Larry PeerceFilmography

Touched by an Angel: I Will Walk With You, Part 1

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In the first half of Touched by an Angel's series finale, Heavenly caseworker Monica (Roma Downey) is at long last on the verge of being promoted to supervisor. First, however, she is required to pass one last test--and it's a formidable one indeed. Monica must somehow restore hope and faith to Read More

Touched by an Angel: Virtual Reality

Crew: Director

Synopsis: 17-year-old Victor Jackson (Billy Kay) is accused of using his car as a lethal weapon, deliberately running over a pedestrian while imitating the ultra-violent video game "Carjack 2000: Millenium Mayhem." That Victor's trial is not an ordinary one is tipped off by the fact that Tess (Della Reese) Read More

Touched by an Angel: I Will Walk With You, Part 2

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In the conclusion of Touched by an Angel's two-part series finale, it appears as though Monica will fail her final test to become a Heavenly Supervisor. The town of Ascention remains entrapped in the grip of bitterness and hatred following a schoolhouse boiler explosion which killed all of the Read More

Touched by an Angel: The Blue Angel

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Ernest Borgnine guest stars as veteran televsion director Max Blandish, a once-idealistic media pioneer who has become jaded and disillusioned during his 50 years in the business. If bitterness doesn't kill Max, his heavy smoking will, and thus there isn't a whole lot of time left for Monica (Roma Read More

Touched by an Angel: Two Sides to Every Angel

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Series star Roma Downey plays a dual role in this episode, which marks the return of angelic Monica's demonic twin Monique. Posing as Monica, Monique tricks angel-in-training Gloria (Valerie Bertinelli) into breaking up newlyweds Kristie (Sarah Thompson) and Doug (Ryan Hurts), and driving poor Read More

Touched by an Angel: I Am an Angel

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Young Mickey Dempsey (Matt Weinberg) is in complete denial over his mother's death. Worried about Mickey's mental health, his older brother Ryan (Tony Denman) asks the help of actor Guy Garfield (Lee Horsley), who plays a Heavenly dogooder on the popular TV series "The Avenging Angel." Alas Read More

Touched by an Angel: Angels Anonymous

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Monica (Roma Downey) and the angels must restore hope and self-esteem in the heart of Dave, an aging, dispirited busboy at Bubba's Polynesian Paradise. So down is Dave on himself in particular and life in general that he may become a willing accomplice to a sinister arson scheme. All this changes Read More

Touched by an Angel: True Confessions

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Monica (Roma Downey) shows up as a social worker at the Kewanee Women's Correctional Facility, and in this capacity meets Carol (Viveka Davis), who is doing 25-to-Life for murder--but insists she is innocent, and that she has no memory of the night of the killing. Meanwhile, Andrew (John Dye) is Read More

Second Honeymoon

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Married for twenty years, Maggie (Roma Downey) and George (Tim Matheson) have drifted apart and are on the verge of divorce. To prevent this, the couple's kids (and their respective parents) bankroll a second honeymoon vacation on a lush tropical island. But though Maggie and George struggle Read More

Touched by an Angel: A Clown's Prayer

Crew: Director

Synopsis: 12-year-old Davey Tucker (Jeremy James Kissner) hates his nomadic existence as the son of a travelling circus clown. He is also somewhat ashamed of the fact that his father Leroy (Phil Fondacaro) is a dwarf. Into this tense situation comes Heavenly casewalker Monica (Roma Downey), posing as a Read More

Touched by an Angel: An Angel on My Tree

Crew: Director

Synopsis: It's Christmas time again, and angels Monica (Roma Downey), Tess (Della Reese) and Andrew (John Dye) are on their traditional Yuletide assignment. The three angels become involved in the trials and tribulations of the Benson family, whose son Cody (Christopher Marquette) suffers from Tourette's Read More

Holy Joe

Crew: Director

Actors: John Ritter, Meredith Baxter

Synopsis: Can a man who doesn't believe in miracles possess the power to heal? This is the question posed to the protagonist -- and the audience -- of the made-for-TV Holy Joe. John Ritter stars as Joe Cass, a small-town Episcopal rector who preaches the gospel of pragmatism and logic. Things take an Read More

A Test of Love

Crew: Director

Actors: Roma Downey, William Russ, Kristina Malota, Penny Johnson

Synopsis: Cassie Whitman (Roma Downey) is at first relieved that her husband David (William Russ) has survived a deadly plane crash. But as the comatose David recuperates, Cassie learns a few things that will seriously jeopardize the future of her marriage. For one thing, David's travelling companion the Read More

Touched by an Angel: The Occupant

Crew: Director

Synopsis: It is Halloween, and things get pretty scary in a hurry when a young man named Lonnie (Titus Welliver) tries to kill himself--just after recognizing Andrew (John Dye as the Angel of Death. It turns out that Lonnie is suffering from Multiple Personality Syndrome, and that he was pushed to the brink Read More

Christmas Every Day

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This junior-level Ground Hog Day stars Erik Von Detten as Billy Jackson, a 13-year-old Scrooge in the making. Lacking the athletic prowess to play with his Christmas presents, mooning over a girl who doesn't know he's alive (and whose boyfriend is a bully), and ruminating over the fact that his Read More

The Abduction

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Based on a true story, the made-for-cable The Abduction is told in flashback from the viewpoint of Kate Finley (Victoria Principal), who for 11 years was trapped into an abusive marriage with former police officer Paul Olavsky (Robert Hays). Accustomed to violently taking out his frustrations on Read More

A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story

Crew: Director

Actors: Shannen Doherty, John Clark Gable

Synopsis: This made-for-television movie tells the story of Margaret Mitchell, the well-known author of Gone With The Wind. Young TV-star-turned-Hollywood-bad-girl Shannon Doherty stars as Pulitzer Prize-winner Mitchell, whose impulses and insecurity inspired her passionate work. John Clark Gable, son of Read More

Heaven and Hell: North and South, Book III

Crew: Director

Murder So Sweet

Crew: Director

Actors: Harry Hamlin, Helen Shaver, Eileen Brennan, Terence Knox, Faith Ford

Synopsis: Made for video, the Canadian Murder So Sweet stars Harry Hamlin as a ladies' man with a smooth line and a cool approach. Trouble arises only whenever one of Hamlin's girlfriends starts insisting upon a committment. That's when he settles the argument with murder. Helen Shaver, who suspects that Read More

Prison for Children

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Made for television, Prison for Children is set in a brutal boys' reformatory. New superintendent John Ritter tries to improve conditions, but finds himself up against a wall of indifference and red tape. The film shows how a supposedly "beneficial" system of incarceration and detention can Read More

Child of Rage

Crew: Director

Actors: Mel Harris, Dwight Schultz, Mariette Hartley, Ashley Peldon, Rosanna de Soto

Synopsis: A terrible secret is uncovered in a child's past in this made-for-cable drama. Based on a true story, Ashley Peldon stars as 7-year-old Catherine, the newly adopted child of the Tylers. When Catherine turns increasingly violent towards her new parents and her natural brother, the Tylers try Read More

The Court Martial of Jackie Robinson

Crew: Director

Actors: Andre Braugher, Stan Shaw

Synopsis: Made for the TNT cable network, The Court Martial of Jackie Robinson concentrates on the wartime service of major league baseball's first black player. Robinson (Andre Braugher), a star athlete at UCLA, is drafted during World War II. He hopes that his academic record will assure him entry into Read More

Wired

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Chiklis, Ray Sharkey, J.T. Walsh, Patti D'Arbanville, Lucinda Jenney

Synopsis: This film, loosely-based on the book by Bob Woodward, follows the career of comedian John Belushi (Michael Chiklis) as his spirit is guided through the past by the Angel Velasquez (Ray Sharkey). ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Neon Empire

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Novelist/journalist Pete Hammill was responsible for the screenplay of the two-part TV movie The Neon Empire. Ray Sharkey stars as a Bugsy Siegel-like New York gangster. It is Sharkey's dream to turn the sleepy Nevada town of Las Vegas into the gambling capital of the world. Part One, running 105 Read More

Elvis and Me

Crew: Director

Actors: Dale Midkiff, Susan Walters, Billy Green Bush, Jon Cypher, Linda G. Miller

Synopsis: It was axiomatic back in the 1980s that, if you put the name "Elvis" in the title of your made-for-TV movie, your ratings would go through the roof. Such was the case of the two-part Elvis and Me, which not only cleaned up in the ratings, but also earned a TV Guide cover (the week , before Read More

Queenie

Crew: Director

Actors: Mia Sara, Kirk Douglas, Martin Balsam, Claire Bloom, Topol

Synopsis: The two-part TV movie Queenie was adapted from the roman a clef by Michael Korda. This is the story of Queenie Kelly,an English girl (Mia Sara) from the slums of Calcutta who is kept from full knowledge of her Indian heritage by her protective mother (Jean Simmons). As a means of bettering Read More

The Fifth Missile

Crew: Director

Actors: David Soul, Sam Waterston, Robert Conrad

Synopsis: Filmed in Malta, this three-hour TV movie nailbiter was based on the novel The Gold Crew by Thomas M. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson. David Soul plays the commander of a Trident submarine, engaged in an test designed to measure the crew's psychological reaction to an actual nuclear missile launch. Read More

Love Lives On

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Love Lives On is the apotheosis of all made-for-TV "problem" films. The focus is on 15-year-old Susan Wallace (Mary Stuart Masterson), who in the course of the film's 97 minutes runs the gamut of crises from drug addiction to unwed pregnancy to cancer. In the climax, poor Susan must decide whether Read More

Hard to Hold

Crew: Director

Actors: Rick Springfield, Janet Eilber, Patti Hansen, Albert Salmi, Gregory Itzin

Synopsis: In Hard to Hold, pop singer Rick Springfield is cast as an immensely successful recording artist named James Roberts. As a result of a fender-bender accident, Roberts meets and falls in love with child psychologist Diana Lawson (Janet Eilber), who is not the least bit impressed with James' wealth Read More

I Take These Men

Crew: Director

Synopsis: I Take These Men is a variation on the 1941 Ginger Rogers theatrical feature Tom, Dick, and Harry. While being feted at a surprise 15th wedding anniversary party, Carol Sherwood (Susan St. James) startles the well-wishers by asking her dull dentist husband, Stuart (James Sherwood), for a divorce. Read More

Love Child

Crew: Director

Actors: Amy Madigan, Beau Bridges, Mackenzie Phillips, Albert Salmi, Joanna Merlin

Synopsis: Based upon the true story of a woman's battle to raise her baby in prison after having become pregnant by a prison guard while serving a twenty-year stretch for robbery, Amy Madigan, in her debut film, delivers an impressive intensity and range as Terry Jean Moore, a wild young woman with a chip Read More

Why Would I Lie?

Crew: Director

Actors: Treat Williams, Lisa Eichhorn, Gabriel Swann, Valerie Curtin, Anne Byrne

Synopsis: In this romantic drama, Treat Williams plays Cletus, a rather unpleasant and morally shaky man desperate to keep his mitts on the one-million-dollar inheritance bequeathed to himself and his siblings. He improbably accepts a job as a social worker, then becomes emotionally involved with Jeorge (Gabriel Swann Read More

The Bell Jar

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Marilyn Hassett, Julie Harris, Anne Jackson, Barbara Barrie, Donna Mitchell

Synopsis: Poet Sylvia Plath wrote an immensely popular roman à clef, The Bell Jar, which chronicles a woman's descent from functioning as a highly educated, motivated, and capable young woman to being completely incapacitated at the hands of mental illness. Sadly, Plath committed suicide at age 30 Read More

The Other Side of the Mountain 2

Crew: Director

Actors: Marilyn Hassett, Timothy Bottoms, Nan Martin, Belinda Montgomery, Gretchen Corbett

Synopsis: This tear-jerking sequel chronicles the further struggles and triumphs of former Olympic-hopeful downhill skier Jill Kinmont who was paralyzed in 1956 after a mishap during a race. This story picks up after she recovers from the death of the daredevil pilot who helped her come to grips with her Read More

Two-Minute Warning

Crew: Director

Actors: Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, Martin Balsam, Beau Bridges, Marilyn Hassett

Synopsis: Larry Peerce directed this tired disaster movie about a mad sniper loose in a football stadium. At the beginning, the sniper picks off a cyclist for practice and then takes roost in the top tower of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Sent in to stop the terror is Captain Peter Holly (Charlton Heston Read More

The Other Side of the Mountain

Crew: Director

Actors: Marilyn Hassett, Beau Bridges, Belinda Montgomery, Nan Martin, William Bryant

Synopsis: A woman struggles to rebuild her life after a devastating accident in this drama based on the true story of Jill Kinmont. Kinmont (played by Marilyn Hassett) was a top ranked amateur downhill skier who seemed assured of a place on the 1956 Olympic team. But while racing in Utah's Snow Cup Read More

The Stranger Who Looks Like Me

Crew: Director

Actors: Patrick Duffy

Synopsis: In this 1974 TV movie, Meredith Baxter and Beau Bridges portray adult adoptees, desirous of meeting their natural parents. Through the auspices of a tracing agency, Baxter, Bridges and several others (including future TV luminary Patrick Duffy) locate their actual mothers and fathers, with results Read More

Ash Wednesday

Crew: Director

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Henry Fonda, Helmut Berger, Keith Baxter, Maurice Teynac

Synopsis: A woman undergoes a surgeon's scalpel in a last-ditch attempt to win back her husband in this drama. Barbara Sawyer (Elizabeth Taylor) has been married to her husband, Mark (Henry Fonda), for 30 years, and she's afraid the spark has gone out of their relationship. Barbara is convinced the problem Read More

A Separate Peace

Crew: Director

Actors: Parker Stevenson, John Heyl

Synopsis: Seven teenage prep-school students become young men as they face the realities of WW II in this drama set in 1942. Much of the tale centers on two roommates who seem exceptionally close, but whether or not they are homosexually involved is never made clear. But when one feels betrayed by the Read More

The Sporting Club

Crew: Director

Actors: Ralph Purdum, Diane Rousseau, John Seymour

Synopsis: This exploitative melodrama is set in northern Michigan where an exclusive private hunting club is located. There some of the country's richest, most powerful men come to relax and get closer to nature. Unfortunately, that means that they become engaged in debauchery and become brutal, amoral Read More

Goodbye, Columbus

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Benjamin, Ali MacGraw, Jack Klugman, Nan Martin, Michael Meyers

Synopsis: Based on one of author Phillip Roth's shorter works, Goodbye Columbus stars Richard Benjamin as Neil, a young man of humble means who falls in love with Jewish-American-princess Brenda (Ali MacGraw). Their romance is out of the question so far as Brenda's suburbanite parents are concerned, so Neil Read More

The Incident

Crew: Director

Actors: Tony Musante, Martin Sheen, Beau Bridges, Jack Gilford, Ed McMahon, Thelma Ritter

Synopsis: Martin Sheen may be the Grey Eminence of movies nowadays, but back in 1967 he often as not played switchblade-wielding punks. This he does, in the company of Tony Musante, in The Incident. After mugging a helpless old man, Sheen and Musante take over a subway car, terrorizing its occupants. In Stagecoach Read More

Branded: The Wolfers

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Jason (Chuck Connors) rescues a white girl (Zeme North) dressed in Indian garb, who has been staked out in a clearing near the corpse of an Indian brave. Despite the girl's delirium, Jason soon discovers that she is the victim of three crazed wolf hunters, one of whom intends to claim her as "his Read More

The Big T.N.T. Show

Crew: Director

Actors: Roger Miller, Joan Baez

Synopsis: Future Goodbye Columbus director Larry Peerce was still only a few years out of the University of North Carolina when he directed The Big T.N.T. Show. This sequel to 1964's The T.A.M.I. Show is, like its predecessor, little more than a concert film, but a well photographed one (originally on Read More

Branded: A Proud Town

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Elderly tailor Julius Perrin (Ludwig Donath) establishes a home for the orphans in his community. A few days before Christmas, the townsfolk try to force Perrin out of town, accusing one of the orphans of killing the son of Martin Stoddard (Ken Mayer), the community's leading citizen. It is only a Read More

That Was Rock

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This rollicking music film is a compilation of two previous films from the mid-1960s, The T.A.M.I. Show and The Big T.N.T. Show. Chuck Berry hosts the acts which include some of the greatest R&B acts and rock & roll acts of that generation. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Branded: Seward's Folly

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This is the first of several Branded episodes in which fictional ex-military officer Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) has a significant influence upon actual American history. In this instance, Jason is hired to survey the vast territory of Alaska, recently purchased for the U.S. by William Henry Read More

Branded: The Richest Man in Boot Hill

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Though he hardly relishes the assignment, Jason (Chuck Connors) agrees to help a rural undertaker haul a coffin into town. Little does Jason know that the coffin's occupant is a very-much-alive outlaw who intends to rob the local Wells Fargo office. J. Pat O'Malley makes a return appearance as Read More

Branded: The Bar Sinister

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) must act quickly when Caleb Reymer (Steve McNally) shows up on the land owned by little Jimmy Whitlaw (Michel Petit), the orphaned son of Jason's old friend. Claiming to be Jimmy's uncle, Caleb also insists that the land belongs to him. The only person who knows the Read More

Branded: I Killed Jason McCord

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The unexpected arrival of notorious "coward" Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) in a small town proves to be both surprising and embarrassing for a young ne'er-do-well named Tuck Fraser (Larry Pennell). Thanks to a series of incredible circumstances, Tuck is being lauded by the local populace as the man Read More

Branded: $10,000 for Durango

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Jason (Chuck Connors) shows up at the Durango bank for the purpose of cash his employer's $10,000 draft. This transaction is interrupted by outlaw Frank Ross (Lloyd Bochner) and his gang, who proceed to make a large withdrawal--at gunpoint. It now falls to Jason to retrieve the stolen bank draft Read More

One Potato, Two Potato

Crew: Director

Actors: Barbara Barrie, Bernie Hamilton, Richard Mulligan, Robert Earl Jones, Harry Bellaver

Synopsis: Filmed in Ohio, One Potato, Two Potato was a "critic's darling" film of 1964 dealing with the then-daring topic of miscegenation. White Barbara Barrie divorces her husband Richard Mulligan, then falls in love with and marries African-American Bernie Hamilton. When the ex-husband sues for custody Read More