Richard Sarafian Filmography

Dr. Dolittle 2

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Kristen Wilson, Jeffrey Jones, Kevin Pollak, Raven Symone

Synopsis: Eddie Murphy returns as a doctor with a gift for talking to animals in this sequel to a box-office blockbuster. Murphy is John Dolittle, who this time around attempts to save an endangered Pacific forest from lumber industry forces by reintegrating an endangered species of bear back into the wild. Read More

Blue Streak

Actors: Crystal Chappell, Martin Lawrence, Luke Wilson, Peter Greene, Dave Chappelle, William Forsythe, Graham Beckel

Synopsis: Can a crook go straight without really trying? Jewel thief Miles Logan (Martin Lawrence) was being chased by the police after a robbery when he was forced to hide a cache of diamonds, worth $20 million, at a construction site. Despite his caution, Miles ended up behind bars anyway; after serving Read More

The Last Don II

Actors: Jason Gedrick, Patsy Kensit, Kirstie Alley, David Marciano, James Wilder

Synopsis: This four-hour miniseries is a sequel to 1997's top-rated miniseries, The Last Don,based on the novel by Mario Puzo of The Godfather fame, but several critics noted that The Last Don II is unintentionally funny. After Don Clericuzio (Danny Aiello, the pivotal figure in the first series) dies from Read More

Bulworth

Actors: Warren Beatty, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, Oliver Platt, Paul Sorvino

Synopsis: Warren Beatty directed, co-produced (with Pieter Jan Brugge), co-scripted (with Jeremy Pikser), and stars in this political satire, a comedy-drama about a U.S. senator who decides to start speaking the truth. Despondent California Sen. Jay Bulworth (Beatty), up for re-election, is disillusioned by Read More

Bound

Actors: Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon, Joe Pantoliano, Barry Kivel, Christopher Meloni

Synopsis: Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly nearly set the screen on fire in this clever, female-powered twist on the standard Mob caper film. Gershon is Corky, an ex-con renovating the apartment next door to where Tilly's Violet lives. Violet is the moll of psychotic gangster Caesar (Joe Pantoliano), who Read More

Miami Hustle

Actors: Kathy Ireland, John Enos, Audie England, Richard Sarafian, Allan Rich

Synopsis: Also known as Hello, She Lied, this made-for-cable drama stars Kathy Ireland as Marsha Thomas, a professional con artist with a conscience and a surprisingly strong sense of scruples. Be that as it may, Marsha is heavily in debt to a crooked lawyer who had saved her brother Frankie (Shareef Read More

Gotti

Actors: Armand Assante, Anthony Quinn, William Forsythe, Richard Sarafian, Vincent Pastore

Synopsis: Gotti is the semi-biographical tale of John Gotti, the infamous crime boss of the Gambino mob family. This drama chronicles not only the bloody rise of Gotti, also known as the "Dapper Don", but the FBI's struggle to bring him to justice. His refusal to play by the normal "rules" of the mafia Read More

Don Juan DeMarco

Actors: Marlon Brando, Johnny Depp, Faye Dunaway, Géraldine Pailhas, Bob Dishy

Synopsis: A psychiatrist treats a most unusual patient, only to find that the doctor is the one who gains the most from their sessions in this philosophical romantic comedy. A young man in a mask and cape (played by Johnny Depp) is standing atop a billboard, threatening to jump. When the potential suicide Read More

The Crossing Guard

Actors: Jack Nicholson, David Morse, Anjelica Huston, Robin Wright Penn, Piper Laurie

Synopsis: Sean Penn wrote and directed this tale of loss, guilt, and revenge. The daughter of Freddy and Mary Gale (Jack Nicholson and Anjelica Huston) was killed by a drunk driver, John Booth (David Morse). The death of their child took a heavy toll on the Gales; their marriage broke up, and, while Mary Read More

Gunmen

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Mario Van Peebles, Denis Leary, Patrick Stewart, Kadeem Hardison

Synopsis: This film opens with a big fat close-up of a sweaty prisoner with a fly (on a string) crawling on his face. The prisoner quickly pops the fly in his mouth and spits it out. Then he leeringly laughs about it to the prisoner next door. Nope. This is not a bad undiscovered Sergio Leone spaghetti Read More

Terminal Velocity

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Nastassja Kinski, James Gandolfini, Christopher McDonald, Gary Bullock

Synopsis: Party-hard skydiving teacher Ditch Brodie (Charlie Sheen) has a knack for getting himself into trouble, but his booze-babes-and-planes shenanigans hardly prepare him for an international plot that pits Brodie and a mysterious KGB agent against a post-Cold War Russian villain called Kerr (Chris Read More

The Road Killers

Actors: David Arquette, Christopher Lambert

Synopsis: A family on a road trip through the Arizona desert is terrorized by a teenage gang led by a deranged killer. They kidnap the family's teenage daughter, and the father must track down the gang and rescue his daughter. ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide Read More

Sex, Love and Cold Hard Cash

Ruby

Actors: Danny Aiello, Sherilyn Fenn, Arliss Howard, Tobin Bell, David Duchovny

Synopsis: Here's a fictionalized account of Jack Ruby's perspective of the events leading up to his assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald. Danny Aiello appears convincingly as the nightclub-owner Ruby who (according to this telling) points the finger at an FBI conspiracy as the force behind the Kennedy Read More

Bugsy

Actors: Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel, Ben Kingsley, Elliott Gould, Bebe Neuwirth

Synopsis: Bugsy is a character study of mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel wrapped up in a gangster movie. Siegel (Warren Beatty in a flashy performance) arrives in California in the Forties, assigned to oversee the L.A. rackets. He is quickly seduced by both the glamour of Hollywood and actress Virginia Hill (Annette Bening Read More

Solar Crisis

Crew: Director

Actors: Tim Matheson, Charlton Heston, Peter Boyle, Annabel Schofield, Tetsuya Bessho

Synopsis: A group of scientists are sent to the sun in 2050 to stop a giant solar flare from destroying the Earth. As the team nears the sun, some members of the team begin to suspect that someone is trying to sabotage their mission. Solar Crisis has very strong special effects and fine acting, making it an Read More

Street Justice

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Ontkean, Joanna Kerns, Catherine Bach, J.D. Cannon, Jeanette Nolan

Synopsis: In this convoluted drama, a CIA agent is finally released after spending the past thirteen years imprisoned in the Soviet Union. The joy of his homecoming is shattered when he discovers his wife married to another and that his daughter has grown up. When he learns that his wife's new husband is Read More

Long Time Gone

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV film, a down-and-out private eye's life is further complicated by the arrival of his estranged pre-teen son. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Eye of the Tiger

Crew: Director

Actors: Gary Busey, Yaphet Kotto, Seymour Cassel, Bert Remsen, William Smith

Synopsis: The budget may be loftier, but Eye of the Tiger is essentially an up-to-date AIP motorcycle flick. Ex-convict Buck Mathews (Gary Busey) lives as quietly as possible in his old home town. The corrupt local sheriff (Seymour Cassel) would give anything to drive Buck out of town: thus, the sheriff Read More

Liberty

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The struggle of Frederic Bartholdi to build the Statue of Liberty is presented in this dramatized biography. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Wildside: The Crimea of the Century

Crew: Director

Synopsis: When a group of honest farmers are in danger of losing their land, it is up to the Wildside Chamber of Commerce to come to their aid. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Wildside: Well Known Secret

Crew: Director

Synopsis: When a former military man threatens to ruin a small town, it is up to the law enforcement agents of the Wildside Chamber of Commerce to put a stop to his dastardly plans. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Wildside: Buffalo Who?

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this episode, an assassin poses as Buffalo Bill so he can get closer to the Spanish ambassador he is supposed to kill. Fortunately, the Wildside Chamber of Commerce is there to stop him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Songwriter

Actors: Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Melinda Dillon, Rip Torn, Lesley Ann Warren

Synopsis: A good ol' boy comedy-drama, Songwriter flashes enough substance between the songs and the hijinks to qualify as a sometimes astute look into the darker areas of the music business. Willie Nelson plays Doc Jenkins, the title character, who conspires with longtime pal Blackie Buck (Kris Kristofferson Read More

The Bear

Crew: Director

Actors: Cynthia Leake, Harry Dean Stanton, Jon-Erik Hexum, Carmen Thomas

Synopsis: Aimed primarily at American football fans, this dramatized biography of Paul Bryant, a celebrated football coach nicknamed the "Bear," focuses on the man's early career as a player and his later work as a coach in the locker rooms and on the field with his own players -- in Kentucky, Texas, and Read More

Splendor in the Grass

Crew: Director

Actors: Melissa Gilbert, Graham Jarvis

Synopsis: William Inge's sexual-awakening drama had already been satisfactorily filmed by director Elia Kazan 1961, twenty years before this TV movie made its debut. Melissa Gilbert and Cyrill O'Reilly are not a completely fair trade for the original film's Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty, but the players Read More

The Gangster Chronicles: An American Story

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Originally telecast February 12, 1981, Gangster Chronicles was the three-hour opener for the subsequent miniseries. This first installment is a sort of Young Tommy Guns, with youthful, charismatic actors playing some of the more odious criminals of the 20th century. Joe Penny portrays Bugsy Read More

Gangster Wars

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This action film follows the childhood alliances of "Lucky" Luciano, Meyer Lansky, and "Bugsy" Siegel and their reign as the kings of the 1920s crime scene. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Some sort of Bad Timing Award must surely be bestowed upon the otherwise worthwhile Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story. David Keith stars as American athlete Wayne Robinson, whose main goal in life is to win the Olympic Decathlon. His dream is compromised when he falls in love with Soviet Read More

Sunburn

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Farrah Fawcett-Majors, Charles Grodin, Art Carney, Joan Collins, Eleanor Parker, William Daniels

Synopsis: Jake (Charles Grodin), an insurance investigator, is assigned to probe the killing of a wealthy businessman in Acapulco. To help him, he hires a beautiful New York model, Ellie (Farah Fawcett), to act as his wife, and they pretend to be tourists on vacation. Art Carney plays Marcus, a local Read More

Disaster on the Coastliner

Crew: Director

Actors: Lloyd Bridges, Robert Fuller, Pat Hingle, Yvette Mimieux, William Shatner

Synopsis: It's Airplane on the rails in the made-for-TV Disaster on the Coastliner. A crazed engineer holds his employers responsible for the deaths of his wife and daughter. He gets even by setting two passenger trains on an irrevocable collision course. Salvation comes from a most unexpected corner in Read More

The African Queen

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In 1963, The Dick Powell Theatre aired an hour-long episode titled "Safari", starring James Coburn as a scruffy steamboat captain and Glynis Johns as an English missionary. What this really was was a pilot for a TV series based on the 1951 Humphrey Bogart- Katharine Hepburn film classic The Read More

A Killing Affair

Crew: Director

Actors: Dean Stockwell, Elizabeth Montgomery, O.J. Simpson, John Mahon

Synopsis: Ingredients essential to this made-for-TV movie are a famous former pro football player, an interracial romance, and a brutal murder. Yes, the football player is O.J. Simpson, but the film was made a full 17 years before the death of Nicole Brown Simpson. In A Killing Affair, Simpson is cast as Read More

The Next Man

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sean Connery, Cornelia Sharpe, Albert Paulsen, Adolfo Celi, Marco St. John

Synopsis: Audiences loved him as a Berber sheik in the historical saga The Wind and the Lion, so who better to play a Saudi Arabian minister of state who wants to make peace with Israel during the Arab oil embargo of 1976 than Sean Connery? Connery plays Khalil Abdull-Muhsen, a peace-mongering diplomat who Read More

One of Our Own

Crew: Director

Synopsis: One of Our Own stars George Peppard as Dr. Jake Goodwin, the chief neurosurgeon of an inordinately busy hospital. As he makes his rounds, Goodwin becomes involved in a vast array of medical cases, solving virtually every problem he's confronted with. It looks, however, as though he's going to have Read More

The Lolly Madonna War

Crew: Director

Actors: Rod Steiger, Robert Ryan, Jeff Bridges, Scott Wilson, Katherine Squire

Synopsis: Petty jealousies and misunderstandings between two rival families escalate into a tragic outburst of violence in this drama. Laban Feather (Rod Steiger) is the patriarch of a family of Tennessee moonshiners, brewing corn liquor with the help of his sons: Thrush (Scott Wilson), Zack (Jeff Bridges) Read More

The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing

Crew: Director

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Sarah Miles, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Warden, George Hamilton

Synopsis: This romantic western drama, based on the best-selling novel by Marilyn Durham, stars Burt Reynolds as Jay Grobart, an outlaw married to an Indian woman named Cat Dancing. When Cat is raped and murdered, a distraught Grobart kills the man responsible for the crime; he soon pulls a robbery with the Read More

Vanishing Point

Crew: Director

Actors: Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, Valerie Kairys, Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, Charlotte Rampling, Dean Jagger, Victoria Medlin

Synopsis: Richard Sarafian directed this minimalist chase film, starring Barry Newman as ex-marine, ex-race car driver and cop named Kowalski. He drives into Denver to deliver a car and pick up another vehicle to drive to San Francisco. To make the fifteen-hour drive to San Francisco bearable he pops a load Read More

Man in the Wilderness

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Harris, John Huston, Henry Wilcoxon

Synopsis: Not a sequel to Richard Harris' A Man Called Horse as is sometime alleged, 1971's Man in the Wilderness nonetheless bears a marked resemblance to that earlier film. Star Harris plays a trapper who joins a Northwest Territory expeditionary group. Left for dead after running afoul of a grizzly bear Read More

Fragment of Fear

Crew: Director

Actors: David Hemmings, Gayle Hunnicutt, Flora Robson, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Daniel Massey

Synopsis: This chilling mystery begins when Lucy Dawson (Flora Robson) is found strangled in her apartment. Her nephew Tim (David Hemmings) is the former-drug-addict-turned-successful-author who wrote a book about his experiences. When Tim looks into his aunt's death, people give sketchy answers and the Read More

Run Wild, Run Free

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Bernard Miles, Mark Lester, Gordon Jackson

Synopsis: Child actor Mark Lester proved that his sudden ascension to stardom in Oliver wasn't a fluke with Run Wild, Run Free. Lester plays a psychosomatically mute young Dartmoor boy, who avoids all human contact whenever possible. He is fascinated by nature, but cannot convey this love to his Read More

Shadow on the Land

Crew: Director

Synopsis: America is no longer the home of the free in this futuristic drama. Now the country is ruled by a powerful, tyrant and his henchmen. The story centers on two brave underground rebels who work to usurp the dictator and restore democracy to the beleaguered land. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

I Spy: Home to Judgment

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Hotly pursued by enemy agents, Kelly and Scotty head to Idaho, where they hide out on the farm of Kelly's Uncle Harry (Will Geer) and Aunt Alta (Una Merkel). Soon, however, the two spies find that they can trust no one-not even those neighbors and tradespeople whom Harry and Alta regard as their Read More

I Spy: A Day Called 4 Jaguar

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Stranded in a Mexican jungle, Kelly's lady friend Felicitas (Kamala Devi) is rescued by a tall, mysterious blue-eyed stranger (Rory Calhoun), whom Felicitas believes to be the reincarnation of the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl. Kelly and Scotty soon learn that the girl's savior was missing Russian Read More

I Spy: Crusade to Limbo

Crew: Director

Synopsis: To flush out Sean Christie (Howard Duff), an outspokenly radical American actor who may also be a defector, agent Kelly poses as a fellow malcontent. In the process, Kelly and his partner Scotty run afoul of a Mexican-based "revolutionary" organization that uses high-profile troublemakers for a Read More

I Spy: Trial by Treehouse

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Agents Kelly and Scotty go undercover in a California factory town to locate and kill a fanatical terrorist known only as Edward Prince Edward. As part of the assigment, Scotty must pose as the husband of Vickie Harmon (Cicely Tyson), with whom he becomes emotionally involved. Things get even more Read More

The Girl From U.N.C.L.E.: The Romany Lie Affair

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Lloyd Bochner and Gladys Cooper make guest appearances as, respectively, crooked gypsy-circus owner Sadvaricci and fortune teller Mama Rosha (Gladys Cooper). Sadvaricci's racket consists of wooing wealthy ladies, having them turn over their millions on the advice of Mama Rosha, and then murdering Read More

I Spy: Lisa

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The title character in this I Spy episode is a Greek mail order bride, played by Linda Marsh. Shipped off to her new husband in San Francisco, Lisa is unaware that she is being used by the Soviets to ferret out a double agent in their midst. Good guys Kelly and Scotty pose as Frisco fishermen to Read More

I Spy: Will the Real Good Guys Please Stand Up?

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In Palm Springs, agents Kelly and Scotty are assigned to guard rocket scientist Laslo Gagni (Henry Wilcoxon) and his tennis-happy daughter Jolie (Ahna Capri). Unfortunately, the Other Side has engaged the services of two affable-looking young men (Lee Philips and Hari Rhodes), who pass themselves Read More

I Spy: Return to Glory

Crew: Director

Synopsis: At the behest of the US State Department, Kelly and Scott must contact exiled South American dictator Ortiz (Victor Jory), who is planning to regain power via a military coup. This assignment proves only slightly more difficult than the agents' efforts to explain their bloated expense account to Read More

I Spy: Bet Me a Dollar

Crew: Director

Synopsis: While on a particularly dull assignment in Mexico City, a bored Kelly bets Scotty that he can completely drop out of sight for a week. Only after Kelly has thoroughly disappeared does Scotty find out that his partner has been contaminated with a deadly anthrax virus-which must be treated within 24 Read More

Andy

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Norman Alden, Tamara Daykarhanova, Zvee Scooler, Ann Wedgeworth

Synopsis: This sensitive and realistic drama follows the daily dramas faced by a middle-aged retarded man living in the slums of New York City. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Twilight Zone: Living Doll

Crew: Director

Actors: Telly Savalas, Mary Laroche, Tracy Stratford, June Foray

Synopsis: Though credited to Charles Beaumont, this Twilight Zone episode was actually written by Beaumont's associate Jerry Sohl. Telly Savalas heads the cast as Erich Streator, whose life becomes Hell on Earth when his stepdaughter Christie (Tracy Stratford) is presented with an expensive "Talky Tina" Read More

Bonanza: The Waiting Game

Crew: Director

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Kathie Browne

Synopsis: Originally telecast December 8, 1963, "The Waiting Game" introduces Kathie Browne in the recurring role of Laura Dayton. When Laura's husband Frank (Wade Preston) is killed, she decides not to reveal this tragic fact to her wide-eyed little daughter Peggy (Katie Sweet), who is anxiously awaiting Read More

Terror at Black Falls

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this violent western, a Mexican gunslinger is permanently disabled while trying to save his boy from the hangman's noose. After the incident, the former gunfighter is sentenced to four years in prison. Following his release, he gets revenge upon the lawman responsible for his conviction by Read More

Maverick: The Forbidden City

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Robert Colbert makes his first appearance as Brent Maverick, yet another cousin of frontier gambler Bart Maverick Jack Kelly) (Colbert sports the same costume worn by former series regular James Garner, a rather blatant move by Warner Bros. to create a "new" Bret Maverick). Riding into the town of Read More

The Notorious Mr. Monks

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this dark drama a hapless hitchhiker takes a ride with a drunk driver who takes him to his house. There he meets the driver's wife and murder ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Man Who Died Twice

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this drama, a singer finds herself implicated in the fatal immolation of her husband. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Cool and the Crazy

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Scott Marlowe, Dick Bakalyan, Dick Jones, Shelby Storck

Synopsis: This over-the-top '50s juvenile delinquency melodrama has developed a cult following for its rabid anti-marijuana message and a thoroughly enjoyable performance by teen-pic icon Dick Bakalyan as one of the teenagers gone bad. A reform-school graduate turns some long-in-the-tooth high schoolers Read More

Attila, Flagello di Dio

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Sophia Loren, Henri Vidal, Irene Papas, Colette Regis

Synopsis: Italian director Pietro Francisci directed this 1954 drama about the fifth-century invasion of Rome by Attila the Hun. Anthony Quinn stars as the legendary barbaric King of the Huns who wreaked havoc upon Rome, threatening to topple the entire empire. Sophia Loren costars as Honoria, the beautiful Read More