorn Birds was set in Australia and covered the life of Ralph de Bricassart (Richard Chamberlain), a Roman Catholic priest engaged in a constant struggle between his calling and his carnal desires. In the three-hour Read More

The Thorn Birds, Part 3

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Barbara Stanwyck, Christopher Plummer, Bryan Brown

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel by Colleen McCullough, the 1983 miniseries The Thorn Birds was set in Australia and covered the life of Ralph de Bricassart (Richard Chamberlain), a Roman Catholic priest engaged in a constant struggle between his calling and his carnal desires. Part three, which Read More

The Thorn Birds

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Barbara Stanwyck, Christopher Plummer, Bryan Brown

Synopsis: This mammoth TV miniseries, based on the best-selling novel by Colleen McCullough, proved to be a ratings bonanza; indeed, its viewership was surpassed only by the 1978 blockbuster Roots. Set in Australia, the story covers 42 years in the life of Ralph de Bricassart (Richard Chamberlain), a Roman Read More

Hard Feelings

Crew: Director

Actors: Carl Marotte, Grand L. Bush, Lisa Langlois

Synopsis: Set in 1963, this drama looks at the life of Barnie Margruder (Carl Marotte), a teenager dealing with school bullies, his bickering parents, his conflicting feelings about sex, and an often strained relationship with his girlfriend. Barnie's life begins to change when he makes friends with Winona (Charlaine Woodard Read More

The Silent Partner

Crew: Director

Actors: Elliott Gould, Christopher Plummer, Susannah York, Celine Lomez

Synopsis: The Canadian "sleeper" The Silent Partner stars Elliott Gould as a teller, Miles Cullen, who figures out psycho Harry Reikle's (Christopher Plummer) scheme to rob his bank, several days ahead of time. Cullen providently squirrels away 50,000 dollars in a safety-deposit box before Reikle strikes. Read More

Griffin and Phoenix: A Love Story

Crew: Director

Actors: Peter Falk, Jill Clayburgh

Synopsis: Jeff Griffin (Peter Falk) is dying of cancer. Sarah Phoenix (Jill Clayburgh) is suffering from terminal leukemia. Ignored or reviled by their respective families, Griffin and Phoenix turn to each other for emotional support. Deciding to live their last months to the fullest, they indulge in Read More

They Only Come Out at Night

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The nocturnal "They" in this TV movie are a gang of rapist-robbers who prey upon elderly women. Jack Warden stars as middle-aged homicide detective John St. John. He's known to his friends as "Jigsaw John" because of his slow, methodical methods of deduction. This time, however, John had better Read More

A Cry for Help

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A Cry for Help (working title: End of the Line) stars Robert Culp as an acerbic, Don Imus-like radio talk show host. When one of his callers, an anxious young woman, threatens to kill herself, Culp laughs it off. Later, however, he realizes that the girl wasn't kidding, and mounts a frantic Read More

The Return of Charlie Chan

Crew: Director

Actors: Ross Martin

Synopsis: Return of Charlie Chan was subtitled Happiness is a Warm Clue, which should be warning enough for the discriminating viewer. Ross Martin, the disguise-happy "Artemus Gordon" of The Wild Wild West, here plays Earl Derr Biggers' scrupulously polite Chinese sleuth. Chan is dragged out of retirement Read More

I Heard the Owl Call My Name

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Tom Courtenay, Dean Jagger, Paul Stanley, Marianne Jones, George Clutesi

Synopsis:
Made for television, I Heard the Owl Call My Name is set in an isolated Indian village in British Columbia. Tom Courtenay plays a naive young Anglican priest who is caught unawares by the primitiveness and poverty of his new parishioners. Bishop Dean Jagger, who's seen it all (and looks it!) Read More

Payday

Crew: Director

Actors: Rip Torn, Ahna Capri

Synopsis: A musician finds his life and his career jumping off the rails in this moody, intelligent drama. Maury Dann (Rip Torn) is a singer and songwriter struggling to hold onto his footing as one of the top names in country & western music. This being 1972, long before the Nashville sound had gone Read More

The President's Plane Is Missing

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A crisis ensues when Air Force One crashes while on a flight out west, apparently killing all those aboard, including President Jeremy Haines (Tod Andrews). The United States is in the midst of a confrontation with China that could lead to a nuclear war between the two countries, and the Read More

The Psychiatrist: God Bless the Children

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The Psychiatrist: God Bless the Children was the pilot film for the brief TV series The Psychiatrist, which ran as part of Universal's Four in One drama wheel from 1970 to 1971. Roy Thinnes stars as progressive psychiatrist James Whitman, with Luther Adler as his conservative mentor, Dr. Bernard Read More

Corwin

Crew: Director

Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation

Actors: James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Fabian, John Saxon, Reginald Gardiner, Marie Wilson

Synopsis: Screenwriter Nunnally Johnson adapted the novel by author Edward Streeter, whose work was also the basis of Father of the Bride (1950), into this domestic comedy. James Stewart and Maureen O'Hara star as Roger and Peggy Hobbs, a St. Louis couple with a large brood who desire a seaside vacation. Read More

Exploring Minds [TV Series]

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Produced variously at the CBC facilities in Toronto and Vancouver, Exploring Minds was a series of college lectures emanating from virtually all of the Canadian provinces. The higher seats of learning represented herein included the University of Ottawa, Carletoon, and McGill. Despite the static Read More