Jack KlugmanFilmography

Dear God

Actors: Greg Kinnear, Laurie Metcalf, Maria Pitillo, Tim Conway, Hector Elizondo, Roscoe Lee Browne

Synopsis: In this comedy, a man trying to turn away from a life of crime starts performing a little larceny in the interest of helping others. Tom Turner (Greg Kinnear) is a small-time con man who makes the mistake of trying to cheat a pair of undercover cops one night. Fortunately for Tom, his case is Read More

Parallel Lives

Synopsis: Directed by Linda Yellen, this made-for-cable movie originally aired on the Showtime network and featured a star-studded cast including Dudley Moore, Liza Minelli, and James Belushi. The plot centers around several fraternity and sorority graduates who have decided to regroup at their alma mater. Read More

The Odd Couple: Together Again

Actors: Tony Randall, Jack Klugman

Quincy, M.E.: The Law Is a Fool

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Quincy (Jack Klugman) is an unwilling key player in an elaborate vengeance scheme concocted by arrogant paralegal Carl Norman (Jeff Pomerantz). After the 7-year-old granddaughter of law professor Henry Hillman (Lew Ayres) is kidnapped in broad daylight, Norman calmly walks into police headquarters Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Season 08

Actors: Jack Klugman, Garry Walberg, Robert Ito, Val Bisoglio, John S. Ragin

Synopsis: Inasmuch as series star Jack Klugman had been railing about the mediocre script writing which he felt had plagued the past seven seasons of Quincy, M.E., it is little wonder that Klugman himself receives writing credit for several episodes telecast during the series' eighth and final season on Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Season 07

Actors: Jack Klugman, Garry Walberg, Robert Ito, Val Bisoglio, John S. Ragin

Synopsis: The loquacious Dr. Quincy (Jack Klugman) continues to crusade against medical stupidity, thick-witted bureaucracy, and implicit and overt prejudice of all kinds in his capacity as medical examiner in the L.A. County Coroner's Office as Quincy, M.E. launches its seventh season on NBC. Noteworthy Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Season 06

Actors: Jack Klugman, Garry Walberg, Robert Ito, Val Bisoglio, John S. Ragin

Synopsis: The sixth season of Quincy, M.E. features the familiar cast from the past several seasons, chief among them Jack Klugman as Dr. Quincy, the star medical examiner of the L.A. County Coroner's Office. By this time, Quincy's superior and frequent adversary Dr. Robert Astin (John S. Ragin) is no Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Season 05

Actors: Jack Klugman, Garry Walberg, Robert Ito, Val Bisoglio, John S. Ragin

Synopsis: Jack Klugman is back as the titular L.A. County Coroner's Office medical examiner and self-appointed detective and social crusader as Quincy, M.E embarks upon its fifth season. In the opener, "No Way to Treat a Flower," Quincy seeks out clues as to the source of a chemical that brings out the very Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Promises to Keep

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: After a four-year relationship, Quincy (Jack Klugman) still cannot summon the courage to propose to his lady friend Lynne (Sharon Acker), and in fact seems to be deliberately neglected her in favor of his work. During a particularly difficult forensic procedure in which he must clean up after an Read More

Quincy, M.E.: A Test for the Living

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: No murder is committed nor autopsy performed in this episode, in which medical examiner Quincy (Jack Klugman) delves into psychology. The catalyst for the plot is Timmy Carson (David Hollander), a hyperactive seven-year-old with a severely limited attention span. Though Timmy has escaped from an Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Season 04

Actors: Jack Klugman, Garry Walberg, Robert Ito, Val Bisoglio, John S. Ragin

Synopsis: Dr. Quincy (Jack Klugman), star pathologist of the L.A. Coroner's Office, continues to use his vast knowledge of forensic medicine to solve baffling crimes and right a wide variety of social wrongs as Quincy, M.E. launches its fourth season on NBC. The season's first episode, "The Last Six Hours," Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Season 02

Actors: Jack Klugman, Garry Walberg, Robert Ito, Val Bisoglio, John S. Ragin

Synopsis: Introduced as one of four rotating components of the crime anthology NBC Mystery Movie, Quincy, M.E. proved so popular with viewers that the network gave the series its own weekly, one-hour Friday night time slot, beginning with its second season -- which, in answer to public demand, was launched Read More

Quincy, M.E.: A Good Smack in the Mouth

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Melissa Astin (Barbara Babcock), the wife of Quincy's supervisor Dr. Robert Astin (John S. Ragin), stops her car to pick up a runaway boy named Joey (Shane Sinutko) --and shortly afterward is involved in a traffic accident. When Quincy (Jack Klugman) pays a visit to Melissa and Joey in the Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Season 03

Actors: Jack Klugman, Garry Walberg, Robert Ito, Val Bisoglio, John S. Ragin

Synopsis: Jack Klugman returns as the titular medical examiner in the third season of Quincy, M.E.. Also back on the job are Robert Ito as Quincy's lab assistant, Sam; John S. Ragin as Dr. Robert Astin, our hero's superior at the L.A. Coroner's Office (not as pompous and bureaucratic a character as in the Read More

Don Rickles: Buy This Tape, You Hockey Puck

Actors: Don Rickles

Two-Minute Warning

Actors: Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, Martin Balsam, Beau Bridges, Marilyn Hassett

Synopsis: Larry Peerce directed this tired disaster movie about a mad sniper loose in a football stadium. At the beginning, the sniper picks off a cyclist for practice and then takes roost in the top tower of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Sent in to stop the terror is Captain Peter Holly (Charlton Heston Read More

One of My Wives Is Missing

Actors: Jack Klugman, James Franciscus

Synopsis: Vacationing in a small town (actually Lake Arrowhead, California), a frantic James Franciscus shows up at the local police station, declaring that his wife has disappeared. Franciscus imperiously demands that easygoing police inspector Jack Klugman drop everything and find his missing spouse. Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Season 01

Actors: Jack Klugman, Garry Walberg, Robert Ito, Val Bisoglio, John S. Ragin

Synopsis: The first season of Quincy, M.E. found the series in rotation with three other 90-minute detective series (Columbo, McMillan, McCloud) on the Sunday night anthology The NBC Mystery Movie. Thus, crusading L.A. Coroner's Office medical examiner Quincy (Jack Klugman) appeared in only four episodes Read More

Quincy, M.E. [TV Series]

Actors: Jack Klugman, Garry Walberg, Robert Ito, Val Bisoglio, John S. Ragin

Synopsis: First seen on October 3, 1976, as a component of the rotating crime anthology series The NBC Mystery Movie, Quincy, M.E. starred Jack Klugman as the title character, a one-time private medical practitioner who, after the death of his wife, gave up his profitable practice to become a medical Read More

The Underground Man

Synopsis: The Underground Man was the pilot film for a series based on Ross MacDonald's private eye hero Lew Archer (the source of Paul Newman's film appearances as "Lew Harper"). Most of the elements of the factory-approved MacDonald formula are put into effect here: An old flame, a seemingly cut-and-dried Read More

The Odd Couple: Season 05

Synopsis: Moving from Fridays to Thursdays for its fifth and final season, The Odd Couple opens the proceedings with "The Rain in Spain", featuring a surprise appearance by All in the Family's Rob Reiner as the boyfriend of Myrna Turner (played by Reiner's then-wife Penny Marshall), the secretary of Read More

Match Game: Episode 1

Actors: Gene Rayburn, Michael Landon, Vicki Lawrence, Jack Klugman, Jo Ann Pflug, Richard Dawson, Anita Gillette

The Odd Couple: Season 04

Synopsis: The fourth season of The Odd Couple continues to ask the question posed in the previous three: can two divorced men, compulsive neat-freak Felix Unger (Tony Randall) and confirmed slob Oscar Madison (Jack Klugman) live together in the same apartment without killing each other or driving one Read More

The Odd Couple: Season 03

Synopsis: Season Three of The Odd Couple begins with "Gloria, Hallelujah", introducing Elinor Donahue in the recurring role of Miriam Welby, occasional girlfriend of divorced photographer Felix Unger (Tony Randall. Which is not to say that the ex-wives of Felix and his sportswriter roomate Oscar Madison Read More

Poor Devil

Synopsis: In this comedy, a burned out bookkeeper thinks about selling his soul to Satan. His thoughts invoke the presence of a bungling messenger from the devil himself. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Odd Couple: Season 02

Synopsis: During its first season, The Odd Couple had been filmed movie-style with a single camera, and a prerecorded laughtrack was used. At the insistence of stars Tony Randall (Felix Unger) and Jack Klugman (Oscar Madison), the second season--and all seasons thereafter--were filmed before a live studio Read More

Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow?

Actors: Kevin Riou, Otis Stephens

Synopsis: This upbeat children's adventure tells the true story of gentle Barney Marcovitz who firmly believes that the world's hope is in the hands of children. Barney manages a pony farm/petting zoo in Greenwich Village so that city kids can sample country life. The trouble begins when the real estate Read More

Blind Man's Bluff

Synopsis: Blind Man's Bluff originally aired as an episode of the TV series Name of the Game. Ex-district attorney Jack Klugman gives Crime magazine reporter Tony Franciosa a phony story. It's all part of a complex plan for revenge. Klugman was blinded several years earlier, and his wife's (Coleen Gray) Read More

The F.B.I.: The Diamond Millstone

Synopsis: With the "inside" help of misguided maid Maria Montoya (Pilar Seurat), a gang of thieves steals a 33-carat diamond from wealthy Everlyn Harcourt (June Vincent). The FBI enters the scene after one of the crooks is killed during the heist and the rest scatter to the four winds. Athough the gang's Read More

The Time Is Now

Synopsis: In this drama, a radical student and a college dean have a heated argument. The trouble really begins when afterward, the dean is found dead. The story was taken from the Name of the Game television series. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Odd Couple: Season 01

Synopsis: "Can two divorced men share an apartment without driving each other crazy?" This is question posed in the first episode of the first season of The Odd Couple--and though the answer is an emphatic "No!", mismatched roommates Felix Unger (Tony Randall) and Oscar Madison (Jack Klugman) will manage to Read More

Goodbye, Columbus

Actors: Richard Benjamin, Ali MacGraw, Jack Klugman, Nan Martin, Michael Meyers

Synopsis: Based on one of author Phillip Roth's shorter works, Goodbye Columbus stars Richard Benjamin as Neil, a young man of humble means who falls in love with Jewish-American-princess Brenda (Ali MacGraw). Their romance is out of the question so far as Brenda's suburbanite parents are concerned, so Neil Read More

The Detective

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick, Ralph Meeker, Jacqueline Bisset, Jack Klugman

Synopsis: Frank Sinatra gives a gritty performance in the crime thriller The Detective. When Teddy Leikman, the homosexual son of a politically connected department-store magnate, is murdered, detective Joe Leland (Frank Sinatra) is sent in to investigate. Leland drags in Teddy's psychotic former roommate Read More

The Split

Actors: Jim Brown, Diahann Carroll, Julie Harris, Ernest Borgnine, Gene Hackman

Synopsis: A pair of crooks conspire to rob the ticket booth at the Los Angeles Coliseum during a Rams game. Before they can perform the heist, the two must find precisely the right henchmen to join them. Each potential gang member must undergo a rigorous test of skill. Thanks to care and precise planning Read More

Fame is the Name of the Game

Actors: Jack Weston

Synopsis: Originally telecast November 26, 1966, Fame is the Name of the Game was the first official entry in NBC-TV "Project 120" series of made-for-TV movies (after two false starts in 1964). Tony Franciosa plays a magazine writer investigating the suicide of a beautiful girl. He uses the girl's address Read More

Je Vous Salue Mafia

Actors: Henry Silva, Jack Klugman, Micheline Presle, Eddie Constantine, Elsa Martinelli

Synopsis: In this crime drama, an American fugitive in France is pursued by two thugs for two different reasons. One of the pursuers has been engaged by a large, corrupt construction company that wants the fugitive killed to prevent him from giving damaging testimony. The other stalker has more personal Read More

The F.B.I.: Image in a Cracked Mirror

Synopsis: Investigating the destruction of a group photo of several bank employees, Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) finds that the bank in question has a $100,000 shortage. The case narrows down to fugitive embezzler Charles Gates, played by guest star Jack Klugman (whose then-wife Brett Somers also appears Read More

The Fugitive: Everybody Gets Hit in the Mouth Sometimes

Synopsis: In his second Fugitive guest appearance, Jack Klugman is cast as Gus Hendrick, owner of a trucking firm where Kimble (David Janssen)--alias "Bill Douglas"--is currently employed. Though heavily in debt, Gus continues to support his late partner's family, feeling guilty for the man's death. Unable Read More

The Untouchables: An Eye for an Eye

Synopsis: In his final Untouchables guest appearance, Jack Klugman is cast as Sollie Girsh, a distributor of illegal liquor who has figured out a clever scheme to keep operating right under the noses of the Feds. Using remarkable methods of persuasion, the deceptively mild-mannered Girsh has induced over Read More

The Twilight Zone: Death Ship

Actors: Jack Klugman, Ross Martin, Mary Webster, Tammy Marihugh

Synopsis: Landing on a distant planet, astronauts Paul Ross (Jack Klugman), Ted Mason (Ross Martin) and Mike Carter (Frederick Beir) believe that they're the first earthlings to arrive on this unchartered world. At least, they assume that this is true until they come upon the wreckage of an American Read More

The Twilight Zone: In Praise of Pip

Actors: Jack Klugman, Bill Mumy, Bill Diamond, Connie Gilchrist, S. John Launer

Synopsis: After a brief flirtation with the 60-minute form, Twilight Zone wisely returned to its original half-hour format with the first episode of the series' fifth season, "In Praise of Pip." Upon learning that his beloved son Pip is dying in a field hospital in South Vietnam, two-bit bookie Max Philips (Jack Klugman Read More

The Yellow Canary

Actors: Pat Boone, Barbara Eden, Steve Forrest, Jack Klugman, Jesse White

Synopsis: Written by mystery master Rod Serling, The Yellow Canary stars Pat Boone as insufferable singing idol Andy Paxton. Barbara Eden plays his wife Lissa, who is fed up with her husband's egotistical attitude and is ready to leave him. When their baby son is kidnapped, Andy Paxton refuses to enlist the Read More

I Could Go on Singing

Actors: Judy Garland, Dirk Bogarde, Jack Klugman, Aline MacMahon, Gregory Phillips

Synopsis: This is a standard yet uneven drama featuring Judy Garland as Jenny Bowman, a powerful singer who obviously has a passion for the stage and performing. At the same time, she once had a passion for a certain British doctor, David Donne (Dirk Bogarde), that resulted in the birth of a baby boy. Read More

Act One

Actors: George Hamilton, Jason Robards, Jr., Jack Klugman, Sam Levene, Ruth Ford, Eli Wallach, George Segal

Synopsis: This autobiographical story traces the career of playwright Moss Hart. Moss (George Hamilton) struggles as a dramatic writer until he concentrates his efforts on writing comedy. He suffers through a series of professional and romantic failures before a meeting with George S. Kaufman (Jason Robards Jr Read More

The Fugitive: Terror at High Point

Synopsis: While working on a construction crew under the alias "Paul Beaumont", Kimble (David Janssen) befriends Jamie (Buck Taylor), a mentally challenged youth who has been hired for a menial job by crew boss Buck Harmon (Jack Klugman). Defending Jamie against the cruel taunts of his fellow workers Read More

Naked City: King Stanislaus and the Knights of the Round Table

Days of Wine and Roses

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford, Jack Klugman, Alan Hewitt

Synopsis: In this addiction melodrama, Joe Clay (Jack Lemmon), a promising adman, meet his future wife Kirsten (Lee Remick) at a party. Once married, the pressures of his business lead Joe to seek solace in liquor. Kirsten joins him in his nocturnal drinking sessions, and before long both are confirmed Read More

The Untouchables: Loophole

Synopsis: Jack Klugman guest stars as Morton Halas, an unethical but supremely successful criminal lawyer whose services are highly coveted by the Underworld. Now Halas has taken Big Mike Probitch (George Tobias) on as a client--and Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) determined to put Probitch away, no matter how Read More

Naked City: The Tragic Success of Alfred Tiloff

The Twilight Zone: A Game of Pool

Actors: Jack Klugman, Jonathan Winters

Synopsis: In his second Twilight Zone appearance, Jack Klugman stars as pool hustler Jesse Cardiff, who would like nothing better than to challenge legendary pool champion Fats Brown. Only trouble is, Fats has been dead for a year. But Jesse is persistent, and before long the ghost of Fats (Jonathan Read More

The Twilight Zone: A Passage for Trumpet

Actors: Jack Klugman, John Anderson, Mary Webster, Frank Wolff, James Flavin

Synopsis: Written by Rod Serling, this episode represented the joint Twilight Zone debut of actor Jack Klugman (who went on to star in three additional episodes) and director Don Medford. Klugman stars as trumpet player Joey Crown, who, regarding his life as empty and futile, tries to kill himself. Instead Read More

Cry Terror!

Actors: James Mason, Rod Steiger, Inger Stevens, Neville Brand, Angie Dickinson

Synopsis: On a perfectly ordinary day, the management of an airline receives a note demanding a half-million dollars from someone who claims to have put a bomb aboard one of their planes. When the device, a tiny but dead electronically-triggered explosive, is found, they're told that there's another -- the Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Mail Order Prophet

Synopsis: Mousy clerk Ronald Grimes (E.G. Marshall) begins receiving written predictions from a mail-order prophet named Christiani. Impulsively acting upon these predictions, Grimes discovers to his amazement that they all become true, and he ends up accumulating a great deal of wealth. Alas, the price Read More

12 Angry Men

Actors: John Fiedler, Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley, Sr., E.G. Marshall, Jack Klugman, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Edward Binns, Joseph Sweeney, George Voskovec, Robert Webber

Synopsis: A Puerto Rican youth is on trial for murder, accused of knifing his father to death. The twelve jurors retire to the jury room, having been admonished that the defendant is innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Eleven of the jurors vote for conviction, each for reasons of his Read More

Timetable

Actors: Mark Stevens, King Calder, Felicia Farr, Marianne Stewart, Wesley Addy

Synopsis: In this suspenseful detective yarn, an insurance investigator finds himself unbearably bored by his routine life and decides to become a criminal. Following the robbery he engineers, he begins to investigate the theft himself. Unfortunately, he is trailed by a determined railroad cop, a dear Read More

The Petrified Forest

Actors: Lauren Bacall, Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart, Paul Hartmann, Natalie Schafer

Justice

Synopsis: An admitted killer is at the mercy of a waterfront kangaroo court which is confronted by a crusading attorney who works to dismantle the court. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Rocky King, Detective

Celanese Theatre: Yellowjack

Synopsis: A soldier decides to volunteer his own body to help find a cure for yellow fever in this live TV production of Sidney Howard's Yellowjack. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More