Madge Sinclair Filmography

Century of Women: Work and Family

Synopsis: Throughout the 20th century, women have met the challenges and struggles of balancing work and family. Narrated by Jane Fonda, A Century of Women: Work & Family weaves fictional and factual stories to illustrate the history of women in the workforce, as well as their roles as wives and mothers. Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Interface

Synopsis: While working with an experimental interfacing probe, Geordi investigates the stranded USS Raman. Here he has a vision of his long-estranged mother (Madge Sinclair), who had disappeared during another mission more than 300 light years away. Convinced that the vision is real, Geordi defies Read More

The Man With Three Wives

Actors: Beau Bridges, Pam Dawber, Joanna Kerns, Kathleen Lloyd, Madge Sinclair

Synopsis: Beau Bridges stars in this fact-based TV movie as Dr. Norman Grayson (Beau Bridges, a man who may destroy his life because he loves not wisely but too well--and too often. Hopelessly smitten by three different women over the course of several years, Grayson ends up marrying all three, then spends Read More

Queen

Actors: Halle Berry, Tim Daly, Danny Glover, Ann-Margret, Jasmine Guy, Ossie Davis

Synopsis: In 1977, Alex Haley's groundbreaking mini-series Roots became one of the most watched programs in television history, telling the story of seven generations of the author's mother's family, from their capture in Africa and enslavement in the United States to their eventual emancipation more than a Read More

Jonathan: The Boy Nobody Wanted

Actors: Chris Burke

Synopsis: This true story tells of the loving adoption of a Down Syndrome boy by a volunteer following the decision of the boy's parents to not allow a life-extending operation. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The End of Innocence

Actors: Dyan Cannon, John Heard, George Coe, Lola Mason, Rebecca Schaeffer

Synopsis: Actress Dyan Cannon, whose 1976 directorial debut Number One was nominated for a "best short subject" Academy Award, moves on to feature-length projects with The End of Innocence. In addition to directing, Ms. Cannon wrote the screenplay and played a leading role in this story of a young girl Read More

Roseanne: Guilt by Disassociation

Synopsis: Still looking for a job after she quit the plastics factory in season one, Roseanne manages to get both hired and fired from a new job because she lacks computer skills. She then breaks up her own surprise party by getting into a fight with Dan. This episode was the first to be written by Read More

Coming to America

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, John Amos, James Earl Jones, Shari Headley

Synopsis: Coming to America casts comedian Eddie Murphy as pampered African prince Akeem, who rebels against an arranged marriage and heads to America to find a new bride. Murphy's regal father (James Earl Jones) agrees to allow the prince 40 days to roam the U.S., sending the prince's faithful retainer Read More

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

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

Synopsis: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) concludes the story arc begun with Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) and continued in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), but on a wholly new, different, and upbeat note. As the movie opens, months have elapsed since the events in Star Trek III; Read More

Backwards: The Riddle of Dyslexia

Actors: River Phoenix, Madge Sinclair, Leaf Phoenix, Bo Kaprall, Judy Farrell

Synopsis: In one of his first major roles, 13-year-old River Phoenix stars in this ABC Afterschool Special as junior-high student Brian Ellsworth, who has a habit of writing his words -- and the letters -- backwards. Brian's friends think he's kidding, his teachers think he's lazy, and his parents think Read More

Victims

Synopsis: In this suspenseful horror movie, four rape victims team up to bring their brutal attacker to justice. He had been tried before on similar charges and acquitted on a technicality. Now the women, led by a determined young doctor are determined to make him pay for destroying their lives. Read More

Jimmy B. & Andre

Actors: Susan Clark

Synopsis: Detroit restauranteur Jimmy Butsicaris is probably best known to sports fans as the good buddy and severest critic of onetime Tigers manager Billy Martin. The made-for-TV Jimmy B. & Andre dramatizes an emotional chapter in the life and career of the big-hearted Butsicaris. Alex Karras plays Jimmy Read More

Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones

Actors: Powers Boothe, Veronica Cartwright, Rosalind Cash, Brad Dourif, Randy Quaid

Synopsis: This two-part TV movie was, of course, sparked by the November 1978 mass suicide of 913 people at the South American religious "colony" of Jonestown. The catalyst for this tragedy was cult-leader Reverend Jim Jones (played by Powers Boothe, who won an Emmy for his performance), head of the Read More

Challenge of the High Ice

High Ice

Synopsis: High Ice is a made-for-television adventure thriller about an Army helicopter rescue team who has to race against time and the elements to save three mountain climbers who are stranded on a small, icy mountain ledge in Washington. Along the way, a lieutenant colonel and a forest ranger engage in a Read More

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Actors: Diahann Carroll, Ruby Dee, Esther Rolle, Madge Sinclair

Synopsis: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is based on the writings of African-American poet/playwright Maya Angelou. Though she eventually became America's poet laureate, Angelou was once just another little black girl growing up in Depression-era Arkansas. Her efforts to better herself run up against the Read More

The Rag-Tag Champs

Actors: Larry B. Scott, Glynn E. Turman, Madge Sinclair, Shannon Terhune, Guillermo San Juan

Synopsis: Fourteen-year-old Jake Wrather (Larry B. Scott) is third baseman for his sandlot ball team -- and in the absence of an adult supervisor, he also runs the team. The parentless Jake lives with his uncle Lenny (Glynn Turman), an easygoing musician who works nights. In fact, Lenny works too many Read More

Uncle Joe Shannon

Actors: Burt Young, Doug McKeon, Madge Sinclair, Jason Bernard, Bert Remsen

Synopsis: In this tearjerker, an impoverished jazz musician falls into a deep depression following the deaths of his wife and child in a terrible fire. Just as the man begins to contemplate suicide, he encounters a handicapped youth. The two become friends and manage to shore each other up through their Read More

Convoy

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine, Burt Young, Madge Sinclair

Synopsis: The CB (citizen's band) radio fad had nearly run its course when this feel-good action film was made by director Sam Peckinpah. In the story, based on C.W. McCall's song "Convoy", a group of struggling truckers (who stay in touch by CB) run into a situation which ignites their indignation. They Read More

One in a Million: The Ron LeFlore Story

Synopsis: An outstanding performance by LeVar Burton makes this an above-average sports biography. Based on an adaptation of his autobiography, this is the story of Ron LeFlore, who was raised in the Detroit ghetto and became a major league baseball player for the Detroit Tigers. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Read More

Almos' a Man

Actors: LeVar Burton, Henry Fonda, Garry Goodrow, Madge Sinclair, Christopher Brooks, Robert DoQui

Synopsis: Based on the story by Richard Wright, Almos' a Man stars LeVar Burton as a black teenager in the South of the 1930s. Working as a field hand, Burton is frustrated at being considered inferior to the local whites. Perhaps if he purchases a gun, he can prove his manhood. This is the decision he Read More

Roots

Actors: LeVar Burton, Louis Gossett, Jr., John Amos, Ben Vereen

Synopsis: This award-winning six-part historical epic was one of the first examples of the miniseries format and one of the highest-rated television programs in broadcasting history. Based on the best-selling novel by author Alex Haley, Roots chronicles the progress of Haley's own family across many Read More

I Will, I Will for Now

Actors: Elliott Gould, Diane Keaton, Paul Sorvino, Victoria Principal, Robert Alda

Synopsis: Norman Panama directed and wrote (along with Albert E. Lewin) this mediocre piece of fluff about unhappily divorced marriage partners. Elliot Gould stars as Les Bingham, who takes umbrage that his ex-wife Katie (Diane Keaton) has a new love in life. What Les doesn't realize is that her new Read More

Leadbelly

Actors: Roger E. Mosley, Paul Benjamin, Madge Sinclair, Alan Manson, Albert Hall, Art Evans

Synopsis: This biographical picture explores the troubled life of blues singer and master guitarist Leadbelly, who developed his style and wrote many of his songs during his frequent stints in prison. Featured performances are "&Rock Island Line" and "&Goodnight Irene". ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Cornbread, Earl and Me

Actors: Moses Gunn, Rosalind Cash, Bernie Casey, Madge Sinclair, Keith Wilkes

Synopsis: Cornbread (Keith Wilkes) is an African-American youth who strives to escape his ghetto surroundings. He does so by becoming a high school basketball star--and the idol of the other youngsters in his community. On the verge of starting college on a scholarship, Cornbread is mistakenly killed by a Read More

Conrack

Actors: Jon Voight, Paul Winfield, Madge Sinclair, Tina Andrews, Antonio Fargas

Synopsis: Jon Voight stars in this story, based on fact, about a teacher determined to make a difference in the lives of his students. In the late 1960s, Pat Conroy (Jon Voight) is given a teaching position on a small island off the coast of South Carolina. Conroy discovers that the school is little more Read More

The Waltons: The Visitor

Synopsis: Veteran Hollywood leading man John Beal guest stars as Mason Beardley, an old friend of Grandpa Walton (Will Geer). When Grandpa's family offers to fix up Mason's house, he is delighted, jubilantly declaring that it will be perfect for his wife, whom he expects to show up on the Mountain at any Read More