Dennis Fimple Filmography

Down Periscope

Actors: Kelsey Grammer, Lauren Holly, Bruce Dern, Rob Schneider, Rip Torn

Synopsis: Vulgar, slapstick comedy abounds in this feature film debut for television sitcom star Kelsey Grammer. Almost everyone else thinks of Lieutenant Commander Tom Dodge is a class "A" goof who messes up every task he is assigned, but Adm. Dean Winslow thinks otherwise and decides to give Dodge one Read More

Party of Five: Summer Fun, Summer Not

Synopsis: The good news at the outset of Party of Five's third season is that the Salinger family has regained full control of the restaurant owned by their late parents. The bad news is that the much-anticipated marriage between eldest son Charlie Salinger (Matthew Fox) and the younger kids' ex-nanny Read More

ER: Don't Ask, Don't Tell

Synopsis: Fresh from the recently closed South Side hospital, new ER chief of staff Anspaugh (John Aylward) imperiously asserts his authority by imposing patient quotas on each doctor. Though they resent Anspaugh, the staff is more politely inclined to the other South Side expatriates, doctors Abby Keaton (Glenne Headly Read More

Maverick

Actors: Noah Emmerich, Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner, Graham Greene, James Coburn

Synopsis: A gunslinging con man develops a tricky scheme to make a killing at a major poker tournament in this comic Western inspired by the popular television show. Mel Gibson assumes the role of Bret Maverick, the handsome rogue who hopes to cheat his way to success. In need of a large stake to enter a Read More

My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys

Actors: Scott Glenn, Kate Capshaw, Ben Johnson, Balthazar Getty, Tess Harper

Synopsis: Scott Glenn is H.D., a champion rodeo rider whose career is ruined after being gored by a bull. He returns home to discover things have drastically changed -- the family farm has been abandoned, his old girlfriend Julie (Kate Capshaw) is a now a widowed mother, and his sister Cheryl (Tess Harper) Read More

I Know My First Name Is Steven

Actors: Luke Edwards, Arliss Howard

Synopsis: Based on a true story, the two-part TV movie I Know My First Name Is Steven tells the tragic story of Steven Stayner. At age seven, Steven was kidnapped by two men who held him captive in a tiny shed for seven years. One of the men, a habitual child abuser named Kenneth Parnell, sexually assaulted Read More

Once Upon a Texas Train

Actors: Angie Dickinson, Richard Widmark, Willie Nelson

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Once Upon a Texas Train offers us the once-in-a-lifetime teaming of Richard Widmark, Willie Nelson and Angie Dickinson. Nelson plays a veteran outlaw who robs a bank less than 6 hours after being paroled from jail. He uses the money to reunite his old gang, then sets about to Read More

Body Slam

Actors: Dirk Benedict, Tanya Roberts, Roddy Piper, Captain Lou Albano, Barry J. Gordon

Synopsis: Harry Similac (Dirk Benedict) is a music promoter who must scramble to stay out of debt in this slapstick comedy. He hits upon the idea of becoming a wrestling promoter and steals Rick Roberts (Roddy Piper) from his former manager Captain Lou Milano (Lou Albano). He books his rock band Kick at the Read More

The A-Team: Alive at Five

Synopsis: Figuring that he'll never get a pardon from the mercurial Stockwell (Robert Vaughn), Face (Dirk Benedict) plans to escape during the A-Team's next mission. But things don't quite go as expected when Face falls in love with Sally Vogel (Valerie Wildman), a journalist whose pose as the girlfriend of Read More

Swing Shift

Actors: Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Christine Lahti, Fred Ward, Ed Harris

Synopsis: Director Jonathan Demme made one of his more conventional movies with Swing Shift, an examination of life on the American home front during WWII. Goldie Hawn, who also served as the film's producer, stars as Kay, a woman who takes a job on the line at a plant producing war planes after her husband Read More

Highway to Heaven: Help Wanted: Angel

Synopsis: Elderly screenwriter Martin Lamm (Jon Lormer) hopes that his latest script, all about the old and disenfranchised people living in his tacky beachfront neighborhood, will be made into a movie. When Martin's calls to the major studios go unanswered, he advertises for the assistance of "angel" Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: Daisy's Shotgun Wedding

Synopsis: Fed up by the interference of her overprotective cousins Bo (John Schneider) and Duke (Tom Wopat), Daisy (Catherine Bach) moves out of the Duke farmhouse. Our heroine's new independence lasts only long enough for her to be kidnapped by Milo Beaudry (played by future Night Court regular Richard Read More

Matt Houston

Actors: Lee Horsley

Synopsis: When a woman is falsely accused of killing her father, private eye Matt Houston is called onto the scene. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch

Synopsis: In this Civil-war era western set in a Missouri mining town, respectable women and floozies join forces to keep renegade Union soldiers from destroying their community. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Of Mice and Men

Actors: Randy Quaid, Cassie Yates, Robert Blake

Synopsis: This TV movie adaptation of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men was a labor of love for producer-star Robert Blake, who utilized the screenplay from the 1939 Hollywood version as his guide--a screenplay personally presented to Blake by the original film's director, Lewis Milestone. Blake and Randy Quaid Read More

The $5.20 an Hour Dream

Synopsis: Clearly inspired by the theatrical feature Norma Rae, The $5.20 an Hour Dream stars Linda Lavin as a recently divorced woman supporting herself and her 12-year-old daughter. The highest-paying job at the Oregon engine factory where she works is on the assembly line--which has traditionally been an Read More

Roots: The Next Generations

Actors: Georg Stanford Brown, Olivia de Havilland, Henry Fonda, Paul Koslo

Synopsis: The phenomenal success of the 1977 ABC miniseries Roots all but demanded a sequel to writer Alex Haley's epic story of his African and African-American forebears. Debuting February 18, 1979, Roots: The Next Generations picked up where its predecessor left off, with Haley's slave ancestors winning Read More

The Evictors

Actors: Michael Parks, Jessica Harper, Vic Morrow, Sue Ane Langdon, Dennis Fimple

Synopsis: This pedestrian haunted-house film stars Vic Morrow as a creepy real estate agent who introduces a young couple to a quaint Louisiana farmhouse, neglecting to inform them of its horrific, blood-spattered past. As bizarre events begin to plague the couple, their suspicions that the place may be Read More

B.J. and the Bear: Pilot Episode

Actors: Greg Evigan, Penny Peyser, Julius Harris

Synopsis: The TV adventure series B. J. and the Bear premiered as a midseason replacement on February 10, 1979. Greg Evigan starred as B.J. McCay, a wildcat trucker who'd do anything for a price, as long as it was honest. He travelled the length and breadth of the country in the company of his pet chimp Read More

The Rockford Files: The Competitive Edge

Synopsis: While searching for an embezzler who disappeared after posting bail, Jim (James Garner) asks one question too many at an elite health club. As a result, he is knocked out, heavily sedated, and bundled off to a mental institution. Unable to convince anyone of his real identity and surrounded by Read More

Battlestar Galactica: The Magnificent Warriors

Actors: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson, Jr., John Colicos

Synopsis: In an outer-space replay of a familiar western plotline, the Gallactica must gather enough seed to replant its devastated agroships, lest the crew and passengers starve. In order to gain the necessary seed from a group of alien farmers, Adama (Lorne Greene) is obliged to romance a former Read More

Centennial

Actors: William Atherton, Raymond Burr, Richard Chamberlain, Timothy Dalton, Alex Karras, Robert Conrad

Synopsis: The longest (26-1/2 hours), most expensive ($25 million) and most complicated (four directors, five producers, five cinematographers, almost 100 speaking parts, several hundred extras) project made for television up to that time, Centennial was shown in two- and three-hour installments over a Read More

Wishbone Cutter

Synopsis: In this adventure set during the Civil War, a traveler and an Irish-Indian named Half Moon O'Brien find a dying man who tells them of a large cache of diamonds he buried somewhere in the mountains. The two, joined by a man and a woman, begin searching for the treasure. Half-Moon senses that they Read More

Smokey and the Goodtime Outlaws

Goin' South

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Mary Steenburgen, Christopher Lloyd, John Belushi, Veronica Cartwright

Synopsis: Sentenced to hang in a backwater western town, horse thief Henry Moon (Jack Nicholson) is saved when frontierswoman Julia Tate (Mary Steenburgen) agrees to marry him. Taking advantage of the town law that prohibits the execution of married men, Moon follows Tate back to her ranch, planning all the Read More

J.D. & the Salt Flat Kid

Synopsis: While 2 novice musicians travel to Nashville they are confronted by a redneck sheriff. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Shadow of Chikara

Synopsis: In this supernatural western, Confederate veterans of the last battle of the Civil War set out to find a hidden treasure: a cache of diamonds hidden in a cave. However, the soldiers find out that the cave is guarded by a covey of hawks -- and they begin to suspect that the hawks might actually be Read More

Stay Hungry

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Sally Field, Arnold Schwarzenegger, R.G. Armstrong, Robert Englund

Synopsis: In this offbeat comedy, Jeff Bridges plays Craig Blake, a rich kid who works with a group of hard-living Southern real-estate men led by Jabo (Joe Spinell), who are buying up a business district in Birmingham, Alabama in order to clear the space and put in a new project. Craig is supposed to work Read More

Winterhawk

Actors: Leif Erickson, Woody Strode, Denver Pyle, L.Q. Jones, Michael Dante

Synopsis: This melodramatic adventure follows the exploits of a young Blackfoot Indian who goes to the Anglos for some badly needed smallpox serum. Instead of helping him, they attack. The young man is enraged and retaliates by kidnapping two young people from the unfriendly settlement. He takes them Read More

King Kong

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin, Jessica Lange, John Randolph, René Auberjonois

Synopsis: Famed producer Dino De Laurentiis tries to steal the thunder from Jaws, then the top-grossing film of all-time, in this big budget remake of King Kong. (De Laurentiis related his tactics to Tom Snyder: "When Jaws dies, nobody cries. When Kong dies, they all cry.") Updated to the 1970s, the Read More

The Creature from Black Lake

Actors: Dennis Fimple

Synopsis: When Bigfoot is sighted near a Louisiana lake, two college students (Dennis Fimple, John David Carson) camp out to confirm the legendary monster's identity. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Mackintosh and T.J.

Actors: Roy Rogers, Clay O'Brien, Billy Green Bush, Andrew Robinson, Joan Hackett

Synopsis: After sixteen years of cinematic retirement, Roy Rogers made a surprise return before the cameras in Mackintosh & T. J. Rogers plays Mackintosh, an ageing, tale-spinning ranch hand who befriends T.J., a sullen young boy (Clay O'Brien). The film is low-key, like Rogers himself, and Rogers' faithful Read More

The Apple Dumpling Gang

Actors: Bill Bixby, Susan Clark, Don Knotts, Tim Conway, David Wayne

Synopsis: The Apple Dumpling Gang stars Bill Bixby as Russell Donovan, a slick frontier gambler. In Runyon-esque fashion, he is compelled to look after three precocious oprhaned kids. He can't handle the responsibilities alone, so he agrees to an in-name-only marriage to hoydenish stagecoach driver Read More

Truck Stop Women

Actors: Claudia Jennings, Lieux Dressier, John Martino, Dennis Fimple, Dolores Dorn

Synopsis: Mark L. Lester directed this exploitation feature that treats sex, violence, and sensationalism with love and affection. The story concerns a bloody turf battle between Smith (John Martino), a mob hit man, and independent gun moll Anna (Lieux Dressler) over Anna's prostitution and theft operation Read More

Bootleggers

Actors: Betty Bluett

Synopsis: In this countrified comedy, a pair of hell-raisin' bootleggers try to get revenge upon the moonshiners who plugged their Grandpappy. They also try to get their latest batch of corn-squeezin's to Memphis before their rivals. Look carefully for a young Jaclyn Smith. When she became a star in the Read More

The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe

Synopsis: With only the slightest basis in fact, this horror film purports to chronicle an incident from the life of Edgar Allen Poe. It has to do with his mad 13-year-old cousin Lenore, whom Poe deeply loved. She is insane and lives in an asylum. Poe visits there and discovers that the hospital is but a Read More

Cactus in the Snow

Actors: Hugh Fischer, Dan Halleck, Gregory Mead, Tani Phelps

Synopsis: A young Army private looks for his first sexual experience before being shipped out for Vietnam. Instead he falls for a young lady, whom he spends a platonic 72-hour leave with. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Culpepper Cattle Company

Actors: Gary Grimes, Billy Green Bush, Luke Askew, Bo Hopkins, Geoffrey Lewis

Synopsis: Gary Grimes stars in this revisionist western as Ben Mockridge, a 16-year-old boy who has long dreamed of living the life of a cowboy. Wanting adventure, he persuades Frank Culpepper (Billy Green Bush) to take him along on a cattle drive, and Ben learns the hard way just how lonesome, exhausting Read More

M*A*S*H: Tuttle

Synopsis: In order to requisition extra money and supplies for a group of Korean orphans, Hawkeye (Alan Alda) invents a fake doctor and war hero, "Captain Jonathan S. Tuttle." All goes well until Henry (McLean Stevenson), impressed by "Tuttle's" sterling record, wants to make the imaginary physician the Read More

Alias Smith and Jones

Actors: Ben Murphy, Roger Davis

Synopsis: First telecast January 5, 1971, Alias Smith and Jones was the pilot for the popular TV series of the same name. This genial rip-off of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid stars Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes and Ben Murphy as Kid Curry, two notorious Western bandits who have become folk heroes because Read More

Petticoat Junction: Steve's New Job

Synopsis: Steve (Mike Minor) is given a lucrative job offer that will require him to move to New York. Will Betty Jo (Linda Kaye Henning) be willing to bring herself and baby Kathy Jo along? The episode spends most of its running time watching Betty weigh the options--and also observing Betty's friends and Read More

Petticoat Junction: Kate's Homecoming

Synopsis: After missing several episodes due to illness, Bea Benaderet returns to her familiar Petticoat Junction role as Kate Bradley, owner of Hooterville's Shady Rest Hotel. The entire town gears up for a gala homecoming party in Kate's honor, but there are a few hitches along the way--including a Read More

Petticoat Junction: Wings

Synopsis: Buddy Rogers and Richard Arlen, who costarred in the very first Oscar-winning movie Wings, are reunited in this episode. The two veteran actors show up in Hooterville Valley to save the Pixley Bijou Theater from demolition, agreeing to appear at the theater's premiere screening of Wings. . .some Read More