Laurence LuckinbillFilmography

Murder, She Wrote: Dear Deadly

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) installs herself in the offices of a San Francisco paper, there to concentrate on serializing one of her novels. At the same time, the paper's advice columnist has become the target of a campaign of harassment. Jessica warns the columnist to take the situation seriously Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Lone Witness

Synopsis: Having just wrapped up four seasons of Doogie Howser MD, Neil Patrick Harris appears in this episode as delivery boy Tommy Ramsen. Having been found kneeling at the body of a murdered woman, Tommy claims that he merely witnessed the crime--and that he himself was shot by the killer. The police Read More

Lincoln: The Making of a President, 1860-1862

Synopsis: A shrewd politician, Abraham Lincoln had the intelligence, ambition, and principles to grow into his job as president. This is the first of four videos in the Lincoln series, which originally aired on PBS. Produced and directed by Peter W. Kunhardt, this program is narrated by renowned actor James Read More

Lincoln: Now He Belongs to the Ages, 1865

Synopsis: This video is the fourth installment of the Lincoln series, originally aired on PBS. This volume focuses on the last days and hours of Abraham Lincoln's life. Viewers watch as Lincoln's enemies plot their final revenge on the man they believed had dishonored their heritage. The video also reveals Read More

Lincoln: The Pivotal Year, 1863

Synopsis: President Abraham Lincoln leads the Union in the fight to end the awful bloodshed of the Civil War. The year is 1863. The president had a continuous struggle with the commanders of his army, and the bloodshed from the fighting at Antietam and Fredericksburg distressed him greatly. 1863 was the Read More

Law & Order: Forgiveness

Synopsis: A priest named Father Jay (Luke Reilly) comes to the defense of Tommy Beltran (Luis Antonio Ramos), a poor youth accused of murdering his wealthy girlfriend. It appears that the girl's short-tempered father (David Leary) had ordered her to break off the relationship. But if the D.A.'s office wants Read More

Lincoln: I Want to Finish This Job, 1864

Synopsis: By the third year of the Civil War, personal and national tragedy had worn down President Lincoln. However, he focused on his job tenaciously, having a strong sense of history. This is the third of four programs in the Lincoln series, which originally aired on PBS. Produced and directed by Peter Read More

Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie

Crew: Executive Producer, Screen Story

Synopsis: Lucy Arnaz, daughter of comedy duo Desi and Lucie Arnaz, hosts this intimate retrospective of her legendary parents' lives. Featuring never-before-seen color family movies, as well as a variety of interviews with family, friends, and business associates, this documentary sheds a sometimes painful Read More

Point of No Return - The War in the Gulf

Synopsis: This documentary, narrated by Laurence Luckinbill, chronicles the history of the 1991 Persian Gulf War. The conflict began when Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein sent troops into neighboring Kuwait to take control of oil fields there. The United States, concerned about its oil interests, responded to Read More

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, George Takei, Walter Koenig, James Doohan

Synopsis: Kirk (William Shatner), McCoy (DeForest Kelley), and Spock (Leonard Nimoy) are enjoying a vacation in Yosemite National Park when duty calls. Vulcan cult leader Sybok (Laurence Luckinbill) and his followers have invaded a "planet of peace," where delegates from hostile races co-exist in a sort of Read More

Messenger of Death

Actors: Charles Bronson, Trish VanDevere, Laurence Luckinbill, Daniel Benzali, Marilyn Hassett

Synopsis: Even though Charles Bronson doesn't carry a gun in this feature, there are still plenty of the fights, car chases, and explosions -- all hallmarks of Bronson's action films. Bronson plays Denver Tribune crime reporter Garrett Smith, who investigates the murder mystery of a Mormon family. Smith Read More

Cocktail

Actors: Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown, Elisabeth Shue, Lisa Banes, Laurence Luckinbill

Synopsis: Tom Cruise juggles Martini shakers and ice cubes as the materialistic Brian Flanagan, a bartender who drops out of school to search for the perfect "rich chick" who will bankroll him into luxury. Brian meets up with bar veteran Doug Couglin (Bryan Brown) and they put together a dance-duo Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Murder Through the Looking Glass

Synopsis: This week, Jessica is in Hartford, Connecticut--in the vicinity of Trinity College, to be exact. While walking along minding her business, Jessica is witness to the slaying of Adam Cosgrove,who with his dying breath confesses that he is a professional hit man. Before long, Jessica finds herself Read More

To Heal a Nation

Actors: Eric Roberts

Synopsis: To Heal a Nation is the true story of Jan Scruggs (Eric Roberts), a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War. In 1979, Scruggs, employed by the US Department of Labor, becomes obsessed with the dream of erecting a monument to those who died in Vietnam. In pursuit of this dream, Scruggs and his fellow Read More

One Terrific Guy

Synopsis: In this teen drama, a courageous high school girl accuses her well-respected coach of improper conduct. Despite severe ostracism from her peers and the faculty, the brave girl refuses to back down until justice is done. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: A Lady in the Lake

Synopsis: Retreating to a placid Maine lake resort in order to finish her latest novel without distractions, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) decides to go birdwatching one fine morning. During this pursuit, Jessica witnesses what seems to be a struggle between a man and a woman in a boat on the lake, ending with Read More

Not for Publication

Actors: Nancy Allen, David Naughton, Laurence Luckinbill, Alice Ghostley

Synopsis: If the Perils of Pauline were set in a campy New York City with a dash of trash added in, Not for Publication would result, though the awful jokes and kinky characters are not going to be entertaining to everyone. Lois (Nancy Allen) is a reporter at a sleazoid newspaper, a paragon of yellow Read More

Second Thoughts

Actors: Lucie Arnaz, Craig Wasson, Ken Howard, Anne Schedeen, Arthur Rosenberg

Synopsis: In this skewed, unreal view of a woman's choice in men, almost nothing is believable. Amy (Lucie Arnaz) is a savvy, well-educated lawyer in Santa Fe who divorces her husband, an exec in the banking business, to become involved with Will (Craig Wasson) a street musician with the same iron-clad Read More

The Mating Season

Synopsis: Essentially a light-weight made for TV romance between different classes - this time a female attorney who meets a laundromat owner at a bird-watching retreat. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Five Forty-Eight

Actors: Mary Beth Hurt, Laurence Luckinbill, Laurinda Barrett, Philip Scher, Kathy Keeney

Synopsis: The questionable past of a philandering executive returns to haunt him when he least expects it as Tony-award-winning playwright Terrence McNally's tense adaptation of author John Cheever's short story comes to the Broadway stage. When a callous, white-collar power player seduced and fired his Read More

Columbo: Make Me a Perfect Murder

Synopsis: Trish Van Devere plays a television executive (evidently inspired by Faye Dunaway in Network) in the made-for-TV Make Me a Perfect Murder. Denied a promotion, Ms. Van Devere retaliates by "cancelling" her boss--permanently. Utilizing her knowledge of TV mysteries, she manages to misdirect the Read More

The Promise

Actors: Kathleen Quinlan, Stephen Collins, Beatrice Straight, Laurence Luckinbill, Michael O'Hare, William Prince

Synopsis: A woman is torn between betraying her benefactor and keeping her pledge to the man she loves in this romantic drama. Nancy (Kathleen Quinlan) and Michael (Stephen Collins) are two college students who have fallen in love and want to get married. However, Michael's widowed mother, Marion (Beatrice Straight Read More

Ike

Actors: Robert Duvall, Lee Remick

Synopsis: Robert Duvall stars as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in this made-for-TV biography, which focuses on his career in the military during World War II as he helped to guide Allied forces to victory. Along with Eisenhower's military exploits and political aspirations, Ike: The War Years also offers a Read More

The November Plan

The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case

Actors: Anthony Hopkins

Synopsis: The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case, based on newspaper coverage, court testimony and eyewitness accounts, was dramatized for television by J.P. Miller. Cliff DeYoung and Sian star as Charles Lindbergh and his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The couple's 2-year-old son Charles Jr. is kidnapped from the Read More

Money

Winner Take All

Synopsis: In this drama, a gambling-addicted housewife resorts to stealing from the family savings account to feed her obsession. Trouble ensues when her husband finds out. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Atlantic City Jackpot

Actors: Laurence Luckinbill, Graham Beckel, Regina Baff, Elizabeth Richards, Sam Levene

Synopsis: A young thug needs money, so he visits his girlfriend while she's baby-sitting. While there, he plans to tie up the girl, kidnap the child, and hold him for ransom in the hope that his wealthy father will pay up. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Panic on the 5:22

Synopsis: In this made-for-television disaster thriller, a carload rich commuters are held hostage by a trio of thugs. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The F.B.I.: Diamond Run

Synopsis: Laurence Luckinbill is cast as novice diamond smuggler James Danzer, who while eluding the FBI searches high and low for a buyer to take some stolen gems off his hands. In the course of events, Danzer kidnaps a blind woman named Claire (Elizabeth Ashley). Unless Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Read More

Murder Impossible

Synopsis: This mystery focuses on the theft of a computer which can instantly translate English into foreign languages after it's inventor is killed. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Corky

Synopsis: A grease monkey becomes so obsessed with stock-car racing that the rest of his life begins to fall apart in this character-driven drama. The one who suffers most from his fixation is his devoted wife whom he totally ignores until she gets a job and her husband begins thinking she is fooling around Read More

The Delphi Bureau

Actors: Celeste Holm

Synopsis: Delphi Bureau was the pilot film for a short-lived TV espionage series. Lawrence Luckinbill plays an operative for a secret agency that answers only to the US President. His current mission is to locate an entire fleet of obsolete Air Force planes that have vanished without a trace. Very ordinary Read More

Death Sentence

Actors: Nick Nolte, Cloris Leachman, Laurence Luckinbill

Synopsis: Originally made for television, this story focuses on a woman selected for jury duty. During a murder trial, she discovers that the accused is the wrong man; she also finds that the real killer is after her. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

And the Bones Came Together

Synopsis: Laurence Luckinbill stars in the taped-for-television thriller And the Bones Came Together. The scene is a cemetary, where the caretaker has just been laid off. Muttering dark oaths, the caretakers vows revenge...and soon afterward, a tombstone "weeps", and a woman rises from her grave. Featured Read More

Moonwalk One

Actors: Laurence Luckinbill

Synopsis: On July 20, 1969, Americans walked on the moon. This documentary, narrated by Laurence Luckinbill, details the history and progress of that expedition. Key segments of the film use official NASA photographs. One significant characteristic of this documentary's storytelling structure is that it Read More

Such Good Friends

Synopsis: Based upon the novel by Lois Gould and adapted (under the pseudonym Esther Dale) by Elaine May, Such Good Friends focuses on Julie Messinger (played by Dyan Cannon), a woman with intense, often wild emotions that are held in check beneath a rather conventional façade. After her chauvinistic and Read More

The Trouble With Women

Synopsis: In this detective drama, super police sleuth Dan August looks into two cases involving female murderers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Bonanza: Shadow of a Hero

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Dean Jagger, Laurence Luckinbill

Synopsis: Dean Jagger guest-stars as General Ira Cloninger, a legendary Indian fighter. The General hopes to ride into the Nevada governor's office on the coattails of his long-standing friendship with Ben Cartwright. The fly in the ointment is San Francisco reporter Freed (Laurence Luckinbill), who in Read More

The Boys in the Band

Actors: Kenneth Nelson, Frederick Combs, Leonard Frey, Cliff Gorman, Reuben Greene

Synopsis: "The Boys in the Band is not a musical" read the film's original advertisements. The film is set in the apartment of Michael (Kenneth Nelson), a homosexual who holds a birthday party for his friend Harold (Leonard Frey). As Michael and his gay buddies prepare for Harold's arrival, Michael's old Read More