Grant RichardsFilmography

Bonanza: The Quest

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Grant Richards

Synopsis: Tired of living in the shadow of older brothers Adam and Hoss, Joe Cartwright demands that his father Ben give him more of a say in running the Ponderosa. Impressed, Ben hands Joe the solo responsibly of suppling timber to a mining company's construction project. As he begins this assignment, Joe Read More

The Untouchables: The Stryker Brothers

Synopsis: No sooner have they been released from prison than the four Stryker brothers pick up where they left off, assuming control of a string of night clubs and all illegal traffic within. In dire need of extra money to keep their operation afloat, the brothers plan to rob a mail shipment--and to this Read More

The Untouchables: The Eddie O'Gara Story

Synopsis: In hiding ever since his gang was wiped out in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, Bugs Moran (George J. Wilke) is surprised when he is visited by a dead man. Actually, Eddie O'Gara (Michael Connors) is very much alive; it's just that everyone assumed he'd been killed by his fellow hoodlums when he Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Missing Melody

Synopsis: On the verge of marrying jazz musician Eddy King (James Drury), Polly Courtland (Jo Morrows) lets out a shriek and runs out of the church. It turns out that Polly had seen George Sherwin ({$Grant Richards]), who was waving an envelope containing compromising photos of Polly's sister Midge (Lorrie Read More

Secret of Deep Harbor

Actors: Ron Foster, Barry Kelley, Merry Anders, Norman Alden, James Seay

Synopsis: Based on the novel I Cover the Waterfront, this uninspired crime melodrama stars Ron Foster as Skip Hanlon, a reporter who inadvertently gets involved in tracking down a criminal operation on the waterfront. Hanlon falls in love with Janey Fowler (Merry Anders) whose father is a sea captain doing Read More

You Have to Run Fast

Actors: Craig Hill, Elaine Edwards, Grant Richards, Shepherd Sanders, John Apone

Synopsis: This is a competently put-together "B"-grade film starring Craig Hill as a doctor who in the process of trying to save a man badly beaten by two gangsters, identifies the culprits to the police. When their victim dies and the charge becomes murder, the doctor hightails it to the far woods where he Read More

The Untouchables: The Organization

Synopsis: Though set in the 1930s, this episode is clearly based on the infamous Appalachin Mafia conference of 1957. Gangsters Al Seeger (Richard Conte) and Joe "The Teacher" Kulak (Oscar Beregi) call a summit meeting to establish a consolidation of all organized crime in the U.S., the better to take over Read More

The Untouchables: The Matt Bass Scheme

Synopsis: With Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) raiding the Syndicate's distilleries left and right, Frank Nitti (Bruce Gordon) is forced to devise a new method of distribution. Enter ex-convict Matt Bass (Telly Savalas), who'd been Nitti's boss back in the "bad old days." Bass and his partner Jason Fiddler Read More

The Untouchables: Man Killer

Synopsis: Ruth Roman proves the old adage about "the female of the species" in the role of ruthless mob wife Georgie Drake. A clever businesswoman, Georgie is the real brains behind the heroin-trafficking racket overseen by her husband Nick Dolov (Grant Richards); all she asks in return is Nick's total and Read More

The Untouchables: The King of Champagne

Synopsis: Someone is trying to corner the market in illegal champagne before New Year's Eve of 1932--a last-ditch effort to turn a huge profit before the repeal of Prohibition goes into effect. The ensuing intrigues involve French champagne manufacturer Michel Vitton (Barry Morse), mob-connected Read More

The Untouchables: The Genna Brothers

Synopsis: The six Genna brothers have figured out a clever method to make and distribute illegal whiskey right under the noses of Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) and the Untouchables. The Gennas smuggle illegal immigrants into Chicago's Little Italy district, then force them to manufacture whiskey in their Read More

Oklahoma Territory

Actors: Bill Williams, Gloria Talbott, Ted de Corsia, Grant Richards, Walter Sande

Synopsis: Predictable and a little slow and labyrinthian, this western features Bill Williams as Temple Houston, a gun-toting D.A. whose heart lies with the cause of justice but whose actions toward that end can be controversial. Bigelow (Grant Richards) is a railroad agent who frames a Cherokee chief (as Read More

Twelve Hours to Kill

Actors: Nico Minardos, Barbara Eden, Grant Richards, Russ Conway, Art Baker

Synopsis: Although this quickly made, routine drama has some future television talent acting in it (Barbara Eden, Gavin MacLeod, Ted Knight), the story wanders back and forth between straight drama and an unintentional parody. Martin (Nico Minardos) has just witnessed a murder and in order to protect him Read More

The Music Box Kid

Actors: Ron Foster, Luana Patten, Grant Richards, Johnny Seven, Carl Milletaire

Synopsis: The "music box" of the title of this low-budget, routine gangster film is a submachine gun, and its owner Larry Shaw (Ronald Foster) is the focus of attention. Larry has as little concern for morality or human life as an exterminator does for cockroaches, and so he is able to climb up the ladder Read More

Inside the Mafia

Actors: Cameron Mitchell, Elaine Edwards, Robert Strauss, Jim L. Brown, Ted de Corsia

Synopsis: Thanks to the notorious gangland conference in Appalachian, New York, the word "Mafia" was on everyone's lips in 1959. Rushing to capitalize on this fact was the low-budget expose Inside the Mafia. Grant Richards plays a Lucky Luciano type who is about to return to the US after several years' Read More

The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake

Actors: Eduard Franz, Valerie French, Henry Daniell, Grant Richards, Paul Cavanagh

Synopsis: An angry head-shrinker (not a psychiatrist) puts a curse upon a family of white traders in this well-wrought low-budget horror film. It must have been a doozy for 200 years later it is still going strong. The story opens as the eldest male descendant of the cursed Drake family finds himself on the Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Sardonic Sergeant

Synopsis: Although Army major Frank Lessing (John Archer) left behind a suicide note before his death, Sgt. Joseph Dexter (Paul Picerni) is charged with Lessing's murder. Exercising his legal prerogative, Dexter demands a civilan lawyer to defend him at his Court-Martial--and that's where Perry Mason Read More

Guns, Girls and Gangsters

Actors: Mamie van Doren, Gerald Mohr, Lee Van Cleef, Grant Richards, Elaine Edwards

Synopsis: This generically-titled crime caper stars Mamie Van Doren as Vegas nightclub singer Vi Victor and Lee Van Cleef as her gangster husband Mike Bennett. While Mike is stuck in prison, Vi has an affair with his former cellmate Chuck Wheeler (Gerald Mohr), who masterminds a $2 million armored car Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Haunted Husband

Synopsis: When her purse is stolen, Claire Olger (Patricia Hardy) is forced to hitch a ride from Michael Greeley. Unfortunately, Greeley (John Hubbard) has been drinking--and when he plows his vehicle into a truck, killing the other driver, he runs away, leaving Claire to take the rap. In his efforts to Read More

Just off Broadway

Actors: Lloyd Nolan, Marjorie Weaver, Phil Silvers, Janis Carter, Richard Derr

Synopsis: A private investigator flees from jury duty to prove the defendant's guilt in this detective story. He and his girlfriend, a reporter, begin looking into the suspect's alibis and discover that in addition to the murder he stands trial for, the man has also killed two others. Afterward, the Read More

Isle of Destiny

Actors: William Gargan, Wallace Ford, June Lang, Gilbert Roland, Etienne Girardot

Synopsis: Originally slated for released through Grand National Pictures, Isle of Destiny was redirected to RKO Radio when Grand National folded in late 1939. June Lang stars as Virginia Allerton, a famous aviatrix who crashlands in a remote South Sea Island (a la Amelia Erhardt!) and is promptly kidnapped Read More

Risky Business

Actors: George Murphy, Dorothea Kent, Eduardo Ciannelli, Leon Ames, El Brendel

Synopsis: This remake of 1932's Okay America is in many ways superior to the original. George Murphy scores in a rare unsympathetic role as Winchellesque radio columnist Dan Clifford, who doesn't care how many lives he has to destroy in pursuit of a good story. When a young debutante is kidnapped by Read More

Inside Information

Actors: Dick Foran, Harry Carey, Mary Carlisle, Addison Richards

Synopsis: Pity poor police captain Dugan (Harry Carey). As if he hasn't got enough trouble with the green recruits that Headquarters continues saddling him with, he also has to solve a series of high-profile jewel robberies. Enter brash rookie cop Danny Blake (Dick Foran), whose know-it-all attitude drives Read More

Under the Big Top

Actors: Anne Nagel, Marjorie Main, Jack LaRue, Grant Richards, George Cleveland

Synopsis: Veteran cinematographer Karl Brown also had several directorial efforts to his credit. Most were on a par with Monogram's Under the Big Top: slick and mildly entertaining, but not much more. Circus aerialist Penny (Anne Nagel) may be the queen of the trapeze, but she can't seem to manage her life Read More

My Old Kentucky Home

Actors: Evelyn Venable, The Hall Johnson Choir, John Farrell MacDonald, Grant Richards, Bernadene Hayes

Synopsis: A concert singer goes blind after a rival throws acid in his face and leaves his New York girlfriend to return to his grandmother's plantation in Kentucky. The town centennial celebration his grandmother has planned is actually the method she has devised to help him get his self-confidence back. Read More

On Such a Night

Actors: Grant Richards, Karen Morley, Roscoe Karns, Eduardo Ciannelli, Milli Monti

Synopsis: A Mississippi flood saves the life of a petty crook who is about to be lynched for a murder he did not commit. After he escapes, he flees to a nearby plantation where he and a woman (claiming to be his wife) are taken in and treated with great kindness. They are happy until the killer that framed Read More

Love on Toast

Actors: John Payne, Ben Baker

Synopsis: Love on Toast was one of several mid-1930s Hollywood films helmed by E. A. DuPont, a once-celebrated German filmmaker then on the skids. The plot concerns a female press agent who must select a "Mr. Manhattan" and "Miss Brooklyn" for an ad campaign mounted by a soup company. The Mr. Manhattan Read More

Night of Mystery

Actors: Grant Richards, Roscoe Karns, Helen Burgess, Ruth Coleman, Elizabeth Patterson

Synopsis: A remake of 1929's The Greene Murder Case, Paramount's Night of Mystery was the first "Philo Vance" thriller not to use the words "Murder Case" in the title. The story is set in the Greene Mansion in midtown New York, where a passel of greedy relatives attend the wealthy and reclusive Mrs. Tobias Read More

Hopalong Cassidy Returns

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, George "Gabby" Hayes, Gail Sheridan, Evelyn Brent

Synopsis: The seventh of the "Hopalong Cassidy" westerns, Hopalong Cassidy Returns stars, as always, William Boyd as the black-stetsoned hero. This one is a surprisingly sadistic item, in which a mysterious predator forces various ranchers off their land through rather direct means. In the opening scene, a Read More