Jim BensonFilmography

Jake and the Fatman

Crew: Editor

Actors: Bruce Greenwood, Joe Penny, William Conrad

Apology

Crew: Editor

Actors: Lesley Ann Warren, Peter Weller, George Loros

Synopsis: Apology stars Lesley Anne Warren (with a Stefanie Powers hairdo) as a Manhattan-based sculptor/performance artist. To enhance her latest project, Warren invites the participation of anonymous phone callers, whose voices she records. One of her unseen "collaborators" calls her up to confess to a Read More

Letting Go

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: Letting Go stars John Ritter as a widower and Sharon Gless as a lonely unmarried woman. They meet during a group-therapy session. Romance is inevitable, but the road to true happiness is pockmarked by a series of comic complications. Advertised as a straight romantic drama, Letting Go is actually Read More

Deadly Messages

Crew: Editor

Actors: Kathleen Beller

Synopsis: The messages referred to in the title are those conveyed on a Ouija board. The heroine (Kathleen Beller) conjures up these messages, which indicate that her future happiness is gravely in doubt. In point of fact, the words she spells out on the board are I-AM-GOING-TO-KILL-YOU. A mystery figure Read More

The Letter

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: In this drama, adapted from a W. Somerset Maugham novel, a philandering wife is accused of killing her lover. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Million Dollar Infield

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: Rob Reiner coproduced, cowrote and costarred in this TV-movie about suburban "angst" in the 1980s. Reiner is one of four wealthy Long Islanders who play for an amateur softball team. All four men (Reiner, Bruno Kirby, Robert Costanzo and Christopher Guest) suffer from profound personal and Read More

Sidney Shorr: A Girl's Best Friend

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: This TV movie stars Tony Randall as Sidney Shorr, a reclusive, middle-aged commercial artist. Sidney opens himself up a bit to an ebullient young actress (Lorna Patterson)--who shocks the shockable Mr. Shorr by becoming pregnant. If we haven't mentioned the fact that Sidney Shorr is gay, it's Read More

Beulah Land

Crew: Editor

Actors: Lesley Ann Warren, Michael Sarrazin, Eddie Albert, Meredith Baxter-Birney, Hope Lange

Synopsis: Beulah Land is an edited, movie-length version of the three-part TV miniseries adaptation of Lonnie Coleman's multi-part novels. The film is set in the Old South, with a time span ranging from 1827 to the postwar Reconstruction Era. Lesley Ann Warren stars as Sarah Kendrick, young belle of the Read More

Detour to Terror

Crew: Editor

Actors: Lorenzo Lamas, O.J. Simpson, Arte Johnson, Anne Francis

Synopsis: O. J. Simpson plays a chartered bus driver shepherding a group of wealthy tourists to Las Vegas. His bus is waylaid by a trio of murderers, who intend to kidnap one of the passengers and bump off the rest. Arte Johnson provides a few laughs as a tour guide, while one of the villains is played by Read More

The Night the Bridge Fell Down

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: In this disaster movie, eight people stranded on a bridge find their lives jeopardized after a collision has caused the unstable structure to collapse. One of the eight is a bank robber on the lam. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Kojak: Photos Must Credit Joe Paxton

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The Joe Paxton referenced in the title is a hotshot photographer (played by Tige Andrews), currently being sued by a former movie queen (Antoinette Bower). When the woman is kidnapped along with her collection of priceless jewels, Paxton is suspected of being involved in the crime. Investigating Read More

Kojak: Justice for All

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Kojak (Telly Savalas) is tempted to leave the police force when he is offered a highly-paid position as private investigator for a prestigious law firm. Meanwhile, however, the detective is kept busy tracking down the source of some dangerously contaminated heroin. Will Kojak's sense of Read More

Testimony of Two Men

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: The inaugural presentation of the syndicated "Operation Prime Time" anthology, the three-part, six-hour miniseries Testimony of Two Men was based on the 1968 best-seller by Taylor Caldwell; it originally aired in three separate two-hour installments. Sprawled over the course of several generations Read More

The Boys in Company C

Crew: Editor

Actors: Stan Shaw, Andrew Stevens, Jim Canning, Michael Lembeck, Craig Wasson

Synopsis: Cowritten by director Sidney J. Furie, The Boys in Company C charts the fortunes of five young Marine recruits. Led by Stan Shaw, the quintet is shipped off to Vietnam. The film makes no bones about the demoralizing effect the war has on its participants, nor the pigheadedness of the military Read More

The Invasion of Johnson County

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Invasion of Johnson County is based on a dark chapter in the history of Wyoming. As settlers pour in, a cartel of Wyoming cattle barons raise a private army to wipe the "interlopers" off the face of the Earth. Bostonian Bill Bixby teams with good ol' boy Bo Hopkins in warding off Read More

Amelia Earhart

Crew: Editor

Actors: Susan Clark, John Forsythe, Stephen Macht

Synopsis: Susan Clark, the queen of the made-for-TV biopic (in 1976, at least), stars as legendary aviator Amelia Earhart. The story begins in 1921, with Amelia's first biplane flight. In 1928, she becomes the first woman ever to fly the Atlantic, albeit not at the controls. She gains international fame Read More

The Dream Makers

Crew: Editor

Actors: Mickey Jones, Kenny Rogers, James Franciscus

Synopsis: James Franciscus stars as a university professor with an eye on bigger things. Using his inherent promotional know-how, he launches a career in the record industry, eventually operating his own top-selling label. To insure that the local stations will run his artists' recordings, Franciscus Read More

Crime Club

Crew: Editor

Actors: Scott Thomas, Eugene Roche, Robert Lansing, Barbara Rhoades, Biff McGuire

Synopsis: The second and last TV pilot film to bear the Crime Club title, the 1975 Crime Club once again involves a state-of-the-art crime solving organization whose members are professional investigators from various public and private sectors. The principal characters are a detective (Scott Thomas), a Read More

Get Christie Love!

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: The Dorothy Uhnak novel The Ledger was the basis of Get Christie Love! The title character, played by former Laugh-In regular Teresa Graves, is the first black woman to be hired by a big-city police force. Christie Love proves her value to her fellow officers by going undercover to smash a drug Read More

The Family Kovack

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: Assembled for television by Playboy Productions, Family Kovack stars James Sloyan, Sarah Cunningham, Andrew Robinson, Tammi Bula and Richard Gilliland. Cunningham plays the central character, the widowed matriarch of a close Chicago family. When her oldest son (Robinson), a city functionary, is Read More

The Great Niagara

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: "Stubborn old patriarch" TV movies can rise or fall depending on the leading man. Richard Boone is the star who makes Great Niagara tolerable, even in its most irritatingly macho passages. Boone plays an ill-tempered old codger who has been crippled by attempting to go over Niagara Falls in a Read More

Deliver Us From Evil

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: In this action adventure, five wilderness greenhorns on a hiking trip stumble across the remains of a skyjacker. They also find a fortune in cash. This causes nothing but grief as the greedy quintet battle their way back to civilization. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Electra Glide in Blue

Crew: Editor

Actors: Joe Samsil, Robert Blake, Billy Green Bush, Mitchell Ryan, Jeannine Riley, Elisha Cook, Jr.

Synopsis: A police officer who would rather use his brains than his gun is put into a situation where neither can help him in this police drama. John Wintergreen (Robert Blake) is a sawed-off and street-smart Arizona motorcycle cop who dreams of climbing the ladder and becoming a police detective, but his Read More

The Third Girl From the Left

Crew: Editor

Actors: Kim Novak

Synopsis: The Third Girl From the Left might have passed without notice had the film not been the highly touted TV-movie debuts of Kim Novak and Tony Curtis. Kim heads the cast as an ageing Las Vegas chorus girl, while Tony plays a third-rate nightclub comic. Determining that her romance with Curtis is Read More

A Summer Without Boys

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: In this drama, a young woman is devastated to find out that her mother is involved with a younger man. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Count Your Bullets

Crew: Editor

Synopsis: In this western a rookie gunfighter decides to switch careers before he is killed. He is traveling when he encounters a group of Indian prisoners under cavalry guard. They are led by a cruel-hearted sergeant, Wilbanks. He later, runs into the band again. This time, most of the Indians have been Read More

Honky

Crew: Editor

Actors: Brenda Sykes

Synopsis: Honky chronicles the public outcry that greets an interracial relationship between a white teen (John Nielson) and an affluent black woman (Brenda Sykes). Also titled Sheila. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Thief

Crew: Editor

Actors: Michael Lerner, Richard Crenna

Synopsis: Thief is a made-for-TV drama starring Richard Crenna as a paroled burglar. Crenna wants to turn over a new leaf and lead an honest life. To do this, however, he has to pull one last major heist which will square all his accrued debts. The focal point of this film is a near-silent cat burglar Read More

Zabriskie Point

Crew: Editor

Actors: Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Rod Taylor

Synopsis: Zabriskie Point, director Michelangelo Antonioni's only American film, is an unusual, visually stunning examination of youthful rebellion against the Establishment. The film, initially presented in quasi-documentary style, presents a group of college activists discussing key issues of their Read More