Mark StevensFilmography

The Fury of the Wolfman

Synopsis: The fifth appearance of Paul Naschy's burly werewolf character Waldemar Daninsky (following Frankenstein's Bloody Terror), this film finds Waldemar returning home from Tibet, where he was first afflicted with his beastly curse. After making cutlets of his cheating wife and her lover, he is Read More

Espana Otra Vez

Actors: Manuela Vargas, Mark Stevens, Marianne Koch

Synopsis: David (Mark Stevens) is a physician who returns to Spain 30 years after his involvement in the Spanish Civil War. Now a member of a medical convention, he looks up old friends and finds his former lover, now a married woman with a flamenco-dancing daughter. He and the daughter (Manuela Vargas) Read More

Vergeltung in Catana

Crew: Director, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Synopsis: When the town sheriff backs down from outlaws, he is branded a coward. This melodramatic western follows his efforts to restore his good name, even though he himself was a former member of the gang. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Escape from Hell Island

Synopsis: Veteran movie tough guy Mark Stevens both starred and directed in Escape from Hell Island. He plays the skipper of a Florida merchant boat who smuggles in Cuban refugees as a sideline. When a woman is killed while escaping, Stevens loses his license. He then becomes involved with Linda Scott Read More

Frozen Alive

Synopsis: In this sci-fi murder mystery, a scientist uses himself as a subject in an experiment with cryogenic suspended animation and ends up accused of murdering his ex-wife. Fortunately, his girl friend is around to prove that he was on ice when the murder occurred. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Fate Is the Hunter

Actors: Glenn Ford, Nancy Kwan, Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette, Jane Russell

Synopsis: Suspense builds around the investigation of a plane crash that caused 53 deaths in this dramatic adaption of Ernest K. Gann's novel. Authorities systematically eliminate probable causes, finally placing blame on the pilot, who was seen drinking before the flight. The airline's director of flight Read More

The Man in the Water

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this actioner, a charterboat captain in Key West gets into trouble when he smuggles a group of Cuban refugees into the States. He is on the way back from the island when he is fired on by Cuban gunboats. Someone is killed and he ends up losing his boat and license to US authorities. The captain Read More

September Storm

Actors: Joanne Dru, Mark Stevens, Robert Strauss, Jean-Pierre Kerien

Synopsis: In this standard adventure yarn shown in 3-D, four people on a "borrowed" boat -- three men and a woman -- take off looking for sunken gold worth millions. A young, handsome man (Asher Dann) works on the yacht of a Parisian tycoon who happens to be away at the moment. Two nautical layabouts (Mark Stevens Read More

Gun Fever

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Mark Stevens, John Lupton, Larry Storch, Jana Davi, Aaron Saxon

Synopsis: Mark Stevens doubles as star and director of the compact western Gun Fever. Lucas (Stevens) and his partner Simon (John Lupton) set about to capture the renegade white man who caused the deaths of Lucas' parents in an Indian raid. The villain turns out to be Simon's own father Trench (Aaron Read More

Gunsmoke in Tucson

Actors: Mark Stevens, Forrest Tucker, Gale Robbins, John Ward, Kevin Hagen

Synopsis: In this western, the battle between ranchers and farmers provides the background for a battle between two disparate brothers. One is the outlaw gangleader of the Blue Chip gang; the other is a hard-bitten lawman. The outlaw is only too happy to witness the land conflicts as he plans on stealing Read More

Gunsight Ridge

Actors: Joel McCrea, Mark Stevens, Joan Weldon, Darlene Fields, Addison Richards

Synopsis: In this western, the trouble begins when a ruthless outlaw impersonates a mine owner. When the sheriff begins to suspect him, the badguy kills him. A government agent, working undercover replaces the sheriff, exposes the crook and wins the love of a purty gal in the process. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Timetable

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Mark Stevens, King Calder, Felicia Farr, Marianne Stewart, Wesley Addy

Synopsis: In this suspenseful detective yarn, an insurance investigator finds himself unbearably bored by his routine life and decides to become a criminal. Following the robbery he engineers, he begins to investigate the theft himself. Unfortunately, he is trailed by a determined railroad cop, a dear Read More

Cry Vengeance

Crew: Director

Actors: Mark Stevens, Martha Hyer, Joan Vohs, Douglas Kennedy

Synopsis: Vic Barron (Mark Stevens) is an ex-detective from San Francisco whose career is ruined and family is destroyed because of his dedication to his job. Three years before, he'd been close to breaking a gang with ties to some very powerful people. Then they tried to kill him by bombing his car; he was Read More

Jack Slade

Actors: Mark Stevens, Barton MacLane, John Litel, Paul Langton

Synopsis: The psychological makeup of a dangerous gunman is probed in Jack Slade. Beginning with his childhood, Slade (Mark Stevens) is shown to be extremely unbalanced; in fact, he kills his first man at age 13. Growing up in the West, Slade comes to the conclusion that his gun is his only friend. At Read More

Martin Kane, Private Eye: Season 05

Actors: Mark Stevens

Torpedo Alley

Actors: Mark Stevens, Dorothy Malone, Charles Winninger, Bill Williams, Douglas Kennedy

Synopsis: Mark Stevens stars as a Navy pilot named Bingham in this paean to the modern-day submarine service. Covering the years 1941 to 1952, Torpedo Alley details Bingham's training as a sub commander. Feeling guilty for the deaths of several of his fellow pilots, he signs up for submarine service at the Read More

The Big Frame

Actors: Mark Stevens, Jean Kent, Garry Marsh, John Bentley, Dianne Foster

Synopsis: The Anglo-American melodrama The Big Frame was released in Britain as Count the Hours. Mark Stevens stars as a Texas-born test pilot who heads to England to marry his wartime sweetheart Jean Kent. At a reunion party with his air force chums, Stevens gets into a boozy brawl with one of the Read More

Mutiny

Actors: Mark Stevens, Angela Lansbury, Patric Knowles, Gene Evans, Rhys Williams

Synopsis: Director Edward Dmytryk returned from a few unhappy years on the Blacklist in the early 1950s, to direct a handful of programmers before being restored to "A" pictures. Dmytrk's Mutiny is set during the War of 1812. Mark Stevens, captain of the American ship Concord, finds himself at the mercy of Read More

Target Unknown

Actors: Mark Stevens, Alex Nicol, Robert Douglas, Don Taylor, Gig Young

Synopsis: Set during WW II, Target Unknown follows the exploits of a group of American flyers who crash behind enemy lines. Captured by the Germans, the flyers are interrogated separately. The Nazi higher-ups are eventually convinced that they've gleaned enough information to know where and when the next Read More

Katie Did It

Actors: Ann Blyth, Mark Stevens, Cecil Kellaway, Jesse White, Harold Vermilyea

Synopsis: Katherine "Katie" Standish (Ann Blyth) has been raised in a restrictive small town by her prudish Aunt Priscilla (Elizabeth Patterson). When Katie heads to New York to help out her improvident Uncle Nathaniel (Cecil Kellaway), she experiences an emotional and romantic awakening. The catalyst for Read More

Little Egypt

Actors: Mark Stevens, Rhonda Fleming, Nancy Guild, Charles Drake, Tom D'Andrea

Synopsis: Little Egypt is a lighthearted "biopic" all about the hootchie-kootchie dancer who created a sensation at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. An incongruously redheaded Rhonda Fleming plays Izora, a cabaret dancer in old Cairo. American impresario Cyrus Graydon (Minor Watson) hopes to re-create an Read More

Reunion in Reno

Actors: Mark Stevens, Peggy Dow, Frances Dee, Leif Erickson

Synopsis: Columbia and Universal were the leading purveyors of well-crafted "little" pictures in the 1950s. It was Universal who put together Reunion in Reno, which opens with little Maggie (Gigi Perreau) walking into the offices of divorce-attorney Norman (Mark Stevens), demanding a divorce from her Read More

Between Midnight and Dawn

Actors: Mark Stevens, Edmond O'Brien, Gale Storm, Donald Buka, Gale Robbins

Synopsis: Between Midnight and Dawn is a solid, no-frills detective drama from the Columbia studio mills. Mark Stevens and Edmond O'Brien star as police officers Barnes and Purvis, who tool around in their prowl car in the wee hours of the morning. Vengeful gangster Ritchie Garris (Donald Buka) would like Read More

Please Believe Me

Actors: Deborah Kerr, Robert Walker, Peter Lawford, Mark Stevens, James Whitmore

Synopsis: Producer Val Lewton abandoned the "psychological horror" efforts of his RKO days when he moved to MGM in 1950. Lewton's Please Believe Me is a simple, sometimes simplistic romantic comedy, designed principally as a showcase for Deborah Kerr. The star plays Alison Kirbe, an English girl who Read More

Oh, You Beautiful Doll

Actors: June Haver, Mark Stevens, S.Z. Sakall, Charlotte Greenwood, Gale Robbins

Synopsis: Another of 20th Century-Fox's Technicolor musical biopics, Oh You Beautiful Doll is allegedly the life story of popular composer Fred Fisher. As played by S. Z. "Cuddles" Sakall, Fisher is a serious musician who yearns to write opera rather than tin pan alley hits. Since the aged, portly Sakall Read More

Sand

Actors: Mark Stevens, Coleen Gray, Rory Calhoun, Charles Grapewin

Synopsis: Novelist Will James, a specialist in horse stories, wrote the yarn upon which 20th Century-Fox's Sand was based. Mark Stevens plays horse breeder Jeff Keane, who loses his prize stallion in a train accident. While the stallion roams wild and free, Keane enlists the aid of rancher Joan Hartley (Coleen Gray Read More

Dancing in the Dark

Actors: William Powell, Mark Stevens, Betsy Drake, Adolphe Menjou, Randy Stuart

Synopsis: This musical comedy stars William Powell as Emery Slade, who was once a major film star but lately isn't getting much work. Arrogantly determined to climb back to the top, Slade convinces studio chief Melville Crossman (Adolphe Menjou) to give him the male lead in the film version of a Broadway Read More

The Street with No Name

Actors: Mark Stevens, Richard Widmark, John McIntire, Lloyd Nolan, Barbara Lawrence, Ed Begley, Sr.

Synopsis: FBI operative Mark Stevens is dispatched by his boss Lloyd Nolan to infiltrate a criminal gang. Stevens ingratiates himself with Richard Widmark, the gang's leader, then helps concoct a robbery that will deliver the criminals into the hands of the authorities. But there's an informant in the Read More

The Snake Pit

Actors: Olivia de Havilland, Mark Stevens, Leo Genn, Celeste Holm, Glenn Langan, Helen Craig

Synopsis: "A woman loses her mind and is confined to a mental institution." That's the usual TV-listing encapsulation of The Snake Pit -- and like most such encapsulations, it only scratches the film's surface. Olivia de Havilland stars as an outwardly normal young woman, married to loyal, kindly Mark Stevens Read More

I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now

Actors: Lenore Aubert, Truman Bradley, Harry V. Cheshire, George Cleveland, Eddie Dunn

Synopsis: I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now is the heavily laundered musical biopic of sentimental songwriter Joe E. Howard. As played by Mark Stevens (whose singing voice was dubbed by Buddy Clark), Howard is a humble 19th century organ salesman who rises to Broadway fame as the composer of maudlin ballads Read More

From This Day Forward

Actors: Joan Fontaine, Mark Stevens, Rosemary de Camp, Bobby Driscoll, Wally Brown, Henry Morgan

Synopsis: In this romantic drama, Bill and Susan Cummings (Mark Stevens and Joan Fontaine), a couple from the Bronx, look back at the early days of their marriage. When they meet in 1938, Bill is working as a machinist, and Susan is a clerk in a bookstore. They fall in love and decide to wed, but it's not Read More

The Dark Corner

Actors: Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb, Mark Stevens, William Bendix, Cathy Downs

Synopsis: This grade-A example of "film noir" stars Mark Stevens as Brad Galt, an embittered ex-convict who returns to the private detective business upon his release. Sour and surly, Galt behaves himself only when he's around his faithful and adoring secretary Kathleen (top-billed Lucille Ball). When Read More

God Is My Co-Pilot

Actors: Dennis Morgan, Dane Clark, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale, Andrea King

Synopsis: Such was the prevailing mood among filmgoers in 1943 that God Is My Co-Pilot was allowed to show a spiritual shaft of light in the sky and several scenes of enemy pilots spitting up blood when shot down by American bullets. The film was based on the best-selling novel by fighter pilot Col. Robert Read More

Within These Walls

Actors: Thomas Mitchell, Mary Anderson, Edward Ryan, Mark Stevens, B.S. Pully

Synopsis: In this prison drama, a stern hanging judge is assigned to take over a chaotic prison. There he imposes an almost inhumanly strict regimen of discipline on the inmates. He is similarly rigid and harsh with his own two children. Later his compassionate daughter befriends a wrongfully convicted Read More

Rhapsody in Blue

Actors: Robert Alda, Joan Leslie, Alexis Smith, Charles Coburn, Oscar Levant, Julie Bishop

Synopsis: There's slightly more fancy than fact in this lavish film biography of legendary American composer George Gershwin, but oh! That music! Director Irving Rapper had wanted Tyrone Power to play Gershwin, but Power was still serving in the Marines, so Rapper had to settle for Robert Alda--who isn't Read More

Pride of the Marines

Actors: John Garfield, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark, Ann Doran, John Ridgely, Rosemary de Camp

Synopsis: John Garfield stars as Al Schmid, a true-life marine who served in World War II. Schmid becomes a hero at Guadalcanal, defending a machine gun post and killing 200 Japanese before he is permanently blinded by a grenade. Despite being awarded the Navy Cross, Schmid returns home embittered by his Read More

Objective, Burma!

Actors: Errol Flynn, Henry Hull, William Prince, James Brown, George Tobias

Synopsis: A few corny moments aside, Objective Burma must rate as one of the best combat films of WW2. Errol Flynn stars as Captain Nelson, who leads a hardy band of paratroopers behind enemy lines in Burma, for the purpose of destroying a Japanese radar station. Their mission accomplished, Nelson and his Read More

Roaring Guns

Hollywood Canteen

Actors: The Andrews Sisters, Robert Hutton, Joan Leslie, Jack Benny, Julie Bishop, Bette Davis, John Garfield, Betty Brodel, Sydney Greenstreet, Barbara Brown

Synopsis: The West Coast's answer to Broadway's Stage Door Canteen, the Hollywood Canteen was created as a GI morale-booster by film stars Bette Davis and John Garfield. The Canteen was established so that Our Boys on leave in Tinseltown could have a good time with good food and good dancing -- and, as a Read More

Passage to Marseille

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Michèle Morgan, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Philip Dorn

Synopsis: Designed as a followup to the enormously successful Casablanca, Passage to Marseille utilizes the talents of many of the on- and off-screen personnel of the earlier Warner Bros. classic. Unfolded in a complex flashback-within-flashback structure, this is the story of Matrac (Humphrey Bogart), a Read More

Destination Tokyo

Actors: Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale, Dane Clark, John Ridgely

Synopsis: Though its purely propagandastic aspects are never far from surface, Destination Tokyo must rank as one of the most intelligent and objective of wartime thrillers. Cary Grant is a tower of strength as Captain Cassidy, skipper of an American submarine bound for Tokyo harbor. Its mission: to allow a Read More