Rafer Johnson Filmography

Born:: August 18, 1935 in Hillsboro, TX
Occupation:: Actor, Associate Producer
Biography:: African American athlete Rafer Johnson was but a few years out of UCLA when he distinguished himself at the 1960 Olympics, scoring 8,392 points in the Olympic Decathalon. A film career followed posthaste, first in flicks like Elvis' Wild in the Country (1961), then in outdoor adventures like Pirates of Tortuga...Read More

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Stride to Glory

Synopsis: This documentary pays tribute to the great African-American Olympians who have brought honor to themselves, their race, and their country throughout the years. Several notable athletes of the 20th century are profiled here, including Carl Lewis, Cassius Clay, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, and Jesse Owens Read More

1996
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

3/30/90
Licence to Kill

Actors: Timothy Dalton, Carey Lowell, Robert Davi, Talisa Soto, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: Timothy Dalton is better in Licence to Kill than in his first James Bond endeavor (The Living Daylights), but he still seems uncomfortable on the right side of the law. This time around, Bond is working on his own rather than on behalf of the British Secret Service. His American friend Felix Read More

1989
Quincy, M.E.: To Kill in Plain Sight

Synopsis: The authorities are placed on high alert when Lane Garrison (Blake Marison), advance man for a notorious assassin, is accidentally killed in an explosion a few days before a major political convention in Los Angeles. Among those monitoring the situation is medical examiner Quincy (Jack Klugman) Read More

1981
Roots: The Next Generations

Actors: Georg Stanford Brown, Olivia de Havilland, Henry Fonda, Paul Koslo

Synopsis: The phenomenal success of the 1977 ABC miniseries Roots all but demanded a sequel to writer Alex Haley's epic story of his African and African-American forebears. Debuting February 18, 1979, Roots: The Next Generations picked up where its predecessor left off, with Haley's slave ancestors winning Read More

1979
The Loneliest Runner

Synopsis: Actor/writer/director Michael Landon revived an unpleasant chapter in his own past in his teleplay for The Loneliest Runner. Landon's alter ego, 13-year-old John Curtis, is played by Lance Kerwin. Young John is a chronic bedwetter, a fact that his overbearing mother (DeAnne Mears) attributes to Read More

1976
The Black Six

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Ben Davidson, Carl Eller, Willie Lanier, Mercury Morris, Gene Washington

Synopsis: Football fans should enjoy this low-budget biker movie starring several of the 1970s' greatest gridiron stars. "Mean" Joe Greene, Carl Eller, Gene Washington, Willie Lanier, and Mercury Morris are among the familiar faces as a gang of Vietnam veterans fights white racists in a Southern town to Read More

1974
Mission: Impossible: Terror

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lynda Day George, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, David Opatoshu, Christopher George

Synopsis: The fate of a Middle Eastern nation hangs in the balance as terrorist Ismet El Kabir (Michael Tolan) is scheduled to be pardoned from prison. The IMF must prevent Kabir's release, thereby forcing him into an escape attempt that will cost him his life. The plan involves the infiltration of Kabir's Read More

1970
The Buffalo Soldiers

Actors: Robert DoQui, Janee Michelle, Lincoln Kilpatrick, Rafer Johnson, Isaac Fields

Synopsis: A US Army Colonel (Cesar Romero) and his wife (Barbara Hale) relate their stories about the all black 10th cavalry unit formed after the Civil War. Eli (Robert Do'Qui) is one the new recruits being trained by two veteran troopers (Rafer Johnson & Isaac Fields). Julie (Janee Michelle) is the young Read More

1970
The Last Grenade

Actors: Stanley Baker, Alex Cord, Honor Blackman, Richard Attenborough, Rafer Johnson

Synopsis: In this grim wartime drama, two vengeful soldier's of fortune engage in a deadly competition to see who can kill the other first. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1970
The Games

Actors: Michael Crawford, Ryan O'Neal, Charles Aznavour, Jeremy Kemp, Elaine Taylor

Synopsis: Not to be confused with the 1966 Diabolique rip-off Games, 1970's The Games is set during the Rome Olympics. The film zeroes in on four contestants in the 26-mile marathon race: Briton Michael Crawford, American Ryan O'Neal, Czech Charles Aznavour and Australian Athol Compton. Scenes of the Read More

1970
Tarzan and the Jungle Boy

Actors: Mike Henry, Rafer Johnson, Alizia Gur, Steve Bond, Ed Johnson

Synopsis: As king of the jungle, Tarzan (Mike Henry) helps the female journalist Myrna (Alizia Gur) look for a mysterious jungle boy. Eric (Ronald Gans) has survived a plane crash which killed his father seven years earlier. To find the boy, the two team up to battle evil native Magambi (Rafer Johnson) and Read More

1968
Tarzan and the Great River

Actors: Mike Henry, Jan Murray, Manuel Padilla, Diana Millay, Rafer Johnson

Synopsis: A joint U.S.-Swiss production in the waning days of the 35-year-old Tarzan series, this film stars Mike Henry in the second of his three film appearances as the jungle king. The film is set in South America, where one of Tarzan's friends is murdered at Tarzan's favorite zoo. The culprits are the Read More

1967
None But the Brave

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Clint Walker, Tommy Sands, Brad Dexter, Tony Bill

Synopsis: Frank Sinatra took over the directors' chair for the first (and only) time in this unusual WWII drama. Lt. Kuroki (Tatsuya Mihashi) is the leader of a Japanese platoon stranded on a remote Pacific island, where with an iron hand he oversees the construction of a rescue ship. An American plane Read More

1965
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: The Cadaver

Actors: Michael Parks, Joby Baker, Don Marshall, Ruth McDevitt, Martin Blaine

Synopsis: College football star Skip Baxter (Michael Parks) is in danger of expulsion because of his heavy drinking. Hoping to cure Skip of his booze habit, his prankish roommate, Doc Carroll (Joby Baker), cooks up an elaborate hoax. "Borrowing" a female cadaver from a medical classroom, Doc plants the Read More

1964
A Global Affair

Actors: Bob Hope, Liselotte Pulver, Robert Sterling, Michele Mercier, Jacques Bergerac

Synopsis: In this comedy, the head of a United Nations department suddenly becomes a father when he stumbles across an abandoned baby in one of the halls. He tries to find a home for the darling and suddenly finds himself surrounded by assorted exotic beauties all trying to win the baby for their country. Read More

1963
The Fiercest Heart

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Juliet Prowse, Ken Scott, Raymond Massey, Geraldine Fitzgerald

Synopsis: Something of a variant on the American western where colonialists face off with Native Americans, The Fiercest Heart by George Sherman is set in 1837 and focuses on a group of Boers (Dutch colonialists in South Africa) and their enemies, the Zulus. Similar to the former portrayals of Native Read More

1961
Pirates of Tortuga

Actors: Ken Scott, Leticia Roman, Dave King, John Richardson, Rafer Johnson

Synopsis: In this high-seas adventure set in the 1600s, a British sea captain must go undercover, join a pirate band, and capture the notorious Captain Henry Morgan. But Morgan is on to the ruse and is well prepared when the sea captain makes his move. As the two engage in mortal combat, they are knocked Read More

1961
Wild in the Country

Actors: Elvis Presley, Hope Lange, Tuesday Weld, Millie Perkins, Rafer Johnson, John Ireland

Synopsis: Rock 'n roll king Elvis Presley stars as Glenn Talbot, a country boy with a problem temper and a yen for literary greatness in this typical Presley vehicle directed by Philip Dunne. After Glenn is sent packing by his father for mixing it up one too many times with his brother, the court makes him Read More

1961
The Sins of Rachel Cade

Actors: Angie Dickinson, Peter Finch, Roger Moore, Errol John, Woody Strode

Synopsis: Rachel Cade (Angie Dickinson), a dedicated American nurse working in the Belgian Congo, meets administrator Henri Derode (Peter Finch) during a native fertility dance. Guess what he tries to do? He doesn't, though, because Rachel falls in love with handsome downed RAF pilot Paul Wilton (Roger Moore Read More

1960