Lisa Eilbacher Filmography

Live Wire

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Lisa Eilbacher, Ron Silver, Ben Cross

Synopsis: Pierce Brosnan stars as Danny O'Neill, an FBI explosives expert on the trail of a mad bomber in this made-for-cable thriller. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Deadly Matrimony

Actors: Brian Dennehy, Lisa Eilbacher, Treat Williams, Embeth Davidtz, John M. Jackson

Synopsis: Brian Dennehy makes one of his many TV-movie appearances as Chicago homicide cop John Reed in the two-part Deadly Matrimony. Reed's quarry this time is mob lawyer Treat Williams, who murders his wife and then effectively covers his tracks. The closer Reed comes to the truth, the more he's in Read More

Hunt for the Night Stalker

Synopsis: Based on a true story, the made-for-television Hunt for the Night Stalker is about a pair of Los Angeles police detectives who hunted down the satanic Californian serial killer Richard Ramirez during the mid-'80s. The film was originally aired under the title Manhunt: Search for the Night Stalker Read More

Blind Man's Bluff

Synopsis: We wish we had a nickel for every time some producer cleverly titled his film Blind Man's Bluff -- then offered us a sightless hero or heroine. This time around, Robert Urich plays a blind professor, who finds himself the main suspect in a murder case. Investigating on his own, Urich comes to the Read More

The Last Samurai

Actors: Lance Henriksen

Synopsis: A hard-drinking Vietnam veteran pilot (Lance Henriksen) is hired by a rich Japanese businessman, whose ancestors were samurai warriors, to fly him and his group to Africa. There they are captured by a cultured, Western-educated tribal leader who discusses philosophy with them while his rebel Read More

Joshua's Heart

Synopsis: The crush felt by a young boy for his father's girlfriend creates heartbreak when the adults call the relationship off. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Leviathan

Actors: Peter Weller, Richard Crenna, Amanda Pays, Daniel Stern, Ernie Hudson

Synopsis: Leviathan, a sci-fi thriller directed by George Pan Cosmatos, is the story of a group of scientists who discover a sunken Russian submarine which contains a monster that is the product of a genetic experiment. This film, a hybrid of both The Abyss and Alien, has a decent cast, including Peter Weller Read More

Manhunt: Search for the Night Stalker

Actors: A. Martinez

Synopsis: Manhunt: Search for the Night Stalker was a made-for-TV factual drama about the elusive killer who terrorized Southern California in the summer of 1985. Richard Jordan and A. Martinez star as the two LA detectives heading up the investigation. So much time is taken up with police procedure that Read More

Never Say Die

Actors: Temuera Morrison, Lisa Eilbacher, Tony Barry, George Wendt, John Clarke

Synopsis: In this exciting New Zealand-set actioner, a pair of average people find themselves fighting for their lives when they are inadvertently entangled in a plot involving international espionage. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Deadly Intent

Actors: Lisa Eilbacher, Steve Railsback, Maud Adams, Fred Williamson, Persis Khambatta

Synopsis: An archaeologist has come back home with a priceless gem in his possession. However, it was ill-gotten and his life is in extreme danger. After he's killed, his widow becomes the mark of several treasure-seekers. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Deadly Deception

Actors: Lisa Eilbacher, Mildred Natwick, Matt Salinger, Bonnie Bartlett

Synopsis: Matt Salinger suffers a double blow when his wife is murdered and his baby disappears. All evidence points to the grim possibility that the child has also met with foul play. With the help of reporter Lisa Eilbacher, Salinger unearths a horrible family secret that may hold the key to the Read More

Monte Carlo

Actors: Joan Collins, George Hamilton, Robert Carradine, Lisa Eilbacher, Lauren Hutton

Synopsis: A made-for-TV miniseries set during World War II, Monte Carlo features a Russian singer (Joan Collins) who works in the French city. She moonlights, however, as an Allied spy to retaliate against the Nazis who murdered her husband. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Beverly Hills Cop

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Lisa Eilbacher, John Ashton, Ronny Cox

Synopsis: What's that wisecracking young black guy (Eddie Murphy) in that beat-up Chevy Nova doing in lily-white Beverly Hills? He's Axel Foley, a Detroit detective who's been sent on involuntary vacation because he refuses to drop his intention of avenging his friend's murder. Warned by Beverly Hills Read More

Winds of War, Part 5: Of Love and War

Synopsis: In the fifth episode of the seven-part, eighteen-hour miniseries The Winds of War, US Naval Commander "Pug" Henry (Robert Mitchum) continues acting as President Roosevelt's emissary of peace in war-torn Europe, even as Hitler (Gunter Meisner) secretly prepares to double-cross Stalin (Anatoly Read More

Winds of War, Part 2: The Storm Breaks

Synopsis: In the second episode of the seven-part, eighteen-hour miniseries The Winds of War, several of the characters introduced in part one are swept up in the 1939 Nazi invasion of Poland. Among these are Byron Henry (Jan-Michael Vincent), Natalie Jastrow (Ali McGraw) and Leslie Slote (David Dukes), who Read More

Ryan's Four

Synopsis: In this soapy episode from a short-lived television medical drama, four doctors try to juggle their personal and professional endeavors. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Winds of War, Part 7: Into the Maelstorm

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Ali MacGraw, Jan-Michael Vincent, John Houseman, Polly Bergen

Synopsis: In the final episode of the seven-part, eighteen-hour miniseries The Winds of War, Ambassador-at-large "Pug" Henry (Robert Mitchum) represents the US in a series of conferences with the intansigent Russian premier Josef Stalin (Anatoly Chauginian). Dallying briefly with his erstwhile British Read More

10 to Midnight

Actors: Charles Bronson, Lisa Eilbacher, Gene Davis, Andrew Stevens, Geoffrey Lewis

Synopsis: Charles Bronson at 63 or so, continues his vigilante persona in this run-of-the-mill crime drama about a Richard Speck-style killer who knifes young nurses to death. There is no doubt that the film exploits both the heinous, 1966 Speck murder of eight nurses in Chicago and an audience's Read More

The Winds of War

Synopsis: This World War II epic drama, based on the book by Herman Wouk, follows the life and trials of a career naval officer (Robert Mitchum) sent to Germany during Hitler's rise to power, who witnesses the gradual escalation of the war. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

An Officer and a Gentleman

Actors: Richard Gere, Debra Winger, Louis Gossett, Jr., David Keith, Lisa Blount

Synopsis: Richard Gere plays Zack Mayo, an aloof, taciturn man who aspires to be a navy pilot. Once he's arrived at training camp for his 13-week officer's course, Mayo runs afoul of abrasive, no-nonsense drill sergeant Emil Foley (Louis Gossett Jr.). Mayo --or "Mayonnaise," as he is dubbed by the irascible Read More

This House Possessed

Synopsis: This made-for-TV Amityville Horror knock-off ranks among the more interesting titles from a spate of early-1980s haunted-house efforts. The title abode is the sumptuous new residence of recuperating neurotic rock star Gary Stralhorn (Parker Stevenson), who resides there with his young amnesiac Read More

On the Right Track

Actors: Gary Coleman, Michael Lembeck, Lisa Eilbacher, Maureen Stapleton, Norman Fell

Synopsis: In this drama, a homeless shoeshine boy who lives in a locker at the train station finds himself quite popular after he reveals a talent for picking winners at the racetrack. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

To Race the Wind

Synopsis: The autobiography of Harold Krent, Butterflies Are Free, is the basis for this made-for-television drama about a blind collegian and his struggle to be treated like any other law student. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Love for Rent

Synopsis: The old 1930s song was "Love For Sale;" now it's the 1970s, and, just like cars and condominiums, it's Love for Rent. Lisa Eilbacher is the innocent midwestern girl who comes to wicked old New York looking for her sister Annette O'Toole. O'Toole is now gainfully employed by an "escort bureau" Read More

The Ordeal of Patty Hearst

Synopsis: Made quickly on videotape to capitalize on celebrated kidnap victim Patty Hearst's recent rescue, Ordeal of Patty Hearst stars Lisa Eilbacher as the beleagured newspaper heiress. Hearst's secure existence is shattered when she is seized by a tiny terrorist group calling itself the Symbionese Read More

Diary of Richie Brockelman

Synopsis: Richie Brockelman, the intellectual but naive 23-year-old private eye played by Dennis Dugan, was introduced in the 1976 TV movie Richie Brockelman: The Missing 24 Hours. He was revived for a 2-hour episode of James Garner's The Rockford Files, telecast February 24, 1978. Three weeks later, Richie Brockelman: Private Eye Read More

Run for the Roses

Actors: Vera Miles, Stuart Whitman, Sam Groom, Panchito Gomez, Theodore Wilson

Synopsis: A lame racehorse is healed with the aid of a youngster's loving care and is able to enter the famed Kentucky Derby. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Arthur Hailey's Wheels

Actors: Rock Hudson, Lee Remick, Blair Brown, John Beck, Ralph Bellamy

Synopsis: Another of the many Arthur Hailey literary properties which were transformed into TV miniseries in the 1970s, the five-part, ten-hour Wheels took place in Detroit sometime in the late 1960s. Rock Hudson starred as Adam Trenton, executive in charge of project development at the fictional Read More

The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries: Season 02

Actors: Shaun Cassidy, Parker Stevenson, Pamela Sue Martin, Janet Louise Johnson, Ed Gilbert

Synopsis: Several major changes occur during the second season of The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries. Whereas in season one the series maintained a alternating-week format -- with teenaged detective Joe and Frank Hardy (Shaun Cassidy, Parker Stevenson) appearing in their own Hardy Boys Mysteries episode Read More

The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries [TV Series]

Actors: Shaun Cassidy, Parker Stevenson, Pamela Sue Martin, Janet Louise Johnson, Ed Gilbert

Synopsis: Although the Hardy Boys books are credited to Franklin W. Dixon and the Nancy Drew mysteries are signed by Carolyn Keene, both of these children's literature properties were created by one man -- Edward R. Stratemeyer -- who, using a wide variety of pen names and a huge staff of ghost writers Read More

The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries: Season 01

Actors: Shaun Cassidy, Parker Stevenson, Pamela Sue Martin, Ed Gilbert, William Schallert

Synopsis: The first season of the "portmanteau" series The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries finds the famous children's book detectives alternating their appearances, with teenaged sleuths Joe and Frank Hardy (Shaun Cassidy, Parker Stevenson) appearing in a Hardy Boys Mysteries episode one week, and Read More

The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Witches' Hollow

Actors: Shaun Cassidy, Parker Stevenson

Synopsis: Shaun Cassidy and Parker Stevenson play Franklin W. Dixon's teenage sleuths Joe and Frank Hardy in this 48-minute spine tingler, originally titled "Mystery of the Witches' Hollow." Things start hopping when the uncle of Joe and Frank's classmate Calley (Lisa Eilbacher) disappears. The only clues Read More

The Hardy Boys [TV Series]

Actors: Shaun Cassidy, Parker Stevenson

Synopsis: Based on the paperback novels by Edward Stratemeyer (under the pseudonym Franklin W. Dixon), The Hardy Boys Mysteries was an hour-long show originally broadcast on ABC from 1977 to 1979. Older, wiser brother Frank (Parker Stevenson) and younger, more impulsive brother Joe (Shaun Cassidy) were the Read More

The Hardy Boys: The Flickering Torch Mystery

Actors: Shaun Cassidy, Parker Stevenson

Synopsis: This videotape consists of the 48-minute TV drama "The Flickering Torch Mystery." Originally telecast January 30, 1977, it was the opening episode of The Hardy Boys, the third TV series based on Franklin W. Dixon's children's-book characters. Shaun Cassidy and Parker Stevenson play Joe and Frank Read More

The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Flying Courier

Synopsis: Hardy Boys, Part 3 consists of "The Mystery of the Flying Coulier," a 48-minute episode of TV's Hardy Boys series. Shaun Cassidy and Parker Stevenson head the cast as teenage detectives Joe and Frank Hardy. While searching for a UFO, the boys come across a bizarre mansion with disappearing floors Read More

The Amazing Spider-Man

Synopsis: In this TV movie based upon the Marvel superhero, college student Peter Parker suffers a spider bite which turns him into the amazing webbed crime fighter. The plot finds a no-good scientist using mind power techniques in an attempt to pocket big bucks by extorting world leaders. this Read More

The Hardy Boys: The Secret Jade of Kuan Yin

Synopsis: This videocassette consists of "The Secret Jade of Kuan Yin," an episode from the weekly Hardy Boys TV series (1977-78). While snorkeling, teenaged detectives Joe and Frank Hardy (Shaun Cassidy and Parker Stevenson) come across a jade statuette. Before long, the boys discover that the artifact was Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Dead or Alive

Synopsis: With this episode, Richard Hatch "officially" becomes a series regular in the role of Dan Robbins, the brash new partner of veteran SFPD homicide detective Mike Stone (Karl Malden). The case at hand involves Larry Dobbs (Howard Duff), the wealthy father of a girl who has been raped and murdered. Read More

Panache

Actors: Charles Siebert

Synopsis: Panache, that dashing 17th century poet, swordsman and lover, is played by Rene Auberjonois. In true Alexander Dumas fashion, Panache is accompanied in his adventures by two musketeers, naive Alain (Charles Frank) and worldly Donat (David Healy). In this made for TV pilot film, Panache and his Read More

Bad Ronald

Actors: Scott Jacoby, Pippa Scott, John Larch, Dabney Coleman, Kim Hunter

Synopsis: "Bad" Ronald (Scott Jacoby) has been in hiding in a secret room ever since going off the deep end and killing a teenaged girl who'd made fun of him. Ronald's mother (Kim Hunter) helps her son to remain hidden, even when the house in which he is sequestered is rented by a family. As luck would have Read More

The Waltons: The Fire

Synopsis: Walton's Mountain turns into a battleground over the teaching of Evolution. Lutie Bascomb (Richard Bradford), a hard-luck farmer whose violent temper has gotten worse since the breakup of his marriage, storms into the classroom of Miss Hunter (Mariclare Costello) and accuses her of "blasphemy" for Read More

The War Between Men and Women

Actors: Janya Brannt, Jack Lemmon, Barbara Harris, Jason Robards, Jr., Herb Edelman, Severn Darden

Synopsis: Loosely based on the life and work of cartoonist and essayist James Thurber, The War Between Men and Women stars Jack Lemmon as cartoonist Peter Wilson, who, while visiting an eye doctor for his failing vision, quite literally stumbles upon Terry Kozlenko (Barbara Harris), an attractive but Read More

Bonanza: First Love

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Mitch Vogel, Tim Matheson, Pamela Franklin

Synopsis: Young Jamie is once more riding for a fall when he falls in love with the much-older Kelly (Pamela Franklin). Making things worse is the fact that Kelly is the wife of Jamie's schoolteacher Dan Edwards (Jordan Rhodes), whose jealousy borders on insanity. Featured in the cast are Lisa Eilbacher as Read More