Michael Constantine Filmography

My Big Fat Greek Wedding

Actors: Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Michael Constantine, Lainie Kazan, Andrea Martin

Synopsis: One woman's rocky road to the altar gets played for laughs in this comedy, adapted from the one-woman off-Broadway show written by and starring Nia Vardalos. Toula (Vardalos) is a Greek-American woman who is in her early thirties and single, with no immediate prospects of changing that status any Read More

Winds of Terror

Actors: Timothy Hutton, Vanessa Williams, Terry O'Quinn

Synopsis: Timothy Hutton stars as a government agent dealing with the aftermath of a biological attack in this thriller from director Robert Mandel (School Ties). In the wake of a deadly outbreak on a cruise ship, it becomes clear that the U.S. has been hit by a terrorist attack. As the virus spreads, it's Read More

Thinner

Actors: Robert John Burke, Joe Mantegna, Michael Constantine, Lucinda Jenney, Kari Wuhrer

Synopsis: The plot of Thinner concerns massively overweight lawyer Billy Halleck (Robert John Burke), who is receiving an oral gift from his wife (Lucinda Jenney) while driving down the street one night, when he becomes so carried away that he runs over an old Gypsy woman (Irma St. Paule), killing her. Read More

The Juror

Actors: Demi Moore, Alec Baldwin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Anne Heche, James Gandolfini, Lindsay Crouse

Synopsis: A woman serving on the jury of an anti-Mafia trial must protect herself and her young son from a psychopathic gangster in this thriller. Demi Moore stars as Annie Laird, a single mother and artist who readily agrees to do her civic duty on the jury in the trial of a major organized crime figure. Read More

Law & Order: Sanctuary

Synopsis: A 12-year-old Harlem youth is killed in a hit-and-run. The driver, an elderly Jewish man named Joshua Berger (Michael Constantine), is not indicted. This is all it takes for outspoken (and blatantly bigoted) black activist Reverend Ott (Tony Todd) to foment racial tensions that explode in Read More

Because Mommy Works

Actors: Anne Archer, John Heard

Synopsis: The sensitive topic of the working mother is the subject of this made-for-television movie. Anne Archer stars as Abby, the working, single mother of a 6-year-old. Abby shares her son with her husband by alternating custodial weekends with him. At first, she enjoys the freedom it affords her to Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street - A Dog and Pony Show

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: Still frustrated by the unsolved Watson murder, Bayliss (Kyle Secor) and Pembleton (Andre Braugher) are in no mood to tackle the murder of a police dog -- but they must, since the Baltimore municipal code dictates that any police killing in the line of duty must be given first priority. Meanwhile Read More

My Life

Actors: Michael Keaton, Nicole Kidman, Bradley Whitford, Queen Latifah, Dr. Haing S. Ngor, Michael Constantine

Synopsis: In My Life, Michael Keaton stars as Bob Jones, who has just been informed that his wife Gail (Nicole Kidman) is pregnant with their first child. However, he has also been told he has kidney cancer that has spread to his lungs; the longest Bob is expected to live is four months, which will deny him Read More

Deadfall

Actors: Michael Biehn, Nicolas Cage, Sarah Trigger, Peter Fonda

Synopsis: This lushly photographed, contemporary film noir tries to substitute looks and unconvincing, contrived plot twists for substance, capturing the look of a film noir but lacking the depth and characterization needed to make the film work. After his father, Mike is killed, Joe Donan (Michael Biehn) Read More

Law & Order: Trust

Synopsis: Arrested for killing one of his classmates, 15-year-old Jamie Marsh (Harley Cross) insists that it was all a tragic accident: True, he had a gun in his hand, but "It just went off." Despite the evidence gathered by detectives Logan (Chris Noth) and Cerreta (Paul Sorvino) indicating that Jamie is Read More

Prancer

Actors: Sam Elliott, Rebecca Harrell, Cloris Leachman, Rutanya Alda, Abe Vigoda

Synopsis: If you know the Clement Clark Moore poem, you'll know that Prancer is one of Santa Claus' "eight tiny reindeer." When 9-year-old Rebecca Harrell, who still believes in Santa despite the remonstrations of her parents and the taunts of her peers, stumbles across the selfsame Prancer in a remote part Read More

Hunter: Payback

Synopsis: Since he owes his life to petty thief Terry Smolki (David Wohl), Hunter (Fred Dryer) feels obliged to lend a helping hand when the man is accused of murder. Though Smolki admits that he was trying to tunnel into a bank vault, he swears he knows nothing about the dead body that he found in the Read More

Leap of Faith

Actors: Anne Archer, Sam Neill

Synopsis: A young woman learns that she has a lethal, rare kind of cancer. This fact-based, heart-wrenching made-for-TV drama chronicles her struggle to cope with her own personal feelings and those of her family. She then begins looking for alternative ways to treat her disease while her husband deals with Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Wearing of the Green

Synopsis: While researching her latest novel, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) almost becomes a casualty in the bombing of a jewelry store. It later turns out that the store's owner has been murdered and the priceless Queen of Tara tiara has been stolen. Forming an uneasy alliance with a pair of wisecracking Read More

In the Mood

Actors: Patrick Dempsey, Beverly D'Angelo, Talia Balsam, Michael Constantine, Betty Jinnette

Synopsis: This romantic comedy is based on a true story that happened in California in 1944. Sonny Wisecarver (Patrick Dempsey) is 15 year old who has an affair with his older neighbor Judy (Talia Balsam). The two run off and get married, but a stern judge has the union annulled. Sonny is hauled before the Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Death of the Flowers

Synopsis: Deputy DA Carol Baldwin (Kathleen Lloyd) begins to suspect that her beloved mentor, Judge Hannibal Kearns (Michael Constantine), has been accepting bribes. Even more disturbingly, it appears that Kearns is in the pocket of shady businessman Ice Pick (Elisha Cook Jr.), who happens to be the role Read More

Pray for Death

Actors: Sho Kosugi, Donna Kei Benz, James Booth, Norman Burton, Michael Constantine

Synopsis: In this martial-arts actioner, a gentle Japanese immigrant endeavors to quietly run a business in America. Unfortunately, gangsters refuse to leave them alone. Finally the quiet storekeeper has enough and reveals that he is in reality, a highly skilled Ninja master. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Murder Takes the Bus

Synopsis: In one of the series' best episodes, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) and Sheriff Tupper (Tom Bosley) are taking a bus trip from Cabot Cove to Portland, Maine, when the vehicle makes a stopover at a roadside inn. Before long, one of the other passengers--a bank robber recently released from prison--turns Read More

My Palikari

Synopsis: A Greek-American businessman returns to his homeland with his teenage American-born son and finds that he has little in common with his family's simple life. ~ Steve Huey, All Movie Guide Read More

Forty Days of Musa Dagh

Actors: Kabir Bedi, Ronnie Carol, Guy Stockwell, Peter Haskell, David Opatoshu

Synopsis: Filmed in California, copyrighted in Turkey and enacted in Armenian, Forty Days of Musa Dagh is set in the decades following the Russo-Turkish war of 1878. Persecuted by their conquerors, a group of Armenian nationals form a resistance movement. The conquering Ottomans retaliate by committing some Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Give Me Your Weak

Synopsis: In this followup to the Season Six episode "Who Speaks for the Children", Quincy (Jack Klugman) continues his crusade to push forward the stalled "Orphan Drug Act" in congress, creating funding to develop curative drugs for rare diseases. The big problem is money, or lack of it: the major Read More

Silent Rebellion

Synopsis: Feeling homesick, a Greek immigrant (Telly Savalas) and his son travel from their American home back to the Greek village where the father was born. As the man is reunited with his mother and brother, he discovers that the culture of his youth now seems strange and unnatural to him, causing a Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Gentle Into That Good Night

Synopsis: Finding it increasingly difficult to offer consolation to the relatives of accident and murder victims, Quincy (Jack Klugman) solicits the advice of Dr. Pendleton (Michael Constantine), a psychiatrist who works with terminally ill patients. Circumstances dictate that Quincy must act as substitute Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Seldom Silent, Never Heard

Synopsis: After a teenager suffering from Tourette's Syndrome dies in a fall, Dr. Arthur Ciotti (Michael Constantine) shows up in the autopsy lab and makes an unusual request of medical examiner Quincy (Jack Klugman). Ciotti wants to take possession of the dead boy's brain in hopes of finding a cure for Read More

Fear in the City

Synopsis: War is waged in an inner-city neighborhood when the Mafia struggles with local gang members for the rule of the roost. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Evita Peron

Actors: Faye Dunaway, James Farentino

Synopsis: Faye Dunaway portrays the Argentinian title character in this four-hour TV biopic. The story traces Evita's rise to power from humble origins; she establishes herself as a radio and film actress, then meets and marries powerful politico Juan Peron (played by James Farentino, a last minute Read More

The Love Tapes

Synopsis: This pilot film for an unsold TV series was originally titled They're Playing Our Tape. Michael Constantine stars as Frank Yost, the avuncular head of a videotape dating services called "Good Possibilities." Among Yost's clients is recently divorced executive David Franklin (Martin Balsam), single Read More

Crisis in Mid-Air

Synopsis: Crisis in Mid-Air is essentially a "problem drama" concentrating on a single individual. George Peppard plays a veteran air traffic controller who holds himself responsible for a mid-air collision. With an FAA investigator breathing down his neck, Peppard gets a chance to prove his value when Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Walk Softly Through the Night, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Quincy (Jack Klugman) is still work hand in glove with idealistic pre-med student Marty Herrera in his efforts to bring a shady, drug-pushing doctor named Mason Colella to justice. Hampering Quincy's efforts is the fact that young Herrera's method of "curing" Read More

The North Avenue Irregulars

Actors: Edward Herrmann, Barbara Harris, Susan Clark, Cloris Leachman, Karen Valentine, Michael Constantine

Synopsis: One of the bigger non-cartoon moneymakers for Disney in the 1970s, The North Avenue Irregulars is predicated on the premise of the "Neighborhood Watch" system. Priest Michael Hill (Edward Herrmann), newly arrived on North Avenue, decides to buck the patriarchal notions of his superiors by Read More

Roots: The Next Generations

Actors: Georg Stanford Brown, Olivia de Havilland, Henry Fonda, Paul Koslo

Synopsis: The phenomenal success of the 1977 ABC miniseries Roots all but demanded a sequel to writer Alex Haley's epic story of his African and African-American forebears. Debuting February 18, 1979, Roots: The Next Generations picked up where its predecessor left off, with Haley's slave ancestors winning Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Walk Softly Through the Night, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story (originally telecast in a single two-hour timeslot), Quincy investigates when the son of TV kiddie host Brock Campbell (Michael Constantine), dies of a quaalude overdose. The grieving Campbell had no idea that his son was a junkie--nor could he have ever Read More

Summer of My German Soldier

Actors: Kristy McNichol

Synopsis: Despite its far-fetched plotline, the made-for-TV Summer of My German Soldier was popular with audiences and critics alike. The film is set in Georgia during World War II. Bruce Davison plays Anton Reiker, a German POW assigned to work at a local farm. Reiker escapes, taking refuge in a barn owned Read More

Harold Robbins' The Pirate

Actors: Anne Archer, Olivia Hussey, Franco Nero

Synopsis: This four-hour TV movie is one more of novelist Harold Robbins' "guess who everyone is supposed to really be?" wallowfests (with nary a Jolly Roger in sight). The "pirate" is Baydr (Franco Nero), an anti-Semitic Lebanese oil sheik, who, unbeknownst to himself, is actually an Israel-born Jew Read More

79 Park Avenue

Actors: Barbara Barrie

Synopsis: The formal title for this TV mini-series was Harold Robbins' 79 Park Avenue, just in case you might mistake it for William Makepeace Thackeray's 79 Park Avenue. Originally presented in three parts, this adaptation of the Robbins best-seller stars Lesley Ann Warren as Marja Fludjicki, a Read More

Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid

Actors: LeVar Burton, Ossie Davis, Roxie Roker

Synopsis: Twenty-year-old LeVar Burton followed up his spectacular television debut in Roots with the made-for-TV film Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid. As can be gathered by the title, Billy (Burton) is a ghetto youth with little chance for a bright future. He gets his chance to escape his dead-end Read More

Voyage of the Damned

Actors: Faye Dunaway, Max von Sydow, Oskar Werner, Malcolm McDowell, Orson Welles

Synopsis: Often described as "Ship of Fools with a conscience," Voyage of the Damned is based on a true story. In 1939, the Nazis ostentatiously loaded a luxury liner with hundred of Jewish refugees from all walks of life. The ship then tried to drop anchor in Havana, Cuba-only to have its passengers Read More

Twin Detectives

Synopsis: In this mystery, twin gumshoes team up to expose a band of bogus spiritualists involved in murder . ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Wanted: The Sundance Woman

Synopsis: Katherine Ross, who played Etta Place in 1969's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, reprises the role for the made-for-TV Mrs. Sundance Rides Again. History doesn't record what exactly happened to former schoolteacher Etta after Butch and Sundance were shot full of holes in Bolivia, but it isn't Read More

Peeper

Actors: Michael Caine, Natalie Wood, Kitty Winn, Thayer David, Liam Dunn

Synopsis: In this comedy drama that spoofs detective pictures from the 1940s, Tucker (Michael Caine) is a private eye hired by Anglich (Michael Constantine), a wealthy man who is trying to find the whereabouts of his long lost daughter. Tucker's sleuthing leads him to Ellen (Natalie Wood) and Mianne (Kitty Winn Read More

The Secret Night Caller

Actors: Robert Reed

Synopsis: Most TV movies about obscene phone callers concentrate on the reactions of the victims--and the subsequent dangers they're exposed to. The Secret Night Caller takes a different tack, telling its story from the point of view of the caller. What makes the film doubly disturbing is that the Read More

The Night That Panicked America

Actors: Eileen Brennan, Paul Shenar

Synopsis: The Night That Panicked America is centered around Orson Welles' notorious "War of the Worlds" broadcast of October 30, 1938. Welles (Paul Shenar) arrives at CBS studios just in time to assume his directing post for the radio adaptation of the H.G. Wells classic, which has been updated and Read More

Conspiracy of Terror

Synopsis: Mixing humor and melodrama, this curiosity has a husband-and-wife detective duo investigating Satanic goings on in an American suburb, all the while bickering about their in-laws and other domestic problems. ~ Mark Hockley, All Movie Guide Read More

Kojak: The Chinatown Murders, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of Kojak's two part second-season opener (originally telecast as a single 120-minute episode), Lt. Kojak (Telly Savalas) races against time to solve a series of murders in New York's Chinatown--and, hopefully, prevent a bloody full-scale war between two rival crime clans. Read More

Death Cruise

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, six persons have won a cruise-ship vacation, but they find that the awards were just a trick to begin a killing game. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Kojak: The Chinatown Murders, Part 1

Synopsis: Kojak opens its second season with a powerful two-part episode (originally telecast in a single 120-minute timeslot). Several murders have occurred in New York's Chinatown district, and police detective Theo Kojak (Telly Savalas) is concerned that an all-out war between rival crime families is Read More

Big Rose

Actors: Shelley Winters, Barry Primus, Lonny Chapman, Michael Constantine, Joan Van Ark

Synopsis: Shelley Winters is appropriately cast as Big Rose, a rough 'n' tough private detective. Nobody messes with Big Rose, least of all her new young partner (Barry Primus), who likes to joke his way through dangerous situations. The two detectives are hired to thwart a gang of confidence tricksters who Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: A Wrongful Death

Synopsis: Season Two of Streets of San Francisco opens with an episode focusing on Steve Keller (Michael Douglas), the young partner of veteran SFPD detective Mike Stone (Karl Malden). Forced to kill a robbery suspect, Keller finds his career on the line when the dead man's father (Michael Constantine) Read More

Say Goodbye, Maggie Cole

Synopsis: In her final acting appearance, Susan Hayward is ironically cast as a research doctor who can no longer face up to the notion of dealing with death on a daily basis. Recently widowed, Dr. Maggie Cole is on the verge of giving up her job and going into seclusion. She is shaken back to reality by Read More

The Bait

Actors: Donna Mills, Noam Pitlik

Synopsis: Donna Mills was still in her "imperiled heroine" career stage when she starred in the made-for-TV The Bait. Mills is a policewoman who goes incognito to solves a baffling series of rape-murders. Almost as deadly as the rapist is the sexism Mills must suffer from her superior officer (Michael Constantine Read More

Only the Cool

Synopsis: In this drama, a jealous wife murders her husband, a French antique dealer, after she suspects him of marital infidelity. In reality, the man was frequently gone at night because he was doubling as a secret agent. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Deadly Harvest

Actors: Murray Hamilton

Synopsis: Richard Boone stars as Anton Solca, an Iron Curtain defector living contentedly in California's Napa Valley. Now a successful wine grower, Solca finds himself targetted by a mysterious assailant. Someone from his East European past wants him dead, and by mid-film we find out why. Patty Duke Read More

The Impatient Heart

Actors: Michael Brandon

Synopsis: Carrie Snodgress, who after several years in show business became an "overnight success" with Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970), stars in the made-for-TV The Impatient Heart. In this pilot for a never-sold series titled McCormack, Ms. Snodgress plays a Manhattan social worker with a knack for Read More

Suddenly Single

Actors: Cloris Leachman

Synopsis: Suddenly Single is an assembly-line ABC Movie of the Week, given extra value by its attractive star lineup. The ball gets rolling when pharmacist Hal Holbrook is served divorce papers rather than dinner by his wife. Having been out of circulation since his marriage, the handsome but Read More

Justine

Actors: Severn Darden, Anouk Aimée, Dirk Bogarde, Anna Karina, Philippe Noiret, Michael York

Synopsis: Justine (Anouk Aimee) is a Jewish prostitute living in Egypt who manages to sleep her way to the top. Marrying a financial minister, Justine works her way up from her beginnings as a hooker, but continues to use her sexual allure as a tool to win her and her husband's ends. Along the way, she Read More

The Reivers

Actors: Steve McQueen, Sharon Farrell, Will Geer, Rupert Crosse, Mitch Vogel

Synopsis: Adapted from William Faulkner's final novel, The Reivers top-bills Steve McQueen, but the major character is feisty 11-year-old Lucius McCaslin, played by Mitch Vogel. Growing up in Mississippi in the early 1900s, Lucius finds himself (through a hectic series of circumstances) in a bordello, where Read More

Don't Drink the Water

Actors: Jackie Gleason, Estelle Parsons, Richard Libertini, Michael Constantine

Synopsis: Don't Drink The Water is taken from a play by Woody Allen. Walter Hollander (Jackie Gleason) is a middle-aged caterer from Newark, New Jersey who takes his wife Marion (Estelle Parsons) and his teenage daughter Susan (Joan Delaney) on a tour of Europe. When their plane is high-jacked to Vulgaria Read More

If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium

Actors: Suzanne Pleshette, Ian McShane, Mildred Natwick, Murray Hamilton, Sandy Baron

Synopsis: A mid-1960s TV documentary special (and a New Yorker cartoon before that) was the inspiration for If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium. The film is a likeable satire of "packaged" European tours, where the nonplused tourists are expected to rush from one landmark to another in a breathless 18 Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Code

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Michael Constantine

Synopsis: Leonard Nimoy joins the Mission:Impossible cast as The Great Paris, master of disguise and jack of all trades, in the series' fourth-season opener, "The Code." The IMF heads to the Latin American democracy of San Cristobal, presently in danger of invasion by dictator Vincente Bravo (Harold Gould). Read More

Skidoo

Actors: Jackie Gleason, Carol Channing, Frankie Avalon, Fred Clark, Michael Constantine

Synopsis: Producer and director Otto Preminger reportedly experimented with LSD in the late 60's, which inspired him to make this notorious comedy in which Jackie Gleason plays Tony, a mid-level gangster and former hired killer not very happy with his life. He bickers a lot with his wife Flo (Carol Read More

The Flying Nun: Sister Lucky

Synopsis: Michael Constantine guest-stars as Juan, a compulsive-and monumentally unlucky-gambler. A sudden upsurge in his fortunes convinces Juan that Sr. Bertrille is his good luck charm. As usual, one thing leads to another, and both the gambler and the nun (what, no radio?) nearly end up facing a stiff Read More

In Enemy Country

Actors: Anthony Franciosa, Anjanette Comer, Guy Stockwell, Paul Hubschmid, Tom Bell

Synopsis: Occasionally listed as In Enemy Hands (evidently a working title), In Enemy Country is a war film with "A" ambitions and a TV-movie budget. Wartime secret agents Col. Charles Waslow-Carton (Tony Franciosa) and Lt. Col. Philip Braden (Guy Stockwell) infiltrate enemy lines, posing as POWs. Their Read More

Ironside: The Man Who Believed

Synopsis: Ironside (Raymond Burr) has trouble believing that Samantha Dain (Marcia Strassman), a famous folksinger who sent him a cheer-up note during his convalescence, has committed suicide by leaping from a tall building. Suspecting that Samantha was murdered, Ironside conducts his own investigation--and Read More

The Fugitive: The Final Episode

The Fugitive: The Judgment, Part 1

Synopsis: The Fugitive wraps up its four-season run with Part One of the series' legendary final episode "The Judgment". Having learned that Fred Johnson (Bill Raisch), the elusive one-armed man who committed the murder for which Kimble was wrongfully condemned, has been arrested in Tucson, Kimble makes a Read More

Beau Geste

Actors: Guy Stockwell, Doug McClure, Leslie Nielsen, Telly Savalas, David Mauro

Synopsis: Christopher Wren's classic adventure story is brought to the screen for the third time in this version, which featured several popular television stars of the day. Beau Geste (Guy Stockwell) is forced to take the blame for a crime he didn't commit in order to protect the good name of his family; Read More