Michael ParksFilmography

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Actors: Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard, Mary-Louise Parker, Paul Schneider

Synopsis: Brad Pitt stars as legendary Wild West outlaw Jesse James in Chopper director Andrew Dominik's cinematic rendering of the events that would eventually bring about the death of the man rumored be the "fastest gun in the West." An eager recruit into James' notorious gang, Robert Ford eventually Read More

Death Proof

Actors: Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson, Vanessa Ferlito, Jordan Ladd, Rose McGowan

Synopsis: In Death Proof -- director Tarantino's take on such peddle-to-the-metal shockers as White Line Fever -- Kurt Russell stars as an engine-revving psychopath who prefers to take out his beautiful victims at 200 mph. Originally released into theaters on a double bill with Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror Read More

Planet Terror

Actors: Rose McGowan, Freddy Rodriguez, Josh Brolin, Marley Shelton, Jeff Fahey

Synopsis: Maverick filmmaker Robert Rodriguez details the violent struggle between a ravenous army of zombie-like humanoids who have taken control of the planet and the remaining survivors who refuse to go down without a fight. A dangerous government experiment has unleashed an abominable contamination that Read More

Fighting Words

Actors: C. Thomas Howell, Tara D'Agostino, Jeff Stearns, Fred Willard

Synopsis: A spitfire coffeehouse poet catches the attention of a conservative publisher, only to find that her attempts to get him to take part in an underground poetry-reading contest mask a much deeper motivation in the feature directorial debut of longtime television writer E. Paul Edwards. To Jake Read More

The Listening

Actors: Michael Parks, Maya Sansa, Andrea Tidona, James Parks, Mat Patresi

Synopsis: A spy discovers a new tool of his trade has put an innocent woman in danger in this political thriller. In the late 1990's, the National Security Agency teams up with a computer software firm, Wendell Crenshaw, to implement a new surveillance technology called Echelon, which will allow Read More

El Muerto

Actors: Wilmer Valderrama, Angie Cepeda, Joel David Moore, Tony Plana

Synopsis: Wilmer Valderrama, Angie Cepeda, Joel David Moore, and Michael Parks star in director Brian Cox's adaptation of Javier Hernandez's gothic-flavored comic book about a young man gifted with a strange supernatural power, and determined to save the soul of the woman he loves. As a young orphan, Diego Read More

Christmas Miracle at Sage Creek

Kill Bill Vol. 2

Actors: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah, Gordon Liu

Synopsis: Quentin Tarantino's sprawling homage to action films of both the East and the West reaches its conclusion in this continuation of 2003's ultra-violent Kill Bill Vol. 1. Having dispatched several of her arch-enemies in the first film, The Bride (Uma Thurman) continues in Kill Bill Vol. 2 on her Read More

Kill Bill Vol. 1

Actors: Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, Vivica A. Fox, Daryl Hannah, Julie Dreyfus, David Carradine, Michael Madsen

Synopsis: Perhaps the most highly anticipated film of 2003, Kill Bill Vol. 1 marked the return of renowned filmmaker Quentin Tarantino after a six-year hiatus. Re-teaming the director with Uma Thurman for the first time since 1994's Pulp Fiction, the film was originally the first half of what was to be a Read More

Big Bad Love

Actors: Arliss Howard, Debra Winger, Paul Le Mat, Rosanna Arquette, Angie Dickinson

Synopsis: Actor Arliss Howard made his debut as a director with this emotional drama adapted from a handful of short stories by Larry Brown. Barlow (Arliss Howard) is a deeply troubled Vietnam veteran who has been chasing a career as a writer, with little success; when he isn't struggling with his Read More

From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter

Actors: Ara Celi, Marco Leonardi, Michael Parks

Synopsis: An outlaw who recently defied death by escaping his noose is on the run with his gang and the daughter of his intended executioner in this prequel to the 1996 series original, From Dusk Til Dawn. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Wicked

Actors: Julia Stiles, William R. Moses, Patrick Muldoon, Vanessa Zima, Michael Parks

Synopsis: With suspense in the De Palma tradition, this thriller from Michael Steinberg (Bodies, Rest & Motion) hinges on the killer of cheating Karen Christianson (Chelsea Field), survived by her husband Ben (William R. Moses), troubled teen daughter Ellie (Julia Stiles), and little sister Inger (Vanessa Zima Read More

Niagara Niagara

Actors: Robin Tunney, Henry Thomas, Michael Parks, Stephen Lang, John A. MacKay

Synopsis: Two emotionally scarred young people find both love and tragedy as they run away together in this drama. Marcy (Robin Tunney) and Seth (Henry Thomas) meet while shoplifting at the same department store; Seth is the son of an angry, abusive father and steals out of rebellion, while Marcy suffers Read More

Full-Tilt Boogie

Actors: Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino, George Clooney, Juliette Lewis, Harvey Keitel

Synopsis: The filmization of Quentin Tarantino's first script, with television actor George Clooney in his first starring feature-film role, Robert "El Mariachi" Rodriguez's From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) was a campy action horror thriller that became a major box-office hit. This off-beat documentary from Sarah Kelly Read More

Julian Po

Actors: Christian Slater, Robin Tunney, Michael Parks, Cherry Jones, Frankie R. Faison

Synopsis: A man brings new life to a small town by announcing that he's killing himself in this low-key comedy-drama that marked a significant change of pace for star Christian Slater. Julian Po (Slater) is a quiet, unassuming bookkeeper -- so quiet and unassuming, in fact, that most people hardly notice Read More

From Dusk Till Dawn

Actors: George Clooney, Harvey Keitel, Quentin Tarantino, Juliette Lewis, Cheech Marin

Synopsis: In this action-horror flick from director Robert Rodriguez and screenwriter Quentin Tarantino, Tarantino stars with George Clooney as a pair of bad-to-the-bone brothers named Seth and Richie Gecko. After a string of robberies that left a river of blood in the Geckos' wake, the sadistic siblings Read More

Guns on the Clackamas

Synopsis: This sophomoric satire pokes holes in the overblown pomposity of film "geniuses" and the critics who grovel at their artistic feet. The tale centers on a film project by British director Nigel Nado who is trying to make a documentary about renowned producer Holton P. Jeffers Jr., the man behind Read More

Death Wish 5: The Face of Death

Actors: Charles Bronson, Lesley-Anne Down, Michael Parks, Saul Rubinek, Kenneth Welsh

Synopsis: In this final film in the Death Wish series, Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) returns to New York City, where he attempts to resume a normal life by proposing to his girlfriend Olivia (Lesley-Anne Down), a fashion designer. However, Olivia runs afoul of her ex-husband Tommy O'Shea (Michael Thomas Parks Read More

Sorceress

Actors: Linda Blair, Edward Albert, Julie Strain

Synopsis: In this dark tale of eroticism and the supernatural, Larry (Larry Poindexter) is an attorney rising through the ranks at a prominent law firm. Larry's wife Erica (Julie Strain) loves her husband very much and would do nearly anything for him -- which takes on a whole new meaning when one discovers Read More

Storyville

Actors: James Spader, Joanne Whalley, Jason Robards, Jr., Charlotte Lewis, Mike Warren, Piper Laurie

Synopsis: Mark Frost, the writer and director best known for his work with David Lynch on the TV series Twin Peaks, made his feature film directorial debut with this convoluted thriller. Cray Fowler (James Spader) is running for congress, partly to satisfy his own political aspirations and partly to resolve Read More

The Hitman

Actors: Chuck Norris, Michael Parks, Al Waxman, Alberta Watson, Salim Grant

Synopsis: Chuck Norris stars in this derivative action film (directed by his brother, Aaron Norris) which bears more than a passing similarity to Steven Seagal's Marked for Death. Norris plays Cliff Garret, a Seattle cop who is mortally wounded in a drug bust. Garret's condition is grave but he manages to Read More

Out of Control

The China Lake Murders

Actors: Tom Skerritt, Michael Parks, Nancy Everhard, Lauren Tewes, Bill McKinney

Synopsis: In this made-for-cable chiller, a psychopath provides himself with a veritable smorgasbord of victims by masquerading as a member of the California Highway Patrol and bedeviling the residents of a small desert town during his vacation. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Caged Fury

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Erik Estrada, Richie Barathy, Roxanna Michaels, Paul L. Smith, James Hong

Synopsis: Prison chicks provide the basis for this exploitation film. The tale centers on two young women, one a naive, star-struck midwestern girl, and the other a savvy hitcher, who head for Tinseltown in search of stardom only to find themselves appearing in a soft-core porno flick. Unfortunately they Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Prediction: Murder

Synopsis: This episode is a followup to the previous week's offering, in which Jessica (Angela Lansbury) had renewed her friendship with former Air Force pilot Lee Goddard (Dale Robertson). Invited to visit Lee's ranch in Arizona, Jessica attends a party where a psychic named Franchesco (David Birney) is Read More

Gore Vidal's Billy the Kid

Actors: Val Kilmer, Duncan Regehr

Synopsis: Gore Vidal's 1955 TV play and 1958 film The Left-Handed Gun discreetly explored the hitherto untapped homosexual subtext in the saga of gunslinger Billy the Kid. Vidal's 1989 reworking of the same material, the made-for-cable Gore Vidal's Billy the Kid, is just as discreet, but no less top-heavy Read More

Prime Suspect

Synopsis: A man escapes from a mental hospital to try and clear his name after he is accused of the murder of his girlfriend--the murder which he witnessed. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Welcome to Spring Break

Actors: Nicolas de Toth, Sarah Buxton, Rawley Valverde

Synopsis: After a criminal motorcycle rider is put to death, he comes back from the dead to seek murderous revenge against the residents of a Florida town. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Arizona Heat

Actors: Michael Parks, Denise Crosby, Hugh Farrington, Ron Briskman, Dennis O'Sullivan

Synopsis: Two former TV favorites are teamed in Arizona Heat. Michael Parks, late of Then Came Bronson, plays a tough cop, prone to gratuitous violence. Parks is paired with equally tough, but sensitive, lady cop Denise Crosby (granddaughter of Bing and onetime Star Trek: The Next Generation regular). Both Read More

Dangerous Affection

Synopsis: In this thriller, a pregnant woman and her son, who witnessed a murder, are stalked by the murderer. Chaos ensues as she tries to escape. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Stamp of a Killer

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV crime drama a cop pursues a homicidal maniac. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Return of Josey Wales

Crew: Director

Actors: Rafael Campos, Bob Magruder, Paco Vela, Everett Sifuentes

Synopsis: In this Western drama, some friends of gunfighter Josey Wales (Michael Parks, who also directed) are killed South of the border, so he heads to Mexico to confront a crooked local chief of police and get a good buddy out of jail. After Josey arrives, he manages to free an Apache woman and two Read More

Spiker

Actors: Patrick Houser, Kristi Ferrell, Jo McDonnell, Stephan W. Burns

Synopsis: This is a sports drama with an unconventional theme -- volleyball. The story revolves around several college athletes who train especially hard in hopes of being accepted onto the U.S. Men's Olympic Volleyball team. Whether they win or lose is not really the point so much is if they make the team Read More

King of the City

Actors: Tony Curtis, Bleu MacKenzie

Synopsis: King of the City died on the vine when it was released under its original title in 1985; conditions hardly improved when it was reissued a year later as Club Life. Merely a recycling of the disco films of the 1970s, King of the City is lots of sound and fury, signifying nothing: one prominent TV Read More

French Quarter Undercover

Synopsis: When a sinister terrorist scheme threatens the World's Fair, it is up to a pair of New Orleans police officers to stop them. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Chase

Synopsis: When an attorney returns to her hometown to defend an accused murderer, she finds that the locals have strong opinions about the defendant and do not take kindly to her position. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Codename: Disaster

Synopsis: In this crime drama two vice officers from New Orleans must keep the sleazos from getting involved with the World's Fair. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Savannah Smiles

Actors: Mark Miller, Donovan Scott, Bridgette Andersen, Peter Graves, Chris Robinson

Synopsis: Savannah Smiles is a sweet little film that proved a surprising hit on the Saturday matinee circuit. Mark Miller and Donovan Scott play a pair of good-natured escaped convicts who cross the path of precocious runaway Bridgette Andersen. When Andersen explains that she's hit the road because her Read More

Dial "M" for Murder

Actors: Angie Dickinson, Christopher Plummer, Anthony Quayle

Synopsis: This second film version of Frederick Knott's suspense play stars Christopher Plummer as a wealthy Londoner, who works out a meticulous scheme to murder his wife (Angie Dickinson) and escape undetected. The plan goes awry when the wife fights off the man hired to commit the murder, killing her Read More

Hard Country

Actors: Jan-Michael Vincent, Kim Basinger, Gailard Sartain, Tanya Tucker

Synopsis: Jan-Michael Vincent stars as Kyle Richardson, who works at a dead-end job in a Texas chain-link fence factory. In the tradition of such earlier films as Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Richardson enjoys himself only on weekends when he whoops it up with his buddies at the local saloon. His Read More

Reward

Synopsis: In this mystery, a policeman quits the force to investigate the death of his partner independently. He is assisted by a pretty young woman. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Ffolkes

Actors: Roger Moore, James Mason, Anthony Perkins, Michael Parks, Jack Watson, David Hedison

Synopsis: Roger Moore took a brief vacation from playing James Bond in this witty adventure drama. Rufus Excalibur ffolkes (Moore), who for some reason prefers not to capitalize his last name, is a scuba-diving adventurer for hire with a sharp mind, a quick wit, a fondness for cats, and a certain distrust Read More

Turnover Smith

Synopsis: In this drama, a famous criminologist draws from his amazing bag of scientific and technical tricks to locate a psycho-killer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Evictors

Actors: Michael Parks, Jessica Harper, Vic Morrow, Sue Ane Langdon, Dennis Fimple

Synopsis: This pedestrian haunted-house film stars Vic Morrow as a creepy real estate agent who introduces a young couple to a quaint Louisiana farmhouse, neglecting to inform them of its horrific, blood-spattered past. As bizarre events begin to plague the couple, their suspicions that the place may be Read More

Fast Friends

Actors: David Letterman

Synopsis: Fast Friends is a lumpy satire set "backstage" at a talk show (imagine what the film would have been like had it been made in 1989 rather than '79). Most of the action centers around egotistical, near-lunatic talk host Dick Shawn. His frantic antics are counterpointed with the story of career Read More

Love and the Midnight Auto Supply

Actors: Michael Parks, Linda Cristal, Scott Jacoby, Bill Adler, Colleen Camp

Synopsis: An auto-theft ring decides to help out migrant workers from Mexico with the proceeds from their racket. The film is also known as Love and the Midnight Auto Supply. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Rainbow

Synopsis: Judy Garland's rise to stardom is chronicled in this bio-pic that begins with her vaudeville days and ends with The Wizard of Oz. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Night Cries

Synopsis: Expectant mother Susan Saint James goes into labor and is carted off to a somewhat forbidding hospital. When she awakens, she is told that her baby has died. The grieving Saint James reluctantly resumes her life as a schoolteacher. But not long afterward, she is haunted by bizarre dreams Read More

Sergeant Steiner

Actors: Richard Burton, Rod Steiger, Robert Mitchum, Curd Jürgens, Helmut Griem

Synopsis: Also released as Sergeant Steiner, Breakthrough is a German war flick helmed by western specialist Andrew McLaglen. Richard Burton stars as Sgt. Steiner, a German who doesn't subscribe to the Nazi party line. When the plot to kill Hitler is hatched, Steiner is persuaded to join the conspiracy by Read More

Hunters of the Reef

Synopsis: Intended as the pilot for the proposed weekly series "Peter Benchley's Mystery of the Deep," the made-for-TV Hunters of the Reef bears traces of such best-selling Peter Benchley novels as Jaws and The Deep. Much of the action is devoted to a race between two salvage-boat captains -- one poor, one Read More

Sidewinder One

Actors: Marjoe Gortner, Michael Parks, Susan Howard, Alex Cord, Charlotte Rae

Synopsis: In this action film, motorcross racer J. W. Wyatt (Michael Parks) works to develop a high-performance motorcycle while pursuing a romance with the wealthy Chris Gentry (Susan Howard). ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder at the World Series

Synopsis: A kidnapping plot includes 5 women along with the last 2 games of the baseball World Series. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover

Actors: Broderick Crawford, José Ferrer, Michael Parks, Ronee Blakely, Rip Torn

Synopsis: Larry Cohen's pseudo-biography of J. Edgar Hoover (Broderick Crawford) was virtually howled off the screens upon its release in 1977. Today, with the cross-dressing Hoover so much a matter of historical record that even Oliver Stone didn't bother to make too much of a point of it in Nixon, the Cohen Read More

Escape from Bogen County

Actors: Jaclyn Smith

Synopsis: A Southern big shot (Mitch Ryan) runs his local community like a personal fiefdom. His despotism extends to his abusive marriage to Maggie (Jaclyn Smith). Denied her basic rights as a woman and a human being, Maggie tries to file for divorce, only to run up against a corrupt, good-ole-boy legal Read More

The Savage Bees

Actors: Ben Johnson

Synopsis: Having already overrun most of South America, a swarm of vicious African killer bees prepares to descend upon the United States. Almost as if rehearsed, the tiny menaces converge on New Orleans during Mardi Gras. With revellers dropping left and right, thanks to the fatal stings of the bees, it is Read More

Perilous Voyage

Synopsis: In this actioner, a rebel leader hijacks a boat and holds the passengers hostage in the hopes of beginning a coup. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Last Hard Men

Actors: Charlton Heston, James Coburn, Barbara Hershey, Jorge Rivero, Michael Parks

Synopsis: A former lawman must return to his guns when his daughter is threatened in this dark-themed western. Zach Provo (James Coburn) was a notorious outlaw who was finally put behind bars by sheriff Sam Burgade (Charlton Heston), who also killed Provo's wife in the midst of a gun battle. Provo is Read More

Distant Early Warning

Synopsis: Distant Early Warning didn't have the courtesy to credit Ray Bradbury for "original story by", but sharp-eyed viewers had no trouble discerning the inspiration for the plotline. The scene is a remote Arctic radar station. The garrison officers and enlistees are suddenly visited by people who claim Read More

The Werewolf of Woodstock

Synopsis: In this horror story, a hapless farmer grows excessive facial hair and fangs after he is struck by lightning. The accident does nothing for his personality either and lupine mayhem ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Men Will Die

Synopsis: A group of rape victims form an organization in hopes of bringing their attackers to justice. At present, the group is fighting legal red tape and procedure to convict the man who raped Nancy Price (Deirdre Lenihan), a close friend of Mike Stone's (Karl Malden) daughter Jeannie (Darleen Carr). Read More

Baretta: Walk Like You Talk

Actors: Robert Blake, Dana Elcar, Tom Ewell, Michael D. Roberts, Chino "Fats" Williams

Synopsis: Tony Baretta (Robert Blake) is partnered with neurotic, pill-popping police officer Scotty (Michael Parks) during a frustratingly long drug stakeout. What Baretta doesn't know -- at least not at first -- is that Scotty is at the end of his financial rope, having been spent into the poorhouse by Read More

Mystery at Malibu

Synopsis: A woman calls together all of her prospective wedding guests to locate the killer of her late fiance. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd

Synopsis: Clyde Ware both scripted and directed this made-for-TV biopic. Martin Sheen stars as Floyd, a depression-era farmboy who (it says here) turns to crime to avoid starving to death. Sheen's real-life brother Joseph Estevez plays Floyd's younger brother in this 73-minute film. As an added fillip, the Read More

Ironside: A Death in Academe

Synopsis: Michael Parks guest stars as MacDane, a college professor who for years has been a good friend of Sgt. Ed Brown (Don Galloway). Now MacDane is "persona non grata" on campus, due to the suicide of a female philosophy student for which the professor is held responsible. With someone making anonymous Read More

Can Ellen Be Saved?

Actors: Louise Fletcher, Leslie Nielsen, John Saxon

Synopsis: This 1974 TV movie was based upon recent news stories about brainwashing techniques practiced by certain religious communes. Ellen (Kathy Cannon) is a confused teenager who falls in with a group of fanatics, who promise that they'll purge the "Devil" from her soul. Her anguished parents (Leslie Nielsen Read More

Get Back

Actors: Bonnie Bedelia

Synopsis: Get Back is a "loser" film: not a film that is itself a loser, but one about losers. Michael Parks and Chuck Shantana play a couple of over-aged surfers who sit around wondering why life has passed them by. With nothing else to occupy their time, the duo stages a holdup. The two have a falling out Read More

Between Friends

Then Came Bronson [TV Series]

Actors: Michael Parks

Young Lawyers

Then Came Bronson

Actors: Bonnie Bedelia, Akim Tamiroff, Gary Merrill, Sheree North

Synopsis: This pilot film for the 1969-1970 TV series Then Came Bronson stars Michael Parks in the title role. A young, ambitious journalist, Bronson realigns his priorities after his best friend (Martin Sheen) commits suicide. Borrowing a page from Kerouac, Bronson gives up the rat race for the road. He Read More

The Happening

Actors: Anthony Quinn, George Maharis, Michael Parks, Robert Walker, Jr., Martha Hyer

Synopsis: Four neophyte criminals get some unexpected help from their first victim in this caper comedy. A quartet of Miami Beach bohemians -- Sureshot (Michael Parks), Taurus (George Maharis), Herby (Robert Walker Jr.), and Sandy (Faye Dunaway) -- are looking for kicks and some fast money, and they hatch a Read More

Stranger on the Run

Actors: Anne Baxter, Dan Duryea, Henry Fonda, Michael Parks

Synopsis: A prime early example of how to make a truly worthwhile TV movie, Stranger on the Run is a tough, minimalist western in the tradition of the theatrical oaters of director Anthony Mann (one of whose favorite actors, Dan Duryea, has a supporting part in Stranger). Michael Parks is painfully Read More

A Time for Killing

Actors: Glenn Ford, George C. Scott, Michael Parks, Inger Stevens, Freddie Johnson, George Hamilton, Paul Petersen, Max Baer, Jr.

Synopsis: The Long Ride Home is the British title for the Columbia Civil War western A Time for Killing. The stars are Glenn Ford, a regular of sagebrushers, and Inger Stevens, a relative newcomer to the genre who between 1967-1970 made up for lost time with such films as Hang 'Em High and Firecreek. Ford Read More

The Bible - In the Beginning

Actors: Michael Parks, Ulla Bergryd, Richard Harris, John Huston, Stephen Boyd

Synopsis: The Bible was intended by producer Dino De Laurentiis as the first in a series of films which would eventually cover the Old and New Testament in their entireties. The many directors engaged for this project dropped out one by one, leaving only the adventurous John Huston. As a result, this film Read More

The Idol

Actors: Jennifer Jones, Michael Parks, John Leyton, Jennifer Hilary, Guy Doleman

Synopsis: An amoral American makes his way through genteel British society in this drama. Marco (Michael Thomas Parks) is a self-centered would-be artist from the United States who is living in England while supposedly studying his craft. Marco is close friends with Timothy (John Leyton), a native studying Read More

Bus Riley's Back in Town

Actors: Ann-Margret, Michael Parks, Janet Margolin, Brad Dexter, Jocelyn Brando

Synopsis: William Inge co-wrote this story about a young man who may have outgrown the straight-laced boundaries of his home town. After a hitch in the Navy, Bus Riley (Michael Thomas Parks) comes home to the staid Midwestern town of his birth; however, home doesn't feel quite like it used to, and Riley is Read More

The Wild Seed

Actors: Michael Parks, Celia Kaye, Ross Elliott, Woodrow Chambliss, Rupert Crosse

Synopsis: Wild Seed was produced by Universal as part of the studio's short-lived "new talent" policy, which permitted untried actors and/or directors a low-cost opportunity to prove themselves with a theatrical feature. Director Brian G. Hutton was no newcomer, having been a TV actor and director for Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: The Cadaver

Actors: Michael Parks, Joby Baker, Don Marshall, Ruth McDevitt, Martin Blaine

Synopsis: College football star Skip Baxter (Michael Parks) is in danger of expulsion because of his heavy drinking. Hoping to cure Skip of his booze habit, his prankish roommate, Doc Carroll (Joby Baker), cooks up an elaborate hoax. "Borrowing" a female cadaver from a medical classroom, Doc plants the Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of Constant Doyle

Synopsis: This is the first of four consecutive episodes in which Perry Mason appears only briefly, while a "guest" lawyer handles the case at hand (Raymond Burr was at the time recovering from minor surgery). No less than Bette Davis is cast as female attorney Constant Doyle, the widow of famed defense Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Diagnosis - Danger

Actors: Charles McGraw, Michael Parks, Berkeley Harris, Irene Martin, Marc Cavell

Synopsis: In one of the few "procedural" dramas presented on The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, the health officials and police department of Los Angeles race against time to prevent an anthrax epidemic. They must also keep secret the fact that they've found a disease-ridden corpse, lest they throw the city into a Read More