Greg Mullavey Filmography

Newsbreak

Actors: Michael Rooker, Judge Reinhold, Robert Culp

Synopsis: In this thriller, John McNamara (Michael Rooker) is an investigative reporter whose desire to root out a juicy story has not endeared him to many of the people he's written about, and he's lost a few jobs in the process. John wants to hold on to his latest job, but when he's assigned to write Read More

ER: My Brother's Keeper

Synopsis: Ross (George Clooney) treats a six-year-old patient who may have been poisoned by someone in his family, and also tries to find time to write a presentation on pediatric treatment. Carter's (Noah Wyle) cousin Chase (Jonathan Scarfe) is among the heroin addicts brought into the ER for treatment. Read More

Molly and Gina

Actors: Frances Fisher

Synopsis: Two women (Frances Fisher, Natasha Gregson) hit the road to seek revenge for the killers of their boyfriends. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Hunter: Cries of Silence

Synopsis: Hunter (Fred Dryer) is approached by a deaf woman named Barbara Collins, who asks the detective to locate her runaway daughter Danni (Pierette Grace). Hunter agrees to do so, little imagining that this is no ordinary missing-persons case. In turns out that Danni is the sole witness to a murder Read More

Twenty Dollar Star

Synopsis: A famous actress moonlights as a prostitute on the streets of L.A. and has to contend with clientele, her father, and the consequences of her double identity when a hotel owner finds out who she is. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Undertow

Actors: Peter Dobson, Burtt Harris, Erica Gimpel, Anita Gillette, Greg Mullavey

Deadly Conspiracy

Synopsis: Honest small-town cop Wings Hauser is weighed down by personal problems. This fact must be put on the back burner when crooked businessman John Saxon commits murder. Though the identity of the killer is never in question, Saxon manages to buy everybody off except Hauser. In order to collar the Read More

Not Quite Human 2

Synopsis: The original Not Quite Human was a Disney Channel fantasy/comedy involving a friendly teen-age android named Chip (Jay Underwood) and his "daddy", inventor Alan Thicke. Having successfully escaped greedy toy manufacturers in the first film, Chip goes to college in Not Quite Human, Part 2. Here he Read More

Who Gets the Friends?

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, James Farentino

Synopsis: Artist Jill Clayburgh is divorced by her doctor husband James Farentino. Despite the obvious fact that Farentino is a louse, the loyalties of the couple's friends are divided. Left with precious little money, Clayburgh tries to make a go of it as a single mother, but finds that many of her Read More

Body Count

Actors: Bernie White, Marilyn Hassett, Dick Sargent, Greg Mullavey, Tommy Ryan

Synopsis: When Robert Knight (Bernie White) is placed in a mental institution by his money-hungry relatives, he escapes and seeks vengeance. Hardly an innocent victim, Robert really is a crazed killer, so none of the characters evoke much sympathy. His main targets are his Uncle Charles (Dick Sargent) and Read More

Husbands, Wives, Money & Murder

The Check is in the Mail

Actors: Brian Dennehy, Anne Archer, Hallie Todd, Michael Bowen

Synopsis: In an unusual comedy by Joan Darling, Brian Dennehy and Anne Archer star as the Richard, a druggist, and his wife Peggy, a pair of debt-ridden parents who rebel against the system. Nothing goes right while they try to uphold the system, then things get even worse when they leave it. Richard Read More

The Census Taker

Actors: Garrett Morris, Greg Mullavey, Meredith Mac Rae, Austen Taylor, Timothy Bottoms

Synopsis: This black comedy centers upon the exploits of a nosy census taker and the family he harasses. The couple he visits willingly let him in the house. Soon they find themselves interrogated with increasingly intrusive questions. They finally reach their limit, get angry, and shoot the census taker in Read More

Magnum, P.I.: A Sense of Debt

Synopsis: Owing his life to washed-up pugilist Leon Platt (Denny Miller), T.C. (Roger E. Mosley) enters a bare-knuckle boxing match, intending to use the prize money to save Leon and his daughter Ima (a pre-Beverly Hills 90210 Shannen Doherty) from being tossed into the street. Figuring that T.C. hasn't got Read More

Vultures

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Yvonne De Carlo

Synopsis: This peculiar thriller was directed by Paul Leder (I Dismember Mama) and features the husband-wife team of Greg Mullavey and Meredith MacRae, who appeared in several of his films. Another low-budget shocker concerning the murders of a greedy family gathering around the deathbed of a dying man Read More

This is Kate Bennett...

Synopsis: In this drama, the life of a TV reporter is jeopardized during her investigation of a series of murdered nurses. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

I'm Going to Be Famous

Actors: Dick Sargent, Meredith Mac Rae, Paul Coufos, Greg Mullavey, Roslyn Kind

Synopsis: In this stereotyped but right-on look at the world of show-business, drama builds as a New York director (Dick Sargent) auditions aspiring new talent for his upcoming play, while the possibility of rejection looms in everyone's mind. The potential stars themselves are widely variant individuals Read More

Children of Divorce

Actors: Barbara Feldon, Greg Mullavey, Billy Dee Williams, Lance Kerwin, Stacey Nelkin

Synopsis: Originally made for television, the film concerns three divorces and the effect on the varied economic level present in each family. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Centennial

Actors: William Atherton, Raymond Burr, Richard Chamberlain, Timothy Dalton, Alex Karras, Robert Conrad

Synopsis: The longest (26-1/2 hours), most expensive ($25 million) and most complicated (four directors, five producers, five cinematographers, almost 100 speaking parts, several hundred extras) project made for television up to that time, Centennial was shown in two- and three-hour installments over a Read More

M*A*S*H: Major Ego

Synopsis: Charles (David Ogden Stiers) saves the life of a wounded G.I. with an emergency heart massage. Never one to hide his talents under a bushel, Charles basks in the congratulations from his colleagues--even his friendly enemies Hawkeye (Alan Alda) and B.J. (Mike Farrell). But when a Stars and Stripes Read More

The Listener

Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman [TV Series]

Having Babies

Actors: Linda Purl, Jessica Walter

Synopsis: Originally titled Giving Birth, Having Babies was the first of three pilot films for a TV series that eventually appeared under the title Julie Farr MD. In omnibus fashion, the film focuses in on four couples and their reactions to impending parenthood. Essentially, this is a feature-length Read More

My Friends Need Killing

Actors: Greg Mullavey, Meredith Mac Rae, Clayton Wilcox, Elaine Partnow

Synopsis: The self-explanatorily titled My Friends Need Killing was directed by the estimable Paul Leder. A true auteur, Leder also wrote and edited the film. But you probably won't find his name in the pages of Cahiers du Cinema, principally because his output includes such tantalizing titles as The Baby Doll Murders Read More

Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman: Season 01

The Streets of San Francisco: Trail of Terror

Synopsis: A gang of scurrilous sailors go into the smuggling business, bringing some valuable jade into the country by illegal means. When a jewelry-store owner balks at the sailors' monetary demands for the contraband jade, the sailors kill the man and begin stalking the only witness, the victim's daughter Read More

The Hindenburg

Actors: George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, William Atherton, Roy Thinnes, Gig Young

Synopsis: "The German Air Force is not at all what it used to be," says Anne Bancroft's Countess, about 16 minutes into The Hindenburg, pausing and then adding, "But then, nothing is these days." That seems to sum up the ponderous, irony-laden script and plot of Robert Wise's movie, which is posited -- in Read More

The Rockford Files: Aura Lee, Farewell

Synopsis: The friends and family of young Aura Lee Benton (Melissa Greene) are shocked when the girl dies from a heroin overdose--especially since they know full well that Aura Lee never did drugs. Jim (James Garner) is hired by the dead girl's coworker Sara Butler (a pre-Bionic Woman Lindsay Wagner) to Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Death and the Favored Few

Synopsis: Stone (Karl Malden) and Keller (Michael Douglas) mingle with the cream of San Francisco society in search of a murderer. The victim was the blackmailing publisher of a sleazy tell-all magazine--and as a result, the detectives are confronted with a veritable "Who's Who" of suspects. This is the Read More

All in the Family: Mike's Friend

Actors: Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers, Greg Mullavey

Synopsis: Future Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman regular Greg Mullavey appears as Mike's "intellectual" friend, Stuart Henderson. Inviting Stuart to dinner, Mike works overtime trying to impress his guest with his own range of knowledge. As a result, poor Gloria is deliberately excluded from the conversation Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Deadline

Synopsis: Barry Sullivan guest stars as Chris Bane, a famous and powerful San Francisco newspaper columnist. After murdering his mistress, Bane uses his journalistic skills to pin the killing on his rival. Complications ensue when it turns out that Chris' son Greg (Geoffrey Deuel) was likewise involved with Read More

Cry Rape!

Synopsis: Two TV films were shown during the 1973-1974 season dealing with the emotional and legal ramifications of rape. While the Elizabeth Montgomery vehicle A Case of Rape was closer to Real Life, Cry Rape! also had a lot going for it. Andrea Marcovicci stars as Betty Jenner, whose world is rent asunder Read More

Ironside: Love Me in December

Synopsis: Ironside (Raymond Burr) heads to a farming community at the request of Vickie Dunhill (Kathy Cannon), the 18-year-old fiancee of wealthy middle-aged rancher Aaron Clark (Steve Forrest). It seems that a murder has occurred, and that the local citizens, resentful over the fact that Clark has Read More

The Single Girls

Actors: Claudia Jennings

Synopsis: Single Girls was also released as Private School. When that didn't work, it was shipped out as Bloody Friday, which pretty much summed things up. The late Claudia Jennings costars in this R-rated farrago, which deals with a group of sex-obsessed swingers who go on a Carribean holiday-cum-orgy. The Read More

Bonanza: One Ace Too Many

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel

Synopsis: Once more, Lorne Greene essays the dual role of Ben Cartwright and Ben's lookalike, confidence trickster Bradley Meredith. This time out, Meredith takes advantage of Ben's trip to Carson City to auction off the Ponderosa, piece by piece. Kate Jackson makes an early TV appearance as Ellen, while Read More

Adam-12: Harry Nobody

Synopsis: That grand old barnstormer Henry Jones guests in this episode as a garrulous wino named Harry Craig. While Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) are investigating a murder, Harry staggers forward to declare that he can identify the killer. There's only one problem: In Read More

I Dismember Mama

Actors: Zooey Hall, Geri Reischl, Joanne Jordan, Greg Mullavey, Marlene Tracy

Synopsis: Originally released as Albert and Annie, this low-budget, poorly lighted, non-action, slasher film features Albert (Zooey Hall) as a deranged youth locked up in a mental institution by his super-rich mother until one day he is stopped from watching soft-porn movies in his room, and, upset at this Read More

Stand up and Be Counted

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset

Synopsis: This gag-filled movie makes a stab at examining the women's liberation movement but never quite gets there. The effects of the movement are shown through a series of comic and romantic episodes between men and women. The story is loosely tied together as the research of Sheila Hammond (Jacqueline Bisset Read More

Escape of the Birdmen

Actors: Doug McClure

Synopsis: Some prisoners pin their hopes for freedom on a homemade aircraft in this made-for-television thriller. Based on a true World War Two story, Doug McClure stars as Harry Cook, an Allied soldier who tries to escape a Nazi prison camp with a scientist in tow, using a glider built by their fellow Read More

Raid on Rommel

Actors: Richard Burton

Synopsis: The British fleet is enroute to North Africa to engage the Germans, and the best port for them to use is Tobruk. There, they have problems: Germans occupy Tobruk, and have fortified it with devastating heavy artillery which would prevent a British landing. The original scheme for sabotaging the Read More

The Love Machine

Actors: John Phillip Law, Dyan Cannon

Synopsis: Based on the novel The Love Machine, by Jacqueline Susann, this movie concerns the machinations, in the boardroom and in the bedroom, of a group of people--from the chairman of the board down--who are involved in network television. Through his own guile and the sponsorship of his mistress (Dyan Cannon Read More

The Christian Licorice Store

Actors: Dawn Cleary, Louis DeFarra, Rusty Durrell, Bruce Graziano, Dido Renoir, Gary Rose

Synopsis: In this comedy a golden-boy tennis player in search of Life's meaning is corrupted by Hollywood, too much praise, and the temptation to sell out. His life therefore, becomes a metaphor for the morals of Hollywood society. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Marigold Man

Synopsis: You all remember Greg Mullavey as the husband of Louise Lasser in the 1976 TV serial spoof Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. But did you know that Mullavey once enjoyed top billing in a theatrical feature film? Judging by Marigold Man, perhaps "enjoyed" isn't the right word. Mullavey and Harry Cohn (not Read More

Quarantined

Actors: Gary Collins, John Dehner, Sharon Farrell

Synopsis: Quarantined is set in a clinic maintained by a famous family of physicians. Dr. John Dehner and his son Dr. Gary Collins struggle to control a widespread cholera epidemic. One plot complication involves a testy movie star (Sharon Farrell), who refuses treatment when she exhibits the symptoms of Read More

C.C. and Company

Actors: Joe Namath, Ann-Margret, William Smith, Jennifer Billingsley, Don Chastain

Synopsis: C.C. Ryder (Joe Namath) is a biker who rescues Ann McCalley (Ann-Margret) from a rape attempt by a gang of malevolent hippies. She makes love with him to show her appreciation, but their romance meets with obstacles when gang-leader Moon (William Smith) seeks revenge for C.C.'s interference. They Read More

Petticoat Junction: How to Arrange a Marriage

Synopsis: Greg Mullavey guest stars as Jerry Roberts, the latest boyfriend of Billie Jo Bradley (Meredith MacRae). Quite taken by Jerry, Bobbie Jo (Lori Saunders) hopes to persuade him to marry her sister--and as a result everyone at the Shady Rest smothers the poor boy with hospitality! Interestingly Read More

Ironside: L'Chayim

Synopsis: On behalf of an old rabbi friend, Ironside (Raymond Burr) investigates the theft of a priceless Torah from a San Francisco synagogue. Truth to tell, the ancient scroll is "priceless" only to the congregation, but the thieves--who've managed to cover their tracks and make the break-in look like an Read More

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

Actors: Natalie Wood, Robert Culp, Elliott Gould, Dyan Cannon, Horst Ebersberg

Synopsis: "Consider the possibilities," read the ads for Paul Mazursky's 1969 satirical comedy about what happens when the sexual revolution hits affluent bourgeois life. After a weekend of "beautiful" emotional honesty at an Esalen-type retreat, married wannabe hipsters Bob (Robert Culp) and Carol (Natalie Wood Read More

The Shakiest Gun in the West

Actors: Don Knotts, Barbara Rhoades, Jackie Coogan, Don "Red" Barry, Ruth McDevitt

Synopsis: This hilarious oater finds Jesse Heywood (Don Knotts) as a Philadelphia dentist who leaves his home to open a new practice on the western frontier. The hapless dentist is saved by the expert gun handling of Penny (Barbara Rhoades), a reformed bandit trying to earn a pardon by intercepting gun Read More

Bonanza: Commitment at Angelus

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Marj Dusay

Synopsis: Joe Cartwright is grief-stricken when his friend Steve Regan, leader of a miners' strike, is accidentally killed. Because the Cartwrights are major stockholders in the mining company, Joe feels partially responsible for Steve's death, and does what he can to help the man's widow Stephanie (Marj Read More

Mission: Impossible: Echo of Yesterday

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Powerful but gullible German industrialist Otto Kelmann (Wilfred Hyde-White) is on the verge of handing over his munitions empire to a "new Hitler" named Colonel Marcus Von Frank (Hans Gudegast), aka Eric Braeden). It is up to the IMF to smash Marcus' movement by forcing Kelmann to realign his Read More

Companions in Nightmare

Synopsis: Melvyn Douglas made his TV-movie debut in Companions in Nightmare. Douglas plays a famous psychiatrist who conducts a group-therapy session with several high-priced professionals. One of the patients turns out to be a murderer; the truth will come out, and it will be a shocker. Gig Young, Anne Baxter Read More

Gidget: Ring-a-Ding-Dingbat

Synopsis: When the popular rock group The Dingbats is booked to perform near Malibu, Gidget (Sally Field) and her friends are determined to find out where the singers are staying. They do, of course--whereupon Gidget vows to help lead the Dingbats' lead singer escape the group's hordes of fans long enough Read More

The F.B.I.: The Scourge

Synopsis: An ongoing FBI effort to topple the Mafia empire headed by Mark Vincent (Johnny Albin) is complicated by the presence of eager young loan shark Johnny Albin (Robert Duvall), who will go to any lengths to join the "Organization." Vincent has assigned Johnny to seize control of a cash-strapped Read More

The F.B.I.: The Spy-Master

Synopsis: In hopes of smashing a Red spy ring, Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) poses as Adam Rogers, a foreign service worker. As expected, the undercover Erskine is approached by Chinese agents and asked to spy on his own country. The "maguffin" in this story is a document known as the Forsythe Read More

The Fugitive: When the Wind Blows

Synopsis: Now travelling under the phony handle "Jim McGuire", Kimble (David Janssen) goes to work for widowed hotel owner Lois Carter (Georgann Johnson). As the days pass, Kimble turns out to be the only person capable of befriending Lois' strangely sensitive son Kenny (Johnny Jensen). When the police Read More

Combat!: Beneath the Ashes

Synopsis: While Pvt. Steve Kovac (Chad Everett) is out on patrol, Lt. Hanley receives word that Kovac's wife is dying. Though he intends to give the man emergency leave, Hanley decides to withhold the tragic information until the patrol has returned. Meanwhile, Kovac is trapped in a basement with the rest Read More