David DukesFilmography

Born:: June 6, 1945 in San Francisco, CA
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: American actor David Dukes has distinguished himself in all branches of the performing arts, but it is television that has gained him the widest and most appreciative audience. After an indifferent film bow in 1975's The Wild Party, Dukes portrayed the crippled war-vet son of a wealthy Bostonian...Read More

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Rose Red

Actors: Nancy Travis, Matt Keeslar, Kimberly J. Brown, David Dukes, Judith Ivey

Synopsis: Horror specialist Stephen King claimed that his TV miniseries Rose Red was inspired by a number of sources, ranging from Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House (twice filmed as The Haunting) to Ripley's Believe It or Not to Moby Dick. Residents of San Jose, CA, however, quickly realized that Read More

2002
Alex in Wonder

Actors: Angela Gots, Robert Hays, Ellen Greene, Sean Flynn, Danny Masterson

Synopsis: A gifted teenager is thrown for a loop when her parents' marriage falls apart in this coming-of-age drama set in the early '70s. Alex Markov (Angela Gots) is a 16-year-old who dreams of a career as a professional dancer; unlike many girls with similar goals, Alex is blessed with supportive Read More

2001
Law & Order: Stiff

Synopsis: The real-life legal case that inspired the 1990 film Guilty by Suspicion would seem to be the source material for this episode. The detectives investigate the reasons behind a wealthy woman's comatose condition. Key players in this sordid drama include the woman's husband David Moore (David Read More

2000
Sliders: Roads Taken

Synopsis: Though their latest slide has thrust Quinn (Jerry O'Connell) and Maggie (Kari Wuhrer) headlong into a raging battle, Rembrandt (Cleavant Derricks) and Colin (Charlie O'Connell) apparently emerge from the experience with no difficulty whatsoever. Once the four travelers are reunited, Quinn and Read More

1999
Ally McBeal: Let's Dance

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol, Lucy Liu, Portia de Rossi

1999
Gods and Monsters

Actors: Ian McKellen, Brendan Fraser, Lynn Redgrave, Lolita Davidovich, Kevin J. O'Connor

Synopsis: Gods and Monsters was promoted from the outset as an artistic drama, but the publicity tended to play coyly on the possibility of a homosexual romance between the retired film director James Whale, played by Ian McKellen and his hunky gardener Clayton Boone (Brendan Fraser). While the film does Read More

11/6/98
Slappy and the Stinkers

Actors: Pine Bodhi Elfman, B.D. Wong, Bronson Pinchot, Jennifer Coolidge, Joseph Ashton, Gary Leroi Gray

Synopsis: At Dartmoor Academy snooty principal Morgan Brinway (B.D. Wong) has second-graders studying opera appreciation, but five feisty kids, nicknamed the "Stinkers" by Brinway, skip class to create chaos on the school grounds. Although they get a warning from Brinway, they soon rebel with more Read More

1998
Supreme Sanction

Actors: Kristy Swanson, Michael Madsen, David Dukes, Tom "Tiny" Lister, Jr., Donald Faison

Synopsis: A hired killer (Kristy Swanson) joins forces with one of her targets after seeing him with his son, but while this saves one man's life, it also means the one-time killer is now a hunted woman, with operatives of a classified government agency hot on her trail. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

1998
Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story

Actors: Ann-Margret, David Dukes, Joan Severance, Susan Ruttan, John de Mita

Synopsis: This film is based on the extraordinary and at times outrageous life of Pamela Digby Churchill Hayward Harriman (aptly played by Ann-Margret), who arrived in America from her native England. During her 40 years in the U.S. she managed to marry powerful and wealthy men and work her way into the Read More

1998
Last Stand at Saber River

Actors: Tom Selleck, Keith Carradine, David Carradine, Suzy Amis, David Dukes

Synopsis: Tom Selleck stars as a Confederate soldier who finds himself at a crossroads, in this made-for-television adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel. Paul Cable (Selleck) who returns to his Arizona homestead after the end of the Civil War, only to find it taken over by Union-sympathizing pioneers. Cable Read More

1997
Fled

Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Stephen Baldwin, Salma Hayek, Will Patton

Synopsis: Though serving a prison sentence for using his computer to embezzle from an international corporation, Dodge (Stephen Baldwin) still thinks of himself as an ordinary criminal. His fellow convict, Piper (Lawrence Fishburne), whose basic decency leads him to protect Dodge from an assault by another Read More

1996
Norma Jean and Marilyn

Actors: Steven Culp, Peter Dobson, David Dukes, Ashley Judd, Mira Sorvino

Synopsis: Originally made for cable television, this imaginative biopic chronicles the life of Marilyn Monroe (Mira Sorvino), including the years before she changed her name from Norma Jean Baker (Ashley Judd) and was transformed into the screen persona that made her a legendary sex symbol. The movie Read More

1996
Me and the Kid

Actors: Danny Aiello, Alex Zuckerman, Joe Pantoliano, Cathy Moriarty, David Dukes

Synopsis: A wealthy young boy is kidnapped by thieves who rob his home, but the crooks are in for a surprise when the kid becomes a pest . ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1993
And the Band Played On

Actors: Richard Gere, Anjelica Huston, Alan Alda, Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin

Synopsis: The late journalist Randy Shilts' best-selling book on the burgeoning AIDS crisis was adapted for cable TV by Arnold Schulman. In 1981, researchers begin discerning a mysterious new disease that apparently affects only homosexual males (or so they thought at that time). Working independently, and Read More

1993
She Woke Up

Actors: Lindsay Wagner, David Dukes, Frances Sternhagen, Maureen Mueller, Ronald C. Frazier

Synopsis: Surprisingly good soap opera in which the suspense and thrills are genuinely good revolves around a wealthy woman who awakens from a fourteen-month coma after an attempt is made on her life and now must remember who tried to kill her in order to prevent it from happening again. ~ Tana Hobart, All Read More

1992
Sisters: Season 01

Actors: Swoosie Kurtz, Sela Ward, Patricia Kalember, Julianne Phillips, Elizabeth Hoffman

Synopsis: The first "trial" season for Sisters runs seven episodes, beginning with the awkward reunion of the Reed sisters in their hometown of Winnetka, IL, not long after the death of their father. Though Mr. Reed has only been in his grave a short time, his widow, Beatrice (Elizabeth Hoffman), has Read More

1991
Wife, Mother, Murderer

Actors: Judith Light, David Dukes, David Ogden Stiers, Kellie Overbey, Whip Hubley

Synopsis: Wife, Mother, Murderer stars Judith Light as all three of the above. She plays social-climbing Alabaman Marie Hilley, who between 1975 and 1987 schemed, lied, and killed her way to the top of the ladder. Her victims were her husband and daughter, whom she poisoned because they stood in the way of Read More

1991
Held Hostage: The Sis and Jerry Levin Story

Actors: David Dukes, Marlo Thomas

Synopsis: Marlo Thomas stars as Lucille "Sis" Levin, whose husband Jerry (David Dukes) is an American TV journalist assigned to Beirut in 1984. Jerry is kidnapped by Muslim fundamentalists, a fact kept off the front pages by the State Department, ostensibly because the publicity could cost Jerry his life. Read More

1991
The Handmaid's Tale

Actors: Natasha Richardson, Robert Duvall, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth McGovern

Synopsis: In this dystopian fable, a librarian wife and mother becomes the childbearing pawn of a Christian theocracy. In the near future, as war rages across the fictional North American Republic of Gilead and pollution has rendered 99 percent of the female population sterile, Kate (Natasha Richardson) Read More

3/7/90
The Rutanga Tapes

Synopsis: The tapes referred to in the movie title contain evidence revealing a chemical-weapons industry sanctioned by a Soviet-block country; they are filled with computer statistics of the African natives who have succumbed to the illegally dispensed chemicals. The evidence fall into the unwitting hands Read More

1990
The Josephine Baker Story

Actors: Lynn Whitfield, Rubén Blades, David Dukes, Craig T. Nelson, Louis Gossett, Jr.

Synopsis: Brian Gibson's made-for-cable biography of the famed singer Josephine Baker stars Lynn Whitfield as the black American who found stardom and scandal as the toast of the Paris night-life during the 1920s and '30s. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1990
The Strange Interlude

Actors: David Dukes, Rosemary Harris, Glenda Jackson, Ken Howard

Synopsis: Previously filmed (and truncated) in 1932, Eugene O'Neill's marathon 1928 Pulitzer-winning stage drama Strange Interlude was adapted for television in 1988. Broadcast in three 90-minute installments, the nine-act play covers some 25 years in the life of New England woman Nina Leeds (Glenda Read More

1990
Snow Kill

Synopsis: This lively made-for-cable adventure chronicles the ordeal endured by five urban executives who head to the wilderness to relax and end up fighting for their lives after they stumble across a cocaine-smuggling operation. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1990
See You in the Morning

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Alice Krige, Farrah Fawcett, Drew Barrymore, Lukas Haas

Synopsis: This film is a somewhat contrived pairing of two divorcees who are giving it a second go. They're up against considerable odds, however, because the children of each are not too pleased with their new "parent." Jeff Bridges stars as the husband and Alice Krige plays his second wife. ~ All Movie Read More

4/21/89
War & Remembrance: The Final Chapter

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Jane Seymour, Hart Bochner, Victoria Tennant, Polly Bergen, David Dukes, Sharon Stone, Barry Bostwick, Sami Frey, Topol

1989
Turn Back the Clock

Synopsis: This telefilm remake of the 1947 suspense fantasy Repeat Performance stars Connie Sellecca as a fading TV star who commits a murder on New Year's Eve before being given a chance to relive the last year and prevent the murder from occurring. The script is tarted up with a high-gloss veneer and some Read More

1989
Deadly Intent

Actors: Lisa Eilbacher, Steve Railsback, Maud Adams, Fred Williamson, Persis Khambatta

Synopsis: An archaeologist has come back home with a priceless gem in his possession. However, it was ill-gotten and his life is in extreme danger. After he's killed, his widow becomes the mark of several treasure-seekers. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1988
War & Remembrance

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Jane Seymour, John Gielgud, Hart Bochner, Victoria Tennant, Polly Bergen, David Dukes, Michael Jeffrey Woods, Sharon Stone, Barry Bostwick

1988
Date with an Angel

Actors: Michael E. Knight, Phoebe Cates, Emmanuelle Béart, David Dukes, Phil Brock

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy fantasy, an angel (Emmanuelle Beart) with a heavenly body falls into the swimming pool of Jim Sanders (Michael E. Knight). Hung over from his bachelor party, his encounter with the angel has Jim questioning his upcoming marriage to Patty (Phoebe Cates), the daughter of a Read More

11/20/87
Catch the Heat

Actors: David Dukes, Tiana Alexandra, Rod Steiger, Brian Thompson, Jorge Martinez

Synopsis: A San Francisco narcotics officer goes undercover to South America in an attempt to bust a drug lord and his operation. Of course, the assignment involves her ability to participate in a certain breast-altering operation to smuggle the goods into the States, though her brassiere size may be too Read More

6/12/87
Rawhead Rex

Actors: David Dukes, Kelly Piper, Ronan Wilmot, Niall Toibin, Heinrich Von Schellendorf

Synopsis: A humble Irish farmer decides that it is high time to move that big old stone in his field that has been there seemingly since the dawn of time. This gory horror film, an adaptation from one of noted British-author Clive Barker's short stories, follows what happens next. No sooner does he move the Read More

1/1/87
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

9/19/86
Shelley Duvall's Tall Tales and Legends: Darlin' Clementine

Actors: Shelley Duvall, David Dukes, Ed Asner, Michael Richards

Synopsis: No relation to the similarly titled John Ford film, My Darlin' Clementine originated as a 47-minute TV special. Shelley Duvall (who also produced) plays the title character, the daughter of a miner (forty-niner) whose shoes are number nine. Ed Asner costars as Clementine's dad, while David Dukes Read More

1986
Kane & Abel

Actors: Peter Strauss, Sam Neill

Synopsis: Adapted from the phenomenally popular best-seller by Jeffrey Archer, the three-part, seven-hour CBS miniseries Kane & Abel is the tale of two tycoons -- one a self-made man, one born into wealth -- who both came into the world on the very same day. The illegitimate son of a Polish baron, Abel Read More

1985
James A. Michener's Space

Actors: James Garner, Harry Hamlin, Beau Bridges, David Dukes, Michael York, Bruce Dern

Synopsis: This mammoth five-part, 13-hour CBS miniseries was based on the best-selling novel by James A. Michener. Covering the U.S.-Soviet "space race" from the end of WWII to the landing on the moon, the program stars James Garner as Norman Grant, a former war hero turned senator who tirelessly promotes Read More

1985
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Actors: David Dukes, Penny Fuller, Jessica Lange, Tommy Lee Jones, Rip Torn, Kim Stanley

Synopsis: Coproduced by Showtime and PBS, the 1984 TV version of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is based on Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Price winning play, previously filmed in 1958 and 1979. Jessica Lange stars as Maggie "the Cat", the frustrated, overheated wife of alcoholic former football jock Brick (Tommy Lee Jones Read More

1984
Sentimental Journey

Actors: Jaclyn Smith, David Dukes, Jessica Rene Carroll

Synopsis: In this sad melodrama, a dying Broadway producer decides to adopt a sweet young girl to keep her husband company after she passes on. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1984
George Washington

Synopsis: Barry Bostwick plays the Father of Our Country in this 3-part, eight-hour TV miniseries. The Richard Fielder/Jon Boothe teleplay, based on a book by James Thomas Flexner, covers the years 1743 through 1783, tracing Washington from age 11 to his farewell to the troops at Valley Forge. A great deal Read More

1984
The Winds of War

Synopsis: This World War II epic drama, based on the book by Herman Wouk, follows the life and trials of a career naval officer (Robert Mitchum) sent to Germany during Hitler's rise to power, who witnesses the gradual escalation of the war. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1983
Winds of War, Part 5: Of Love and War

Synopsis: In the fifth episode of the seven-part, eighteen-hour miniseries The Winds of War, US Naval Commander "Pug" Henry (Robert Mitchum) continues acting as President Roosevelt's emissary of peace in war-torn Europe, even as Hitler (Gunter Meisner) secretly prepares to double-cross Stalin (Anatoly Read More

1983
Without a Trace

Actors: Kate Nelligan, Judd Hirsch, David Dukes, Stockard Channing, Jacqueline Brookes

Synopsis: Young divorced mother Kate Nelligan refuses to go into a panic when her six-year-old son disappears. She manages to maintain an even emotional keel even when detective Judd Hirsch unearths several clues which point to sexual molestation. After several false leads, the truth is revealed. We won't Read More

1983
Winds of War, Part 7: Into the Maelstorm

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Ali MacGraw, Jan-Michael Vincent, John Houseman, Polly Bergen

Synopsis: In the final episode of the seven-part, eighteen-hour miniseries The Winds of War, Ambassador-at-large "Pug" Henry (Robert Mitchum) represents the US in a series of conferences with the intansigent Russian premier Josef Stalin (Anatoly Chauginian). Dallying briefly with his erstwhile British Read More

1983
Winds of War, Part 2: The Storm Breaks

Synopsis: In the second episode of the seven-part, eighteen-hour miniseries The Winds of War, several of the characters introduced in part one are swept up in the 1939 Nazi invasion of Poland. Among these are Byron Henry (Jan-Michael Vincent), Natalie Jastrow (Ali McGraw) and Leslie Slote (David Dukes), who Read More

1983
Miss All-American Beauty

Actors: Diane Lane

Synopsis: This TV-movie features a Texas beauty-queen contestant (Diane Lane) who is trying to earn money for college. A pianist, she learns a bit of self-respect during the competition. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1982
Only When I Laugh

Actors: Marsha Mason, Kristy McNichol, James Coco, Joan Hackett, David Dukes

Synopsis: Playwright Neil Simon made one of his periodic forays into serious themes with the drama The Gingerbread Lady, and while this screen adaptation adds a bit more wit to the proceedings, it remains a change of pace from his usual breezy comedies. Georgia (Marsha Mason) is a successful actress who has Read More

1981
Portrait of a Rebel: The Remarkable Mrs. Sanger

Synopsis: Portrait of a Rebel: The Remarkable Mrs. Sanger was written by Blanche Hanalis, a specialist in turning out quality teleplays with a feminist slant. Bonnie Franklin stars as pioneering birth-control advocate Margaret Sanger, who in the early part of the 20th century conducted a 25-year battle to Read More

1980
The First Deadly Sin

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Faye Dunaway, Brenda Vaccaro, James Whitmore, George Coe, David Dukes, Joe Spinell

Synopsis: The First Deadly Sin was Frank Sinatra's final starring movie vehicle. Based on a novel by Lawrence Sanders, it casts Sinatra as Edward Delaney, a big-city detective on the verge of retirement. Beset with profound personal problems--including a gravely ill wife (Faye Dunaway)--Delaney nonetheless Read More

1980
Mayflower: The Pilgrims' Adventure

Synopsis: Originally titled The Voyage of the Mayflower, this made-for-TV historical drama was, not surprisingly, first telecast as a CBS Thanksgiving special. In the tradition of the 1952 theatrical feature Plymouth Adventure, the film meticulously recounted the journey in 1620 A.D. of 103 Pilgrim Read More

1979
The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal

Synopsis: This made-for-television drama tells of an actual event in 1911 where 145 workers in the Triangle garment factory were killed in a huge industrial fire. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

1979
Some Kind of Miracle

Synopsis: David Dukes stars as a marriage-bound young man who is rendered a paraplegic by a surfing accident. Dukes fears that his paralysis has resulted in impotence. His future wife Andrea Marcovicci is similarly fearful. Without the help of counselors or physical therapists, the unmarried couple manages Read More

1979
A Little Romance

Actors: Laurence Olivier, Arthur Hill, Sally Kellerman, Diane Lane, Thelonious Bernard

Synopsis: The disarming comedy A Little Romance features Diane Lane as a 13-year-old American, living in Paris with her businessman stepfather (Arthur Hill) and her promiscuous mother (Sally Kellerman). Mom is currently enamored with pretentious-filmmaker David Dukes, and it is on the set of Dukes' latest Read More

1979
A Fire in the Sky

Actors: Elizabeth Ashley, Lloyd Bochner, Andrew Duggan, David Dukes, Joanna Miles, Merlin Olsen, Richard Crenna

Synopsis: The story begins as an astronomer notices that a blazing comet is headed straight for Phoenix Arizona. Unfortunately, no one believes him. They will eventually, but only after most of Phoenix has been reduced to cinders. Emmies went to the special effects (among the best ever seen on TV in those Read More

1978
79 Park Avenue

Actors: Barbara Barrie

Synopsis: The formal title for this TV mini-series was Harold Robbins' 79 Park Avenue, just in case you might mistake it for William Makepeace Thackeray's 79 Park Avenue. Originally presented in three parts, this adaptation of the Robbins best-seller stars Lesley Ann Warren as Marja Fludjicki, a Read More

1977
All in the Family: Edith's 50th Birthday

Actors: Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers, David Dukes

Synopsis: One of the most controversial and compelling episodes of All in the Family, "Edith's 50th Birthday" begins as the rest of the family prepares a surprise party for Edith at Mike and Gloria's house. Left alone in her own house, Edith is attacked and held at knifepoint by a rapist (David Dukes). Read More

1977
The Jeffersons: George and the President

Actors: Sherman Hemsley, Isabel Sanford, Roxie Roker, Franklin Cover, Damon Evans

Synopsis: In this opening episode of The Jeffersons' third season, George Jefferson (Sherman Hemsley) steams up when Cunningham, his chief rival in the dry-cleaning business, reaps huge profits from a Bicentennial sale. Ad man Cal Roberts (David Dukes) suggests that George run his own "patriotic" promotion Read More

1976
The Wild Party

Actors: James Coco, Raquel Welch, Perry King, Tiffany Bolling, Royal Dano

Synopsis: Director James Ivory has disowned this Hollywood drama, inspired by the Fatty Arbuckle/Virginia Rappe case and based on a satirical poem by Joseph Moncure March, which was heavily cut by American International Pictures from two hours to 90 minutes. The story concerns Jolly Grimm (James Coco) Read More

1974
The Strawberry Statement

Actors: Bruce Davison, Kim Darby, James Coco, Murray MacLeod

Synopsis: This film is based on the James Simon Kunen book about student unrest on the Columbia University campus. Simon (Bruce Davison) joins the campus protest movement to socialize with the various hippie girls. When a violent police assault breaks up the protest, Simon's thoughts quickly turn from Read More

1970

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