Jack ScaliaFilmography

Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep

Actors: Charlie O'Connell, Victoria Pratt, Jack Scalia, Christa Campbell

Synopsis: The made-for-television Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep stars Charlie O'oConnell as Ray, a man who lost his parents as a boy when they were eaten by a sea monster. Now as an adult, Ray plans to get his revenge while stealing a valuable jewel the monster hides. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Honeymoon with Mom

Actors: Shelley Long, Jack Scalia, Ginger Williams

Red Eye

Actors: Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy, Brian Cox, Jayma Mays, Jack Scalia

Synopsis: Terror rides the night skies in this thriller from horror auteur Wes Craven. Lisa Reisert (Rachel McAdams) is a young woman with more than her share of anxieties about flying. However, when circumstances demand she go to Miami, she gathers her nerves and books a seat on a late-night flight. Read More

Jackie Collins' Hollywood Wives: The New Generation

Actors: Farrah Fawcett, Melissa Gilbert, Robin Givens, Jack Scalia, Greg Lawson

Synopsis: Adapted from Jackie Collins' best-selling novel of the same name, this glittery made-for-TV movie stars three veteran small-screen divas as the "newest" generation of Tinseltown spouses. Farrah Fawcett heads the cast as film favorite and top recording artist Lissa Roman, who hires handsome private Read More

Shattered Lies

Actors: Frank Zagarino, Elizabeth Giordano, James Russo, Martin Kove, Jack Scalia

Synopsis: When a mysterious map surfaces that could lead the owner to $3 million in riches, the race is on between a mysterious drifter, a determined young woman, corrupt cops, career criminals, and even the FBI to get to the prize first in an action-packed thriller with enough twists to keep the viewer Read More

The Undesirable

Synopsis: The shock of seeing her family slaughtered by knife-wielding serial killer Frank Tanner (Michael Gross), and her subsequent escape from his murderous clutches, has caused Gilda (Melissa Gilbert) to have amnesia. In an effort to start a new life, Gilda becomes the nanny to the son (Matthew Read More

Mel

Actors: Julie Hagerty, Greg Evigan, Jack Scalia

Synopsis: Joey Travolta directed this comedy-drama for the family. Two children from the city spend the summer at their grandfather's ranch where they make a new friend -- Mel, grandpa's giant turtle who can do tricks and loves pancakes. But while Grandfather and the kids are all very attached to Mel, one Read More

Silent Predators

Actors: Harry Hamlin, Shannon Sturges, Jack Scalia

Synopsis: Harry Hamlin (L.A. Law, Clash of the Titans), Shannon Sturges, and Jack Scalia head the cast of this horror film. Noel Nosseck's Silent Predators concerns the sudden attacks of mutant rattlesnakes who have been breeding unnoticed for 20 years just outside of booming San Vicente, CA. The film Read More

Sweet Deception

Actors: Kate Jackson, Joanna Pacula, Joan Collins, Jack Scalia, Rob Stewart

Synopsis: Although the police investigation is spotty at best and the evidence questionable, Risa Gallagher (Joanna Pacula) receives a life sentence for the murder of her philandering millionaire husband. Managing to escape from prison, Risa goes from friend to friend in hopes of finding out who might have Read More

Chained Heat 3: Hell Mountain

Actors: Christopher Clarke, Jack Scalia, Sarah Douglas, Bentley Mitchum

Synopsis: This futuristic actioner takes place on a WWIII-ravaged Earth and follows the struggle of a brave hero to save his lady love from the villains who captured her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

First Degree

Actors: Erika Eleniak, C. Thomas Howell, Jack Scalia

Synopsis: Los Angeles suburbanites Quinn (James Wilder) and Laura (Kimberly Kates) host a backyard barbecue of co-workers, including a doctor (C. Thomas Howell), his wife (Erika Eleniak), rough-edged Barry (Jack Scalia), and winsome Jude (Karen Black), who was recently widowed when her executive husband was Read More

Under Oath

Actors: Clint Howard, Jack Scalia, James Russo

Synopsis: Two honest men discover how high the stakes can be when they turn against the law in this thriller. Nick Hollit (Jack Scalia) and Ray Ramirez (Eddie Velez) are a pair of police detectives who have played by the rules all their lives, but have little to show for it. Determined to make some big Read More

Everything to Gain

Actors: Sean Young, Jack Scalia

Synopsis: The idyllic existence of New York art director Mallory Jordan (Sean Young) is shattered when her ad-executive husband Andrew Keswick (Charles Shaughnessy) and their two daughters are brutally slain in a robbery. Suddenly alone, the devastated Mallory can see no reason to ever again emerge from her Read More

Act of War

Actors: Jack Scalia, Ingrid Torrance

Synopsis: In this international thriller, a group of Soviet terrorists want to rob the country's national treasury. As part of their plan, they have ambushed a nuclear missile silo, giving them control of a weapon that could conceivably touch off the next world war. An American agent (played by Jack Scalia) Read More

Dark Breed

Actors: Jack Scalia, Lance Le Gault, Donna W. Scott, Robin Curtis, Jonathan Banks

Synopsis: This science fiction yarn from Richard Pepin and Joseph Merhi revolves around the crash-landing of a space shuttle bearing six astronauts who are returning from a top-secret mission. Mission commander Cutter (Lance Le Gault) puts Capt. Nick Saxon (Jack Scalia) on the case. Saxon was the head of Read More

The Silencers

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Jack Scalia, Dennis Christopher, Clarence Williams III, Carlos Lauchu, Lucinda Weist

Synopsis: The mythical, urban-legendary "men in black" make a lower-rent appearance here than in the movie of the same name. Jack Scalia stars as Rafferty, a secret service agent whose impressive marksmanship and survival skills are not enough to save a California senator from an assassination at the hands Read More

Touched By an Angel: The Big Bang

Synopsis: Forced into a bank vault during an armed robbery, Monica (Roma Downey) is trapped therein by an earthquake, along with bank president Max Chamberlain (Jack Scalia) and pregnant bank officer Alison Craig (Lisa Jane Persky). It turns out that the holdup man is Alison's husband Jackson Spears (Lisa Read More

Tall, Dark and Deadly

Actors: Kim Delaney, Jack Scalia, Todd Allen

Synopsis: Kim Delaney stars as a woman on the rebound in this made-for-television movie. Delaney stars as Maggie, a woman who just broke up with her boyfriend. She gets involved with a handsome stranger named Roy (Jack Scalia), knowing little about his past. She gets more than she bargained for though, and Read More

P.C.H.

Actors: Casper Van Dien, Jacqueline Collen, Jack Scalia, Sally Kellerman, Elliott Gould

Synopsis: The lives of college students attending a beachfront university in California become mingled -- and mangled -- when the deranged former husband (Jack Scalia) of the beautiful former fashion model/pro volleyball player Stacey (Jacqueline Collen) finds her living on the campus. Meanwhile, Randy Read More

Pointman

Actors: Jack Scalia

Synopsis: A former Wall Street broker takes on a new career in this made-for-television movie. Jack Scalia stars as Connie Harper, a Wall Street star who gets sent to jail for fraud. While in prison, he becomes known for helping others when all else fails. Upon his release, a friend in the jail asks him to Read More

T-Force

Crew: Associate Producer

Synopsis: Technology runs amuck when an elite squad of police cyborgs turn on their masters in director Richard Pepin's action-packed sci-fi thriller. The future is now, and in order to minimize human casualties on the dangerous city streets, scientists have created a team lifelike androids that have been Read More

Beyond Suspicion

Actors: Stephanie Kramer, Jack Scalia, Howard G. H. Dell, Francesco Ferrucci, Roger R. Cross

Synopsis: Jack Scalia and Stepfanie Kramer star in this psychological thriller about Karen (Stepfanie Kramer),a photojournalist who witnesses the brutal murder of a cop while covering a police raid. She makes the acquaintance of Vince (Jack Scalia), partner to the police officer who was killed. She becomes Read More

Shattered Image

Actors: Bo Derek, Jack Scalia

Synopsis: Unorthodox FBI agent Jack Scalia is assigned to investigate the kidnapping of a prominent clothing manufacturer. It seems to Scalia that the whole event has been staged as part of a large-scale fraud. The principal suspect is onetime fashion model Bo Derek, the victim's much-younger wife. Despite Read More

Amore!

Actors: Jack Scalia, Kathy Ireland, George Hamilton, Norm Crosby, Elliott Gould

Synopsis: Investment banker Jack Scalia would give anything to escape his wealthy but empty existence. He fantasizes about becoming an Italian movie star, like his idol George Hamilton. Shedding himself of his wife and job, Scalia heads to Tinseltown to realize his dream, changing his name and adopting a Read More

Torch Song

Actors: Raquel Welch, Jack Scalia, Alicia Silverstone, George Newbern, Laura Innes

Casualties of Love: The "Long Island Lolita" Story

Actors: Alyssa Milano, Jack Scalia, Phyllis Lyons, Lawrence Tierney, Leo Rossi

Synopsis: Based on a true event, this is the account of the Buttafuoco couple, whose names were splattered all over the media in the early '90s after the alleged teen-aged playmate of Mr. B., Amy Fischer (who claimed it was Mr. B's will), shot Mrs. B in the head (though the latter miraculously lived). This Read More

Desperate Rescue

Actors: Mariel Hemingway, Clancy Brown, James Russo, Jeff Kober, Lindsey Haun

Synopsis: Like its theatrical-feature precursor Not Without My Daughter, the made-for-TV Desperate Rescue is based on a true story, though it would appear that several liberties have been taken. Mariel Hemingway plays a young mother whose daughter Lindsay Haun is abducted by Andrew Masset, Mariel's Read More

With a Vengeance

Synopsis: In the process of trying to rediscover her identity, a young amnesiac leads herself and her employer on an investigation into her past that leads them into danger. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Lady Boss

Actors: Kim Delaney, Jack Scalia

Synopsis: This sequel to Jackie Collins' Lucky/Chances finds Lucky Santangelo fighting for control of Hollywood studios with old enemies. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Runaway Father

Actors: Donna Mills, Jack Scalia, Chris Mulkey, Jenny Lewis, J.C. Brandy

Synopsis: Based on a true story, the made-for-television movie Runaway Father is about a husband who fakes his death so he can abandon his family. After surviving 20 years of poverty, his wife discovers he is still alive, and she sues him to collect 17 years of back child support. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine Read More

Deadly Desire

Synopsis: A security guard (Jack Scalia) is enticed to scam a businessman for his insurance money by the man's attractive wife (Kathryn Harrold). The real trouble begins when the guard discovers that the husband has ties to the mob. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Illicit Behavior

Actors: Jack Scalia, Joan Severance

Synopsis: Jack Scalia stars as a Hollywood policeman whose wife (Joan Severance) will stop at nothing to claim a $2 million inheritance. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

La Grieta

Actors: Jack Scalia, R. Lee Ermey, Ray Wise, Deborah Adair, Emilio Linder

Synopsis: The success of The Abyss led to slew of deep-sea adventures in 1989, including this silly monster movie from the director of Pieces and Slugs. Jack Scalia stars as the head of a rescue mission sent to retrieve a nuclear sub sunken off the coast of Norway, only to be menaced by phony-looking Read More

Donor

Actors: Melissa Gilbert, Jack Scalia, Pernell Roberts, Wendy Hughes, Gregory Sierra

Synopsis: Donor is a variation on a familiar theme, played to the hilt by a topnotch cast. Doctor Melissa Gilbert-Brinkman is shocked when her close friend is strangled by an elderly patient. Before she has a chance to investigate, the killer himself dies in a mysterious accident. Probing further, Melissa Read More

After the Shock

Actors: Yaphet Kotto, Rue McClanahan, Jack Scalia, Scott Valentine

Synopsis: A welcome exception to the slasher-stalker-kidnapper films usually seen on the USA cable network, After the Shock is a tribute to the courage and heroism of Bay Area residents following the San Francisco earthquake of October 17, 1989. Director Gary A. Sherman opts for a "cinema verite" approach Read More

Ring of Scorpio

Synopsis: Three imprisoned woman exact revenge upon the womanizing criminal who used them to smuggle his drugs while they were in college in this drama. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Naked Lie

Actors: James Farentino, Victoria Principal

Synopsis: Victoria Principal plays a deputy District Attorney; that we can believe. James Farentino costars as a judge; this is also believable. Opponents in the courtroom, Principal and Farentino are lovers in bed; okay, we'll buy that. Principal is trying to secure a murder conviction for a Read More

Wolf

I'll Take Manhattan

Actors: Valerie Bertinelli, Francesca Annis, Perry King

Synopsis: This glitzy miniseries based on the Judith Krantz novel is a wicked soap opera about sex, power, and betrayal. Valerie Bertinelli stars as Maxi, whose mother (Francesca Annis) marries her father's hated brother Cutter (Perry King) after his death. Cutter had sworn to destroy everything his late Read More

Remington Steele: The Steele That Wouldn't Die, Part 1

Club Med

Actors: Jack Scalia, Linda Hamilton, Patrick Macnee, Jeff Kaake

Synopsis: This romantic made-for-TV movie chronicles episodes from the varied lives of visitors to the popular Mexican seaside resort. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Other Lover

Synopsis: In this drama, a marketing director at a publishing house is assigned to represent an author. In his presence, she soon forgets her marital vows. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Amazons

Actors: Tamara Dobson, Nicholas Pryor, William Schallert, Peter Scolari, Madeleine Stowe, Jennifer Warren, Stella Stevens

Synopsis: This made-for-TV fantasy was directed by former Starsky and Hutch star Paul Michael Glaser. In one of her earliest roles, Madeleine Stowe plays Dr. Sharon Fields, who stumbles upon a secret plot by a covert organization of women to take over the world and execute all the men. The veteran cast of Read More

Fear City

Actors: Tom Berenger, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Scalia, Melanie Griffith, Rossano Brazzi

Synopsis: To paraphrase 1930s wit Wilson Mizner, Fear City is like a trip through a sewer in a glass-bottom boat. In exploitation-flick fashion, the film exposes the seedy "nether world" of contemporary Manhattan. Unsavory Matt (Tom Berenger) and Nick (Jack Scalia) run a topless bar/booking agency, in Read More

The Devlin Connection [TV Series]

Actors: Rock Hudson, Jack Scalia, Leigh Taylor-Young, Louis Giambalvo

Synopsis: This NBC detective show premiered about five years after Rock Hudson's hit program McMillan and Wife took its final bows (and on the same network), but experienced a much shorter run. As Hudson's final series, it starred the legendary actor as Brian Devlin, an independently wealthy playboy resting Read More

The Devlin Connection 3: Love, Sex, Sin, and Death at Point Dume

Actors: Rock Hudson

Synopsis: An episode from the early-'80s TV series Devlin Connection finds a retired detective (Rock Hudson) teaching his son (Jack Scalia) the family business. Their friend (Leigh Taylor-Young) is being hunted by a desperate killer. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Caveman

Actors: Ringo Starr, Dennis Quaid, Shelley Long, Jack Gilford, John Matuszak

Synopsis: Former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr plays a prehistoric, social outcast who, along with other misfits, forms his own tribe and finds various comic adventures. This spoof is mostly without dialogue besides the expected neanthropic grunt. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

The Star Maker

Synopsis: The infamous casting couch is the center point of this Hollywood behind-the-scenes drama that chronicles the exploits of a movie mogul and the actresses he turns into stars. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The One and Only

Actors: Henry Winkler, Kim Darby, Gene Saks, William Daniels, Polly Holliday

Synopsis: Brash young Andy Schmidt (Henry Winkler) can't make a go of it as an actor in the early 1950s. Still, he wins the hand of Mary Crawford (Kim Darby), and the two of them try to make ends meet in New York City. Andy is on the verge of starvation when he befriends wrestling-promoter Sidney Seltzer (Gene Saks Read More