Les Tremayne Filmography

Starchaser: The Legend of Orin

Actors: Joe Colligan, Carmen Argenziano, Noelle North, Anthony de Longis, Les Tremayne

Synopsis: In this 3-D animated cross between Star Wars and the Knights of the Round Table, young Orin (voice by Joe Colligan) lives in an oppressed, underground world in which humans have become the slaves of robots. One day the hero finds the handle of a sword and in a vision is told that if he can locate Read More

Attack of the B-Movie Monster

Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer

Actors: Bettina, Patrick Fraley, Peter Cullen, Robbie Lee, Andre Stojka

Synopsis: This routine small tots' animated feature is about a young girl named Rainbow Brite who brings color to the universe. She is forced to do battle with the henchmen of a wicked princess determined to plunge everything into a colorless darkness. Before the princess can carry out her plan, Rainbow Read More

Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island

Actors: Mel Blanc, June Foray, Les Tremayne

Synopsis: Daffy Duck hosts this Fantasy Island spoof used basically as a frame to show ten Warner Brothers cartoons. Even though there's a good variety of characters in the cartoons--including episodes with Bugs, Sylvester & Tweety, Pepe le Pew, Foghorn Leghorn and the Tasmanian Devil--the selections are Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: Big Daddy

Synopsis: Les Tremayne guest stars as Boss Hogg's "Big Daddy", a well-known philanthropist who is every bit as kindly, honest and generous as his son is not. Worried about upsetting his daddy, Boss (Sorrell Booke) calls off his scheme to frame the Duke boys with a hot license plate--but his sudden attack of Read More

Fangs

Synopsis: When evil villagers kill Mr. Snakey's favorite snake, he sends out the rest of his snakes to enact their revenge. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Oliver Twist

Actors: Josh Albee, Les Tremayne

Synopsis: Oliver Twist is an animated version of the Dickens classic. Josh Albee is heard as the voice of the orphaned Oliver, while radio veteran Les Tremayne invokes all the tricks of his trade to portray the underhanded Fagin. This adaptation was a rare theatrical release from the TV-cartoon factory of Read More

A Cricket in Times Square

Synopsis: Chester, a plucky little cricket with the gift of making beautiful music leaves his country home to find fortune in the Big Apple, instead he finds himself overwhelmed by the dangerous bustle and hub-ub around him. Eventually, he teams up with a mouse, a boy and a cat to save the kindly owner of a Read More

Strawberries Need Rain

Actors: Monica Gayle, Les Tremayne

Synopsis: This is low-budget filmmaker Larry Buchanan's "tribute" to Ingmar Bergman. The plot has to do with a poor girl named Erica (Monica Gayle), who engages in various sexual encounters until Death (Les Tremayne) takes her away -- but not before we manage to see her in various (and frequent) stages of Read More

Bonanza: The Law and Billy Burgess

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Mercedes McCambridge

Synopsis: Making her second Bonanza appearance, Mercedes McCambridge is cast as wealthy widow Matilda Curtis, who helps Ben Cartwright establish a free school for the children of Ponderosa's employees and tenant farmers. When the schoolmaster is murdered, troublesome student Billy Burgess (a pre-Partridge Read More

The Phantom Tollbooth

Actors: Butch Patrick, Mel Blanc, Daws Butler, Candy Candido, Hans Conried

Synopsis: Master animator Chuck Jones has created this full length fantasy, his first since being name director of MGM's animation department. A young boy (Butch Patrick) is bored with his life in San Francisco and finds himself in a fantasy land where letters and numbers are at war with each other. He Read More

Creature of Destruction

Synopsis: Legendary bad-movie maven Larry Buchanan does a virtual remake of The She Creature (for reasons unknown) with this enjoyably silly outing. The story involves deranged stage mesmerist Dr. Basso (Les Tremayne), whose sessions with his pretty assistant Doreena (Pat Delaney) result in her regression Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Unwelcome Well

Synopsis: This episode is a virtual dry-run for the 1970s series Dallas, except that the question posed is not "Who Shot J.R.?" but instead "Who Killed J.K.?" There is no shortage of suspects when nasty oil tycoon Jerome Klee (Wendell Corey) is murdered, but the police finally settle upon Klee's foreman Read More

The Fortune Cookie

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ron Rich, Cliff Osmond, Judi West

Synopsis: The British title of Billy Wilder's classic comedy was Meet Whiplash Willie -- for, despite Jack Lemmon's star billing, the movie's driving force is Oscar-winning Walter Matthau as gloriously underhanded lawyer "Whiplash" Willie Gingrich. CBS cameraman Harry Hinkle (Lemmon) is injured when he is Read More

My Favorite Martian: 006-3/4

Synopsis: In the first of several episodes cashing in on the "spy craze" of the mid-1960s, Tim (Bill Bixby) falls for a beautiful secret agent named Kitty (Susanne Cramer), aka "Agent 004" of the government organization TOPSEEK. For her sake, he agrees to deliver an important message, whereupon he is Read More

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea: Turn Back the Clock

Synopsis: The Seaview rescues a survivor (Nick Adams) from an Antarctic expedition who seems to be suffering tropical exposure, and claims to have seen live dinosaurs. Nelson (Richard Basehart) and Crane (David Hedison) find a prehistoric veldt, filled with creatures presumed to have been extinct for Read More

Kwaheri

Synopsis: This mondo-style documentary was shot by American filmmakers during a voyage to the African wilderness, and offers a glimpse of life in the vanishing primitive tribes. However, the film prefers to focus on the more exploitable elements of life among the indigenous cultures, such as a real life Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Start the New Year Right

Synopsis: In the first chapter of a two-part story arc, Mrs. Drysdale checks herself into a hospital, suffering from a bad case of nerves -- induced, of course, by those "dreadful hillbillies," the Clampetts. Unaware of the reason for Mrs. D's breakdown, the Clampetts pay a visit to her hospital room on New Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Isabel

Actors: Bradford Dillman, Barbara Barrie, Edmon Ryan, Les Tremayne, Doris Lloyd

Synopsis: Sentenced to 15 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Howard Clements (Bradford Dillman) is released after serving only two years. Shortly afterward, he pays a visit to Isabel Smith (Barbara Baxley), the woman whose testimony put him behind bars. Though Isabel is worried that he seeks Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Nervous Neighbor

Synopsis: At the behest of the family of the missing Alice Bradley (Sheila Bromley), Paul Drake (William Hopper) tracks the woman down to a mental institution, where she is suffering from amnesia--and as such is totally unaware that she is wanted for the murder of her husband. Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Ruinous Road

Synopsis: The Pierce Construction Company has gone wildly over budget on a questionable land-development project, and head man Joe Marshall (Bert Freed) wants to know why. Before long, Marshall has been murdered, and Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) is hired to defend the chief suspect, engineer Adam Conrad Read More

The Slime People

Synopsis: Tom Gregory (Robert Hutton), a Los Angeles-based sports reporter, is flying into L.A. and lands his private plane after a rough descent through some kind of opaque midair disturbance, only to find the airport deserted. He meets Professor Galvin (Robert Burton) and his two daughters, Bonnie (Judee Morton Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of Constant Doyle

Synopsis: This is the first of four consecutive episodes in which Perry Mason appears only briefly, while a "guest" lawyer handles the case at hand (Raymond Burr was at the time recovering from minor surgery). No less than Bette Davis is cast as female attorney Constant Doyle, the widow of famed defense Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: Andy and Barney in the Big City

Actors: Allan Melvin

Synopsis: Hoping to secure more assistance from the state police commission, Andy and Barney head to the bustling metropolis of Raleigh, North Carolina. The problem is that Mayberry has practically no crime, and thus no extra help is needed. The powers-that-be change their minds when our heroes Read More

Shoot out at Big Sag

Synopsis: In this western, originally designed as the pilot of a television show that never made it to air, a self-designated preacher desires to control the Big Sag territory of Montana. To do this, he must first force two newly arrived Texans off of their land. Meanwhile, the preacher's wife knows that he Read More

Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol

Synopsis: Having made a bundle on their 130-episode package of Mr. Magoo TV cartoons, the folks at UPA studios decided to star Magoo in a 60-minute musical version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. First telecast over the NBC network on December 18, 1962, Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol deftly uses the Read More

Bonanza: The Lawmaker

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Arthur Franz

Synopsis: While sharing lunch with Adam and Joe Cartwright, Sheriff Coffee notices a holdup gang in the Virginia City express office. Attempting to capture the outlaws, Coffee is trampled by a horse stampede instigated by the crooks. As Coffee recovers from his injuries, Asa Moran (Arthur Franz is named Read More

King Kong vs. Godzilla

Actors: Michael Keith, James Yagi, Tadao Takashima, Mie Hama, Yu Fujiki

Synopsis: This preposterous battle between the huge ape King Kong and the fire-breathing dinosaur Gojira marked the beginning of Toho Studios aiming their monster films at children rather than general audiences. Director Ishiro Honda stages the battle scenes atop Mt. Fuji for laughs, as the two lovable Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Left-Handed Liar

Synopsis: Now working as a health club instructor, former college athletic star Ward Nichols (Ed Nelson) hopes to marry Casey Daniels (Maggie Pierce), the niece of his boss Bernard Daniels (Les Tremayne). Unfortunately, Nichols' estranged wife Veronica (Leslie Parrish) refuses to let him go, and claims to Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Deathmate

Synopsis: Lee Philips stars as con artist Ben Conant (alias Freddie Sheldon), whose latest pigeon is wealthy Mrs. Lisa Talbot (Gia Scala). Together, Ben and Lisa plot the murder of her husband, Peter (Les Tremayne), only to find that a private detective seems to be wise to their scheme. Not only that: the Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Angry Dead Man

Synopsis: Eve Nesbitt (Gloria Talbott) contacts Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) to determine the progress of the insurance settlement related to the drowning death of her husband Willard (Les Tremayne). As it happens, however, Willard is only pretending to be dead so that Eve can collect on the policy's Read More

The Gallant Hours

Actors: James Cagney, Dennis Weaver, Ward Costello, Richard Jaeckel, Les Tremayne, James T. Goto

Synopsis: The "mutual admiration society" consisting of actor James Cagney and actor/director Robert Montgomery culminated in the 1960 film The Gallant Hours. Cagney stars as war hero Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey. On the verge of retirement, Halsey recalls his most fateful wartime experience: his Read More

The Story of Ruth

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Tom Tryon, Peggy Wood, Viveca Lindfors, Jeff Morrow

Synopsis: This Biblical epic stars Elana Eden as Ruth, who serves in the temple where the High Priestess (Viveca Lindfors) leads the worship of the Pagan idols of the people of Moab. When Ruth falls in love with Mahlon (Tom Tryon), a Hebrew, she must come to terms with his spiritual beliefs, but in time she Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Madcap Modiste

Synopsis: High-fashion diva Flavia Halliday (Marie Windsor) humiliates her husband Charles (John Conte) on network television by flatly refuting Charles' announcement that he has sold their firm's name to another company. For Charles, this is the last straw: He demands a divorce, but Flavia merely laughs at Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat

Synopsis: Alfred Hitchcock Presents moved from its familiar Sunday-night slot on CBS to a new Tuesday-night berth for rival network NBC to launch its sixth season with this amusingly ironic tale from the pen of frequent series contributor Roald Dahl. Audrey Meadows adroitly suppresses her familiar "Alice Read More

The Angry Red Planet

Actors: Gerald Mohr, Les Tremayne, Nora Hayden, Jack Kruschen, Paul Hahn

Synopsis: The United States space program reports that its missing, overdue manned Mars probe has returned to Earth orbit, but that they haven't been able to make radio contact with it. When it is brought down by remote control, they find three of the four crewmembers aboard: one of them, Professor Gettell Read More

Say One for Me

Actors: Bing Crosby, Debbie Reynolds, Robert Wagner, Ray Walston, Les Tremayne

Synopsis: This musical comedy takes an off-beat religious turn as it tells the tale of a show-biz priest (Bing Crosby) who runs a Broadway theater for spiritually kindred show-folk. His problems begins when a vivacious but troubled chorine (Debbie Reynolds) shows up with a sad story about her ailing father Read More

North by Northwest

Actors: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jesse Royce Landis, Leo G. Carroll

Synopsis: While having lunch at the Plaza Hotel in New York, advertising executive Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) has the bad luck to call for a messenger just as a page goes out for a "George Kaplan." From that moment, Thornhill finds that he has stepped into a nightmare -- he is quietly abducted by a Read More

The Perfect Furlough

Actors: Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Linda Cristal, Keenan Wynn, Elaine Stritch

Synopsis: In this frothy romantic comedy, a hard-working female Army shrink (Janet Leigh) devises the "perfect furlough" for battle weary men and convinces the brass to let her try it on selected men stationed at her base. According to her plan, selected men would be given three weeks, tailor made to fit Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Hesitant Hostess

Synopsis: Feeling sorry for Albert Sanders (Fred Sherman), who has lost his entire family in a terrible accident, Perry agrees to defend the man pro-bono on a smuggling charge. The situation becomes a bit more serious when Sanders is accused of murdering cabdriver Kim Lane (Betty Utey). In order to clear Read More

The Monster of Piedras Blancas

Actors: Les Tremayne, Jeanne Carmen, Don Sullivan

Synopsis: Lonely lighthouse-keeper Sturges (John Harmon) keeps mostly to himself, doing his job, which includes warning people away from the beaches and caves near the Piedras Blancas lighthouse. But when two fishermen are found dead, all-but-beheaded and without a trace of blood in their bodies, that Read More

The Monolith Monsters

Actors: Grant Williams, Lola Albright, Les Tremayne, Phil Harvey, William Flaherty

Synopsis: In some ways, the coming-attractions trailer for The Monolith Monsters is more exciting than the picture itself. The plot gets under way when a meteor crashes in the desert, leaving behind huge black chunks. While being analyzed in a science lab, the crystaline stones are accidentally drenched Read More

Everything But the Truth

Actors: Maureen O'Hara, John Forsythe, Tim Hovey, Frank Faylen, Les Tremayne

Synopsis: This very lightweight comedy focuses on young orphan Willie Taylor (Tim Hovey). Upset with the prevarications of the adult world, Willie launches a truth-telling campaign at school, with the blessings of his pretty teacher Joan Madison (Maureen O'Hara). Things begin to get dicey when Willie Read More

The Lieutenant Wore Skirts

Actors: Tom Ewell, Sheree North, Rita Moreno, Rick Jason, Les Tremayne

Synopsis: Frank Tashlin directed this comedy about a man whose marriage hits the skids when his wife gets caught in the draft. Gregory Whitcomb (Tom Ewell) served with distinction in the Army during WWII, but he now makes his living as a television writer. Gregory's wife Katy (Sheree North), several years Read More

Forbidden Planet

Actors: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens, Jack Kelly

Synopsis: MGM's first big-budget science fiction film, Forbidden Planet, combined state-of-the-art special effects with a storyline based on Shakespeare's The Tempest. In the 23rd century, Cmdr. J.J. Adams (Leslie Nielsen) guides United Planets cruiser C-57-D on a rescue mission to faraway planet Read More

The Unguarded Moment

Actors: Esther Williams, George Nader, Les Tremayne, John Saxon, Edward Andrews

Synopsis: Esther Williams essays her first dramatic, nonswimming role in The Unguarded Moment. Written by actress Rosalind Russell, the film is a remarkably prescient tale of sexual harassment at the workplace. Williams plays high-school music-teacher Lois Conway, who inadvertently arouses the libido of Read More

A Man Called Peter

Actors: Richard Todd, Jean Peters, Marjorie Rambeau, Jill Esmond, Les Tremayne, Billy Chapin

Synopsis: A Man Called Peter is the story of Scottish-born Presbyterian minister and world-renowned author Peter Marshall, here played by Richard Todd. In his youth, Marshall moves to Washington DC, where he becomes pastor of the Church of the Presidents. His wisdom and conviction enables Marshall to Read More

Susan Slept Here

Actors: Dick Powell, Debbie Reynolds, Anne Francis, Alvy Moore, Glenda Farrell

Synopsis: Susan Slept Here is the only feature film in Hollywood history ever to be narrated by an Academy Award. After introducing itself, the Oscar statuette invites us into the apartment home of its owner, screenwriter Mark Christopher Dick Powell. Knowing that Mark is working on a script about juvenile Read More

The War of the Worlds

Actors: Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne, Lewis Martin, Henry Brandon, Robert Cornthwaite, Sandro Giglio

Synopsis: H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds had been on Paramount Pictures' docket since the silent era, when it was optioned as a potential Cecil B. DeMille production. When Paramount finally got around to a filming the Wells novel, the property was firmly in the hands of special-effects maestro George Pal. Read More

I Love Melvin

Actors: Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Una Merkel, Richard Anderson, Jim Backus, Allyn Joslyn

Synopsis: Singin' in the Rain co-stars Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds were re-teamed in the ebullient little musical I Love Melvin. O'Connor plays Melvin Hoover, the hapless assistant to Look magazine photographer Mergo (Jim Backus). When he falls in love with chorus girl Judy LeRoy (Reynolds), Melvin Read More

Dream Wife

Actors: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Walter Pidgeon, Betta St. John, Eduard Franz

Synopsis: Clemson Reade (Cary Grant) is the kind of man who wants to marry an old-fashioned girl, one who will stay home and take care of her husband. However, he's fallen in love with Priscilla "Effie" Effington (Deborah Kerr), who has an exciting career with the State Department that she has no intention Read More

Francis Goes to West Point

Actors: Donald O'Connor, Lori Nelson, Alice Kelley, William Reynolds

Synopsis: Francis Goes to West Point is the third entry in Universal's money-spinning series about a talking mule. Donald O'Connor once again stars as Peter Sterling, who with the garrulous Francis' helps prevent the destruction of an atomic energy plant. As a reward, Peter is given a scholarship to West Read More

It Grows on Trees

Actors: Irene Dunne, Dean Jagger, Richard Crenna, Joan Evans, Edith Meiser

Synopsis: Irene Dunne made her final film appearance in the frothy fantasy It Grows on Trees. Looking at least two decades younger than her 52 years, Dunne plays Polly Baxter, the ebullient wife of Phil Baxter (Dean Jagger). Miracle of miracles, two of the trees in Polly's backyard garden begin sprouting Read More

Under the Red Sea

Synopsis: The feature-length documentary Under the Red Sea was lovingly assembled by oceanographer Dr. Hans Haas. The film poses several intriguing questions regarded the methods by which various forms of sea life communicate with one another. As narrator Les Tremayne comments on the action, the audience Read More

The Blue Veil

Actors: Jane Wyman, Charles Laughton, Joan Blondell, Richard Carlson, Agnes Moorehead

Synopsis: The Blue Veil was the single most successful effort from the production team of Jerry Wald and Norman Krasna. Jane Wyman pulls out all the emotional stops as a young Frenchwoman named Louise, who, after losing her husband and child in WW I, devotes the rest of her life to selflessly caring for Read More

The Racket

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, Robert Ryan, William Talman, Ray Collins

Synopsis: The Racket was based on a play by Bartlett Cormack, first filmed as a silent in 1928. The storyline was updated to include references to Estes Kefauver's Senate Crime Investigating Committee: otherwise, the plot (and much of the dialogue) was lifted bodily from the Cormack play. Racketeer Robert Ryan Read More