Dean JonesFilmography

International Bible Society: Acts, Part 1 [

Actors: Dean Jones, Henry O. Arnold, Jennifer O'Neill, Francesco Quinn, Bruce Marchiano

Synopsis: The International Bible Society and Pathway Media team to bring viewers the very best of the Bible in the most historically accurate manner possible with this film shot on location in Morocco, Tunisia, and South Africa and designed to be enjoyed by audiences of all ages. A film that offers both Read More

Envy

Crew: ADR Recordist

Actors: Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Rachel Weisz, Amy Poehler, Christopher Walken

Synopsis: Barry Levinson directed this comedy in which success has a rather surprising effect on two old buddies. Nick Vanderpark (Jack Black) and Tim Dingman (Ben Stiller) are best friends and next-door neighbors who work together at a sandpaper factory. Nick and Tim often find themselves wishing for Read More

The Love Bug

Actors: Bruce Campbell, John Hannah, Alexandra Wentworth, Kevin J. O'Connor, Dana Gould

Synopsis: This 1997 remake of the '60s successful, sequel-spawning The Love Bug (the highest grossing film in the U.S. in 1969) includes a cameo by Dean Jones, star of the original Love Bug. Herbie, a 1963 VW Bug with personality, is saved from destruction by former race-car driver Hank Cooper (Bruce Campbell Read More

That Darn Cat

Actors: Christina Ricci, Doug E. Doug, Dean Jones, Dyan Cannon, George Dzundza, Peter Boyle

Synopsis: The original Disney feature film, That Darn Cat, was a feel-good hit in 1965, thanks largely to stars such as Hayley Mills, Roddy McDowall, and William Demarest. This 1996 remake also closely follows the novel Undercover Cat by Mildred Gordon and Gordon Gordon and features Christina Ricci in the Hayley Mills Read More

The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest: DNA Doomsday

Actors: Quinton Flynn, John deLancie, Robert Foxworth, Rob Paulsen

Synopsis: A new bio-computer, loaded with vital DNA information, is used in a crisis simulation to test the defense capabilities of a military installation. Unfortunately, the computer develops its own intelligence and goes out of control, threatening to trigger an ecological disaster of apocalyptic Read More

Special Report: Journey to Mars

Synopsis: This made-for-TV movie is staged in the form of an ongoing news report, unfolding in "real time." The year is 2014, and the men and women of the Global News Network are covering the final two hours of the first manned space mission to Mars. Suddenly, before an audience of billions, things begin to Read More

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

Actors: Kirk Cameron, Larry Miller, Jason Bernard, Anne Marie Tremko, Dan Castellaneta

Synopsis: Kirk Cameron stars in this made-for-television remake of the 1970 movie. Cameron stars as Dexter Riley, an under-average college student whose brain gets filled with the information from a super computer. He uses his newly found wisdom to sweep some college quiz tournaments, much to the chagrin of Read More

The Visual Bible: The Book of Acts, Vol. 4 - Chapters 21:1 to 28:31

Clear and Present Danger

Actors: Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe, Anne Archer, Joaquim de Almeida, Henry Czerny

Synopsis: This is the third film based on Tom Clancy's high-tech espionage potboilers starring CIA deputy director Jack Ryan. Harrison Ford, returning to the Ryan role after his first go-round in 1992's Patriot Games, is assigned to a delicate anti-drug investigation after a close friend of the President (a Read More

The Visual Bible: The Book of Acts, Vol. 2 - Chapters 8:4 to 13:52

The Visual Bible: The Book of Acts, Vol. 3 - Chapters 14:1 to 20:38

Kickboxer 5

Synopsis: Living up to its tagline, "Payback can be deadly," this installment in the popular-on-video Kickboxer series follows the travails of a displaced fighter out to avenge his friend's death. Stepping in for former hero Sasha Mitchell -- who in turn stepped in for original Kickboxer Jean-Claude Van Damme Read More

The Visual Bible: The Book of Acts, Vol. 1 - Chapters 1:1 to 8:3

Beethoven

Actors: Charles Grodin, Bonnie Hunt, Dean Jones, Oliver Platt, Nicholle Tom, Stanley Tucci, Christopher Castile

Synopsis: Feeling that something is lacking in their lives, the family of suburbanite Charles Grodin adopts a stray St. Bernard puppy. The cute lite beast grows up to be the less-than-cute Beethoven, a sloppy, slobbery, oversized and extremely destructive animal. Beethoven also brings with him a lot of Read More

Saved by the Bell: Hawaiian Style

Actors: Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, Elizabeth Berkley, Mario Lopez, Dustin Diamond

Synopsis: That madcap gang from the popular TV teen show, Saved by the Bell, head for Hawaii to save the tiny resort of Kelly's grandfather from an avaricious developer. Mayhem, and romance ensue. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Other People's Money

Actors: Danny DeVito, Gregory Peck, Penelope Ann Miller, Piper Laurie, Dean Jones

Synopsis: Norman Jewison directed Alvin Sargent's adaptation of Jerry Sterner's off-Broadway satire of the excess of the '80s, with Danny DeVito as corporate raider Lawrence Garfield -- or, as he is better known, Larry the Liquidator. Larry spends his waking hours searching for companies to take over. One Read More

The Terror Within 2

Actors: Andrew Stevens, Stella Stevens, Chick Vennera, R. Lee Ermey, Burton Gilliam

Synopsis: This sci-fi/horror sequel is set in the 21st century where the human race has been decimated by a man-made plague. Most of the normal survivors now live underground while the Earth's surface is populated by terrifying mutants. The survivors have developed a plague vaccine, but must gather the Read More

Fire and Rain

Actors: Charles Haid, Angie Dickinson, Tom Bosley, Robert Guillaume, Dean Jones

Synopsis: The terrible crash of Delta Airlines Flight 191 provides the basis of this made-for-TV drama-in-real life. The disaster occurred at Dallas in 1985 and during that fateful night many of the ordinary passengers, crew, and rescue workers became true heroes as they worked together to save lives. Read More

St. John in Exile

Synopsis: Dean Jones stars as the elderly John, the last survivor among the 12 disciples of Jesus Christ, in this spiritual drama. As John labors with a group of fellow inmates at a penal colony on the island of Patmos in 96 A.D., he shares his memories of traveling with the Son of God, from their first Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Harbinger of Death

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) accepts the invitation of her niece Carrie (Kate McNeil), the wife of astronomer Leonard Palmer (Dean Jones), to be on hand for the return of a long-lost comet. Thrilled at the prospect of witnessing this stellar phenomenon, Leonard takes a long look through his telescope Read More

Murder, She Wrote: It's a Dog's Life

Synopsis: While visiting her cousin Abby (Lynn Redgrave) at lavish Langley Manor in the deep South, Jessica is among those present when patriarch Denton Langley (Dan O'Herlihy) is accidentally killed during a fox hunt. What is puzzling about the situation is that Langley's normally docile horse was startled Read More

The Long Days of Summer

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV sequel to When Every Day Was the Fourth of July, a Jewish family fights prejudice in their New England community in the years before World War II. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

When Every Day Was the Fourth of July

Synopsis: Taking a breather from his usual horror and science-fiction endeavors, producer/director/writer Dan Curtis reminisces about his childhood in When Every Day Was the Fourth of July. Set in Bridgeport, Connecticut in the 1930s, the film concentrates on attorney Dean Jones and his 9-year-old daughter Read More

Born Again

Actors: Dean Jones, Anne Francis, Jay Robinson, Dana Andrews, Raymond St. Jacques

Synopsis: President Richard Nixon's legal counsellor Charles Colson was tried for several criminal charges relating to the Watergate cover-up, eventually spending some time in prison. This film explores Colson's personal crisis, and the religious convictions which, crossing party boundaries, worked to bring Read More

Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo

Actors: Dean Jones, Don Knotts, Julie Sommars, Jacques Marin, Roy Kinnear

Synopsis: It's love at first spark plug for Herbie, the spunky Disney Volkswagen, in Herbie Goes To Monte Carlo. Herbie reunites with Jim Douglas (Dean Jones), his driver from the original The Love Bug, as they participate in the annual Monte Carlo road rally. Herbie holds his own in the qualifying races Read More

Once Upon a Brothers Grimm

Synopsis: In this musical fantasy, the Brothers Grimm, accompanied by some of their most famous creations, wander through a magical forest. Characters appearing include Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Riding Hood, and Rumpelstiltskin. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Shaggy D.A.

Actors: Dean Jones, Tim Conway, Suzanne Pleshette, Keenan Wynn, Jo Ann Worley

Synopsis: Robert Stevenson, Walt Disney Productions' house director, cobbled together his 19th family film for the organization with this slapstick sequel to the Disney comedy The Shaggy Dog (produced 17 years after the fact). Dean Jones plays Wilby Daniels, a lawyer running against the villainous John Read More

Guess Who's Sleeping in My Bed?

Synopsis: There's little chance that the made-for-TV Guess Who's Sleeping in My Bed? will ever be confused with either Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? (67) or Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (63). The plot: Dean Jones divorces Barbara Eden, but finds that he can't live in the style to which he's accustomed Read More

Snowball Express

Actors: Dean Jones, Nancy Olson, Harry Morgan, Keenan Wynn, Johnny Whitaker

Synopsis: In this light-weight Disney family fare, Dean Jones plays Johnny Baxter, who -- along with his wife Sue (Nancy Olsen) and his two kids, Chris (Kathleen Cody) and Richard (Johnny Whitaker) -- decides to leave the New York City rat-race for the clean air and easy living of the Colorado ski country. Read More

The Great Man's Whiskers

Crew: Singer

Synopsis: In this comedy-drama, President Lincoln temporarily abandons his inaugural tour to visit a little girl who wrote him a letter asking him to grow a beard. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Million Dollar Duck

Actors: Sandy Duncan, Dean Jones, Lee Montgomery, Joe Flynn, Tony Roberts

Synopsis: In $1,000,000 Duck, the titular duck is exposed to radiation and begins laying golden eggs, which brings it under the scrutiny of the treasury department, the FBI, and a gang of comic-opera crooks. The cast includes Disney perennials Dean Jones and Joe Flynn, with Sandy Duncan taking over the part Read More

L'Inafferrabile e Invincibile Mr. Invisibile

Synopsis: This Swiss-made film, in the '70s Disney vein, concerns a scientist (Dean Jones) looking for the cure for the common cold. Instead, he discovers the secret of invisibility, and must struggle with his faithful sheep dog to keep the formula from being captured by evil forces. ~ John Bush, All Movie Read More

The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit

Actors: Dean Jones, Diane Baker, Lloyd Bochner, Fred Clark, Ellen Janov

Synopsis: Advertising executive Fred Bolton (Dean Jones) is under pressure from his boss Tom Dugan (Fred Clark) to come up with a new ad campaign for a wealthy client. Fred's daughter Helen (Ellen Janov) loves to ride horses, so her father buys her one to tie the equine into the profitable advertisement. Read More

Blackbeard's Ghost

Actors: Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette, Elsa Lanchester, Joby Baker

Synopsis: Blackbeard's Ghost was one of the first Disney productions released after Walt's death. Peter Ustinov stars as the eponymous wraith, who returns to Earth to come to aid of his descendant, elderly Elsa Lanchester. The villains want to kick Lanchester and her friends out of their group home so that Read More

The Love Bug

Actors: Dean Jones, Michele Lee, David Tomlinson, Buddy Hackett, Joe Flynn

Synopsis: Those who worried that the Disney studio would collapse without the presence of the late Uncle Walt were put at ease when the profits starting rolling in for The Love Bug. The "star" is Herbie, a lovable little Volkswagen with a personality all its own. Abused by a bad guy race-car driver (David Tomlinson Read More

Any Wednesday

Actors: Jane Fonda, Jason Robards, Jr., Dean Jones, Rosemary Murphy, Ann Prentiss

Synopsis: The star of the Broadway version of Any Wednesday was Sandy Dennis. Headlining the 1966 film version is Jane Fonda, who imbues her character with enough quirkiness to satisfy both herself and the endearingly mannered Ms. Dennis. Fonda plays the dippy mistress of philanderer Jason Robards, who Read More

Monkeys, Go Home!

Actors: Maurice Chevalier, Dean Jones, Yvette Mimieux, Bernard Woringer, Clement Harari

Synopsis: A man begins monkeying around with his new farm with hilarious results in this comedy for the whole family. American Hank Dussard (Dean Jones) inherits an olive plantation in a small French village after his uncle passes away. Hank soon gets a crash course in the expense of hiring pickers for the Read More

That Darn Cat

Actors: Hayley Mills, Dean Jones, Dorothy Provine, Roddy McDowall, Neville Brand

Synopsis: Though overlong even for a Hayley Mills vehicle, That Darn Cat is an expert blend of laughs and suspense. The eponymous feline is D.C., a Siamese belonging to sisters Hayley Mills and Dorothy Provine. One evening, D.C. comes flouncing home with a lady's wristwatch attached to her neck. The watch Read More

Two on a Guillotine

Actors: Connie Stevens, Dean Jones, Cesar Romero, Parley Baer, Virginia Gregg

Synopsis: A scary old haunted house provides the setting of this spooky thriller that centers on a psycho-magician who cut off his wife's head during a performance. Twenty years pass and he finally dies. His daughter is to inherit his estate, but before she can claim it, she must spend seven nights in his Read More

The Ugly Dachshund

Actors: Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette, Charlie Ruggles, Kelly Thordsen, Parley Baer

Synopsis: Dean Jones and Suzanne Pleshette star in this Walt Disney family comedy as Mark and Fran Garrison, a dog-loving couple with different tastes in canines. When their dachshund gives birth to puppies, kindly veterinarian Dr. Pruitt (Charlie Ruggles) convinces Mark to take a Great Dane puppy home with Read More

The New Interns

Actors: Michael Callan, Dean Jones, Stefanie Powers, Barbara Eden, Telly Savalas

Synopsis: Two years after the success of The Interns (1962) came this follow-up tale of medical interns during their first year working in a hospital. Ranging from comedy to melodrama, three main stories are woven around the principal characters. Functioning as the group's advisor, Dr. Alec Considine spends Read More

Under the Yum Yum Tree

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Carol Lynley, Dean Jones, Edie Adams, Imogene Coca

Synopsis: Jack Lemmon stars as Hogan, who lives a bachelor's dream as the manager of an apartment building that caters only to single women. Hogan likes to romance his tenants, and he sets his sights on a newcomer named Robin (Carol Lynley). Robin and her boyfriend David (Dean Jones) have moved in together Read More

Bonanza: The Friendship

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Dean Jones

Synopsis: Joe Cartwright's life is saved by chain-gang prisoner Danny Kidd (Dean Jones), who has spent virtually his entire life behind bars. Out of gratitude, Joe manages to secure Danny's freedom. The rest of the episode deals with Danny's trials and tribulations as he makes the difficult and painful Read More

Never So Few

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lawford, Steve McQueen, Richard Johnson

Synopsis: Action director John Sturges had a few good films behind him (Bad Day at Black Rock, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral) and a few more to come (The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven) when he put together this colorful story of wartime romance. In addition to his talents as a director, this saga of an Read More

Night of the Quarter Moon

Actors: Julie London, John Drew Barrymore, Nat "King" Cole, Anna Kashfi, Dean Jones

Synopsis: Scripted in another era, the premise for this interesting though conventional drama defending a partially mixed marriage would not be as convincing a few decades later. Chuck Nelson (John Drew Barrymore) is a wealthy young man who travels South of the border and meets and then marries Ginny (Julie London Read More

Torpedo Run

Actors: Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, Diane Brewster, Dean Jones, L.Q. Jones

Synopsis: In the psychological WW2 drama Torpedo Run, Glenn Ford plays submarine commander Barney Doyle, who is obsessed with sinking a particular Japanese aircraft carrier. Several months earlier, the carrier had escaped destruction by shielding itself with a POW transport ship, which was sunk by Doyle's Read More

Handle with Care

Actors: Dean Jones, Joan O'Brien, Thomas Mitchell, John Smith, Walter Abel

Synopsis: In this drama, a law student discovers corruption in city hall while researching a class project involving mock grand-jury work. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Imitation General

Actors: Glenn Ford, Red Buttons, Taina Elg, Dean Jones, Kent Smith

Synopsis: Based on a novel by William Chamberlain, Imitation General has a bit more story depth and character development than the average WWII service comedy. Glenn Ford stars as M/Sgt. Murphy Savage, who is forced to take drastic action when Brigadier General Charles Lane (Kent Smith) is killed in action. Read More

Ten Thousand Bedrooms

Actors: Dean Martin, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Eva Bartok, Dewey Martin, Walter Slezak

Synopsis: Dean Martin's first solo film after his split with Jerry Lewis was very nearly his last. Dino plays Ray Hunter, a Conrad Hiltonesque playboy hotelier at large in Rome. Taking charge of his latest acquisition -- a huge hotel with the titular 10,000 bedrooms -- Hunter finds himself being pursued by Read More

Jailhouse Rock

Actors: Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler, Mickey Shaughnessy, Vaughan Taylor, Jennifer Holden

Synopsis: One of the best of Elvis Presley's pre-Army films, Jailhouse Rock offers us the sensual, "dangerous" Elvis that had won the hearts of the kids and earned the animosity of their elders. Presley plays a young buck who accidentally kills a man while protecting the honor of a woman. Thrown into Read More

The Great American Pastime

Actors: Tom Ewell, Anne Francis, Ann Miller, Dean Jones, Rudy Lee

Synopsis: Tom Ewell plays a busy attorney who wishes to be closer to his son. To do this, he becomes manager of the boy's little league team, much to the dismay of his wife (Anne Francis), who can't stand baseball. Ewell finds that he must contend with pushy and ambitious parents who hope to live their own Read More

These Wilder Years

Actors: James Cagney, Barbara Stanwyck, Walter Pidgeon, Betty Lou Keim, Don Dubbins

Synopsis: The MGM melodrama These Wilder Years marked the first onscreen pairing of Hollywood stars James Cagney and Barbara Stanwyck. Lonely middle-aged businessman Steve Bradford (Cagney) returns to his old town in hopes of finding the son he fathered 20 years earlier. Choosing his career over marriage Read More

The Opposite Sex

Actors: June Allyson, Joan Collins, Dolores Gray, Jeff Richards, Ann Sheridan, Ann Miller, Leslie Nielsen, Harry James, Dick Shawn, Jim Backus

Synopsis: The Opposite Sex is an opulent musical remake of Clare Booth Luce's The Women (1939). June Allyson stars in the old Norma Shearer role, playing the virtuous wife who loses her husband to scheming Joan Collins (as the Joan Crawford character). At first agreeing to a divorce, June decides to win Read More

The Rack

Actors: Paul Newman, Wendell Corey, Walter Pidgeon, Edmond O'Brien, Anne Francis

Synopsis: The Korean conflict of the early '50s saw widespread use of psychological torture by the North Korean communists on enemy prisoners of war. That young American GIs cracked under this brainwashing at higher rates than the troops of our allies led to much soul searching within the military and the Read More

Tea and Sympathy

Actors: Deborah Kerr, John Kerr, Leif Erickson, Edward Andrews, Darryl Hickman

Synopsis: 1956's Tea and Sympathy is a diluted filmization of Robert Anderson's Broadway play. The original production was considered quite daring in its attitudes towards homosexuality (both actual and alleged) and marital infidelity; the film softpedals these elements, as much by adding to the text as by Read More

Somebody Up There Likes Me

Actors: Paul Newman, Anna Maria Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane, Eileen Heckart, Sal Mineo

Synopsis: Once you get past the fact that handsome Paul Newman could never pass for plug-ugly boxer Rocky Graziano in real life, you will be able to accept Somebody Up Their Likes Me as one of the more accomplished movie biopics of the 1950s. Based on Graziano's autobiography (co-written with Rowland Read More

God's Story: From Creation to Eternity

Synopsis: Using the bible as reference, this Christian film chronicles the gospel from its roots in the Genesis all the way through the birth of Christ and the writing of the Old and New Testaments, and ends with what may wait for man after reaching eternity. Using a strict chronological perspective, God's Read More