Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.Filmography

Justice League: Starcrossed, Part 2

Actors: Victor Rivers, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.

Synopsis: In the second episode of Justice League's three-part season-two finale, the Leaguers fall into a trap when attempting to help Hawkgirl's people, the Thangarians, in their war against the Gordanians. Managing to wriggle out of this predicament, the League members reconvene at Stately Wayne Manor Read More

Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman

Actors: Kevin Conroy, Kyra Sedgwick, Kelly Ripa, David Ogden Stiers, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Hector Elizondo, Kimberly Brooks, Elisa Pensler Gabrielli

Synopsis: Batwoman makes her grand entrance in the feature-length animated adventure Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman. While Batman tries to figure out the new crime fighter's secret identity, Batwoman exposes an arms smuggling operation conducted by the Penguin. Soon Batwoman is captured by Bane and Batman Read More

Justice League: Hereafter, Part 1

Actors: Brad Garrett, Dana Delany, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Clancy Brown, Michael Dorn

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Superman apparently sacrifices himself for the sake of his fellow Justice Leaguers. Can it be that The Man of Steel is gone from the scene for good? And how will mankind be able to survive without Superman's benevolent protection? Originally intended to be Read More

Babylon 5: The Exercise of Vital Powers

Actors: Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan, Andreas Katsulas

Synopsis: Lyta makes telepathic contact with an unconscious Shadows victim. Garibaldi hopes to gain the complete trust of his new boss, pharmaceutical mogul William Edgars (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) And Captain Sheridan races against the clock as his guides his troops towards the Earth. Harlan Ellison makes a Read More

The Batman Superman Movie

Actors: Kevin Conroy, Tim Daly, Clancy Brown, Dana Delany, Mark Hamill

Synopsis: If given the chance, would Batman have the hots for Lois Lane? Would Lex Luthor get along well with The Joker? And what, if anything, would be left for Robin to do? All these questions and more are answered in this conflation of two of the most venerable comic book legends, The Batman Superman Read More

Babylon 5: The Face of the Enemy

Actors: Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan, Andreas Katsulas

Synopsis: Garibaldi hatches a scheme to capture Sheridan, using the Captain's father as bait. Pharameutical baron William Edgars (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) then startles Garibaldi by explaining his true motivations. And Lyta agonizes about the future of Telepaths. Written by . Michael Straczynski, "The Face of Read More

The Street Corner Kids 2: A Place Called Elmira

Actors: Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.

Synopsis: The Street Corner Kids 2: A Place Called Elmira concerns a group of children in the town of Elmira who attempt to convince a local bigwig (Efram Zimbalist Jr.) to keep open the factory he has decided to shut down. The kinds actions restore the businessman's faith in the community he had soured on. Read More

The Street Corner Kids: Secret of the Twin Sister

Trade Winds

Synopsis: Two rival families clash for control of the Island of St. John in this mini-series. Caught in the middle of the conflict are two lovers, Ocean and Maxine, one from each family. Their secret rendezvous are already putting them both in jeopardy, but when Ocean is accused of killing Maxine's brother Read More

Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul - The Epic Story of the Man Behind the Movies

Actors: Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Shirley Jones, Debbie Reynolds, Jack Warner, Jr., Neal Gabler

Synopsis: Film history buffs will be particularly attracted to this documentary, made by studio boss Jack L. Warner's grandson Gregory Orr. In addition to being the last remaining studio boss to remain active producing films after the studio system fell apart, he was a seminal figure during that period (in Read More

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

Actors: Kevin Conroy, Dana Delany, Hart Bochner, Mark Hamill

Synopsis: This stylish animated adventure is based on the '90s animated television series, which in turn is based on the original comics and Tim Burton's live action "Batman" films. Unlike the campy 1960s version of Batman, this version is half-mad from the superhero's obsession with justice. It is only his Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Sugar & Spice, Malice & Vice

Synopsis: Len Cariou is back as Michael Hagarty, semi-retired British secret agent and longtime friend of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury). On this occasion, Hagarty is distressed that his estranged daughter (Kim Johnston Ulrich) has become engaged to a young man engaged in questionable business practices Read More

Hot Shots!

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Valeria Golino, Cary Elwes, Lloyd Bridges, Kevin Dunn

Synopsis: From director Jim Abrahams, one of the minds behind the Airplane! and Naked Gun films, comes another parody. This time around, Abrahams has his sights set on the action-adventure genre, specifically Top Gun. Charlie Sheen stars as Topper Harley, a maverick air force pilot who constantly lives in Read More

Insight Series: Touch 'n' Go

Synopsis: Each episode of the Insight Series gives both parents and teachers of the blind valuable insight into the unique challenges of the disability, and offers techniques to ameliorate its negative impact. In this particular episode, the techniques used to navigate in the larger world are examined. Read More

Zorro: The Legend Begins

Synopsis: Zorro: The Legend Begins is the pilot film for the 1990 revival of Zorro. This time Duncan Regehr assumes the role of foppish Spanish Californian Don Diego, who when the peasants fall under the oppression of the local despots, dons cape, cloak and mask to become Zorro. Efrem Zimbalist costars as Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Hannigan's Wake

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) agrees to finish a book that was inaugurated by recently deceased Pulitzer-winning journalist Daniel Hannigan (Van Johnson). The book was intended to reopen a 16-year-old murder case, and to prove that the man convicted of murdering one Lydia Thurlow was really innocent. Read More

Hunter: Murder He Wrote

Synopsis: As suggested by its title, this episode is a not-so-goodnatured spoof of the popular "whoddunnit" series Murder She Wrote. Hunter (Fred Dryer) is summoned to the home of his millionaire friend Clarence Hyland (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.), who has narrowly escaped an attempt on his life. Naturally, the Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Last Flight of the Dixie Damsel

Synopsis: During the Korean War, Frank Fletcher, late husband of mystery writer Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury), was forced to bail out of the "Dixie Damsel", a crippled C97 cargo plane. Now, 36 years later, the wreckage of the "Dixie Damsel" has been found--with the remains of a murdered man inside! An Read More

The Tempest

Synopsis: In this 1611 Shakespeare play, the magician Prospero (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) conjures a storm that drives a ship off course to his enchanted island, washing everyone ashore. The company includes King Alonso of Naples; his son, Ferdinand; Antonio, duke of Milan; and members of the king's court. Read More

Shooting Stars

Actors: Billy Dee Williams, Parker Stevenson, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Edie Adams, Fred Travalena

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, two actors who pose as detectives on a television series lose their jobs, only to take up work as real crime fighters. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Avenging

Synopsis: When a successful half-Native American Harvard-grad returns from college to take over the family ranch, two resentful half-brothers scheme to implicate him in a crime. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Baby Sister

Actors: Phoebe Cates, Pamela Bellwood, Ted Wass, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Virginia Kiser

Synopsis: Phoebe Cates plays the Baby Sister in this made-for-TV melodrama. A sexually promiscuous college dropout, Cates moves into the home of older sister Pamela Bellwood. Ted Wass, Bellwood's husband, welcomes Cates with open arms...and that's the whole trouble. The original title of this pulpish Read More

Covenant Promise

Scruples

Actors: Lindsay Wagner, Barry Bostwick, Marie-France Pisier

Synopsis: Adapted from the Judith Krantz novel of the same name, the CBS miniseries Scruples zeroes in on a trendy, upscale Beverly Hills boutique. The guiding force behind the Scruples shop is beautiful Billy Ikelhorn (Lindsay Wagner), who, though born into grinding poverty, had risen to the uppermost Read More

The Gathering, Part 2

Actors: Rebecca Balding, Bruce Davison, Maureen Stapleton, Gail Strickland

Synopsis: Ed Asner dominated the proceedings of the 1977 TV movie The Gathering; inasmuch as Asner's character died at the end of that film, he is absent from the 1979 sequel The Gathering, Part 2. Said sequel could certainly have benefitted from Asner's presence, no matter how illogical that presence might Read More

Terror Out of the Sky

Synopsis: This made-for-TV thriller is yet another tale of swarming killer bees. A sub-par sequel to The Savage Bees, this time around, a scientist and his cohorts set out to protect some innocent school kids from the attacking insects. ~ Bernadette McCallion, All Movie Guide Read More

The Best Place to Be

Actors: Mildred Dunnock, Michael J. Shannon, Stephanie Zimbalist

Synopsis: This attenuated adaptation of Helen Van Slyke's novel stars Donna Reed (her first TV appearance in 12 years) as a widow with financial and domestic problems. Her adult daughter Stephanie Zimbalist has turned to drugs; her sons Michael Shannon and Tim Hutton have less severe but no less Read More

A Family Upside Down

Synopsis: A Family Upside Down stars Fred Astaire and Helen Hayes as a retired married couple. Always proud of his independence and resilience, Astaire suffers a sudden heart attack. Though he recovers, Hayes is unable to care for Astaire herself, so she and her husband are compelled to move in with son Efrem Zimbalist Jr Read More

Who Is the Black Dahlia?

Actors: Lucie Arnaz, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Ronny Cox, MacDonald Carey, Tom Bosley

Synopsis: The still-unsolved Black Dahlia murder case, fictionalized in the 1981 theatrical feature True Confessions, is handled on a more factual level in this made-for-TV movie. Lucie Arnaz plays Elizabeth Short, an aspiring starlet of questionable morals, who in 1947 was murdered by person or persons Read More

Airport 1975

Actors: Charlton Heston, Karen Black, George Kennedy, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Susan Clark

Synopsis: In the wake of the 45-million-dollar gross of the original Airport (1970), Universal was all but required by an act of Congress to produce Airport '75. Charlton Heston heads the all-star cast as Alan Murdock, the former test pilot who must keep a disabled 747 from crashing in flames. The crisis Read More

The F.B.I.: Season 09

Actors: Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Philip Abbott, Shelly Novack

Synopsis: The ninth and final season of ABC's longest-running adventure series The F.B.I marks the first time since Season Three that a new actor has been added to the cast. Efrem Zimbalist Jr. remains top-billed as Federal Inspector Lew Erskine, with Philip Abbott still on hand as Erskine's main associate Read More

The F.B.I.: Season 08

Actors: Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Philip Abbott, William Reynolds

Synopsis: The longest-running adventure series on the ABC network, The F.B.I continues to go strong in its eighth season on the air. Returning to the fold are Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as Inspector Lew Erskine, Philip Abbott as Agent Arthur Ward, and William Reynolds as Agent Tom Colby. The season opener, "The Read More

The F.B.I.: Season 07

Actors: Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Philip Abbott, William Reynolds

Synopsis: Efrem Zimbalist Jr. continues to bring Federal offenders to heel in the role of Inspector Lew Erskine in Season Seven of ABC's longest-running adventure series The F.B.I.. Also back for more action are Phillip Abbott and William Reynolds, respectively cast as FBI agents Arthur Ward and Tom Colby. Read More

The F.B.I.: Season 06

Actors: Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Philip Abbott, William Reynolds

Synopsis: The sixth season of The F.B.I finds Efrem Zimbalist Jr. still on the job as diligent, no-nonsense Federal Inspector Lew Erskine. Likewise, Philip Abbott and William Reynolds return to the familiar roles as FBI agents Ward and Colby. The first of Season Six's many guest stars are Martin Sheen and Read More

The F.B.I.: Season 05

Actors: Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Philip Abbott, William Reynolds

Synopsis: Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as Inspector Lew Erskine continues to hunt down and ensnare the most dangerous and elusive of Federal criminals in Season Five of The Fugitive. Likewise returning for more derring-do are Erskine's stalwart coworkers, Agents Ward (Philip Abbott) and Colby (William Reynolds. Read More

The F.B.I.: Season 04

Actors: Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Philip Abbott, William Reynolds

Synopsis: The fourth season of The F.B.I. is also the first season without any major cast changes. Back for more cops-and-robbers action are Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as FBI Inspector Lew Erskine, Philip Abbott as Agent Arthur Ward, and William Reynolds as Agent Tom Colby. As in previous years, the main selling Read More

The F.B.I.: Season 03

Actors: Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Philip Abbott, William Reynolds

Synopsis: Season Three of The F.B.I. finds hard-working Inspector Lew Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr. and his main sidekick, Agent Arthur Ward (Philip Abbott), continuing to hunt down and capture Federal criminals, using the latest in crimefighting technology--and a healthy supply of common sense and Read More

Wait Until Dark

Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Jack Weston

Synopsis: Wait Until Dark is an innovative, highly entertaining and suspenseful thriller about a blind housewife, Susy Hendrix (Audrey Hepburn). Independent and resourceful, Susy is learning to cope with her blindness, which resulted from a recent accident. She is aided by her difficult, slightly unreliable Read More

The F.B.I.: Season 02

Actors: Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Stephen Brooks, Philip Abbott

Synopsis: Despite the formidable competiton of CBS' The Ed Sullivan Show and NBC's Walt Disney anthology, the ABC series The F.B.I. proved popular enough with action fans to warrant a second season in the same Sunday-evening timeslot. But while fans enjoyed the show and were fond of series star Efrem Read More

Cosa Nostra, Arch Enemy of the FBI

Actors: Celeste Holm, Susan Strasberg, Telly Savalas

Synopsis: Released theatrically in Europe, Cosa Nostra, Arch Enemy of the FBI originated as "The Executioner", a two-part episode of the weekly TV series The FBI. The series' usual stars Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Philip Abbott and Stephen Brooks are joined on this occasion by guest artists Walter Pidgeon, Celeste Holm Read More

Harlow

Actors: Carol Lynley, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Ginger Rogers, Barry Sullivan, Hurd Hatfield

Synopsis: Hurriedly assembled to capitalize on the Paramount feature of the same name, Magna Pictures' Harlow was shot in less than two weeks, utilizing a glorified TV-kinescope process called Electronovision. Carol Lynley is physically an excellent choice to play 1930s Hollywood "platinum blonde" Jean Harlow Read More

La Recompense

Actors: Max von Sydow, Yvette Mimieux, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.

The F.B.I.: Season 01

Actors: Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Stephen Brooks, Philip Abbott

Synopsis: The first season of ABC's longest-running adventure series The F.B.I is slightly different in content from future seasons, in that viewers were permitted a few glimpses of the personal life of hard-working F.B.I. Inspector Lew Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.). It is explained that Erskine's wife was Read More

The Reward

Actors: Max von Sydow, Yvette Mimieux, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Gilbert Roland, Emilio Fernández

Synopsis: Director Serge Bourguignon coadapted the screenplay for The Reward from a novel by Michael Barrett. Efrem Zimbalist Jr., usually cast on the right side of the law, is here a fugitive from American justice hiding from a murder rap in Mexico. Zimbalist and his girlfriend Yvette Mimieux try to avoid Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: See the Monkey Dance

Actors: Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Roddy McDowall, Patricia Medina, George Pelling, Shari Lee Bernath

Synopsis: While traveling by train to a clandestine meeting with his married mistress, London stockbroker George (Roddy McDowall) befriends another passenger (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.). It soon develops that the other fellow is traveling to London for a rendezvous with his own married girlfriend -- and this Read More

The Chapman Report

Actors: Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Shelley Winters, Jane Fonda, Claire Bloom, Glynis Johns

Synopsis: George Cukor directed this sanitized version of Irving Wallace's tawdry best-seller concerning a survey of the sexual habits of American women. Psychologist George C. Chapman (Andrew Duggan) arrives in a Los Angeles suburb with his assistant Paul Radford (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) in tow. They are Read More

A Fever in the Blood

Actors: Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Angie Dickinson, Jack Kelly, Don Ameche, Ray Danton

Synopsis: In this routine political drama by Vincent Sherman, a murder trial is converted into one piece in the complex interaction between three candidates for governor. Judge Hoffman (Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.) is a solid, anchoring presence in his courtroom, qualities which should stand him in good stead when Read More

By Love Possessed

Actors: Lana Turner, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Jason Robards, Jr., George Hamilton, Susan Kohner

Synopsis: There's always something simmering beneath the quaint and placid surface of small-town New England lives -- and that includes the usual maladies of alcoholism, rape, and suicide. At least this is the case if you go by the tortuous tale told in By Love Possessed, a Peyton Place knock-off, directed Read More

The Crowded Sky

Actors: Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, Anne Francis, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., John Kerr

Synopsis: A navy jet piloted by Captain Dale Heath (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) and carrying a junior officer (Troy Donahue), making a quick hop across country on leave, has already taken off when Heath realizes that both his radio and his navigation equipment have malfunctioned. They might be on the right course Read More

Maverick: High Card Hangs

Synopsis: While working in a South Dakota gold-mining camp, Bart (Jack Kelly) and Dandy Jim Buckley (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) befriend Genessee Jones (Frank Ferguson), a grizzled old prospector with a hefty bankroll. Later on, Jones gets into a poker game with two miners (one of them a young Martin Landau) and Read More

Maverick: Trail West to Fury

Synopsis: In flashback, the Maverick brothers explain to Dandy Jim Buckley (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) why it wouldn't be healthy for them to set foot in Texas. It seems that, back during the Civil War, both Bret (James Garner) and Bart (Jack Kelly) had signed on as trail bosses for a cattle drive. After meeting Read More

The Deep Six

Actors: Alan Ladd, William Bendix, James Whitmore, Dianne Foster, Keenan Wynn

Synopsis: The conflict between duty and conscience is explored in the WWII drama The Deep Six. Alan Ladd stars as Naval gunnery officer Alec Austin, a Quaker whose sincere pacifist sentiments do not sit well with his crew members. When he refuses to fire upon an unidentified plane, the word spreads that Read More

Girl on the Run

Maverick: Shady Deal at Sunny Acres

Synopsis: In one of Maverick's all-time greatest episodes, Bret (James Garner) is cheated out of $15,000 by "respectable" banker John Bates (John Dehner). Since Bret is unable to reclaim the money through legal means, his brother Bart (Jack Kelly) devises an elaborate sting operation to beat Bates at his Read More

Home Before Dark

Actors: Jean Simmons, Dan O'Herlihy, Rhonda Fleming, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Mabel Albertson

Synopsis: Wearing a curiously (and perhaps deliberately) unattractive blonde wig, Jean Simmons stars in the tense psychological drama Home Before Dark. Having just recovered from a nervous breakdown, Charlotte Bronn (Simmons) returns from a mental institution to the home she shares with her academician Read More

Violent Road

Actors: Brian Keith, Dick Foran, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Merry Anders, Sean Garrison

Synopsis: In this drama, six daring truckers must transport unstable, highly explosive rocket fuel through a dangerously bumpy, rugged country. The film centers on their individual reasons for making the trip. These are presented via flashback. Though most of them need the money, one of the truck drivers is Read More

Maverick: The Jail at Junction Flats

Synopsis: Against his better judgment (which is the way he usually does things), Bret (James Garner) lends $2000 to duplicitous gambler Dandy Jim Buckley (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.), which Jim claims will be used to start a horsetrading business. Not long afterward, Bret discovers that Dandy Jim is stuck in jail Read More

Too Much, Too Soon

Actors: Dorothy Malone, Errol Flynn, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Ray Danton, Neva Patterson

Synopsis: Too Much, Too Soon was adapted from the warts-and-all autobiography of actress Diana Barrymore, the troubled daughter of "great profile" John Barrymore. As played by Dorothy Malone, Diana is a basically decent young lady who suffers mightily from lack of parental love. Her famous father, played Read More

Maverick [TV Series]

Synopsis: Created by Roy Huggins and debuting September 22, 1957 on ABC, the weekly, hour-long Maverick started out as a relatively straightforward western series with a slight twist: The main characters were professional gamblers rather than lawmen or gunslingers. James Garner and Jack Kelly starred Read More

Maverick: Stampede

Synopsis: Efrem Zimbalist Jr. makes the first of several guest appearances as Dandy Jim Buckley, a gentleman gambler best described as "Bret Maverick without scruples." After they're both tossed off a riverboat, Jim and Bret (James Garner) head to Deadwood in hopes of getting even with bare-knuckle boxer Read More

Bombers B-52

Actors: Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Marsha Hunt, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Don Kelly

Synopsis: Karl Malden plays an air force sergeant who is tempted by a better-paying civilian job. Malden's daughter Natalie Wood is in love with a young colonel (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) whom her father regards as an insolent hothead. The younger man proves his worth during jet maneuvers, while Malden decides Read More

Band of Angels

Actors: Clark Gable, Yvonne De Carlo, Sidney Poitier, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Patric Knowles

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Robert Penn Warren, this Southern potboiler stars Yvonne DeCarlo as Amantha Starr, the daughter of a wealthy Louisiana plantation owner. When her father unexpectedly dies, Amantha discovers that her father was deep in debt and the family is penniless, and she is forced to drop Read More

House of Strangers

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Susan Hayward, Richard Conte, Luther Adler, Paul Valentine

Synopsis: House of Strangers is the first of three film versions of Jerome Weidman's I'll Never Go Home Any More, each of which was scripted by Philip Yordan. Edward G. Robinson plays a Giannini-like Italian-American banker, Gino Monetti, who runs roughshod over his four grown sons. The ruthless Gino Read More