Kerwin MathewsFilmography

The Boy Who Cried Werewolf

Synopsis: This adventurous horror movie chronicles the exploits of a boy whose father is changed into a wolfman. The trouble begins after the newly separated father and his son are attacked by a werewolf on a camping trip. Once the wife figures out what happened, she divorces him. The boy tries to explain Read More

Ironside: Buddy, Can You Spare a Life?, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), Ironside (Raymond Burr) works in concert with attorney Ken Klaven (Cameron Mitchell) to secure the release of Walter Booth (William Campbell), whom the Chief had sent to prison on a manslaughter charge seven Read More

Ironside: Buddy, Can You Spare a Life?, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first half of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), Ironside (Raymond Burr) begins to question his judgment in a manslaughter case which occurred seven years ago. At the time, the Chief rammed through the conviction of chief suspect Walter Booth (William Read More

Ironside: Achilles' Heel

Synopsis: Ironside star Raymond Burr makes his TV directorial debut in this episode, in which Chief Ironside comes to the aid of a troubled Federal judge and the judge's son. Slated to preside over a well-publicized fraud case, Judge Van Buren (William Windom) is approached by "certain parties" and told to Read More

Octaman

Synopsis: A scientific expedition to a remote Mexican fishing community discovers unhealthy amounts of radiation in the local waters. They also find a small mutant octopus with nearly-human eyes that can crawl on land and make mewling sounds like a baby. In order to receive further funding for their Read More

Death Takes a Holiday

Synopsis: This 1971 TV movie remake of the 1934 film of the same name (see the above synopsis) adds little to the original story about Death assuming human form to discover why mankind fears him. In updating the story, the scenarists removed much of the "nobility" of the principal characters--and also a lot Read More

Barquero

Actors: Lee Van Cleef, Forrest Tucker, Warren Oates, Kerwin Mathews, Mariette Hartley

Synopsis: Lee Van Cleef plays a fiercely independent river ferryman in the Old West. Bandit Warren Oates, fresh from decimating a local town, rides up with his gang and demands that Van Cleef transport the crooks and their booty across the river. He refuses, and is taken prisoner. Biding his time, Van Cleef Read More

A Boy ... A Girl

Actors: Dean Paul Martin, Airion Fromer, Karen Steele, Kerwin Mathews

Synopsis: Two 15-year-old teenagers engage in their first love affair. Dino Martin Jr. and Airion Fromer meet and fall in love with each other. Their romance is sidetracked when the girl has an affair with Mr. Christian (Kerwin Mathews), a man easily twice her age. After she has experienced the pleasures of Read More

Le Tueur Aime Les Bonbons

Actors: Kerwin Mathews, Marilù Tolo, Bruno Cremer

Battle Beneath the Earth

Actors: Kerwin Mathews, Vivienne Ventura, Robert Ayres, Peter Arne, Al Mulock

Synopsis: In this rabid anti-communist science fiction tract, scientist Arnold Kramer (Peter Arne) convinces the Pentagon that the communist Chinese are digging a complex series of tunnels from China and beneath the United States, from which they plan to detonate nuclear weapons and destroy the free world. Read More

The Killer Likes Candy

Synopsis: Whatever happened to Kerwin Mathews, the Wisconsin-born star of Ray Harryhausen's Seventh Voyage of Sinbad? Inexpensive espionage mellers like The Killer Likes Candy, that's what. Mathews plays a CIA agent, assigned to protect a foreign potentate. Keep both eyes peeled for an assassin with a sweet Read More

Le Vicomte Regle Ses Comptes

Actors: Jean Yanne, Fernando Rey

Synopsis: In this stylish crime drama, a smooth-talking insurance investigator looks into a bank robbery and ends up breaking up two famous gangs involved in a drug war. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Banco à Bangkok (pour OSS 117)

Actors: Kerwin Mathews, Robert Hossein, Anna Maria Pier Angeli, Dominique Wilms

Synopsis: In this Italian mystery-adventure, a government agent is assigned to look into a mysterious outbreak of a deadly virus in Southeast Asia. While attending a party, he meets an enemy agent and his pretty sister. Later the enemy captures the agent and his own sister who has fallen for the American. Read More

OSS 117 Se Dechaine

Actors: Kerwin Mathews, Irina Demick, Henri-Jacques Huet

Maniac

Actors: Kerwin Mathews, Nadia Gray, Donald Houston, Liliane Brousse, George Pastell

Synopsis: An American artist travels to rural France for a relaxing vacation and ends up falling for a lovely young woman, whose father is the owner of a cafe. Unfortunately, her father is not in town, as he is locked up in the local looney bin for immolating the man who raped his daughter. The trouble Read More

The Waltz King

Synopsis: This biopic from Walt Disney studios chronicles the life and times of Johann Strauss, Jr. as he tries to prove himself as talented as his overbearing father. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Jack the Giant Killer

Actors: Kerwin Mathews, Judi Meredith, Torin Thatcher

Synopsis: Nathan Juran, director of The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, tries to make the magic happen again on a much more attenuated budget in Jack the Giant Killer. Torin Thatcher, another Sinbad alumnus, plays a wicked wizard who kidnaps toothsome-princess Judi Meredith. Kerwin Mathews, still another Read More

The Pirates of Blood River

Actors: Kerwin Mathews, Glenn Corbett, Christopher Lee, Marla Landi, Oliver Reed

Synopsis: In this high-seas adventure, a wicked one-eyed, one-armed pirate forces a young man, who was wrongfully imprisoned, to take him and his band to his Caribbean island home where the pirate believes great treasure is buried. Once there, the pirate begins fighting for control of the island and begins Read More

The Devil at 4 O'clock

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Frank Sinatra, Kerwin Mathews, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gregoire Aslan

Synopsis: Spencer Tracy plays an American priest tending to the natives of a South Sea island. A plane carrying three convicts -- Harry (Frank Sinatra), Marcel Gregoire Aslan and Charlie Bernie Hamilton) -- lands on the island; Father Doonan (Tracy) manages to enlist their (reluctant) aid in working at a Read More

Saffo, Venere di Lesbo

Actors: Kerwin Mathews, Tina Louise, Riccardo Garrone, Antonio Batistella, Susi Golgi

Synopsis: Top-heavy with wild action scenes and female pulchritude, this routine Italian costume adventure is set in the 7th century B.C. on the island of Lesbos, where the immortal poetess Sappho (Tina Louise) is leading a revolt against the corrupt government of Mytilene. Aiding her in overthrowing the Read More

The 3 Worlds of Gulliver

Actors: Kerwin Mathews, Jo Morrow, June Thorburn, Lee Patterson, Gregoire Aslan

Synopsis: The Three Worlds of Gulliver is perhaps the least known of the Charles H. Schneer-Ray Harryhausen collaborations of the 1960s, perhaps because it was withdrawn from circulation so soon after its initial release. Kerwin Mathews, star of the Schneer-Harryhausen classic Seventh Voyage of Sinbad Read More

Man on a String

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Kerwin Mathews, Colleen Dewhurst, Alexander Scourby, Glenn Corbett

Synopsis: An unexceptional spy drama by Andre De Toth, Man on a String is based on an autobiography by counterspy Boris Morros, here given the name of Boris Mitrov and played by Ernest Borgnine. Mitrov was born in Russia but had been a citizen of the U.S. for some time when he joins up with a Russian spy Read More

The Last Blitzkrieg

Actors: Van Johnson, Kerwin Mathews, Dick York, Larry Storch, Lisa Bourdin

Synopsis: Filmed on location in Holland, The Last Blitzkrieg stars Van Johnson in the atypical role of WW2 German officer Kroner. The son of a high-ranking Nazi official, Kroner is called upon to lead a dangerous mission in the waning days of the war. He and several other English-speaking Germans are Read More

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

Actors: Kerwin Mathews, Kathryn Grant, Richard Eyer, Torin Thatcher, Alec Mango

Synopsis: Whilst Sinbad (Kerwin Mathews) is on his way to Baghdad, transporting the Princess Parisa (Kathryn Grant), who is to become his bride and secure peace between her kingdom and his, the ship encounters the isle of Colossa. Sinbad and his men are attacked by a gigantic, bestial one-eyed Cyclops, and 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

The Garment Jungle

Actors: Gia Scala, Lee J. Cobb, Kerwin Mathews, Richard Boone, Valerie French, Robert Loggia

Synopsis: Vincent Sherman replaced an uncredited Robert Aldrich as director of this noirish and atypically pro-union film from the 1950's. Tulio Renata (Robert Loggia), an organizer for the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, campaigns to unionize the employees of dress factory owner Walter Mitchell Read More

Five Against the House

Actors: Guy Madison, Kim Novak, Brian Keith, Alvy Moore, William Conrad

Synopsis: In this film noir, five college students laughingly devise a perfect plan for robbing a casino in Reno. At first they do it just to pass the time, but one of them is deeply in debt and becoming increasingly distraught about it. He successfully cajoles his peers into carrying through with their Read More