Peter Lupus Filmography

Love, Cheat & Steal

Actors: John Lithgow, Eric Roberts, Mädchen Amick, Donald Moffat

Synopsis: A woman's greed wreaks havoc on those in her life in this made-for-cable movie. Madchen Amick stars as Lauren Harrington, the seemingly perfect and beautiful wife of Paul (John Lithgow). What Paul doesn't know is that Lauren set up a former boyfriend (Eric Roberts) and sent him to jail as part of Read More

Acting on Impulse

Actors: Linda Fiorentino, C. Thomas Howell, Nancy Allen, Judith Hoag, Adam Ant

Synopsis: In this behind-the-scenes thriller, a movie actress finds herself accused of hacking up her producer. She tries to flee with two lovers preparing to marry. The three get into all sorts of trouble that ends with the death of the fiancee. Once again, the actress finds herself accused of the crime Read More

Hangfire

Actors: Brad Davis, Kim Delaney, Jan-Michael Vincent, Ken Foree, George Kennedy, Lee de Broux

Synopsis: This Peter Maris action begins at New Mexico State Penitentiary, where a spew of toxic gas from the crash of a tanker truck leads to the evacuation of the prison by the warden (George Kennedy). In the ensuing confusion, anti-social cons Kuttner (Lee De Broux) and Patch (James Tolkan) kidnap prison Read More

Driving Me Crazy

Actors: Thomas Gottschalk, Billy Dee Williams, Michelle Johnson, James Tolkan, Steve Kanaly, Milton Berle, Dom DeLuise

Synopsis: It probably takes an intimate acquaintance with East Germany's famously awful car, a smoky, noisy two-cylinder lawnmower on wheels, the Trabant 601, to fully appreciate the jokes in this extremely popular, celebrity-filled comedy. In the story, Gunther (German television star Thomas Gotttschalk) Read More

Think Big

Actors: Peter Paul, David Paul, Ari Meyers, Martin Mull, David Carradine

Synopsis: Professional wrestlers Peter Paul and David Paul star in this muscle-bound comedy about two slowwitted truck drivers who are hired to transport a heap of toxic waste across the country to Los Angeles. Along the way, the boys run into a 16-year-old girl genius who is on the run from a secret Read More

Assassination

Actors: Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Jan Gan Boyd, Randy Brooks, Erik Stern

Synopsis: In Assassination, a routine political thriller directed by Peter Hunt, Jay Hillion (Charles Bronson) is a secret service agent assigned to protect First Lady Lara Royce Craig (Jill Ireland). Lara hates Hillion and tries to get away from him but finds she needs him when her life is threatened by a Read More

Pulsebeat

Actors: Daniel Greene, Bob Small, Alice Moore, Helga Liné

Synopsis: This drama about dueling health clubs focuses on Roger (Daniel Greene), who runs a gym called (logically enough ) "Roger's Gym." But Roger is fast losing business to The Rejuvenarium, a health club owned by Marlene (Helga Liné). It seems Marlene is making off with Roger's best instructors and is Read More

The Escapist

Synopsis: This adventure is essentially a showcase for the talents of escape artist Bill Shirk. The story has him (playing himself) attempting to escape from a crooked corporate leader who wants to prevent him from performing. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Modern Day Houdini

Actors: Bill Shirk, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: The producer of this undistinguished film Bill Shirk backed its creation in Indianapolis with funds from mortgaging his radio station, all so he could show off some of the escape stunts (like being buried with spiders, rats, and a live boa constrictor) in his role as himself in the film. In the Read More

More! Police Squad

Synopsis: The seminal early-'80s cop spoof is reprised here, with three classic episodes: "Revenge and Remorse," "The Butler Did It" and "Testimony of Evil." ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Mission: Impossible: Speed

Actors: Peter Graves, Lynda Day George, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Claude Akins

Synopsis: Three tons of narcotics are stolen by dealer Sam Hibbing (Claude Akins). To recover the drugs, and to ruin both Hibbing and his higher-ups, the IMF concoct an undermining scheme that once again requires agent Casey to pose as a criminal's daughter. Filmed on location in San Francisco, this episode Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Pendulum

Actors: Peter Graves, Lynda Day George, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: "Nightfall" is the code name of a widespread terrorist attack planned by a secret organization called the Pendulum. The IMF must learn the nature of the attack, and also bring down Pendulum leader Gunnar Malstrom (Dean Stockwell). As an interesting change of pace, the viewer is given far more plot Read More

Mission: Impossible: Boomerang

Actors: Peter Graves, Lynda Day George, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Laraine Stephens

Synopsis: Laraine Stephens guest-stars as Eve Vayle, who masterminds the death of her mobster husband Johnny (Charlie Guardino) in order to steal the records of Syndicate boss Stanley Luchek (Ronald Feinberg). Though forced to hide from the mob, Eve hopes to eventually extort millions of dollars from Luchek Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Question

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Gary Lockwood, Elizabeth Ashley

Synopsis: Elizabeth Ashley, whose guest-star turn as a pathetic alcoholic on the sixth-season Mission:Impossible episode "Encounter" won her the praise of critics and viewers alike, again tackles a difficult and demanding role in the seventh-season entry "The Question." This time, Ashley is cast as IMF Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Fighter

Actors: Peter Graves, Lynda Day George, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, William Windom

Synopsis: The IMF again invades the world of professional boxing to get the goods on crooked sports promoter Paul Mitchell (William Windom) and his Syndicate boss Jay Braddock (Joe Braddock). Terrified by Braddock's homicidal tendencies, Mitchell is on the verge of turning informer, but he needs a little Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Western

Actors: Peter Graves, Lynda Day George, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Ed Nelson

Synopsis: Art thief Van Cleve (Ed Nelson) steals $5 million worth of priceless pre-Columbian artifacts. To determine the hiding place of the precious booty, the IMF hatch a scheme whereby Van Cleve becomes convinced that he has precognitive powers. Essential to the mission's success is an outsized simulated Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Fountain

Actors: Peter Graves, Lynda Day George, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, George Maharis

Synopsis: While stealing computerized Syndicate secrets, minor hoodlum Tom Bachman (George Maharis) injures mob chieftan Matt Drake. With Drake hot on his trail, Bachman escapes to the jungles of Mexico --- where the IMF is waiting for him. Hoping to extract the aformentioned secrets from the fugitive Read More

Mission: Impossible: Incarcerate

Actors: Peter Graves, Lynda Day George, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Kim Hunter

Synopsis: Guest star Kim Hunter is cast as brilliant but superstitious master criminal Hannah O'Connel, who engineers a million-dollar bullion heist with her sons Thomas (Robert Hogan) and Robert (Solomon Sturges. The O'Connels escape to the safety of a remote Caribbean island which has no extradition Read More

Mission: Impossible: Imitation

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Barbara McNair, Pernell Roberts

Synopsis: Originally seen on March 30, 1973, "Imitation" was the final first-run Mission:Impossible episode to be broadcast on CBS, even though it was the seventh of the 22 episodes filmed for the series' climactic 1972-73 season. Singer Barbara McNair guest stars as Jena Cole, the beautiful leader of a Read More

Mission: Impossible: Casino

Actors: Peter Graves, Lynda Day George, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Jack Cassidy

Synopsis: Once again, the IMF agents must break the bank of a popular casino to bring down a master criminal. In this case, the villain is Syndicate chieftan Orin Kerr (Orin Kerr), who controls not only the casino but the entire resort town where it is located. The IMF's mission is twofold: Hit both the Read More

Mission: Impossible: Trapped

Actors: Peter Graves, Lynda Day George, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Bert Convy

Synopsis: Scripted by Rick Husky from a story by Sam Roeca, "Trapped" is a radical departure from the usual Mission:Impossible format. Things start traditionally enough, as the IMF sets about to recover an $8 million army payroll from a family of smugglers: Joe, Arthur and Doug Stafford (Tom Tully, Jon Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Deal

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Robert Webber, Barbara Anderson

Synopsis: Syndicate boss Charles Rogan (Robert Webber) has salted away $5,000,000 in order to finance a mob-benefiting political coup in the Carribean nation of Camagua. Commandeering a Navy patrol boat, the IMF stages a characteristically elaborate scam (including the "murder" of agent Barney) in order to Read More

Mission: Impossible: Leona

Actors: Peter Graves, Lynda Day George, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Robert Goulet

Synopsis: "Leona" was the name of the late wife of Syndicate chieftan Joe Epic (Robert Goulet). In order to rescue a captured undercover agent, the IMF must force a schism in the new partnership between Epic and his former gangland rival Mike Apollo (Mike Apollo). The Mission: to convince Epic that Apollo Read More

Mission: Impossible: Break!

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Carl Betz, Robert Conrad

Synopsis: The seventh and final season of Mission:Impossible commenced on September 16, 1972 with the episode titled "Break!" In his second series appearance, guest star Carl Betz is cast as Syndicate gambling boss Dutch Krebs, who has just finished murdering a federal undercover agent. The IMF must recover Read More

Mission: Impossible: Two Thousand

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Vic Morrow, David White

Synopsis: In a reversal of the situation in the sixth-season episode "Encore," in which a gangster was persuaded that he had gone back in time from 1971 to 1937, the IMF must jump forward some 27 years in the seventh-season Mission:Impossible entry "Two Thousand." Vic Morrow guest-stars as master thief Read More

Mission: Impossible: Image

Actors: Peter Graves, Lynda Day George, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, George Voskovec

Synopsis: The IMF's mission: To retrieve a list of crooked public officials from fleeing vice lord Emil Gadsen (George Voskovec), and to utterly destroy both Gadsen and his boss Thor Coffin (Warren Stevens). The strategy: To convince Gadsen that he has a long-lost twin brother named Bruno. Future Hill Read More

Mission: Impossible: Stone Pillow

Actors: Peter Graves, Lynda Day George, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Bradford Dillman

Synopsis: Although crooked private eye Larry Edison (Bradford Dillman) has been thrown into prison, he still wields a great deal of power over Syndicate boss Vincent Vochek (Robert Ellenstein). Edison has in his possession a roll of film proving Vochek's involvement in a recent murder. The IMF hopes to get Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Bride

Actors: Peter Graves, Lynda Day George, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, James Gregory

Synopsis: "The Bride" is none other than IMF agent Casey in this Mission: Impossible episode from January 1, 1972. This time, the IMF has targetted Syndicate hit man Joe Corvin (James Gregory), who has turned "money man" and is smuggling millions of underworld dollars out of the country. To get the goods on Read More

Mission: Impossible: Double Dead

Actors: Peter Graves, Lynda Day George, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Lou Antonio

Synopsis: Syndicate loan sharks Ollie Shanks (Paul Koslo) and Rudy Blake (Lou Antonio) must be intercepted before they can transfer $10 million from Hawaii to California. Assigned to put Shanks and Blake out of business, IMF agent Willy ends up being captured himself. As the villains inject Willy with Read More

Mission: Impossible: Bag Woman

Actors: Peter Graves, Lynda Day George, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Georg Stanford Brown

Synopsis: The IMF is assigned to learn the identity of a corrupt political higher-up, known only by his code name C6. To that end, Casey poses as a Syndicate delivery girl. The catch: The briefcase Casey is to deliver has been wired with a live bomb, set to explode the moment the briefcase is opened. A Read More

Mission: Impossible: Committed

Actors: Peter Graves, Lynda Day George, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Susan Howard

Synopsis: "Committed" was first telecast on January 22, 1972, the same day that the latest cast of Mission:Impossible appeared on the cover of TV Guide. Bert Freed guest stars as Syndicate chieftan Leon Chandler, whose trial for murder may end in acquittal thanks to the actions of a corrupt lieutenant Read More

Mission: Impossible: TOD-5

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Peter Haskell, Barbara Anderson

Synopsis: The title of this Mission:Impossible episode refers to a potentially devastating new biological weapon. Traitorous government scientist Paul Morse (Ross Elliot) intends to sell TOD-5 to Gordon Holt (Peter Haskell), special representative of a terrorist organization known as the Alpha Group. With Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Puppet

Actors: Peter Graves, Lynda Day George, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Roddy McDowall

Synopsis: After two and a half seasons in its familiar Saturday-evening network berth, Mission:Impossible moved to Fridays on December 22, 1972, with the episode titled "The Puppet." Roddy McDowall guest stars as Leo Ostro, the acting Syndicate boss during the convalescence of his injured brother Paul. To Read More

Mission: Impossible: Kidnap

Actors: Peter Graves, Lynda Day George, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, John Ireland

Synopsis: This departure from the usual Mission:Impossible formula is a neat twist on the series' first-season episode "The Ransom." It all begins when IMF agent Jim Phelps is kidnapped by Syndicate boss Andrew Metzger (John Ireland). If his fellow agents ever want to see Phelps again, they must break into Read More

Mission: Impossible: Season 07

Actors: Peter Graves, Lynda Day George, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Barbara Anderson

Synopsis: Halfway through its seventh and final season on CBS, Mission: Impossible moved from its 10:00 p.m. Saturday-night slot to an earlier berth on Friday evening. Nor was this the only change implemented during the series' terminal year on the air. Having sent the Impossible Missions Force all over the Read More

Mission: Impossible: Crack-Up

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Alex Cord, Peter Breck

Synopsis: With Mission:Impossible regular Lynda Day George still on maternity leave, Marlyn Mason makes a guest appearance as IMF agent Sandy in "Crack-Up." For her first assignment with the team, Sandy plays a major role in a scheme to determine the identity of the Syndicate higher-up who hired Read More

Mission: Impossible: Ultimatum

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Murray Hamilton, Barbara Anderson

Synopsis: Murray Hamilton guest-stars as deranged nuclear scientist Dr. Jerome Cooper, who threatens to destroy an unspecified American city with a hydrogen bomb unless the President capitulates to his demands. Normally, the IMF would have no trouble defusing such a bomb; the problem here is to find out Read More

Mission: Impossible: Underground

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Peter Mark Richman, H.M. Wynant

Synopsis: Imprisoned mobster Gunther Schell (H.M. Wynant) is the only person who knows where a stolen cache of money is located. Before the IMF can reach Schell, he is sprung from jail by a mob-controlled "underground railroad", which specializes in robbing its clients before smuggling them out of the Read More

Mission: Impossible: Cocaine

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, William Shatner, Barbara Anderson

Synopsis: The IMF has only 72 hours to intercept a huge shipment of cocaine, which is being delivered to supplier Carl Reid (Stephen McNally) by smuggler Fernando Lorca (Gregory Sierra). In order to undermine the main villains, agents Phelps and Willy prey upon the gullibility of Reid's second-in-command Read More

Mission: Impossible: Hit

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Dane Clark, Robert Reed

Synopsis: Although he is locked up in prison on a tax-evasion charge, Syndicate boss Sam Dexter (Dane Clark) is still running his criminal operation with the outside assistance of his silent partner, a shadowy figure known only as The General. The IMF must determine the identity of the General, and also Read More

Mission: Impossible: Movie

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, John Vernon, Barbara Anderson

Synopsis: Frequent Mission:Impossible villain John Vernon makes a return appearance in "Movie," this time as mob-connected Hollywood mogul Norman Shields. In order to wrest the Syndicate's financial records from Shields, Phelps poses as Theo Dane, the courier brother of mob financier Benjamin Dane (David Read More

Mission: Impossible: A Ghost Story

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: American defector Howard Bainbridge (Frank Farmer) returns to the US for one last reunion with his son Paul (Anthony Norwalk). Unfortunately, Bainbridge gets into an argument with his ultra-right wing father Justin Bainbridge (Andrew Duggan), who ends up killing Howard and burying the body on his Read More

Mission: Impossible: Blind

Actors: Peter Graves, Lynda Day George, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Jason Evers

Synopsis: Lynda Day George joins the Mission:Impossible cast as agent Lisa Casey in the episode entitled "Blind." Guest star Tom Bosley is cast as government undercover operative Henry Matula, who has been infiltrated into the criminal empire of John Lawton (Harold J. Stone), and is in line for a Syndicate Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Merchant

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Written by Harold Livingston, "The Merchant" guest-stars George Sanders in one of his final acting roles, as illegal arms dealer Armand Andressarian. To prevent Andressarian from completing an arrangement to sale guns to unfriendly guerilla groups in Africa and the middle East, the IMF swings into Read More

Mission: Impossible: Mindbend

Actors: Peter Graves, Lynda Day George, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Leonard Frey

Synopsis: Fresh from his Broadway triumph in The Boys in the Band, Leonard Frey guest-stars as Thomas Burke, a pscyhopathic doctor who brainwashes underworld fugitives into becoming political assassins, then committing suicide before the cops catch up with them. The IMF must not only put Burke out of Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Tram

Actors: Peter Graves, Lynda Day George, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Victor French

Synopsis: The IMF must prevent a merger between Vic Hatcher (Victor French) and Johnny Thorne (Felice Orlandi), the leaders of two rival underworld factions. Should the merger go through, the economy of the United States will collapse. The two gangsters are holding their meeting at a ski resort, accessible Read More

Mission: Impossible: Encore

Actors: Peter Graves, Lynda Day George, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, William Shatner

Synopsis: William Shatner delivers a bravura performance as septugenarian hoodlum Thomas Kroll. In order to solve a 34-year-old mob murder for which Kroll was responsible, the IMF has to stage a meticulous re-enactment of the crime. The easy part is constructing a realistic replica of a 1937 Chicago Read More

Mission: Impossible: Kitara

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Robert DoQui guest-stars as African liberation leader John Darcy, code name Kitara. The IMF must rescue Darcy from the clutches of white supremacist ruler Colonel Alex Kohler (Lawrence Kohler)--and also smash the Colonel's brutally rigid segregationist policies. To accomplish this, the agents Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Takeover

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Ken Swofford guest-stars as corrupt political boss Charles Peck, who will stop at nothing to get his hand-picked flunkey Steve Tallman (Lloyd Bochner) elected governor. To accomplish this, Peck stirs up a violent campus riot, for which the gubernatorial incumbent will surely be blamed. The IMF Read More

Mission: Impossible: Cat's Paw

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: This time it's personal for IMF agent Barney Collier: His brother Larry (Marc Hannibal), a crusading newspaper editor has been murdered at the behest of a crooked police chief. Larry had been on the verge of proving the chief's connection with a ghetto gang that is in the employ of the Syndicate. Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Missile

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Enemy agent James Reed (David Sheiner) intends to steal the plans for a new missile guidance system. The IMF is assigned to hoodwink Reed into pilfering a set of bonus plans. Endangering the mission is escaped mental patient Hecker (John Beck), who believes that IMF agent Dana is his former Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Catafalque

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: A seemingly benign nuclear arms treaty threatens to explode into another Cuban Missile Crisis. The IMF is assigned to squelch the treaty before any damage can be done. Their plan requires Paris to pose as both a fugitive and the fugitive's father--a tour de force that won an Emmy Award for makeup Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Blast

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: While starring on the TV western The High Chapparal, Henry Darrow took time off to play a villain on the Mission: Impossible episode "The Blast." Darrow is cast as revolutionary leader Gregory Tolan, whose group has committed several robberies in hopes of financing a revolution against the United Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Field

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: In order to deactive a satellite armed with thermonculear bombs, the IMF must penetrate a heavily guarded island and destroy the missile's control center. Part of the plan requires Barney to arrive on the island alone via submarine. Alas, something goes wrong, placing Barney--and, by extention Read More

Mission: Impossible: Run for the Money

Actors: Peter Graves, Lynda Day George, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Richard Jaeckel

Synopsis: Forming an unholy alliance, mobsters Frank Mason (Frank Mason) and Edward Trask (Richard Jaeckel) have been successfully modernizing, computerizing and (violently) streamlining the Syndicate's gambling activities. The IMF is assigned to break up the relationship between the two master criminals. Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Visitors

Actors: Peter Graves, Lynda Day George, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Steve Forrest

Synopsis: This time, the IMF takes on the challenge of staging an invasion from outer space. It is all part of a plan to derail the political ambitions of mob-connected publishing tycoon Edward Granger (Steve Forrest). Highlights include Phelps and Casey's pose as a pair of futuristic physicians. Written by Harold Livingston Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Connection

Actors: Peter Graves, Lynda Day George, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: In still another virtuoso Mission:Impossible guest appearance, Anthony Zerbe is cast as heroin supplier Reese Dolan. It is up to the IMF to locate Dolan's source of raw opium, and to put him out of business permanently. Step Number One: The IMF agents must convert a tiny speck of land off the Read More

Mission: Impossible: Season 06

Actors: Peter Graves, Lynda Day George, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Still being seen on Saturday nights -- albeit in a later time slot -- Mission: Impossible entered its sixth season with hopes that its ever-diminishing ratings (brought about by the defection of its two most popular regulars, Martin Landau and Barbara Bain) would take an upward turn. In this Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Party

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy,