James BoothFilmography

Special Unit AT 13

Actors: Arnold Vosloo, Michael Ironside, Ben Cross, Michael Wincott, Joe Penny

Synopsis: When innocent lives are endangered, an elite anti-terrorism unit is charged with taking out the bad guys and keeping the peace. Jack Darrow is the head of The Anti Terrorism Cell, a specially trained squadron of dauntless soldiers who never flinch when the situation turns tense. Arnold Vosloo, Ben Read More

Dead Alive

Crew: Producer

Actors: Timothy Balme, Diana Penalver, Elizabeth Moody, Ian Watkin, Brenda Kendall

Synopsis: Director Peter Jackson's second feature cheerfully trumps the gross-out quotient of his splatterfest debut, the appropriately named Bad Taste. The tone is cartoonishly comic, and the premise is simple: The village dweeb (Timothy Balme) is trying to maintain a budding romance with the sweet Paquita Read More

Gunsmoke: To the Last Man

Actors: James Arness, Pat Hingle, Jason Lively

Synopsis: When retired lawman Matt Dillon takes off hunting for some stolen cattle, he and his daughter discover a vigilante gang and get involved in one of the bloodiest and most deadly feuds in the history of the West. Gunsmoke fans will not be disappointed by this James Arness outing. ~ Tana Hobart, All Read More

American Ninja 4: The Annihilation

Actors: Michael Dudikoff, David Bradley, James Booth, Dwayne Alexandre, Robin Stille

Synopsis: The fourth (and final!) entry in this kick-boxing series, sees the return of Michael Dudikoff as the leading foot flinger. Here a scheming sheik trains a bevy of ninja marauders that he's hoping can help him in his plan to hold the world ransom by holding hostage none other than the city of New Read More

The Lady and the Highwayman

Actors: Hugh Grant, Oliver Reed, Emma Samms

Synopsis: Adaptation of Barbara Cartland's novel featuring a 17th century adventure romance between an aristocrat and an endangered noblewoman. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

American Ninja 2: The Confrontation

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Dudikoff, Steve James, Larry Poindexter, Gary Conway, Jeff Weston

Synopsis: Infinitely superior to the original American Ninja, American Ninja 2: The Confrontation spotlights Michael Dudikoff and Steve James as a pair of combustible U.S. Army Rangers. Dudikoff and James are ordered to find out why so many Marine guards have been disappearing from their posts at the US Read More

Programmed to Kill

Actors: Robert Ginty, Sandahl Bergman, James Booth, Alex Courtney, Paul Walker

Synopsis: The corpse of a beautiful Middle Eastern terrorist is outfitted with a special computer, programmed to reanimate and to seek and destroy other terrorists. The trouble in this sci-fi actioner begins when something goes wrong and she tries to kill her creators. The film is also known as The Read More

Deep Space

Actors: Charles Napier, Ann Turkel, Bo Svenson, Ron Glass, Julie Newmar

Synopsis: A surprisingly slick flick from Emperor of Exploitation Fred Olen Ray, the story (which Ray co-wrote with T.L. Lankford, borrowing heavily from the director's earlier Biohazard) begins when a satellite carrying top-secret bio-engineered mutants plummets to Earth and disgorges its slavering Read More

Avenging Force

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Dudikoff, Steve James, James Booth, John Ryan

Synopsis: Produced in the Autumn of the Golan-Globus collaboration, Avenging Force serves as a vehicle for American Ninja costar Michael Dudikoff. Cast as a retired secret service agent, Dudikoff runs up against a sinister right-wing political organization called the Pentangle. He comes to the aid of his Read More

Moon in Scorpio

Actors: Britt Ekland, John Phillip Law, William Smith, Lewis van Bergen, April Wayne

Synopsis: In this provocative and scary supernatural thriller, a brides happy honeymoon aboard an Acapulco-bound yacht with her husband, two of his buddies from Vietnam and their girl friends, turns to terror when someone or something begins to kill them one by one. In the end, only she lives to tell the Read More

Bad Guys

Actors: Adam Baldwin, Mike Jolly, Michelle Nicastro, Ruth Buzzi, James Booth

Synopsis: These bad guys are a couple of inept cops who, when kicked off the force, decide to make their living as professional wrestlers. They become "The Boston Bad Guys" and as such, are pitted against a wrestling team managed by their manager's arch rival. To add intrigue to this wrestling fan's release Read More

Pray for Death

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Sho Kosugi, Donna Kei Benz, James Booth, Norman Burton, Michael Constantine

Synopsis: In this martial-arts actioner, a gentle Japanese immigrant endeavors to quietly run a business in America. Unfortunately, gangsters refuse to leave them alone. Finally the quiet storekeeper has enough and reveals that he is in reality, a highly skilled Ninja master. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

Stormin' Home

Crew: Teleplay By

Synopsis: In this drama, a divorced and irresponsible motocross racer grows up as he prepares to run the Big Race. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Cowboy and the Ballerina

Synopsis: Originally made for television, this story concerns a champion rodeo rider (Lee Majors) and his romance with a Russian ballerina (Leslie Wing) who is trying to defect. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Hotline

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV thriller, a volunteer (Lynda Carter) at a crisis hotline is stalked by a psycho. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Cabo Blanco

Actors: Charles Bronson, Jason Robards, Jr., Dominique Sanda, Fernando Rey, Simon MacCorkindale

Synopsis: In this strange, unsatisfying remake of Casablanca, directed by J. Lee Thompson, a bar owner helps a woman find a missing fortune. Right after the end of WWII, Giff Hoyt (Charles Bronson) owns a bar in Peru into which Marie Allesandri (Dominique Sanda) enters one day, in search of her lover and Read More

Zorro, the Gay Blade

Actors: George Hamilton, Lauren Hutton, Brenda Vaccaro, Ron Leibman, Donovan Scott

Synopsis: In this spoof, Don Diego Vega (George Hamilton) follows in his father's footsteps as he dons the identity of Zorro in an attempt to defend the weak and innocent from the ravages of the evil. However, when Vega falls victim to a debilitating injury, it is up to his gay twin brother, Bunny Read More

The Jazz Singer

Actors: Neil Diamond, Laurence Olivier, Lucie Arnaz, Catlin Adams, Franklyn Ajaye, Paul Nicholas

Synopsis: Pop singer Neil Diamond stars in this ill-begotten second remake of Al Jolson's seminal 1927 musical The Jazz Singer. The moth-eaten story concerns a cantor's son who desires success as a pop singer, despite the wishes of his imperious father. The film takes place in the present day with Yussel Read More

Jennifer: A Woman's Story

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery

Synopsis: Apparently weary of playing victim-of-the-week, Elizabeth Montgomery goes the Joan Crawford route playing a fabulously wealthy and stupendously bored matron who is about to be divorced by her wealthy husband. Hubby conveniently expires while dallying with his mistress. The upshot is that Ms. Read More

Sunburn

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Farrah Fawcett-Majors, Charles Grodin, Art Carney, Joan Collins, Eleanor Parker, William Daniels

Synopsis: Jake (Charles Grodin), an insurance investigator, is assigned to probe the killing of a wealthy businessman in Acapulco. To help him, he hires a beautiful New York model, Ellie (Farah Fawcett), to act as his wife, and they pretend to be tourists on vacation. Art Carney plays Marcus, a local Read More

Arthur Hailey's Wheels

Actors: Rock Hudson, Lee Remick, Blair Brown, John Beck, Ralph Bellamy

Synopsis: Another of the many Arthur Hailey literary properties which were transformed into TV miniseries in the 1970s, the five-part, ten-hour Wheels took place in Detroit sometime in the late 1960s. Rock Hudson starred as Adam Trenton, executive in charge of project development at the fictional Read More

Evening in Byzantium

Synopsis: A piece of made-for-television hack work that suddenly became sort of topical 23 years later, with the attacks on the New York World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, Evening in Byzantium was a two-part made-for-TV feature based very loosely on Irwin Shaw's best-seller. The book Read More

Airport '77

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Brenda Vaccaro, Joseph Cotten, Olivia de Havilland

Synopsis: Stretching the Airport concept as far as it will go, this third film in the series sticks a jet full of old actors 50 feet underwater in the Bermuda Triangle. Oxygen (and credibility) grows short, and Jimmy Stewart plays an art collector targeted for a heist. Jack Lemmon is the unfortunate pilot Read More

Brannigan

Actors: John Wayne, Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, Mel Ferrer, John Vernon

Synopsis: This offbeat John Wayne vehicle casts the Duke as Detective Jim Brannigan, an Irish-American detective at large in London. After the requisite culture-clash routines, it's down to business as Brannigan teams with Scotland Yard official Commander Swann (Richard Attenborough) to corral a crook who Read More

That'll Be the Day

Actors: David Essex, Ringo Starr, Rosemary Leach, James Booth, Billy Fury

Synopsis: Long before Grease was even thought of, the British came out with That'll Be The Day, the story of a young man (David Essex) growing up in the dreary working-class world of Britain who comes of age and finds his proper outlet in the first outgrowths of the rock-and-roll world in Britain. This film Read More

Bonanza: Second Sight

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Joan Hackett

Synopsis: Joan Hackett guest-stars as Judith, the fiancee of a young pastor named Jess (James Booth). Blessed-or, perhaps, cursed-with the gift of clairvoyance, Judith is called in to locate a missing Jamie. But her intensely religious sweetheart does not want Judith to use her "special powers." Written by Read More

Rentadick

Synopsis: In this pre-Monty Python parody of private-eye movies by Graham Chapman and John Cleese, someone has stolen nerve gas that paralyzes victims from the waist down. Now the bumbling boys at Rentadick, Inc. must find them before it is too late. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Inn of the Frightened People

Synopsis: This dark drama unfolds in an unnamed community outside of London, where a beleaguered and grief-stricken tavern owner named Jim Radford (James Booth copes with the rape and murder of his young daughter. The remainder of his family shares his distress, and in time, it begins to rip the clan Read More

The Man Who Had Power Over Women

Actors: Rod Taylor, Carol White, James Booth, Penelope Horner, Charles Korvin

Synopsis: Peter Reaney (Rod Taylor) is the successful talent agent who enjoys the things that money can buy. He also considers himself a parasite, living off the talents of his clients. When his wife Angela (Penelope Horner) walks out on him, he moves in with his friend Val (James Booth) and his wife Jody (Carol White Read More

Macho Callahan

Actors: David Janssen, Jean Seberg, Lee J. Cobb, James Booth, Pedro Armendariz, Jr.

Synopsis: This violent western tale finds Macho (David Janssen) as a Union Army regular in a Confederate prison. He escapes by planting dynamite in the coffin of an executed officer, making his move when the coffin is being carried outside the gate. He returns to a small town where he waits for Duffy (Lee Read More

Adam's Woman

Actors: Beau Bridges, Jane Merrow, John Mills, James Booth, Andrew Keir

Synopsis: Also known as Return of the Boomerang, Adam's Woman is set in the rough-and-tumble Australia of the 1840s. Beau Bridges plays Adam, convicted of a crime he didn't commit and shipped off to the penal colony "Down Under". Enduring brutal treatment, he escapes, only to be captured again. Thanks to Read More

Darker Than Amber

Actors: Rod Taylor, Suzy Kendall, Theodore Bikel, Jane Russell, James Booth

Synopsis: John D. McDonald was not altogether pleased with what Hollywood did to his novel Darker Than Amber, but audiences were generally satisfied. Private eye Travis McGee (Rod Taylor) and his cohort Meyer (Theodore Bikel) rescue the beautiful Vangie (Suzy Kendall) from drowning. Vangie has been Read More

Fräulein Doktor

Actors: Suzy Kendall, James Booth, Roberto Bisacco, Kenneth More, Michael Elphick

Synopsis: Two German spies and a woman physician (Suzy Kendall) are taken by submarine to Scotland where they enter the country at nightfall. Their mission is to assassinate the British Field Marshall Lord Kitchener. The woman's male companions are captured, but she escapes with the knowledge of what boat Read More

The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom

Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Richard Attenborough, James Booth, Freddie Jones, William Rushton

Synopsis: The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom stars Shirley MacLaine as Harriet Blossom, the wife of a moderately successful British brassiere manufacturer Robert Blossom (Richard Attenborough). When Harriet's sewing machine breaks down, her husband decides to save a few quid by sending one of his own employees to Read More

Robbery

Actors: Stanley Baker, Joanna Pettet, James Booth, Frank Finlay, Barry Foster

Synopsis: Based on the true story of the 1963 British Royal Mail robbery, this late '60s British caper film was directed by Peter Yates a year before he made the action classic Bullitt in the States. Opening with an extended jewel theft sequence followed by a action-packed car chase, Robbery details the Read More

Ninety Degrees in the Shade

Actors: Anne Heywood, James Booth, Rudolf Hrusínsky, Ann Todd, Donald Wolfit

Synopsis: The Anglo-Czech coproduction 90 Degrees in the Shade stars British actress Anne Heywood as a grocery clerk embroiled in an affair with manager James Booth. Though she knows that Booth is good for nothing, she remains with him because of the intensity of their physical relationship. Company Read More

The Secret of My Success

Actors: Shirley Jones, Stella Stevens, Honor Blackman, James Booth, Lionel Jeffries

Synopsis: At the beginning of The Secret of My Success, dimwitted Arthur Tate (James Booth) is a local village bobby who always follows his mother's advice to "help other people, and never look for the evil in them" -- perhaps not the best advice for an officer of the law. Tate soon finds himself Read More

Zulu

Actors: Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth, Michael Caine

Synopsis: Filmed on a grand scale, Zulu is a rousing recreation of the January 22, 1879, siege of Rorke's Drift in Natal, Africa. An army of 4,000 Zulu warriors have already decimated a huge British garrison; now they are on their way to the much smaller Rorke's Drift. A Royal Engineers officer (Stanley Baker Read More

French Dressing

Actors: James Booth, Roy Kinnear, Marisa Mell, Alita Naughton, Bryan Pringle

Synopsis: Ken Russell's first feature film is a slight comedy about a stodgy British resort. Gormleigh-by-the-Sea is a holiday community besotted with dullness. But things liven up when Jim (James Booth), a young deck-chair attendant, convinces the local entertainment director and mayor into starting a film Read More

Sparrows Can't Sing

Actors: James Booth, Barbara Windsor, Roy Kinnear, George Sewell, Brian Murphy, Avis Bunnage

Synopsis: This British comedy drama of the lower classes features actors with such thick cockney accents that some prints of the film were subtitled. James Booth stars as Charlie, a merchant seaman who returns home to the East End after two years to find that his wife Maggie (Barbara Windsor) has taken up Read More

The Hellions

Actors: Richard Todd, Anne Aubrey, Jamie Uys, Marty Wilde, Lionel Jeffries

Synopsis: In this western-style film, set in South Africa, circa the late 1900s, a local police sergeant finds himself pursued by the "The Hellions"--a man and his four sons. Unfortunately for the sergeant, the townspeople will not help to save him and his wife. He ignores his wife's plea that he quit his Read More

Play It Cooler

In the Doghouse

Actors: Leslie Phillips, Peggy Cummins, Hattie Jacques, James Booth, Dick Bentley

Synopsis: Two veterinarians contrast with each other in this standard British comedy by Darcy Conyers. Jimmy Fox-Upton (Leslie Phillips) is a decent chap who took more than ten years of hard work to get his vet's license. His nemesis, Bob Skeffington (James Booth) shortened the time to his license by Read More

The Trials of Oscar Wilde

Actors: Peter Finch, Yvonne Mitchell, James Mason, Nigel Patrick, Lionel Jeffries

Synopsis: Peter Finch portrays the titular flamboyant Irish poet/playwright in The Trials of Oscar Wilde. The storyline, lifted to a great extent from actual court records, recounts Wilde's late 19th century libel action against the Marquis of Queensbury. The author loses, whereupon he himself is tried for Read More

Let's Get Married

Actors: Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey, Bernie Winters, Hermione Baddeley, James Booth

Synopsis: Released in the US in 1963, the British Let's Get Married was actually filmed three years earlier. Anthony Newley plays a medical student who buckles under pressure. Hoping to get accustomed to dealing with people, he takes a job as a delivery boy. While thus employed, he meets and marries model Anne Aubrey Read More

In the Nick

Actors: Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey, Bernie Winters, James Booth, Harry Andrews

Synopsis: The "nick" in this standard prison farce is a modernistic, forward-looking jail without bars. At its core of staff are dedicated young psychologist Dr. Newcombe (Anthony Newley) and tough-minded but fair overseer Chief Officer Williams (Harry Andrews). Their jobs are made that much more difficult Read More

Jazz Boat

Actors: Anthony Newley, Anne Aubrey, Lionel Jeffries, David Lodge, Bernie Winters

Synopsis: This is a crime-comedy-musical romance by director Ken Hughes that has an identity problem. Bert (Anthony Newley) is an electrician who gives the wrong people a "song and dance" about his supposed expertise as a cat burglar and now he has to pay the piper. The gang of young thieves brings him into Read More

The Invisible Man: The Gun Runners

Synopsis: The tiny country of Bay Akim is in the thrall of a particularly vicious band of gunrunners. Teaming with secret agent Zena Flemming, "Invisible Man" Peter Brady does his best to locate the bad guys and determine the identity of the mysterious leader of the gang. Appearing as Zena is American film Read More