Eric BraedenFilmography

3055 Jean Leon

Actors: Paul Newman, Robert Wagner, Angie Dickinson, Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: Documentary filmmaker Agusti Vila explores the enigma of the man who left Spain as Ceferino Carrión, and took on the name Jean Leon upon arriving in Los Angeles and transforming himself time and again. Who is Jean Leon? Is he a simple taxi driver, the waiter who served Frank Sinatra, the owner of Read More

Meet the Deedles

Actors: Steve Van Wormer, Paul Walker, A.J. Langer, John Ashton, Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: Hawaiian surfer dudes Stew (Steve Van Wormer) and Phil Deedle (Paul Walker), fraternal twins, are about to be expelled from school, so their wealthy and concerned father (Eric Braeden) offers summer camp in Wyoming as a solution. Arriving in Jackson Hole with their wet suits, the Deedle twins are Read More

The Ambulance

Actors: Eric Roberts, James Earl Jones, Red Buttons, Megan Gallagher, Janine Turner

Synopsis: This paranoid thriller begins as Eric Roberts' girlfriend (Janine Turner) is taken away in an ambulance and he can't find her. She's been taken prisoner by Eric Braeden, a crazed doctor who kidnaps people and sells their bodies for spare parts. Roberts hooks up with pretty cop Megan Gallagher to Read More

Alem Da Paixao

Actors: Regina Duarte, Paul Castelli, Patricio Bisso, Flavio Galvao, Flavio Sao Thiago

Synopsis: Released in Brazil as Alem Da Paixao, Happily Ever After is all about ostensibly happy housewife Regina Duarte. She has a dream one night in which she dances with a woman who "morphs" into a gorgeous hunk of man. While musing on this dream, Duarte hits a handsome young pedestrian with her car. Read More

Murder, She Wrote: One White Rose for Death

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) heads to Washington to attend a special concert performed by an Eastern Bloc orchestra. Before long, Jessica is kidnapped and swept into a maelstrom of intrigue involving a pair of defecting musicians and a murdered British intelligence agent. The man behind Jessica's Read More

The Aliens Are Coming

Actors: Tom Mason

Synopsis: The science-fiction and detective-story genres are combined in the made-for-TV The Aliens are Coming. Tom Mason plays an astrophysicist who is convinced that malevolent extraterrestrials are in our midst. It is Mason's contention that the invaders have assumed human form, in preparation for world Read More

The Power Within

Synopsis: In this exciting fantasy, a stunt pilot gets into a terrible accident and awakes to find himself imbued with the power to electrocute people by touching them. The trouble begins when he is abducted by an evil villain. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Happily Ever After

Synopsis: Capitalizing on her sudden Three's Company-engendered superstardom, Suzanne Somers topped the cast of this innocuous made-for-TV comedy. Somers is cast as Mattie, a backwoods girl with big-city ambitions. Mattie is in love with fellow mountaineer Jack (Bruce Boxleitner), but she also craves Read More

Code Name: Diamond Head

Synopsis: This made-for-TV espionage drama chronicles the adventures of Hawaiian secret agent Diamond Head, who begins impersonating a notorious gambler so he can get close to those who are planning to steal an extremely lethal chemical capable of wiping out all life. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Kojak: When You Hear the Beep, Drop Dead

Synopsis: Several people overhear a phoned-in murder threat aimed at prominent ecologist Kenneth Krug (Eric Braeden). The caller seems to be a hooker with whom Krug is having an affair--and after a bloody shoot-out, it appears as if the woman has carried out her threat, even though no body is found. Read More

Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo

Actors: Dean Jones, Don Knotts, Julie Sommars, Jacques Marin, Roy Kinnear

Synopsis: It's love at first spark plug for Herbie, the spunky Disney Volkswagen, in Herbie Goes To Monte Carlo. Herbie reunites with Jim Douglas (Dean Jones), his driver from the original The Love Bug, as they participate in the annual Monte Carlo road rally. Herbie holds his own in the qualifying races Read More

The New Original Wonder Woman

Actors: Lynda Carter

Synopsis: The second made-for-TV movie based on Charles Moulton's classy comic-strip heroine Wonder Woman, The New Original Wonder Woman was the one that "sold", resulting in a popular and durable weekly series. Replacing Cathy Lee Crosby, who'd starred in the disastrous 1974 adaptation of Wonder Woman, is Read More

Death Scream

Synopsis: The 1975 TV movie Death Scream is based on the shameful Kitty Genovese affair of 1964, in which a N.Y.C. woman was stabbed to death while 38 witnesses locked their windows and doors and pretended not to hear. Raul Julia stars as the detective who investigates the murder and stirs up the guilt Read More

The Ultimate Thrill

Synopsis: When a cheating wife goes to Colorado, her business-executive husband follows her there and stalks her extra-marital interests, threatening murder. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Banacek: The Vanishing Chalice

Synopsis: The vanishing chalice is a rare Greek treasure that disappears from a museum. That's not all; the chalice vanishes while in full view of a group of nonplussed witnesses. This sounds like a case for troubleshooting detective Banacek (George Peppard) -- and indeed, it is, in this episode from the Banacek Read More

The F.B.I.: Diamond Run

Synopsis: Laurence Luckinbill is cast as novice diamond smuggler James Danzer, who while eluding the FBI searches high and low for a buyer to take some stolen gems off his hands. In the course of events, Danzer kidnaps a blind woman named Claire (Elizabeth Ashley). Unless Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Read More

The Adultress

Synopsis: In this TV creation, a couple can't conceive (the husband is impotent) and they hire a stud man to solve their problem. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Death Race

Synopsis: Lloyd Bridges' gloriously unconvincing German accent is but one of the guilty pleasures of Death Race. Set during the African campaign of World War 2, this made-for-TV nailbiter pits Nazi general Bridges against wounded American pilot Roy Thinnes. Manning the controls of a tank, Herr Bridges Read More

Lady Ice

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Jennifer O'Neill, Robert Duvall, Patrick Magee, Eric Braeden

Synopsis: In this stylish caper drama, Andy Hammond (Donald Sutherland) is a detective working with an insurance company who is investigating the theft of $3 million in diamonds. While Andy is initially eager to crack the case and bring the burglars to justice, his attitudes begin to shift when he meets Read More

The Judge and Jake Wyler

Actors: Bette Davis

Synopsis: Even Bette Davis showed up in a TV-movie pilot from time to time. The Judge and Jake Wyler stars the indestructible Davis as a hypochondriac former judge who becomes a private detective. Davis puts paroled ex-con Doug McClure to work as her "leg man," searching for clues in the supposed suicide of Read More

Escape from the Planet of the Apes

Actors: Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter

Synopsis: Escape From the Planet of the Apes is the third in the series of films based upon the Planet of the Apes characters created by novelist Pierre Boulle. At the end of the second film, the centuries-in-the-future world colonized by simians was destroyed, but apes Cornelius (Roddy McDowall) and Zira (Kim Hunter Read More

The F.B.I.: The Target

Synopsis: Enemy agents hope to persuade defecting cabinet official Victor Dorman (David Frankham) to return to his own country--or, failing that, they plan to have him killed. For this purpose, the bad guys engage the services of Nicholas Blok (Eric Braeden), a coldblooded troubleshooter who specializes in Read More

Colossus: The Forbin Project

Actors: Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent, William Schallert, Leonid Rostoff

Synopsis: The granddaddy of all "computer run amok" films, Colossus: The Forbin Project concerns a huge electronic brain designed to control the American missile defense system. Colossus' technicians do not count on the computer developing an intelligence of its own. Communicating with its Russian Read More

Honeymoon with a Stranger

Synopsis: Filmed in Spain, this TV movie stars Janet Leigh as an American woman honeymooning with her new husband. She awakens after the wedding night, only to be confronted with a stranger who insists that he's her husband. Leigh goes to the authorities, who unfortunately believe the ersatz husband's Read More

The Mask of Sheba

Synopsis: Mask of Sheba was the pilot film for a potential TV series titled Quest. Eric Braeden, Stephen Young and Corinne Camacho play three daring adventurers with a predilection for archeology. They are hired to locate a missing safari in Ethiopia. The safari had been searching for an ancient Read More

The Rat Patrol: Season 02

Actors: Christopher George, Morgan Jones, Justin Tarr, Gary Raymond, Eric Braeden

The Rat Patrol: Season 01

Actors: Christopher George, Morgan Jones, Justin Tarr, Gary Raymond, Eric Braeden

Morituri

Actors: Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner, Janet Margolin, Trevor Howard, Marlin Beneath

Synopsis: Bernhard Wicki directed this hard-hitting World War II espionage drama. Marlon Brando plays Robert Crain, a German deserter who is coerced by British Intelligence officer Colonel Statter (Trevor Howard) to impersonate a Gestapo officer in order to get aboard a German blockade runner that is Read More

Operation Eichmann

Actors: Werner Klemperer, Ruta Lee, Donald Buka, Barbara Turner, John Banner

Synopsis: Released about five weeks before the Adolf Eichmann trial began in Jerusalem on April 11, 1961, this docudrama by director R.G. Springsteen was quickly dashed together to take advantage of the trial, and it shows. Overplaying Eichmann's venality and lacking any depth in characterization, the story Read More