Paul AnkaFilmography

Raphael: 50 Anos Despues

Actors: Joan Manuel Serrat, Alejandro Sanz, Joaquin Sabina, David Bisbal, Juanes

Gilmore Girls: The Real Paul Anka

Synopsis: In Philadelphia for daughter April's math contest, Luke (Scott Patterson) visits Jess (Milo Ventimiglia) at the latter's new bookstore. Rory (Alexis Bledel) also shows up at Jess' establishment after a fight with Logan (Matt Czuchry), whereupon she and Luke exchange a few pointed words. Meanwhile Read More

Paul Anka: Music My Way

Paul Anka: Night of a Lifetime

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Singer, songwriter, arranger, and bandleader Paul Anka has scored more than his share of chart successes, as well as creating memorable material for others (he wrote the English-language version of the song "My Way", as well as Johnny Carson's theme song from The Tonight Show). Paul Anka: Night of Read More

Agnes Browne

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Anjelica Huston, Marion O'Dwyer, Niall O'Shea, Ciaran Owens, Roxanna Williams

Synopsis: Actress Anjelica Huston directed and stars in this drama based on Brendan O'Carroll's novel The Mammy. Set in Dublin in 1967, Agnes Browne (Anjelica Huston) is the mother of seven children, barely making ends meet when her husband dies, leaving her to figure out not only how to support the family Read More

Mad Dog Time

Actors: Ellen Barkin, Gabriel Byrne, Richard Dreyfuss, Jeff Goldblum, Diane Lane

Synopsis: A group of mobsters fight for control in this satirical comedy-drama. Vic (Richard Dreyfuss) is a not-especially-stable crime boss who -- following a spell in a mental hospital after being diagnosed with schizophrenia -- is sent home and is ready to resume his place as supreme leader of the mob. Read More

Ordinary Magic

Actors: Glenne Headly, Paul Anka, David Fox

Synopsis: Jeffrey (Ryan Reynolds) grew up with heady ideals of social activism as part of his everyday life. His parents spent the better part of their lives fighting for social justice in India. Now they are dead, and he is only fifteen year old. He has been sent to a small town in Ontario to live with his Read More

Captain Ron

Actors: Kurt Russell, Martin Short, Mary Kay Place, Benjamin Salisbury, Meadow Sisto

Synopsis: After he inherits a yacht, Chicago businessman Martin totes his family to the Caribbean to claim it. Not having any skill at boating, he hires long-haired, one-eyed low-life Captain Ron, to pilot the heap to Miami. During the journey, the somewhat inept sailor frequently loses his way while Read More

The Return of Spinal Tap

Actors: Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, June Chadwick, Bob Geldof

Synopsis: The mock heavy-metal band Spinal Tap (actually comedians Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer) return to duty in this made-for-TV sequel to Rob Reiner's 1984 mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, filmed to promote the group's album Break Like the Wind. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Iskelmaprinssi

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: This carefully crafted, lighthearted musical tells the story of the dreams and aspirations of small-town Finnish youth in the 1960s who want to emulate the stars on the hit parade and "teeny-bopper" movies of the era and become working singers, auto racers, or models. In addition to the cast of Read More

Rock 'n' Roll Classics, Vol. 4

Synopsis: A 6 volume rock 'n' roll video series with Volume 4 featuring artists Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, Paul Anka, Ricky Nelson, Sonny James, Elvis Presley and The Everly Brothers. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Maligned Mobster

Actors: Raymond Burr, Paul Anka, Mike Nader, Mason Adams, Barbara Hale

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason must reevaluate his legal principles when an old buddy asks him to represent the gangster suspected of murdering his wife. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

GoodFellas

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino

Synopsis: Martin Scorsese explores the life of organized crime with his gritty, kinetic adaptation of Nicolas Pileggi's best-selling Wiseguy, the true-life account of mobster and FBI informant Henry Hill. Set to a true-to-period rock soundtrack, the story details the rise and fall of Hill, a half-Irish Read More

An Evening with Paul Anka

Synopsis: Each installment of An Evening With presents a performer, band, group, or other public figure in a setting aimed to please fans looking for a representative sampling of what a particular person or group of people does best. In this tape, Paul Anka performs some of his greatest hits from the stage Read More

Jerry Lee Lewis: I Am What I Am

Synopsis: This 1987 documentary presents the life story of influential singer, songwriter, and musician Jerry Lee Lewis, whose pioneering brand of country-blues-boogie shook the world of rock & roll. Nicknamed "The Killer," and a cousin of notorious televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, Lewis displayed a prodigious Read More

No Way Out

Crew: Singer, Songwriter

Actors: Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Sean Young, Will Patton, Howard Duff

Synopsis: No Way Out is told in flashback as Naval officer Tom Farrell (Kevin Costner) is grilled by his superiors regarding a recent "unpleasantness." While at a Washington party, Tom meets Susan Atwel (Sean Young), and they're soon sharing a steamy love scene in the back of a limo (marvelously parodied in Read More

George and the Christmas Star

Synopsis: In this holiday film, featuring songs by Paul Anka, George discovers that his Christmas tree lacks a brilliant star, so he puts together a spacecraft and leaves his planet in search of one. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Atlantic City

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Michel Piccoli, Kate Reid, Robert Joy

Synopsis: Burt Lancaster stars as Lou, an aging mob flunkey, barely making a living in Atlantic City. Susan Sarandon plays Sally, a casino croupier whose husband Dave (Robert Joy) steals a large supply of drugs from the mob. When he is killed, the narcotics pass to the unwilling Sally. Lou, in the midst of Read More

Kojak: The Betrayal

Synopsis: Series star Telly Savalas makes his directorial debut in this episode, which features a surprising characterization by the multitalented Paul Anka. Eschewing his established "nice guy" image, Anka is cast as Buddy Maus, a slimy police informer with mob aspirations. Throughout the episode, Maus Read More

Fireball Forward

Crew: Singer

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Ricardo Montalban, Anne Francis, Dana Elcar, Edward Binns

Synopsis: Outtakes and stock footage from the 1970 Oscar-winner Patton were utilized to flesh out the made-for-TV Fireball Forward, which was the brainchild of Patton producer Frank McCarthy. Ben Gazzara plays a fictional American general obviously patterned on "Old Blood And Guts". Gazzara suspects that Read More

Wildwechsel

Crew: Songwriter

Synopsis: Based on Franz Xaver Kroetz's play, which is in turn based on a true story, this film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder tells the story of a very young girl who, after persuading a local boy to become her lover, induces the lad to kill her father, whose incestuous sexual attentions to her have grown Read More

Hullabaloo: Show 048

The Longest Day

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Robert Ryan, Rod Steiger, Richard Todd

Synopsis: The Longest Day is a mammoth, all-star re-creation of the D-Day invasion, personally orchestrated by Darryl F. Zanuck. Whenever possible, the original locations were utilized, and an all-star international cast impersonates the people involved, from high-ranking officials to ordinary GIs. Each Read More

The Private Lives of Adam and Eve

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Mamie van Doren, Fay Spain, Mel Tormé, Martin Milner

Synopsis: This parody of Genesis caused an uproar before and during its release (the final version was reworked and cut) though its routine or worse cinematic level would not encourage large audiences. The story begins with a busload of men and women with hang-ups in the romance department, all heading for Read More

Look in Any Window

Actors: Paul Anka, Ruth Roman, Alex Nicol, Carole Mathews

Synopsis: The only film directed by sometime actor and producer William Alland, Look in Any Window is an uninspired melodrama that relied on the star power of teen heartthrob Paul Anka to attract the younger set when it was released in 1961. Anka plays Craig Fowler, a disturbed kid whose main pleasure and Read More

Faibles Femmes

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Mylène Demongeot, Pascale Petit, Jacqueline Sassard, Alain Delon

Synopsis: Three Murderesses stars Alain Delon as a French playboy who gets more than he bargained for when he begins romancing three women at once. All three ladies (Mylene Demongeot, Pascale Petit and Jacqueline Sassard) are sisters, of wildly divergent personalities. Eventually all three tire of Delon Read More

Verboten!

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: James Best, Susan Cummings, Thomas Pittman, Paul Dubov, Harold Daye

Synopsis: Director Samuel Fuller skillfully intercuts footage of the German death camps with scenes from this thought-provoking drama about a forbidden, post-war love affair. David (James Best) is a G.I. stationed in Germany with the American Military Government. He falls in love with Helga (Susan Read More

Girls' Town

Actors: Mamie van Doren, Mel Tormé, Paul Anka, Ray Anthony, Maggie Hayes

Synopsis: This sexually explicit, low-budget film makes no pretensions about being anything other than offensive. There is no plot since none is especially necessary. Director Charles Haas (his last film was the following year), opens with a scene of sexually active men and women at a party. Then one of Read More

Let's Rock

Actors: Julius LaRosa, Phyllis Newman, Conrad Janis

Synopsis: Singer Julius LaRosa, whose greatest fame lies in the fact that he was fired on the air by radio-TV personality Arthur Godfrey, heads the cast of the near-plotless musicfest Let's Rock. LaRosa plays a top recording star who suffers a dip in popularity when rock-n-roll becomes the national craze. Read More

Jose Jose: Duetos

Chuck Berry: Maybellene

Actors: Paul Anka, B.B. King, Bob Weir, Ronnie Wood

Synopsis: Chuck Berry: Maybellene, a part of the Songs That Changed the World series, details how the legendary rock single fused styles in order to create a sound that provided the blueprint for much of the rock and roll that followed. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

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