James KeachFilmography

Walk the Line

Crew: Producer

Actors: Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Ginnifer Goodwin, Robert Patrick, Dallas Roberts

Synopsis: James Mangold's Walk the Line tells the life story of country music legend Johnny Cash (Joaquin Phoenix), focusing primarily on the long courtship he had with June Carter (Reese Witherspoon). The film is structured as an extended flashback opening with Cash readying to take the stage at his Read More

Disease of the Wind

Crew: Director

Actors: Jane Seymour

Moms on Strike

Crew: Director

Actors: Faith Ford, Tim Matheson

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Moms on Strike stars Faith Ford as Pam Harris, a working mother who barely has time to catch a breath between her professional work and her household duties. When her husband Alan (Tim Matheson) and her kids thoughtlessly forget her birthday, Pam rebels, refusing to do any Read More

Submerged

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Made for television, Submerged is the true story of the U.S.S Squalus, a submarine which was immobilized some 230 feet below the Portsmouth Naval Yard in 1939. Taking into account the 59 crew members on board, a daring and dangerous plan was hatched to expedite a rescue, using a diving bell for Read More

Blackout

Crew: Director

Actors: Jane Seymour, Corin Nemec, Alexandra Picatto, William Russ, John Henry Canavan

Synopsis: It is a strange conglomeration of humanity that is trapped together during a power outage in a suburban shopping mall. Among the "prisoners" are single mom/law student Kathy Robbins (Jane Seymour), her son Eric (Corin Nemec), and her daughter Blair (Alexandra Picatto). Fifteen-year-old Blair in Read More

Murder in the Mirror

Crew: Director, Executive Producer

Actors: Jane Seymour, James Farentino, Hayley DuMond, Robert Desiderio, Alex Mendoza

Synopsis: Newly married psychiatrist Mary (Jane Seymour) is identified as the murderer of her husband, Paul (Robert Desiderio), by an unimpeachable eyewitness. Detective Russo (James Farentino) is all for putting the cuffs on Mary, but she convinces him to wait until more evidence is gathered. Conducting Read More

Camouflage

Crew: Director

Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Lochlyn Munro

Synopsis: A veteran detective and his novice assistant find some very unexpected mysteries in this offbeat comedy. Jack Potter (Leslie Nielsen) is a hard-boiled but absent-minded private detective who thinks it might be a good idea to retire soon. Potter is approached by Marty MacKenzie (Lochlyn Munro), a Read More

Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble

Actors: Jane Seymour, Keith Carradine, James Keach

Synopsis: Jane Seymour stars in this made-for-cable biographical drama as Fanny Kemble, a popular British stage actress of the 19th Century who, at the height of her career, quit acting to marry Pierce Butler, a successful planter in the American South. Kemble was deeply disturbed by the treatment of slaves Read More

A Memory in My Heart

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Jane Seymour stars in this made-for-TV drama as Rebecca Blake, a bookstore employee who lives contently in San Pedro, California with her construction-worker husband Joe (A Martinez). A chance meeting with a woman named Lynn Wyman (Cathy Lee Crosby), coupled with her recent nightmares and searing Read More

The New Swiss Family Robinson

Actors: Jane Seymour, David Carradine, James Keach, John Asher, Blake Bashoff

Synopsis: James Keach and Jane Seymour, husband and wife in real life, are teamed in this direct-to-cable update of Johann David Wyss' classic adventure tale The Swiss Family Robinson. While on a boat bound from Singapore to Sydney, the Robinson family is besieged by pirates, who set them adrift. Landing on Read More

A Marriage of Convenience

Crew: Director

Actors: Jane Seymour, James Brolin, Shirley Knight, David Kaye

Synopsis: This romantic made-for-television drama is based on a novel by Georgia Brockoven and tells the story of a boy who dreams of having a complete set of parents and the two very-different adults who love him enough to grant his wish. The child's mother died when he was an infant, and since then he has Read More

The Absolute Truth

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: Clearly inspired by the events surrounding the Bill Clinton sex scandal, the made-for-TV The Absolute Truth starsJane Seymour as Alison Reid, crusading anchorwoman for the top-rated TV magazine show "Focus." Upon obtaining evidence that powerful senator and presidential candidate Jake Slaughter Read More

The Stars Fell on Henrietta

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Duvall, Aidan Quinn, Frances Fisher, Brian Dennehy, Lexi Randall

Synopsis: This character drama follows the exploits of an aged oil seeker, known only as Mr. Cox, as he roams across Texas in search of black gold. He has a special gift for it and has helped many wildcatters strike it rich. Unfortunately, he has yet to find his own gusher. In 1935, Cox has only a suitcase Read More

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: Running Ghost

Crew: Director

Actors: Joe Lando, Chad Allen, Erika Flores, Shawn Toovey

Synopsis: Sully (Joe Lando) is beaten up by a band of scurrilous buffalo hunters, hired to clear the land on behalf of the incoming railroad. Though paralyzed, Sully vows to wreak vengeance against his attackers and to stem their slaughter of the local bison herds. Meanwhile, a slick con artist, posing as a Read More

Praying Mantis

Crew: Director

Actors: Jane Seymour, Barry Bostwick, Frances Fisher, Chad Allen, Colby Chester

Synopsis: Jane Seymour stars as a female serial killer in this made-for-cable thriller. Seymour stars as the unbalanced Linda Crandall, a woman who marries men only to kill them. She weds and kills five men before targeting widower Don Mc Andrews (Barry Bostwick). Her plans for a sixth murder are put into Read More

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: Law of the Land

Crew: Director

Actors: Joe Lando, Chad Allen, Erika Flores, Shawn Toovey

Synopsis: Johnny Cash guest stars as Kid Cole, a famous gunslinger who hopes to live a life of peaceful retirement in Colorado Springs. The Kid's dreams are shattered when he is recruited as temporary sheriff. His first assignment: To prevent the outraged townsfolk from lynching Swedish immigrant Jon (Christopher Keene Kelly Read More

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: The Operation

Crew: Director

Actors: Joe Lando, Chad Allen, Erika Flores, Shawn Toovey

Synopsis: While hiking with Sully (Joe Lando), Brian (Shawn Toovey) impulsively jumps out of a tree and sustains what at first seems to be a minor head injury. Already angry at Sully for allowing this to happen, Dr. Mike (Jane Seymour) is beside herself with rage and grief when Brian lapses into a coma. Read More

The Dance Goes on

Synopsis: In this drama, an avaricious city boy leaves his LA home to meet his estranged father on the family homestead in Quebec. They have both inherited the land from a recently deceased uncle. The father has stayed close to his rural roots and cannot understand why his son is so indifferent to his Read More

Sunstroke

Crew: Director

Actors: Jane Seymour, Stephen Meadows, Don Ameche, Steve Railsback, Ray Wise

Synopsis: In this made-for-cable outing, a woman desperately searches the Arizona desert for her kidnapped daughter. Falsely accused of murder and therefore avoiding the cops, she must go it alone until she meets a helpful but enigmatic wanderer who helps her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder in High Places

Synopsis: Murder in High Places is a made-for-TV whodunit set at a Colorado ski resort ("High Places." Get It?). Adam Baldwin, an ex-football pro turned cop, is the investigating officer in a homicide case. He is aided and abetted by Ted Levine, an alcoholic ex-newsman (what price Hunter Thompson?) who is Read More

False Identity

Crew: Director

Actors: Stacy Keach, Geneviève Bujold, Tobin Bell, Mike Champion, Veronica Cartwright

Synopsis: Waylaid and left for dead by an enemy agent, U.S. intelligence officer Harlan Erickkson (Stacy Keach) awakens with amnesia. Because his assailant had switched clothes and identification with him, Erickkson now believes that he's the enemy spy. The authorities think so too, and lock up Erickkson Read More

Good Cops, Bad Cops

Actors: Ed Asner, Ray Sharkey, George Kennedy

Synopsis: One of the largest crimes in history was the 1980 robbery of the Boston Depositors Trust by a group of policemen as related in this true story. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Options

Actors: Matt Salinger, Joanna Pacula, John Kani, Danny Keogh, Tobie Cronje

Synopsis: In this comedy a Hollywood agent heads for Africa in order to convince a beautiful princess to sign a special release so her life-story can be made into a television movie. Instead he ends up entangled in a kidnapping scheme. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Experts

Crew: Producer

Actors: John Travolta, Arye Gross, Kelly Preston, Deborah Foreman, James Keach, Charles Martin Smith

Synopsis: SCTV alumnus Dave Thomas manned the megaphone for the direct-to-video Experts. John Travolta was between career highs when he agreed to appear in this anachronistic cold-war comedy. Travolta and Arye Gross play Travis and Wendell, a couple of vagabonds hired by Soviet spy Cameron Smith (Charles Martin Smith Read More

The Forgotten

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Stacy Keach, Keith Carradine, Steve Railsback

Synopsis: The Forgotten deserves at least a small niche in TV history as the first-ever TV movie made especially for the USA cable network. Based on a story by Vietnam veteran Paul Staples, the film concerns six American Green Berets, held for 17 years in a Vietnamese POW camp. They are finally released in Read More

The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains

Actors: Val Kilmer, Charles Durning, Sonia Braga, James Keach, Elisha Cook, Jr.

Synopsis: This made-for-cable outing is a loose remake of the Paul Muni film I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang. Val Kilmer inhabits the Muni role of World War I vet Robert Elliot Burns, whose exploits following his escape from a Southern work camp are detailed in episodic fashion. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Read More

Evil Town

Actors: James Keach, Michele Marsh, Doria Cook, Robert Walker, Jr., Dean Jagger

Synopsis: This silly horror film stars Dean Jagger in a zoned-out performance as a mad scientist whose experiments in halting the aging process have reduced the residents of Smalltown, U.S.A. to shambling zombies. Since his serum requires massive amounts of extracted human pituitary fluid, Jagger is ever on Read More

Armed and Dangerous

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: John Candy, Eugene Levy, Robert Loggia, Kenneth McMillan, Meg Ryan

Synopsis: In Armed and Dangerous, John Candy plays a cop who has been kicked off the force on a trumped up charge. Eugene Levy costars as a disbarred lawyer. The two outcasts take low-paying jobs as security officers at a company controlled by mob boss Robert Loggia. In their own stumblebum fashion, Candy Read More

Wildcats

Actors: Goldie Hawn, James Keach, Swoosie Kurtz, Robyn Lively, Brandy Gold, Nipsey Russell, Bruce McGill

Synopsis: Blonde-haired, blue-eyed women's libber Molly McGrath (Goldie Hawn) quits her teaching job at a comfortable middle-class school to take a new position as varsity football coach at a predominantly black inner-city school. Culture and gender clashes abound; she must win over the hard-boiled youths Read More

Film House Fever

Synopsis: This compilation tape is a collection of clips and trailers from low-budget, cult-type movies. The "framing" device of having two guys on a couch (one of whom is future cult-icon Steve Buscemi) watching TV and making cracks about the movies is fairly lame, and many of the films showcased have been Read More

Stand Alone

Actors: Charles Durning, Pam Grier, James Keach, Bert Remsen, Barbara Sammeth

Synopsis: In an "urban cowboy" story, a father decides to take a stand against neighborhood gangsters even at risk to his life. After Louis Thibadeau (Charles Durning) witnesses a gangland-style execution he agrees to help the police nail and jail the murderers, knowing full well the gangsters will not idly Read More

Moving Violations

Actors: Neal Israel, John Murray, Jennifer Tilly, James Keach, Brian Backer, Ned Eisenberg

Synopsis: In this flat attempt at comedy by the director of the Police Academy series, Neal Israel, a brash Dana Cannon (John Murray, brother of Bill) lands in a crooked re-education school for delinquent drivers, run by Deputy Halik (James Keach, brother of Stacey). The objective is to lord it over the Read More

The Razor's Edge

Actors: Brian Doyle-Murray, Bill Murray, Theresa Russell, Catherine Hicks, Denholm Elliott, James Keach

Synopsis: In this Bill Murray-driven remake of the 1946 Tyrone Power film, Murray plays the lead, Larry Darrel, a World War I survivor who takes off on a foreign trek to discover the meaning of his life. Apparently Murray said he'd film Ghostbusters only if Columbia would let him do Razor's Edge. ~ All Read More

National Lampoon's Vacation

Actors: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Anthony Michael Hall, Imogene Coca, Randy Quaid

Synopsis: The first film in the Vacation comedy franchise stars Chevy Chase as Clark Griswold, an ad exec who becomes consumed with taking his family cross-country to Wally World, a California amusement park. Less a vacation than a descent into a peculiarly American kind of hell, the Griswolds suffer Read More

Love Letters

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, James Keach, Amy Madigan, Bud Cort, Matt Clark

Synopsis: Unmarried disc jockey Jamie Lee Curtis happens across a packet of love letters, written by her late mother. As she peruses these missives, she learns that her mother had carried on a lengthy extramarital affair. At firt appalled by mom's "double life," Curtis is slowly brought around to another Read More

Till Death Do Us Part

Synopsis: In this thriller three troubled couples attend a two day marital retreat in hopes of saving their marriages. Unbeknownst to them, their psychiatrist is a psycho slasher. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Thou Shalt Not Kill

Synopsis: In this drama, an attorney tries to prove that his incarcerated client is indeed innocent of murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Great Cash Giveaway Getaway

Actors: David Kyle

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Great Cash Giveaway Getaway offers a great deal of screen time to a brace of unknowns. David Kyle and Elissa Leeds play teenagers Jim and Hallie, who find themselves in possession of $250,000. The money belongs to drug kingpin Hightower (George Hamilton), who intends to reclaim the Read More

The Long Riders

Crew: Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: David Carradine, Keith Carradine, Robert Carradine, Stacy Keach, James Keach, Dennis Quaid

Synopsis: The hook in Walter Hill's mythic retelling of the James-Younger outlaw legend is in the casting; the James, Younger, Miller, and Ford Brothers are played by a string of acting brothers, the Keachs, the Carradines, the Quaids and the Guests. The film begins as outlaws are robbing a bank. After the Read More

Hurricane

Actors: Jason Robards, Jr., Mia Farrow, Max von Sydow, Trevor Howard, Dayton Ka'ne

Synopsis: This film showed up on TV as Forbidden Paradise, but you can't fool us. It's really The Hurricane, producer Dino De Laurentiis' ill-advised remake of the 1938 Sam Goldwyn production of the same name. The story of the casual cruelties imposed by the white ruling class on the natives of the isle of Read More

Quincy, M.E.: A Small Circle of Friends

Synopsis: After football player Joe Ramsey (Lee Paul) dies of a brain aneuryism, Quincy (Jack Klugman) performs an autopsy and finds that the man was suffering from a drug-resistent strain of gonnorhea. In his efforts to trace the source of the disease, Quincy orders a round-up of the city's Read More

Smokey and the Hotwire Gang

Synopsis: Car chases abound in this highway adventure that chronicles the efforts of truckers to locate a beautiful, hot-rodding car thief. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Like Normal People

Actors: Shaun Cassidy, Linda Purl, Hope Lange, Zalman King, James Keach

Synopsis: Based on a true story, the made-for-TV Like Normal People IS the story of a romance between two mentally challenged adults. In his first dramatic acting appearance, Shaun Cassidy plays Roger Meyers, a mildly retarded man who, while living in a home for the handicapped, falls in love with another Read More

FM

Actors: Michael Brandon, Eileen Brennan, Alex Karras, Cleavon Little, Martin Mull

Synopsis: When a radio station's management announces that there's going to be an upswing in commercials on the air, with a strong emphasis on ads for the U.S. Army, the anti-establishment deejays form a united front against the "suits." With station manager Jeff Dugan's (Michael Brandon) unofficial Read More

Comes a Horseman

Actors: James Caan, Jane Fonda, Jason Robards, Jr., George Grizzard, Richard Farnsworth

Synopsis: Old man Ewing (Jason Robards) owns a ranch right next to the ranch of Ella (Jane Fonda). This is a source of two problems: Ewing wants to gobble up most of the land around the two ranches and also wants Ella's ranch; secondly, when Ella was too young to know better, she went to bed with the man Read More

Nowhere to Run

Synopsis: In this suspenseful drama, an angry husband hatches an ingenious plot to get his avaricious wife and the pesky detective she has hired out of his life. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Lacy and the Mississippi Queen

Synopsis: Alternately titled Lacy and the Mississippi Queen and Kate and the Mississippi Queen, this made-for-TV Western stars Kathleen Lloyd as cowgirl Kate Lacy and Debra Feuer as Kate's half-sister, female gunslinger Queenie. After their father is murdered, Kate and Queenie team up to track down the Read More

God Bless Dr. Shagetz

The Blue Hotel

Synopsis: Part of the "American Short Story" collection, this is an adaptation of a story by Stephen Crane. In this film, a traveller takes refuge in a hotel. However, he becomes concerned his life is in danger from others who are staying at the same hotel. The concept of fate is introduced as a guiding Read More

Kill Me If You Can

Actors: Alan Alda, Talia Shire, Walter McGinn

Synopsis: The story of "red light bandit" Caryl Chessman, previously dramatized in the 1955 film Cell 2455, Death Row (based on Chessman's own book), was adapted for television as Kill Me If You Can. In a radical departure from his usual duties as MASH's Hawkeye Pierce, Alan Alda plays Chessman, who in 1948 Read More

Welcome to L.A.

Actors: Keith Carradine, Sally Kellerman, Geraldine Chaplin, Harvey Keitel, Lauren Hutton

Synopsis: Alan Rudolph's first feature Welcome to L.A. displays his characteristic mood of romantic despair utilizing a La Ronde-like circle of sexual adventures and failed affairs centered around song-writer Carroll Barber (Keith Carradine) which spread out through the city. Barber is an aloof womanizer Read More

Cannonball

Actors: David Carradine, Bill McKinney, Veronica Hamel, Gerritt Graham, Robert Carradine

Synopsis: Paul Bartel rips off his own Death Race 2000 in this mindless car-crash saga, containing more twisted metal than a bombed-out steel mill. The nominal storyline concerns an illegal auto race from Los Angeles to New York that promises the winner 100,000 dollars. David Carradine is Coy "Cannonball" Read More

Six Characters in Search of an Author

Synopsis: Directed by Stacy Keach, this 1976 made-for-television movie features a performance of Nobel Prize-winner Luigi Pirandello's fantastical drama Six Characters in Search of an Author. Starring Andy Griffith, the play takes place on the set of a made-for-television adaptation of Pirandello's The Read More

Death Play

Actors: Michael Higgins, James Keach, Hy Anzell, James Catusi

Synopsis: The action in Death Play takes place during the opening night of a Broadway show. Interestingly enough, the cast is comprised of New York stage performers, including James Keach (Stacy's brother), former Hester Street star Stephen Strimpell, and future Benson co-star James Noble. The notion of a Read More

The Hatfields and the McCoys

Synopsis: The long-standing blood feud between the Hatfield family of West Virginia and the McCoy clan of Kentucky is effectively dramatized in this made-for-TV movie. Jack Palance and Steve Forrest star as the family's respective patriarches, Devil Anse Hatfield and Randall McCoy. Remaining faithful to the Read More

S.W.A.T.: A Coven of Killers

Actors: Steve Forrest, Rod Perry, Robert Urich, Mark Shera, James Coleman

Synopsis: Sal Mineo guest stars as Joey Hopper, the Manson-like head of a Satanist cult known as the Butcher Brigade. Escaping from a prison hospital ward with the help of his "family," Hopper swears vengeance against all the jury members that found him guilty of murder. The SWAT team's efforts to track Read More

Slashed Dreams

Synopsis: In this violent drama, two hippies head for the wilds of California to find a good buddy and end up assaulted and raped by two terrifying woodsmen. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Ironside: A Taste of Ashes

Synopsis: While still grieving over the murder of her son, Joanna Portman (Kim Hunter) is visited by a young girl (Gretchen Corbett) claiming to her daughter Gail--who for several years has been presumed dead. Though Joanna is delighted by the girl's arrival, Ironside suspects that Gail's sudden Read More

Miles to Go Before I Sleep

Synopsis: Its title inspired by the famous Robert Frost poem "Stopping By a Woods on a Snowy Evening," Miles to Go Before I Sleep stars Martin Balsam and MacKenzie Phillips. Balsam plays a lonely senior citizen, seeking a means of keeping busy in a world that has shut him out. He takes a part-time job at a Read More

Kojak: Girl in the River

Synopsis: New York City is held in thrall by a serial killer known as Excalibur, who rapes and strangles unmarried women, then tosses them in the river--but not before marking their heads with a design resembling the sword of King Arthur. After several months' activity, Excalibur is back in business, and Read More