Morton StevensFilmography

They Still Call Me Bruce

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Johnny Yune, David Mendenhall, Pat Paulsen, Joey Travolta, Don Gibb, Robert Guillaume

Synopsis: In a sequel to They Call Me Bruce (1982), Johnny Yune plays Korean Bruce Won who, while searching for an American GI who previously saved his life, ends up taking a ten-year-old orphan under his wing. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Outrage!

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Beau Bridges, Robert Preston

Synopsis: Robert Preston stars as a family man who kills the man who raped and murdered his daughter. After confessing to the police, he is defended by an idealistic attorney played by Beau Bridges. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Cocaine and Blue Eyes

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: O.J. Simpson, Candy Clark, Cindy Pickett

Synopsis: Cocaine and Blue Eyes was the pilot film for a TV detective series starring former footballer O.J. Simpson (who also produced the film). Playing a private eye in San Francisco, Simpson is hired by a man who ends up seriously dead. The deceased client had wanted Simpson to locate a former girl Read More

Cracking Up

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Herb Edelman, Foster Brooks, Buddy Lester

Synopsis: Jerry Lewis reprises his previous movie persona, this time as Warren Nefron, a man unable to successfully kill himself, while Herb Edelman is Dr. Jonas Pletchick, the psychiatrist out to cure him of his failure, in this undistinguished slapstick comedy. Many of Lewis' past routines crop up again Read More

Slapstick of Another Kind

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Madeline Kahn, Marty Feldman, John Abbott, Jim Backus

Synopsis: This dismal sci-fi comedy is based on a novel by Kurt Vonnegut and features Jerry Lewis and Madeline Kahn in dual roles as wealthy, respected parents who give birth to two gigantic, and ugly twins. The appalled parents try to keep them hidden away for they do not know that their "children" are Read More

The Million Dollar Face

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Gayle Hunnicutt, Lee Grant

Synopsis: The expensive face of the title belongs to Sylvia Kristel, who actually levies a price of $2.5 million upon the fictional cosmetics firm of Glamour Inc. Ms. Kristel's story is but one of the many intrigues within the hallowed halls of Glamour. Tony Curtis stars as the company's CEO, beset with Read More

I Married Wyatt Earp

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Made for television, I Married Wyatt Earp was based on the autobiography of Josephine Marcus "Josie" Earp, second wife of the fabled lawman. Born into a middle-class Jewish family in San Francisco, Josephine (played by Marie Osmond) headed to the Wide Open Spaces in hopes of becoming an opera Read More

The Manions of America

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: The Manions of America was a three-part miniseries originally telecast September 30, and October 1 and 2, 1981. Set in Ireland and Philadelphia in the late 1840's, Rory O'Manion (Pierce Brosnan in his American TV-movie debut) escapes from the Great Irish Potato Famine to head to America, where he Read More

Hardly Working

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Susan Oliver, Roger C. Carmel, Deanna Lund, Harold J. Stone

Synopsis: Jerry Lewis' first film in a decade stars the comedian as Bo Hooper, an unemployed circus clown who cannot hold down a job. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Fugitive Family

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Mel Ferrer, Eli Wallach, Richard Crenna, Don Murray

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Fugitive Family questions the efficacy of the government's witness protection program. After sending syndicate kingpin Anthony Durano (Mel Ferrer) to prison, undercover agent Brian Roberts (Richard Crenna) and his entire family is marked for death by Durano's successor Peter Read More

M Station: Hawaii

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jared Martin, Jo Ann Harris, Andrew Duggan

Synopsis: Not a police series as might be deduced from the title, M Station: Hawaii concentrated on the activities of a team of oceanic explorers. Jared Martin heads the team, working on behalf of the government. In this TV pilot film, M Station is hired to recover a sunken Russian submarine which may have Read More

Detour to Terror

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Lorenzo Lamas, O.J. Simpson, Arte Johnson, Anne Francis

Synopsis: O. J. Simpson plays a chartered bus driver shepherding a group of wealthy tourists to Las Vegas. His bus is waylaid by a trio of murderers, who intend to kidnap one of the passengers and bump off the rest. Arte Johnson provides a few laughs as a tour guide, while one of the villains is played by Read More

Masada

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Peter Strauss, Peter O'Toole, Anthony Quayle, Barbara Carrera, David Warner

Synopsis: Wits and weapons clash in this 1981 epic chronicling a rebellion by Jewish Zealots against Roman rule. After Jerusalem falls to the Romans in 70 A.D., nearly a thousand Jewish rebels led by Eleazar ben Jair (Peter Strauss) withdraw to a mountaintop fortress 30 miles southeast of Jerusalem. There Read More

The Flame Is Love

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Linda Purl, Timothy Dalton, Shane Briant, Richard Johnson, Joan Greenwood

Synopsis: This sudsy made-for-television melodrama is based on a Barbara Cartland novel and follows the romantic exploits of an American heiress who sets sail for exciting Paris at the turn-of-the-century. Initially she is going there to meet her fiance, but once there she ends up falling in love with a Read More

Backstairs at the White House

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Leslie Uggams, Olivia Cole, Louis Gossett, Jr., Robert Hooks, Leslie Nielsen

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling memoirs of Lillian Rogers Parks, the NBC miniseries Backstairs at the White House traces over five decades of American political history as witnessed from the vantage point of the servants' quarters. Played by Tania Johnson as a teenager and by Leslie Uggams as an adult, Lillian Rogers Parks Read More

The One Man Jury

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: In this extremely violent copy of Dirty Harry, a cynical cop tires of seeing guilty crooks get off scott-free and so decides to leave the force and become a one-man vigilante force. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

My Undercover Years With the KKK

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Ku Klux Klan members are convicted thanks to the work of an undercover informant assisting the FBI in the 1960s. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Arthur Hailey's Wheels

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Rock Hudson, Lee Remick, Blair Brown, John Beck, Ralph Bellamy

Synopsis: Another of the many Arthur Hailey literary properties which were transformed into TV miniseries in the 1970s, the five-part, ten-hour Wheels took place in Detroit sometime in the late 1960s. Rock Hudson starred as Adam Trenton, executive in charge of project development at the fictional Read More

Police Woman: Season 04

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Angie Dickinson, Earl Holliman, Charles Dierkop, Ed Bernard

Synopsis: Gorgeous LAPD undercover cop Pepper Anderson (Angie Dickinson) continues to put her life on the line while wearing some of the sexiest outfits of the 1970s in the fourth and final season of Police Woman. In the opener, Pepper foregoes assuming a false identity as she and her superior officer Lt. Read More

Code Name: Diamond Head

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: This made-for-TV espionage drama chronicles the adventures of Hawaiian secret agent Diamond Head, who begins impersonating a notorious gambler so he can get close to those who are planning to steal an extremely lethal chemical capable of wiping out all life. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: A perfectly coherent Richard Matheson script is muddied by Gordon Hessler's kaleidoscopic direction in the made-for-TV The Strange Possession of Mrs. Oliver. Karen Black plays the title role, a dowdy, downtrodden housewife plagued by recurring nightmares. Seeking an escape from her stifling Read More

Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: A Marguerite Henry novel was the source for the made-for-TV Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion. Recording artist Leif Garrett assumes the title role, a teen-aged boy growing up in the years just prior to the Civil War. The adventuresome Lundy signs on as a rider for the new Pony Express Read More

Police Woman: Season 03

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Angie Dickinson, Earl Holliman, Charles Dierkop, Ed Bernard

Synopsis: Season Three of the slick and sometimes sexy cop drama Police Woman finds undercover LAPD cop Pepper Anderson (Angie Dickinson) navigating the bizarre world of high-class prostitution in order to get the goods on a blackmailing madam (Dorothy Malone). Later on, a curious case of reverse sexism Read More

Time Travelers

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: A pair of scientists must travel through the Time Tunnel to search for the cure for a deadly epidemic. They land in late 19th century Chicago the night before the big fire. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Banjo Hackett

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Don Meredith, Ike Eisenmann, Jennifer Warren, Chuck Connors, Dan O'Herlihy

Synopsis: Also known as Banjo Hackett: Roamin' Free, this TV pilot film stars Don Meredith in the title role. Banjo Hackett is a western horsetrader, circa 1885, who travels in the company of his orphaned nephew (Ike Eisenmann). While searching for a rare Arabian mare stolen from the nephew's late mother Read More

Police Woman: Season 02

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Angie Dickinson, Earl Holliman, Charles Dierkop, Ed Bernard

Synopsis: Season Two of Police Woman finds sexy undercover cop Pepper Anderson (Angie Dickinson) adopting a whole new slew of false identities and gorgeous costumes in the line of duty. In the course of the season, Pepper assumes such guises as a fashion consultant, a drug addict, a traffic cop, a Vegas Read More

Police Woman: Season 01

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Angie Dickinson, Earl Holliman, Charles Dierkop, Ed Bernard

Synopsis: Sexy LAPD undercover officer Sgt. Pepper Anderson (Angie Dickinson) assumes a variety of identities and dons an exhausting array of stunning outfits during Season One of the iconic 1970s cop series Police Woman. In the first episode, however, Pepper must "dress down" a bit as a dowdy bank employee Read More

Dr. Max

Crew: Musical Direction/Supervision

Actors: Lee J. Cobb

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Dr. Max is cut from the same cloth as The Last Angry Man. Lee J. Cobb stars as a taciturn elderly doctor who chooses to work in a dingy Baltimore neighborhood and minister to those far less fortunate than themselves. His refusal to succumb to the creature comforts of a more Read More

The Disappearance of Flight 412

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Glenn Ford, Bradford Dillman, Guy Stockwell, David Soul, Robert F. Lyons

Synopsis: US Air Force colonel Glenn Ford has a dilemma on his hands. He knows for a fact that two jets under his command were last seen chasing a UFO. But the military higher-ups have no intention of filling Ford in on further developments. Despite these stonewalling tactics, Ford steps up his own Read More

Guess Who's Sleeping in My Bed?

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: There's little chance that the made-for-TV Guess Who's Sleeping in My Bed? will ever be confused with either Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? (67) or Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (63). The plot: Dean Jones divorces Barbara Eden, but finds that he can't live in the style to which he's accustomed Read More

Coffee, Tea or Me?

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Karen Valentine, John Davidson, Michael Anderson, Jr., Louise Lasser, Lou Jacobi

Synopsis: A dirty joke that became a "clean" TV movie, Coffee, Tea or Me stars Karen Valentine, cast to type as a perky stewardess. In a chaste variation of The Captain's Paradise, Valentine finds herself married to two different men in two different countries. Since the men are played by John Davidson and Michael Anderson Jr Read More

The Strangers in 7A

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Andy Griffith, Michael Brandon, Ida Lupino

Synopsis: Andy Griffith plays a philandering apartment house manager who picks up a pretty young girl (Suzanne Hildur) in a bar. He takes her home, whereupon the girl's male cronies show up armed with guns. Griffith and his wife Ida Lupino are held hostage by the crooks, led by Michael Brandon, who plan to Read More

Deadly Harvest

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

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

Poor Devil

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: In this comedy, a burned out bookkeeper thinks about selling his soul to Satan. His thoughts invoke the presence of a bungling messenger from the devil himself. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

A Death of Innocence

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: John Randolph, Ann Sothern, Tisha Sterling

Synopsis: Shelly Winters and John Randolph star in Death of Innocence as distraught small-town parents who learn that their estranged daughter is on trial for murder. They journey to New York City and attend the girl's trial, where the mother learns several details of her daughter's recent life that she'd Read More

Goodbye Raggedy Ann

Crew: Musical Direction/Supervision

Synopsis: Though Mia Farrow came to prominence as costar of the TV series Peyton Place, much was made by network publicity flacks of Ms. Farrow's TV-movie debut in Goodbye Raggedy Ann. She plays an aspiring actress whose spectacular lack of good fortune in New York utterly destroys her will to go on. Mia is Read More

The Face of Fear

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ricardo Montalban, Elizabeth Ashley, Jack Warden, Dane Clark, Roy Poole

Synopsis: Made for TV, The Face of Fear resuscitates a plot gimmick that probably wasn't new when it was used in Doug Fairbanks' 1916 vehicle Flirting With Fate. Elizabeth Ashley plays a Midwestern schoolmarm who is dying of leukemia. Hoping to end the suffering as expeditiously as possible, she hires a mob Read More

She Waits

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Patty Duke, David McCallum, Lew Ayres, Beulah Bondi, Dorothy McGuire

Synopsis: She Waits, directed by Delbert Mann, an above average, frightening made-for-TV horror film tells the very familiar story of a young couple who move into a old house only to find out that they are being haunted by the ghost of the man's ex-wife, who gradually takes possession of the young wife. Read More

Hawaii Five-O [TV Series]

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

The Spy with My Face

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Robert Vaughn, Senta Berger, David McCallum, Leo G. Carroll, Michael Evans

Synopsis: Some extra footage was added to segments of two episodes from the television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964-68) to create this feature film-length espionage adventure that was released theatrically in some countries to cash in on the James Bond craze. Ordered by their secret organization Read More

Wild and Wonderful

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Tony Curtis, Christine Kaufmann, Larry Storch, Marty Ingels, Jacques Aubuchon

Synopsis: In this comedy, a Yankee musician is working in Paris when he encounters a movie star chasing after her naughty French poodle Monsieur Cognac. The name is most apropos for the little doggy is quite the lush when it comes to booze. This suits the hard-drinking musician just fine and the two Read More

The Raiders

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: In this western, an ex-officer for the confederate Army becomes a Texas cattle rancher. He and his fellow ranchers are dismayed when they learn that the coming railroad intends on bypassing their ranches. The rancher then leaves his land to begin fighting the railroad. Meanwhile the railroad Read More