J.D. CannonFilmography

Law & Order: The Secret Sharers

Synopsis: When young Nicky Guzman (Enrique Monez) is accused of killing a drug dealer, public sympathy is very much on his side. This makes it difficult for the D.A.'s office to mount a successful case against Guzman. But things really get beyond the control of assistant D.A.'s Stone (Michael Moriarty) and Read More

Road Raiders

Synopsis: The Road Raiders was not, as might be expected, an American rip-off of The Road Warrior. It is instead a made-for-TV combat film, set during World War II. Bruce Boxleitner heads a group of "Black Sheep Squadron" style misfits, stationed on a lonely South Pacific island (along with the requisite Read More

The Return of Sam McCloud

Actors: Dennis Weaver

Synopsis: In this western, a senator from New Mexico, who was once a marshal, heads for London to find the one who killed his niece, a research scientist who had been looking into the activities of an international chemical company. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Street Justice

Actors: Michael Ontkean, Joanna Kerns, Catherine Bach, J.D. Cannon, Jeanette Nolan

Synopsis: In this convoluted drama, a CIA agent is finally released after spending the past thirteen years imprisoned in the Soviet Union. The joy of his homecoming is shattered when he discovers his wife married to another and that his daughter has grown up. When he learns that his wife's new husband is Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Unfinished Business

Synopsis: Retired police lieutenant Barney Kale (Pat Hingle) insists upon reopening a 10-year-old murder case which he had never been able to solve. Heading to the murder scene, a lakeside mountain resort, Kale gathers together all of the likely suspects--including Dr. Seth Hazlitt (William Windom), an old Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Funeral at Fifty-Mile

Synopsis: In the final first-season episode of Murder She Wrote, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) travels to Wyoming to attend the funeral of an old family friend. At the same time, a wealthy Wyoming rancher draws up papers leaving his entire estate to a somewhat nasty stranger, completely disinheriting his Read More

Death Wish 2

Actors: Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Vincent Gardenia, J.D. Cannon, Anthony Franciosa

Synopsis: Paul Kersey's (Charles Bronson) self-appointed one-man vigilante squad goes bi-coastal in Michael Winner's sequel to his Death Wish. Kersey has taken up residence in Los Angeles, but lunatic violence follows him across the country like toilet paper sticking to his shoe. Kersey's Spanish cook is Read More

Rooster

Synopsis: In this comedy, a suspicious fire brings two disparate detectives together. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Adventures of Nellie Bly

Actors: Gene Barry, J.D. Cannon, Linda Purl, John Randolph

Synopsis: Linda Purl stars as Nellie Bly, famed 19th century female journalist, in this "Classics Illustrated" TV movie. A tireless crusader, Nellie exposes corruption amongst the rich of New York and miserable working conditions amongst the poor. In her most famous exploit, Nellie decides to emulate Jules Read More

My Kidnapper, My Love

Synopsis: Actor Sam Wanamaker directed this made-for-television drama about an abduction with a twist. When a disabled news vendor kidnaps a wealthy girl in an effort to get ransom money, he unexpectedly finds the emotionally disturbed young woman falling in love with him. The film was adapted from Oscar Read More

The Top of the Hill

Synopsis: The 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid provides the setting for this drama that centers on a man's mid-life crisis. While there, he gets involved with love, sex and other diversions. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Walking Through the Fire

Synopsis: Bess Armstrong is the anguished heroine of the made-for-TV Walking Through the Fire. A normal, healthy housewife and mother, Bess' world is shattered when she falls victim to Hodgkin's disease. Not only is her life threatened by this debilitating illness, but also the life of her unborn child. Read More

Pleasure Palace

Synopsis: In this romantic made-for-television comedy, a womanizing, handsome gambler tangles with the feisty female owner of a large casino and ends up falling in love. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Raise the Titanic

Actors: Jason Robards, Jr., Richard Jordan, Alec Guinness, David Selby, Anne Archer

Synopsis: This box-office bomb is about some schemers' hell-bent efforts to raise the fated vessel from its murky grave when they suspect that there's a fortune in radioactive cargo aboard. To add a little excitement, a bunch of Russians decide they want to get there first. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Ike

Actors: Robert Duvall, Lee Remick

Synopsis: Robert Duvall stars as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in this made-for-TV biography, which focuses on his career in the military during World War II as he helped to guide Allied forces to victory. Along with Eisenhower's military exploits and political aspirations, Ike: The War Years also offers a Read More

Killing Stone

Synopsis: Michael Landon wrote and directed this pilot film about a writer who is framed for murdering a politician's son; after serving his sentence, he goes in search of the real killer. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Testimony of Two Men

Synopsis: The inaugural presentation of the syndicated "Operation Prime Time" anthology, the three-part, six-hour miniseries Testimony of Two Men was based on the 1968 best-seller by Taylor Caldwell; it originally aired in three separate two-hour installments. Sprawled over the course of several generations Read More

McCloud: Season 07

Actors: Dennis Weaver, J.D. Cannon, Terry Carter, Ken Lynch

Synopsis: For its seventh and final season on the air, McCloud was cut back from 120 to 90 minutes per episode, as were the other rotating components of The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie, which this season included Columbo, McMillan, Quincy, M.E., and (Lanigan's Rabbi). Dennis Weaver is back in his familiar Read More

McCloud: Season 06

Actors: Dennis Weaver, J.D. Cannon, Terry Carter, Ken Lynch

Synopsis: Season six of McCloud finds the venerable series still a component of the weekly NBC Sunday Mystery Movie anthology, appearing in rotation with Columbo, McMillan and Wife, and McCoy. The first of the season's seven episodes (each running two hours) is "The Park Avenue Pirates," in which Read More

McCloud: Season 05

Actors: Dennis Weaver, J.D. Cannon, Terry Carter, Ken Lynch

Synopsis: McCloud enters its fifth season as a stalwart component of the weekly anthology The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie, this year appearing in rotation with Columbo, McMillan and Wife, and Amy Prentiss. Nine episodes are offered this season rather than the usual five; and as a bonus, each episode runs a Read More

McCloud: Season 04

Actors: Dennis Weaver, J.D. Cannon, Terry Carter, Ken Lynch

Synopsis: The 90-minute crime series McCloud remained a component of The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie as it entered its fourth season, still appearing in rotation with Columbo, McMillan and Wife, and Hec Ramsey. It goes without saying that Dennis Weaver continues to fill the boots of Sam McCloud, a New Mexico Read More

Scorpio

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Paul Scofield, John Colicos, Gayle Hunnicutt

Synopsis: This spy thriller from future Death Wish (1974) director Michael Winner stars Burt Lancaster as the enigmatic Cross, a CIA agent who has hired a government assassin, Jean Laurier (Alain Delon), to kill an Arab terrorist. Once they return home, Laurier is arrested by his superior, McLeod (John Colicos Read More

McCloud: Season 03

Actors: Dennis Weaver, J.D. Cannon, Terry Carter, Ken Lynch

Synopsis: Season three of McCloud finds the 90-minute series securely installed as one of the four rotating components of The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie, along with Columbo, McMillan and Wife, and Hec Ramsey. Dennis Weaver is back as Sam McCloud, a Southwestern deputy sheriff applying his unorthodox Read More

Cannon

Actors: William Conrad

Synopsis: William Conrad stars as corpulent private eye Frank Cannon in this 2-hour pilot for the subsequent Cannon series. He responds to a plea for assistance from ex-flame Vera Miles (an actress who was in practically every pilot film made between 1965 and 1975). She is the prime suspect in the murder of Read More

McCloud: Season 02

Actors: Dennis Weaver, J.D. Cannon, Terry Carter

Synopsis: For its second season on the air, McCloud expanded from 60 to 90 minutes per episode, and joined Columbo and McMillan and Wife as one of the three rotating components of the weekly anthology The NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie. Dennis Weaver returns as Sam McCloud, gonzo New Mexico deputy sheriff Read More

Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?

Synopsis: This comedy murder mystery and pilot for a series that never materialized, has Ernest Borgnine as western sheriff Sam Hill, who has a whole lot of trouble on his hands when he discovers the dead body of the town's newly arrived minister. ~ Mark Hockley, All Movie Guide Read More

Lawman

Actors: Bill Brimley, Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Lee J. Cobb, Sheree North, Joseph Wiseman

Synopsis: In Lawman, Burt Lancaster is Jered Maddox, a dedicated marshal with an inflexible adherence to upholding the law at all costs. Riding into a nearby town to pick up a group of local carousers who, during a drunken spree, killed an old man, Maddox meets up with Vincent Bronson (Lee J. Cobb). Bronson Read More

Sam Hill: Who Killed Mr. Foster?

Synopsis: Ernest Borgnine plays alcoholic vagabond Sam Hill in this pilot film for a potential western detective series. Sam Hill is appointed sheriff of a one-horse town, then promptly becomes mixed up in a murder case. The victim was a preacher who was collecting $10,000 to build a new church; the money Read More

McCloud: Season 01

Actors: Dennis Weaver, J.D. Cannon, Terry Carter

Synopsis: Introduced as a two-hour TV movie special in February of 1970, McCloud became a regular series in September of that year, joining San Francisco International Airport, Night Gallery, and The Psychiatrist as one of the rotating components of the weekly NBC anthology Four in One. During his first Read More

The F.B.I.: Conspiracy of Corruption

Synopsis: The FBI is summoned to a ranching community to investigate a possible Civil Rights violation. Sheriff William Temple (James Olson) has been accused of excessive brutality and attempted murder by Peter Griffith (Bill Hickman), who has been arrested for smuggling illegal aliens. Faced with Read More

Cotton Comes to Harlem

Actors: Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, Calvin Lockhart, Judy Pace, Redd Foxx

Synopsis: Ossie Davis makes his directorial debut a smashing success in the trend-setting action crime comedy Cotton Comes To Harlem. Coffin Ed (Raymond St. Jacques) and Grave Digger Jones (Godfrey Cambridge), two plainclothesmen on the Harlem detail, are assigned to investigate the goings-on of suspicious Read More

Krakatoa, East of Java

Actors: Maximilian Schell, Diane Baker, Brian Keith, Barbara Werle, John Leyton

Synopsis: Volcano is the reissue title of the muddled disaster flick Krakatoa: East of Java. The name change was reportedly put into effect after thousands of filmgoers noted publicly that Krakatoa is west of Java. As might be expected, the story takes place in 1883, when the long-dormant volcano at Read More

Heaven with a Gun

Actors: Glenn Ford, Carolyn Jones, Barbara Hershey, John Anderson, David Carradine

Synopsis: Jim Killian (Glenn Ford) is a reformed gunslinger who takes a job as a local preacher in Vinagaroon, Arizona. He arrives during a time of conflict between shepherds and cattlemen who are engaged in a bloody range war. When Coke Beck (David Carradine) hangs a local Indian, the victim's daughter Read More

The Thousand Plane Raid

Actors: Christopher George, Laraine Stephens, J.D. Cannon, Michael Evans

Synopsis: Colonel Greg Brandon (Christopher George) is the commander of a B-17 fighter unit. His plan to send 1000 planes to bomb a strategic German airplane factory meets with continual rejection by everyone except General Palmer (J.D. Cannon). The tough-guy Colonel alienates himself to his men and Read More

Bonanza: The Fence

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, John Anderson, J.D. Cannon

Synopsis: The Civil War is over, but mine owner Sam Masters (John Anderson) will never be able to forget his tenure as commander of a brutal Confederate prison where 500 POW's died. Now, ex-union officer Colonel Hudson, backed up by a small but vicious group of followers, has arrived to wreak vengeance Read More

Murder One

Actors: Diane Baker, Howard Duff, Robert Conrad

Synopsis: Murder One was the pilot film for the Jack Webb-produced TV series The D.A. Howard Duff plays the title role, with Robert Conrad his able-bodied deputy. The indictment they must prepare for the Grand Jury is that of nurse Diane Baker. Several of Baker's husbands and relatives have met untimely Read More

The F.B.I.: The Runaways

Synopsis: Future film director Ron Howard is cast as 14-year-old Jess Orkin, who runs away from home after mistakenly believing that he has killed his uncle. During his flight, Jess linkes up with John Evans (J.D. Cannon, a genuine killer who is planning to rob and murder a wealthy Pennsylvania farm family Read More

Cool Hand Luke

Actors: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J.D. Cannon, Lou Antonio, Robert Drivas, Strother Martin

Synopsis: Paul Newman was nominated for an Oscar and George Kennedy received one for his work in this allegorical prison drama. Luke Jackson (Paul Newman) is sentenced to a stretch on a southern chain gang after he's arrested for drunkenly decapitating parking meters. While the avowed ambition of the Read More

The F.B.I.: Flight Plan

Synopsis: While pulling off an art heist, Robert Dewey (J.D. Cannon) is forced to knock out a museum executive. Convinced he has killed the man, Dewey may have no qualms about killing again. The FBI must stop Dewey before he manages to murder Helen Meade (Antoinette Bower), the woman who unwittingly messed Read More

The Fugitive: The Judgment, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of The Fugitive's celebrated series finale, wrongly convicted murderer Richard Kimble has been arrested by Lt. Gerard (Barry Morse) just moments before catching up with actual murderer Fred Johnson (Bill Raisch), aka "the one-armed man." It appears that Kimble has been betrayed Read More

Asylum for a Spy

Synopsis: Asylum for a Spy stars Robert Stack as a CIA agent who becomes an alcoholic, believing himself responsible for the death of two close friends. The Russians believe that Stack would be useful in fingering potential soviet defectors. The Americans plans to use Stack's inebriated state to get him Read More

Atta Girl, Kelly

Synopsis: Atta Girl, Kelly was originally a three-part drama, telecast in March of 1967 on Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color. Kelly is a German shepherd, born on a breeding farm for seeing-eye dogs in Morristown New Jersey (where the story was filmed). Once she is of a manageable age, Kelly undergoes a Read More

Mission: Impossible: Action!

Actors: Steven Hill, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Eastern European movie mogul Miklos Klaar (J.D. Cannon) plans to combine genuine American newsreel footage with faked "re-enactments" to show US soldiers committing atrocities in Southeast Asia. The IMF's assignment is to discredit Klaar in the eyes of his government. Series regular Barbara Bain Read More

The Invaders, Vol. 1: Beach Head

Synopsis: Roy Thinnes was the star of this 1967-1968 science fiction series, about an Earth poised on the brink of alien takeover. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

An American Dream

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Eleanor Parker, Barry Sullivan, Lloyd Nolan

Synopsis: An American Dream is adapted from the Norman Mailer novel of the same name. Stuart Whitman plays an acerbic TV talk show host who kills his wife Eleanor Parker during an argument. Whitman exerts his influence to cover up his crime, and the official verdict is suicide. But Whitman has not reckoned Read More

The F.B.I.: The Man Who Went Mad by Mistake

Synopsis: Scheduled to go on trial for fraud, Mark Tabor (J.D. Cannon) jumps bail, feigns a nervous breakdown, and takes refuge in a mental instution. Going undercover as a fellow mental patient, Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist) tries to figure out the motivation behind Tabor's actions. Meanwhile, the Syndicate Read More

The Fugitive: Middle of a Heat Wave

Synopsis: Posing as "Jim Owen", fugitive Richard Kimble (David Janssen) has fallen in love with the beautiful but neurotic Laurel Harper (Carol Rossen). Realizing the danger in staying in one place too long, Kimble reluctantly breaks off the relationship. Shortly afterward, Laurel is sexually assaulted and Read More

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: The Condemned

Synopsis: Command of the Seaview is turned over to the ambitious, publicity-seeking Admiral Falk (J. D. Cannon). His new project is a deep diving pressure system which, if perfected, could permit the submarine to explore previously unreachable depths. But can the Seaview survive the tests, or their Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Completely Foolproof

Actors: J.D. Cannon, Patricia Barry, Geoffrey Horne, Joyce Meadows, Lester Matthews

Synopsis: Lisa Brisson (Patricia Barry) is determined to get three-fourths of her husband Joe's (J.D. Cannon) fortune when she sues him for divorce. To this end, Lisa hires a private eye to collect evidence of Joe's crooked real-estate dealings. At the same time, Joe persuades Lisa's heavily-in-debt former Read More

Combat!: The Quiet Warrior

Synopsis: Ordered to London, Lt. Hanley (Rick Jason) finds he has been selected for a dangerous espionage mission in Occupied France. Teamed with veteran OSS agent Ted Slocum (J.D. Cannon), Hanley must rescue a French physicist who is being forced to work on a top-secret German project (could it be The Read More

The Untouchables: The Man in the Cooler

Synopsis: Having been repeatedly denied parole, imprisoned bootlegger Al Remp (J.D. Cannon) faces another setback when he is shunted off to Solitary. Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) figures that this is the right psychological moment to approach Remp with a deal. In exchange for a reduced sentence, Remp is to Read More

The Untouchables: The Cooker in the Sky

Synopsis: In his never-ending efforts to outmaneuver Elliot Ness (Robert Stack), bootlegger Joe Lassiter (J.D. Cannon) commissions architect Harry Gordon (Milton Selzer) to build a "Ness-proof" brewery. The finished product is perched atop a six-story warehouse, undetectable to anyone at street level. Read More