Quinn K. Redeker Filmography

Ordinary People

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, Timothy Hutton, Elizabeth McGovern

Synopsis: Robert Redford's directorial debut ended up the 1980 Oscar winner for Best Picture. It is a simple but painfully emotional story of the disintegration of a "perfect" family. Teenager Conrad (Timothy Hutton) lives under a cloud of guilt after his brother drowns after their boat capsizes in Lake Read More

Where the Buffalo Roam

Actors: Peter Boyle, Bill Murray, Bruno Kirby, René Auberjonois, R.G. Armstrong

Synopsis: Based on the writings and experiences of "gonzo" journalist Hunter S. Thompson, Where the Buffalo Roam details the adventures of Thompson (Bill Murray) and his attorney (Peter Boyle), whose character is rewritten as Mexican-American rather than Samoan, as they pillage and plunder their way across Read More

Coast to Coast

Actors: Dyan Cannon, Robert Blake, Quinn K. Redeker, Michael Lerner, Maxine Stuart

Synopsis: Comedy falls as flat as a blowout in this film by Joseph Sargent about a down-to-earth trucker (Robert Blake) and the rich and looney witch (Dyan Cannon) he is forced to take on a haul from New York to L.A. Madie (Cannon) is running away from her money-grubbing husband who is conniving to get the Read More

Ebony, Ivory and Jade

Synopsis: A scientist hunted by terrorists receives assistance from an unexpected source: two Las Vegas showgirls and their promoter who pretend to be detectives. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Electric Horseman

Actors: Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Valerie Perrine, John Saxon, Willie Nelson

Synopsis: A cowboy-turned-huckster unexpectedly finds love as he tries to regain his self-respect in this romantic comedy drama. Sonny Steele (Robert Redford) is a one-time rodeo star whose career as a cowboy has ground to a halt. He makes a good living as a spokesman for Ranch Breakfast, a sugar-coated Read More

The Deer Hunter

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Robert De Niro, John Cazale, John Savage, Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken

Synopsis: One of several 1978 films dealing with the Vietnam War (including Hal Ashby's Oscar-winning Coming Home), Michael Cimino's epic second feature The Deer Hunter was both renowned for its tough portrayal of the war's effect on American working class steel workers and notorious for its ahistorical use Read More

The Love Boat II

Actors: Celeste Holm, Bernie Kopell, Ted Lange, Diane Stilwell, Lyle Waggoner, Fred Grandy, Quinn K. Redeker

Synopsis: This second of two pilot films for the Love Boat TV series was originally telecast on January 21, 1977. After the shakedown cruise, several of the actors playing the crew of the Pacific Princess were replaced. In Love Boat 2, Ted Lange, Bernie Kopell and Fred Grandy portray the roles they would be Read More

The Hunted Lady

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV pilot film, Donna Mills stars as the title character, an undercover cop on the run after the mob frames her for murder. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Rockford Files: Quickie Nirvana

Synopsis: Jim (James Garner) quickly has good reason to wish that he'd never met overaged hippie Sky Aquarian (Valerie Curtin), who gets him into plenty of trouble by using his telephone for certain questionable transactions. Before long, Jim is being strongarmed by hoodlums demanding that he fork over the Read More

Rollercoaster

Actors: George Segal, Richard Widmark, Timothy Bottoms, Henry Fonda, Harry Guardino

Synopsis: Rollercoaster was a by-product of the brief "Sensurround" craze of the 1970s. Nutsoid Timothy Bottoms sabotages an amusement-park roller coaster, killing several innocent revelers. After several other acts of terrorism, Bottoms (whose character is credited as Young Man) presents his demands to the Read More

Gemini Man

Synopsis: Code Name: Minus One is the syndication title for the TV movie The Gemini Man. Ben Murphy stars as a secret agent for an organization called INTERSECT (International Security Technics). When saboteurs blow up an underwater testing lab, Murphy is exposed to radiation; as a result, he finds that he Read More

Kojak: A Grave Too Soon

Synopsis: Things get personal for Lt. Kojak (Telly Savalas) when an undercover cop is found murdered, gangland style. Figuratively tossing the rule book out the window, Kojak sets his sights on bringing elusive crime boss Franco "Six Bits" Donatello (Harold J. Stone) to justice. Actress Diana Hyland, whose Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: Think Smartly--Vote Hartley

Actors: Bob Newhart, Suzanne Pleshette, Bill Daily, Peter Bonerz, Marcia Wallace

Synopsis: Surrending to Emily's power of persuasion, Bob agrees to run for the chairmanship of the school board. By all appearances, Bob is a shoe-in; the incumbent is a washout who hasn't attending a board meeting in nearly half a year. But as usual, Bob seems poised to snatch defeat from the jaws of Read More

At Long Last Love

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Cybill Shepherd, Madeline Kahn, Duilio del Prete, Eileen Brennan

Synopsis: Peter Bogdanovich's attempt to direct a homage to the great musicals of the 1930s is now remembered as one of the embarrassments of the 1970s. The film's thin plot, standard for the genre, centers on the romantic entanglements and misunderstandings among six stock characters: the bored playboy (Burt Reynolds Read More

Houston, We've Got a Problem

Synopsis: Predating the Oscar-nominated theatrical feature Apollo 13 by over two decades, the made-for-TV Houston, We've Got a Problem dramatized the same real-life crisis in space from a different point of view. It was back in 1970 when an explosion on board Apollo 13 forced Mission Control to scuttle the Read More

Kojak: Loser Takes All

Synopsis: Leslie Nielsen guest stars as Michael Hagar, the mastermind of a million-dollar diamond heist. What Hagar doesn't realize is that he is being manipulated into adding murder to his list of crimes. Pulling the strings is Hagar's sexy partner Paula (Ja'net DuBois, a duplicitous loan shark who has Read More

The Midnight Man

Actors: William Splawn, Richard Winterstein, Burt Lancaster, Susan Clark, Cameron Mitchell, Morgan Woodward, Harris Yulin

Synopsis: Burt Lancaster co-wrote and co-directed this suspense story, as well as playing the male lead. After being found guilty of the murder of a man who was having an affair with his wife, one-time police detective Jim Slade (Lancaster) is sentenced to a long stay in prison. Upon his release, his parole Read More

The F.B.I.: A Gathering of Sharks

Synopsis: One suspects that this episode was a case of combining business with pleasure for F.B.I star Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) On assignment for the FBI, Inspector Lew Erskine (Zimbalist) grabs his clubs and heads to an expensive golf course. The purpose: to trap a group of affluent thieves who have stolen a Read More

The Slams

Actors: Frenchia Guizon

Synopsis: In this violent prison drama, an imprisoned criminal finds himself flooded with offers to spring him if only he will reveal the secret location of the $1.5 million he stole from the mob before he went to jail. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Candidate

Actors: Robert Redford, Peter Boyle, Don Porter, Allen Garfield, Karen Carlson

Synopsis: "What do we do now?" Director Michael Ritchie and executive producer/star Robert Redford satirically explore the machinations and manipulations of media-age political campaigns in this cynical political drama. Rumpled left-wing California lawyer Bill McKay (Redford), the son of a former governor (Melvyn Douglas Read More

Adam-12: Badge Heavy

Synopsis: Several years before he turned to screenwriting--and winning an Oscar for his contributions to the 1978 film The Deer Hunter in the process--Quinn Redeker appeared in a guest role in this Adam-12 episode. Redeker is cast as Officer Charlie Burnside, a rogue cop who uses excessive brutality when Read More

Pursuit

Actors: Ben Gazzara

Synopsis: In this thriller, adapted from the novel Binary by John Lange and directed by Michael Crichton, a federal agent played by Ben Gazzara must stop a madman before he can unleash a toxic nerve gas upon an unwitting political convention. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Limit

Synopsis: In this biker flick, an L.A. policeman becomes friends with another officer and the tough black leader of a biker gag. Conflict ensues, especially when the biker leader's ambitious and vengeful second in command beats up his girlfriend and abducts the leaders pregnant girl. He takes her on a wild Read More

The Christine Jorgensen Story

Actors: John Hansen, Joan Tompkins, Quinn K. Redeker, John Himes, Ellen Clark

Synopsis: Taken from the autobiography of the world's first transsexual, George Jorgensen (John Hansen) is a woman trapped in a man's body who opts for surgery and hormone treatments to make him a woman. Events of his childhood are covered, showing young George preferring dolls over contact sports. Inducted Read More

Ironside: Reprise

Synopsis: Tragedy strikes the Ironside team when policewoman Eve Whitfield (Barbara Anderson) is seriously injured in a shooting. As Eve hovers between life and death, Ironside (Raymond Burr) flashes back to his first meeting with the socialite-turned-cop, a time when he was unconvinced that she was cut out Read More

Spider Baby

Synopsis: Exploitation titan Jack Hill, who went on to make such cult favorites as Switchblade Sisters, The Swinging Cheerleaders, and Foxy Brown, made his solo directorial debut with this fascinating, offbeat shocker. The three surviving children of Titus W. Merrye, who represent the end of his family's Read More

The Three Stooges Meet Hercules

Actors: Vicki Trickett, Quinn K. Redeker, George Neise

Synopsis: Larry, Moe and Curly Joe work in a pharmacy where a young professor works on a time machine. When the machine is sabotaged by foil Ralph Dimsal (George N. Neise), the Three Stooges, the professor and beautiful Diane (Vicki Trickett) are transported back in time to ancient Greece. The group lands Read More