Kim DarbyFilmography

Newsbreak

Actors: Michael Rooker, Judge Reinhold, Robert Culp

Synopsis: In this thriller, John McNamara (Michael Rooker) is an investigative reporter whose desire to root out a juicy story has not endeared him to many of the people he's written about, and he's lost a few jobs in the process. John wants to hold on to his latest job, but when he's assigned to write Read More

The Last Best Sunday

Actors: Douglas Spain, Angela Bettis, William Lucking, Kim Darby, Daniel Beer

Synopsis: Two teenagers, each dealing with a different set of emotional burdens, find love and understanding with each other in The Last Best Sunday. Lolly Ann (Angela Bettis) is a high-school student in Pickley, a small agricultural community in California where she's growing up under the thumb of her Read More

Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers

Actors: Tom Proctor, Donald Pleasence, Mitchell Ryan, Marianne Hagan, Paul Rudd, Leo Geter

Synopsis: Picking up six years after the events of Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers, this competently produced but ultimately disappointing sequel attempts to tie up the uneven horror series' loose ends with a less-than-convincing resolution. This installment opens with Jamie Lloyd (J.C. Brandy) Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Film Flam

Synopsis: Hollywood is abuzz with the news that a film completed back in 1960, but shelved after its director died mysteriously, has been rediscovered and restored. This takes place at a studio that has become a target for a wide variety of movie pirates--and not a few dedicated film buffs. When one of Read More

The Crossing

Crew: Art Director

Actors: Danielle Spencer, Russell Crowe, Robert Mammone, George Whaley

Synopsis: A man sets out on a dangerous journey in order to save the life of the woman he loves in this politically charged drama from South Korea. Yeong-su (Cha In-pyo) was once a noted professional soccer player, but since his career came to an unexpected halt, he's struggled to support his wife and Read More

Teen Wolf Too

Actors: Jason Bateman, Kim Darby, John Astin, Paul Sand, James Hampton

Synopsis: Jason Bateman stars in this sequel to Teen Wolf as the original's cousin, Todd. Though not a boxer, he receives a college boxing scholarship, and upon discovering that he is afflicted with the same werewolf genetics, transforms from unremarkable to unbelievable. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

First Steps

Actors: Judd Hirsch, Amy Steel, Kim Darby

Synopsis: First Steps was inspired by a widely-seen, enthusiastically received 1982 piece on 60 Minutes. Amy Steel plays Nan Davis, a young woman totally paralyzed in an auto accident. Judd Hirsch costars as Dr. Jerold Petrovsky, a bioengineer who attaches computerized electrodes to Nan to enable her to Read More

Embassy

Synopsis: Nick Mancuso stars in the made-for-TV Embassy. Cast as an American ambassador stationed in Rome, Mancuso's life is thrown into turmoil by a crucial computer chip. When not trying to keep U.S. defense secrets from falling into the wrong hands, he must juggle the affections of his Read More

Better Off Dead

Actors: John Cusack, David Ogden Stiers, Kim Darby, Demian Slade, Scooter Stevens, Diane Franklin, Amanda Wyss

Synopsis: Most animation aficionados of the 1990s know "Savage Steve Holland" as the cocreator (with Bill Kopp) of the all-stops-out TV cartoon series Eek! The Cat. But Holland had been exercising his own peculiar brand of deviltry on live characters long before Eek! came into being. In Holland's Better Off Dead Read More

Murder, She Wrote: We're Off to Kill the Wizard

Synopsis: The duplicitous owner (James Coco) of a popular theme park engages Jessica (Angela Lansbury) to design a "house of horror". Shortly, thereafter, the owner is murdered in his underground office--an "impossible" crime, inasmuch as the office was securely locked from the inside. Inasmuch as the wife Read More

Summer Girl

Synopsis: In this suspenseful thriller, the happy family life of a married couple is dangerously disrupted by a wicked, seductive baby-sitter who wants their children for her own. She is ready to kill for the privilege and mayhem ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Capture of Grizzly Adams

Actors: Dan Haggerty, Chuck Connors, Kim Darby, June Lockhart, Sydney Penny

Synopsis: A wilderness-loving man must clear himself of a wrongful murder charge and rescue his daughter who may be sent to an orphanage in this made-for-TV movie. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb

Synopsis: This made-for-TV historical drama chronicles the personal and professional lives of Colonel Tibbets and the airmen who dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The story is based on a book by Gordon Thomas and Max Gordon Witts and also looks at the ways in which the aftermath of the bombing affected Read More

Flatbed Annie & Sweetiepie: Lady Truckers

Actors: Kim Darby, Fred Willard

Synopsis: Flatbed Annie is played by Annie Potts; her sidekick Sweetiepie, aka Ginny La Rosa, is played by Kim Darby. Annie is a hard-bitten veteran, Sweetiepie a starry-eyed novice. Harry Dean Stanton co-stars as a mean, nasty, awful bad guy who wants to repossess the girls' truck. The plot is further Read More

Last Convertible

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel by Anton Myrer, the three-part NBC miniseries The Last Convertible chronicles the lives of five former Harvard roommates, all of whom share the titular Packard automobile. Beginning with the quintet's graduation in 1944, the teleplay by Philip de Guere, Stephen McPherson Read More

The One and Only

Actors: Henry Winkler, Kim Darby, Gene Saks, William Daniels, Polly Holliday

Synopsis: Brash young Andy Schmidt (Henry Winkler) can't make a go of it as an actor in the early 1950s. Still, he wins the hand of Mary Crawford (Kim Darby), and the two of them try to make ends meet in New York City. Andy is on the verge of starvation when he befriends wrestling-promoter Sidney Seltzer (Gene Saks Read More

Rich Man, Poor Man

Actors: Peter Strauss, Nick Nolte, Susan Blakely, Steve Allen, Ed Asner, Bill Bixby

Synopsis: More ambitious and expensive than ABC's first "novel for television" miniseries QB VII, the eight-episode, 12-hour Rich Man, Poor Man was the one that truly put the genre on the map, its phenomenal success in the ratings making possible the even more spectacular Roots. Adapted from the mammoth Read More

Good Salary - Prospects - Free Coffin

Synopsis: Kim Darby smells a rat when two of her roommates answer a want ad, but fail to return from the interview. The police are sympathetic but ineffective, so Darby follows the tradition of every other foolhardy murder-mystery heroine. She--have you caught on yet?--she answer the ad herself. Good Salary Read More

Le Telephone Rose

Actors: Mireille Darc, Pierre Mondy, Michel Lonsdale, Daniel Ceccaldi, Gérard Herold

Synopsis: In this sad French romance, a factory owner gives up everything to win the love of a hooker who loves only her job. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Baretta: The Good-Bye Orphan Annie Blues

Actors: Robert Blake, Edward Grover, Tom Ewell, Michael D. Roberts, Chino "Fats" Williams

Synopsis: In this first episode of Baretta's second season, undercover cop Tony Baretta (Robert Blake) goes after heroin dealers who are trafficking in a very pure, and very lethal, grade of the addictive drug. Singer-composer Paul Williams, who co-wrote the script, guest stars as a music emporium owner who Read More

Mirror of Deception

The West was Never Like This

Synopsis: In this western, Wild Bill Hickock and his gal Calamity Jane have numerous adventures. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd

Synopsis: Clyde Ware both scripted and directed this made-for-TV biopic. Martin Sheen stars as Floyd, a depression-era farmboy who (it says here) turns to crime to avoid starving to death. Sheen's real-life brother Joseph Estevez plays Floyd's younger brother in this 73-minute film. As an added fillip, the Read More

This Is the West That Was

Actors: Kim Darby, Stuart Margolin

Synopsis: The lighthearted title of this made-for-TV film deftly sets the mood for the 74 minutes to follow. Ben Murphy stars as a rogueish Wild Bill Hickok, carrying on with an incongruously glamorous Calamity Jane (Kim Darby). Amidst the gambling and lovemaking, Will Bill must fend off a gang of vengeful Read More

The Case of the Baltimore Girls

Actors: Lorne Greene

Synopsis: In this thriller an older detective and his side-kick look into a dating service that seems to deal in murder, extortion, and death. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Now You See Her, Now You Don't

Synopsis: In this entry from the Cool Million television series, a detective finds a Canadian artist whose knowledge is crucial to a murder investigation. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Ironside: Downhill All the Way, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first half of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), Chief Ironside is assigned to protect little Jerry Abbott, an autistic 10-year-old who has witnessed a murder. Not long afterward, the newspapers are reporting that Jerry himself has been killed--and that Read More

Ironside: Downhill All the Way, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Ironside (Raymond Burr) has degenerated from a respected law enforcement officer to a seedy skid-row bum, apparently because 10-year-old murder witness Jerry Abbott (Lee H. Montgomery) was killed while in the Chief's protective custody. What even Ironside's Read More

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark

Actors: Kim Darby

Synopsis: Ranking with Dan Curtis' Trilogy of Terror as one of the spookiest made-for-TV horror films of the 1970's, this atmospheric monster chiller stars Kim Darby and Jim Hutton as a comfortable, reasonably happy young couple who inherit the archetypal "Old Dark House" from the wife Sally's deceased Read More

The Streets of San Francisco

Actors: Kim Darby

Synopsis: The 2-hour pilot film for the long-running (1972-77) TV detective series first aired on September 16, 1972. Veteran police detective lieutenant Mike Stone (Karl Malden) and his young partner Steve Keller (Michael Douglas) try to solve the murder of runaway Holly Jean Berry (Kim Darby). By Read More

The People

Synopsis: Writer Zenna Henderson's science-fiction stories were the basis for this made-for-TV movie. A young teacher goes to a remote area to work with secluded and backwards inhabitants. She accidentally discovers, though, that the residents are actually aliens with psychic-powers who escaped their own Read More

The Grissom Gang

Actors: Kim Darby, Scott Wilson, Tony Musante, Irene Dailey, Robert Lansing

Synopsis: The Grissom Gang is a remake of the notorious 1949 British melodrama No Orchids for Miss Blandish. Kim Darby plays a 1920s-era debutante who is kidnapped and held for ransom. Her captors are the Grissoms, a family comprised of sadists and morons, and headed by Ma Barker clone Irene Dailey. One of Read More

The Strawberry Statement

Actors: Bruce Davison, Kim Darby, James Coco, Murray MacLeod

Synopsis: This film is based on the James Simon Kunen book about student unrest on the Columbia University campus. Simon (Bruce Davison) joins the campus protest movement to socialize with the various hippie girls. When a violent police assault breaks up the protest, Simon's thoughts quickly turn from Read More

Norwood

Actors: Glen Campbell, Kim Darby, Joe Namath, Carol Lynley, Pat Hingle

Synopsis: In this romance, an ex-Marine begins looking for a fellow Vietnam vet in hopes of making it as musicians in New York. He does not realize it, but he is driving in stolen cars. After being chased by the police, he ditches the cars and hitchhikes the New York. By the time he arrives, his pal has Read More

True Grit

Actors: John Wayne, Glen Campbell, Kim Darby, Jeremy Slate, Robert Duvall

Synopsis: In fine Hollywood tradition, John Wayne had to play a "one-eyed fat man" before the Motion Picture Academy considered him worthy of an Oscar. In True Grit, Wayne plays grumpy, pot-bellied U.S. marshal "Rooster" Cogburn, hired by 14-year-old Mattie Ross (Kim Darby) to find Tom Chaney (Jeff Corey) Read More

Generation

Actors: David Janssen, Kim Darby, Carl Reiner, Andrew Prine

Synopsis: Time for Giving is the British title for the American comedy film Generation. This exercise in late-sixties "mod"-ness is based on William Goodhart's Broadway play, which originally starred Henry Fonda. David Janssen takes over Fonda's role as the harried father of rebellious daughter Kim Darby. Read More

The Karate Killers

Synopsis: The Man from UNCLE comes to the big screen in this spy thriller comprised of episodes from the popular television series. The story centers around the attempts of evil THRUSH operatives who endeavor to abduct a professor who has developed a formula for turning salt water into gold. ~ Sandra Read More

Bonanza: The Sure Thing

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Kim Darby, Tom Tully

Synopsis: Ben Cartwright purchaeses a stallion from drunken lout Burt Loughlin (Tom Tully), hoping to fulfill the fondest dreams of Burt's sweet daughter Trudy (Kim Darby). It is Trudy's wish to ride the stallion to victory in a upcoming high-stakes race. But Ben's good intentions may be undone by Burt, who Read More

Ironside

Actors: Raymond Burr, Wally Cox, Don Galloway, Barbara Anderson

Synopsis: In this 2-hour "NBC World Premiere" pilot film for the TV series Ironside, we learn how San Francisco chief-of-detectives Robert Ironside (Raymond Burr) came to be confined to a wheelchair. Felled by a sniper's bullet, Ironside is retained by the force as a special officer for the Frisco Read More

The Fugitive: Joshua's Kingdom

Synopsis: Newly arrived in Utah under the alias "Jim Corman", Kimble (David Janssen) meets unwed mother Ruth Simmons (Kim Darby), whose baby is seriously ill. In his efforts to treat the infant, Kimble meets strong opposition in the form of Ruth's father Joshua (Harry Townes), a religious zealot who objects Read More

Star Trek: Miri

Synopsis: Exploring the remnants of a plague-ravaged planet, Captain Kirk and an Enterprise landing party unexpectedly discover a number of young children who have survived the otherwise total devastation in this episode of the original Star Trek television series. These children all possess a strong Read More

The Restless Ones

Synopsis: In this religious movie, a married pair of television writers begin researching a script on restless teenagers and end up as born-again Christians. Meanwhile their own adolescent son runs away with a pregnant teen who is looking for the child's father. When she cannot, she tries to kill herself. Read More

The Fugitive: An Apple a Day

Synopsis: As "Ed Curtis", Richard Kimble befriends Josephus Adams (Arthur O'Connell), an old-fashioned rural doctor who believes in using "folk remedies" to cure all ills. After a woman in Adams' care dies of an untreated bronchial infection, Kimble insists upon intervening in the doctor's future cases. Read More

Bus Riley's Back in Town

Actors: Ann-Margret, Michael Parks, Janet Margolin, Brad Dexter, Jocelyn Brando

Synopsis: William Inge co-wrote this story about a young man who may have outgrown the straight-laced boundaries of his home town. After a hitch in the Navy, Bus Riley (Michael Thomas Parks) comes home to the staid Midwestern town of his birth; however, home doesn't feel quite like it used to, and Riley is Read More

Bye Bye Birdie

Actors: Janet Leigh, Dick Van Dyke, Ann-Margret, Maureen Stapleton, Bobby Rydell, Paul Lynde

Synopsis: George Sidney's adaptation of the satiric Broadway musical smash by Michael Stewart, Charles Strouse, and Lee Adams -- about an Elvis Presley-inspired rock star, who is drafted into the army and who creates a near-riot in a small Midwestern town when he stops there for one last publicity junket Read More

Disneyland: Adventures in Fantasy

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: The Andrews Sisters, Sterling Holloway

Synopsis: Disneyland host Walt Disney endeavors to demonstrate how inanimate objects can become "human", with the attendant full range of emotions and problems, in the wonderful world of animation. To demonstrate, Walt has three otherwise non-living objects narrate a series of cartoon segments, lifted from Read More