Jamie FarrFilmography

Television: The First 50 Years

A Month of Sundays

Synopsis: A small town baseball announcer embarks on the journey of a lifetime after facing the prospect of being placed in a retirement home against his will in this bittersweet drama featuring Academy Award-winning actor Rod Steiger in his final film role. Despite the fact that his health is fading, and Read More

Reading Rainbow: The Sign Painter's Dream

Actors: LeVar Burton

Synopsis: Crabby Clarence normally is not a generous person, but the apple lady and the ghost of George Washington convince him otherwise in this episode of Reading Rainbow: The Sign Painter's Dream. His story was written by Roger Roth and is read by Jamie Farr. LeVar Burton visits a sign company to Read More

Fearless Tiger

Actors: Jalal Merhi, Monika Schnarre, Jamie Farr, Bolo Yeung

Synopsis: Bolo Yeung heads the rather intimidating cast of Fearless Tiger. The plot is a mixture as before: Kung-fu masters and students, betrayals, lifelong searches, revenge, final one-on-one confrontation. The film's selling cards are its dizzying action content and its variety of Far Eastern Read More

Black Pearls

Synopsis: In this martial arts actioner, a skilled fighter teams up with his master to exact vengeance upon members of the Hong Kong street gang who murdered his brother. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Speed Zone

Actors: John Candy, Peter Boyle, Donna Dixon, Matt Frewer, Melody Anderson, Eugene Levy, Tim Matheson

Synopsis: A sheriff struggles vainly to keep the annual Cannonball Run cross-country race from taking place in this comedy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Scrooged

Actors: Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Forsythe, John Glover, Bobcat Goldthwait, Carol Kane

Synopsis: A darkly comic and surreal contemporization of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, this effects-heavy Bill Murray holiday vehicle from 1988 sees the former SNL funnyman assuming the role of television executive Frank Cross, the meanest and most depraved man on earth. Cross will stoop to unheard Read More

Curse II: The Bite

Actors: Jill Schoelen, J. Eddie Peck, Jamie Farr, Savina Gersak, Bo Svenson

Synopsis: This in-name-only sequel to the mediocre H.P. Lovecraft adaptation The Curse is a slight improvement on its predecessor, eschewing any trace of Lovecraft in favor of a standard nuclear-mutant-beast plot but imbuing this theme with a menagerie of brain-damaged setpieces. When the protagonist and Read More

Run Till You Fall

Synopsis: In this detective drama, a private gumshoe takes so many little cases that he can barely afford to support his wife and kids. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: A Little Night Work

Synopsis: During a political fundraiser in San Francisco, a necklace is stolen (apparently) and a man murdered (positively!) The dead man was a powerful publisher with senatorial ambitions, whose body was found on the balcony of the hotel room occupied by Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury); the necklace Read More

Happy Hour

Actors: Richard Gilliland, Jamie Farr, Tawny Kitaen, Ty Henderson, Rich Little

Synopsis: John DeBello, the man who brought you The Attack of the Killer Tomatoes back in 1978, was responsible for the 1987 fantasy farce Happy Hour. The premise: a Coors-like beer manufacturer stumbles onto a secret ingredient that compels the guzzlers of America to consume its product exclusively. The Read More

A Masterpiece of Murder

Actors: Don Ameche, Bob Hope

Synopsis: Bob Hope makes his first starring film appearance in 14 years in this made-for-TV movie. Hope stars as a seedy private eye, hoping to get one last good case before calling it quits. Don Ameche, a retired art thief reduced to working as a chauffeur, teams with his old friend Hope to solve the Read More

Combat High

Actors: Robert Culp, Keith Gordon, Wally Ward, George Clooney, Dana Hill

Synopsis: In this youthful film, to juvenile delinquents must spend a year in a military academy. They immediately begin driving their superior officers crazy. The film is also titled Combat Academy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

For Love or Money

Synopsis: Joanna Piper (Suzanne Pleshette) and Mike Coyne (Gil Gerard) are far more concerned with money than with love. To that end, they sign up as contestants for a TV giveaway show. The catch: in order to claim the grand prize of one million dollars, Joanna and Mike must pretend to be hopelessly Read More

Cannonball Run II

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Shirley MacLaine, Marilu Henner, Dean Martin

Synopsis: (Burt Reynolds) as J.J. McClure takes off across the country again in this rickety sequel to Cannonball Run. A sheik has offered $1,000,000 to the first driver to reach a destination in Connecticut from Redondo Beach, California, inspiring J.J. and others to go for the gold. With cameos from more Read More

M*A*S*H: Friends and Enemies

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Margaret (Loretta Swit) has a new phonograph but no records. Charles (David Ogden Stiers) has a huge record collection, but a lousy phonograph. Obviously, one of these people is going to try to curry favor with the other--and B.J., caught in the middle of the intrigue, tries to play both ends down Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 11

Actors: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: As the 11th season of M*A*S*H* got under way in the fall of 1982, everyone involved with the series knew it would be their last (the program had already lasted eight years longer than the actual Korean War!) Looking back, the cast and crew could take pride in the series' many accomplishments, not Read More

The Cannonball Run

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett, Dom DeLuise, Dean Martin

Synopsis: Burt Reynolds and director Hal Needham team up for the fourth time, this time bringing an all-star cast of characters on a cross-country car race in the vein of 1976 release The Gumball Rally. The police are the least of the Cannonballers' worries as they push the pedal to the metal in a race from Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 10

Actors: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: Its ninth season shortened to a mere 20 episodes thanks to a Hollywood writers' strike, M*A*S*H returned to a full 24-episode manifest for its tenth season, which began in October of 1981. With the defection of series regular Gary Burghoff two seasons earlier, the starring-cast lineup was now Read More

Return of the Rebels

Synopsis: Mary Beth Allen (Barbara Eden), the widow of a member of the long-defunct Eagle Rock Rebels motorcycle gang, supports herself by running a small campground. Unfortunately, the future of this enterprise is endangered by the arrival of several young punks who have been scaring off the customers and Read More

Murder Can Hurt You

Actors: Victor Buono, John Byner, Gavin MacLeod

Synopsis: Producer Aaron Spelling's made-for-TV Murder Can Hurt You is an unsubtle take-off of Neil Simon's theatrical feature Murder By Death. A crime is committed by the unknown, all-seeing Master Criminal. To solve the case, several top detectives are summoned, each one a takeoff of a popular TV gumshoe. Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 09

Actors: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: After a late start thanks to a Hollywood writer's strike, M*A*S*H launched its ninth season on November 17, 1980. With the past defections of Wayne Rogers, Maclean Stevenson, Larry Linville and Gary Burghoff, Alan Alda (as Hawkeye), Loretta Swit (as Margaret Houlihan), Jamie Farr (as Klinger) and Read More

The Gong Show Movie

Actors: Chuck Barris, Robin Altman, Mabel King, Lillie Shelton, Jaye P. Morgan

Synopsis: During the 1970s, the Gong Show was a game/talent show phenomenon. With equal measures of parody, camp and pure lowest-common denominator exploitation, it presented a bizarre assortment of talented and untalented contestants (for example, the musician who played his trumpet with his bellybutton) Read More

Amateur Night at the Dixie Bar and Grill

Actors: Henry Gibson, Tanya Tucker

Synopsis: Director Joel Schumacher makes like Robert Altman in the made-for-TV Amateur Night at the Dixie Bar and Grill. In the tradition of Altman's Nashville, Schumacher's film is a rambling, anecdotal study of an amateur talent show in a tawdry Southern saloon. The link between the two films is Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 08

Actors: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: Season eight of M*A*S*H was marked by the last of the series' major regular-cast defections. As the quietly resourceful and eerily clairvoyant company clerk, Cpl. Walter "Radar" O'Reilly, Gary Burghoff had been the only actor from the 1970 movie version of M*A*S*H* to carry over his role into the Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 07

Actors: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: Now in its seventh season on the air, the irreverent military comedy series M*A*S*H continued to roll along like a well-oiled machine. The most significant change during season six, the introduction of the insufferable but brilliant surgeon Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester (David Ogden Stiers), had Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 06

Actors: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: Season six of M*A*S*H was noteworthy for yet another defection from its regular-cast ranks. Long dissatisfied with the artistic limitations of the role of obnoxious Major Frank Burns, actor Larry Linville followed the lead of his former M*A*S*H colleagues Wayne Rogers and Maclean Stevenson by Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 05

Actors: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit, Larry Linville

Synopsis: Although M*A*S*H entered its fifth season with the cast from season four intact--including relative newcomers Mike Farrell as B.J. Hunnicut and Harry Morgan as Col. Sherman Potter--the production roster was short one significant name. Producer and co-creator Larry Gelbart had exited the series at Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 04

Actors: Alan Alda, Mike Farrell, Harry Morgan, Loretta Swit, Larry Linville

Synopsis: Everybody knew that Maclean Stevenson would not return to M*A*S*H when the series inaugurated its fourth season in the fall of 1975; after all, Stevenson's character, Col. Henry Blake, had been abruptly killed off at the end of season three, so any sort of return was out of the question. It did Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 03

Actors: Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, McLean Stevenson, Loretta Swit, Larry Linville

Synopsis: With an ever-increasing viewership and three Emmy awards to its credit, M*A*S*H had no trouble easing into a third successful season in the fall of 1974. Not wishing to tinker with the success, the series' producers retained all of the regular characters from previous years--Hawkeye (Alan Alda) Read More

Arnold

Actors: Wanda Bailey

Synopsis: The Arnold of Arnold, like the Harry of The Trouble With Harry, is stone cold dead from the outset of this film. That doesn't stop Arnold's mistress Stella Stevens from marrying the corpse so as to come into his millions. The trick is to hide the fact that Arnold is indeed stiff as a mackerel. To Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: A Collection of Eagles

Synopsis: John Saxon and Joseph Cotten head the guest cast in this episode, wherein homicide detectives Stone (Karl Malden) and Keller (Michael Douglas) investigate an elaborate scam that has gone fatally awry. Unscrupulous coin dealer Vince Hagopian Jr. (Saxon) has arranged to purchase several valuable Read More

The Blue Knight

Actors: William Holden, Lee Remick

Synopsis: Joseph Wambaugh, the ex-cop turned novelist whose Police Story began its TV run in 1973, was responsible for the like-vintage TV miniseries The Blue Knight. William Holden stars as Bumper Morgan, a 50 year old cop on the verge of mandatory retirement. Morgan's last four days with the LAPD are Read More

Heavy Traffic

Synopsis: Heavy Traffic represents a follow-up to animator Ralph Bakshi's first feature film, Fritz the Cat (1972). The central character is Michael, the ingenuous son of an Italian father and Jewish mother. An aspiring cartoonist, Michael leaves home in a huff and outrages his family by conducting an Read More

Emergency!: Helpful

Synopsis: The Rampart staff is at loss to explain the dangerously erratic behavior of brilliant physician Dr. Varner (Alicia Bond). At the Squad 51 station house, John (Randolph Mantooth) comes to grief when he tries to play peacemaker between Roy (Kevin Tighe) and his wife Joanne. The emergency staff's Read More

The Flying Nun: Cast Your Bread Upon the Waters

Synopsis: Once again cooking up a fund-raising scheme for San Tanco, Sr. Bertrille wants to use the convent's kitchen facilities-plus a huge new oven-to make and distribute bread. As always, Carlos Ramirez gets mixed up in the scheme, and as expected, slapstick havoc ensues. Future MASH costar Jamie Farr Read More

Family Affair: Flower Power

Synopsis: Every sitcom of the late 1960s had at least one "hippie" episode, and Family Affair was no exception. Encountering several flower children in Greenwich Village, Cissy wants to be a part of their alternative lifestyle--at least on weekends. Naturally, Uncle Bill is nervous, but he needn't worry Read More

With Six You Get Eggroll

Actors: Doris Day, Brian Keith, Pat Carroll, Barbara Hershey, George Carlin

Synopsis: A young widow with three children and a sheepdog marries a widowed man with a young daughter and a French poodle in this amusing comedy. Abby (Doris Day) is the owner of a lumberyard who falls for Jake (Brian Keith) when her sister Maxine (Pat Carroll) introduce the two at a party. The couple is Read More

The Flying Nun: Sister Lucky

Synopsis: Michael Constantine guest-stars as Juan, a compulsive-and monumentally unlucky-gambler. A sudden upsurge in his fortunes convinces Juan that Sr. Bertrille is his good luck charm. As usual, one thing leads to another, and both the gambler and the nun (what, no radio?) nearly end up facing a stiff Read More

Who's Minding the Mint?

Actors: Jim Hutton, Dorothy Provine, Milton Berle, Joey Bishop, Walter Brennan

Synopsis: Harry Lucas (Jim Hutton) is a U.S. Mint employee who scrambles to recover $50,000 he accidentally destroyed in this underrated comedy of errors. After he mistakenly throws the money down the garbage disposal, a frantic Harry recruits retired mint employee Pop Gillis (Walter Brennan) to cook up a Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy, the Rain Goddess

Actors: Willard Waterman, Douglas Fowley, Larry Blake, Jamie Farr, Alan Reed, Sr.

Synopsis: This time out, Mr. Mooney (Gale Gordon) is vacationing at a dude ranch. On a mission from the bank, Lucy (Lucille Ball) shows up at the ranch searching for Mooney. She gets lost and wanders into a drought-ridden Indian reservation, where she is mistaken for a long-awaited rain goddess. And she'd Read More

My Favorite Martian: Virus M for Martin

Synopsis: Contacting the dreaded Martian "Virus M", Tim (Bill Bixby) develops red stripes on his face. Will Detective Brennan (Alan Hewitt) tumble to the fact that Martin (Ray Walston) is the source of this affliction? Nope: Brennan assumes that the red stripes are the result of a virus that Tim brought Read More

F Troop: Too Many Cooks Spoil the Troop

Synopsis: With the departure of the company cook, O'Rourke (Forrest Tucker) orders Agarn (Larry Storch) to don chef's hat and dish up food for the troopers. The fact that Agarn can't even boil water is inconsequential: O'Rourke intends to turn a huge profit by having Agarn pad his list of supplies. Future Read More

F Troop: Our Hero, What's His Name?

Synopsis: To prevent his sweetheart in Pasaic, New Jersey from marrying a horse-car conductor, Agarn (Larry Storch) sends the girl a letter claiming that he has killed the infamous Apache warrior Geronimo (Mike Mazurki). Alas, Agarn sets him self up for a scalping when Geronimo learns of the deception and Read More

I Dream of Jeannie: Get Me to Mecca on Time

Synopsis: Tony (Larry Hagman) is startled when Jeannie (Barbara Eden) starts fading away before his eyes. It seems that it is the annual Day of the Ramda, and unless Jeannie returns post-haste to ancient Mecca to utter certain sacred words,she will disappear forever. Watch for future MASH regular Jamie Farr Read More

Ride Beyond Vengeance

Actors: Chuck Connors, Michael Rennie, Kathryn Hays, Joan Blondell, Gloria Grahame

Synopsis: Told via flashback by a saloon keeper to a census taker in a tiny Texas town, this brutal, adult-oriented western offers the tale of a drifter who settles down to marry a woman he doesn't love so he can get at her inheritance. When that is exposed, the drifter flees and does not return for eleven Read More

Out of Sight

Actors: Jonathan Daly, Maren Jensen, Robert Pine, Carole Shelyne, Wende Wagner

Synopsis: In this musical farce, a dim-witted fellow finally gets his chance to become a secret agent like his brother when the former receives an important phone call meant for the latter. He then begins looking into a conspiracy to sabotage an upcoming beach party. He learns of this plot from a concerned Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: The Gypsies

Actors: Vito Scotti

Synopsis: Vito Scotti, Jamie Farr, Francesca Bellini, and Argentina Brunetti guest-star as a band of gypsies who bring their caravan into Mayberry. Correctly assuming that the visitors are less than honest, Andy tells them to leave, whereupon the gypsies place a curse on Mayberry, threatening to create a Read More

The Greatest Story Ever Told

Actors: Max von Sydow, Dorothy McGuire, Robert Loggia, Claude Rains, José Ferrer, Charlton Heston

Synopsis: Filmmaker George Stevens chose Monument Valley, Utah for his exterior sequences in The Greatest Story Ever Told, this ($20 million) adaptation of Fulton Oursler's best-selling book. The "Greatest Story" is, of course, the life of Jesus Christ, played herein by Max Von Sydow. The large supporting Read More

My Favorite Martian: Avenue

Synopsis: To study the aging process of humans, Martin (Ray Walston) pushes his own age forward fron 450 to 850 years--thereby making himself seventy in Earth Years. In this guise, Martin takes a job as a night watchman, and subsequently comes to the rescue of two elderly sisters (Lurene Tuttle, Nydia Read More

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

Actors: Pia Zadora

Synopsis: Alien invaders kidnap everyone's favorite right jolly old elf in this low-budget mixture of children's comedy and sci-fi adventure. Christmas is not far away, and countless children are glued to their family's TV sets, watching reports about Santa Claus (John Call). However, this is happening on Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Washington vs. the Bunny

Actors: Jesse White, Richard Deacon, Jamie Farr

Synopsis: On the night that his son Richie (Larry Mathews) is to make his acting debut as a singing bunny in a school play, Rob (Dick Van Dyke) is forced to go out of town to audition a singer for his boss Alan Brady. Richie and his mom Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) are heartbroken about this commitment, but Rob Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: To Tell or Not to Tell

Actors: Richard Deacon, Jamie Farr

Synopsis: When one of the "Alan Brady Show" dancers falls ill, it is suggested that Rob's wife Laura (Mary Tyler Moore), a former USO dancer, come out of retirement and take the girl's place. Laura is thrilled at the prospect, and enthusiastically leaps into the grueling rehearsal schedule, impressing Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Sally Is a Girl

Actors: Richard Deacon, Paul Tripp, Barbara Perry, Jamie Farr

Synopsis: Upset by the boy's club camaraderie of the "Alan Brady Show" writing staff, Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) insists that Rob (Dick Van Dyke) start treating his co-writer Sally (Rose Marie) like a lady and not merely as "one of the guys." Though he thinks it's a crazy idea, Rob does what Laura asks, going Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Sally and the Lab Technician

Actors: Eddie Firestone, Jamie Farr

Synopsis: Figuring that she's luckier than Sally (Rose Marie) because she is married with a son, Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) decides to play matchmaker by fixing Sally up with her cousin. Rob (Dick Van Dyke) warns Laura that this is a mistake, since Sally has a nervous habit of wisecracking incessantly Read More

No Time for Sergeants

Actors: Andy Griffith, Nick Adams, Myron McCormick, Murray Hamilton, Howard I. Smith

Synopsis: Mac Hyman's hilarious barracks novel No Time for Sergeants was adapted for TV by Ira Levin in 1955, with newcomer Andy Griffith as bumptious Air Force draftee Will Stockdale. This TV version was soon afterward transformed into a Broadway play, and then a movie, again with Griffith in the lead. Read More

Three Violent People

Actors: Charlton Heston, Anne Baxter, Gilbert Roland, Tom Tryon, Forrest Tucker

Synopsis: Set in the American West after the Civil War, this drama is the pull-no-punches story of a lethal family feud. Colt Saunders (Charlton Heston) fought for the Confederacy in the war, and he returns to his family's Texas cattle ranch after impulsively marrying Lorna Hunter (Anne Baxter) following a Read More

Blackboard Jungle

Actors: Glenn Ford, Sidney Poitier, Anne Francis, Louis Calhern, Vic Morrow

Synopsis: In this gritty urban drama, war veteran Richard Dadier (Glenn Ford) wants to begin his career as a teacher and is given an assignment at a boys high school in inner-city New York. However, he soon discovers the school is overrun by delinquents, led by Artie West (Vic Morrow), an insolent hood who Read More