George LorosFilmography

Shakedown

Actors: Peter Weller, Sam Elliott, Patricia Charbonneau, Blanche Baker, Antonio Fargas

Synopsis: In this complicated crime drama, Roland Dalton (Peter Weller) is an attorney who must defend a drug dealer who claims he killed in self defense. His worthy opponent is his former flame Susan Cantrell (Patricia Charbonneau), now an effective career-minded prosecuting attorney. Richie Marks (Sam Elliott Read More

Apology

Actors: Lesley Ann Warren, Peter Weller, George Loros

Synopsis: Apology stars Lesley Anne Warren (with a Stefanie Powers hairdo) as a Manhattan-based sculptor/performance artist. To enhance her latest project, Warren invites the participation of anonymous phone callers, whose voices she records. One of her unseen "collaborators" calls her up to confess to a Read More

Policewoman Centerfold

Actors: Melody Anderson, Ed Marinaro, Donna Pescow

Synopsis: This fact-based exploitation drama tells the story of a buxom policewoman who nearly destroys both her personal and professional life by posing naked for a popular men's magazine. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Sword of Honor, Blade of Death

Synopsis: When his undercover-detective friend Michael Moroshima is killed in the line of duty, Quincy's assistant Sam (Robert Ito) recognizes the dead man's wound as having being made by a knife commonly used by the Yakuza, the "Japanese Mafia." Sam believes that Moroshima's killing is but the tip of the Read More

The Jeffersons: One Flew Into the Cuckoo's Nest

Actors: Sherman Hemsley, Isabel Sanford, Roxie Roker, Franklin Cover, Mike Evans

Synopsis: A routine dry-cleaning delivery becomes a nightmare for George Jefferson (Sherman Hemsley). Stopping over at a mental institution, George is mistaken for one of the inmates and is promptly locked up. Meanwhile, the real inmate goes over the wall -- and it looks as if there'll be a "new" George Read More

On the Nickel

Actors: Ralph Waite, Donald Moffat, Hal Williams, Penelope Allen, Jack Kehoe, Dan Ades, Paul Weaver, Ina Gould, Jack O'Leary, Cano Graham, James Gammon, Arthur Space, Bert Conway, Jaime Sanchez

Synopsis: The Skid Row derelicts that occupy most of the screen time in this uneven drama about the effects of alcohol addiction do nothing to gain an audience's sympathy. Sam (Donald Moffat) has kicked his habit and picked himself up out of the gutter only to find that no avenues are open to take him away Read More

The Rockford Files: The Man Who Saw the Alligators

Synopsis: Though apparently killed at the end of the previous episode "To Protect and Serve", mob hit man "Anthony Boy" Gagglio (George Loros) actually survived to serve a prison term. Now a free man, Anthony Boy has sworn vengenace against the person who sent him up--namely, Jim Rockford (James Garner) Read More

The Rockford Files: Only Rock 'n' Roll Will Never Die, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Jim (James Garner) tries to determine if the murder of a crooked business manager is somehow tied in with the messy "palimony" trial involving rock star Tim Richie (Kristoffer Tabori) and his scorned lover Diane Bjornstrom (Leigh Christian). Meanwhile, ex-con Read More

The Rockford Files: Only Rock 'n' Roll Will Never Die, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Jim (James Garner) is hired by his ex-con pal Eddie Lopresti (George Loros) to locate Brian Charles, the missing business manager of rock star Tim Richie (Kristoffer Tabori). Ostensibly, Eddie is doing this on behalf of Richie, who needs backup during a Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Hot Ice

Synopsis: An autopsy X-ray reveals that the corpse of a murdered courier contained a sack of diamonds worth $2,000,000, hidden within a pacemaker. Under pressure from a team of U.S. Customs officials, Quincy (Jack Klugman) agrees to go undercove in hopes of flushing out a dangerous gang of international Read More

Alice: Florence of Arabia

Synopsis: Richard Libertini, best known as the daffy dictator ("Talk to the hand!") in the 1977 film The In-Laws, appears in this episode as an oil-rich Arab named Ben. Sweeping into Mel's Diner, Ben entrances Flo (Polly Holliday) and asks her to be his wife. What he fails to mention is that he merely wants 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

The Rockford Files: The Dog and Pony Show

Synopsis: Attending a group therapy session, Jim (James Garner) and Angel (Stuart Margolin) make the acquaintance of former mental patient Mary Jo Flynn (Joanne Nail). Insisting that her life is in danger because she has met a government spy who was being held against his will in a psychiatric hospital Read More

The Rockford Files: To Protect and Serve, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Jim (James Garner) tries to protect Patsy Fossler (Leslie Charleson) from her mob-connected boyfriend Michael Kelly (Jon Cypher) by stashing the girl with his friend Wes (Lou Frizzell). Unfortunately, Patsy's hiding place is revealed by Lianne Sweeney (Joyce Read More

The Rockford Files: To Protect and Serve, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first half of a two-part story, police detective Dennis Becker (Joe Santos) is harrassed by Lianne Sweeney (Joyce Van Patten), a "police groupie" who monitors the Department's activities via her radio and dogs Dennis' trail during his investigation of a very difficult case. Lianne's Read More

W.C. Fields and Me

Actors: Rod Steiger, Valerie Perrine, John Marley, Jack Cassidy, Bernadette Peters

Synopsis: W.C. Fields and Me is the film version of the Fields biography written by the comedian's former mistress Carlotta Monti. W. C. Fields was a great comedian in vaudeville and early talking films, who was noted for his ability to say the most hilariously cutting and mean things in a cheery, bright 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

Baretta: The Mansion

Actors: Robert Blake, Dana Elcar, Tom Ewell, Michael D. Roberts, Chino "Fats" Williams

Synopsis: "The Mansion" is a huge estate in which vices of all sorts are bought and sold. With the Syndicate holding the Mansion in an iron grip, the police have been unable to shut the place down. Hoping to succeed where his colleagues have failed, Tony Baretta (Robert Blake) gains entrance to the Mansion Read More

Baretta: He'll Never See Daylight Again

Actors: Robert Blake, Dana Elcar, Tom Ewell, Michael D. Roberts, Chino "Fats" Williams

Synopsis: In this first episode of Baretta, gonzo undercover cop Tony Baretta sets up a phony numbers bank to trap prominent mobster Frank Cassell (Joseph Mascolo). In his off hours, Baretta romantically pursues the lovely Sharon Fowler (Madlyn Rhue), whom he wants to marry despite her protests that living Read More

Force Five

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Force Five can be described as "The Dirty Dozen Minus Seven." All that's missing is the WW II backdrop and the murderous impulses of the protagonists. Lt. Roy Kessler (Gerald Gordon) heads a police undercover unit, consisting of former convicts with unique lawbreaking skills (one Read More

Kojak: Two-Four-Six for Two Hundred

Synopsis: The title of this episode refers to a phrase overheard during the failed hijacking of a painting-company truck. Kojak (Telly Savalas) intends to follow up this fragmentary clue to find out what the thieves are planning for the future. Meanwhile, would-be hijacker Augustine Pataki (Dick O'Neill) Read More

Kojak: Wall Street Gunslinger

Synopsis: In a daring daylight robbery, two criminals steal $20,000,000 in Wall Street securities, killing a man as they escape. Lt. Kojak (Telly Savalas) determines that the best way to bring the thieve out in the open is to dangle an attractively baited hook. The highlight of this episode is Kojak's Read More

The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight

Actors: Johnny Addie, Leopold Badia, Fat Thomas Rand, Fran Stevens

Synopsis: In this comedy, based on Jimmy Breslin's novel, a bungling gang of hoods make increasingly ludicrous attempts on the life of a Mafia boss. Each attempt ends in failure. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More