Eugene Roche Filmography

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Actors: Richard Doyle, Maurice Lemarche, Mindy Cohn, Michael David Donovan, Dwight Schultz

Star Trek: Voyager: Remember

Actors: Roxann Dawson

Synopsis: A series of unusual dreams turn out to be a precursor for far more sinister things in this episode of the popular sci-fi series Star Trek: Voyager. Torres (Roxann Biggs-Dawson) begins having powerfully vivid dreams in which she is an Enaran woman who has fallen in love against the wishes of her Read More

Executive Decision

Actors: Kurt Russell, Halle Berry, John Leguizamo, Steven Seagal, Oliver Platt

Synopsis: In this action thriller, a group of Islamic terrorists, led by Nagi Hassan (David Suchet), highjacks a 747 jetliner with 400 passengers aboard, but Lt. Col. Austin Travis (Steven Seagal), a United States intelligence agent, is convinced that this isn't an ordinary case of air piracy. His Read More

Liz: the Elizabeth Taylor Story

Actors: Sherilyn Fenn

Synopsis: The life of Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor is told in this made-for-television drama. Sherilyn Fenn stars as Oscar-winning actress Liz Taylor, whose career began when her mother pushed her into acting as a child in the 1940s. Her tumultuous career ups and downs, and her turbulent personal life Read More

Roswell

Actors: Kyle MacLachlan, Martin Sheen, Dwight Yoakam, Kim Greist

Synopsis: Originally made for cable television, Roswell is an entertaining mix of purported actual events and science fiction. The narrative unfolds primarily in flashbacks as retired Army officer Jesse Marcel (Kyle MacLachlan) attends a reunion of the 509th Bomber Group and tries to come to closure on Read More

When a Man Loves a Woman

Actors: Andy Garcia, Meg Ryan, Lauren Tom, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tina Majorino

Synopsis: A dramatic treatment of a family torn apart by alcoholism and recovering from it, this was a star vehicle for popular actress Meg Ryan, who plays Alice Green, a school counselor who has a serious drinking problem. Her husband is Michael (Andy Garcia), an airline pilot. Though she's lighthearted Read More

Death of a Cheerleader

Actors: Tori Spelling, Kellie Martin

Synopsis: A recently transferred high-school student finds herself walking a double-edged sword in her attempt to court friendship with the powerfully popular but frighteningly unpredictable head cheerleader in a disturbing look at the adolescent social hierarchy starring Tori Spelling and Kellie Martin. Read More

A Case for Murder

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a talented, ambitious young lawyer takes the case when one of his colleagues, jealous of the other attorney's flawless court record, is found murdered. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Mischief

Murder, She Wrote: Bite the Big Apple

Synopsis: Murder She Wrote enters its eighth season with a revised production staff and a new central location (New York City rather than fictional Cabot Cove, Maine), but with the same popular star, Angela Lansbury, as mystery writer Jessica Fletcher. Having been contracted to teach a college criminology Read More

The Sitter

Synopsis: In this suspenseful drama set in a luxury resort, a psychotic teen-age girl working as a baby sitter there causes all kinds of trouble. The story is a remake of the 1952 Marilyn Monroe film, Don't Bother to Knock. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Eternity

Actors: Jon Voight, Armand Assante, Eileen Davidson, Wilford Brimley, Kaye Ballard

Synopsis: In this blend of fantasy and romantic comedy, a man isn't sure if he's stuck between past and present or if his imagination is simply working overtime. Edward (Jon Voight) is a prince in Medieval Europe, where his greatest rival is his brother Roni (Armand Assante). Roni wants to declare war on Read More

An Eight is Enough Wedding

Actors: Sandy Faison

Synopsis: Having racked up excellent ratings for the 1987 TV movie Eight is Enough: A Family Reunion, the producers concocted yet another "retro" film, 1989's An Eight is Enough Wedding. Dick Van Patten returns as Tom Bradford, who anxiously prepares for the wedding of his oldest son David (Grant Goodeve). Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Something Borrowed, Someone Blue

Synopsis: Jessica's nephew Grady Fletcher (Michael Horton) and his fiancée Donna Mayberry (Debbie Zipp) have decided to get married in the home of Donna's parents (Eugene Roche, Gale Storm). With Jessica (Angela Lansbury) on the guest list, can murder be far behind? Not likely: This time the victim is Mr. Read More

Night Court: Hit the Road, Jack

Synopsis: Eugene Roche returns as Jack Sullivan, the troublesome father of public defender Christine (Markie Post). Recently retired, Jack plans to move to Florida and live in an RV--but this is before he becomes close friends with prosecuting attorney Dan (John Larroquette), who ironically has been trying Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Transitions

Synopsis: When Robin Masters' latest manuscript is stolen, Magnum teams with "old school" private eye Luther Gillis (Eugene Roche) to retrieve the document. The two detectives also try to find out who has attempted to murder Higgins (John Hillerman)--and worse, has done harm to Higgins' beloved Dobermans Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Deadpan

Synopsis: When one of her former students adapts her novel Mainly Murder as a stage play, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) is honored to attend the show's opening night. Not long afterward, the reviews come out, with one critic lavishing praise on the production, and the critic's chief rival penning a devastating Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Deadline for Murder

Synopsis: Eugene Roche is cast as veteran reporter Billy Simms, yet another longtime friend of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury). While recovering from a heart attack, Billy expresses the wish that something very, very bad would happen to the slimy publisher who took over Billy's former newspaper and Read More

Magnum, P.I.: A.A.P.I.

Synopsis: French detective Claude Fornier (Paul Verdier), whose exploits have inspired several of Robin Masters' novels, is murdered just after presenting Magnum (Tom Selleck) with the "PI of the Year" award. Though anxious to solve Fornier's murder, Magnum finds that he'll have to wait in line as every Read More

Night Court: Dad's First Date

Synopsis: Christine (Markie Post) is both surprised and delighted when her widowed dad Jack (Eugene Roche) re-enters the dating scene after eight years of loneliness. Later on, however, Jack is hauled into court in the company of an prostitute--and while still surprised, Christine is far from delighted! The Read More

Webster: Season 03

Actors: Emmanuel Lewis, Alex Karras, Susan Clark, Henry Polic II, Eugene Roche, Cathryn Damon

Magnum, P.I.: The Return of Luther Gillis

Synopsis: St. Louis-based private eye Luther H. Gillis (Eugene Roche) pays a return visit to Hawaii to pick up an award from the National Academy of Private Investigators. Unfortunately, Luther's loyal secretary Blanche (Sheree North) is kidnapped along with Higgins (John Hillerman), forcing a flustered Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Luther Gills - File #001

Synopsis: Magnum (Tom Selleck) is simultaneously solicited by Higgins ($John Hillerman}) and Robin Masters (still unseen, but voiced by Orson Welles) to help them with a pair of delicate and potentially damaging cases. Higgins is being blackmailed for helping a woman with an illegitimate son, while one of Read More

Night Court: Christine and Mac

Synopsis: Markie Post makes her first appearance as idealistic--and extremely sexy--young defense attorney Christine Sullivan. Making her initial court appearance before Judge Harry T. Stone (Harry Anderson), Christine has a very difficult time doing her job, what with the hectoring of Harry on one side and Read More

Off Sides

Synopsis: Hippies and policemen seek to settle their differences on the gridiron in this comedy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Oh, God! You Devil

Actors: George Burns, Ted Wass, Ron Silver, Roxanne Hart, Eugene Roche

Synopsis: In the third and final film in the Oh, God! franchise, Bobby Shelton (Ted Wass) is a struggling musician who can't get a break, which bothers him all the more now that his wife, Wendy (Roxanne Hart), is about to have a baby. Desperate and depressed, Bobby announces that he'd sell his soul to get Read More

Webster: Season 02

Actors: Emmanuel Lewis, Alex Karras, Susan Clark, Henry Polic II, Eugene Roche, Cathryn Damon, Ben Vereen

Cocaine and Blue Eyes

Actors: O.J. Simpson, Candy Clark, Cindy Pickett

Synopsis: Cocaine and Blue Eyes was the pilot film for a TV detective series starring former footballer O.J. Simpson (who also produced the film). Playing a private eye in San Francisco, Simpson is hired by a man who ends up seriously dead. The deceased client had wanted Simpson to locate a former girl Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Luther Gillis - File #521

Synopsis: Eugene Roche makes his first appearance as Luther H. Gillis, a seedy "old school" private eye from St. Louis. Arriving in Hawaii on a missing-persons case, Luther manages to drag Magnum (Tom Selleck) into the proceedings--and as a result, both men are suspected in the murder of a drug dealer whose Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Guilty Until Proven Innocent

Synopsis: Quincy (Jack Klugman) notices many discrepancies in the "official" evidence when his friend Ted Locke (Rudy Solari) is charged with setting his own business on fire to collect the insurance, killing an employee in the process. Unfortunately, Locke has been hauled before a Federal Grand Jury, and Read More

Taxi: The Road Not Taken, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of Taxi's two-part season-four finale, Elaine (Marilu Henner) mulls over the opportunity to leave the Sunshine Cab Company for a job in Seattle. This inspires the other cabbies to recall the pivotal moments in their own lives. Louie (Danny DeVito) remembers his ascension from Read More

Farrell for the People

Actors: Valerie Harper

Synopsis: Sitcom stalwart Valerie Harper trades jokes for the judiciary in Farrell: For the People. Valerie stars as New York attorney Elizabeth Farrell ("All she wants to be is a DA", declared the TV Guide ad copy, "but her toughest case is being a woman!"), whose case load runs the gamut from rapists to Read More

Miracle on Ice

Synopsis: Underpublicized and underappreciated, the US ice hockey team heads for the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York. Driven a manner than can be described as merciless by coach Herb Brooks (Karl Malden), the team has learned how to swallow months of defeat and disappointment press on to Read More

Soap: Season 04

Actors: Robert Mandan, Katherine Helmond, Jennifer Salt, Jimmy Baio, Arthur Peterson

Synopsis: The death of Jessica Tate (Katherine Helmond) was the big shocker at the end of Soap's third season. So imagine everyone's surprise when, as the series launched season four, Jessica was brought back to life -- following a brief stopover in Heaven to commiserate with all her ex-lovers! In another Read More

Rape and Marriage: The Rideout Case

Actors: Linda Hamilton, Mickey Rourke, Rip Torn, Eugene Roche, Conchata Ferrell

Synopsis: The landmark 1978 courtroom prosecution which determined that a married man can by law be brought up on charges of raping his wife, was meticulously--and tastefully--detailed in this made-for-TV movie. Linda Hamilton stars as Oregon housewife Greta Rideout, who after years of abuse at the hands Read More

Soap: Season 03

Actors: Robert Mandan, Katherine Helmond, Diana Canova, Jennifer Salt, Jimmy Baio

Synopsis: When Soap arrived at its cliffhanging season-two finale, Jessica Tate (Katherine Helmond) was trying to choose between her husband Chester (Robert Mandan) and a detective named Donahue; Jessica's son Billy (Jimmy Baio) was in the clutches of a religious cult called the "Sunnies"; and Jodie's Read More

Hart to Hart

Actors: Jill St. John, Lionel Stander, Robert Wagner

Synopsis: Originally telecast September 25, 1979, Hart to Hart was the pilot film for a series which officially debuted three days earlier. Robert Wagner and Stephanie Powers play the fabulously wealthy, blissfully happy married couple Jonathan and Jennifer Hart. He's a conglomerate CEO, she's a mystery Read More

The Child Stealer

Actors: Tracey Gold

Synopsis: The child stealer of the title is Beau Bridges, the self-centered ex-husband of Blair Brown. She has custody of the kids, and he has been slapped with a restraining order. Bridges waits until Brown's guard is down and kidnaps his two daughters. Told by the authorities that there's little they can Read More

The Ghost of Flight 401

Actors: Ernest Borgnine

Synopsis: Based on a book by John C. Fuller, the made-for-TV Ghost of Flight 401 is predicated on the "actual events" surrounding a real-life plane crash. In December of 1972, Flight 401 nose-dived into the Florida Everglades, killing its flight officer (played herein by Ernest Borgnine). Though damaged Read More

All in the Family: Archie's Other Wife

Actors: Carroll O'Connor, Jonelle Allen, Eugene Roche, Harvey Lembeck, Allan Melvin

Synopsis: The irrepressible Pinky (Eugene Roche) plays another practical joke on Archie while attending an out-of-town VFW convention. Thus, when Archie awakens from a drunken stupor, he finds that he is sharing his motel bed with an attractive black woman named Marabel (Jonelle Allen), who insists that the Read More

Soap: Season 02

Synopsis: The cliffhanger that brought season one of Soap to a climax is resolved in season two when Jessica Tate (Katherine Helmond) is cleared of the murder of her lover (and step-nephew!) Peter Campbell. Jessica's husband, Chester (Robert Mandan), confesses to the crime whereupon he is convicted and sent Read More

Corvette Summer

Actors: Mark Hamill, Annie Potts, Eugene Roche, Kim Milford, Richard McKenzie

Synopsis: The Corvette Ken Dantley's (Mark Hamill) class has been restoring in their high-school shop class is nearly completely fixed up. One day, the students walk in and it is gone - apparently stolen. Ken is larking about in Las Vegas when he spies a car that looks suspiciously like the Corvette he Read More

The Winds of Kitty Hawk

Synopsis: This made-for-television film Winds of Kitty Hawk, chronicles the efforts of the Wright Brothers to become the first men to build a functioning, motor-powered airplane, as well as their rivalry with Glenn Curtiss. While the movie is a little too leisurely paced, the aerial sequences are excellent. Read More

The New Maverick

Actors: James Garner, Jack Kelly, George Loros, Eugene Roche, Charles Frank

Synopsis: James Garner took time off from The Rockford Files to star in the "retro" TV movie The New Maverick, written by Rockford stalwart Juanita Bartlett. Garner steps into the role of western gambler Brett Maverick as though the 20 years since the original TV series had never passed; he is costarred, as Read More

Foul Play

Actors: Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Burgess Meredith, Rachel Roberts, Eugene Roche

Synopsis: As he did in his screenplay for Silver Streak (1974), writer/director Colin Higgins mixes life-and-death melodrama with broad slapstick in Foul Play. Goldie Hawn stars as Gloria Mundy, a recent divorcée whose attempts to start life anew in San Francisco are bollixed up when she is inadvertently Read More

The Late Show

Actors: Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy, Eugene Roche, Joanna Cassidy

Synopsis: Even though he barely makes enough money to cover his expenses and finds divorce cases (his bread and butter) unsavory, aging detective Ira Wells (Art Carney) is determined to stay active and to retain some amount of self-respect. When his partner Harry Regan (Howard Duff) is killed while on Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Main Man

Synopsis: Quincy (Jack Klugman) investigates when Frank Daniels, star football player for the Arroya Junior College Bears, dies after being tackled. The autopsy determines that Frank succumbed to a brain cyst that was suddenly activated during the tackle--and Quincy is worried that the dead man's brother Read More

Never Con a Killer

Synopsis: Filmed as the 72-minute pilot episode for the weekly ABC adventure series, The Feather and Father Gang, Never Con a Killer was held back from view until May 13, 1977, by which time the series proper had already been on for two months...and had already been canceled. Stefanie Powers and Harold Gould Read More

Corey: For the People

Synopsis: This TV movie stars Jon Rubinstein as a Nassau County assistant D.A. named Dan Corey. Yes, he's idealistic, and yes, he butts his head against (drum roll) THE SYSTEM. His current case involves a battered woman who claims to have killed her doctor husband in self defense. Corey, flying in the face Read More

The Possessed

Synopsis: An ex-priest helps exorcise the demons that have taken over the residents of an exclusive girls' school in this made-for-TV supernatural thriller. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Incircumstantial Evidence

Mallory

Synopsis: Raymond Burr stars again as a lawyer, this time named Arthur Mallory. No Perry Mason he, Mallory has been on the outs since being falsely accused of perjury. Eventually cleared, Mallory lives hand to mouth as a public defender, with a heightened sense of fair play when it comes to the downtrodden. Read More

All in the Family: Beverly Rides Again

Actors: Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Eugene Roche, Phoebe Dorin

Synopsis: Archie is fed up with the practical jokes perpetrated by his bachelor buddy, Pinky (Eugene Roche). To get even, Archie arranges a date between Pinky and Beverly LaSalle (Lori Shannon), who happens to be a professional female impersonator. This episode, a follow-up to the previous season's "Archie the Hero Read More

All in the Family: The Draft Dodger

Actors: Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers, Liz Torres

Synopsis: As most veteran All in the Family fans know, the Christmas season is seldom a joyous occasion in the Bunker household. This year, a bitter argument erupts between Mike and Archie when Mike welcomes his friend, David Brewster (Renny Temple), a draft dodger now living in Canada, to Christmas dinner. Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: The Drop

Synopsis: A kidnapping has occurred, and the ruthless abductor has posted a ransom. Among the kidnaper's demands is that detective Mike Stone (Karl Malden) deliver the ransom himself. Stone agrees to this condition, even though he suspects that he is walking into a murder trap. Future Hardy Boys regular Read More

Kojak: Out of the Frying Pan ...

Synopsis: Eugene Roche is cast as alcoholic police detective Lyle "Sandy" Beech, whose drinking and dereliction of duty has gotten him demoted to patrolman on his old beat. Determined to win back his badge, Sandy embarks upon a personal mission to capture the murderer of his friend and colleague. But in so Read More

Kojak: Acts of Desperate Men

Synopsis: Bruno Kirby, here billed as Bruce Kirby Jr., essays one of his first important roles as Keith Wicks, a deranged ex-soldier turned serial sniper. As Wicks embarks upon a citywide killing spree, he finds an unexpected co-conspirator in the form of Seymour Hayward (Eugene Roche), a bored accountant Read More

Crime Club

Actors: Scott Thomas, Eugene Roche, Robert Lansing, Barbara Rhoades, Biff McGuire

Synopsis: The second and last TV pilot film to bear the Crime Club title, the 1975 Crime Club once again involves a state-of-the-art crime solving organization whose members are professional investigators from various public and private sectors. The principal characters are a detective (Scott Thomas), a Read More

Mr. Ricco

Actors: Dean Martin, Eugene Roche, Thalmus Rasulala, Denise Nicholas, Cindy Williams

Synopsis: Dean Martin had his final leading role in this obscure drama about a San Francisco lawyer defending a black militant (Thalmus Rasulala) on trial for murder. The familiar supporting cast includes Cindy Williams, Philip Michael Thomas, and Room 222's Denise Nicholas. Filmmaker Paul Bogart, who Read More

The Art of Crime

Synopsis: Originally produced as the pilot for a prospective TV series and based on a novel entitled Gypsy in Amber, this is the story of a detective, who also happens to be a gypsy, who becomes involved in a homicide case when one of his friends, a fellow antique dealer, is charged with the murder. Read More

The Last Survivors

Actors: Martin Sheen, Diane Baker, Tom Bosley, Christopher George, Bruce Davison

Synopsis: Though not officially acknowleged at the time of its telecast, the made-for-TV movie The Last Survivors was a rehash of the 1957 theatrical feature Abandon Ship; both in fact were based on the same true story. A typhoon at sea has sunk a ship, leaving Alexander Holmes (Martin Sheen) as the highest Read More

W

Actors: Twiggy

Synopsis: In this film, also released under the title I Want Her Dead, Katie Lewis (Twiggy) and her husband Ben (Michael Witney) discover that they are the targets of a mysterious killer who leaves the letter W at the scene of their near-fatal "accidents." While trying to avoid death, the couple must Read More

Newman's Law

Actors: Louis J. DiFonzo, Penelope Gillette, Wilbert Gowdy, Kirk Mee

Synopsis: LAPD Officer Newman has not gotten the reputation of a straight arrow by avoiding conflict when fighting for right. In this police drama, his honesty is put to the test when he and his partner discover a international drug ring involving some of the department's highest ranking officers. ~ Sandra Read More

Winter Kill

Synopsis: Winter Kill was the pilot film for a potential Andy Griffith TV series, to be titled MacNeil. Griffith plays the easygoing sheriff in a Northwestern ski resort town (actually Big Bear, California). The object of Griffith's attentions is a mysterious serial killer, who leaves puzzling Read More

The Murderers

Synopsis: An fugitive who has gone straight is harassed by a blackmailer. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Slaughterhouse-Five

Actors: Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans, Valerie Perrine

Synopsis: "Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time." These opening words of Kurt Vonnegut's famous novel make an effective and short summary of a haunting, funny film. For the screen, director George Roy Hill faithfully renders Vonnegut's black anti-war comedy about Pilgrim (well played in a low key by Michael Sacks Read More

Ironside: Down Two Roads

Synopsis: Newly graduated from law school, Ironside's assistant Mark Sanger (Don Mitchell) is assigned to the DA's office. His first assignment is to build a case against robbery suspect Roger Stewart (Felton Perry)--a school caretaker whom Mark had befriended during his studies. Balking at the prospect of Read More

Crawlspace

Synopsis: Crawlspace is a quirky made-for-TV movie about a strange young drifter (Tom Harper) who arrives in a small New England town. He is sheltered by a generous middle-aged couple (Arthur Kennedy and Teresa Wright), but he insists upon living in a tiny crawlspace in the couple's cellar. His hosts had Read More

They Might Be Giants

Actors: Staats Cotsworth, George C. Scott, Joanne Woodward, Jack Gilford, Lest