Dick ButkusFilmography

Bound for Glory [TV Series]

Actors: Dick Butkus

Inside Schwartz [TV Series]

Actors: Breckin Meyer, Miriam Shor, Richard Kline, Bryan Callen, Jennifer Irwin

Synopsis: Sort of a jock's version of the popular cable sitcom Dream On, Inside Schwartz stars Breckin Meyer as the title character, aspiring sportscaster Adam Schwartz. Obliged to work in his family's bar, Adam dreams of a big-time career on ESPN or some other sports outlet. On each half-hour episode Read More

Any Given Sunday

Actors: Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid, James Woods, Jamie Foxx

Synopsis: Oliver Stone takes on professional football, a sport whose grace and delicacy are a good match for his filmmaking style. Tony D'Amato (Al Pacino), the head coach of the Miami Sharks, won back-to-back championships four years ago. But new team owner Christina Pagniacci (Cameron Diaz) has little Read More

Hang Time: Season 05

Hang Time: Season 04

NFL: 100 Toughest Players

Synopsis: Sports writers and fans enjoy making 'best of' lists, and one of the favorites is the toughest players list. NFL Films adds their vote with its film NFL's 100 Toughest Players. Host Steve Sabol leads the viewer through the list, showing exciting footage of some of the NFL's most fearsome warriors. Read More

The Last Boy Scout

Actors: Bruce Willis, Damon Wayans, Chelsea Field, Noble Willingham, Taylor Negron

Synopsis: Producer Joel Silver, director Tony Scott, and screenwriters Shane Black and Greg Hicks team up for this gridiron-set action thriller. Bruce Willis stars as Joe Hallenbeck, who was once a top-of-the-line Secret Service agent but has since become an alcoholic, flea-bag detective. While performing Read More

Necessary Roughness

Actors: Scott Bakula, Hector Elizondo, Robert Loggia, Harley Jane Kozak, Larry Miller

Synopsis: After a recruitment scandal, a struggling college football team is forced to turn to a rag-tag group of misfits in this sports comedy. It seems that Texas State University's football team has relied on some rather unorthodox -- and illegal -- methods to gain players, resulting in the Read More

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Actors: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, John Glover, Robert Prosky, Robert Picardo

Synopsis: Where the original Gremlins was a horror film spiked with comedy, Gremlins 2: The New Batch is essentially a black comedy, with a couple of horrifying touches. As the film starts, the fantastical trinket shop in Chinatown, which sold the Mogwai in the first film, is demolished by a crazed Read More

Spontaneous Combustion

Synopsis: In this horror outing, a secret government experiment produces a man capable of using his mental powers to start fires. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

My Two Dads: Season 03

My Two Dads: Season 02

Growing Pains: The Marrying Kind

Synopsis: Jason (Alan Thicke) and Maggie (Joanna Kerns) play host to Carol's boyfriend Bobby (Kevin Wixted and his parents Robert (Dick Butkus) and Kitty (Arlene Golonka). In the course of the evening, Bobby throws both sets of parents for a loop by announcing that he and Carol (Tracey Gold) are engaged! Read More

Crash Course

Synopsis: A group of mischievous teen-agers get a notoriously difficult instructor that becomes their summer driving school teacher. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Stepford Children

Actors: Barbara Eden, Don Murray, Richard Anderson, James Coco, Randall Batinkoff

Synopsis: This film takes place in that strange bastion of middle-class living, Stepford, CT. The trouble begins when a former resident returns with his new family and forces them to become as strangely contented as their neighbors. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

My Two Dads: Season 01

NFL: Crunchtime

Synopsis: The football video Crunchtime introduces viewers to the toughest men in America's roughest sport. Sports enthusiasts get a chance to meet the men who specialize in devastating collisions and crushes, the men who know how to make an opponent think twice on the next matchup. The documentary video Read More

Hamburger... The Motion Picture

Actors: Leigh McCloskey, Dick Butkus, Randi Brooks, Chuck McCann, Jack Blessing

Synopsis: In addition to sexual encounters and nudity, toilet humor is on a roll in this story about some teens trying to finish a 12-week course in fast-food service -- yes, 12 weeks to study how to make and sell a hamburger. As their final exam, the teens have to run a burger place. ~ Eleanor Mannikka Read More

Night Court: Hurricane, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Hurricane Mel bears down upon New York City just as four very pregnant defendants simultaneously go into labor in Harry's courtroom. In the course of events, one of the mothers-to-be (played by action-film diva Pam Grier) decides it's about time to marry her Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Sudden Death

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury is given a crash course in the nomenclature of football when she inherits a small percentage in a pro football team. She also stumbles upon a murder case (surprise!) when the team's much-hated owner is killed in the locker room . It's going to be tough to discern the Read More

Half-Nelson

Actors: Morgan Brittany

Synopsis: Half-Nelson was a very brief TV cop series which made its bow on March 24, 1985, with a two-hour "special". Joe Pesci, sporting lots and lots of hair, stars as ex-Manhattan cop Rocky Nelson, nicknamed "Half" Nelson because he stands well under six feet. Nelson is now a Beverly Hills security guard Read More

Blue Thunder [TV Series]

Actors: Dick Butkus, Dana Carvey, James Farentino, Bubba Smith

Johnny Dangerously

Actors: Michael Keaton, Joe Piscopo, Marilu Henner, Maureen Stapleton, Peter Boyle

Synopsis: This spoof of the 1930s and '40s crime stories ranges from the ridiculous to the sublime as it tells the story of Johnny Dangerously (Byron Thames as the young Johnny, Michael Keaton as the older), a devoted son to his ailing mother (Maureen Stapleton), so ill that she needs money for several Read More

Cracking Up

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Herb Edelman, Foster Brooks, Buddy Lester

Synopsis: Jerry Lewis reprises his previous movie persona, this time as Warren Nefron, a man unable to successfully kill himself, while Herb Edelman is Dr. Jonas Pletchick, the psychiatrist out to cure him of his failure, in this undistinguished slapstick comedy. Many of Lewis' past routines crop up again Read More

Magnum, P.I.: One More Summer

Synopsis: When his old Naval Academy colleague Dorsey Bramlett (David Wilson), now a pro quarterback with the New Jersey Blazers football team, is targeted for murder, Magnum (Tom Selleck) rushes to the rescue. To avoid tipping off Dorsey's would-be killers, Magnum goes undercover as a football player at Read More

The Eliminator

Deadly Games

Actors: Sam Groom, Jo Ann Harris, Steve Railsback, Dick Butkus, Alexandra Morgan

Synopsis: In this routine slasher film about the relationship between a deranged killer and his victim, Keegan (Jo Ann Harris) is a young woman who returns to her home town to look for her sister's killer. Other victims have been brutally murdered by a man in a black mask, and Keegan turns to the Read More

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Synopsis: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a 1979 made-for-TV adaptation of Washington Irving's classic ghost story. Humor is the drawing card in this version, with Jeff Goldblum a delightfully nerdish Ichabod Crane, Dick Butkus an appropriately nasty Brom Bones, and Meg Foster as spirited Katrina van Tassel. Read More

Taxi: The Apartment

Actors: Nancy Steen, Dick Butkus

Synopsis: When Latka (Andy Kaufman) is evicted from his apartment, Alex (Judd Hirsch) offers to help him find a new place. Even so, Latka locates the perfect place on his own: a luxurious apartment that is ideally suited to his intended lifestyle. Unfortunately, there was a language breakdown during the Read More

Superdome

Synopsis: An upcoming Super Bowl provides the framework for this suspenseful thriller set in New Orleans. The trouble begins when a murderous stalker begins threatening assorted lovers, gamblers, and con artists who typically surround the big game. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Gus

Actors: Ed Asner, Don Knotts, Gary Grimes, Tim Conway, Liberty Williams

Synopsis: In this Disney film, Hank Cooper (Ed Asner) the owner of a losing professional football team, recruits Gus, a Yugoslavian soccer player, to his team. Even though Gus is a mule, he figures the animal can be taught to make field-goal kicks. Despite the outrage of his team, and sabotage efforts by Read More

Mother, Jugs & Speed

Actors: Raquel Welch, Bill Cosby, Harvey Keitel, Allen Garfield, Larry Hagman

Synopsis: In this frantic black comedy, Harry Fishbine (Allen Garfield) is the proprietor of the F&B Ambulance Service, a low-budget free-lance rescue service which is struggling to keep up with the bigger and better funded competition after a law in Los Angeles decrees that the first ambulance to arrive at Read More

Rich Man, Poor Man

Actors: Peter Strauss, Nick Nolte, Susan Blakely, Steve Allen, Ed Asner, Bill Bixby

Synopsis: More ambitious and expensive than ABC's first "novel for television" miniseries QB VII, the eight-episode, 12-hour Rich Man, Poor Man was the one that truly put the genre on the map, its phenomenal success in the ratings making possible the even more spectacular Roots. Adapted from the mammoth Read More

A Matter of Wife... and Death

Actors: Rod Taylor, Joe Santos, Eddie Firestone, Luke Askew, John Colicos

Synopsis: Rod Taylor stars in this feature-length pilot film for the unsold TV series Shamus. The star is cast as Shamus McCoy, who befitting his name, makes his living as a private detective. While investigating the bomb killing over another gumshoe, McCoy picks up a trail of evidence leading to a major Read More

The Rockford Files: The No-Cut Contract

Synopsis: At the height of his fame as "The Meathead" on All in the Family, Rob Reiner accepted a guest-star assignment on this episode of The Rockford Files. Reiner is cast as Larry "King" Sturtevant, a second-string quarterback for the Southern Illinois Warriors football team. Jim Rockford (James Garner) Read More

Emergency!: The Hard Hours

Synopsis: Dr. Early (Bobby Troup) becomes a patient at Rampart when, after his EKG shows an irregular heartbeat, he must undergo a bypass. In another development, a former football star (played by a typecast Dick Butkus) sustains an injury but is reluctant to tell the emergency team how it happened. Also: a Read More

Brian's Song

Actors: Judy Pace, Jack Warden, James Caan, Billy Dee Williams

Synopsis: One of the best known and most enthusiastically reviewed made for television films of the 1970's, this drama was based on the true story of football greats Gale Sayers and Brian Piccolo. Sayers (Billy Dee Williams) and Piccolo (James Caan) both joined the Chicago Bears the same year, and while it Read More