Richard Hatch Filmography

Battlestar Galactica: Lay Down Your Burdens, Part 1

Battlestar Galactica: The Captain's Hand

Battlestar Galactica: Black Market

Battlestar Galactica: Colonial Day

The Rain Makers

Actors: David Andrews, Jake Busey, Richard Hatch, Ray Wise, Louis Herthum

Synopsis: When Special Forces soldier Johnny Wing Foot returned from the Vietnam War, he thought he had seen the last of meaningless bloodshed. His dream of a peaceful, post-war life in the desert soon shattered by warring factions and a crooked sheriff's department, Johnny is forced to take up arms once Read More

Battlestar Galactica: Bastille Day

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The Ghost

Actors: Brad Dourif, Richard Hatch, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Michael Madsen

Synopsis: A rivalry between two career criminals leads to a chase across two continents in this action thriller. Jing (Chung Lai) is a beautiful but deadly Chinese hit woman who, after being abandoned as a child, was adopted by the Tong, the Chinese organized crime syndicate to whom she has sworn lifelong Read More

Unseen Evil

Actors: Richard Hatch, Tim Thomerson

Synopsis: A scientist discovers what you can't see really can hurt you in this horror story. Dr. Peter Jensen (Richard Hatch) is a professor of archeology who is leading a group of students on a research assignment, in which they hope to explore an ancient Native American burial site. Or at least that's Read More

Iron Thunder

Actors: Richard Hatch

Delta Force Commando 2: Priority Red One

Actors: Richard Hatch, Fred Williamson, Van Johnson, Giannina Facio

Synopsis: This convoluted sequel once again centers upon the courageous exploits of a secret, elite cadre of American jet fighters struggling to keep the world safe from communism. This time they must stop an enemy conspiracy to steal nuclear weapons. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Colli Di Cuoio

Hitch Hikers

Synopsis: A good samaritan finds himself in trouble with the law after a hitch-hiker he had picked up shows up murdered. Hitch Hikers is based on a novel by author Eudora Welty. Directed by Alan Bergmann, this film also features Richard Hatch, Patty Duke, and Jaime Hubbard. ~ Tracie Cooper, All Movie Read More

Ghettoblaster

Synopsis: Ghettoblaster immediately gets down to business with a frightening montage of urban gang violence. Richard Hatch plays Travis, a survivor of the ghetto who returns home to find that his "hood" is a hotbed of criminal activity (he didn't know this when he left?) Fortunately, Travis is more than a Read More

Last Platoon

Party Line

Actors: Richard Hatch, Shawn Weatherly, Leif Garrett, Greta Blackburn, Richard Roundtree

Synopsis: In this slasher film, the exuberant young participants upon a party-line, a fad during the '80s in which young people called a special number and talked to many others in hopes of making a love connection, have no idea that there are two serial killers in their midst. Fortunately, a veteran police Read More

Prisoners of the Lost Universe

Actors: Richard Hatch, Kay Lenz, John Saxon, Peter O'Farrell, Ray Charleson

Synopsis: This low-budget film is about a scientist (Kenneth Hendel) and two other people (Kay Lenz and Richard Hatch), in the wrong place at the wrong time, who are transported to another world in another dimension when an earthquake occurs just as the scientist is experimenting with his "matter" Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Deadly Lady

Synopsis: In the first hour-long episode of Murder She Wrote (the debut episode had run two hours), mystery writer Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) is back in her home town of Cabot Cove, Maine, where she makes the acquaintance of a seedy-looking gentleman named Ralph (Howard Duff), who has shown up in Read More

Heated Vengeance

Actors: Richard Hatch, Jolina Mitchell-Collins, Ron Max, Dennis Patrick, Michael J. Pollard

Synopsis: Upon returning to Vietnam years after the war, veteran Richard Hatch stumbles onto a drug-running operation overseen by some of his fellow ex-soldiers. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Hustler of Muscle Beach

Synopsis: The hustler in Hustler of Muscle Beach is fast-talking New York promoter Nick Demec (Richard Hatch). Hoping to cash in on the bodybuilding craze, Demec stages a muscleman -- and musclewoman -- contest in Venice, CA (where the film was shot). The hero's get-rich-quick scheme gets him into hot water Read More

The Living Legend

Actors: Earl Owensby, William T. Hicks, Ginger Alden, Jerry Rushing, Greg Carswell

Synopsis: This exploitation flick chronicles the rise and fall of a country-rock superstar who bears a striking resemblance to the fallen King of Rock and Roll--despite the film's disclaimer that the flashy, pill-poppin performer decked out in his bejeweled polyester jump suits does not represent Elvis. The Read More

Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen

Actors: Peter Ustinov, Lee Grant, Angie Dickinson, Richard Hatch, Brian Keith

Synopsis: Peter Ustinov plays the talented detective in San Francisco who attempts, with help/hindrance from his clumsy grandson (Richard Hatch), to solve a murder case in this mystery/comedy. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Battlestar Galactica: Greetings from Earth, Part 1

Actors: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson, Jr., John Colicos

Synopsis: In Part One of "Greetings from Earth", the Galactica encounters an "ancient" space shuttle that has seemingly originated on the elusive 13th Colony--namely, the Earth. On board the shuttle, six people are in a state of suspended animation. Once awakened, the six strangers hold out hope to the Read More

Battlestar Galactica: War of the Gods, Part 1

Actors: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson, Jr., John Colicos

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Patrick MacNee guest stars as Count Iblis, a shipwrecked alien rescued by a Galactica recon mission. Claiming to be the last descendant of a long-gone alien culture, Iblis promises to grant three wishes to the Colonials -- including safe passage to Read More

Battlestar Galactica: War of the Gods, Part 2

Actors: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson, Jr., John Colicos

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, the Colonials have fallen under the spell of godlike alien Iblis (Patrick MacNee), who offers them safe passage to the 13th Colony in exchange for their total and unquestioning obedience. Once Iblis successfully brings the treacherous Baltar (John Colicos) to Read More

Battlestar Galactica: The Man with Nine Lives

Actors: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson, Jr., John Colicos

Synopsis: Fred Astaire guest stars as Chameleon, an intergalactic con artist on the run from the Boralean's Nomen henchmen. Hoping to find refuge on Galactica, Chameleon poses as Captain Dmitri--the long-lost father of Lt. Starbuck (Dirk Benedict). But others on board are doubtful of "Dmitri's" claims. . Read More

Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack

Actors: Lloyd Bridges

Synopsis: Several episodes of the TV series were edited together to create this Battlestar Galactica full-length feature. The ship is stranded in space without fuel, and an impending attack by the Cylon robots must be stopped. Two commanders, Commander Adama (Lorne Green) and Commander Cain (Lloyd Bridges) Read More

Battlestar Galactica: Murder on the Rising Star

Actors: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson, Jr., John Colicos

Synopsis: Starbuck (Dirk Benedict) is charged with the murder of rival Viper pilot Ortega (Frank Ashmore). With the full weight of evidence against him, Starbuck finds few that are willing to believe his protestations of innocence. One of those few, however, is his best friend Apollo (Richard Hatch), who Read More

Battlestar Galactica

Actors: Lorne Greene, Richard Hatch, Jane Seymour, Dirk Benedict

Synopsis: This feature-length movie is a re-edited version of the first few episodes of the TV series. The story line concerns a spaceship full of survivors of a doomed planet who are headed to the Earth. Led by Commander Adama (Lorne Greene), they encounter villainous robots, threatening their journey to Read More

Battlestar Galactica: Baltar's Escape

Actors: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson, Jr., John Colicos

Synopsis: The treacherous Baltar (John Colicos) joins forces with several captured villains from earlier episodes -- the three Borellian Nomens, the Eastern Alliance Enforcers -- to plot an escape from the Colonials' prison. Holding Adama (Lorne Greene) and the Council of Twelve hostage, Baltar demands that Read More

Battlestar Galactica: Take the Celestra

Actors: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson, Jr., John Colicos

Synopsis: Starbuck (Dirk Benedict) is startled when his former lover Aurora (Ana Alicia), whom he assumed to be dead, turns up very much alive on the Celestra, the Galactica support vessel helmed by Commander Kronus (Paul Fix). Urged on by Aurora, who claims that Kronus is a cruel dictator, Starbuck joins Read More

Battlestar Galactica: Experiment in Terra

Actors: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson, Jr., John Colicos

Synopsis: Experiment in Terra is a 60-minute episode of the TV sci-fi series Battlestar Gallactica. Joining regulars Lorne Greene, Richard Hatch and Dirk Benedict is guest villain John Calicos as the outer space "quisling" Baltar. In plotting his escape from Battlestar Galactica, Baltar also plans to free Read More

Battlestar Galactica: Greetings from Earth, Part 2

Actors: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson, Jr., John Colicos

Synopsis: In the conclusion of "Greetings from Earth", six Terrans from the 13th Colony (formerly known as Earth) are released from suspended animation when their drifting space station is discovered. Upon awakening, the six become obsessed with the notion that the Galactica is part of the hated Eastern Read More

Battlestar Galactica: The Hand of God

Actors: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson, Jr., John Colicos

Synopsis: Believing that they have finally arrived at the 13th Colony (formerly known as Earth), the Galactica crew becomes a bit careless--thereby leaving themselves open for attack by a Cylon Base Star. Tired of running from their enemy, Apollo (Richard Hatch) and Starbuck (Dirk Benedict) boldly lead a Read More

Battlestar Galactica: Lost Planet of the Gods, Part 1

Actors: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson, Jr., John Colicos

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, the surviving Mankind convoy is weakened by an unknown but highly contagious disease. Soon all the male fighter pilots of Galactica have fallen ill, leaving the vessel--and its thousands passengers--in the hands of the the courageous but untested female Read More

Battlestar Galactica: The Gun on Ice Planet, Zero Part 1

Actors: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson, Jr., John Colicos

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, the Galactica is again attacked by a fleet of Cylon fighters. The crew's only hope of escape is through a space corridor past the ice planet Arcta--which is guarded by a Cylon pulsar cannon. Commander Adama (Lorne Greene) is ultimately forced to place the Read More

Battlestar Galactica: The Gun on Ice Planet, Zero Part 2

Actors: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson, Jr., John Colicos

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, the fate of the Galactica rests in the hands of an army of criminals and misfits, under the command of Apollo (Richard Hatch) and Starbuck (Dirk Benedict). This ragtag band must destroy the Cylon pulsar cannon mounted on the ice planet Arcta. Can they depend Read More

Battlestar Galactica: The Living Legend, Part 2

Actors: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson, Jr., John Colicos

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Adama (Lorne Greene) clashes with Commander Cain (Lloyd Bridges), a legendary--and extremely egocentric--colonial warrior. Cain wants to use the combined forces of his battleship Pegasus and Adama's Galactica for an all-out resistance against a massive Cylon Read More

Battlestar Galactica: The Living Legend, Part 1

Actors: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson, Jr., John Colicos

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, a recon mission led by Apollo (Richard Hatch) and Starbuck (Dirk Benedict) confronts a fleet of Vipers from the long-lost Battlestar Pegasus. Ultimately, Cmdr. Adama (Lorne Greene) comes face to face with the Pegasus' skipper, legendary colonial warrior Read More

Deadman's Curve

Actors: Bruce Davison

Synopsis: Deadman's Curve is a made-for-TV biography concerning "California sound" rock-n-rollers Jan and Dean. Richard Hatch plays Jan Berry, while Bruce Davison is seen as Dean Torrence. The meat of the story is Jan's grueling efforts to fully recover from a disastrous 1966 auto accident. The film's most Read More

Battlestar Galactica: The Young Lords

Actors: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson, Jr., John Colicos

Synopsis: Crashlanding on the Cylon garrison planet Trillion, Starbuck is "rescued" by a group of children -- the only surviving human inhabitants of the planet. It soon develops that the kids comprise a guerilla organization, led by their father. In order to ransom their dad from his Cylon captors, the Read More

Greetings From Earth

Synopsis: The "Battlestar Galactica" television series produces this adventure with a starship crew coming cross earthlings in suspended animation. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Curse of the Cylons

Synopsis: In this episode of the Battlestar Glactica TV sci-fi series, the giant space colony catches fire and the crew must restock the supplies at a planet. They are opposed by the planet's natives, the scary Boray monsters. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Battlestar Galactica: The Long Patrol

Actors: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson, Jr., John Colicos

Synopsis: When a long-range recon mission in a new, computer-equipped Viper goes awry, Starbuck (Dirk Benedict) is captured and shipped off to a forgotten prison planet. Starbuck's fellow inmates are all descendants of the planet's original criminal population, condemned to a lifetime of blind obedience to Read More

Battlestar Galactica: Fire in Space

Actors: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson, Jr., John Colicos

Synopsis: The Galactica's landing pods are set ablaze by a Cylon suicide attack. Adama (Lorne Greene) is seriously injured, and Boxey (Noah Hathaway) and Athena (Maren Jensen) are trapped on board the battlestar. Although Apollo (Richard Hatch) and Starbuck (Dirk Benedict) make a daring and treacherous Read More

Battlestar Galactica: The Magnificent Warriors

Actors: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson, Jr., John Colicos

Synopsis: In an outer-space replay of a familiar western plotline, the Gallactica must gather enough seed to replant its devastated agroships, lest the crew and passengers starve. In order to gain the necessary seed from a group of alien farmers, Adama (Lorne Greene) is obliged to romance a former Read More

Battlestar Galactica: The Lost Warrior

Actors: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson, Jr., John Colicos

Synopsis: Crashlanding on an uncharted frontier planet "centons" away from Galactica, Apollo (Richard Hatch) is sheltered by the widowed Bella (Katherine Cannon) and her son Puppis (Johnny Timko). Although the safety of his comrades on Galactica is still foremost in his mind, Apollo is pressed into service Read More

Murder in Space

Synopsis: The Cylons capture Starbuck after he left the Galactica due to murder accusations. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Battlestar Galactica [TV Series]

Actors: Lorne Greene, Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Herbert Jefferson, Jr., Maren Jensen

Synopsis: The first (and only) season of ABC's lavishly mounted sci-fi/fantasy series Battlestar Galactica begins with a spectacular (and spectacularly "hyped") three-hour opener, which in blatant Star Wars fashion rapidly establishes time, place, and characters. The time is the seventh millennium A.D. The Read More

War of the Gods

Synopsis: In this sci-fi adventure, compiled from the Battlestar Galactica TV series, a mysterious alien with strange powers promises the intergalactic colony that they will indeed find Earth. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Space Prison

Synopsis: Space Prison consists of two tenuously linked 60-minute episodes of the TV series Battlestar Gallactica. Heavily influenced by Star Wars, the futuristic series starred Lorne Greene as Adama, commander of the mile-wide Gallactica battlestar. Adama's younger cohorts (read: the series' Luke Skywalker Read More

Battlestar Galactica: Saga of a Star World, Part 3

Actors: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson, Jr., John Colicos

Synopsis: In Part Three of Battlestar Galactica's pilot episode, the survivors of the war between the Cylons and Mankind have been lured into a trap on the planet Carillon. Thanks to some quick thinking on the part of Galactica's Cmdr. Adama (Lorne Greene), Adama's son Apollo (Richard Hatch), and Apollo's Read More

Battlestar Galactica: Saga of a Star World, Part 2

Actors: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson, Jr., John Colicos

Synopsis: In Part Two of Battlestar Galactica's pilot episode, Galactica's Commander Adama (Lorne Greene) has managed to escape the death trap arranged by the scurrilous, metallic cylons and human traitor Baltar (John Colicos). With the other survivors of the apocalyptic battle between the Cylons and the 12 Read More

Battlestar Galactica: Saga of a Star World, Part 1

Actors: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson, Jr., John Colicos

Synopsis: In part one of Battlestar Galactica's pilot episode, the 12 colonies of humankind are poised to sign a peace treaty with the Cylons, a race of mechanical men with whom the colonies have waged war for the past millennium. In truth, however, the peace conference is a trap, arranged by traitorous Read More

The Space Casanova

Synopsis: In this sci-fi drama, pieced together from the Battlestar Galactica television series, handsome-hero Starbuck's womanizing gets him thrown into a space prison during a revolt. When the dreaded Cylons attack, real mayhem ensues, culminating in a special-effects-laden final battle. ~ Sandra Brennan Read More

The Phantom in Space

Synopsis: In this episode from the Battlestar Galactica sci-fi TV series, the starship is lead toward a deadly Cylon base by a mysterious transmission. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Season 05

Synopsis: Even after all these decades, there remain those loyal Streets of San Francisco fans who argue that the series would have survived long past it fifth and final season had there not occurred a radical (and somewhat controversial) casting change. Though Karl Malden remained on the job during Season Read More

The Waltons: The Estrangement

Synopsis: The Waltons are advised of the plight of their city-dwelling relative Wade (Richard Hatch), whose marriage is on the brink of collapse. Convinced that Wade has been stepping out with other women, Wade's wife Vera (Lindsay V. Jones) tales refuge in the Walton home. The good news is that Wade is not Read More

The Hatfields and the McCoys

Synopsis: The long-standing blood feud between the Hatfield family of West Virginia and the McCoy clan of Kentucky is effectively dramatized in this made-for-TV movie. Jack Palance and Steve Forrest star as the family's respective patriarches, Devil Anse Hatfield and Randall McCoy. Remaining faithful to the Read More

Best Friends

Actors: Richard Hatch, Susanne Benton, Doug Chapin, Ann Noland, Renee Paul

Synopsis: The eponymous best friends are Jesse (Richard Hatch) and Pat (Doug Chapin). Buxom Kathy Suzanne Benton swivels into the scene, sorely testing Jesse and Pat's friendship. The film should not be confused with the 1982 Burt Reynolds vehicle of the same title. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide Read More

The Waltons: The Conflict, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), the Walton men have gathered at the home of Grandpa Walton's elderly sister Martha (Beulah Bondi), whom the government has evicted in so as not to impede construction of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Although Read More

F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles

Synopsis: In a strange blending of reality and fantasy, this is the story of F. Scott Fitzgerald's use of the creative process to try to work out and ameliorize his own marital difficulties, writing the fictional "The Last of the Belles" while trying to work out his own relationship with Zelda during WWI. Read More

The Waltons: The Conflict, Part 1

Synopsis: Season Three of The Waltons begins with the first half of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single, two-hour episode). The great Beulah Bondi (she was James Stewart's mom in It's a Wonderful Life) guest stars as Aunt Martha, the elderly sister of Grandpa Walton (Will Geer). The US Read More

Crime Club

Actors: Lloyd Bridges, Victor Buono

Synopsis: Crime Club was the umbrella title given a series of monthly mystery novels in the 1930s and 1940s. Several films and radio programs ostensibly based on "Crime Club" stories were produced during that same period. The title was revived for a TV pilot film in 1972; this time the "Crime Club" referred Read More