George ChakirisFilmography

Murder, She Wrote: Weave a Tangled Web

Synopsis: Sheriff Metzger (Ron Masak) investigates when Vivian Proctor (Pamela Bellwood), one of Cabot Cove's best-liked and busiest housewives, is implicated in the murder of a well-known womanizer who has been found dead in a cheap motel. Although Vivian is widely regarded as the "perfect" wife and Read More

Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again

Actors: Mark Blankfield, Bess Armstrong, Krista Erickson, Tim Thomerson, Michael McGuire

Synopsis: Robert Louis Stevenson's novel is satirized in this comedy about a scientist (Mark Blankfield) who is hopelessly addicted to his latest invention, a strange white powder. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Kiss Me and Die

Synopsis: Kiss Me and Die was a February, 1974 installment of ABC's late-night Wide World Mystery anthology. This 90-minute goosepimpler stars George Chakiris as an American in search of his missing brother. He traces his vanished sibling to a small, cloistered British village. There he meets an odd Read More

The Savage Curse

The Partridge Family: . . .- - -. . . (S.O.S.)

Synopsis: This final episode of The Partridge Family marks a one-time-only teaming of two Academy Award winners: Series star Shirley Jones and guest performer George Chakiris. The latter is cast as Navy captain Chuck Corwin, who back in his high school days was the boyfriend of Shirley Partridge (Shirley Read More

The Partridge Family: Anchors Aweigh

Notorious Woman

Actors: Rosemary Harris, George Chakiris, Alan Howard, Jeremy Irons

Synopsis: The title character in this British historical miniseries was 19th century French novelist Aurore Dupin (1804-1876), who wrote under the nom de plume of George Sand. Audaciously adopting male clothing and scandalizing her contemporaries by talking and behaving in a mannish fashion, George Sand Read More

The Big Cube

Actors: Lana Turner, George Chakiris, Richard Egan, Dan O'Herlihy, Pamela Rodgers

Synopsis: “The Big Cube” of the title is slang for a sugar cube dipped in LSD, which is omnipresent throughout the movie. Adriana Roman (Lana Turner) is a famous actress who is retiring from the stage to marry wealthy Charles Winthrop (Dan O’Herlihy), a situation that displeases Winthrop’s daughter Lisa. Read More

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Le Rouble a Deux Faces

Synopsis: In this espionage comedy, an American and a Russian agent find themselves double-crossed by a double agent who works for both of them. Also involved are a naive IBM computer operator, and the telephone operator at the hot-line center in Stockholm. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Young Girls of Rochefort

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, George Chakiris, Françoise Dorléac, Jacques Perrin, Grover Dale, Gene Kelly

Synopsis: Jacques Demy directed this frothy tribute to the Hollywood musicals of the 1940s, a follow-up to his earlier success The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964). Twin sisters Delphine and Solange (played by real-life sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorleac) live in the small coastal town of Read More

McGuire, Go Home!

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, George Chakiris, Susan Strasberg, Denholm Elliott, Gregoire Aslan

Synopsis: This story of love and espionage focuses on political turmoil as a small nation struggles to free itself from colonial rule, and one man tries to serve both justice and his own heart. In the late 1950s, the island of Cyprus is under the political control of Great Britain, but groups of Cypriot Read More

Is Paris Burning?

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron, George Chakiris, Gert Fröbe, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Kirk Douglas, Anthony Perkins, Simone Signoret

Synopsis: In 1944, with Paris on the verge of Liberation by the allies, Adolph Hitler ordered that the City of Light be blown up and burned to the ground. General Dietrich Von Choltitz, after much rumination, decided that he didn't want to go down in history as the man who destroyed Paris. His refusal to Read More

On A Volé La Joconde

Actors: George Chakiris, Marina Vlady, Paul Frankeur, Henri Virlojeux

Synopsis: Vincent (George Chakiris) is a gentleman thief who steals the Mona Lisa from the Louvre. He falls in love with the pretty young maid Nicole (Marina Vlady), whose main goal in life is to marry a wealthy man, but Vincent is unable to tell Nicole what his vocation is or that he is financially stable Read More

633 Squadron

Actors: Cliff Robertson, George Chakiris, Maria Perschy, Harry Andrews, Donald Houston

Synopsis: Cliff Robertson and George Chakiris star in this dumbed-down version of The Guns of Navarone. During World War II, the story concerns a Scandinavian underground leader, Erik Bergman (George Chakiris), who reports to British authorities the location of a German V2 fuel plant. As is the case in most Read More

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Flight from Ashiya

Actors: Yul Brynner, Richard Widmark, George Chakiris, Suzy Parker, Shirley Knight

Synopsis: Featuring an all-star cast and on-location shooting in Japan, where the story is set, three US Air Force rescue pilots must overcome their personal problems and differences to embark upon a dangerous mission to save raft-bound Japanese survivors from a murderous storm-tossed sea. As they head for Read More

La Ragazza di Bube

Actors: George Chakiris, Marc Michel, Dany Paris, Emilio Esposito

Synopsis: In this sentimental romance scripted by director Luigi Comencini and Marcello Fondato, leading-lady Claudia Cardinale rises above the tepid screenplay to turn in one of her better efforts. Set in a small Italian village in the 1940s, La Ragazza di Bube tells the story of a woman who falls in love Read More

Kings of the Sun

Actors: Yul Brynner, George Chakiris, Shirley Ann Field, Richard Basehart, Brad Dexter

Synopsis: In this historical adventure saga, Balam (George Chakiris) is the son of the ruler of the Mayan people; when his father is killed in battle, Balam succeeds his father as King and leads his followers out of Mexico to a coastal region. The Mayan's new home, however, is already the province of a Read More

A Change of Heart

Actors: George Chakiris, Janette Scott, Alfred Lynch, Jackie Lane, Athene Seyler

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a free-wheeling member of the U.S. Air Force goes AWOL. While traveling, the man and his girlfriend encounter another young couple. Both men are dressed exactly alike and are driving the same kind of bike. When the women climb aboard the wrong bikes, romantic mayhem Read More

Diamond Head

Actors: Charlton Heston, Yvette Mimieux, George Chakiris, France Nuyen, James Darren

Synopsis: Charlton Heston, portraying swaggering bigot land-baron Richard "King" Howland on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, does a spit take when his sister Sloan (Yvette Mimieux) announces that she plans to marry Paul Kahana, a 100% native Hawaiian (played by 100% native Philadelphian James Darren). But Read More

West Side Story

Actors: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris

Synopsis: Romeo and Juliet is updated to the tenements of New York City in this Oscar-winning musical landmark. Adapted by Ernest Lehman from the Broadway production, the movie opens with an overhead shot of Manhattan, an effect that director Robert Wise would repeat over the Alps in The Sound of Music four Read More

Under Fire

Actors: Rex Reason, Henry "Harry" Morgan, Steve Brodie, Peter Walker, Robert Levin

Synopsis: Another "pocket" adventure film from 20th Century-Fox's Regal Films subsidiary, Under Fire is set during WW2. Four American soldiers are charged with desertion and murder. Their counsel (Rex Reason) tries to get to the bottom of his clients' motivations. It turns out that the actual culprits were Read More

Ford Star Jubilee: You're the Top

Synopsis: For its first broadcast of the 1956-57 season, the monthly CBS variety anthology Ford-Star Jubilee offered a full-color salute to composer Cole Porter. Opening with (what else?) "Another Opening, Another Show (from Porter's Kiss Me Kate), the 90-minute special featured an all-star cast performing Read More

The Girl Rush

Actors: Rosalind Russell, Fernando Lamas, Eddie Albert, Gloria de Haven, Marion Lorne

Synopsis: In this comedy sequel to Wonderful Town (a popular Broadway musical), Kim, a museum worker from Providence, Rhode Island, inherits half ownership of a Las Vegas hotel when her father dies. She and her Aunt Clara go there to learn more about it. Unfortunately, just before they arrive, the other Read More

White Christmas

Actors: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen, Dean Jagger

Synopsis: White Christmas, Paramount's belated follow-up to the 1942 hit Holiday Inn, was the studio's first VistaVision production. A veritable warehouse full of oldie-but-goodie Irving Berlin tunes are woven into the film's simplistic plotline, along with a handful of new songs, of which "What Can You Do Read More

Brigadoon

Actors: Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse, Elaine Stewart, Barry Jones

Synopsis: Reportedly, Vincente Minnelli turned down the opportunity to film Brigadoon on location in Scotland insisting that MGM's studio mockups looked more Scottish than the genuine article. This lavish adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe Broadway musical stars Gene Kelly as an American tourist who Read More

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Actors: Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid, Tommy Noonan

Synopsis: Second-billed Marilyn Monroe is the blonde in question in this second film version of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: Miss Lorelei Lee, whose philosophy is "diamonds are a girl's best friend." Together with her best human friend Dorothy (top-billed Jane Russell), showgirl Lorelei embarks upon a boat Read More