Martin WestFilmography

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

MAC and Me

Actors: Jade Calegory, Christine Ebersole, Jonathan Ward, Tina Caspary, Lauren Stanley

Synopsis: This sci-fi tearjerker has the distinction of being one of the most obviously commercial films ever made with constant plugs for MacDonalds, Coca-Cola companies, candy and other products. These not so subtle endorsements are woven into the story of a wheel-chair bound boy and the stranded alien Read More

Best Seller

Actors: James Woods, Brian Dennehy, Victoria Tennant, Allison Balson, Paul Shenar

Synopsis: Brian Dennehy plays a Wambaugh-type cop who has flourished as a novelist. At the moment, however, Dennehy is suffering from a profound case of writer's block. Coming to the rescue, as it were, is professional hit man James Woods. Recently dumped by his boss, above-suspicion business executive Paul Shenar Read More

Hellhole

Actors: Ray Sharkey, Judy Landers, Mary Woronov, Marjoe Gortner, Edy Williams

Synopsis: It's hard to be critical of an exploitation film that revels so gleefully in its awfulness. To begin with, we're presented with dazed, glassy-eyed heroine Judy Landers, whose condition is readily explained by a bout with amnesia brought on by the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of a Read More

My Mother's Secret Life

Actors: Loni Anderson, Paul Sorvino, Amanda Wyss

Synopsis: After a long separation, a young girl finds her mother (Loni Anderson) and is surprised to find that she's working as a high-class call girl. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Der Preis Fürs Überleben

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Martin West, Marilyn Clark, Suzie Galler, Daniel Rosen

Synopsis: German director Hans Noever shot this crime drama in the U.S. in English, an unusual achievement at this time. The setting is Jefferson City, Missouri, and Joseph Randolph (Martin West), a VIP in a fictional electronics company, has just gotten the sack. The company bigwigs insist it is simply Read More

Assault on Precinct 13

Actors: Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston, Gilbert De la Pena, Al Nakauchi, Laurie Zimmer, Gil Rankin, Martin West, Cliff Battuello, Tony Burton

Synopsis: Cops, secretaries, and prisoners stuck in a soon-to-be-shuttered L.A. police station fight off a horde of murderous gang members in director John Carpenter's homage to Howard Hawks. When police officer Bishop (Austin Stoker) is left in charge of Precinct 13 on the last day it's open, he isn't Read More

Family Plot

Actors: Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, William Devane, Ed Lauter

Synopsis: Alfred Hitchcock's final film was adapted from Victor Canning's novel The Rainbird Pattern by Ernest Lehman, who previously wrote the screenplay for Hitchcock's North by Northwest. Barbara Harris plays Blanche, a phony psychic, hired by wealthy Julia Rainbird (Cathleen Nesbitt) to trace the Read More

Ironside: Little Dog, Gone

Synopsis: When a wealthy friend of the San Francisco police commissioner reports that his dog is missing, a disgruntled Ironside (Raymond Burr) passes the responsibility of locating the pooch to his assistants Ed (Don Galloway) and Eve (Barbara Anderson). Meanwhile, Mark (Don Mitchell) finds out that the Read More

Soldier Blue

Actors: Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss, Donald Pleasence, John Anderson, Jorge Rivero

Synopsis: A cavalry unit in Colorado is conducting two important cargoes to Fort Reunion, home of the 11th Colorado Volunteers: Cresta Marybelle Lee (Candice Bergen), the fiancée of an officer in the unit until two years ago, when she was taken by the Cheyenne, and who just escaped; and Captain Battles (Dana Elcar Read More

Sweet November

Actors: Sandy Dennis, Anthony Newley, Theodore Bikel, Burr de Benning, Sandy Baron

Synopsis: Sarah Deever (Sandy Dennis) is an idealistic young woman living in Brooklyn. Her altruistic nature finds her taking in visitors for a month at a time to help them in their time of need. Charlie Blake (Anthony Newley) is her latest reclamation project, a cardboard-box factory worker and owner of an Read More

Bonanza: Judgement at Red Creek

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, John Ireland, Harry Carey, Jr.

Synopsis: Joe Cartwright joins a posse led by Sheriff Rimbau (John Ireland) to capture two robbery/murder suspects. For Rimbau, it is personal: His own brother Jack (James B. Sikking) was killed by the outlaws. Before long, Joe realizes that Rimbau intends to be judge, jury and executioner, thoroughly Read More

Harper

Actors: Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris, Arthur Hill, Janet Leigh

Synopsis: Screenwriter William Goldman has claimed that Paul Newman agreed to do Harper, the film that established the grateful writer's career, only because he was working unhappily on Lady L. (1965) in Europe, and was looking for something as unlike that film as possible. He stars as Lew Harper, a hip Read More

Lord Love a Duck

Actors: Roddy McDowall, Tuesday Weld, Lola Albright, Martin West, Ruth Gordon

Synopsis: An intelligent, eccentric high school senior devotes his life to indulging the every whim of the beautiful girl he adores in this quirky, dark-humored comedy. Roddy McDowall plays Alan Musgrave, an odd duck who immediately falls for the school's new student, Barbara Ann Greene (Tuesday Weld). Read More

The Girls on the Beach

Actors: Brian Wilson, Martin West, Noreen Corcoran, Peter Brooks, Michael Love

Synopsis: The Beatles are coming! The Beatles are coming! Or so the members of the Alpha Beta sorority who are trying to raise $10,000 during Spring Break to save their sorority house believe. When the Fab Four do not show, the ingenious girls must create a passable imitation by imitating them themselves. Read More

A Swingin' Summer

Actors: James Stacy, William Wellman, Jr., Quinn O'Hara, Martin West, Mary Mitchell

Synopsis: Featuring plenty of rock & roll, such artists as Gary Lewis and the Playboys, The Righteous Brothers and the Rip Chords, this fun-filled bit of fluff tells the story of a trio of teens who try to scare up summer cash by running a dance pavilion at a lakeside resort. Raquel Welch made her acting Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Duplicate Case

Synopsis: Luckless salesman Herbie Cornwall (Martin West) is envious of his wife Millie's success as a corporate secretary. Truth to tell, Millie (Susan Bay) is successful mainly because she is fooling around with several of the male executives. When Herbie finds out about his wife's peccadilloes, he has a Read More

The Man from Galveston

Actors: Jeffrey Hunter, Preston S. Foster, James Coburn, Joanna Moore, Edward Andrews

Synopsis: This western served as the pilot film for Warner Bros.' Temple Houston television series. It is the tale of a young, brash attorney (Jeffrey Hunter) in the Texas circuit court system. His old flame (Joanna Moore) is accused of murder. The case is resolved when Hunter reveals the real killer in Read More

Captain Newman, M.D.

Actors: Gregory Peck, Tony Curtis, Angie Dickinson, Eddie Albert, Bobby Darin, James Gregory

Synopsis: Gregory Peck plays a benevolent God-like figure in a white smock as Captain Josiah Newman, the head of a psych-unit at a Southwestern army base during the waning days of World War II. Newman is a patriarchal protector to his patients, preferring to keep him in his ward, rather than return them to Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Pandora's Box

Synopsis: In this curiously Brechtian drama, a government official (Lewis Martin) secretly hires Paladin to bring murder suspect Billy Joe (Martin West) to trial. The reason for the secrecy is that Billy Joe is the son of Paladin's client. Upon capturing Billy Joe, Paladin is unable to turn over boy to the Read More

The Sergeant Was a Lady

Actors: Martin West, Venetia Stevenson, Bill Williams, Catherine McLeod

Synopsis: Military women prove their mettle against military men in this low-budget comedy. The fun begins after a handsome corporal is accidentally assigned to a WAC base located on a Pacific island. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Bearbait

Synopsis: Juvenile delinquency invades the Wild West in this episode, wherein three young punks named Sim (Richard Rust), Bunk (Martin West) and Burt (Ralph Reed) gleefully terrorize a small town. The local sheriff (Stephen Roberts) refuses to intervene, and Paladin (Richard Boone) wants to find out why. Read More

Freckles

Actors: Martin West, Carol Christensen, Jack Lambert, Steven Peck, Roy Barcroft

Synopsis: The oft-filmed Gene Stratton Porter novel Freckles was given its last screen treatment to date by 20th Century-Fox in 1960. Filmed on location in Northern California, the story concerns the title character, a self-effacing young man, played by Martin West. Though handicapped by a missing hand Read More