Georg Stanford Brown Filmography

The Reading Room

Crew: Director

Actors: James Earl Jones, Georg Stanford Brown, Douglas Spain, Tim Reid, Joanna Cassidy, Monique Coleman, George Stanford Brown

Synopsis: After the death of his beloved wife, Helen (Lynne Moody), wealthy African-American suburbanite William Campbell (James Earl Jones) finds that Helen has left behind a "living will" in the form of a videotape. As William watches the video, his late wife urges him to take his huge personal library Read More

Shackles

Actors: D.L. Hughley, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Georg Stanford Brown, Vicellous Shannon, Jerry Quickley

Synopsis: The drama Shackles stars D.L. Hughley as a teacher who, desperate for employment, takes the one job he is offered. The job involves teaching inside a prison, a place that is not hospitable to him or to the idea of bettering oneself through education. The teacher stands up to a variety of forces Read More

Wedding Daze

Crew: Director

Actors: John Larroquette, Karen Valentine, Kelly Overton, Marina Black, Jaime Ray Newman

Synopsis: Night Court alum John Larroquette and character actress Karen Valentine (Gidget Grows Up, Room 222) play Jack Landry and Audrey Landry, husband and wife and the parents of three grown daughters, in this made-for-television comic feature. Learning to adjust to the girls' absence, Jack and Audrey Read More

Nip/Tuck: Season 02

Actors: Dylan Walsh, Julian McMahon, Joely Richardson, John Hensley, Roma Maffia

Synopsis: The owners of Miami's trendy McNamara-Troy cosmetic surgery clinic face multiple midlife (and other) crises as the FX comedy drama series Nip/Tuck enters its second season. Now that they have both reached the age of 40, longtime business partners Sean McNamara (Dylan Walsh) and Christian Troy (Julian McMahon Read More

Angel in the Family

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Weary and dispirited following the death of his wife Lorraine (Meredith Baxter) and after suffering a mild stroke, Buddy Bishop (Ronny Cox) anxiously reaches out to his estranged daughters Sarah (Tracy Needham) and Beth (Natasha Gregson Wagner), asking that they join him for a Christmas reunion. Read More

The Long Shot

Crew: Director, Executive Producer

Actors: Julie Benz, Marsha Mason, Paul Le Mat, Gage Golightly, David Alexander

Synopsis: Produced for cable's Hallmark channel, The Long Shot stars Julie Benz as expert equestrienne Annie Garrett. Forced by her demanding mother, Bonnie (Laura Johnson), to live under the shadow of her sister, Katie, who won 37 blue ribbons for her horsemanship before her death in a freak accident Read More

Freedom

Actors: Holt McCallany, Bodhi Elfman, Darius McCrary, Georg Stanford Brown

Synopsis: A handful of ragtag warriors take it upon themselves to win back America's freedom in this weekly action series. In the near future, the democratic government of the United States of America is overthrown in a military takeover, with Col. Devon (James Morrison) ruling the land through martial law. Read More

Linc's

Actors: Pam Grier, Steven Williams, Georg Stanford Brown, Joe Inscoe, Golden Brooks

Synopsis: This TV comedy-drama series takes place at Linc's, a Washington, D.C., bar and grill where blacks gather to talk about issues they face in a society dominated by whites. Widower Russell A. "Linc" Lincoln (Steven Williams) runs the tavern, host to a diverse Capitol Hill gang of customers. In the Read More

Ava's Magical Adventure

Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Georg Stanford Brown, Patrick Dempsey

Synopsis: A girl and her best friend hit the road in this family friendly comedy drama -- only the girl's friend weighs in at 4,000 pounds! Eddie (Remy Ryan) is a ten-year-old girl (her name is short for "Edwina") who has trouble communicating with her mother Sarah (Priscilla Barnes) and doesn't care for Read More

Dangerous Relations

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Originally made for television, this prison drama centers on a hard-core convict who for the past decade has been the king of the other prisoners. Just before he is to be paroled, a young inmate challenges him. This creates considerable tension until he learns that he and the youth are related by Read More

Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story

Actors: Guy Killum

Synopsis: Adapted from Robert Sam Anson's fact-based book Best Intentions, Murder without Motive stars Curtis McClarin as Harlem teenager Edmund Perry. A brilliant student, Perry is transferred from the inner city to an exclusive prep school principally attended by whites. Ten days after graduating with Read More

House Party 2

Actors: Christopher "Kid" Reid, Christopher "Play" Martin, Tisha Campbell, Iman, Martin Lawrence

Synopsis: Robin Harris, Christopher Reid's foul-mouthed and irascible father from the original House Party film, died in the interim, but he has a university named after him in this follow-the-dots sequel. Kid (Christopher Reid) has finally made it to college in House Party 2, but not without problems. Sent Read More

Father and Son

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Just released from a long prison stay, a man is thrown into fatherhood when he regains custody of the son he's never met. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Stuck With Each Other

Crew: Director

Actors: Tyne Daly, Michael J. Pollard, Bubba Smith, Richard Crenna

Synopsis: The made for TV Stuck With Each Other stars Richard Crenna and Tyne Daly as two luckless New Yorkers, a salesman and a secretary respectively. One morning they come to the office to find that their boss has dropped dead--leaving behind an open safe containing $964,000 he's not supposed to have. Read More

Vietnam War Story 1

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Vietnam War Story is a feature-length "omnibus" film culled from the three-episode TV series of the same name. The film consists of a trio of playlets involving members of the American armed forces during the Nam era. In "The Mine," a soldier (Eriq LaSalle) is unable to accept his best friend's Read More

Kids Like These

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Kids Like These was cowritten by Emily Perl Kingsley, the mother of a Down's Syndrome child. Basing the script for this TV movie on her own experiences, Ms. Kingsley relates the story of Tyne Daly and Richard Crenna, the parents of a Down's baby. Refusing to accept the doctor's grim prognosis and Read More

Alone in the Neon Jungle

Crew: Director

Actors: Georg Stanford Brown

Synopsis: Directed by onetime Rookies co-star Georg Stanford Brown, Alone in the Neon Jungle has all the earmarks of a TV pilot film-albeit a better-than-usual example of the genre. Suzanne Pleshette plays a no-nonsense police captain, assigned to the town's most corrupt police district. In attempting to Read More

Miracle of the Heart: A Boys Town Story

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This made-for-TV movie was not, as has sometimes been reported, a remake of the 1938 Spencer Tracy film Boys Town. It was filmed on location at Father Flannagan's Nebraska-based home for troublesome and troubled youths, but the story is strictly contemporary. Art Carney stars as a crusty Read More

North and South

Actors: Kirstie Alley

Synopsis: The expensively mounted miniseries North and South was originally telecast in six two-hour installments between November 3 and 10, 1985. Four screenwriters--Douglas Heyes, Paul F. Edwards, Kathleen A. Shelley, Patricia Green--were called upon to fashion a workable script from John Jakes' sprawling Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Echoes of the Mind, Part 1

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In the first episode of Magnum, P.I's two-part Season Five opener, Magnum (Tom Selleck) is hired by socialite Diane Dupres (a pre-Basic Instinct Sharon Stone) to protect her from her evil twin sister Deidre. Magnum's client claims that Deidre has been a psychotic ever since she was kidnapped as a Read More

The Jesse Owens Story

Synopsis: Dorian Harewood stars as the legendary black athlete in this made-for-TV biography that follows Jesse Owens from his collegiate career, to his pinnacle at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where he won four gold medals--much to the dismay of Adolf Hitler and his squad of Aryan super-athletes. ~ Jason Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Echoes of the Mind, Part 2

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In the conclusion of Magnum, P.I.'s two-part Season Five opener, Magnum (Tom Selleck) doesn't know who to believe when twin sisters Diane and Deidre Dupres (both played by a pre-Basic Instinct Sharon Stone) accuse each other of having murderous intentions. Meanwhile, Higgins (John Hillerman) has Read More

In Defense of Kids

Actors: Beth Ehlers

Synopsis: Blythe Danner stars as a successful and somewhat sheltered attorney. After a chance meeting with abused teenaged streetwalker Beth Ehlers and tough social worker Joyce vanPatten, Ms. Danner quits her job to set up her own legal defense office for children. Four different "cases" intersect in this Read More

The Kid with the Broken Halo

Actors: Gary Coleman

Synopsis: Gary Coleman stars as a teen-age angel who must return to Earth to help out three troubled families in order to earn his wings. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Grambling's White Tiger

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Produced by Olympic athlete Bruce Jenner, Grambling's White Tiger stars Jenner as real-life quarterback Jim Gregory. The film recounts Gregory's efforts to become the first white player on Grambling College's all-black football team. Harry Belafonte made his TV-movie debut as legendary Grambling Read More

Stir Crazy

Actors: Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, JoBeth Williams, Georg Stanford Brown, Craig T. Nelson, Miguel Angel Suarez

Synopsis: After the excellent audience response to their teaming in Silver Streak, Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor reunited for this zany comedy. Wilder and Pryor play a couple of out-of-work numbskulls who take a promotional job that requires them to dress up like gigantic woodpeckers. Unfortunately, a pair 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

Roots: The Next Generations

Crew: Director

Actors: Georg Stanford Brown, Olivia de Havilland, Henry Fonda, Paul Koslo

Synopsis: The phenomenal success of the 1977 ABC miniseries Roots all but demanded a sequel to writer Alex Haley's epic story of his African and African-American forebears. Debuting February 18, 1979, Roots: The Next Generations picked up where its predecessor left off, with Haley's slave ancestors winning Read More

Charlie's Angels: The Blue Angels

Crew: Director

Actors: Farrah Fawcett-Majors, Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith, David F. Doyle, Ed Lauter

Synopsis: The Angels return to their police department roots in order to find out who has been tipping off prostitutes and pimps during a city-wide police crackdown. Sabrina (Kate Jackson) is assigned to the vice squad, Kelly (Jaclyn Smith) poses as a police-academy cadet, and Jill (Farrah Fawcett-Majors) Read More

Roots

Actors: LeVar Burton, Louis Gossett, Jr., John Amos, Ben Vereen

Synopsis: This award-winning six-part historical epic was one of the first examples of the miniseries format and one of the highest-rated television programs in broadcasting history. Based on the best-selling novel by author Alex Haley, Roots chronicles the progress of Haley's own family across many Read More

Charlie's Angels: The Big Tap Out

Crew: Director

Actors: Farrah Fawcett-Majors, Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith, David F. Doyle, Richard Romanus

Synopsis: The police are continually frustrated in their efforts to catch an elusive burglar. They know the criminal's identity, and they're aware that he steals only when he needs to pay his gambling debts, but they've yet to catch him red-handed. The Angels are commissioned to "tap out" the miscreant and Read More

Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway

Synopsis: In Randal Kleiser's telemovie Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway, Eve Plumb stars as Dawn, who leaves home at 15 for the glamour of L.A. Friendless, she is taken in by the smooth line of Swan (Bo Hopkins), who offers to be her protector. Before long, Dawn has become a streetwalker, with Swan Read More

S.W.A.T.: Pilot

Actors: Georg Stanford Brown, Steve Forrest, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Walden, Jamie Lyn Bauer

Synopsis: This two-hour pilot episode for S.W.A.T. originated as a special installment of the ABC police series The Rookies, explaining the omnipresence of that program's co-star Georg Stanford Brown in his familiar role of Officer Terry Webster. Essentially a peace-loving man and a firm believer in due Read More

The Rookies: Season 01

Actors: Georg Stanford Brown, Michael Ontkean, Sam Melville, Gerald O'Loughlin, Kate Jackson

The Man

Actors: Elizabeth Ross, James Earl Jones, Martin Balsam, Burgess Meredith, Lew Ayres, William Windom

Synopsis: Rod Serling, a master of speculative scriptwriting, penned the screenplay of The Man. Set a few days into the future, the story contrives to kill off the President, the vice president, and virtually everyone in line of succession in a bizarre accident. This turn of events elevates Read More

Wild in the Sky

Actors: Brandon de Wilde

Synopsis: This action/comedy picture follows the adventures of a group of anti-war, anti-establishment guerillas, who come up with a scheme to destroy Fort Knox with an atom bomb. The most notable feature of this film is that it features Brandon de Wilde in his last performance. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Read More

Mission: Impossible: Bag Woman

Actors: Peter Graves, Lynda Day George, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Georg Stanford Brown

Synopsis: The IMF is assigned to learn the identity of a corrupt political higher-up, known only by his code name C6. To that end, Casey poses as a Syndicate delivery girl. The catch: The briefcase Casey is to deliver has been wired with a live bomb, set to explode the moment the briefcase is opened. A Read More

The Rookies

Actors: Michael Ontkean, Georg Stanford Brown, Sam Melville, Darren McGavin, Jennifer Billingsley

Synopsis: Produced by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg, The Rookies was the pilot film for the popular early-1970s cop series of the same name. The story centers upon the training of three young rookie cops, played by Michael Ontkean, Georg Stanford Brown and Sam Melville. Darren McGavin is their Read More

Colossus: The Forbin Project

Actors: Eric Braeden, Susan Clark, Gordon Pinsent, William Schallert, Leonid Rostoff

Synopsis: The granddaddy of all "computer run amok" films, Colossus: The Forbin Project concerns a huge electronic brain designed to control the American missile defense system. Colossus' technicians do not count on the computer developing an intelligence of its own. Communicating with its Russian Read More

Ritual of Evil

Actors: Louis Jourdan

Synopsis: Ritual of Evil was a sequel to the earlier TV movie Fear No Evil; both were pilots for a never-realized Universal series, Bedevilled. Louis Jourdan stars as a psychiatrist investigating the suicide of one of his patients. He stumbles onto the realization that the death was tied in with the Read More

Dayton's Devils

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Leslie Nielsen, Lainie Kazan, Hans Gudegast, Barry Sadler

Synopsis: Frank Dayton (Leslie Nielsen) leads a group of crooks in a caper to steal one and a half million dollars from an Air Force base. Dayton is the tough-guy military leader who recruits Mike (Rory Calhoun), ex-Nazi Max (Hans Gudegast), sadistic killer Barney Barry (Barry Sadler), and failed French Read More

The F.B.I.: The Intermediary

Synopsis: FBI Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) agrees to act as go-between for jeweler Victor Toler (played by eminent Shakespearian Maurice Evans), who wants to ransom a fortune in stolen diamonds. This requires the Inspector to take a crash course in the diamond business, the better to convince the Read More

Bullitt

Actors: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset, Don Gordon, Robert Duvall

Synopsis: Robert L. Pike's crime novel Mute Witness makes the transition to the big screen in this film from director Peter Yates. In one of his most famous roles, Steve McQueen stars as tough-guy police detective Frank Bullitt. The story begins with Bullitt assigned to a seemingly routine detail Read More

The Comedians

Actors: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Alec Guinness, Peter Ustinov, Paul Ford

Synopsis: The humorous title of this story taken from the novel by Graham Greene gives the viewer the wrong impression. The story concerns the residents of a once-posh hotel in Haiti and the fate of the country's people under the despotic dictator Papa Doc Duvalier. Martha (Elizabeth Taylor) is the Read More