G.W. Bailey Filmography

The Closer: Season 03

Actors: Kyra Sedgwick, J.K. Simmons, Jon Tenney, Corey Reynolds, Robert Gossett

The Closer: Season 02

Actors: Kyra Sedgwick, J.K. Simmons, Jon Tenney, Corey Reynolds, Robert Gossett

Synopsis: Brenda Johnson (Kyra Sedgwick), head of the LAPD's Priority Homicide Division, continues to cope with high-profile murders, higher-profile suspects, and the downright hostility of her coworkers and superiors in Season Two of The Closer. Determining much of the drama this season are the Read More

The Closer: Season 01

Actors: Kyra Sedgwick, J.K. Simmons, Corey Reynolds, Robert Gossett, G.W. Bailey

Synopsis: No sooner has transplanted Atlantan Brenda Johnson (Kyra Sedgwick) arrived in Los Angeles to assume her duties as deputy police chief of the LAPD's Priority Homicide Division that she is plunged into a bizarre murder case--which, like all those that will follow, is embarrassingly high-profile. Read More

Home on the Range

Actors: Roseanne, Judi Dench, Jennifer Tilly, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Randy Quaid

Synopsis: Disney presents the animated musical Western Home on the Range, featuring an original musical score by Alan Menken. The Little Piece of Heaven family farm is about to go under and outlaw cattle rustler Alameda Slim (voice of Randy Quaid) sets his sights on it. Three dairy cows -- tough Maggie Read More

The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story

Actors: Tommy Vignatti, Dean Cain, Sarah Joy Brown, David Denman, Dee Wallace, G.W. Bailey

Synopsis: On December 24, 2002, a woman named Laci Peterson, eight months pregnant at the time, was reported missing to police in a suburban California community. Laci's husband, Scott Peterson, initially joined police in their investigation of his wife's disappearance, which was soon presumed to be the Read More

The Thin Blue Lie

Actors: Rob Morrow, Randy Quaid, Paul Sorvino, Cynthia Preston, G.W. Bailey

Synopsis: Rob Morrow stars as investigating journalist Jonathan Neumann in this drama about police corruption in 1970s Philadelphia. When Neumann takes over the court beat for the Philadelphia Examiner, he quickly discovers wrongdoing at every turn, with cops beating suspects into often blatantly false Read More

Jesus

Actors: Jeremy Sisto, Jacqueline Bisset, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Debra Messing, Gary Oldman

Synopsis: He was a poor carpenter who never traveled further than 50 miles from his home and died at the age of 33, but his teachings changed the world and he's still followed by hundreds of millions of people around the world, 2,000 years after his death. Jesus, originally produced as a television Read More

Seduction in a Small Town

Synopsis: Small-town housewife Sarah Jenks (Melissa Gilbert) would hardly qualify as the most popular woman in her community: She constantly speaks her mind, contemptuously disdains those who aren't vegetarians like herself, and (horrors!) does not attend church on Sunday. However, no one would ever claim Read More

The Siege at Ruby Ridge

Actors: Randy Quaid, Laura Dern, Kirsten Dunst, Darren E. Burrows

Synopsis: The tragic story of the Ruby Ridge "massacre" has been so thoroughly covered and disseminated by the mainstream press that to add anything here would be pointless. Suffice to say that the two-part TV movie The Siege at Ruby Ridge uses the facts at hand to show how the tragedy occurred, and how but Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Big Easy Murder

Synopsis: While researching a novel, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) pays a return visit to New Orleans. Before long, she is enmeshed in a murder investigation, this one stemming from the death of a local businessman. A tiny doll was left behind at the murder scene, indicating the presence of a strong voodoo Read More

Police Academy: Mission to Moscow

Actors: George Gaynes, Michael Winslow, David Graf, Leslie Easterbrook, Christopher Lee, G.W. Bailey, Ron Perlman

Synopsis: In a major stumbling block toward better international relations, America's most laughable police officers are sent to Russia to fight crime in this comedy. In Moscow, master criminal Konali (Ron Perlman) has marketed a new computer game that has an unusual hidden feature -- it allows him to bring Read More

No Child of Mine

Actors: Patty Duke, Tracy Nelson, Susan Blakely, Markus Flanagan, Marshall Teague

Synopsis: In this made-for-television drama a young mother finds herself unable to cope with her daughter's handicap and so puts her up for adoption. When her mother finds out, she launches a courtroom battle for the right to raise her granddaughter herself. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Dead Before Dawn

Synopsis: In the tradition of such woman-in-jeopardy nail-biters as Extremities and Sleeping With the Enemy comes the ABC made-for-television pic Dead Before Dawn, starring small-screen vets Cheryl Ladd (Charlie's Angels) and Jameson Parker (Simon & Simon). Though to outsiders' eyes all is well in the life Read More

Bed of Lies

Actors: Susan Dey, Chris Cooper, G.W. Bailey

Synopsis: When a poor waitress shoots her abusive husband, she is forced to battle the courts for custody of her children while waiting for a verdict on her trial for murder of her husband. Based on a true story, it does a credible job in the depiction of the abusive relationship but some of the impact is Read More

An American Story

Synopsis: This fact-based drama centers on a sextet of WW II soldiers who are hailed as heroes upon their return to their hometown in Texas. Trouble follows when the vets unite to overthrow the town's corrupt politicians. They make a plan, but it is nearly derailed by the group leader's social-climbing wife Read More

A Mother's Justice

Synopsis: The mother of the title is played by Meredith Baxter. Her daughter (Carrie Hamilton) is raped by an unknown assailant who leaves no tangible clues behind. Obsessed with bringing the rapist out in the open, Ms. Baxter sets herself up as a potential assault victim. Farfetched though it sounds, A Read More

Held Hostage: The Sis and Jerry Levin Story

Actors: David Dukes, Marlo Thomas

Synopsis: Marlo Thomas stars as Lucille "Sis" Levin, whose husband Jerry (David Dukes) is an American TV journalist assigned to Beirut in 1984. Jerry is kidnapped by Muslim fundamentalists, a fact kept off the front pages by the State Department, ostensibly because the publicity could cost Jerry his life. Read More

Write to Kill

Actors: Scott Valentine, Joan Severance, Chris Mulkey, G.W. Bailey, Ray Wise

Synopsis: In this thriller, Jamie Sanford (Chris Mulkey) is murdered by a group of counterfeiters when he attempts to expose them in order to secure an early parole. However, when aspiring writer Clark (Scott Valentine) learns of his brothers death, he sets out to exact revenge and bring the guilty to Read More

Double-Crossed

Actors: Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: Based on the true-life adventures of the late Drug Enforcement Agency spy Barry Seal, this exciting espionage adventure chronicles the events that lead up to his death in 1984. Before coming to work for the DEA, smooth-talking Seal (Dennis Hopper) had been a drug smuggler for the notorious Read More

Danielle Steel's 'Fine Things'

Synopsis: Based on a best-selling novel from Danielle Steele, this made-for-television melodrama tells the sad story of a highly successful businessman whose idyllic life is destroyed when his new bride dies of cancer, leaving him with her daughter. To make matters worse, his late wife's ex-husband shows up Read More

Love and Lies

Actors: Peter Gallagher, Mare Winningham

Synopsis: Love and Lies is a TV "film noir" inspired the true exploits of detective Kim Paris. Mare Winningham stars as a no-nonsense Houston private investigator with a penchant for disguise. She is hired to gather evidence on Peter Gallagher, who is implicated in a double homicide. Assuming a false Read More

Police Academy 6: City Under Siege

Actors: Bubba Smith, David Graf, Michael Winslow, Leslie Easterbrook, Marion Ramsey

Synopsis: Who do you send after a gang of stump-dumb crooks? Who else but the most intellectually-challenged police force in America, in the sixth installment of the Police Academy series. The Wilson Heights Gang, three thieves whose success as criminals is in inverse proportion to their outwardly-displayed Read More

The Gifted One

Actors: Brandon Call, John Rhys-Davies, Pete Kowanko, Wendy Phillips

Synopsis: Filmed in Alberta, The Gifted One was intended as the pilot for a weekly TV series. The title character, played by Pete Kowanko, is a very young man with remarkable mental and physical powers. Raised from childhood as a modern superman, Pete begins yearning for his roots and accordingly conducts a Read More

War & Remembrance

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Jane Seymour, John Gielgud, Hart Bochner, Victoria Tennant, Polly Bergen, David Dukes, Michael Jeffrey Woods, Sharon Stone, Barry Bostwick

Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach

Actors: Matt McCoy, Janet Jones, George Gaynes, G.W. Bailey, René Auberjonois

Synopsis: America's most inept law enforcement team mixes business with pleasure as they head to sunny Florida in this comedy. The aging and often-confused head of the Police Academy, Commandant Lassard (George Gaynes), has reached mandatory retirement age, much to the pleasure of the devious Capt. Harris (G.W. Bailey Read More

Burglar

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Bobcat Goldthwait, G.W. Bailey, Lesley Ann Warren, James Handy

Synopsis: Director of the first Police Academy movie, Hugh Wilson is also responsible for the action comedy-caper Burglar. Bernice Rhodenbarr (Whoopi Goldberg) is a retired cat burglar who works at a bookstore. Bad cop Ray Kirschman (G.W. Bailey) blackmails her, so she agrees to do a job for Dr. Cynthia Read More

Mannequin

Actors: Andrew McCarthy, Kim Cattrall, Estelle Getty, G.W. Bailey, James Spader

Synopsis: In Mannequin, a lame attempt to revive the style and panache of fantasy-tinged romantic comedies of the '30s and '40s, Andrew McCarthy stars as a department store window-dresser who discovers that one of his mannequins (Kim Cattrall) is actually a woman from ancient Egypt when she becomes animated Read More

Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol

Actors: Steve Guttenberg, Bubba Smith, Michael Winslow, David Graf, Sharon Stone, Tim Kazurinsky

Synopsis: In the third sequel to the hit comedy Police Academy, Commandant Lassard (George Gaynes) decides that the police force is overworked and understaffed, and he comes up with the idea of recruiting civilian volunteers to work side-by-side with his officers. Of course, with the hapless Carey Mahoney (Steve Guttenberg Read More

Downpayment on Murder

Synopsis: Down payment on Murder is a fact-based TV movie starring Connie Sellecca as a battered wife. For ten years she has been the punching bag of her real-estate agent husband, played with brilliant repugnance by Ben Gazzara. When Connie moves out, Gazzara is convinced that it's because of another man; Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Murder She Spoke

Synopsis: In the final episode of Murder, She Wrote's third season, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) shows up at a studio to record one of her "Mystery Books for the Blind." Halfway through her recording session, the electricity fails and the studio is plunged into a blackout. When the lights come up again, it is Read More

Short Circuit

Actors: Ally Sheedy, Steve Guttenberg, Fisher Stevens, Austin Pendleton, G.W. Bailey, Tim Blaney

Synopsis: Struck by lightning, an endearing little robot known only as "Number 5" escapes from an experimental electronics firm. Technician Steve Guttenberg and his indecipherable East Indian assistant Fisher Stevens set out to locate Number 5 before the military can go through with its plans to destroy the Read More

Police Academy

Actors: Steve Guttenberg, G.W. Bailey, George Gaynes, Michael Winslow, Kim Cattrall

Synopsis: Public safety takes a turn for the worse in this hit comedy, which spawned a long-running franchise. As a crime wave sweeps through a major city, the mayor decides that part of the problem may stem from overly restrictive qualifications for police officers, so she opens the door of the city's Read More

A Winner Never Quits

Synopsis: Made for television, A Winner Never Quits is the true story of one-armed baseball player Pete Gray. Having lost his arm in a childhood accident, Pete (played by Steve Rees as a child, Keith Carradine as an adult) still insists upon pursuing an athletic career in emulation of his older brother Read More

Rustlers' Rhapsody

Actors: Tom Berenger, G.W. Bailey, Marilu Henner, Andy Griffith, Fernando Rey

Synopsis: An amusing spoof of the good 'ole westerns back in the halcyon days when all the cliches were held up as icons, this parody by Hugh Wilson works best for savvy audiences. Rex O'Herlihan (Tom Berenger) is a singing cowboy with a wardrobe straight out of the Hollywood westerns of the '40s -- he Read More

North Beach and Rawhide

Synopsis: In this socially conscious drama, an ex-con meets constant opposition from avaricious land owners who want the land on which he has set up a ranch-style juvenile correctional facility. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Warning Sign

Actors: Sam Waterston, Kathleen Quinlan, Yaphet Kotto, Jeffrey DeMunn, Richard Dysart

Synopsis: In yet another ostensible thriller about deadly germs wreaking havoc on human life and psyches, this is a frenetic, uneven story about germs going berserk in a sealed-off lab, giving rise to infected humans more berserk than the germs. The lab is secretly developing weapons of biological warfare Read More

Runaway

Actors: Tom Selleck, Cynthia Rhodes, Gene Simmons, Kirstie Alley, Stan Shaw

Synopsis: Best-selling author Michael Crichton wrote and directed this science fiction thriller that combined the influences of Blade Runner (1982), comic books, and Crichton's ongoing fascination with the dangers of high technology. Tom Selleck stars as Sergeant Jack Ramsey, a single father in the near Read More

M*A*S*H: As Time Goes By

Synopsis: At the suggestion of Charles (David Ogden Stiers), Margaret (Loretta Swit) prepares to bury a time capsule at the 4077th. Hawkeye volunteers to help collect souvenirs for the capsule, but Margaret turns him down, worried that he will turn the whole ceremony into joke. Before Hawk inevitably proves Read More

M*A*S*H: Give and Take

Synopsis: It is Charles' (David Ogden Stier turn to handle the collection charities, an assignment he devoutly wishes to dodge. As he tries to pass his responsibilities along to others, things inevitable come full-circle back to him. And on a less amusing note, a GI (Craig Wasson) resents the fact that the Read More

Goodnight, Beantown [TV Series]

M*A*S*H: That Darn Kid

Synopsis: The titular "kid" is a nanny goat, purchased by Klinger (Jamie Farr) in hopes of cornering the milk business in the 4077th. Instead, the goat eats the camp's payroll, leaving temporary paymaster Hawkeye (Alan Alda) in debt to the tune of $22,340. Elsewhere, Charles (David Ogden Stiers has problems Read More

The Capture of Grizzly Adams

Actors: Dan Haggerty, Chuck Connors, Kim Darby, June Lockhart, Sydney Penny

Synopsis: A wilderness-loving man must clear himself of a wrongful murder charge and rescue his daughter who may be sent to an orphanage in this made-for-TV movie. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

M*A*S*H: Promotion Commotion

Synopsis: It is up to Charles (David Ogden Stiers), Hawkeye (Alan Alda) and B.J. (Mike Farrell) to do determine who among the 4077th's enlisted men is due a promotion. As everyone in camp jockeys for approval from the three-headed promotion board, Colonel Potter (Harry Morgan) is profoundly affected by the Read More

M*A*S*H: Blood Brothers

Synopsis: Hawkeye (Alan Alda) is profoundly touched by a terminally ill GI (well played by a young Patrick Swayze) who is more concerned about the plight of his wounded pal. Unfortunately, the fact that Hawkeye can do nothing for the dying soldier exacts quite an emotional toll. All this occurs while a Read More

Bitter Harvest

Actors: Ron Howard, Art Carney, Tarah Nutter, David Knell, Barry Corbin

Synopsis: Ron Howard plays a young farmer and family man whose dairy herd is being decimated by illness. As if this weren't enough, Howard's young son falls seriously ill. The state's agricultural officials could do something about Howard's plight, but red tape and bureaucracy rules the day. Based on a book Read More

M*A*S*H: Wheelers and Dealers

Synopsis: B.J. (Mike Farrell) learns to his dismay that his wife Peg is working as a waitress back home to make ends meet. So profound is Beej's depression that he may adversely affect the outcome of a crucial poker game. Meanwhile, old Cavalry man Col. Potter (Harry Morgan) is obliged to undergo a remedial Read More

M*A*S*H: The Life You Save

Synopsis: After a near-death experience, Charles Winchester (David Ogden Stiers) becomes obsessed with his own mortality. This leads to an uncharateristic spell of introspection for the otherwise bombastic Charles. As for the other doctors, they have their hands full wrestling with a massive new-duty Read More

M*A*S*H: Morale Victory

Synopsis: Col. Potter (Harry Morgan) is fed up with the camp's bellyaching in general, and with the constant carping of Hawkeye (Alan Alda) and B.J. (Mike Farrell) in particular. Hoping to shut everyone up, Potter appoints the two doctors as the 4077th's new morale officers. As Hawk and Beej go about their Read More

M*A*S*H: Back Pay

Synopsis: Doing some creative math in his off-hours, Hawkeye (Alan Alda) figures out how much money he would have made during the Korean war if he'd been a civilian doctor. Dutifully annotating the results, Hawk presents the Army with a bill for services rendered. And on another front, Charles (David Ogden Read More

Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story

Actors: Michael Beck, Telly Savalas, Ronny Cox, Alex Karras, Art Carney

Synopsis: Filmed on location at Alcatraz Island, this two-part "whole story" actually concentrates on a handful of the denizens behind the cold grey walls of "The Rock". Michael Beck plays the real-life Clarence Carnes, an Oklahoma Choctaw Indian said to be the youngest man ever incarcerated in the Read More

M*A*S*H: Death Takes a Holiday

Synopsis: It looks like the 4077th won't get the Christmas turkey dinner they'd been promised. The only staffer not feeling sorry for himself is Father Mulcahy (William Christopher), who is more concerned that a group of local youngsters will not be properly fed. Mulcahy takes up a collection for the kids Read More

M*A*S*H: April Fools

Synopsis: April Fool's Day is practically a legal holiday at the 4077th, with the staffers falling over themselves performing all manner of practical jokes. Normally, even taciturn Col. Potter (Harry Morgan) would be joining in on the fun. This year, however, Potter wishes everyone would cease and desist Read More

M*A*S*H: Captain's Outrageous

Synopsis: Will Father Mulcahy (William Christopher) finally get the promotion that has so long been denied him? Though sympathetic to Mulcahy's plight, the doctors of the 4077th have got problems of their own. A big brawl at Rosie's bar has sent the proprietor to a hospital bed and placed the doctors in Read More

Laverne & Shirley: There's a Spy in My Beer

Synopsis: Laverne (Penny Marshall) is certain that she has seen an industrial spy snooping around in the brewery, but she can't get anyone to believe her. To prove that she's not hallucinating, Laverne talks Shirley into making a nocturnal foray into the plant to catch the spy in the act--and as result, the Read More

A Force of One

Actors: Jennifer O'Neill, Chuck Norris, Ron O'Neal, Clu Gulager, James Whitmore, Jr.

Synopsis: To say that Chuck Norris is the star of Force of One may smack of redundancy. Norris is cast as Vietnam vet Matt Logan, assigned to instruct a big-city narcotics squad in the intricacies of martial arts. His star pupil turns out to be Detective Mandy Rust (Jennifer O'Neill). Initially Read More

M*A*S*H: The Yalu Brick Road

Synopsis: As a result of Klinger's Thanksgiving dinner, the 4077th is laid low with food poisoning. The only healthy staffers are Hawkeye (Alan Alda) and B.J. (Mike Farrell), who volunteer to pick up some much-needed antibiotics. On their way back to camp, the two doctors become hopelessly lost in what Read More

Charlie's Angels: Consenting Adults

Actors: Farrah Fawcett-Majors, Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith, David F. Doyle, Dick Dinman

Synopsis: When a trio of thieves steal an apparently worthless antique, they trigger a violent war between two criminal factions. Investigating, the Angels come upon a widespread call-girl and smuggling operation, fronted by a computer dating service. Needless to say, it falls to Jill (Farrah Read More

The Runaway Barge

Synopsis: In this feature-length pilot for an unsold TV series, Bo Hopkins, Tim Matheson and Jim Davis star as Ezel, Owens, and Buckshot, three men carving out a living as the owners of a Mississippi river tugboat. Balancing comedy with melodrama, the story manages to involve our heroes with a gang of Read More