Ina BalinFilmography

Murder, She Wrote: A Very Good Year for Murder

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) heads to wine-growing country to help wealthy vintner Salvatori Gambini (Eli Wallach) celebrate his 75th birthday. Unfortunately, Gambini's fractious family isn't in a celebratory mood, and the festivities come to a grim climax when a corpse is found in the wine cellar. Read More

Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter

Actors: Paul Sorvino, Abe Vigoda, Cassandra Edwards, Lorne Greene, Gary Raff

Synopsis: It just isn't Gino's day. First of all, bank employee Gino (Paul Sorvino) is offered a lucrative deal from his dying boss Theo Marshall (Lorne Greene), if only he can keep the man's bank in control of his irresponsible son (Gary Raff) and out of the hands of his greedy relatives. To make matters Read More

Magnum, P.I.: L.A., Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of Magnum, P.I.'s two-part Season Seven opener (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), Magnum is still in Los Angeles, still trying to solve the murder of comedienne Marti Jensen with the help of sexy entertainment lawyer Cynthia Farrell (Dana Delaney). Along the way Read More

There Were Times, Dear

Actors: Shirley Jones, Len Cariou, Cindy Eilbacher, Dana Elcar, Alan Haufrect

Synopsis: This excellent docudrama is an affecting dramatization of the decline of an Alzheimer's victim and the emotional and psychological toll his fatal illness takes on his family. Bob Millard (Len Cariou) is an active outdoorsman, he is strong and healthy and vibrant with life when the symptoms of Read More

Hostage Flight

Synopsis: Made for television, Hostage Flight fomented a well-publicized controversy when first aired by NBC on November 17, 1985. On a domestic flight headed for Detroit, 65 passengers are held hostage by four international terrorists. The demands of the hijackers are simple: Release their imprisoned Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Dying for a Drink

Synopsis: Frequent Quincy, M.E guest star Ina Balin makes a return appearance, this time in the role of Quincy's fellow medical examiner Dr. Lorraine Linderman. Afer several mistakes both minor and serious are made in Dr. Linderman's lab, Quincy (Jack Klugman) becomes convinced that Lorraine is an Read More

Quincy, M.E.: The Unquiet Grave

Synopsis: With great reluctance, Quincy (Jack Klugman) sets out to prove that wealthy Powell Dixon (George Gaynes) was murdered by his wife Jeannina (Ina Balin), who has a history of mental problems. What makes this particular case so difficult is that Jeannina and Quincy had been lovers back in their Read More

The Comeback Trail

Actors: Chuck McCann, Robert Staats, Ina Balin, Jara Kahout

Synopsis: In this comedy a producer of "B" movies makes a film featuring a has-been cowboy star in the hopes that he can bring back his failing studio. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Dead Man's Channel

Synopsis: Marion Hammond (Wendy Girard) engages the services of P.I. Thomas Magnum (Tom Selleck) to locate her missing archaeologist father. While hunting for ancient sunken relics, Dr. Hammond was lost in the Nihoa Channel, which the local natives regard as sacred--and cursed. As usual, Magnum is not told Read More

The Children of an Lac

Crew: Producer, Screen Story

Actors: Ina Balin

Synopsis: While Shirley Jones is given top billing in the made-for-TV The Children of An Lac, the film's true star is the late actress Ina Balin--who plays herself in this re-enactment of an episode of conspicuous courage during the Vietnam war. On the eve of the fall of Saigon in 1975, an effort is made to Read More

Quincy, M.E.: By the Death of a Child

Synopsis: The new, pro-American president of the island nation of San Christos is on the verge of breaking off diplomatic relations with the U.S. At the core of the crisis is a new Diptheria vaccine produced in American and sent to the children of San Christos. It appears as though the vaccine is tainted Read More

Battlestar Galactica: Baltar's Escape

Actors: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson, Jr., John Colicos

Synopsis: The treacherous Baltar (John Colicos) joins forces with several captured villains from earlier episodes -- the three Borellian Nomens, the Eastern Alliance Enforcers -- to plot an escape from the Colonials' prison. Holding Adama (Lorne Greene) and the Council of Twelve hostage, Baltar demands that Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Requiem for the Living

Synopsis: Quincy (Jack Klugman) and Sam (Robert Ito) are abducted by the minions of mob boss Vince DiNardi (John Vernon), who makes an offer that our hero can't refuse. DiNaldi has been poisoned, and the doctors have given him only 24 hours to live. With Sam's life being used as a bargaining chip, Quincy is Read More

The Immigrants

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel by Howard Fast, the two-part, four-hour miniseries The Immigrants is the saga of Dan Lavetta (Stephen Macht). The son of an impoverished Italian immigrant family, Dan manages to emerge from the rubble of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake (cunningly re-created via Read More

Danger in Paradise

Synopsis: This pilot film for the TV series Big Hawaii stars Cliff Potts and John Dehner as a wealthy father-and-son team of Hawaiian cattle ranchers. Neither character is a candidate for the "Mister Nice Guy" award, especially the wayward Potts, who's recently been chased out of Vegas for cheating at Read More

Galyon

Synopsis: When the daughter and son-in-law of a wealthy man are abducted by terrorists, he hires a mercenary to travel to South America to bring them back. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Quincy, M.E.: No Deadly Secret

Synopsis: Season Three of Quincy M.E. gets off to a running start when Quincy (Jack Klugman) is interrupted during a nocturnal romantic rendezvous by the sudden arrival of his old friend Carl Hopwood, an investigative reporter. It is obvious that Hopwood has been beaten and mutilated, but before Quincy can Read More

Ironside: The Return of Eleanor Rogers

Synopsis: Ironside (Raymond Burr) is skeptical when Isabel Fredericks (Katherine Cannon), the daughter of Judge John Fredericks (Joseph Campanella), insists that her father's life is in danger. What the Chief doesn't know (at least at first) is that the Judge's new wife Eleanor (Ina Balin) once had ties Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Dead Air

Synopsis: A post-I Dream of Jeannie, pre-Dallas Larry Hagman guest stars as Terry Vine, the smarmy host of a radio advice show. Enjoying the idolatry of his many female fans, Vine begins dating one of them, who after he proves himself to be a louse threatens him with exposure. Shortly afterward, the woman Read More

Panic on the 5:22

Synopsis: In this made-for-television disaster thriller, a carload rich commuters are held hostage by a trio of thugs. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Police Story

Actors: Chuck Connors

Synopsis: Originally networkcast on March 20, 1973, Police Story was the 2-hour pilot for the long running anthology weekly which officially debuted seven months later. Created by novelist (and ex-police officer) Joseph Wambaugh, Police Story was set in Los Angeles, and each week detailed a different aspect Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: A Wrongful Death

Synopsis: Season Two of Streets of San Francisco opens with an episode focusing on Steve Keller (Michael Douglas), the young partner of veteran SFPD detective Mike Stone (Karl Malden). Forced to kill a robbery suspect, Keller finds his career on the line when the dead man's father (Michael Constantine) Read More

The Don Is Dead

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Frederic Forrest, Robert Forster, Al Lettieri, Angel Tompkins

Synopsis: In this organized crime drama (one of many that came in the wake of The Godfather, Tony (Frederic Forrest) and Vince (Al Lettieri) are two brothers whose father is a high-ranking Mafia kingpin; they've followed him into the family business, operating a profitable drug ring. While waiting for a Read More

Call to Danger

Synopsis: Call to Danger was a title that had already been applied to two unsold pilot films before this TV movie made its first appearance in February of 1973. Like the previous 1968 Call to Danger, the 1973 film stars Peter Graves as a federal agent who enlists "ordinary" people to solve crimes. Read More

The Deadly Kiss

Synopsis: Deadly Kiss and Beautiful But Deadly are alternate titles for the Godfather knockoff The Don is Dead. Anthony Quinn is appointed mob leader after the reigning Don expires. Syndicate functionaries Frederic Forrest and Al Lettieri, sons of the deceased don, refuse to align themselves with Quinn Read More

The Desperate Mission

Synopsis: Ricardo Montalban is well cast as legendary Mexican bandit Joaquin Murietta in Desperate Mission. As in most previous filmed adaptations of the life of this controversial character, Murietta is depicted as a South of the Border Robin Hood, more sinned against than sinning. The storyline is Read More

The Projectionist

Actors: Chuck McCann, Ina Balin, Rodney Dangerfield, Jara Kohout, Harry Hurwitz

Synopsis: This offbeat comedy finds a rotund, daydreaming projectionist (Chuck McCann) who fantasizes that he is the super hero Captain Flash. He imagines his nemesis to be Renaldi (Rodney Dangerfield), whom the projectionist refers to as "the Bat." Renaldi demands the lobby floor to be so clean he can eat Read More

The Tradition

Synopsis: In this drama, publisher Glenn Howard gets himself in hot water after he challenges an ancient Greek custom and ends up running for his life. He is accompanied by the woman involved. The film was taken from the Name of the Game television series. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The F.B.I.: The Maze

Synopsis: A fugitive from the FBI, Frank Welles (Steve Ihnat) has also been marked for death by a Mafia hitman. Despite the danger involved, Welles makes a stopover in San Diego, intending to wreak vengeance against the man whom he holds responsible for the death of his best friend's daughter. Thus Read More

Charro!

Actors: Elvis Presley, Ina Balin, Victor French, Lynn Kellogg, Barbara Werle

Synopsis: This western saga finds Jess Wade (Elvis Presley) as a reformed gunfighter who is stalked and captured by his former band of outlaws. Vince (Victor French) is the heavy who orders Jess' cheek to be branded with a hot iron. The gang terrorizes a small town by threatening to use a gold-plated and Read More

The Lonely Profession

Actors: Ina Balin, Harry Guardino

Synopsis: A superb throwback to the "films noir" of old, The Lonely Profession puts icing on the cake with a strong dose of 1960s realism--within reasonable TV-movie limits. Harry Guardino plays a businesslike private eye assigned to trail the mistress (Ina Balin) of a Hughes-like reclusive millionaire. Read More

Run Like a Thief

Actors: Ina Balin, Sancho Gracia, Bobby Hall, Victor Maddern, Scott Miller

Synopsis: A priceless cache of blue diamonds cause criminal chaos in this grim action drama that is set in the Mexican jungle. The excitement begins with the robbery of an armored car carrying the valuable gems. Something goes awry and all but one of the thieves die violently. The sole witness to the crime Read More

Act of Reprisal

Synopsis: Act of Reprisal is a somewhat obscure wartime drama. Hollywood actress Ina Balin plays a patriotic Cypriot. Future "Sherlock Holmes" Jeremy Brett costars as British a officer. Despite major differences in political ideology, Balin and Brett fall in love. The film's resemblance to Romeo and Juliet Read More

Bonanza: Devil on Her Shoulder

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Ina Balin, John Doucette

Synopsis: Emma Morgan (Adrienne Marden, the jealous wife of religious cult leader Rev. Evan Morgan (John Doucette), is convinced that Morgan's niece Sarah Reynolds (Ina Balin) is possessed by the Devil. It is up to Ben Cartwright to save Sarah from a grisly demise at the hands of Morgan's more rabid Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Draw Me a Pear

Actors: Ina Balin, Jackie Joseph, Dorothy Neumann, Jo Gilbert, Frank Adamo

Synopsis: Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) is so enthusiastic about her art class that she coerces Rob (Dick Van Dyke) into signing up himself. Before long, however, Laura has ample reason to regret talking Rob into participating in the class. The reason? Well, it so happens that the art teacher, an attractive Read More

The Patsy

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Ina Balin, Everett Sloane, Phil Harris, Keenan Wynn

Synopsis: Toward the end of Jerry Lewis's Paramount studio period, Lewis slapped together this bitter comedy about Hollywood phoniness and fame that has to be the most rancid portrait of the Hollywood star system in the Rat Pack era this side of Clifford Odets. When a famous entertainer suddenly is killed Read More

The Comancheros

Actors: John Wayne, Stuart Whitman, Ina Balin, Nehemiah Persoff, Lee Marvin

Synopsis: Michael Curtiz's The Comancheros was a deceptively complex movie -- so enjoyable, that it masked some of the best character development seen in a John Wayne vehicle that was not directed by John Ford or Howard Hawks, and so well made that it got by with some of the most violent action seen in a Read More

The Young Doctors

Actors: Fredric March, Ben Gazzara, Dick Clark, Ina Balin, Eddie Albert

Synopsis: This slick hospital soap opera features Ben Gazzara as Dr. David Coleman, a young physician hired into the pathology department at a big hospital. The aging head of the department, Dr. Joseph Pearson (Fredric March), is insulted and treats the new hire as a rival. They battle over many medical Read More

From the Terrace

Actors: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Myrna Loy, Ina Balin, Leon Ames

Synopsis: This cinemadaptation of John O'Hara's From the Terrace stars Paul Newman as Alfred Eaton, an unhappily married financial adviser, while his real-life wife Joanne Woodward portrays Mary St. John, his promiscuous screen spouse. Mary's libertine behavior is a by-product of her husband's inability to Read More

Compulsion

Actors: Orson Welles, Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman, Diane Varsi, E.G. Marshall

Synopsis: Compulsion is a compelling, stylish thriller, loosely based on the famous 1924 murder trial of thrill-killers Loeb and Leopold, two homosexual students who murdered a young boy to demonstrate their intellectual superiority. Artie Straus (Bradford Dillman) is a sadistic, mother-dominated bully. Read More

The Black Orchid

Actors: Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn, Mark Richman, Ina Balin, Virginia Vincent, Frank Puglia

Synopsis: The title is Black Orchid, but the leading lady is a rose--florist Rose Bianco, played by Sophia Loren. Newly widowed, Rose holds herself responsible for the death of her husband, a well-known gangster. Anthony Quinn plays a widower who falls in love with Rose, much to the dismay of his daughter (Ina Balin Read More