Denny Miller Filmography

Lonesome Dove: The Series - Blood Money

Lonesome Dove: The Series - Law and Order

Colour in the Creek

Synopsis: Set during the Great Depression, this Australian TV movie concerns the adventures of the Fletcher family. Dennis Miller and Judy Morris portray the Fletcher parents, who with their offspring head to the Outback to prospect for gold. The oldest Fletcher boy (Ken Talbot) is bullied by the son (Travis Latter Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Photo Play

Synopsis: Magnum (Tom Selleck) literally runs into pushy female photographer Shelly Faraday (Cassie Yates) when she crashes into his car while being pursued by hoodlums. It turns out that while on assignment in France, Shelly had accidentally snapped a photo of a notorious embezzler who is supposed to be Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Sticks and Stones

Synopsis: When Cabot Cove resident Beverly Garrett is electrocuted in her own bathtub in a locked bathroom, Sheriff Amos Tupper (Tom Bosley) is willing to write the tragedy off as an accident; Tupper, you see, is thinking about retirement, and has already hand-picked his successor. But Jessica (Angela Read More

Magnum, P.I.: A Sense of Debt

Synopsis: Owing his life to washed-up pugilist Leon Platt (Denny Miller), T.C. (Roger E. Mosley) enters a bare-knuckle boxing match, intending to use the prize money to save Leon and his daughter Ima (a pre-Beverly Hills 90210 Shannen Doherty) from being tossed into the street. Figuring that T.C. hasn't got Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Three Minus Two

Synopsis: In the final episode of Magnum P.I's second season, fashion designer Jan Kona (Jill St. John) solicits the help of Thomas Magnum (Tom Selleck) when one of her two partners is murdered. She suspects that the surviving partner is the guilty party, and that she's next on the list. Meanwhile, a Read More

Brainwash

Actors: Yvette Mimieux, Christopher Allport, Cindy Pickett, John Considine, Walter Olkewicz

Synopsis: Also known as Mystique, Brainwash and The Naked Weekend, Circle of Power is not recommended viewing for any aspiring executive about to undergo leadership classes. Yvette Mimieux plays the head of an organization called Executive Development Training, or EDT for short. Her grueling Read More

M*A*S*H: Tell it To the Marines

Synopsis: With Col. Potter (Harry Morgan) away, the insufferable Charles is placed in charge of the 4077th. When they're not expressing displeasure over Charles' arrogance, Hawkeye (Alan Alda) and B.J. (Mike Farrell) are locking horns with the US Marines. The reason: The doctors want to help an Read More

Cabo Blanco

Actors: Charles Bronson, Jason Robards, Jr., Dominique Sanda, Fernando Rey, Simon MacCorkindale

Synopsis: In this strange, unsatisfying remake of Casablanca, directed by J. Lee Thompson, a bar owner helps a woman find a missing fortune. Right after the end of WWII, Giff Hoyt (Charles Bronson) owns a bar in Peru into which Marie Allesandri (Dominique Sanda) enters one day, in search of her lover and Read More

Dr. Scorpion

Synopsis: Dr. Scorpion (Roscoe Lee Browne) is a megalomaniac genius, who plans to rule the world with or without the world's cooperation. His chief nemesis is marine biologist Jonathan Shackleford (Nick Mancuso), an ex-spy better known as "Shack". Shack was also the title of the TV series for which the Read More

Shack

Battlestar Galactica: The Gun on Ice Planet, Zero Part 2

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

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, the fate of the Galactica rests in the hands of an army of criminals and misfits, under the command of Apollo (Richard Hatch) and Starbuck (Dirk Benedict). This ragtag band must destroy the Cylon pulsar cannon mounted on the ice planet Arcta. Can they depend Read More

The Norseman

Actors: Lee Majors, Cornel Wilde, Mel Ferrer, Jack Elam, Christopher Connelly

Synopsis: When his father does not return from the Norse colony in Vinland (Greenland) for years and years, warrior son Thorvald (Lee Majors) organizes an expedition to find him. He and his co-commander Ragnar (Cornel Wilde) arrive and swiftly discover that King Eurich (Mel Ferrer) and his company were Read More

Battlestar Galactica: The Gun on Ice Planet, Zero Part 1

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

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, the Galactica is again attacked by a fleet of Cylon fighters. The crew's only hope of escape is through a space corridor past the ice planet Arcta--which is guarded by a Cylon pulsar cannon. Commander Adama (Lorne Greene) is ultimately forced to place the Read More

The Rockford Files: Black Mirror, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first half of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single two-hour "TV movie"), Jim (James Garner) tries to save Dr. Megan Dougherty (Kathryn Harrold), a blind psychologist, from a mysterious stalker. There's a strong possibility that Megan's tormentor is one of her own patients, but Read More

The Rockford Files: Forced Retirement

Synopsis: Beth (Gretchen Corbett) asks Jim (James Garner) a favor on behalf of her current client (and her onetime college rival) Susan Kenniston (Margaret Impert). Jim is to check up on Richard Lessing (a pre-Dallas Larry Hagman) the principal investor in a suspicious-looking undersea research project in Read More

Danger in Paradise

Synopsis: This pilot film for the TV series Big Hawaii stars Cliff Potts and John Dehner as a wealthy father-and-son team of Hawaiian cattle ranchers. Neither character is a candidate for the "Mister Nice Guy" award, especially the wayward Potts, who's recently been chased out of Vegas for cheating at Read More

Alice: Alice Gets a Pass

Synopsis: After a special airing of its pilot episode, Alice officially launches its first season with widow Alice Hyatt (Linda Lavin) firmly ensconced as a waitress in a Phoenix, Arizona greasy spoon known as Mel's Diner. On this occasion, Alice finds herself attracted to Jack (Denny Miller), an old friend Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Go Fight City Hall--To the Death!

Synopsis: Originally telecast as a component of The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie, the feature-length opening episode of Quincy, M.E. quickly establishes the prickly personality and crusading nature of LA County Coroner's Office medical examiner Quincy (Jack Klugman). We're also introduced to several others Read More

Eliza Fraser

Actors: John Castle, Abigail, Gerard Kennedy, Noel Ferrier

Synopsis: The Australian Eliza Fraser tries for the wig-and-bodice bawdiness of Tom Jones. The title character, played by Susannah York, is an 18th century lass who is shipwrecked together with Trevor Howard on a remote Australian island. Her lively exploits among the refugees help to make Eliza famous--or Read More

The Great McCarthy

Actors: John Jarratt, Judy Morris, Kate Fitzpatrick, Barry Humphries

Synopsis: This comedy, based on Barry Oakley's popular novel Salute to the Great McCarthy chronicles the adventurous and amorous exploits of an Australian country boy. The whole mess begins when the strapping lad is kidnapped and taken to Melbourne to play Australian Rules Football. The perpetrator and Read More

Nick and Nora

Synopsis: In this murder mystery, the married detectives must prove that the murder was committed at a posh hotel. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Island at the Top of the World

Actors: Niels Hinrichsen, Gunnar Ohlund, Erik Silju, Rolf Soder, David Hartman, Donald Sinden, Jacques Marin, Mako, David Gwillim

Synopsis: This Disney family adventure, directed by Robert Stevenson in his Jules Verne mode, concern a group of explorers who travel to the Arctic Circle in 1908 to explore the uncharted wastes of the North Pole. Sir Anthony Ross (Donald Sinden), a rich Londoner, organizes an Arctic exploration team in Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Commitment

Synopsis: On assignment, Stone (Karl Malden) kills a suspect who turns out to be an undercover cop. Though he insists that the killing was an accident, tests in the police lab would seem to suggest that he has committed murder. As the story develops, Stone realizes that he has been made the fall guy in an Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Mask of Death

Synopsis: In an acting tour de force that earned him critical acclaim back in 1974, John Davidson guest stars as professional female impersonator Ken Scott. The highlight of Scott's nightclub act is his dead-on imitation of legendary 1930s movie star Carol Marlowe. Unfortunately, the entertainer's Read More

Emergency!: Communication Gaffe

Synopsis: When a cop and a robber are both shot during a liquor-store holdup, the cop's partner (James McEachin) accuses the Squad 51 rescue team of giving preferential treatment to the perpetrator. In emergency situations, the paramedics come upon a possible case of child abuse, a dental patient inhales Read More

The Gravy Train

Actors: Mary L. Honaker

Synopsis: The Gravy Train stars Stacy Keach and Frederic Forrest as a husky but none-too-bright pair of West Virginia brothers. Feeling stifled by their blue-collar jobs, the boys become tentatively involved in crime, only to discover that they enjoy working on the wrong side of the law. The moments of Read More

Buck and the Preacher

Actors: Ruby Dee, Cameron Mitchell, Denny Miller, Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte

Synopsis: Sidney Poitier makes his directorial debut with the 1972 Western Buck and the Preacher, set during the end of the Civil War. Poitier stars as Buck, an ex-Army soldier who is scouting sites for the former slaves that want to settle out West. The villainous Deshay (Cameron Mitchell) rounds up his Read More

The Doomsday Machine

Synopsis: Poorly written, directed and photographed, The Doomsday Machine is one of those cheap sci-fi farragos which rounds up several faded stars and then gives them nothing to work with. Among the trapped former luminaries are Denny Miller, Mala Powers, Bobby Van and Henry Wilcoxon. The plot (for lack of Read More

Making it

Actors: Kristoffer Tabori, Joyce Van Patten

Synopsis: In the life of sexually successful young high-school student Phil Fuller (Kristoffer Tabori) the episodes in this story enable him to gain increased maturity and understanding. Phil is attracted to his gym teacher's beautiful wife who has a phobia about growing old and who eventually takes him to Read More

Stork

Actors: Sean McEuen, Terry Norris

Synopsis: In this off-beat comedy from Australia, a skinny, awkward fellow is troubled by his inability to hold a job and lose his virginity. He ends up moving in with three buddies and a free-spirited girl with whom each of the young men ends up in bed with. The trouble begins when the girl gets pregnant. Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Field

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: In order to deactive a satellite armed with thermonculear bombs, the IMF must penetrate a heavily guarded island and destroy the missile's control center. Part of the plan requires Barney to arrive on the island alone via submarine. Alas, something goes wrong, placing Barney--and, by extention Read More

Ironside: A Lonely Way to Go

Synopsis: Even though Jason Banning (Carl Betz), a hard-drinking Police Pension Fund investment manager, has confessed to the murder of his secretary, all existing evidence proves otherwise. Ironside (Raymond Burr) takes it upon himself to find out if Banning is actually guilty, or if he is simply suffering Read More

I Dream of Jeannie: Eternally Yours, Jeannie

Synopsis: Jeannie (Barbara Eden) learns of the impending visit of Bonnie (Damien Bodie), Tony's high school sweetheart. Worried that she'll lose Tony (Larry Hagman) to his old flame, Jeannie magically transforms herself into Bonnie to test her husband's fidelity. Unfortunately, Bonnie happens to have Read More

It Takes All Kinds

Actors: Robert Lansing, Vera Miles, Barry Sullivan, Penny Sugg

Synopsis: In this drama, a sailor is blackmailed into stealing a valuable panel of stained glass. The trouble begins when the sailor gets into a fight with another and jumps ship in Sydney, Australia. Upon the docks he is knocked out. When he wakes up, he finds himself in a woman's apartment. She is the Read More

The Party

Actors: Peter Sellers, Claudine Longet, Marge Champion, Steve Franken, Fay McKenzie, Gavin MacLeod

Synopsis: Peter Sellers plays a bumbling foreigner once again (but this time he's not from France) in this cult-favorite comedy. Hrundi V. Bakshi (Peter Sellers) is an accident-prone actor from India who has come to California, hoping to make a name for himself in Hollywood movies. However, Bakshi quickly Read More

Escape from Planet Earth

Synopsis: This sci-fi drama is set aboard a nearly derelict spaceship about to fail. With little remaining supplies and little oxygen, only a few of the crew will survive to make it back to Earth, leaving them to decide which of them must die. The film is also known as The Doomsday Machine. ~ Sandra Read More

Gilligan's Island: Our Vines Have Tender Apes

Actors: Denny Miller, Janos Prohaska

Synopsis: Denny Miller, who'd guested on Gilligan's Island's first season as a musclebound (and muscleheaded) surfer, makes a return appearance in this episode, this time as a Tarzan clone named Tongo the Ape Man (ironically, Miller had previously been one of the movie Tarzans in the early 1960s) . The Read More

The Fugitive: Approach with Care

Synopsis: Now travelling under the name "Pete Allen", Kimble befriends Willie Turner (Denny Miller), a mentally challenged youth who is also on the lam from the law. To protect Willie, Kimble gets the boy a job as a carnival roustabout, but his generosity may result in his own arrest. Ultimately, the only Read More

Gilligan's Island: Big Man on Little Stick

Actors: Denny Miller

Synopsis: Denny Miller guest stars as Duke Williams, a musclebound surfer who has washed ashore on the island after riding a huge tsunami all the way from Hawaii. Naturally, the castaways are certain that Duke will be able to rise another big wave back to civilization and arrange a rescue. Unfortunately Read More

Love in a Goldfish Bowl

Actors: Tommy Sands, Fabian, Jan Sterling, Toby Michaels, Edward Andrews

Synopsis: In this comedy drama, two troubled college freshmen find themselves united by their mutual family woes and so decide to spend the summer together in a beachhouse belonging to the boy's mother. They are platonic friends until the girl gets in trouble during a sailing accident and is rescued by a Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Saturday Night

Synopsis: Arrested during a barroom brawl in a small and unfriendly town, Paladin (Richard Boone) groggily awakens in his jail cell to find he has been accused of murder. It seems that one of the other incarcerated brawlers has been mysteriously killed in his cell--and as a stranger in town, Paladin has Read More

Tarzan, the Ape Man

Actors: Denny Miller, Robert Douglas, Joanna Barnes, Thomas Yangha

Synopsis: This was the second Tarzan movie in 1959, and it includes footage from MGM's King Solomon's Mines and other films, telling a visually patchworked story of how Jane found Tarzan, or vice-versa. The English woman Jane Parker (Joanna Barnes) travels to Africa with her father (Robert Douglas) to look Read More

Some Came Running

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Martha Hyer, Arthur Kennedy

Synopsis: After the success of From Here to Eternity, pairing Frank Sinatra with another James Jones novel made perfect sense. Set in the aftermath of World War II, the film stars Sinatra as a recently discharged soldier whose promising writing career has derailed. After a drunken card game, Sinatra finds Read More