Lynn CarlinFilmography

Superstition

Actors: Albert Salmi, Lynn Carlin, Larry Pennell, Maylo McCaslin

Synopsis: Flamboyant, giallo-style gore effects are the only highlight of this otherwise pedestrian supernatural horror film, which was originally filmed in 1981 as The Witch and shelved for four years, before it experienced a mild midnight-movie revival in the wake of The Evil Dead's success. The ghastly Read More

A Killer in the Family

Synopsis: In this thriller, based on a true story, a psycho killer cons his three adolescent sons into helping him and his equally crazed pal from the joint. They do so and then find themselves in a killing spree. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Forbidden Love

Synopsis: This made-for-television drama chronicles an atypical May-December romance involving a twenty-something doctor and a middle-aged woman. The two soon fall passionately in love and this causes a little friction between the woman and her full-grown daughters. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Kid From Nowhere

Synopsis: The Kid From Nowhere is built around the talents of Ricky Wittman, a remarkable young actor afflicted with Down's Syndrome who appeared in several TV programs during the early 1980s. Judy Farrell's script traces the efforts of a California mother (Susan Saint James) to curb the sudden energy Read More

Battle Beyond the Stars

Actors: Richard Thomas, Robert Vaughn, George Peppard, John Saxon, Darlanne Fluegel

Synopsis: Produced by Roger Corman and scripted by John Sayles, Battle Beyond the Stars is a cheerfully blatant imitation of The Seven Samurai (or at least the American remake The Magnificent Seven). A peaceloving planet is attacked by malevolent aliens. The powers-that-be hire a group of mercenaries Read More

French Postcards

Actors: Miles Chapin, Blanche Baker, David Marshall Grant, Valerie Quennessen, Debra Winger

Synopsis: A "critic's darling" of 1979, the modestly produced French Postcards has an appeal that goes beyond the wine and cheese crowd. Miles Chapin plays Joel, an American student in France on an exchange program. Joel's teacher, Mme. Tessier (Marie-France Pisier), is a "Miss Jean Brodie" type whose ideas Read More

James at 15

Actors: Kate Jackson

Synopsis: Lawrence Kerwin stars as James Hunter, a gawky Oregon teenager who moves to Boston with his family. Suffering the requisite growing pains and insecurities, James has a few problems "fitting in" with his new crowd. The boy's sincerity and likability eventually wins the day, but the ending of the Read More

The Waltons: The Hero

Synopsis: John-Boy (Richard Thomas) wants to devote the upcoming edition of "The Blue Ridge Chronicle" to a commemoration of local WW1 veterans. Much to his surprise, none of the former "doughboys" wants to share his experiences--not even Sheriff Ep Bridges (John Crawford), who received several medals for Read More

The Waltons: The Flight

Synopsis: Jim-Bob (David W. Harper) has a new friend, 16-year-old Joe Douglas (Peter Miner), who shares his love of aviation. Joe claims that he is on his way to sign up with the Air Corps, and suggests that Jim-Bob go along. The truth, however, is that Joe is a runaway orphan--and the authorities are hot Read More

The Waltons: The Hawk

Synopsis: The sixth season of The Waltons) gets under way minus two longtime series regulars: Richard Thomas as John-Boy and Ellen Corby as Grandma Walton (though both actors would return during the season as guest stars). It is 1939, and as war clouds gather in Europe, a battle of a more spiritual nature Read More

The Waltons: The Go-Getter

Synopsis: Having quit his job at the "Blue Ridge Chronicle", Ben (Eric Scott) is hired by a high-pressure car salesman named Jarvis (Lew Brown). The family is worried that Ben's new boss is a bad influence, especially after Ben begins courting the boss' daughter (a young Melody Thomas). Elswhere, John-Boy Read More

Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway

Synopsis: In Randal Kleiser's telemovie Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway, Eve Plumb stars as Dawn, who leaves home at 15 for the glamour of L.A. Friendless, she is taken in by the smooth line of Swan (Bo Hopkins), who offers to be her protector. Before long, Dawn has become a streetwalker, with Swan Read More

The Waltons: The Prophecy

Synopsis: In spite of all his hard work and ambition, John-Boy (Richard Thomas) is worried that he hasn't really got what it takes to be a professional writer. John-Boy's father John (Ralph Waite) is likewise weighed down with worry: his 25th high school reunion is approaching, and he's afraid to face his Read More

The Morning After

Synopsis: Dick Van Dyke put his image and his career on the line with this searing TV movie about a "social drinker" who becomes a full-fledged alcoholic. Van Dyke plays a loving husband and father with a solid job and an excellent reputation, who blows it all with his excessive drinking. His wife (Lynn Carlin Read More

The Last Angry Man

Synopsis: Previously filmed with Paul Muni in 1959, Gerald Green's novel The Last Angry Man was adapted for television by Green himself, who restored the original book's Depression-era setting in the process. Pat Hingle steps into the Muni role as crusty, temperamental Dr. Sam Abelman, who tends to the Read More

Terror on the 40th Floor

Actors: John Forsythe, Anjanette Comer, Joseph Campanella, Lynn Carlin, Laurie Heineman

Synopsis: In this made-for-television disaster film, seven officer workers find themselves trapped in a towering inferno after a drunken janitor accidently torches the high-rise in which they work. Believing that they will surely die, the seven begin sharing their deepest secrets. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Baxter!

Actors: Patricia Neal, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Britt Ekland, Lynn Carlin, Scott Jacoby

Synopsis: When actor Lionel Jeffries turned to directing in the 1970s, he exhibited a preference for whimsy, as witness The Railway Children. Jeffries' Baxter is a notable exception to this rule, though, as with his other directorial efforts, he shows a keen sensitivity for the travails of troubled Read More

Ironside: Confessions from a Lady of the Night

Synopsis: Season Seven of Ironside begins as Chief Ironside (Raymond Burr) goes head-to-head with the staff of a smarmy gossip magazine that has held a grudge with the San Francisco police department ever since the "botched" investigation of a missing actor. Now the magazine is going after Ironside himself Read More

Emergency!: Dinner Date

Synopsis: Roy (Kevin Tighe) tries to arrange a date between wife's cousin and his coworker John (Randolph Mantooth)--and one can only imagine how happy John is over this situation. Squad 51's caseload in this episode includes saving a youngster whose arm is caught in a swimming-pool drainpipe, a woman who Read More

Deathdream

Actors: Richard Backus

Synopsis: This dark, brooding low-budget effort opens in Vietnam, where young infantryman Andy Brooks (Richard Backus) is struck down by a sniper's bullet. At the same time in Andy's hometown, his poor mother is uttering a desperate prayer for Andy to come home... and shortly thereafter, he does. Despite Read More

Taking Off

Actors: Lynn Carlin, Buck Henry, Linnea Heacock, Georgia Engel, Tony Harvey

Synopsis: Czech filmmaker Milos Forman's first American production stars Linnea Heacock as Jeannie Tyne, a runaway teenager. While she wanders aimlessly around New York, her suburban parents, Lynn (Lynn Carlin) and Larry (Buck Henry), desperately search for their "missing" daughter. Larry and his best Read More

The Wild Rovers

Actors: William Holden, Ryan O'Neal, Karl Malden, Lynn Carlin, Tom Skerritt

Synopsis: If you want to know what The Wild Bunch would have looked like with Blake Edwards rather than Sam Peckinpah in the director's chair, we submit for your approval Wild Rovers. William Holden and Ryan O'Neal play a couple of shiftless ranch hands who impulsively decide to rob a bank. They manage to Read More

A Step Out of Line

Synopsis: A Step Out of Line stars Peter Falk, Vic Morrow, and Peter Lawford, a fairly lustrous lineup for a humble TV movie. The trio of leading men portray average Joes, all Korean war buddies, plagued by a string of bad luck. With creditors hounded them at their very fireside (so to speak), Falk, Morrow Read More

Tick, Tick, Tick

Actors: Jim Brown, George Kennedy, Fredric March, Lynn Carlin, Don Stroud

Synopsis: When Jimmy Price (Jim Brown) wins an upset victory for sheriff, he becomes the first black man ever to hold the job (or any elective office) in anyone's memory in his rural southern county. He also sets off an ominous rumblings as the entire county seems split apart by his presence -- Mayor Parks Read More

Silent Night, Lonely Night

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, a New England hotel is the meeting place for two lonely, unhappy people (Lloyd Bridges and Shirley Jones), as they spend Christmas Eve together and find comfort in one another. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Faces

Actors: John Marley, Gena Rowlands, Lynn Carlin, Seymour Cassel

Synopsis: Faces is right: this definitive John Cassavetes film consists almost exclusively of tight, uncomfortable close-ups. It takes place in the fourteenth year of the marriage of Richard (John Marley) and Maria (Lynn Carlin). Neither husband nor wife is content with the conditions that prevail; Maria Read More