Gilbert Green Filmography

Magnum, P.I.: Almost Home

Synopsis: Magnum (Tom Selleck) insists upon reopening a military court-martial that occurred some forty years earlier. The reason for this belated investigation is to determine the innocence--or guilt--of a sailor who was reported AWOL from the USS Arizona on December 7, 1941. The man's daughter (played by Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Scream to the Skies

Synopsis: An airliner crashes into the icy waters of Santa Monica Bay, killing several passengers. Investigating, Quincy (Jack Klugman) comes to the conclusion that many of the victims died needlessly, due to an insufficient supply of inflatable lifeboats. Thus begins another crusade for the feisty medical Read More

The Rockford Files: Just a Coupla Guys

Synopsis: No sooner has Jim (James Garner) arrived in Newark than he is robbed of his watch, wallet, luggage, and return plane ticket. The culprits are a couple of minor-league crooks who hope to break into the Big Time through the auspices of Jim's friend, reformed mobster Beppy Conigliaro (Simon Oakland). Read More

Quincy, M.E.: The Eye of the Needle

Synopsis: When a woman being treated for an ulcer by Dr. Barri Stoddard (Frances Lee McCain), a practitioner of holistic medicine, suddenly dies, an outraged Quincy (Jack Klugman) prepares to expose and denounce Stoddard as a quack. He changes his mind when he meets Barri and falls in love with her, though Read More

Norma Rae

Actors: Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman, Pat Hingle, Gail Strickland, Barbara Baxley

Synopsis: Norma Rae finds Sally Field cast in the title role, a minimum-wage worker in a cotton mill. The factory has taken too much of a toll on the health of Norma Rae's family for her to ignore her Dickensian working conditions. After hearing a speech by New York union organizer Reuben (Ron Leibman) Read More

The Rockford Files: Three Day Affair With a Thirty Day Escrow

Synopsis: After being kidnapped and harrassed by the members of an Arab family, Jim (James Garner) tries to find out why his captors were so interested in his current client Sean Innes (Richard Romanus), who'd hired him to locate a woman named Khedra Azziz (Maria Grimm). It soon becomes clear that both Sean Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Interlude

Synopsis: After several weeks of pre-emptions and reruns, Streets of San Francisco returned to the ABC lineup in late April of 1977 for its final six episodes. This time, Stone (Karl Malden) and Robbins (Richard Hatch) put out an A.P.B. on a convicted killer who has escaped from an asylum. Refusing to Read More

The Rockford Files: Requiem for a Funny Box

Synopsis: This episode is something of an amalgam of the Martin-and-Lewis legend and the much-later TV series The Sopranos). Jim (James Garner) is hired to protect over-the-hill comedian Kenny Bell (Chuck McCann) from his mean-spirited former partner Lee Russo (Robert Quarry), only to find himself Read More

Baretta: Crazy Annie

Actors: Robert Blake, Edward Grover, Tom Ewell, Michael D. Roberts, Chino "Fats" Williams

Synopsis: Kim Hunter guest stars as Crazy Annie, a skid row derelict. Undercover detective Tony Baretta (Robert Blake) invades the shadowy, squalid world of Annie and her fellow down-and-outers as he searches for an elusive killer. Before he quite knows what has happened, Baretta is kidnapped by Annie, who Read More

Honor Thy Father

Actors: Brenda Vaccaro, Joseph Bologna, Raf Vallone, Richard S. Castellano, Joe de Santis

Synopsis: Gay Talese's bestseller Honor Thy Father is given a superb, albeit slightly expurgated, treatment in this made-for-TV movie. Joseph Bologna plays Bill Bonanno, the son of New York City Mafia-don Joe "Bananas" Bonanno (Raf Vallone). When his father disappears in 1964, Bill is compelled to take over Read More

Book of Numbers

Actors: Frank DeSal

Synopsis: Raymond St. Jacques both directs and stars in The Book of Numbers. St. Jacques and Philip Thomas play depression-era African Americans, barely making out an existence as waiters in a deep-south community. Both men decide that there's more money to be had on the shadier side of the law, so they set Read More

Executive Action

Actors: Deanna Darrin, James MacColl, Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Will Geer, Gilbert Green, John Anderson

Synopsis: If you think that Oliver Stone invented the "political paranoia" movie, take a glance at Executive Action sometime. Based on Mark Lane's Rush to Judgment, the conspiracy theorist's bible, Executive Action perpetuates the popular urban legend that John F. Kennedy was assassinated at the behest of a Read More

Ironside: The Savage Sentry

Synopsis: Ironside (Raymond Burr) searches for a resourceful burglar who has figured out a method of "taming" vicious guard dogs so that he can rob stores without interference. In order to flush out the villain, Ironside adopts his own dog and sets both himself and the pooch up as bait. With the Read More

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

The F.B.I.: Three-Way Split

Synopsis: In a plot reminiscent of such "perfect crime" films as The Asphalt Jungle and The Killing, three strangers are brought together to commit a $900,000 bank robbery. Much of the preliminary footage is devoted to establishing the personalities and motives of the three crooks. Playboy Eliot Fielding Read More

Don't Make Waves

Actors: Tony Curtis, Claudia Cardinale, Robert Webber, Joanna Barnes, Sharon Tate

Synopsis: British director Alexander MacKendrick helmed this farcical romantic comedy set in Southern California. Carlo Cofield (Tony Curtis) is a footloose tourist who meets Laura Califatti (Claudia Cardinale) when she accidentally edges his car off the highway. Laura invites Carlo to her home; he seems Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Hello, Zolle

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: Planning a full assault on the forces of German General Stofle (Gilbert Green), the Allies order Hogan to detain Stofle for 24 hours. At first, the assignment seems to be a cinch, inasmuch as Stofle and Col. Klink are old buddies. The fly in the ointment is suspicious Gestapo officer Major Zolle Read More

My Favorite Martian: Virus M for Martin

Synopsis: Contacting the dreaded Martian "Virus M", Tim (Bill Bixby) develops red stripes on his face. Will Detective Brennan (Alan Hewitt) tumble to the fact that Martin (Ray Walston) is the source of this affliction? Nope: Brennan assumes that the red stripes are the result of a virus that Tim brought Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Baffling Bug

Synopsis: Despite the efforts of detective Paul Drake (William Hopper) to protect a secret desalinization process developed by Tryon Labs, the formula is pirated by a rival company. Working undercover for Tryon's head man Dr. Malcolm Scranton (Gilbert Green), Horace Lehigh (Bryan O'Byrne) is on the verge of Read More

Bewitched: There's No Witch Like An Old Witch

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Dick York, Agnes Moorehead, Marion Lorne, Gilbert Green

Synopsis: Bumbling Aunt Clara pays another visit to the Stephens family. Taking Clara at her word that she doesn't want to be pampered, Samantha and Darrin assign the old dear to babysit a pair of precocious children. This turns out to be a big mistake when Clara casually informs the kiddies that she is a Read More

Dark Intruder

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Gilbert Green, Charles Bolender, Mark Richman, Judi Meredith

Synopsis: In this horror film, set in San Francisco during the Victorian age, a criminologist is often out-guessed by his little valet and a sensitive mandrake plant. He finds himself involved in a hellish situation when a disfigured wizard conjures up a demon to help him transfer his soul in to the perfect Read More

The Munsters: Bats of a Feather

Synopsis: Eddie (Butch Patrick) hopes to enter his beloved bat Igor in a school pet contest, but Igor flaps away in anger after being insulted by Herman (Fred Gwynne). Resourcefully, Grandpa (Al Lewis) changes himself into a bat and takes Igor's place. Unfortunately, Grandpa neglects to inform Eddie about Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: The Sign of Satan

Actors: Christopher Lee, Gia Scala, Gilbert Green, Adam Roarke, Myron Healey

Synopsis: Christopher Lee is sublimely typecast as Karl Jorla, a European horror film star who has arrived in Hollywood to make his first American picture. But Jorla has no intention of drawing attention to himself; he not only keeps his production schedule secret, but he also refuses to let anyone know Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Latent Lover

Synopsis: Investment broker Eric Pollard (Lloyd Bochner) seems to have gone off his trolley when he begins suffering from dizzy spells; to begin with, he publicly charges his wife Sybil (Marian Moses) with every crime under the sun--and as a capper, he hires a taxi to rob a bank! Though he is thrown in Read More

The Untouchables: Globe of Death

Synopsis: Bruce Gordon makes his final series appearance as Frank Nitti in this episode. Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) would like to find out how Nitti was able to smuggle a drug shipment from the Orient without arousing any suspicion whatsoever. Likewise interested in Nitti's "magic trick" is one of his Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Festive Felon

Synopsis: Althhough she is on her deathbed, wealthy Be Be Brent (Anne Barton) is sufficiently hale and hearty to enrage her relatives by leaving the bulk of her estate--one million dollars--to her nurse Hetty Randall (Anne Seymour). The family members hire Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) to contest the will, but Read More

Experiment in Terror

Actors: Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, Stefanie Powers, Roy Poole, Ned Glass, Ross Martin

Synopsis: Bank teller Lee Remick is accosted in her garage one dark night by asthmatic psycho Ross Martin. He forces her to go through with an elaborate robbery scheme, threatening to kill Lee's teen-aged sister Stefanie Powers if the police are summoned. FBI agent Glenn Ford suspects that something is Read More

The Untouchables: The Pea

Synopsis: Frank Gorshin is at his "Richard Widmark" best as Herbie Ketcher--a busboy by trade, a pool hustler and stool pigeon by inclination. Working at a nightclub owned by mobster Max Zenno (Albert Paulsen), Herbie supplements his income by shaking Zenno and his fellow hoodlum Martin Rawlings (Gilbert Read More

Pressure Point

Actors: Sidney Poitier, Bobby Darin, Peter Falk, Carl Benton Reid, Mary Munday

Synopsis: Unable to get through to a particularly hostile patient, psychiatrist Peter Falk goes to gray-haired senior shrink Sidney Poitier for advice. This prompts Poitier to recall his experiences during World War II. While working on behalf of the government, Poitier was assigned the case of psycho Nazi Read More

By Love Possessed

Actors: Lana Turner, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Jason Robards, Jr., George Hamilton, Susan Kohner

Synopsis: There's always something simmering beneath the quaint and placid surface of small-town New England lives -- and that includes the usual maladies of alcoholism, rape, and suicide. At least this is the case if you go by the tortuous tale told in By Love Possessed, a Peyton Place knock-off, directed Read More

Homicidal

Actors: Glenn Corbett, Patricia Breslin, Jean Arless, Eugenie Leontovich, Alan Bunce, Ralph Moody

Synopsis: Homicidal represents producer/director William Castle's slant on Hitchcock's Psycho. The film concerns a young woman named Miriam Webster (Patricia Breslin) who seemingly has everything a girl could want - including a successful flower shop business, and a handsome beau, Karl (Glenn Corbett), who Read More

The Untouchables: 90-Proof Dame

Synopsis: Mob boss Nate Kestor (Steve Cochran) adds to the profits accrued by his popular burlesque house with sales of "imported" French brandy--which he manufactures himself in Chicago. Nate pulls off this deception with the help of the Marquise De Bouverais (Joanna Barnes), the wife of a famous and Read More