Dina MerrillFilmography

The Glow

Actors: Portia de Rossi, Dean Cain, Hal Linden, Dina Merrill, Grace Zabriskie

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Brooks Stanwood, The Glow stars Dean Cain and Portia de Rossi as Matt and Jackie Lawrence, an affluent yuppie couple with two beautiful children. Rounding out their success story, the Lawrences move into a gorgeous New York apartment, where they soon discover that their Read More

The Magnificent Ambersons

Actors: Madeleine Stowe, Bruce Greenwood, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Gretchen Mol, Jennifer Tilly

Synopsis: This lavish, cable-TV remake of Orson Welles' The Magnficent Ambersons endeavored to prove Welles right by adhering to his original screenplay, restoring several scenes which provided additional substance and significance to the story and deepened the characterizations. Set in Indianapolis at the Read More

A Chance of Snow

Actors: JoBeth Williams, Michael Ontkean, Charles Durning, Barbara Barrie, Dey Young

Synopsis: It is hardly an unusual occurrence when the Minneapolis airport is snowed in...even on Christmas eve, stranding thousands of disgruntled tourists. What makes this particular snowbound evening a bit different from others is the identity of two would-be flyers who must wait out the blizzard before Read More

Something Borrowed, Something Blue

Synopsis: Just before all three of them are to be wed to the men of their dreams, longtime friends Monique (Connie Sellecca, Eve (Twiggy) and Teri (Shawnee Smith) flying off to Australia for a pre-nuptual photo shoot. To fully appreciate the episodic events that follow, it should be noted that Monique is a Read More

Roseanne: Hoi Polloi Meets Hoiti Toiti

Synopsis: Socialite Astrid Wentworth (Mo Gaffney) invites the Conners to visit her snobby family at Martha's Vineyard. Kiki Wentworth (Hillary Tuck) tries to come on to D.J., while Roseanne teaches Doris Wentworth (Dina Merrill) other ways to get her frustrations out rather than prescription medication. Read More

Milk & Money

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: A romantic comedy with a few surreal/absurdist twists, the story centers on recent medical school drop-out David who is first seen aimlessly traipsing about Manhattan musing about the rest of his life when he runs into a strange woman who introduces herself as Nancy and asks if he would interested Read More

Open Season

Actors: Robert Wuhl, Rod Taylor, Gailard Sartain, Helen Shaver, Maggie Han

Synopsis: Big business dealings, competition, and TV ratings wars are satirized in this biting comedy. Stuart Sain is an egotistical, over-ambitious Jewish executive. He works for Fielding, a company like Nielsen which uses small boxes to garner TV ratings statistics. Stuart is married to Cary, a Read More

Suture

Actors: Dennis Haysbert, Mel Harris, Sab Shimono, Dina Merrill, Michael Harris

Synopsis: Suture, Scott McGehee and David Siegel's self-conscious exploration of identity and individuality, evokes a flashy remake of Edward D. Wood Jr.'s Jail Bait. Dennis Haysbert and Michael Harris play half-brothers Clay and Vincent Towers. Clay travels to Phoenix to meet with Vincent, whom he hasn't Read More

The Player

Actors: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher

Synopsis: Robert Altman takes a scalpel to Hollywood ethics in the 1990s (or the lack thereof) in his acidic satire The Player, adapted from Michael Tolkin's novel. (Tolkin also wrote the screenplay.) The film concerns a sleek and smooth Hollywood studio executive who starts receiving death threats from a Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Monte Carlo Murders

Synopsis: Now it's off to Monte Carlo, where Jessica (Angela Lansbury) pays a visit to her old friend, the owner of a luxury hotel.. Unfortunately, the hotel proves to be the final destination for a much-despised businessman. In her efforts to solve this murder and recover a diamond stolen from the victim's Read More

Shattering the Silence

Actors: Joanna Kerns, Michael Brandon, George Gizzard, Dina Merrill, Richard Gilliland

Synopsis: When post-partum depression causes the reawakening of long-dormant and traumatic memories of childhood rape by her father, an angry young mother takes her tormentor to court and in so doing nearly destroys her family. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

True Colors

Actors: John Cusack, James Spader, Imogen Stubbs, Mandy Patinkin, Richard Widmark

Synopsis: John Cusack and James Spader play against type in Kevin Wade's morality play, directed by Herbert Ross. Spader plays Tim Gerrity, a well-heeled WASP blueblood, who has dedicated his life to justice and public service. Engaged to Diana Stiles (Imogene Stubbs), the daughter of a powerful senator (Richard Widmark Read More

Fear

Actors: Ally Sheedy, Lauren Hutton, Dina Merrill, Michael O'Keefe, Stan Shaw

Synopsis: Fear stars Ally Sheedy as a psychic who frequently helps the police track down criminals. This time, however, there's a serial killer at large who's a pretty efficient psychic in his own right. The story boils down to a battle of wills, and for while it looks as though the villain's will is the Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Always a Thief

Synopsis: Keith Michell dominates this episode in the role of Dennis Stanton, ex-jewel thief turned insurance investigator. While probing into a theft and double murder, Dennis decides to use his own criminal knowhow to trap the culprit. At the center of the intrigue is a rare silver dollar, an icy dowager Read More

Hot Pursuit

Synopsis: After they're framed for murder, a young couple must outrun the police--and a one-eyed hit man--in order to find the real killers. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Turn Back the Clock

Synopsis: This telefilm remake of the 1947 suspense fantasy Repeat Performance stars Connie Sellecca as a fading TV star who commits a murder on New Year's Eve before being given a chance to relive the last year and prevent the murder from occurring. The script is tarted up with a high-gloss veneer and some Read More

Caddyshack II

Actors: Jackie Mason, Dyan Cannon, Robert Stack, Dina Merrill, Chevy Chase

Synopsis: This comedy returns to the exclusive but crazy country club golf course seen in the original Caddyshack. This time its the blue-bloods against the blue collars as a loud, vulgar self-made millionaire tries to join the stuffy upper-crust club after his daughter falls in love with the son of one of Read More

Twisted

Actors: Christian Slater

Synopsis: Based on Jack Horrigan's play Children! Children!, Twisted is a thriller starring Christian Slater as a psychotic young adolescent who torments his new baby-sitter (Losi Smith) with electronics, swords and mind games. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Anna to the Infinite Power

Actors: Martha Byrne, Dina Merrill, Jack Gilford, Mark Patton, Jack Ryland, Donna Mitchell, Loretta Devine

Synopsis: A bratty but brilliant preteen girl discovers that she's the clone of a long-dead scientist in this story of self-discovery and adventure, which appeared on HBO in the early '80s. Anna Hart (Martha Byrne) gets top grades at her elite private school, but she lies, steals, and bad-mouths her Read More

The Brass Ring

Actors: Dina Merrill, Sylvia Sidney, April Lerman

Synopsis: The Brass Ring is one of the first American films produced expressly for cable TV. Dina Merrill heads the cast, as an emotionally disturbed wife and mother. Desperately in need of treatment, Merrill refuses to heed the warnings of her family and doctor, leading to dire consequences. Sylvia Sidney Read More

Just Tell Me What You Want

Actors: Alan King, Ali MacGraw, Dina Merrill, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn

Synopsis: In this Sidney Lumet romantic comedy, Max Herschel (Alan King) is a powerful businessman who keeps a bevy of beauties for pleasure to escape his alcoholic wife, Connie (Dina Merrill). His main minx is Bones Burton (Ali MacGraw), a successful television producer who is tiring of Max's lack of 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 Tenth Month

Synopsis: Robert Altman protégé Joan Tewkesbury called the directorial shots on the made-for-TV The Tenth Month. After a whirlwind affair with famed concert pianist Keith Michell, middle-aged, unmarried Carol Burnett becomes pregnant. Rather than seek out the father, she decides to raise the baby by Read More

A Wedding

Actors: Carol Burnett, Mia Farrow, Paul Dooley, Lillian Gish, Amy Stryker, Howard Duff, Geraldine Chaplin, Dennis Christopher

Synopsis: Robert Altman's over-frenetic satire on American marriage rituals and hypocrisy concerns the upper-crust marriage between Dino Corelli (Desi Arnaz Jr.) and Muffin Brenner (Amy Stryker). As the film begins, a senile bishop forgets the lines to the wedding ceremony and Nettie Sloan (the groom's Read More

The Greatest

Actors: Muhammad Ali, Ernest Borgnine, John Marley, Lloyd Haynes, Robert Duvall, James Earl Jones

Synopsis: With Muhammad Ali cast as himself, The Greatest covers Ali's life from his "Cassius Clay" days to the celebrated Ali/George Foreman bout. Along the way, the film focuses on Ali's conversion to Islam and his potentially career-breaking decision not to serve in the Army. Ernest Borgnine palys Ali's Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Who's Who in Neverland?

Synopsis: In the second of the feature-length Quincy, M.E. episodes produced for the NBC Sunday Mystery Movie anthology, medical examiner Quincy (Jack Klugman) performs an autopsy on Margo Bentley (Joanna Barnes), a novice writer who at the time of her death was working on a scandalous "roman a clef" about Read More

Kingston: The Power Play

Synopsis: This TV film stars Raymond Burr as R. B. Kingston, a fiercely independent free-lance journalist. Kingston's boss, publishing mogul Lenka Peterson, asks him to find out why the editorial policy of one of her newspapers has changed so radically. Kingston agrees to do Ms. Peterson's legwork--but only Read More

The Meal

Actors: Dina Merrill, Carl Betz

Synopsis: In this drama, a wealthy socialite hosts a dinner party for the rich and powerful. During the course of the dinner, they begin dishing up each other's juiciest secrets. On video the film is called Deadly Encounter. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Throw Out the Anchor

Synopsis: In this comedy, a jobless public relations specialist goes to get some much-needed rest in sunny Florida and discovers a whole new set of troubles. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Deliver Us From Evil

Running Wild

Synopsis: This Mexican-filmed melodrama was released under a multitude of titles. Running Wild was evidently its working title, but even this apparently changed from day to day. Lloyd Bridges is given top billing, though Dina Merrill carries the plot as a big-city reporter who heads west to cover the Read More

The Letters

Actors: John Forsythe, Pamela Franklin, Henry Jones, Ben Murphy, Leslie Nielsen, Jane Powell, Lesley Ann Warren, Ida Lupino

Synopsis: Letters begins with the crash of a U.S. mail plane. One year later, cheerful postman Henry Jones delivers the long-delayed letters. These overdue missives profoundly affect the lives of (a) a man who's deserted his wife; (b) a woman anxious to break up her daughter's romance; and (c) a pianist Read More

The F.B.I.: The Franklin Papers

Synopsis: Dina Merrill, who'd played a crime victim in the very first episode of The F.B.I., returns on the opposite side of the law as glamorous con artist Christine Minson. With the help of a male accomplice, Christine has masterminded a scam whereby gullible Dan Wheaton (Richard Anderson) will pay a Read More

Family Flight

Synopsis: The family in "flight" is played by Rod Taylor, Dina Merrill and Kristoffer Tabori. While taking an airborne vacation to Mexico, the family crash-lands somewhere in the Baja peninsula. Having taken the vacation as a means to patch up a variety of differences, the family is forced to pull together Read More

Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones

Synopsis: Veteran director King Vidor had long harbored hopes of directing a filmization of Ann Head's novel Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones, but couldn't get backing from a major studio. The book was finally filmed in 1971 but as a TV movie rather than a theatrical feature and with Robert Day in the director's Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Controllers, Part One

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Dina Merrill

Synopsis: The first multipart Mission: Impossible adventure of the 1969-70 season, "The Controllers" was written by Laurence Hearth. A mind-controlling drug known as B-230 has been developed by enemy scientist Dr. Karl Turek (David Sheiner). To prevent Turek from turning the populaiton of the Free World Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Controllers, Part Two

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Dina Merrill

Synopsis: In the second half of the two-part Mission:Impossible episode "The Controllers", Phelps has been charged with murder and placed on trial. It is all part of a plan to destroy the credibility of Dr. Karl Turek (David Sheiner), the creator of a dangerous mind-controlling drug called B-230. Read More

Seven in Darkness

Actors: Sean Garrison, Barry Nelson, Arthur O'Connell

Synopsis: Seven in Darkness has the distinction of being the first made-for-TV "ABC Movie of the Week." The "seven" are all blind people, passengers on a flight en route to a convention for the visually impaired. The plane crashes, forcing the sightless seven to struggle for survival in the hostile Read More

The Lonely Profession

Actors: Ina Balin, Harry Guardino

Synopsis: A superb throwback to the "films noir" of old, The Lonely Profession puts icing on the cake with a strong dose of 1960s realism--within reasonable TV-movie limits. Harry Guardino plays a businesslike private eye assigned to trail the mistress (Ina Balin) of a Hughes-like reclusive millionaire. Read More

The Sunshine Patriot

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Cliff Robertson

Synopsis: Cliff Robertson essays a dual role in the made-for-TV Sunshine Patriot. He portrays a top secret agent as well as an American businessmen; both Robertsons are currently behind the Iron Curtain, both on "business." In order to evade a team of assassins and to smuggle valuable microfilm to the Good Read More

Bonanza: The Pursued, Part One

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Eric Fleming, Dina Merrill

Synopsis: Written by Thomas Thompson and Marc Michaels, "The Pursued" was the second of Bonanza's two-part stories. In Beehive, Nevada, the Cartwrights arranged to buy horses from Mormon rancher Heber Clawson (Eric Fleming). Soon they become involved in Clawson's stubborn determination to remain in Beehive Read More

Bonanza: The Pursued, Part Two

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Eric Fleming, Dina Merrill

Synopsis: In Part Two of "The Pursued", Mormon rancher Heber Clawson (Eric Fleming) is burned out of his home and shot to death by a bigoted mob, spurred on by a demented self-ordained minister. It is up to the Cartwrights to provide safe passage for Heber's two wives Susannah (Dina Merrill) and Elizabeth Read More

The F.B.I.: The Monster

Synopsis: The debut episode of The F.B.I. focuses on the Bureau's intensive search for Francis Jerome (Jeffrey Hunter), an extortionist who specializes in fleecing gullible women. When Jerome breaks out of prison, Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) figures that the fugitive will head to his home town Read More

I'll Take Sweden

Actors: Bob Hope, Tuesday Weld, Frankie Avalon, Dina Merrill, Jeremy Slate

Synopsis: Bob Holcomb (Bob Hope) is a widower who worries about his teenage daughter JoJo (Tuesday Weld) in this light romantic comedy. He doesn't care much for JoJo's boyfriend Kenny (Frankie Avalon) because the smooth operator has a motorcycle and some money. Bob manages to get his company to transfer him Read More

Personal Touch

The Pleasure Seekers

Actors: Ann-Margret, Anthony Franciosa, Carol Lynley, Gardner McKay, Pamela Tiffin

Synopsis: 20th Century-Fox gussied up its 1954 hit Three Coins in the Fountain for the 1960s, and the result was The Pleasure Seekers. Three American girls in search of wealthy husbands head to Madrid. Ann-Margaret is an aspiring performer, Carol Lynley is a secretary, and Pamela Tiffin is an art student. Ann-Margaret Read More

The Courtship of Eddie's Father

Actors: Glenn Ford, Shirley Jones, Stella Stevens, Ronny Howard, Dina Merrill, Roberta Sherwood

Synopsis: Vincente Minnelli takes another of his occasional dips into situation comedy (i.e. The Long Long Trailer) in The Courtship of Eddie's Father. Ron Howard is the precocious Eddie, who wants to see his recently widowed father, Tom Corbett (Glenn Ford), get married again. He even has the lucky bride Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Bonfire

Actors: Peter Falk, Dina Merrill, Patricia Collinge, Paul Von Schreiber, Sam Weston

Synopsis: Two-bit evangelist Robert Evans (Peter Falk) attaches himself to a wealthy elderly woman named Naomi Freshwater (Patricia Collinge). Evans hopes to inherit Naomi's mansion and convert into a temple -- and to expedite this, he sends her into the next world a bit ahead of schedule. Unfortunately for Read More

The Young Savages

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Shelley Winters, Edward Andrews, Larry Gates, Vivian Nathan

Synopsis: The Young Savages is what used to be called a "thinking man's picture" about a potentially lurid subject: urban juvenile delinquency. A blind Puerto Rican boy is knifed to death in Spanish Harlem, and three teenage gang members are accused of the crime. Politically ambitious assistant DA Burt Lancaster Read More

Twenty Plus Two

Actors: David Janssen, Jeanne Crain, Dina Merrill, Agnes Moorehead, Jacques Aubuchon

Synopsis: Sounding something like a standard '40s police story, this talkative but interesting murder mystery stars David Janssen of TV's The Fugitive series. Janssen plays Tom Alder, a gumshoe looking into the murder of the secretary of a shady Hollywood film star when he discovers that the murder is Read More

Butterfield 8

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Eddie Fisher, Dina Merrill, Mildred Dunnock

Synopsis: A woman who has long been short on feelings falls in love with a married man in this emotional drama. Gloria Wondrous (Elizabeth Taylor) is a model and party girl who lives for pleasure and is willing to take men for what she can get from them. Gloria bounces from man to man, but feels that she Read More

The Sundowners

Actors: Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Peter Ustinov, Glynis Johns, Dina Merrill

Synopsis: Director Fred Zinnemann was riding a crest in the '50s with movies like High Noon, From Here to Eternity, Oklahoma, and his success continues in this western-style drama set in Australia in the 1920s. Ida Carmody (Deborah Kerr) is married to Paddy (Robert Mitchum), a sheep drover whose nomadic Read More

Catch Me if You Can

Operation Petticoat

Actors: Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Joan O'Brien, Dina Merrill, Gene Evans

Synopsis: Rear Admiral Matt Sherman (Cary Grant) visits the submarine Sea Tiger on the morning of its decommissioning and reminisces about his time as the first commander of the boat, in 1941. Three days after Pearl Harbor, the sub is damaged during an enemy air raid in the Philippines; rather than Read More

What Makes Sammy Run?

Actors: Larry Blyden, John Forsythe, Dina Merrill, Barbara Rush, Norman Fell

Synopsis: Academy Award-winning director Delbert Mann adapts author Budd Shulberg's scathing critique of the Hollywood studio system to the small screen in this drama originally aired as part of the NBC anthology series Sunday Showcase. Sammy Glick (Larry Blyden) may be an amoral hustler, but sometimes Read More

Don't Give up the Ship

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Dina Merrill, Diana Spencer, Mickey Shaughnessy, Robert Middleton, Gale Gordon

Synopsis: Don't Give Up the Ship stars Jerry Lewis as a navy officer who is whisked away from his honeymoon by a senate investigating committee. The committee would like to know what happened to the U.S.S. Kornblatt, the battleship Lewis had commandeered during the War; the crew arrived home safely, but the Read More

A Nice Little Bank That Should Be Robbed

Synopsis: In this comedy, an auto mechanic and a horse trainer successfully steal $30,000 from a bank and squander it. They buy a race horse with the remainder, but need money to train it, so they rob another bank and are caught this time. The bank takes over ownership of the horse, which becomes a big Read More

Desk Set

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young, Joan Blondell, Dina Merrill

Synopsis: Based on the Broadway play by Robert Fryer and Lawrence Carr, Desk Set represents the eighth screen teaming of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Hepburn plays the head of a TV network research department; Tracy plays an efficiency expert, hired to modernize Hepburn's operation. When Tracy has a Read More