Lee PurcellFilmography

Due South: Victoria's Secret, Part 2

Actors: Paul Gross, David Marciano, Beau Starr, Catherine Bruhier, Daniel Kash

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Fraser's (Paul Gross) former lover Victoria (Melina Kanakeredes reveals her true colors when she kills her former partner Jolly (Denis Forest) and frames Fraser (Paul Gross) and Ray (David Marciano) on a charge of passing stolen money. But is it truly her Read More

Due South: Juliet is Bleeding

Actors: Paul Gross, David Marciano, Beau Starr, Catherine Bruhier, Daniel Kash

Synopsis: Due South regular Daniel Kash exits the series in spectacular fashion when his character, Chicago detective Louis Gardino, is killed by a bomb intended for Ray (David Marciano). His grief exacerbated by a thirst for vengeance, Ray goes after the man whom he thinks is responsible for Gardino's Read More

Due South: Witness

Actors: Paul Gross, David Marciano, Beau Starr, Catherine Bruhier, Daniel Kash

Synopsis: When a witness against Ray's old nemesis Kruger (Aidan Devine) perjures herself in court, Ray (David Marciano) goes ballistic--and ends up being jailed for contempt. Reckoning that there are several incarcerated cons who have scores to settle with Ray, Fraser (Paul Gross) arranges to "protect" his Read More

Due South: Mask

Actors: Paul Gross, David Marciano, Beau Starr, Catherine Bruhier, Daniel Kash

Synopsis: A valuable collection of masks from the aboriginal Tsimshian tribe has been stolen from the Museum of National History. Hoping to prevent an international crisis between the museum and the French owners of the collection, Fraser (Paul Gross) and Ray (David Marciano) inaugurate a search for the Read More

Due South: Bird in the Hand

Actors: Paul Gross, David Marciano, Beau Starr, Catherine Bruhier, Lee Purcell

Synopsis: Assigned to protect a federal witness, Fraser (Paul Gross) learns to his chagrin that the man in question is Gerrard (Ken Pogue), who killed Fraser's father (Gordon Pinsent) back in Canada. With Gerrard at large in Chicago, Fraser is ordered to bring the fugitive back alive at all costs. As Fraser Read More

Secret Sins of the Father

Actors: Lee Purcell, Lloyd Bridges, Beau Bridges

Synopsis: Real-life father and son Lloyd and Beau Bridges star in the tense modern melodrama Secret Sins of the Father. Nebraska farmer Louis Thielman (Lloyd) is charged with murder of his wife. Making the charge is Louis's son Tom (Beau), the town sheriff. Though the evidence points to Louis, there are Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Portrait of Death

Synopsis: A metal sculpture created by artist Kim Mitchell (Loretta Swit) proves quite versatile when it used as a murder weapon. The victim is Philip Jovi (Edward Hibbert), an art gallery owner with whom Kim did not see eye-to-eye. Fortunately for Kim, her friend Jessica (Angela Lansbury) is on hand to Read More

Long Road Home

Actors: Mark Harmon

Synopsis: The Long Road Home evokes memories of The Grapes of Wrath, though it doesn't quite reach the same heights as the earlier film. Mark Harmon heads up a family of migrant workers, toiling in California's San Joaquin Valley in 1937. Harmon's brood is obliged to face down not only the Depression but Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Town Father

Synopsis: Up for re-election as mayor of Cabot Cove, Sam Booth (Richard Paul) figures that his staunch anti-development platform will enable him to easily defeat his pro-development opponent. Unfortunately, Sam's campaign is seriously compromised when a strange woman shows up in town and accuses the Read More

The Incredible Hulk Returns

Actors: Bill Bixby, Lou Ferrigno, Jack Colvin, Eric Allan Kramer, Steve Levitt, Tim Thomerson

Synopsis: Bill Bixby stars as physicist Dr. David Banner, the mild-mannered alter ego of the raging green mutant The Hulk (Lou Ferrigno), in this made-for-TV film based on the 1978 series (which was inspired by the Marvel Comics characters). In this outing, Dr. Banner teams with Thor, the Norse god of 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

Betrayed by Innocence

Actors: Barry Bostwick, Lee Purcell, Cristen Kauffman, Paul Sorvino, Isaac Hayes

Synopsis: Who's innocent in Betrayed by Innocence? Is it filmmaker Nick DeLeon (Barry Bostwick), who loves his wife but also his work? Is it Nick's working wife Sharon (Lee Purcell), who spends more time at the office than at home? Or is it nubile, underage coed Marisa Vogel (Cristen Kauffman), who has an Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Death Stalks the Big Top, Part 1

Synopsis: Season Three of Murder She Wrote begins with the first episode of a two-part story, in which mystery writer Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) pays a visit to the Carmody Circus, an extremely small-time operation. It seems that Jessica has evidence that one of the circus' employees, a Read More

Space Rage

Actors: Richard Farnsworth, Michael Paré, John Laughlin, Lee Purcell, William Windom

Synopsis: In this sci-fi/western film set two hundred years from now, a bank robber, Grange is captured and sentenced to the penal colony on the mining planet Proxima Centauri 3 where he meets bounty-hunter Walker, and the Colonel, a retired policeman from LA who was considered the best of his kind. Grange Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Death Stalks the Big Top, Part 2

Synopsis: In the second half of Murder She Wrote's two-part Season Three opener, Jessica's long-missing brother in law Neil Fletcher (Jackie Cooper), who has been working under an alias with the Carmody Circus, has confessed to the murder of circus manager Hank Sutter. Jessica (Angela Lansbury) is convinced Read More

Jailbait: Betrayed by Innocence

Jailbait

Synopsis: When a filmmaker and a young film student make love, the man is accused of statutory rape by the girl's father. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Old Acquaintance

Synopsis: Magnum (Tom Selleck) and T.C. (Roger E. Mosley) are reunited with their high school classmate Goldie Morris (Lee Purcell), who is still the same zany, impulsive political activist she'd been back in the good old days when she was Magnum's tutor. Goldie wants the detective to help her locate a 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

My Wicked, Wicked Ways - The Legend of Errol Flynn

Actors: Duncan Regehr, Barbara Hershey, Darren McGavin

Synopsis: This made-for-TV biopic chronicles the exciting (at times scandalous) life and career of Eroll Flynn, Hollywood's most popular swashbuckling rake. Much of the information comes from Flynn's autobiography. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Eddie Macon's Run

Actors: Kirk Douglas, John Schneider, Lee Purcell, Leah Ayres, Lisa Dunsheath

Synopsis: The film may be called Eddie Macon's Run, but the title character (John Schneider) takes a back seat during most of the proceedings. Most of the footage is devoted to Eddie's chief nemesis, small-town lawman Marzack (Kirk Douglas). Arrested on a trumped-up charge, Eddie breaks out of prison and Read More

Valley Girl

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Deborah Foreman, Elizabeth Daily, Michael Bowen, Cameron Dye, Colleen Camp

Synopsis: A satiric romantic comedy, Martha Coolidge's Valley Girl is a testimony to the short-lived Southern California '80s craze. Julie (Deborah Foreman) is a good-natured teenager following a swarm of pastel pink valley girls, who utter "gag me" at every opportunity. To her friends' dismay , Julie Read More

Homework

Actors: Joan Collins, Michael Morgan, Shell Kepler, Lanny Horn, Erin Donovan

Synopsis: Michael Morgan stars as a teen obsessed with losing his virginity, and who gets his wish with Joan Collins, the mother of one of his best friends. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Killing at Hell's Gate

Synopsis: In this made-for-television thriller, a pair of couples, a U.S. senator among them, are stalked by backwoods snipers while on a white-water rafting trip. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Girl, the Gold Watch and Dynamite

Actors: Carol Lawrence, Jerry Mathers

Synopsis: This made-for-TV follow-up to 1980's The Girl, the Gold Watch and Everything stars Lee Purcell and Philip MacHale as Bonnie Lee Beaumont and Kirby Winter, roles created in the earlier film by Pam Dawber and Robert Hays. Once more, the hapless Kirby is the possessor of a magic watch that can stop Read More

The Secret War of Jackie's Girls

Synopsis: In this WW II adventure, a team of female pilots perform dangerous missions on both sides of enemy lines. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Stir Crazy

Actors: Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, JoBeth Williams, Georg Stanford Brown, Craig T. Nelson, Miguel Angel Suarez

Synopsis: After the excellent audience response to their teaming in Silver Streak, Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor reunited for this zany comedy. Wilder and Pryor play a couple of out-of-work numbskulls who take a promotional job that requires them to dress up like gigantic woodpeckers. Unfortunately, a pair Read More

The Gambler

Actors: Kenny Rogers, Bruce Boxleitner

Synopsis: When first telecast on April 8, 1980, this made-for-TV movie was titled Kenny Rogers as The Gambler. Jim Byrnes' teleplay is loosely inspired by Rogers' Grammy award-winning song. Rogers plays high-rolling gambler Brady Hawkes, who is en route from El Paso to Yuma to see the son he never knew. Read More

The Country Music Murders

Synopsis: In this murder mystery a married couple goes to Nashville to look into the murder of a private eye. They are involved because his body was found in their apartment. The film is also titled "Murder in Music City." ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder in Music City

Synopsis: A couple find the body of a detective in their apartment, and follow the trail of his killer to Nashville. The film is also known as Country Music Murders. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Almost Summer

Actors: Bruno Kirby, Lee Purcell, John Friedrich, Didi Conn, Thomas Carter

Synopsis: Bruno Kirby was labelled an "overnight" star of the early 1990s thanks to such films as The Freshman (90) and City Slickers (91), but he'd been working since the late 1970s in both films and TV. The 1978 low budgeter Almost Summer top-bills Kirby as a "mover and shaker" high schooler who helps a Read More

Big Wednesday

Actors: Jan-Michael Vincent, William Katt, Gary Busey, Patti D'Arbanville, Lee Purcell

Synopsis: Jan-Michael Vincent plays a self-destructive beach bum to whom surfing is a Zen experience. We first meet Vincent in the devil-may-care 1960s, in the company of his carefree buddies William Katt and Gary Busey. The boys reunite ten years later, after one has served time in Vietnam. The beach is Read More

Summer of Fear

Actors: Linda Blair

Synopsis: Notable as an early effort from renowned horror filmmaker Wes Craven, this made-for-TV occult thriller was loosely adapted from a novel by Lois Duncan. Star Linda Blair -- whose film career had taken a detour into TV-movie territory after her legendary bow in The Exorcist -- returns to the Read More

The Amazing Howard Hughes

Actors: Tovah Feldshuh, Ed Flanders, Tommy Lee Jones, Lee Purcell

Synopsis: Taking over the already profitable Hughes tool company from his deceased father, the teenaged Howard Hughes (Tommy Lee Jones) turns the operation into a billion-dollar business. Along the way, he dabbles in film production, romancing such Hollywood lovelies as Katharine Hepburn (Tovah Feldshuh) Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: One Last Trick

Synopsis: Police officer Brady (Peter Brown) hopes to persuade his call-girl sweetheart Carol Revson (Lee Purcell) to give up her profession and go straight. Meanwhile, Carol's former pimp, feeling that his business in jeopardy, orders the murders of both Brady and Carol. In order to save her boyfriend and Read More

The Waltons: The Wing-Walker

Synopsis: Assigned to a story about a famous wing-walker (a daredevil who climbs out on the wing of a plane in flight for the entertainment of the people on solid ground), John-Boy (Richard Thomas) is pleasantly surprised to disover that the legendary "Bobby Strom" is actually a very attractive young woman Read More

Mr. Majestyk

Actors: Charles Bronson, Al Lettieri, Linda Cristal, Lee Purcell, Paul Koslo

Synopsis: Elmore Leonard's script for Mr. Majestyk was, like his novel, supposed to have concentrated on the plight of Chicano migrant workers; but what emerged on screen was extensively reshaped into a standard Charles Bronson vehicle. Battle-weary Vietnam veteran Vince Majestyk (Bronson) settles down in Read More

The Rockford Files: The Dexter Crisis

Synopsis: Jim (James Garner) is dispatched to Las Vegas in search of Susan Parsons (Lee Purcell), the missing mistress of millionaire mogul Charles Dexter (Tim O'Connor). Along the way, Susan's roommate Louise (Linda Kelsey), who identifies herself as a law student, insists upon helping Jim in his Read More

Murder Works Overtime

Synopsis: An advertising agent is the next victim for a brutal killer in this suspense film. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Kid Blue

Synopsis: In this western set at the turn-of-the-century, an outlaw finds himself at one of life's crossroads as he must decide whether to go straight or continue a life of crime. After bungling a train robbery he decides he should go straight and settle down. He chooses the town of Dime Box, Texas. There Read More

Hijack

Synopsis: Actually, Hijack has nothing to do with the Wild Blue Yonder: instead, the story involves two truckers (David Janssen, Keenan Wynn) hauling a mysterious cargo from LA to Houston. The U.S. government won't tell our heroes what they're carrying in their eight-wheeler, but someone knows what it is Read More

Stand up and Be Counted

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset

Synopsis: This gag-filled movie makes a stab at examining the women's liberation movement but never quite gets there. The effects of the movement are shown through a series of comic and romantic episodes between men and women. The story is loosely tied together as the research of Sheila Hammond (Jacqueline Bisset Read More

The Witching

Synopsis: A wicked necromancer controls an entire town, forcing its residents to make the special "toys" he needs to cast his evil spells. This horror outing follows what happens when the dastardly wizard, hoping to revivify his dead son by stealing the soul of another, sets his sights on the wife of his Read More

Dirty Little Billy

Actors: Michael J. Pollard

Synopsis: Dirty Little Billy thankfully does not try to glorify its subject. Instead, Billy the Kid (Michael J. Pollard) is depicted as the homicidal mental defective that history has proven him to be. The film recounts Billy's formative years, exploding legends and myths all along the way. The Old West is Read More

Adam at 6 a.m.

Actors: Michael Douglas, Lee Purcell, Joe Don Baker, Marge Redmond

Synopsis: Looking like a high-school junior, Michael Douglas plays a college professor in Adam at 6 AM. Tired of academia, Douglas opts for the supposed tranquility of rural Missouri. After working as farm hand for a few weeks, he realizes that his "normal" neighbors are as screwed up as any of his more Read More

Bonanza: The Weary Willies

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel, Richard Thomas

Synopsis: Robert Pirosh's teleplay for this Bonanza episode was based on an actual 19th century phenomenon. In the years following the Civil War, many young and disillusioned ex-soldiers formed nomadic groups called the "Weary Willies", who roamed throughout the west living off the land and avoiding Read More