Gary FrankFilmography

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Children of Time

Synopsis: Investigating the Gamma Quadrant planet Gaia, the crew comes across a lost colony. The leader of the colonists is Miranda O'Brien (Jennifer Parsons), who, as it turns out, is a descendant of DS9's own Miles O'Brien. In fact, the entire colony is living 200 years in the future and will cease to Read More

Prison of Secrets

Actors: Stephanie Zimbalist, Dan Lauria, Finola Hughes, Gary Frank, Rusty Schwimmer

Synopsis: This made-for-television drama is based on the true story of a female prison inmate who fought for women's rights while still behind bars. Stephanie Zimbalist stars as Lynn Shaffer, a wife and mother who gets convicted of white-collar crime and is sentenced to ten years in prison. While behind Read More

Untamed Love

Actors: Richard Fancy, Gary Frank, John Getz, Jaime Gomez, Mel Winkler, Betty K. Bynum, Cathy Lee Crosby, Ashlee Lauren

Synopsis: A woman who believes in a troubled child must go against the law in order to help her in this made-for-TV drama, inspired by a true story. Six-year-old Caitlin is a deeply disturbed child whose violent and disruptive behavior prevents her from attending school or day care with other youngsters. Read More

Death in Small Doses

Actors: Richard Thomas, Tess Harper, Glynnis O'Connor

Synopsis: Based on a well-publicized 1991 Dallas murder case, the made-for-TV Death in Small Doses begins with the death of architect Nancy Lyon (Glynnis O'Connor), who has succumbed to arsenic poisoning. The prime suspect is Nancy's frequently estranged husband Richard (Richard Lyon), who stands to collect Read More

Lost in the Wild

Actors: Lindsay Wagner, Robert Loggia, David Clennon, Hilary Edson, Farrah Forke

Synopsis: While heading towards a makeshift medical outpost deep into the Mexican jungle, one of three planes crashes, stranding a group of doctors and student nurses, some of whom are critically injured. This taut adventure follows the attempts of the others to locate the downed plane and save the lives of Read More

The Distinguished Gentleman

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Lane Smith, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Joe Don Baker, Victoria Rowell

Synopsis: A smooth-talking confidence trickster makes his way into congress (where the cynical would suggest he'd have plenty of company) in this comedy. Thomas Jefferson Johnson (Eddie Murphy) is a con man from Florida who gets the bright idea that a scam artist could make a tidy sum if he was able to get Read More

Take Down

Actors: Harry Hamlin, Teri Garr, Terry O'Quinn, Gary Frank, Jocelyn O'Brien

Synopsis: This made-for-TV film was based on a real-life, nail-biting hostage situation. The incident began when a deranged gunman, disgruntled for a variety of reasons, burst into the maternity ward at the Alta View Hospital in Sandy, Utah. Holding mothers, babies and nurses captive, the gunman clearly Read More

Getting Up and Going Home

Synopsis: Based on Robert Anderson's novel, the made-for-television Getting Up and Going Home is a drama about a divorced attorney (Tom Skerritt) who copes with a mid-life crisis by having affairs with no less than three women: his ex-wife, a single mother, and a married suburbanite. ~ Stephen Thomas Read More

Unspeakable Acts

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Brad Davis, Bess Meyer, Gregory Sierra

Synopsis: Unspeakable Acts is the all-too-true story of a 1984 Dade County (Florida) sexual abuse case. Frank and Ilana Fuster (Gregory Sierra and Bess Meyer), who operate an upper-class day care center in a Florida suburb, are accused of committing appalling acts upon their young charges. The prosecution's Read More

Flying Blind

Hunter: Dead on Target, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Hunter (Fred Dryer) has finally caught up with Rose Fain (Claire Nono), the widow of his wartime buddy Randall Fain. Though Fain has reportedly committed suicide, Hunter is convinced that he was murdered by another member of their top-secret Vietnam marine Read More

Hunter: Dead on Target, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Hunter (Fred Dryer) suspects that his Vietnam war buddy Randall Fain (introduced in the previous season's episode "Jade Woman") did not commit suicide as has been reported. Despite Fain's guilt over a tragic wartime blunder which had nearly wiped out his Read More

Deadly Weapon

Actors: Rodney Eastman, Kim Walker, Gary Frank, Michael Horse, Gary Kroeger

Synopsis: An impoverished adolescent outcast becomes a deadly, vengeful killer against his tormentors after he finds a super-secret anti-matter gun lying in an Arizona stream bed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Enemy Territory

Actors: Gary Frank, Ray Parker, Jr., Jan-Michael Vincent, Frances Foster, Tony Todd

Synopsis: In this violent crime drama, the residents of a New York City housing project live in fear of The Vampires, the brutal gang that continually terrorizes them. Things change after an insurance agent and a telephone repairman end up trapped there. Perhaps things would not be so desperate had the Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Death and Taxes

Synopsis: Traditionally, Magnum (Tom Selleck) spends the Fourth of July holiday all by himself; this year he's alone again, but not by choice, and at the worst possible time. A serial killer identified by the media as "The Ripper" has been tormenting Magnum by calling him up and reciting nursery rhymes and Read More

Emergency Room

Actors: Julie Sommars, Paul Stewart

Synopsis: Lensed on videotape, Emergency Room was the first presentation of the syndicated Commworld Prime Time Showcase. Sarah Purcell and LeVar Burton star in this hospital melodrama. Purcell plays the doctor in charge of the E.R., dealing not only with an onrush of patients but also with hospital red Read More

Midnight Lace

Synopsis: Like the 1960 theatrical feature of the same name, the made-for-TV Midnight Lace was inspired by Matilda Shouted Fire, a novel by Janet Green. Mary Crosby stars as Cathy Preston, the role originally essayed by Doris Day in the 1960 film, while Gary Frank steps into the old Rex Harrison role as Read More

Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb

Synopsis: This made-for-TV historical drama chronicles the personal and professional lives of Colonel Tibbets and the airmen who dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The story is based on a book by Gordon Thomas and Max Gordon Witts and also looks at the ways in which the aftermath of the bombing affected Read More

The Night the City Screamed

Actors: Raymond Burr, Robert Culp, Georg Stanford Brown

Synopsis: A big-city blackout galvanizes the plot of the made-for-TV The Night the City Screamed. Recreating recent events in New York City, the film details a crime spree that runs unchecked throughout the darkened metropolis. Mayor Raymond Burr tries to stem the tide of robberies and rapes, even as he Read More

The Gift

Synopsis: The Gift was a Christmas 1979 TV-movie offering based on the semi-autobiographical book written in 1973 by Pete Hammill. Gary Frank plays the Hammill counterpart, a Brooklyn-born sailor about to be shipped off to the Korean War. Frank decides to use his 3-day pass to discover if his girl friend Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: The Thrill Killers, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of Streets of San Francisco's two-part Season Five opener, a band of urban revolutionaries continue to hold an entire jury hostage on a ship, threatening to kill them one by one unless the group's leaders are released from prison. The tension mounts as the first hostage is Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: The Thrill Killers, Part 1

Synopsis: The two-part opener of Streets of San Francisco's fifth and final season marks a major transition, as SFPD homicide detective Mike Stone (Karl Malden) loses his longtime partner Steve Keller (Michael Douglas) and gains a new one, athletic young inspector Dan Robbins (Richard Hatch). But before Read More

Family [TV Series]

Actors: Sada Thompson, James Broderick, Kristy McNichol, Gary Frank

Ironside: The Faded Image

Synopsis: After two young women are killed on a University campus, Fran (Elizabeth Baur) has a suspicious accident near the murder scene. Investigating, Ironside (Raymond Burr) finds out that both victims had one thing in common: they had been the mistresses of the college's married dean (Richard Anderson) Read More

Senior Year

Synopsis: In this drama a young couple suffer a terrible tragedy that forces them to begin acting like mature adults. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Love is Not Forever

Teenage Lovers

Synopsis: In this drama set in the 1950s, two pairs of adolescent lovers rebel against the strict morality of their parents. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More