Deborah RaffinFilmography

Unwed Father

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: A young father endures to learn that parenthood can be a rewarding venture despite the weight responsibilities that go hand-in-hand with the job in this heartfelt tale of fatherhood starring Brian Austin Green and featuring music by Mark Mothersbaugh. A typical teenage who divides his free time Read More

Home Song

Actors: Lee Horsley, Polly Draper, Stan Kirsch, Deborah Raffin, Ari Meyers

Synopsis: The first of two CBS TV movies based on the novels of LaVyrle Spencer, Home Song stars Lee Horsley as school principal Tom Gardner. Happily married to wife Claire (Polly Draper), and the father of two children, Tom is taken aback when student Kent Arins (Stan Kirsch) transfers to his school. It Read More

Family Blessings

Crew: Director

Actors: Lynda Carter, Steven Eckholdt, Ari Meyers

Synopsis: The second of two CBS TV movies based on the novels of Lavyrle Spencer, Family Blessings begins as young police officer Greg Reston (Darren Lucas) dies in an auto accident. Having already lost a husband, Greg's mother Lee (Lynda Carter) is all but consumed by grief. In his efforts to comfort, Lee Read More

Morning Glory

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Christopher Reeve, Deborah Raffin, Lloyd Bochner, Nina Foch, Helen Shaver

Synopsis: Actress Deborah Raffin had a hand in the screenplay of this Southern melodrama, set in the Depression. Christopher Reeve plays ex-con Will Parker, who is looking for work in a small Georgia town. The pregnant Elly Dinsmore (Deborah Raffin) has placed an ad looking for a husband to tend her farm Read More

The Sands of Time

Actors: Deborah Raffin, Michael Nouri, Ramy Zada, Amanda Plummer, Kim Weeks

Synopsis: In this two-part adventure drama based on a thriller by author Sidney Sheldon, three nuns must run for their lives from a cruel colonel. Their flight leads them straight to a renowned Spanish rebel. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Scanners II: The New Order

Actors: David Hewlett, Deborah Raffin, Yvan Ponton, Isabelle Mejias, Raoul Trujillo

Synopsis: Picking up where Scanners left off, this sequel has good and evil scanners combatting when a crooked politician schemes to gain control of a major city. Scanners are people who, because their mothers had taken a certain drug during pregnancy, have acquired telepathic powers. Here, a "bad-guy" Read More

B.L. Stryker: Carolanne

Night of the Fox

Actors: George Peppard, Michael York, Deborah Raffin

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Jack Higgins, this WW-II thriller chronicles the daring rescue of a captured American officer who has vital information concerning the upcoming Normandy invasion. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

James Clavell's Noble House

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Deborah Raffin, Tia Carrere

Claudia

Synopsis: Eager to escape her high-society life among the English elite, a woman falls in love with a young musician. Her husband, however, has other plans for her. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Lace II

Actors: Brooke Adams, Deborah Raffin, Arielle Dombasle, Phoebe Cates, Anthony Higgins

Synopsis: In this sequel to the original miniseries, Lili (Phoebe Cates), having discovered the true identity of her mother, now begins looking for her father. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Death Wish 3

Actors: Charles Bronson, Deborah Raffin, Ed Lauter, Martin Balsam, Gavan O'Herlihy

Synopsis: Michael Winner ups the ante once again in Death Wish 3. Any pretense of Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) having a career in architecture is completely gone. Kersey's new career appears to be as a professional vigilante, blowing away muggers, rapists and thieves off the mean streets -- or as he terms Read More

Last Video and Testament

Synopsis: Hollywood's Deborah Raffin stars in the British TV movie Last Video and Testament. Raffin is married to David Langton, but that doesn't prevent her from fooling around with Oliver Tobias. Seemingly the soul of patience, Langton ultimately uses VCR technology to teach both wife and lover a deadly Read More

Threesome

Actors: Stephen Collins, Deborah Raffin, Joel Higgins

Synopsis: In this drama, a man from the Midwest moves to the Big Apple after he separates from his wife. While in the big city an old college buddy gets him involved in a complicated love triangle. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Ransom

Synopsis: A killer dresses as an Indian and, with bow and arrow, starts de-populating the citizenry of an Arizona town in an outright ransom attempt (he's demanding $4 million). The town rich guy finds a hired gun to eliminate the assassin. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Dance of the Dwarfs

Actors: Deborah Raffin, Peter Fonda

Synopsis: This low-budget jungle adventure tale stars Deborah Raffin as a dedicated anthropologist who hires boozy, woman-hating helicopter pilot Peter Fonda to fly her into the dark inner depths of the Philippine jungle in search of one of her colleagues, who disappeared while searching for the legendary Read More

Sparkling Cyanide

Actors: Anthony Andrews

Synopsis: Scriptwriters Robert Malcolm Young, Sue Grafton and Stephen Humphrey transposed the Agatha Christie story Sparkling Cyanide from its veddy British locale to the plush environs of Pasadena for this 1983 TV-movie adaptation. Leading character Anthony Andrews is still a Briton, mingling with the rich Read More

Running Out

Synopsis: Tony Bill is a happy single parent, blessed with a violin prodigy daughter (Ari Meyers). Enter Deborah Raffin, Bill's ex, who deserted husband and child 12 years earlier. Now a sophisticated world traveller, Raffin implores Bill to let her see her daughter. Running Out is the sort of TV movie with Read More

For Lovers Only

Actors: Katherine Helmond, Gordon Jump, Tracy Pollan, Gary Sandy

Synopsis: The made-for-TV For Lovers Only was the pilot film for a potential series titled Honeymoon Hotel. Set in the Poconos, the story takes place in a fancy honeymoon resort managed by Vernon Bliss (Andy Griffith). Belying his name and professional, Bliss is far from Blissful, especially when bickering Read More

Killing at Hell's Gate

Synopsis: In this made-for-television thriller, a pair of couples, a U.S. senator among them, are stalked by backwoods snipers while on a white-water rafting trip. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Haywire

Synopsis: Haywire was adapted for television by Ivan Davis and Frank Pierson from the best-selling autobiography of Brooke Hayward. Played herein by Deborah Raffin, Brooke is the daughter of legendary Broadway producer Leland Hayward (Jason Robards) and the brilliant stage and film actress Margaret Sullavan Read More

Touched by Love

Actors: Deborah Raffin, Diane Lane, Michael Learned, John Amos, Cristina Raines

Synopsis: Touched by Love was not only filmed in Canada, but had a leading character named Canada (it had to; the film is based on the reminisces of a real-life person). Deborah Raffin portrays Lena Canada, a therapist in charge of handicapped Diane Lane. A wheelchair-bound cerebral palsy victim, Lane also Read More

For the Love of It

Synopsis: Veteran comedy specialist Hal Kanter milks every chuckle, chortle and guffaw of Stanley Ralph Ross' teleplay for For the Love of It. The story gets under way when the bad guys surreptitiously plant top-secret documents on a model (Deborah Raffin) and a med student (Jeff Conaway). He's crazy about Read More

Willa

Actors: Deborah Raffin

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV drama, a spunky waitress (Deborah Raffin) is left to support herself, her two small children, and her unborn baby when her no-good husband runs off. Determined not to spend her life in a dead-end job, the woman quits waitressing and sets out to become a truck driver. ~ Iotis Read More

Mind Over Murder

Actors: Deborah Raffin

Synopsis: This bush-league Eyes of Laura Mars stars Deborah Raffin as a model with a "sixth sense." First she senses that an airline is to be bombed--a premonition which comes true. Then she senses that the bomber knows who she is and plans to kill her. Unfortunately, Raffin has the usual TV-movie Read More

How to Pick up Girls

Synopsis: Though Desi Arnaz Jr. gets star billing in How to Pick Up Girls, the film's true leading man is third-billed Fred McCrarren. He plays a clueless Nebraska boy whose efforts to score with chicks in the Big City come to naught. Finally he stumbles upon the "secret" to successful dating with the help Read More

Hanging on a Star

Synopsis: The Jeff Martin Band thinks they have what it takes to make it big, but despite great songs and a charismatic lead singer (Lane Caudell), the rock quartet is stuck playing a succession of sleazy dives and bar mitzvahs, going nowhere fast. Enter Katie Ross (Deborah Raffin), an ambitious would-be Read More

Ski Lift to Death

Actors: Suzy Chaffee, Clu Gulager, Veronica Hamel, Don Johnson, Deborah Raffin

Synopsis: The most surprising aspect of the made-for-TV Ski Lift to Death is that it wasn't produced by Irwin Allen. Two ski-lift gondolas derail, hanging perilously close to destruction. Among the passengers are a former gangster and the hit man assigned to kill him. Also on board are a pair of champion Read More

Maniac

Actors: Stuart Whitman

Synopsis: A maniacal Vietnam veteran begins killing people in an Arizona town, and then holds the entire city ransom unless a millionaire (Stuart Whitman) delivers with the money. The 1977 film is also known as Ransom. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Sentinel

Actors: Chris Sarandon, Cristina Raines, Martin Balsam, John Carradine, José Ferrer

Synopsis: In the wake of such Satanic-themed thrillers as Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist and The Omen comes The Sentinel. When New York fashion model (Cristina Raines) splits with her fiance (Chris Sarandon) and moves into an old brownstone, she soon discovers she has more than she bargained for in the Read More

God Told Me To

Actors: Tony Lo Bianco, Richard Lynch, Sylvia Sidney

Synopsis: Released theatrically as God Told Me To, this inventive film from "B"-movie auteur Larry Cohen was later re-named Demon after television distributors refused to air it under the original title. The convoluted, tabloid-flavored storyline (predating the kind of stories frequently featured on The Read More

Once Is Not Enough

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Alexis Smith, David Janssen, George Hamilton, Melina Mercouri

Synopsis: In this high-suds potboiler based on the best-selling novel by Jacqueline Susann, Mike Wayne (Kirk Douglas) is a past-his-prime movie producer who lives to make his college-age daughter January (Deborah Raffin) happy. January is also very fond of her father, perhaps more so than would seem healthy Read More

The Dove

Actors: Setoki Ceinaturoga, Jose Augusto DeLima, Gordon Glenwright, Garth Meade, Apenisa Naigulevu, Cecily Polson, Joseph Bottoms, Deborah Raffin, John McLiam, Dabney Coleman, John Anderson

Synopsis: Gregory Peck produced this coming-of-age adventure, richly photographed by Sven Nykvist. Based on a true story, the film documents the five-year journey of Robin Lee Graham (Joseph Bottoms), a 16-year-old boy who sets out in a 23-foot sloop, determined to be the youngest person to sail around the Read More

40 Carats

Actors: Liv Ullmann, Edward Albert, Gene Kelly, Deborah Raffin

Synopsis: Adapted by Jay Presson Allen from the French farce by Pierre Barillet and Jean-Pierre Gredy, Forty Carats is a standard-issue sex comedy elevated by the performances of its stars. Fortyish Realtor Ann Stanley (Liv Ullman) finds herself attracted to Peter Latham (Edward Albert) - a man literally Read More