Jack CarterFilmography

Imagine That!, Vol. 1: Great Moments In History

Actors: Noriyuki "Pat" Morita, Jack Carter

One Last Ride

Actors: Patrick Cupo, Chazz Palminteri, Robert Davi, Anita Barone, Jack Carter

Synopsis: One man's life begins to crack under the weight of his compulsions in this drama. Michael (Patrick Cupo) works as a salesman for a garment firm in Los Angeles. Michael has a job, a wife named Gina (Anita Barone), and a baby on the way; however, he also has a gambling problem that is threatening to Read More

Justice League Unlimited: This Little Piggy

Actors: Jennifer Hale, Rachel York, Jack Carter, Peter Onorati, Laraine Newman

Synopsis: While on a stakeout of the Penguin's headquarters with Batman, Wonder Woman is suddenly and inexplicably turned into a pig by the enchantress Circe. The remainder of the episode finds Batman and the beauteous magician Zatanna combining forces to return "Wonder Pig" to her normal self. Mayhem Read More

King of the Hill: Yankee Hankee

Play It to the Bone

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Woody Harrelson, Lolita Davidovich, Tom Sizemore, Lucy Liu

Synopsis: After covering baseball in Bull Durham, basketball in White Men Can't Jump. and golf in Tin Cup, writer, director, and obvious sports fan Ron Shelton takes on the world of boxing in this comedy. Vince Boudreau (Woody Harrelson) and Cesar Sota (Antonio Banderas) are close friends and aspiring Read More

Touched By an Angel: Cry, and You Cry Alone

Synopsis: Monica (Roma Downey) and Andrew (John Dye) are assigned to the old-time comedy team of Salt and Pepper, who are about to be inducted into the Comedy Hall of Fame. Unfortunately, Maury Salt (Jerry Stiller) and Ed Pepper (Tom Poston) have hated each other ever since the argument that broke them up Read More

Double Deception

Synopsis: In classic noir tradition, the protagonist of the made-for-TV Double Deception is hard-boiled private eye John Kane (James Russo), who provides the first-person narration for the deliciously convoluted plotline. Kane knew that former call girl Pamela Sparrow (Alice Krige) was a keg of dynamite the Read More

The Opposite Sex and How to Live with Them

Actors: Arye Gross, Courteney Cox Arquette, Kevin Pollak, Julie Brown, Mitchell Ryan

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a pair of disparate yuppies attempt to bridge the considerable disparities between them and have a relationship. During their tempestuous struggles, their two best friends offer expert commentary. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Broadway Bound

Actors: Corey Parker, Jonathan Silverman, Anne Bancroft, Michele Lee, Hume Cronyn

Synopsis: The 1986 stage hit Broadway Bound is the third entry in playwright Neil Simon's "autobiography trilogy". Unlike the cinemadaptations of Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues, Broadway Bound was filmed for television, where it debuted March 23, 1992. Brighton Beach Memoirs star Jonathan Silverman Read More

Social Suicide

Actors: Bobbi Bresee, Peter Anthony Elliott, Shannon Sturges, Dan Cashman

Synopsis: Racism is alive and well and living in Beverly Hills, as this slightly comic drama reveals. Kim is a nice Anglo girl who is about to "come out" as a debutante. In her social set, girls simply do not date "minority" people, and when she begins seeing the stunningly handsome Tom Garcia, not only Read More

Satan's Princess

Synopsis: The princess here is a lesbian demon woman running a modeling agency where she "tries out" the models before setting them up on their gigs. A former police officer sets himself up as a private detective and takes a missing-person case, trying to find a young teen-aged girl. The missing girl is Read More

Caged Fury

Actors: Erik Estrada, Richie Barathy, Roxanna Michaels, Paul L. Smith, James Hong

Synopsis: Prison chicks provide the basis for this exploitation film. The tale centers on two young women, one a naive, star-struck midwestern girl, and the other a savvy hitcher, who head for Tinseltown in search of stardom only to find themselves appearing in a soft-core porno flick. Unfortunately they Read More

Robo-Chic

Synopsis: In this (very) low-budget release, ex-Playboy Playmate Kathy Shower appears as a part-machine, part-human crime-fighting cop. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Just Another Fish Story

Synopsis: Having invested in a trendy New York seafood restaurant, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) is delighted that her nephew Grady (Michael London) has chosen the restaurant to celebrate his engagement to the lovely Donna Mayberry (Debbie Zipp). Alas, murder casts a pall on the party when the restaurant's Read More

Arena

Actors: Marc Alaimo, Claudia Christian

Synopsis: Though bereft of budget, the 1988 sci-fier Arena has its heart in the right place. The scene is a distant planet, where extraterrestrial gladiators square off in an arena. Earthling Steve Armstrong would like to prove his fighting skills, but the evil planetary ruler Marc Alaimo won't let him. Read More

Sexpot

Actors: Ruth Collins, Joyce Lyons, Frank Stewart, Gregory Patrick, Jane Hamilton

Synopsis: Chuck Vincent directed this R-rated remake of his own hardcore classic Mrs. Barrington (1974). Ivy Barrington (Ruth Collins) is a beautiful woman whose rich husbands keep dying mysteriously after they name her sole heiress to their fortunes. Jane Hamilton, also known as porn's "Veronica Hart," Read More

Death Blow

Synopsis: When a rapist avoids conviction several times in a row, his past victims join together to exact vigilante justice. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Red Nights

Actors: Brian Matthews, Tom Badal, Patti Bauer, Jack Carter

Synopsis: Randy (Christopher Parker) leaves rural New Hampshire for Hollywood to become a star in this tragic drama. His best friend David (Brian Matthews) is hooked on drugs and under the spell of the sleazy dealer Bruce (Tom Badal). Randy meets pretty blond Betty (Patti Bauer) at a party but soon Read More

Lethal Victims

Synopsis: In this gritty thriller, a woman who suffers the pain and humiliation of sexual assault is appalled to discover the man who raped her has gone free. Enraged, she joins forces with a number of other women who have survived rape and together they set out to meet out justice on their own terms. Read More

The Trouble with Dick

Actors: Tom Villard, Susan Dey, Elaine Giftos, Elizabeth Gorcey, David Clennon

Synopsis: Though a young sci-fi writer suffers from a bad case of writer's block, he does not seem to have a problem finding someone to date; he is involved with his landlady and her daughter. This low-budget comedy is the feature debut of writer and director, Gary Walkow. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Growing Pains: Carol's Article

Synopsis: In hopes of one day working alongside her mom Maggie (Joanna Kerns) at the "Long Island Herald", Carol (Tracey Gold) asks Maggie her honest opinion of an article she has written for her school magazine, the "Walt Whitman Chronicle." Unfortunately for Carol, Maggie is honest to the point of Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Dead Heat

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) pays a visit her niece Tracey (Linda Grovenor), an up-and-coming jockey. After winning a race, Tracey has a confrontation with the horse's owner, indicating that she was supposed to have thrown the race. Not long after, the owner turns up murdered--and Tracey is the prime Read More

Hambone and Hillie

Actors: Lillian Gish, Timothy Bottoms, Candy Clark, O.J. Simpson, Robert Walker, Jr.

Synopsis: It is doubtful that while acting in D. W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation back in 1914, Lillian Gish ever dreamed that seven decades later she'd be co-starring with a cute dog in something called Hambone and Hillie. It all begins at a busy airport, where octogenarian Hillie (Gish) is accidentally Read More

Talk of the Town, Show 2

The Funny Farm

Actors: Miles Chapin, Tracey E. Bregman, Eileen Brennan, Jack Carter, Peter Aykroyd

Synopsis: Some potent comic talent lends credibility to the Canadian Funny Farm. Michael Chapin stars as Mark, a would-be stand-up comedian. Mark leaves his Midwestern hometown behind to try his luck at the California comedy club managed by Gail (Eileen Brennan, doing a superb takeoff of real-life Comedy Read More

Separate Ways

Actors: Karen Black, Tony Lo Bianco, Arlene Golonka, David Naughton, Sharon Farrell

Synopsis: In this standard romantic drama slated for TV movie channels, Valentine (Karen Black) is dissatisfied in her marriage to a racecar driver (Tony Lo Bianco) and begins a romantic liaison with a student at the community college she attends. Her husband has also been unfaithful, and his indiscretions Read More

Heartbeeps

Actors: Andy Kaufman, Bernadette Peters, Randy Quaid, Kenneth McMillan, Melanie Mayron

Synopsis: Heartbeeps stars Andy Kaufman and Bernadette Peters as domestic robots who fall in love and run off together. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

History of the World -- Part I

Actors: Mel Brooks, Dom DeLuise, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman, Cloris Leachman

Synopsis: Mel Brooks produced, directed, wrote, and starred in this episodic comedy in the spirit of Monty Python and the 1957 studio travesty The Story of Mankind. The film is divided into five sequences that play like blue-toned Eddie Cantor vaudeville sketches -- "The Dawn of Man," "The Stone Age," The Read More

The Gossip Columnist

Actors: Steve Allen, Jim Backus, Jack Carter, Jayne Meadows, Martha Raye, Sylvia Sidney, Rip Taylor, Lyle Waggoner, Betty White, Dick Sargent

Synopsis: The Gossip Columnist is a rare one-part offering from Operation Prime Time, the TV-syndication service responsible for such miniseries as The Kent Family Chronicles. Fourth-billed Kim Cattrall plays the title character, journalist Dina Moran. Instructed by her boss (Dick Sargent) to take over the Read More

The Hustler of Muscle Beach

Synopsis: The hustler in Hustler of Muscle Beach is fast-talking New York promoter Nick Demec (Richard Hatch). Hoping to cash in on the bodybuilding craze, Demec stages a muscleman -- and musclewoman -- contest in Venice, CA (where the film was shot). The hero's get-rich-quick scheme gets him into hot water Read More

Alligator

Actors: Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Michael Vincente Gazzo, Dean Jagger, Perry Lang, Henry Silva

Synopsis: Lewis Teague directed this sly horror-comedy from a script by John Sayles, which plays off the old urban legend about the dangers of flushing one's pet alligator down the toilet. One such unlucky reptile is "Ramon," who survives in the subterranean cesspool by feeding on the steroid-saturated Read More

For the Love of It

Synopsis: Veteran comedy specialist Hal Kanter milks every chuckle, chortle and guffaw of Stanley Ralph Ross' teleplay for For the Love of It. The story gets under way when the bad guys surreptitiously plant top-secret documents on a model (Deborah Raffin) and a med student (Jeff Conaway). He's crazy about Read More

The Octagon

Actors: Chuck Norris, Karen Carlson, Lee Van Cleef, Tadashi Yamashita, Carol Bagdasarian

Synopsis: Karate champ Chuck Norris returns for another chop-socky vigilante flick in The Octagon, one of a handful of undistinguished Ninja pictures released during the early '80s. Norris appropriately plays a retired karate champ hired as a bodyguard for a wealthy woman (Karen Carlson) plagued by a gang Read More

Human Feelings

Synopsis: In this comedy, inspired by Oh, God! and designed as a pilot for a TV series, an ambitious young angel persuades the Almighty to allow seven days to find six good people in Las Vegas. If he cannot, God will destroy the whole town. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Rainbow

Synopsis: Judy Garland's rise to stardom is chronicled in this bio-pic that begins with her vaudeville days and ends with The Wizard of Oz. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Record City

Synopsis: This lighthearted, tuneful and youth-oriented comedy is set in a record store and chronicles the zany exploits of its employees. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Glove

Actors: John Saxon, Roosevelt Grier, Joanna Cassidy, Joan Blondell, Jack Carter

Synopsis: In this actioner, bounty hunter Sam Kellough, who is also an ex-cop, and an ex-ballplayer, is out to earn the $20,000 reward for the capture of Victor Hale, a psychotic killer wanted for beating a prison guard to death with a "riot glove." The villain is not as horrible as he seems. When the Read More

The Last Hurrah

Synopsis: 1977's Last Hurrah is a TV-movie remake of the 1958 John Ford film of the same name. Both versions are based on the Edwin O'Connor novel about the last days of flamboyant, larcenous Mayor Frank Skeffington--based upon the equally colorful, equally underhanded Boston mayor James Curley. Carroll O'Connor Read More

Sanford and Son: Fred Meets Redd

Actors: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Jack Carter, Fritzi Burr

Synopsis: With his tax deadline rapidly approaching, Fred (Redd Foxx) suddenly skips an appointment with his accountant. The reason? Fred hopes to win a huge prize by entering a Redd Foxx lookalike contest. And just guess who makes a "guest appearance" as Redd? Also appearing in this classic dual-identity Read More

The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington

Actors: Joey Heatherton, George Hamilton, Ray Walston, Rip Torn, Jack Carter, Phil Foster

Synopsis: When a sex scandal threatens to blow the top off Washington politics, celebrated madame and advice columnist Xaviera Hollander (Joey Heatherton) is drawn into the fray. The hooker at the center of the controversy is a friend, and when the girl conveniently disappears, Xaviera is outraged. Read More

The Rockford Files: The Becker Connection

Synopsis: Police detective Dennis Becker (Joe Santos) is suspended after being framed on a heroin-possession charge. Since the drugs in question had been confiscated by the police, it would seem that somewhere in the Department is lurking a "dirty" cop determined to destroy Dennis. In his efforts to prove Read More

Emergency!: The Game

Synopsis: Season Six of Emergency! begins as paramedics John Gage (Randolph Mantooth) and Roy Desoto (Kevin Tighe) considering themselves lucky to have pulled duty at a football game at LA Coliseum. Alas, their enjoyment of the gridiron activity is constantly interrupted by emergency first-aid calls Read More

The Amazing Dobermans

Actors: Fred Astaire, James Franciscus, Barbara Eden, Jack Carter, Billy Barty

Synopsis: A circus goes to the dogs (or, more accurately, the dogs come to the circus) in this light-hearted action-adventure tale. Lucky Vincent (James Franciscus) is a gambler who, after a stretch of bad luck, owes over $12,000 to mobster Solly Kramer (Jack Carter). Lucky is rescued from Solly's goons by Read More

Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood

Actors: Bruce Dern, Madeline Kahn, Art Carney, Phil Silvers, Ron Leibman

Synopsis: This spoof makes fun of a certain famous German shepherd movie star from the 1920s. The mayhem begins when the head honcho of a financially struggling studio turns a lost dog into a legend. The story features a number of old stars making cameo appearances. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Great Houdinis

Actors: Paul Michael Glaser, Sally Struthers, Vivian Vance, Ruth Gordon

Synopsis: Made for television, The Great Houdinis tells the life story of famed American illusionist/escape-artist Harry Houdini and his wife Bess. Studiously avoiding covering the same ground as the 1953 Houdini theatrical-film biopic, director Mel Shavelson's script for Great Houdinis spends a great deal Read More

The Girl Who Couldn't Lose

Actors: Julie Kavner

Synopsis: A plain, prudish librarian goes on a TV game show and finds romance. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Hustle

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Catherine Deneuve, Ben Johnson, Paul Winfield, Eileen Brennan

Synopsis: Director Robert Aldrich (The Longest Yard) re-unites with Burt Reynolds for this hard-edged neo-noir. Lieutenant Phil Gaines (Reynolds) is a cynical Los Angeles police detective amorously involved with an icewater-veined Parisian call girl, Nicole Britton (Catherine Deneuve). On the job, he begins Read More

The Sex Symbol

Actors: Connie Stevens, Shelley Winters, Don Murray

Synopsis: Connie Stevens appears both with and without clothing in this made-for-TV a clef version of the Marilyn Monroe saga. The script, based on Alvah Bessie's novel The Symbol, contrives to have Stevens portray La Monroe in everything but name, right down to entering into a marriage with a famous Read More

Emergency!: Syndrome

Synopsis: The Rampart emergency staff must find bed space for its own members when Dr. Brackett (Robert Fuller) is trapped under a pile of fallen debris and Roy DeSoto (Kevin Tighe) comes down with tonsilitis--and even the station's doggie mascot Boot undergoes surgery. At the same time, famous actor Read More

The Family Rico

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Sal Mineo

Synopsis: Made for television, The Family Rico was adapted from the same Georges Simenon novel that served as the basis of the 1958 Columbia theatrical feature The Brothers Rico. Ben Gazzara plays a powerful mobster put in an embarrassing position by younger brother Sal Mineo. When Mineo refuses to carry Read More

The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler

Actors: Jim Healey, Richard Schuyler

Synopsis: Television newsman Harry Walsh (Leslie Nielsen) holds fast to the maxim "seeing is believing" in this political/medical thriller, with science-fiction overtones. Harry saw a well-known U.S. Senator (Bradford Dillman) have a car accident, and took video coverage on the scene. When he arrives at the 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

The Extraordinary Seaman

Actors: David Niven, Faye Dunaway, Alan Alda, Mickey Rooney, Jack Carter

Synopsis: John Frankenheimer directed this tepid World War II comedy set in the Philippines. When four American soldiers -- Lieutenant Morton Krim (Alan Alda), Cook 3rd Class W.J. Oglethorpe (Mickey Rooney), Gunner's Mate Orville Toole (Jack Carter), and Seaman 1st Class Lightfoot Star (Manu Tupou) -- are Read More

I Dream of Jeannie: My Master, the Ghostbreaker

Synopsis: Tony (Larry Hagman) is delighted to learn that he has inherited a 300-year-old mansion in England. He is however less than delighted when the mansion turns out to be haunted. Actually, the "ghosts" are distant relatives who want Tony to sell the estate to them at a rock-bottom price--but, like all Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy Sues Mooney

Actors: Jack Carter, Mary Jane Croft, Parley Baer, Lew Parker, Irwin Charone

Synopsis: While working overtime in the home of boss Mooney (Gale Gordon), Lucy (Lucille Ball) falls down and incurs a leg injury. At the insistence of her pal Mary Jane Lewis (Mary Jane Croft), Lucy hires Mary Jane's lawyer cousin, Willy Wiley (Jack Carter). Smelling out a huge financial turnover, Willy Read More

Combat!: Main Event

Synopsis: It's another tour of duty for Lt. Hanley (Rick Jason), Sgt. Saunders (Vic Morrow) and the men of King Company as Combat launches its fourth season. In one of those bureaucratic snafus that proliferated during WW2, pro boxer Willy Kleve (Ben Cooper) and his manager Doc Murphy (Jack Carter) Read More

Viva Las Vegas

Actors: Elvis Presley, Ann-Margret, Cesare Danova, William Demarest, Nicky Blair

Synopsis: Viva Las Vegas, one of Elvis Presley's most popular vehicles, adheres as rigidly to formula as a Kabuki dance. Elvis plays a race-car driver competing in the Las Vegas Grand Prix opposite his principal rival, Cesare Danova. To finance his entry, Elvis takes a job as a casino waiter. Naturally, he Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Stretch Petrie vs. Kid Schenk

Synopsis: Ever since he was a kid, Rob (Dick Van Dyke) has been a soft touch for his old neighborhood buddy Neil Schenk (Jack Carter). Neil's modus operandi is to show up unexpectedly, give Rob a gentle tap on the chin, and dole out small favors -- only to subtly suggest that Rob "return" those favors in a Read More

The Masque of the Red Death

Crew: Choreography

Actors: Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher, David Weston, Patrick Magee

Synopsis: Though based on two Edgar Allen Poe stories, Masque of the Red Death relies more upon its mood and atmosphere than its story values for its success. During a devastating 12th-century plague called "The Red Death," the decadent, devil-worshipping Prince Prospero (Vincent Price) holds court over a Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Most Likely to Succeed

Synopsis: Once voted "most likely to succeed" by his alma mater, Dave Sumner (Howard Morris) is little better than a derelict when he is reunited with his old college chum Stanley Towers (Jack Carter). Now a prosperous -- if somewhat disreputable -- businessman, Stanley takes pity on down-and-out Dave and Read More

The Horizontal Lieutenant

Actors: Jim Hutton, Paula Prentiss, Miyoshi Umeki, Jim Backus

Synopsis: Although the talented cast in this uninspired comedy do the best they can with their lines, nothing quite brings The Horizontal Lieutenant to an upright, stand-up-and-take-notice presence. Paula Prentiss as Lt. Molly Blue and Jim Hutton as Lt. Merle Wye are once again paired, this time as officers Read More

Cavalcade of Stars [TV Series]

Actors: Jack Carter, Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, June Taylor Dancers

Miracle in Harlem

Actors: Sheila Guyse, Stepin Fetchit, Hilda Offley, Creighton Thompson, Kenneth Freeman

Synopsis: Its many production flaws aside, Miracle in Harlem is a pretty good example of the "all-black" films prevalent in the segregated 1940s. The story concerns a Harlem candy store that is taken over by a gang of crooks. Julie Weston (Sheila Guyse), stepdaughter of the store's elderly owner (Hilda Read More

Sepia Cinderella

Actors: Freddie Bartholomew, Ruble Blakey, Jack Carter, Billy Daniels

Synopsis: As indicated by the title, Sepia Cinderella is an updated retelling of the classic fairy tale, featuring a cast of African-American performers. The "Cinderella" is this instance is a young man, played by Ruble Blakely. A struggling songwriter, Blakely scores an unexpected hit, then finds that he Read More

Take My Life

Actors: Freddie Jackson, Eugene Jackson, Paul White, Eddie Lynn, DeForest Covan

Synopsis: The Harlem Tuff Kids, African-American counterparts to Monogram's East Side Kids, star in the morale-boosting comedy-drama Take My Life. It all begins when the Kids-Johnny (Freddie Jackson), Bill (Eugene Jackson), Icky (Paul White), Stinky (Eddie Lynn) and Shadow (Monte Hawley)-disdainfully Read More

Pocomania

Synopsis: In this rare film, shot on location in Kingston, Jamaica, a Jamaican native inherits her father's rubber plantation. Later her highly successful sister from New York shows up to claim it for herself, but the other sister employs bogus voodoo rituals to frighten her off. When they fail, the two Read More

Charlie Chan's Courage

Actors: Warner Oland, Drue Leyton, Donald Woods, Paul Harvey, Murray Kinnell

Synopsis: Warner Oland made his fifth appearance as wily Honolulu-based detective Charlie Chan in Fox's Charlie Chan's Courage. Hired to deliver a valuable necklace, Chan shows up at a ranch estate, posing as a servant. His task is complicated when Victor Jordan (Jack Carter), the man who engaged his Read More

Great Moments in History Series

Synopsis: Historical individuals are documented in this series as hosted by Arte Johnson and Jim Backus. ~ All Movie Guide Read More