Mike WitneyFilmography

Occupation:
Actor

  • There Goes the Bride

    Actors: Tom Smothers, Twiggy, Martin Balsam, Sylvia Syms

    Synopsis: Retrograde even at the time of its 1980 release, this filmed version of the mid-'70s play by the same title stars Tom Smothers as Timothy Westerby, the bumbling father of the bride, and his imaginary dance partner, Polly (Twiggy). Events of the chaotic wedding day are told in flashback as Westerby Read More

    1980

  • W

    Actors: Twiggy

    Synopsis: In this film, also released under the title I Want Her Dead, Katie Lewis (Twiggy) and her husband Ben (Michael Witney) discover that they are the targets of a mysterious killer who leaves the letter W at the scene of their near-fatal "accidents." While trying to avoid death, the couple must Read More

    1974

  • The Catcher

    Actors: Anne Baxter

    Synopsis: This unsold pilot film was reminiscent of the 1956 syndicated TV weekly The Tracer. Michael Witney plays the "catcher" of the title, a former agent of the Seattle Missing Persons Bureau. Now in private practice with his new partner, Harvard grad Jan-Michael Vincent, Witney hires out to people Read More

    1972

  • Bonanza: The Prisoners

    Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mike Witney, Manuel Padilla

    Synopsis: In Sheriff Coffee's absence, Joe Cartwright is called upon to escort prisoner Hank Simmons (Michael Witney) through a particularly rugged patch of terrain. Trouble is, Simmons knows the area far better than Joe. Things get even tougher for the youngest Cartwright as the charismatic Simmons banks Read More

    1971

  • Head On

    Actors: Lori Saunders, Michael Conrad

    Synopsis: Michael Conrad, some ten years' removed from Hill Street Blues, co-stars in the excessively violent Head On. Conrad and Michael Witney play a couple of emotionally disturbed ex-soldiers who wander from town to town, wreaking havoc wherever they go. At one point, they rape Lori Saunders, who in Read More

    1971

  • Doc

    Actors: Stacy Keach, Faye Dunaway, Harris Yulin, Mike Witney, Denver John Collins

    Synopsis: Most westerns wrap their stories, legends really, with a light clothing of history and period. Any history found in them is usually a mix of legend and fantasy. By way of contrast, in this film, an attempt is made to accurately portray the lives and persons of Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp, and the Read More

    1971

  • Darling Lili

    Actors: Julie Andrews, Rock Hudson, Jeremy Kemp, Lance Percival, Mike Witney

    Synopsis: Julie Andrews made a bid to change her squeaky clean image with this elaborately mounted World War I musical. Lili Smith (Andrews) is a popular British music hall singer who is regarded as a femme fatale and has been known to throw a bit of striptease into her act. However, Lili has a secret Read More

    1970

  • The F.B.I.: The Moment of Truth

    Synopsis: War hero Wally Shanks (Michael Witney) is the unwitting pawn in an extortion racket masterminded by his father-in-law, "respectable" banker Hal DeWitt (Richard Carlson). The crooks rely upon Wally to attract his fellow servicemen to DeWitt's finance company for loans, at which point they are all Read More

    1969

  • Bonanza: The Stronghold

    Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Mike Witney

    Synopsis: Originally telecast on May 26, 1968 as Bonanza's 300th episode, "The Stronghold" finds Joe Cartwright and Ponderosa hand Candy chasing Josh and Mike Farrell (Michael Witney and Paul Mantee), the two men who swindled them out of a herd of cattle. Joe and Candy catch up with the duplicitous brothers Read More

    1968

  • The Way West

    Actors: Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Richard Widmark, Lola Albright, Jack Elam

    Synopsis: Senator William J. Tadlock (Kirk Douglas) enlists the help of veteran scout Dick Summers (Robert Mitchum) to lead a wagon train of settlers from Missouri to Oregon in this plodding, routine western. A scared settler accidently shoots an Indian boy who is mistaken for a wolf, prompting Summers to Read More

    1967

  • Bonanza: Tommy

    Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mike Witney

    Synopsis: The wife of vicious outlaw Jess Miller (Michael Witney), long-suffering Allie (Janet De Gore takes refuge at the Ponderosa, where she grew up. Jess wants to forcibly take Allie back-but he wants nothing to do with their son Tommy (Teddy Quinn, a deaf mute. Frank Puglia appears as the kindly Padre. Read More

    1966

  • The Fugitive: The Good Guys and the Bad Guys

    Synopsis: Managing to elude another police dragnet, Kimble (David Janssen) ends up being arrested in the Montana town of Drover City. Actually, it's supposed to be all in fun: Drover City is staging its annual carnival-rodeo, and the locals are being offered prizes to "arrest" anyone who is not dressed in Read More

    1965

  • Bonanza: Mighty is the Word

    Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Glenn Corbett, Sue Randall

    Synopsis: Virginia City welcomes new preacher Paul Watson (Glenn Corbett), a former gunslinger who'd "seen the light" five years earlier. But Watson's new lifestyle-and indeed, his life itself-is threatened by the arrival of Cliff Rexford (Michael Witney), who has not quite forgiven Paul for killing Cliff's Read More

    1965

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