Joe FlynnFilmography

The Strongest Man in the World

Actors: Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, Eve Arden, Cesar Romero, Phil Silvers

Synopsis: Kurt Russell returns as Dexter Riley, the dedicated student of Medfield College who just can't stay out of trouble, in this follow-up to The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes and Now You See Him, Now You Don't. In this story, Dexter is trying to devise a formula for a chemistry project that will increase Read More

Superdad

Actors: Sarah Fankboner, Jim Wakefield, Bob Crane, Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, Barbara Rush, Dick Van Patten

Synopsis: A concerned father decides to become closer to his daughter the hard way in this live-action comedy from Walt Disney Pictures. Charlie McCready (Bob Crane) is the father of Wendy (Kathleen Cody), a pretty teenager soon to enter college. Like most parents, Charlie only wants the best for his Read More

The Girl Most Likely To...

Actors: Stockard Channing, Ed Asner

Synopsis: This TV movie stars Stockard Channing as an "ugly duckling" who is dumped on by everyone with whom she comes in contact. After her heart is broken by a callous campus jock, Stockard tearfully speeds off in her car and is involved in a serious accident. Plastic surgery is required, and when Ms. Read More

Gentle Savage

Synopsis: When a Native American is falsely accused of the brutal rape and beating of a white girl, the white community essentially becomes a lynch mob--led by the victim's step-father. Unaware that it is the leader of their anarchistic group who is guilty of the crime, the mob wants only revenge. When the Read More

Now You See Him, Now You Don't

Actors: Joyce Menges, Kurt Russell, Cesar Romero, Joe Flynn, Jim Backus, William Windom

Synopsis: If anyone is interested in seeing what Kurt Russell used to do before transforming into Snake Plissken in Escape From New York, they can look no further than this labored Disney slapstick marzipan sequel to The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes. Kurt Russell, once again, is Dexter Riley, a science major Read More

How to Frame a Figg

Actors: Savannah Bentley

Synopsis: In this comedy, a bungling bookkeeper's assistant works in the Dalton city hall and finds himself framed for embezzling by his corrupt superiors. A sweet young woman helps him clear his name. He is also assisted by Leo the computer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Million Dollar Duck

Actors: Sandy Duncan, Dean Jones, Lee Montgomery, Joe Flynn, Tony Roberts

Synopsis: In $1,000,000 Duck, the titular duck is exposed to radiation and begins laying golden eggs, which brings it under the scrutiny of the treasury department, the FBI, and a gang of comic-opera crooks. The cast includes Disney perennials Dean Jones and Joe Flynn, with Sandy Duncan taking over the part Read More

The Barefoot Executive

Actors: Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, Harry Morgan, Wally Cox, Heather North

Synopsis: At last the secret has been revealed! Prime-time network programming is determined by a chimpanzee! That's the premise of Disney's The Barefoot Executive, a highly amusing spoof of the TV bizz. Kurt Russell plays a page boy at a bottom-rated TV network. Stuck with his girl friend's (Heather North) Read More

The Wacky Zoo of Morgan City

Synopsis: In this comedy, an accountant aids a group of children to help save the local zoo from being razed by those wanting to build a museum in its place. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

Actors: Kurt Russell, Cesar Romero, Joe Flynn, William Schallert, Alan Hewitt

Synopsis: This film is another Disney comedy romp that takes place at the ubiquitous Medfield College. The plot kicks in when an interview, in which Professor Quigley (William Schallert) is denied a much-needed computer by apoplectic college president Dean Higgins (Joe Flynn), is broadcast to a student Read More

Family Affair: My Man, the Star

Synopsis: Fired up with patriotic fervor, Mr. French (Sebastian Cabot) agrees to play Henry VIII in a movie made by shoestring producer Fred Wallace (Joe Flynn). Though Mr. French is certain that this will be a good experience, the film turns out to be an unscripted, underfunded disaster, and as a result Read More

My Dog, the Thief

Synopsis: An air-traffic reporter discovers that his partner--a St. Bernard dog--has accidentally swiped a priceless necklace from a jewel-smuggling gang. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Did You Hear the One About the Traveling Saleslady?

Actors: Phyllis Diller, Joe Flynn, Eileen Wesson, Jeanette Nolan

Synopsis: After registering well in supporting roles in such Bob Hope farces as Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number and Eight on the Lam, raucous comedienne Phyllis Diller attempted to carry a picture all by herself. Alas, Did You Hear the One About the Travelling Saleslady? proved to be as bad as its title. Read More

I Dream of Jeannie: Dr. Bellows Goes Sane

Synopsis: Dr. Bellows (Hayden Rorke) has finally put together what he considers an authenticated dossier of the strange goings-on in the home of Tony Nelson (Larry Hagman). Despite the concerted efforts of both Tony and Jeannie (Barbara Eden), Bellows succeeds in delivering the document to Gen. Peterson Read More

The Love Bug

Actors: Dean Jones, Michele Lee, David Tomlinson, Buddy Hackett, Joe Flynn

Synopsis: Those who worried that the Disney studio would collapse without the presence of the late Uncle Walt were put at ease when the profits starting rolling in for The Love Bug. The "star" is Herbie, a lovable little Volkswagen with a personality all its own. Abused by a bad guy race-car driver (David Tomlinson Read More

Divorce American Style

Actors: Dick Van Dyke, Debbie Reynolds, Jason Robards, Jr., Jean Simmons, Van Johnson

Synopsis: An unhappy couple discover breaking up really is hard to do in this satiric comedy. Richard Harmon (Dick Van Dyke) and his wife, Barbara (Debbie Reynolds), are a typical married couple in American Suburbia -- which is to say they're not very happy with each other. After 15 years together, Richard Read More

McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force

Actors: Joe Flynn, Tim Conway, Bob Hastings, Gary Vinson, Billy Sands

Synopsis: In this comedy, another entry in the slapstick series based on a popular TV show, meek little Ensign Parker finds himself getting promoted for no apparent reason. He gets himself rip-roarin' drunk one night and finds himself wearing an Air Force uniform and mistaken for a big-wig. He continues to Read More

McHale's Navy: Season 04

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Joe Flynn, Tim Conway

McHale's Navy: Season 03

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Joe Flynn, Tim Conway

McHale's Navy

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Joe Flynn, Tim Conway, Carl Ballantine, George Kennedy, Gary Vinson

Synopsis: Captain Wallace Binghamton (Joe FLynn), St. Comdr. Quinton McHale (Ernest Borgnine) and Ensign Charles Parker (Tim Conway) brought their wacky antics to the big screen for this feature, spawned from the popular '60 television program of the same name. McHale and his crew get involved in a betting Read More

Son of Flubber

Actors: Fred MacMurray, Nancy Olson, Keenan Wynn, Tommy Kirk

Synopsis: Son of Flubber represented the first time that Walt Disney ever attempted a theatrical feature sequel: in this case, the earlier film was the 1961 moneyspinner The Absent-Minded Professor. While Flubber is more formula-bound than Professor, it proved an instant audience-pleaser, and a hit to the Read More

McHale's Navy: Season 02

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Joe Flynn, Tim Conway

McHale's Navy: Season 01

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Joe Flynn, Tim Conway

Lover Come Back

Actors: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Edie Adams, Jack Oakie

Synopsis: Although not as well known as Pillow Talk (1959), this romantic-comedy pairing of stars Rock Hudson and Doris Day earned an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay. Hudson stars as Jerry Webster, a Madison Avenue advertising executive who has achieved success not through hard work or intelligence but Read More

Cry for Happy

Actors: Glenn Ford, Donald O'Connor, Miiko Taka, James Shigeta, Miyoshi Umeki

Synopsis: Predictable and demeaned by low-brow humor, this comedy-drama by George Marshall revolves around the amorous entanglements of four G.I. photographers on leave in Japan from their last mission in the Korean War. The men, headed by officer Andy Cyphers (Glenn Ford) check into a house with four Read More

The Last Time I Saw Archie

Actors: Louis Nye, Robert Mitchum, Jack Webb, Martha Hyer, France Nuyen, Joe Flynn, Don Knotts

Synopsis: The title character in this standard comedy about the foibles of military life is Archie Hall (Robert Mitchum), a puffed-up dandy whose strutting personality makes the other privates in a Civilian Pilot Training program absolutely certain he is a spy. They figure him for a multiple-star general Read More

The Police Dog Story

Actors: James Brown, Merry Anders, Barry Kelley, Milton Frome

Synopsis: This one-hour, police-story melodrama does not focus on the two-legged officers commonly found chasing the bad guys, but a four-legged K-9 corps German Shepherd named "Wolf" (played by Rocco), whose training forms a large part of the story. Wolf is put through his paces so that when the time Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Make My Death Bed

Synopsis: A round robin of betrayal and murder takes up most of the running time in this episode. First off, Elise Taylor (Diana Van Der Vlis) falls in love with Bish Darby (James Best), who is married to a woman named Jackie (Madeleine Sherwood), who in turn makes arrangements for Bish to die and for Elise Read More

The Twilight Zone: Escape Clause

Actors: David Wayne, Thomas Gomez, Virginia Christine, Dick Wilson, Joe Flynn

Synopsis: Hypochondriac Walter Bedecker (David Wayne) would do anything to feel better -- including making a deal with the Devil. When His Satanic Majesty makes an appearance in the form of the jovial Mr. Cadwallader (Thomas Gomez), Walter enters into a contract whereby he will be given perfect health and Read More

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Synopsis: It's late Thursday night at the local paper and a savvy city editor, a world-weary but upright writer, and a beleagured copy boy prepare to put the next day's paper to bed. Suddenly two stories come over the wire. In the first, a young girl has gotten lost in the city's storm drains, and her life Read More

Go, Johnny Go!

Actors: Alan Freed, Ritchie Valens

Synopsis: Go, Johnny, Go! was second and last of a proposed trio of jukebox movies built around and co-produced by DJ Alan Freed. He plays himself in this rags-to-riches tale, told in flashback, of a young rock & roll singer named Johnny Melody (Jimmy Clanton), whose rise from life in an orphanage where no Read More

This Happy Feeling

Actors: Debbie Reynolds, Curd Jürgens, John Saxon, Alexis Smith, Mary Astor

Synopsis: This Happy Feeling is based on the F. Hugh Herbert play For Love or Money. Debbie Reynolds plays impulsive Janet Blake, who develops a crush on retired stage star Preston Mitchell (Curt Jurgens). Rejuvenated by Janet's ardor, Mitchell decides to return to the stage, where he must contend with Read More

Panama Sal

Actors: Ed Kemmer, Carlos Rivas, Harry Jackson, Joe Flynn

Synopsis: Long before she was "domesticated" as Consuela in TV's Marcus Welby MD, Elena Verdugo was the hip-swinging heroine of Panama Sal. The story finds Sal Regan (Verdugo) singing and dancing for her supper in a low-class Panamanian dive. Wealthy Dennis P. Dennis (Edward Kemmer) takes a liking to Sal Read More

Portland Expose

Actors: Edward Binns, Carolyn Craig, Virginia Gregg, Russ Conway

Synopsis: Virtually every major city in the 1950s harbored some sort of political corruption or other, providing plenty of material for the "exposé" school of filmmaking. Portland Expose is a fact-based account of skullduggery in the Oregon metropolis. Inspired by revelations made during the Senate's Read More

The Boss

Actors: John Payne, William Bishop, Gloria McGhee, Doe Avedon, Roy Roberts

Synopsis: John Payne always felt that he delivered his best screen performance in The Boss. Set in the years following WW1, the story concerns a small-town veteran named Matt Brady (John Payne), whose brother, machine politician Tim Brady (Roy Roberts), arranges for Matt to get a cushy government job. When Read More

The Indestructible Man

Actors: Lon Chaney, Jr., Ross Elliott, Robert Shayne, Ken Terrell, Marvin Ellis

Synopsis: Lt. Dick Chasen (Casey Adams) narrates the strange story of Charles "Butcher" Benton (Lon Chaney, Jr.), a condemned man who came back for revenge. In prison, Butcher refuses to reveal to his crooked lawyer Lowe (Ross Elliott) where he hid $600,000 from a bank robbery. Even though he's due to be Read More

The Seven Little Foys

Actors: Bob Hope, James Cagney, Milly Vitale, Angela Clarke, George Tobias

Synopsis: With his movie career fading in 1955, Bob Hope was amenable to writer/director Mel Shavelson's suggestion that Hope try something different. The Seven Little Foys was the first of Hope's two "straight" biopics (the second was 1956's Beau James). Though not completely abandoning his patented Read More