Dick ClarkFilmography

Wildwood Days

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Actors: Sam Rockwell, Drew Barrymore, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Rutger Hauer

Synopsis: Chuck Barris is best known to most Americans as the guy who used to host The Gong Show. He was also the creator and producer of The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game, and a handful of other successful game shows in the 1960s and 1970s. But was he also a hired killer working with the CIA? Read More

Bowling For Columbine

Actors: Michael Moore, Charlton Heston, Matt Stone, Marilyn Manson

Synopsis: Filmmaker, author, and political activist Michael Moore trains his satirical eye on America's obsession with guns and violence in his third feature-length documentary, which gets its title from a pair of loosely related incidents. On April 20, 1999, shortly before they began their infamous killing Read More

Into the Night: The Benny Mardones Story

Actors: Benny Mardones

American Dreams [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Set in Philadelphia during the early '60s, the NBC drama series American Dreams concentrated on the Pryors, an Irish-Catholic family struggling to make sense of the great sociological changes being wrought upon the world -- and themselves. The first episode, ostensibly built around the Read More

The Chamber [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Spy Kids

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, Alexa Vega, Daryl Sabara, Alan Cumming

Synopsis: In this reteaming of actor Antonio Banderas and director Robert Rodriguez -- their first film together since the 1995 feature Desperado -- Banderas plays Gregorio; he and devoted partner Ingrid (Carla Gugino), comprise the greatest pair of secret agents working. Both are masters of disguise and Read More

The Other Half

Actors: Danny Bonaduce, Dick Clark, Mario Lopez, Jan Adams

American Classics [TV Documentary Series]

Actors: Dick Clark

Futurama: Space Pilot 3000

Actors: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio

Synopsis: On December 31, 1999, deadbeat pizza delivery boy Fry (voice of Billy West) gets accidentally cryogenically frozen until the year 3000. When he emerges, cyclops alien Leela (voice of Katey Sagal) is ordered to implant a chip in his hand for a life assignment. When he finds out that he's ordered to Read More

Motown 40: The Music Is Forever

Actors: Aretha Franklin, Little Richard, Branford Marsalis, George Clinton, Kenneth Edmonds

Synopsis: Diana Ross hosts this four-hour TV special tracing the rise of Berry Gordy's Detroit-based Motown record label during the '60s. Clips were compiled from a variety of sources, including such TV shows as Teen Town, Where the Action Is and It's What's Happening Baby. The history covers the label's Read More

Murphy Brown: Opus One

Synopsis: Murphy Brown returned from a four-month hiatus with this episode, originally telecast April 6, 1998. Now finished with chemotherapy, Murphy (Candice Bergen) hopes to celebrate her 50th birthday in grand style. Picking up on Murphy's high spirits, Frank (Joe Regalbuto) concocts a surprise party to Read More

Bobby Darin: Beyond the Song

Synopsis: Combining familiar movie and TV images with rare, seldom-seen backstage footage, this PBS documentary traces the life and tragic early death of pop singer Bobby Darin. Born in 1936, Darin was a superstar before he was old enough to vote, parlaying such standards as "Mack the Knife," "Artificial Read More

Kidstuff! With Dick Clark

The Drew Carey Show: Drew's the Other Man

Synopsis: Though Drew (Drew Carey) is gratified that Bonnie (Caroline Rhea) wants to date him exclusively, he's confused by her unwillingness to be seen in public. Only after planning an intimate gourmet meal for two does Drew find out the reason for Bonnie's reticence: She happens to have a husband named Read More

The Good Doctor: The Paul Fleiss Story

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Critics were somewhat amused when this made-for-TV movie first aired over CBS on February 21, 1996. They could understand why someone would want to make a biopic about notorious "Hollywood madam" Heidi Fleiss (here played by Tricia Leigh Fisher)--but of what possible dramatic value was a film Read More

Deep Family Secrets

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Country-western singer JoAnne Chadway (Molly Gross) is distraught when her mother Renee (Angie Dickinson)--and even more so since the disappearance occurred amidst bitter domestic strife with JoAnne's powerful attorney father Clay Chadway (Richard Crenna). When Clay inevitably becomes a suspect in Read More

Harlem Globetrotters: 6 Decades of Magic

Synopsis: A highly entertaining retrospective of the famous basketball team. Harlem Globetrotters: 6 Decades of Magic, hosted by Louis Gossett Jr., showcases the multi-talented and athletic players that have been delighting audiences all over the world since 1927. Special profiles of famous players like Read More

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: I, Whoops, There is Is

Synopsis: In a special change-of-pace episode, Will Smith appears out of character to review the six-year history of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air), using interviews, clips from past episodes, and hilarious outtakes and bloopers. Will wanders from one NBC dressing room to the air to discuss the show with costars Read More

A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes: The Annette Funicello Story

Actors: Eva La Rue, Annette Funicello, Linda Lavin, Frankie Avalon, Dick Clark

Synopsis: This made-for-television biography paints a moving portrait of the extraordinary life of Annette Funicello, a former Mouseketeer who grew up to be America's sweetheart and Queen of the Beach Blanket movies of the 1960s. The story not only covers her professional rise to stardom both as an actress Read More

Investigative Reports: Beauty Pageants - Bright Lights, Big Business

Synopsis: This documentary, part of the Investigative Reports cable television series on the A&E network, examines the glitzy and often controversial world of beauty pageants. From small-themed contests, to city or state contests, to national and even international contests, this episode, narrated by Investigative Reports Read More

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: The Philadelphia Story

Synopsis: Accompanied by the Banks family, Will (Will Smith) makes a return visit to his old South Philly neighborhood. Upon arrival, he is ribbed by his friends for his reputation as a "chicken". There is only one thing that will end this persecution: Will must challenge his childhood nemesis Omar (Jacques Read More

Politically Incorrect: Pulp Politics

Synopsis: Bill Maher hosts a 1993 and a 1995 episode of the irreverent and provocative Comedy Central round-table talk show. The episodes center on the questions: "Do rap music's violent lyrics incite violent behavior?"; "Will Americans get nostalgic about almost anything?"; and "Why do people join cults?" Read More

Backtrack

Crew: Producer

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Jodie Foster, Dean Stockwell, Vincent Price, Fred Ward, John Turturro

Synopsis: Originally prepared for European release under the title Catchfire, Backtrack wasn't given a wide distribution until 1991, and then only to capitalize on the Oscar win of Silence of the Lambs star Jodie Foster. In Backtrack, Foster plays a youngish innocent who witnesses a mob hit. Professional Read More

Best of the Soupy Sales Show

Synopsis: Taken from the popular TV show, this video features segments with Soupy Sales and guests like Dick Clark, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., and others. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Michael Jackson: The Legend Continues

Mamas & the Papas: Straight Shooters

Synopsis: John Phillips, Michelle Phillips, Denny Doherty and Mama Cass are featured in this retrospective of their work as The Mamas & The Papas. Features the music that made them famous, discussions with surviving group members and film clips. Dick Clark, Mick Fleetwood and Joe Cocker also appear. ~ All Read More

Bruce Willis: The Return of Bruno

Synopsis: Bruce Willis takes on the world of music as his alter-ego Bruno. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Dick Clark's Best of Bandstand: The Superstars

Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins

Crew: Producer

Actors: Fred Ward, Joel Grey, Wilford Brimley, J.A. Preston, George Coe, Kate Mulgrew

Synopsis: Adapted from the "Destroyer" series of novels and comic books (not exactly the level of Ian Fleming), Remo Williams (Fred Ward) is a New York cop who works for a top-secret government agency accountable directly to the President of the U.S. After his reluctant induction into this agency, Remo is Read More

Copacabana

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: This campy drama, set in the 1940s, was inspired by a hit song by Barry Manilow. It tells the tale of an aspiring songwriter, Lola, a showgirl, and the sleazy owner of the Copa. Tragedy ensues as the two men duel over Lola's love. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Elvis Memories

Mutant

Crew: Producer

Actors: Joseph Long, Johnny Popwell, Sr., Stuart Culpepper, Larry Quackenbush, Earl Ramsey, Dale Echols, Lavon Lacey, Pat Moss, Wings Hauser, Bo Hopkins, Lee Montgomery, Jennifer Warren, Jody Medford

Synopsis: A muscular pair of Yankee brothers visit a backwater Georgia town and end up involved with rednecked mutant zombies. The campy horror begins when brother Mike suddenly disappears. Puzzled brother Josh, with the help of Sheriff Will Stewart and schoolmarm Holly begin a desperate search. Read More

Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever

The Woman Who Willed a Miracle

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Cloris Leachman, James Noble, M. Emmet Walsh, Leif Green, Rosemary Murphy

Synopsis: One of the most famous of all ABC Afterschool Specials, The Woman Who Willed a Miracle is the true story of two remarkable people. Cloris Leachman stars as middle-aged Wisconsin nurse May Lemke, who adopts a six-month-old boy named Leslie and brings him into her family. Abandoned as an infant Read More

The Demon Murder Case

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Eddie Albert, Ken Kercheval, Joyce Van Patten

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Demon Murder Case has received an inordinate amount of airplay since its initial telecast on March 6, 1983. We suspect that this has something to do with its star, a young and callow fellow name of Kevin Bacon. Though he receives top billing, Bacon is hardly the hero of the piece; Read More

Murder in Texas

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV docudrama, Sam Elliott stars as John Hill, a Houston plastic surgeon accused of the murder of his socialite wife Joan, the daughter of oil baron Ash Robinson. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Valentine Magic on Love Island

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Valentine Magic on Love Island was accurately dismissed by one reviewer as a "bubble headed brew of I Dream of Jeannie and a Club Med Vacation." Janis Paige stars as Madge, a benign sorceress who runs a lavish tropical resort with the help of her nephew Jimmy (Christopher Knight) Read More

The Dark

Crew: Producer

Actors: William Devane, Cathy Lee Crosby, Richard Jaeckel, Keenan Wynn, Jacquelyn Hyde

Synopsis: This well-acted but wildly disjointed sci-fi/horror film stars William Devane as a writer who takes a personal interest in a series of baffling decapitation murders in the L.A. area, all of which seem to indicate some kind of supernatural force at work. He is joined in his investigation by a TV Read More

The Man in the Santa Claus Suit

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Made for TV, The Man in the Santa Claus Suit jumped the gun a bit by premiering December 23, 1979. The title "character" is threefold: John Byner, Gary Burghoff and Bert Convy all don Santa suits for various reasons. Byner is a fugitive tramp, Burghoff a lonely schoolteacher, and Convy a divorced Read More

Elvis

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Kurt Russell, Shelley Winters, Bing Russell, Season Hubley, Pat Hingle

Synopsis: The first volley in the never-ending "Presley movie" blitzkrieg, the made-for-TV Elvis: The Movie stars Kurt Russell as the King, Season Hubley as Priscilla, Pat Hingle as Col. Parker, Shelley Winters as Elvis' mom, and Bing Russell (Kurt's real-life father) as Elvis' dad. The film recounts Presley Read More

Birth of the Beatles

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Stephen MacKenna, Rod Culbertson, Ray Ashcroft, Ryan Michael

Synopsis: British director Richard Marquand graduated from BBC documentaries to dramatized features with 1979's Birth of the Beatles. This chronicle of the Fab Four begins when the group consisted of five musicians: John Lennon (Stephen MacKenna), Paul McCartney (Rod Culbertson), George Harrison (John Altman Read More

Deadman's Curve

Actors: Bruce Davison

Synopsis: Deadman's Curve is a made-for-TV biography concerning "California sound" rock-n-rollers Jan and Dean. Richard Hatch plays Jan Berry, while Bruce Davison is seen as Dean Torrence. The meat of the story is Jan's grueling efforts to fully recover from a disastrous 1966 auto accident. The film's most Read More

Telethon

Synopsis: A marathon fundraiser held in exciting Las Vegas finds itself beset by behind-the-scenes romance and danger in this drama. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Adam-12: Who Won?

Synopsis: This week, Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) try to stem an epidemic of reckless drag-racing in the streets of LA. Their hotheaded colleague Ed Wells (Gary Crosby) is all for locking up the culprits and throwing away the key, but Jim and Pete are of the opinion that Read More

The Partridge Family: Star Quality

Synopsis: Some terrific reviews from showbiz columnist Sheila Faber (Mitzi Hoag) causes Danny's ego to swell to gargantuan dimensions. At first, Danny (Danny Bonaduce) toys with the idea of quitting the family act to strike out as a solo entertainer. Soon, however, he becomes inundated with stories of how Read More

The Phynx

Actors: Michael Miller, Ray Chippeway, Dennis Larden, Lonny Stevens, Lou Antonio

Synopsis: Have you ever longed for the day when James Brown, Martha Raye, and Col. Harland Sanders would appear in a movie together? Well, that's barely the tip of the improbable casting iceberg in this bizarre cold-war spoof. The leaders of the American intelligence organization the S.S.A. ("Super Secret Read More

The Savage Seven

Crew: Producer

Actors: Robert Walker, Jr., Larry Bishop, Joanna Frank, John Garwood, Adam Roarke

Synopsis: This violent motorcycle gang drama finds the outlaws riding onto an Indian reservation to take over. A rival gang has other ideas. There are few likeable characters in this feature, the possible exception being Johnnie (Robert Walker), and he is a convicted thief. Rock-guitar legend Duane Eddy Read More

Wild in the Streets

Actors: Shelley Winters, Christopher Jones, Diane Varsi, Ed Begley, Sr., Hal Holbrook

Synopsis: A rock star decides he'd rather rule the free world than just sell records in this ambitious fusion of political satire and teen exploitation. Teenage rebel Max Flatow (Christopher Jones) has grown tired of life in suburbia with his domineering mother (Shelley Winters) and weak-willed father (Bert Freed Read More

Killers Three

Crew: Producer, Screen Story

Actors: Robert Walker, Jr., Diane Varsi, Dick Clark, Norman Alden, Maureen Arthur

Synopsis: Three friends from a small North Carolina town face bleak economic futures in the years following World War II. Johnny (Robert Walker) takes to running moonshine after his discharge from military service. He tries to think of a way for a better life for wife Carol (Diane Varsi) and their young Read More

Psych-Out

Crew: Producer

Actors: Susan Strasberg, Dean Stockwell, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Adam Roarke

Synopsis: Jennie (Susan Strasberg) travels to San Francisco to locate her hippie brother Steve (Bruce Dern). She meets Stoney (Jack Nicholson) in a coffeehouse and he helps her look for Steve, who Stoney has seen in his various attempts to start a rock & roll band. Stoney and his pals transform the square Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Final Fadeout

Synopsis: Appropriately enough, the 271st and final episode of Perry Mason concerns a murder which takes place during the filming of a TV show. No sooner has Perry (Raymond Burr) been able to establish the innocence of chief suspect Jackson Sidemark (Denver Pyle) than Sidemark himself is knocked off by the Read More

Branded: The Greatest Coward on Earth

Synopsis: TV certainly makes strange bedfellows, as witness this Branded episode featuring veteran film star Pat O'Brien and recording entrepeneur Dick Clark as those colorful 19th century showmen P.T. Barnum and J.A. Bailey! Angrily turning down Barnum's offer to showcase him as "the greatest coward on Read More

The Young Doctors

Actors: Fredric March, Ben Gazzara, Dick Clark, Ina Balin, Eddie Albert

Synopsis: This slick hospital soap opera features Ben Gazzara as Dr. David Coleman, a young physician hired into the pathology department at a big hospital. The aging head of the department, Dr. Joseph Pearson (Fredric March), is insulted and treats the new hire as a rival. They battle over many medical Read More

Because They're Young

Actors: Dick Clark, Michael Callan, Victoria Shaw, Roberta Shore

Synopsis: This fast-paced, entertaining drama set in a high school is directed by Paul Wendkos who has a talent for turning teen-oriented movies into hits, as proven just before this release (his 1959 Gidget). The ever-young Dick Clark plays Neil, a new, dedicated history teacher who becomes involved with Read More

Jamboree

Actors: Frankie Avalon, Paul Carr, Kay Medford, Fats Domino, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, David King-Wood

Synopsis: Jamboree adheres to the usual formula of late-1950s rock&roll films: A plethora of musical numbers linked together by the wispiest of plotlines. Kay Medford heads the cast as manipulative showbiz agent Grace Shaw. Hoping to land pop singer Pete Porter (Paul Carr), Grace connives to break up Pete's Read More

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