Robert Berger Filmography

Occupation:
Executive Producer, Producer
  • Satan's School for Girls

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Shannen Doherty, Kate Jackson, Julie Benz, Daniel Cosgrove, Russell Paul Batty

    Synopsis: A remake of the 1973 TV movie of the same name, Satan's School for Girls is set within the grim walls of Fallbridge College for Girls. Hoping to learn the truth behind the "suicide" of her younger sister, Beth Hammersmith enrolls in Fallbridge under the assumed name of Karen Oxford. Our heroine Read More

    2000
  • The House of Yes

    Crew: Executive Producer

    Actors: Parker Posey, Josh Hamilton, Tori Spelling, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Geneviève Bujold

    Synopsis: A wealthy young man wants to wed a painfully ordinary girl, and a few hours with his family will convince anyone why he's doing so in this black comedy. Marty Pascal (Josh Hamilton) is engaged to marry Lesly (Tori Spelling), a dizzy blonde he met when she was working at a doughnut shop, and he Read More

    1997
  • Terror on Track 9

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Joan Van Ark, Swoosie Kurtz, Richard Crenna

    Synopsis: Richard Crenna makes his fifth appearances NYPD detective Frank Janek in Terror on Track 9. The villain this time is a serial killer who preys upon women at Grand Central Station. The murderer's modus operandi is to inject his victims with poison. Janek suspects that the perpetrator is a man with Read More

    1992
  • Murder Times Seven

    Crew: Executive Producer

    Actors: Richard Crenna

    Synopsis: Richard Crenna returns as New York police detective Frank Janek in Murder Times Seven. This time Janek tackles the case of a mass murder. One of the victims was his ex-partner (an occupational hazard for Janek, who in an earlier film had to turn in his own boss on a murder rap). One of the Read More

    1990
  • Murder in Black and White

    Crew: Executive Producer

    Actors: Diahann Carroll, Richard Crenna

    Synopsis: Richard Crenna returns as Lt. Frank Janek of the NYPD in the TV movie Murder in Black and White. As in his previous appearances in Doubletake (85) and Internal Affairs (89), Janek is called upon to solve a bizarre and baffling murder. This time the victim is Janek's own boss, the new commissioner Read More

    1990
  • Stones for Ibarra

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Glenn Close, Keith Carradine

    Synopsis: Glenn Close and Keith Carradine are the only non-Latino cast members of the made-for-TV Stones for Ibarra. Close and Carradine portray a San Francisco couple who feel they've lost touch with life's meaning. They journey to a tiny Mexican village, where they find themselves sharing the Read More

    1988
  • Mandela

    Crew: Executive Producer

    Actors: Danny Glover, Alfre Woodard

    Synopsis: Described as a "biographical drama," the made-for-TV Mandela is the story of South African human-rights advocate Nelson Mandela, who at the time this film was made was in the 25th year of a prison sentence. Covering the years 1948 to 1987, the film traces Mandela's (Danny Glover) matriculation Read More

    1987
  • Johnny Bull

    Crew: Producer

    Synopsis: Made for television, Johnny Bull is set in a Pennsylvania mining town, circa 1959. Peter MacNicol, the son of a Hungarian immigrant family, brings home pregnant Suzanna Hamilton, the cockney girl he'd married while a GI in England. Hamilton's movie-generated visions of a glamorous America are Read More

    1986
  • Doubletake

    Crew: Executive Producer

    Actors: Beverly D'Angelo, Richard Crenna

    Synopsis: Based on William Bayer's novel Switch, the made-for-TV Doubletake introduced Richard Crenna to his oft-played role of detective Frank Janek. As always, Janek is assigned to a particularly gruesome and profoundly puzzling murder case. A prim lady schoolteacher and a hooker are both killed on the Read More

    1985
  • Murrow

    Crew: Producer

    Synopsis: Daniel J. Travanti plays a glum, no-nonsense Edward R. Murrow in this made-for-TV biopic. We follow Murrow's rise to prominence as America's foremost news commentator between the years 1940 through 1955, beginning with his on-the-spot radio coverage of the bombing of London. After the war, Murrow Read More

    1985
  • Sakharov

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Jason Robards, Jr., Glenda Jackson, Nicol Williamson, Frank Finlay, Marion Bailey

    Synopsis: The made-for-TV Sakharov stars Jason Robards as famed Soviet nuclear physicist D. Andrei Sakharov. Lauded by his government for his scientific achievements, Sakharov nonetheless becomes an outspoken critic of Russia's human rights violations. He is reclassified as a "non-person" and exiled to the Read More

    1984
  • Skokie

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Danny Kaye, John Rubinstein

    Synopsis: Skokie is the true story of a critical test of Constitutional rights in Illinois. In 1977, a small band of American neo-fascists calling itself the National Socialist Party of America plans to stage a swastika-dominated demonstration and rally. Their intended site is the Chicago suburb of Skokie Read More

    1981
  • King Crab

    Crew: Producer

    Synopsis: This drama chronicles the rivalry between two brothers vying for their father's love. They choose to wage their private war within the family seafood business. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1980
  • F.D.R. The Last Year

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Eileen Heckart, Kim Hunter

    Synopsis: Jason Robards stars as the ailing, 62-year-old President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in F.D.R.: The Last Year. Though visibly frail and weary, Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth term. He also oversees plans for the D-Day Invasion and engages in tempestuous summit meetings with his wartime Read More

    1980
  • Doctor Franken

    Crew: Producer

    Synopsis: This TV movie might just as well have been titled Frankenstein Takes Manhattan. Robert Vaughn stars as Doctor Franken, a dedicated Manhattan medico who becomes obsessed with the theory of artificial life. This is understandable, since the doctor is a descendant of a certain foreign Read More

    1980
  • Death Penalty

    Crew: Producer

    Synopsis: Colleen Dewhurst stars as psychologist Elaine Lipton in the made-for-TV Death Penalty. A strong opponent of the eponymous punishment, Dr. Lipton struggles valiantly to rehabilitate street gang member Carlos Rivera (David Labiosa). Convicted of murdering two rival gang members, Carlos faces the gas Read More

    1980
  • The Henderson Monster

    Crew: Producer

    Synopsis: The made-for-television movie The Henderson Monster is about a genetic scientist who experiments with the creation of new life in a small university town. After he is discovered by the community, the town is gripped by an ethical debate. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

    1980
  • Hollow Image

    Crew: Producer

    Synopsis: Hollow Image is an occasionally overwritten but generally impressive screenwriting debut for Lee Hunkins. Saundra Sharp plays an African-American career woman who has become a success in Manhattan's high-fashion world. She has risen from the grinding poverty of Harlem, but her roots are deeper Read More

    1979
  • Siege

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: James Sutorius

    Synopsis: Siege is set in a big-city housing development. Retiree Martin Balsam, along with the rest of the building's residents, live in terror of a street gang commandeered by self-styled "king" hoodlum Dorian Harewood. Police lieutenant James Sutorius tries to rally the older citizens to stand up against Read More

    1978
  • Holocaust

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Fritz Weaver, Rosemary Harris, Joseph Bottoms, James Woods, Sam Wanamaker, Michael Moriarty, Tovah Feldshuh, Meryl Streep

    Synopsis: The now-legendary miniseries Holocaust first aired as a presentation in NBC's Big Event series. Written by Gerald Green, the story begins in the Germany of 1935. We are introduced to the family of Jewish doctor Joseph Weiss (Fritz Weaver) his wife Berta (Rosemary Harris), his brother Moses (Sam Wanamaker Read More

    1978
  • The Last Tenant

    Crew: Producer

    Synopsis: Lee Strasberg stars in this made-for-TV movie as a widowed senior citizen who suffers a stroke. Recovering in the hospital, Strasberg wants to return to his home, but refuses to have a housekeeper out of fear of being considered helpless. The notion of moving in with his grown children is also Read More

    1978
  • The Deadliest Season

    Crew: Producer

    Synopsis: The title of the made-for-TV The Deadliest Season obscures the fact that this is a film about hockey. Michael Moriarty stars as a popular defenseman whose take-no-prisoners approach to the game results in the serious--and ultimately fatal--injury of another player. Moriarty is outwardly blase Read More

    1977
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood

    Crew: Producer

    Synopsis: This TV movie delves into the unhappy later years of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald (here played by Jason Miller). Broke and virtually written-out by the late 1930s, Fitzgerald is compelled to accept screenwriting work in Tinseltown where he is frustrated that his work is extensively rewritten and Read More

    1976
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles

    Crew: Producer

    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

    1974
  • Pueblo

    Crew: Producer

    Actors: Hal Holbrook

    Synopsis: Pueblo is a 2-hour videotaped special, originally telecast March 29, 1973 on ABC Theatre. Hal Holbrook stars as commander Lloyd M. Bucher, who in January of 1968 was forced to surrender the USS Pueblo to North Korea. The drama is staged in an impressionistic manner, with dramatized Read More

    1973
  • Crawlspace

    Crew: Producer

    Synopsis: Crawlspace is a quirky made-for-TV movie about a strange young drifter (Tom Harper) who arrives in a small New England town. He is sheltered by a generous middle-aged couple (Arthur Kennedy and Teresa Wright), but he insists upon living in a tiny crawlspace in the couple's cellar. His hosts had Read More

    1971

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