James Daly Filmography

The Storyteller

Synopsis: The Storyteller is a lukewarm exploration of a hot issue: TV violence. Martin Balsam plays a successful television writer who pens a tale in which one of the characters commits arson. A young and impressionable boy watches this TV drama--and shortly afterward dies in a fire of his own making. The Read More

Wild in the Sky

Actors: Brandon de Wilde

Synopsis: This action/comedy picture follows the adventures of a group of anti-war, anti-establishment guerillas, who come up with a scheme to destroy Fort Knox with an atom bomb. The most notable feature of this film is that it features Brandon de Wilde in his last performance. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie 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

Un Esercito di Cinque Uomini

Actors: Peter Graves, James Daly, Bud Spencer, Nino Castelnuovo, Tetsuro Tamba

Synopsis: Five Man Army can best be described as a marked-down Magnificent Seven. Peter Graves, James Daly, Bud Spencer, Testuro Tamba and Nino Castelnuovo play the quintet of the title. Caught in the middle of the 1914 Mexican Revolution, the five men pool their individual skills in hopes of Read More

Ironside: The People Against Judge McIntire

Synopsis: This episode marks a rare joint appearance by actor James Daly and his daughter Tyne Daly. The elder Daly is cast as Judge McIntire, who is presently touring college campuses giving lectures about a controversial death sentence he'd levied eight years earlier. During a classroom re-enactment of Read More

The Big Bounce

Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Leigh Taylor-Young, Van Heflin, Lee Grant, James Daly

Synopsis: Jack Ryan (Ryan O'Neal) is a cucumber picker who is fired after a fight with a Mexican-American (Victor Paul) co-worker. He finds work on a ranch owned by Ray Ritchie (James Daly). Soon his private secretary Nancy (Leigh Taylor-Young) is after Jack. She spends her free time in pursuit of hedonism Read More

Code Name Red Roses

Synopsis: James Daly plays an American special operative who goes behind enemy lines during WW II. His mission: sabotage. Pier Angeli, Michael Wilding and Peter Van Eyck number among Daly's possible friends and foes. It's familiar territory, but suspenseful. We prefer the film's original title: Red Roses Read More

U.M.C.

Synopsis: The initials stand for University Medical Center, where this TV movie was set (the University was actually UCLA, though not so named). The heads of the institution are Dr. Joseph Gannon (Richard Bradford), and Gannon's mentor and best friend Dr. Lee Forestman (Edward G. Robinson). Gannon performs Read More

Four Rode Out

Synopsis: In this western, a Mexican desperado tries to flee his partner, a determined girl friend, and a US Marshal. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Star Trek: Requiem for Methuselah

Synopsis: The Enterprise's quest to cure a deadly illness brings them into an encounter with a mysterious man who may not be what he appears in this episode of the 1960s science fiction series. The search for a cure for the illness, which has infected the crew of the Enterprise, leads the Read More

The F.B.I.: Consipiracy of Silence

Synopsis: Hollywood film favorite Gene Tierney makes a rare TV appearance in this episode, in which she plays one of three witnesses to a Mob murder. The victim was an ex-FBI agent who just before his death had informed Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) that the Mafia was in the process of taking over an Read More

The Treasure of San Bosco Reef

Actors: James Daly, Roger Mobley, Anthony Alda

Planet of the Apes

Actors: Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter, Maurice Evans, James Whitmore

Synopsis: Originally intended as a project for Blake Edwards, the film version of Pierre Boule's semisatiric sci-fi novel came to the screen in 1968 under the directorial guidance of Franklin J. Schaffner. Charlton Heston is George Taylor, one of several astronauts on a long, long space mission whose Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Escape

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Promising to smuggle wealthy Eastern Europeans across the Iron Curtain, banker Alfred Belzig 9James Daly) lures the hapless escapees to their deaths, then deposits the victims' money in his own bank to finance a neo-Nazi party. The IMF hopes to put Belzig out of business permanently by stealing Read More

Mission: Impossible: Shock

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

Synopsis: Enemy agent Peter Kiri (Sorrell Booke) has kidnapped US special envoy Wilson (James Daly) and replaced him with an exact lookalike named Gort. Kiri's plan is to discredit Wilson by having "him" behave in a disgraceful manner while on a delicate diplomatic assignment in a neutral nation. The IMF Read More

The F.B.I.: The Gold Card

Synopsis: The F.B.I. begins its third season as Federal Inspector Lew Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) enters a poker game where the stakes are literally life and death. Working undercover, Erskine is playing with several high-ranking Mafia officers. His purpose: to prevent the assassination of mob chieftan 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 Enemy of the People

Actors: Philip Bosco, James Daly, Kate Reid

Synopsis: Arthur Miller's celebrated adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's powerful drama was brought to the small screen in this production staged for television. An Enemy of the People stars James Daly as a doctor living in a small town in Norway. The local economy depends on the success of a spa offering waters Read More

The Fugitive: The Evil Men Do

Synopsis: Under the alias "Russell Jordan", Kimble (David Janssen) uses his medical skills to save the life of former mob boss Arthur Brame (James Daly). Eternally grateful, Brame plans to return the failure by killing Kimble's relentless pursuer Lt. Gerard (Barry Morse). The pulse-pounding climax takes Read More

Combat!: Encounter

Synopsis: Saunders (Vic Morrow) and his squad are assigned to help engineer officer Captain Cole (James Daly) find a suitable location to build a bridge. At the same time, Cole's son Jack (James MacArthur), a war correspondent, has arrived in hopes of mending a long-standing rift between himself and his Read More

The F.B.I.: The Chameleon

Synopsis: Using the alias Stephen Fitzgerald, con artist Andrew Cook (James Daly) has married the widow of a bank owner, embezzled the bank funds, and murdered his wife--a pattern he has followed for years in several other cities. Now the homicidal Cook has targeted wealthy Amy Hunter (Margaret Leighton) as Read More

The Fugitive: Running Scared

Synopsis: Upon learning of the death of his father, fugitive Richard Kimble (David Janssen) arranges a secret meeting with his sister Donna (Jacqueline Scott) in Fort Wayne, Indiana. What Donna doesn't know is that her every move is being monitored by Mike Ballinger (James Daly), the prosecutor who presided Read More

Give Us Barabbas!

Synopsis: Give Us Barabbas! was originally telecast in color on March 26, 1961. The story begins during the trial of Jesus, conducted by Pontius Pilate (Dennis King). Giving the populace a choice between Jesus and the thief Barabbas (James Daly) as to whom will be crucified, the crowd shouts back "Give Us Read More

The Twilight Zone: A Stop at Willoughby

Actors: James Daly, Patricia Donahue, Howard I. Smith, Jason Wingreen, James Maloney

Synopsis: First telecast May 6, 1960, A Stop at Willoughby was scripter Rod Serling's favorite of the first-season Twilight Zone episodes. Plagued by a pushy boss (Howard I. Smith) and a vitriolic wife (Patricia Donahue), ulcerated businessman Gart Williams (James Daly) briefly dozes off while taking the Read More

I Aim at the Stars

Actors: Curd Jürgens, Victoria Shaw, Herbert Lom, Gia Scala, James Daly

Synopsis: The career of rocket scientist Wernher von Braun (Curt Jurgens) is the focus of this film. Supposedly bullied by the Nazis into working for the Third Reich, the end of the war leaves the rocket man with a decision to take his talents to either Russia or the United States. He chooses the U. S., but Read More

The Young Stranger

Actors: James MacArthur, Kim Hunter, James Daly, James Gregory, Whit Bissell

Synopsis: Adapting a made-for-TV play that he had directed for the screen, John Frankenheimer made his feature film debut with this sensitive father-son drama. Tom Ditmar (James Daly) is a movie studio executive who has a strained relationship with his teenaged son Hal (James MacArthur). Hal is arrested Read More

Omnibus: The Billy Mitchell Court-Martial

Synopsis: For its final program of the 1955-56 season, the prestigious CBS Sunday-afternoon anthology Omnibus offered a 90-minute salute to animation, featuring two distinctly different segments. Dominating the proceedings is a dramatization of the court-martial of Col. Billy Mitchell, which has previously Read More

The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell

Actors: Gary Cooper, Charles Bickford, Ralph Bellamy, Rod Steiger, Elizabeth Montgomery

Synopsis: In this 1955 Otto Preminger film, Gary Cooper stars as World War I hero Brigadier General Billy Mitchell. The film recounts Mitchell's efforts to prove the viability of a strong air force. The hidebound military higher-ups refuse to finance aviation any further, figuring that the strength of the Read More

Front Row Center: Tender is the Night

Synopsis: From the 1950s "Front Row Center" series, a made-for-television adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel about the unhappy marriage between a psychiatrist and one of his patients. ~ Nicole Gagne, All Movie Guide Read More

Mystery and Espionage

Synopsis: This video features two television shows representative of '50s Cold War paranoia and xenophobia at its best. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Foreign Intrigue [TV Series]

Actors: Jerome Thor, Sydna Scott, James Daly, Anne Préville, Gerald Mohr

The Sleeping City

Actors: Richard Conte, Coleen Gray, Richard Taber, John Alexander, Peggy Dow, Alex Nicol

Synopsis: One of the finest and most troubling films to come out of Universal-International, The Sleeping City tried to emulate some of the cinéma vérité elements of The Naked City (which had been produced at Universal's facilities). The producers got the permission of the city of New York to shoot Read More