John BaerFilmography

Mission: Impossible: The Question

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Gary Lockwood, Elizabeth Ashley

Synopsis: Elizabeth Ashley, whose guest-star turn as a pathetic alcoholic on the sixth-season Mission:Impossible episode "Encounter" won her the praise of critics and viewers alike, again tackles a difficult and demanding role in the seventh-season entry "The Question." This time, Ashley is cast as IMF Read More

The Late Liz

Actors: Anne Baxter

Synopsis: This Dick Ross melodrama stars Anne Baxter as an alcoholic socialite who beats her addiction by finding strength through religion. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: The Big Chicken

Synopsis: In the top-rated 1964 episode "The Giant Jackrabbit," Granny mistook a kangaroo for a rabbit. In this fourth-season installment, Granny assumes that an ostrich is the oversized chicken that has been raiding her tomato patch. Reportedly, during filming of "The Big Chicken," actor Raymond Bailey Read More

Bikini Paradise

Synopsis: Mission to Paradise is a British equivalent to those frolicsome female skinfests often seen on the USA network's Up All Night. British military officers Kieron Moore and John Baer are shipwrecked while on a reconnaissance mission. They soon discover to their delight that the island is Read More

The Chapman Report

Actors: Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Shelley Winters, Jane Fonda, Claire Bloom, Glynis Johns

Synopsis: George Cukor directed this sanitized version of Irving Wallace's tawdry best-seller concerning a survey of the sexual habits of American women. Psychologist George C. Chapman (Andrew Duggan) arrives in a Los Angeles suburb with his assistant Paul Radford (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) in tow. They are Read More

The Cat Burglar

Synopsis: Cat Burglar is an unofficial reworking of 1953's Pickup on South Street. Burglar Jack Hogan steals a briefcase which, unbeknownst to him, contains a valuable secret scientific formula. The owner of the briefcase was on the verge of selling the formula to an unnamed (but somewhat slavic-sounding) Read More

Fear No More

Synopsis: A young woman on a business trip travels by train from L.A. to San Francisco and finds herself implicated in a murder in this crime drama. The trouble begins as she retires to her sleeping compartment and is knocked unconscious. The next day she wakes up beside the dead body of the woman she had Read More

Wanted: Dead or Alive: Reunion for a Revenge

Synopsis: Wanted: Dead or Alive was a western television series that first established Steve McQueen as a star. McQueen played Josh Randall, a bounty hunter who searched America for outlaws. In "Reunion for Revenge," Randall has to protect a man in his custody from two criminals seeking revenge. ~ Stephen Read More

Tarawa Beachhead

Actors: Kerwin Mathews, Julie Adams, Ray Danton, Karen Sharpe, Onslow Stevens

Synopsis: A soldier is expected to never question the actions of his commanding officer, but when a Marine sees his CO breaking the law, he finds himself facing a difficult dilemma in this provocative war drama. The trouble begins when the officer kills another soldier during a battle. The Marine who Read More

Night of the Blood Beast

Actors: Michael Emmet, Angela Greene, John Baer, Ed Nelson, Tyler McVey

Synopsis: The familiar rocks and rills of LA's Bronson Caverns are seen to good advantage in Night of the Blood Beast. The story begins when a manned space rocket develops trouble and plummets back to earth, apparently killing its occupant, Major John Corcoran (Michael Emmet). Unfortunately, Corcoran's body Read More

Guns, Girls and Gangsters

Actors: Mamie van Doren, Gerald Mohr, Lee Van Cleef, Grant Richards, Elaine Edwards

Synopsis: This generically-titled crime caper stars Mamie Van Doren as Vegas nightclub singer Vi Victor and Lee Van Cleef as her gangster husband Mike Bennett. While Mike is stuck in prison, Vi has an affair with his former cellmate Chuck Wheeler (Gerald Mohr), who masterminds a $2 million armored car Read More

Huk

Actors: George Montgomery, Mona Freeman, John Baer, James Bell

Synopsis: Adapted by Stirling Silliphant from his own novel, Huk was filmed on location in the Philippines. George Montgomery heads the cast as a plantation owner who struggles to fend off native insurrectionists (the "Huks" of the title). He is aided in this effort by fellow planter John Baer, whose wife Read More

City of Shadows

Actors: Victor McLaglen, John Baer, Kathleen Crowley, Anthony Caruso, June Vincent

Synopsis: After several years of supporting parts, Victor McLaglen once more landed a leading role in Republic's City of Shadows. McLaglen plays Big Tim Channing, an ageing but powerful gangster who raises young newsboy Dan Mason as his own son. Upon reaching adulthood, Mason (John Baer) becomes a law Read More

We're No Angels

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, Peter Ustinov, Joan Bennett, Basil Rathbone

Synopsis: Samuel and Bella Spewack's English adaptation of French playwright Albert Husson's morbidly humorous stage piece My Three Angels was brought to the screen as the heavily laundered but still wickedly funny We're No Angels. The scene is French Guiana, a few days before Christmas. Humphrey Bogart Read More

Riding Shotgun

Actors: Randolph Scott, Wayne Morris, Joan Weldon, Joe Sawyer, James Millican

Synopsis: In this western, a shotgun rider on a stagecoach must clear his reputation after some outlaws accuse him of being a crook. Gunplay ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Miami Story

Actors: Barry Sullivan, Luther Adler, John Baer, Adele Jergens, Beverly Garland

Synopsis: In this Miami-set crime drama, a secret society of residents united against the ever-encroaching Mafia, hire a reform mobster to help them stop the violence by exposing the Mafia to public scrutiny. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Mississippi Gambler

Actors: Tyrone Power, Piper Laurie, Julie Adams, John McIntire, Paul Cavanagh, William Reynolds

Synopsis: 1953's The Mississippi Gambler was the third Universal Studios film to bear this title--though with a different plot each time. Tyrone Power plays an all-around adventurer who cuts quite a swath through antebellum New Orleans. In between scenes of gambling, fist-fighting and swordplay, Power woos Piper Laurie Read More

Down Among the Sheltering Palms

Actors: William Lundigan, Jane Greer, Mitzi Gaynor, David Wayne, Gloria de Haven

Synopsis: This colorful musical comedy was obviously inspired by the success of Broadway's South Pacific. Army Captain Bill Willoby (William Lundigan) is ordered to make sure that his men do not fraternize with the girls at a South Sea island base. His mission is forgotten when he himself falls in love with Read More

The Adventures of Superman: Double Trouble

Synopsis: A valuable supply of radium is stolen from the United States Medical Corps in Germany. The authorities think they've got the culprit dead to rights--but he has an airtight alibi. It is up to Superman (George Reeves) to figure out that the radium was swiped by a clever pair of twins (both played by Read More

About Face

Actors: Gordon MacRae, Eddie Bracken, Dick Wesson, Virginia Gibson, Phyllis Kirk

Synopsis: About Face is a musicalized remake of the old stage and film comedy Brother Rat. The basic story remains the same, as military-school cadet Boff Roberts (Eddie Bracken) tries to keep his forbidden marriage to Alice Wheatley (Phyllis Kirk) a secret. Meanwhile, Boff's roommates Tony Williams (Gordon MacRae Read More

Terry and the Pirates [TV Series]

Actors: John Baer, William Tracy, Gloria Saunders, Jack Reitzen

Synopsis: Based on the popular long-running comic strip by Milton Caniff, Terry and the Pirates was an adventure series starring John Baer as Colonel Terry Lee, who travels the Orient in search of a gold mine he inherited from his grandfather. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Above and Beyond

Actors: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, James Whitmore, Larry Keating, Larry Gates

Synopsis: Above and Beyond is the story of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, as told from the perspective of the man who flew the mission. Robert Taylor stars as Col. Paul Tibbetts, commander of the Enola Gay. Once selected for this extremely dangerous mission, Tibbetts must hand-pick a crew worthy of the Read More

The Battle at Apache Pass

Actors: John Lund, Jeff Chandler, Beverly Tyler, Bruce Cowling, Susan Cabot

Synopsis: Two of the cast members from the 1950 western Broken Arrow, Jeff Chandler and Jay Silverheels, recreate their earlier roles in 1952's Battle at Apache Pass. Chandler plays temperate Indian leader Cochise, while Silverheels is the more explosive Geronimo. The film takes place several years before Read More

Indian Uprising

Actors: George Montgomery, Audrey Long, Carl Benton Reid, Eugene Iglesias, John Baer

Synopsis: Columbia's Colorado Uprising was neither expensive enough to qualify as an "A" picture nor inexpensive enough to qualify as a "B." It was simply a "programmer," and as such was eminently suitable for solo playdates or double-feature berths. George Montgomery stars as cavalry captain McCloud, whose Read More

Superman and the Mole Men

Actors: George Reeves, Phyllis Coates, Jeff Corey, Walter Reed

Synopsis: Superman, the comic-book "Man of Steel" created in 1938 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, made his feature-film debut in Lippert's Superman and the Mole Men. The story takes place in the small town of Silsby, where the local oil company is drilling what will become the world's deepest well. When Read More

Saturday's Hero

Actors: John Derek, Donna Reed, Sidney Blackmer, Alexander Knox, Elliott Lewis

Synopsis: John Derek plays a Polish-American immigrant who excels in high school sports. Though no great shakes academically, Derek wins a scholarship at an exclusive Southern university. Sidney Blackmer is a wealthy alumnus who sees to it that Derek is allowed to coast in his classes so that he can play Read More

Arizona Manhunt

Actors: Michael Chapin, Eilene Janssen, James Bell, Lucille Barkley, Roy Barcroft

Synopsis: Arizona Manhunt was the second entry in Republic's "Rough Ridin' Kids" series. Michael Chapin returns as Red, the precocious grandson of Sheriff White (James Bell), while Eilene Janssen likewise reappears as Red's best friend Judy. Once again, the two kids get involved with grown-up western Read More

Operation Pacific

Actors: John Wayne, Patricia Neal, Ward Bond, Scott Forbes, Philip Carey

Synopsis: If one is a subscriber to cable TV's American Movie Classics, it is virtually impossible to avoid seeing the John Wayne starrer Operation Pacific; judging by the frequency of its showings, the film must be someone's very special favorite down at AMC. Set during WW II, the film casts Wayne as Duke Read More