Larry Hagman Filmography

Nip/Tuck: Season 04

Actors: Dylan Walsh, Julian McMahon, Joely Richardson, John Hensley, Roma Maffia

Fat City

Television: The First 50 Years

Dallas: War of the Ewings

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Steve Kanaly, George Kennedy

Synopsis: In this sudsy made-for-TV installment of the Ewing saga, wily J.R. (Larry Hagman) finds himself discontent merely managing an oil conglomerate and decides to try to regain control of his father's company from Bobby (Patrick Duffy) and Sue Ellen (Linda Gray). But first he needs money. Opportunity Read More

Primary Colors

Actors: John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Billy Bob Thornton, Kathy Bates, Adrian Lester

Synopsis: Mike Nichols directed this Elaine May screenplay adapted from the 1996 bestseller by "Anonymous" (Joe Klein), who fictionalized Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign. In the New Hampshire primary, Governor Jack Stanton (John Travolta) convinces Henry Burton (Adrian Lester), grandson of a Read More

The Third Twin

Actors: Kelly McGillis, Jason Gedrick, Larry Hagman

Synopsis: In this two-part suspenser inspired by Ken Follett's bestselling novel, university pscyhobiologist Jenny Ferrami (Kelly McGillis), in the process of studying a possible link between genetics and criminal behavior, stumbles upon a secret cloning experiment conducted by a major company. Figuring Read More

Dallas: J.R. Returns

Crew: Executive Producer

Nixon

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Powers Boothe, Ed Harris, Bob Hoskins

Synopsis: Oliver Stone, the most outspokenly political American filmmaker of the 1980s and '90s, directs this epic-length biography of Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the U.S., who was re-elected by a landslide in 1972, only to resign in disgrace two years later. Taking a non-linear approach, Nixon Read More

Harley-Davidson: The American Motorcycle

Synopsis: The Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Co. authorized this documentary commemorating the 90th anniversary of the company. Shown are film clips from news footage, movies and television shows that featured the company's motorcycles, and such stars as James Caan, Peter Fonda and Larry Hagman are interviewed Read More

Dallas: Season 14

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Ken Kercheval, Howard Keel, Cathy Podewell

Synopsis: The 14th and final season of Dallas finds ruthless oil executive J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman) escaping from a mental institution, then resuming his Herculean efforts to wrest control of Ewing Oil from his brother Bobby (Patrick Duffy). It turns out that poor Bobby may well be vulnerable to J.R.'s Read More

Dallas: Season 13

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Barbara Bel Geddes, Charlene Tilton, Ken Kercheval

Synopsis: As Dallas enters its 13th season on the air, only actors Larry Hagman and Ken Kercheval, cast respectively as ruthless oil tycoon J.R. Ewing and his lifelong enemy, attorney-executive Cliff Barnes, have been seen in every season. Though rumors occasionally spread that Hagman was poised to leave Read More

Dallas: Season 12

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Barbara Bel Geddes, Charlene Tilton

Synopsis: Having avoided getting shot by his frustrated wife, Sue Ellen (Linda Gray), at the end of Dallas' 11th season, ruthless oil tycoon J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman) decides to relax a bit as season 12 gets under way. Embarking on a hunting trip to Arkansas, serial philanderer J.R. has brief tryst with Read More

Dallas: Season 11

Actors: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Barbara Bel Geddes, Steve Kanaly

Synopsis: Although Victoria Principal had left Dallas at the end of season ten, by the time the series' 11th season rolled around, Principal's character, Pamela Ewing, was still lingering about, swathed in bandages after being seriously injured in a car accident. As if to lead viewers to the conclusion that Read More

Larry Hagman's Stop Smoking for Life

Synopsis: Larry Hagman, reformed smoker and star of television's I Dream of Jeannie and Dallas, offers viewers a smoking cessation system designed to last. In this instructional home video, Hagman explains how this seven-day method was invented by some of UCLA's top researchers and how it works. All Read More

Dallas: The Early Years

Actors: Molly Hagan, Dale Midkiff

Synopsis: Inspired by guess what television series, this made-for-TV movie traces the follies and fortunes of the Ewings and the Barneses all the way back to the 1930s. The familiar Dallas characters are played by unfamiliar (albeit very able) younger players: Miss Ellie, for example, isn't Barbara Bel Geddes Read More

Dallas: Season 10

Actors: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Victoria Principal, Barbara Bel Geddes

Synopsis: At the tail end of Dallas' ninth season, Pamela Ewing (Victoria Principal) was awakened from her troubled slumbers by the sound of a familiar voice in her bathroom. Investigating, she peeked past the shower curtains -- and was astonished to find her ex-husband, Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy), who had Read More

Dallas: Season 09

Actors: Larry Hagman, Linda Gray, Barbara Bel Geddes, Steve Kanaly, Ken Kercheval

Synopsis: The infamous ninth season of Dallas begins with Pamela Ewing (Victoria Principal) grieving over the death of her ex-husband Bobby, who was killed saving Pamela from her vengeful half-sister, Katherine Wentworth. To Pamela, the whole situation seems like one horrible nightmare -- and as it turns Read More

Dallas: Season 08

Actors: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Donna Reed, Charlene Tilton

Synopsis: As season eight of Dallas gets under way, Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) painfully convalesces from the gunshot wound that felled him at the end of season seven. The most likely suspect would seem to be Cliff Barnes (Ken Kercheval), the brother of Bobby's ex-wife, Pam (Victoria Principal), but in Read More

Dallas: Season 07

Actors: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Barbara Bel Geddes, Charlene Tilton

Synopsis: The fire that trapped J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman), his wife, Sue Ellen (Linda Gray), their son, John Ross (now played by Omri Katz), and J.R.'s half-brother, Ray (Steve Kanaly), in the Southfork mansion at the end of Dallas' sixth season is still raging as season seven begins. Fortunately, J.R. et Read More

Dallas: Season 06

Actors: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Victoria Principal, Barbara Bel Geddes

Synopsis: Season six of Dallas opens with the resolution of the cliffhanger that ended season five, as Cliff Barnes (Ken Kercheval), hated rival of conniving oil tycoon J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman), recovers from his suicide attempt. Though ostensibly ruined and disgraced through J.R.'s machinations, Cliff Read More

American Eagle

Deadly Encounter

Synopsis: In this exciting aerial actioner, a young woman convinces her ex-boy friend, who used to fly a chopper in Vietnam, to help her out. The airborne special effects are particularly effective. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

S.O.B.

Actors: Julie Andrews, William Holden, Marisa Berenson, Larry Hagman, Robert Loggia

Synopsis: In this biting comedy satirizing Hollywood cynicism from writer-director Blake Edwards, Felix Farmer (Richard Mulligan) is a motion picture director whose career is on the skids. Having just completed a family musical that is sure to be a $30 million flop, Felix knows that his days are numbered Read More

Jag Rodnar

Actors: Gunnar Hellstrom, Bibi Andersson, Larry Hagman, Vic Silayan

Synopsis: Director Vilgot Sjoman of I Am Curious - Yellow fame, has created this film of a director named Gunnar Sjoeman (Gunnar Hellstrom) making a movie in the Philippines that is based on Joseph Conrad's book "Victory." After arriving on location, the director finds that his leading man has shafted him Read More

Dallas: Season 05

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Victoria Principal, Barbara Bel Geddes

Synopsis: Having closed its fourth season with the unidentified body of a young woman floating in the Ewing family swimming pool, Dallas launches its fifth season by casting suspicion of murder on both of the series' chief antagonists: the cunning, consciousless Texas oil tycoon J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman) Read More

Dallas: Season 04

Actors: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Victoria Principal, Barbara Bel Geddes

Synopsis: "Who shot J.R.?" Those were the words on the lips of Dallas fans throughout the world as the popular prime-time serial launched its fourth season on CBS. Speculation ran high over the identity of the person who, at the tail end of season three, had pumped several slugs in the chest of the Read More

Dallas: Season 03

Actors: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Victoria Principal, Barbara Bel Geddes

Synopsis: Steadily building up its viewership during its first few seasons, Dallas certainly gives its fans their money's worth during season three, which begins as the newborn son of the delightfully demonic oil tycoon J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman) and his wife, Sue Ellen (Victoria Principal), is kidnapped. Read More

A Cry for Justice

The Last of the Good Guys

Actors: Robert Culp, Dennis Dugan, Larry Hagman

Synopsis: If it hadn't been a TV movie, Last of the Good Guys might have made a good episode of Car 54 Where Are You? The main good guy is rookie cop Dennis Dugan, who is assigned to take over for an ailing veteran police officer. When the replaced officer dies, Dugan realizes that the man's widow will Read More

The President's Mistress

Actors: Beau Bridges, Susan Blanchard, Larry Hagman, Karen Grassle, Don Porter, Gail Strickland

Synopsis: Made for television, this little gem was based on a novel by Patrick Anderson. The title character, the sister of a government courier, barely has time to acquaint herself with the audience before she is murdered - leading us to wonder who did it, and if it is, in fact, true that the dead woman Read More

Dallas: Season 01

Actors: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Victoria Principal, Barbara Bel Geddes

Synopsis: Dallas begins its original five-week trial run as Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy), youngest son of Texas oil millionaire Jock Ewing (James Davis), shows up at Southfork, his family's estate, with new bride Pamela Barnes (Victoria Principal) in tow. "Your folks are gonna throw me off the ranch" worries Read More

Superman: The Movie

Actors: Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper

Synopsis: Richard Donner's big-budget blockbuster Superman: The Movie is an immensely entertaining recounting of the origin of the famous comic book character. Opening on Krypton (where Marlon Brando plays Superman's father), the film follows the Man of Steel (Christopher Reeve) as he's sent to Earth where Read More

Checkered Flag or Crash

Actors: Joe Don Baker, Susan Sarandon, Larry Hagman, Alan Vint, Parnelli Jones

Synopsis: In this chase movie (also titled "Crash") greedy and desperate race car drivers must rip through a thousand miles of the Phillippine jungle to win $100,000 dollars. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Dallas: Season 02

Actors: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Victoria Principal, Barbara Bel Geddes

Synopsis: Having proven itself as a viewer magnet during its five-episode trial in the spring of 1978, the multi-plotted prime-time serial Dallas launched its second season (and its first "full" one) in the fall of that same year, though it would not be until the series was moved from Saturday to Friday Read More

A Double Life

Synopsis: Initially telecast September 9, 1978, A Double Life was the pilot film for the weekly TV series Sword of Justice. Dack Rambo stars as Jeff Cole, who has just spent three years in prison after being framed on an embezzlement charge. Swearing vengeance against the actual crook -- who was also Read More

The Rockford Files: Forced Retirement

Synopsis: Beth (Gretchen Corbett) asks Jim (James Garner) a favor on behalf of her current client (and her onetime college rival) Susan Kenniston (Margaret Impert). Jim is to check up on Richard Lessing (a pre-Dallas Larry Hagman) the principal investor in a suspicious-looking undersea research project in Read More

The Rhinemann Exchange

Actors: Stephen Collins, Lauren Hutton, Claude Akins, Vince Edwards, José Ferrer, Larry Hagman

Synopsis: One of four miniseries comprising NBC's Best Sellers anthology, The Rhinemann Exchange was adapted from the Robert Ludlum novel of the same name. Stephen Collins stars as American intelligence officer David Spaulding, who under cover of his musician father's concert tours embarks upon a number of Read More

Intimate Strangers

Synopsis: This grim made-for-TV domestic drama examines the terrible effects caused by spousal abuse. The story centers on the mental and physical battering endured by a wife at the hands of her troubled husband. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Crash

Synopsis: This early effort from producer/director Charles Band stars Jose Ferrer and Sue Lyon as an unlikely married couple. Insanely jealous, Ferrer tries to murder Lyon. His weapon: an antique car, possessed by a demonic spirit. Lyon retaliates with a strange device that dispenses black magic. Just one Read More

The Eagle Has Landed

Actors: Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: John Sturges directed this taut adaptation of Jack Higgins' suspense novel about an attempted kidnapping of Winston Churchill by the German high command during World War II. When it is discovered that in November 1943 Winston Churchill is scheduled to spend a weekend in a country home in Norfolk Read More

The Return of the World's Greatest Detective

Synopsis: Larry Hagman stars as an incompetent New York motorcycle cop who suffers a head injury. Upon awakening, he's convinced that he is actually Sherlock Holmes, on the trail of the elusive Professor Moriarity. Jenny O'Hara plays a psychologist named Watson, who of course finds herself the would-be Read More

The Big Bus

Actors: Joseph Bologna, Stockard Channing, John Beck, René Auberjonois, Ned Beatty

Synopsis: The Big Bus is set aboard a nonstop, nuclear-powered luxury bus commandeered by Joseph Bologna. Naturally, Bologna is a tortured hero with a deep dark secret (he keeps insisting he didn't eat all those passengers on his last disastrous drive). Stockard Channing and Harold Gould play the designers Read More

Mother, Jugs & Speed

Actors: Raquel Welch, Bill Cosby, Harvey Keitel, Allen Garfield, Larry Hagman

Synopsis: In this frantic black comedy, Harry Fishbine (Allen Garfield) is the proprietor of the F&B Ambulance Service, a low-budget free-lance rescue service which is struggling to keep up with the bigger and better funded competition after a law in Los Angeles decrees that the first ambulance to arrive at Read More

Sarah T.: Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic

Actors: Linda Blair

Synopsis: Fresh from her success in The Exorcist (and several years away from her tenure as queen of the women in prison flicks), Linda Blair stars in this searing TV movie. Sarah (Blair), a normal teenaged girl, begins drinking socially at high school parties. She soon finds that she can't stop--and even Read More

The Big Rip-Off

Synopsis: The Big Rip-Off was the pilot film for Tony Curtis' shortlived TV series McCoy. Curtis plays a sly but basically decent con artist who is engaged to recover $250,000 in ransom money from a recent high-society kidnapping. In the tradition of The Sting, Curtis uses scam tactics to get the money Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Dead Air

Synopsis: A post-I Dream of Jeannie, pre-Dallas Larry Hagman guest stars as Terry Vine, the smarmy host of a radio advice show. Enjoying the idolatry of his many female fans, Vine begins dating one of them, who after he proves himself to be a louse threatens him with exposure. Shortly afterward, the woman Read More

Stardust

Actors: Rose Marie Klespitz, Rick Lee Parmentier, David Essex, Adam Faith, Larry Hagman, Rosalind Ayres

Synopsis: Stardust was the sequel to That'll be the Day, a 1973 film à clef about the rise of a Beatles-like rock group. Real-life rock star David Essex plays singer Jim Maclaine (read: John Lennon), whose sudden rise to fame has enriched him beyond his wildest dreams. His perspective and sense of values Read More

Harry and Tonto

Actors: Art Carney, Ellen Burstyn, Chief Dan George, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Larry Hagman

Synopsis: In Paul Mazursky's rueful character drama, 57-year-old Art Carney plays Harry, a 70-plus Manhattan widower who loses his tiny apartment to the wrecking ball. Accompanied by his pet, an aged cat named Tonto, Harry sets out on an odyssey to Los Angeles. During his journey, he finds a kindred spirit Read More

Sidekicks

Synopsis: This comedy western is the failed pilot for a TV series based on the 1971 feature film Skin Game. Like the original, this tells the story of two bungling con artists, one white the other black, who ride around trying to collect an outlaw bounty and outsmart slave traders. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Hurricane

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Hurricane was based on William C. Anderson's novel Hurricane Hunters, which, in turn, was inspired by events surrounding Hurricane Camille in 1969. The scene is Cassler, MS, where a pair of hurricane chasers, patrol-plane pilot Major Stoddard (Martin Milner) and seafarer Paul Damon Read More

Antonio

Synopsis: Singer Trini Lopez proved he could act in The Dirty Dozen. He went on to show that he could carry a picture in Antonio, though precious few filmgoers got the chance to see it. Lopez plays a poverty-stricken potter in a South American village. Enter Larry Hagman, an American oilman on the lam from Read More

The Alpha Caper

Actors: Henry Fonda, Leonard Nimoy, Larry Hagman, James McEachin, Elena Verdugo

Synopsis: Henry Fonda stars in this TV movie as a worn-out probation officer who decides to heist a $30,000,000 gold shipment, using three ex-convicts as his "mob". Fonda's cohorts include Leonard Nimoy, James McEachin and Larry Hagman. The plan is meticulous (due in part to Fonda's inside knowledge), the Read More

Bloodsport

Actors: Ben Johnson, Gary Busey, Larry Hagman, Bill [William] Lucking, David F. Doyle

Synopsis: Bloodsport began life under the less alluring title Poetry in Motion. Gary Busey and Ben Johnson star as, respectively, a high-school football quarterback and his "winning is the only thing" father. The more his dad pushes him, the less Busey truly wants to be an athlete. The inter-family Read More

What Are Best Friends For?

Synopsis: In this comedy, a jealous wife tosses her husband out of the house after he spends the night at the home of a friend. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

No Place to Run

Actors: Herschel Bernardi, Scott Jacoby

Synopsis: The made-for-television No Place to Run stars Herschel Bernardi as a seriously ill 73-year-old grandparent. Despite his many ailments, Bernardi is roused into action when he is denied custody of his orphaned grandson (Scott Jacoby). Grandpa and grandson decide to skip town together, with the Read More

Beware! The Blob

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Stahl, Godfrey Cambridge

Synopsis: Cashing in on director Larry Hagman's fame as star of Dallas, a canny distributor reissued Beware! the Blob (aka Son of Blob) with the come-on line "The Film That J.R. Shot!" Picking up where the original Blob (1958) left off, the film begins as the pudding-like goo thaws out and begins wreaking Read More

A Capitol Affair

Synopsis: The regular stars of the TV series Name of the Game (Gene Barry, Robert Stack, Tony Franciosa) keep a low profile in this episode, titled A Capitol Affair. The emphasis is on Howard Publications journalist Suzanne Pleshette, who labors long and hard to win her politician boyfriend Monte Markham a Read More

The Hired Hand

Actors: Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Verna Bloom, Robert Pratt, Severn Darden

Synopsis: Meeting largely mixed reviews during its first run in 1971, counterculture icon Peter Fonda's directorial debut was restored and remastered for its 30-year anniversary. The film opens with three drifters greeting the morning by cavorting in a sun-dabbled mountain river. Harry Collings (Fonda) Read More

A Howling in the Woods

Synopsis: Although advertised as a "reunion" of former I Dream of Jeannie stars Barbara Eden and Larry Hagman, the made-for-TV A Howling in the Woods is actually a vehicle for Eden, with Hagman contributing a glorified cameo role. The scene is a remote wooded area in Nevada, where disillusioned housewife Read More

Getting Away From It All

Synopsis: In this drama, two middle-aged businessmen decide to chuck it all and get back to the land. Unfortunately, they too soon discover that living a "natural" life isn't all it is cracked up to be; they return to the rat race from whence they came. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Up in the Cellar

Actors: Joan Collins, Larry Hagman, Wes Stern, Judy Pace, David Arkin

Synopsis: A light, almost beach-party atmosphere pervades this comedy, based on The Late Boy Wonder, a novel by Angus Hall. Larry Hagman plays a college president with political aspirations who flunks out a college student (Wes Stern) and then has the temerity to save the boy from committing suicide. In Read More

Vanished

Actors: Chet Huntley

Synopsis: Vanished earned a niche in video history as the first two-part TV movie. Based on Fletcher Knebel's novel, the story concerns the sudden disappearance of a top Presidential adviser. Grilled by the media, the President's press secretary (James Farentino) reveals very little, simply because he Read More

Triple Play 1

Synopsis: This comedy is comprised of three short stories. In the first, a spy leader sends his men on an assignment. In the second, a wealthy couple forsakes their opulent lifestyle to become a butler and a cook. In the final story, a village doctor hires a pretty assistant. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More