Robert DoQuiFilmography

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Fahrenheit 932

Synopsis: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation moved from Fridays to a Thursday-night time slot with this episode, in which Frank Damon (Sterling Macer Jr.) is facing execution for killing his wife and child in a fire. With time running out, Damon begs Grissom (William L. Petersen) to prove his innocence. Read More

ER: Of Past Regret and Future Fear

Synopsis: Carol (Julianna Margulies) comforts a security guard (Michael Rapaport) as he lies dying from severe chemical burns. The other staffers tend to a young man (Keith Bogart) who fell 75 feet into the Chicago river. Also part of the ER caseload is an elderly couple who may or may not have AIDs, and a Read More

Glam

Actors: William McNamara, Frank Whaley, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Valérie Kaprisky, Tony Danza

Synopsis: Josh Evans wrote and directed this cynical glimpse at power players and hustlers working the shadowy side of the film industry. After his mother's death, talented eccentric Sonny Daye (William McNamara) arrives on the Hollywood scene. His brother, Franky Syde (Frank Whaley), confident of Sonny's Read More

Walking Thunder

Actors: John Denver, James Read, Chief Ted Thin Elk, Klara Irene Miracle, David Tom

Synopsis: A family has many wild experiences while visiting the western United States. While there, they encounter a Native American trader and a fearsome albino bear. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Sons of Mogh

Synopsis: Tony Todd, previously cast as the 80-year-old Jake Sisko in the 1995 episode "The Visitor," guest stars as Worf's outcast brother Kurn. Having been exiled from the Klingon society because of Worf's allegiance to the Federation, Kurn begs Worf to kill him. Reluctantly, Worf carries out Kurn's Read More

NYPD Blue: Cold Heaters

Synopsis: Ray DiSalvo (Jay Acovone), a friend of Bobby Simone (Jimmy Smits) who is currently in prison, offers Bobby new information on an unsolved cop-killing -- a case previously handled by the contentious Det. Roberts (Michael Harney). While investigating a multiple shooting within a black family, Fancy (James McDaniel Read More

A Case for Murder

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a talented, ambitious young lawyer takes the case when one of his colleagues, jealous of the other attorney's flawless court record, is found murdered. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Short Cuts

Actors: Andie MacDowell, Bruce Davison, Tim Robbins, Chris Penn, Julianne Moore, Matthew Modine, Anne Archer, Fred Ward, Jack Lemmon, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Lili Taylor, Robert Downey, Jr., Madeleine Stowe, Lily Tomlin, Tom Waits, Frances McDormand, Peter Gallagher, Annie Ross, Lori Singer, Lyle Lovett, Buck Henry, Huey Lewis

Synopsis: Based on stories by Raymond Carver, Short Cuts follows 22 Los Angeles residents whose lives intersect over the course of a few days. Ann and Howard Finnegan (Andie MacDowell and Bruce Davison) are preparing for their son Casey's birthday party when the boy is injured in an auto accident and falls Read More

I Don't Buy Kisses Anymore

Actors: Jason Alexander, Nia Peeples, Lainie Kazan, Lou Jacobi, Eileen Brennan

Synopsis: Jason Alexander stars in this sweet-natured romantic comedy, marred by some overblown stereotypes. Alexander plays shoe salesman Bernie Fishbine. Bernie is lonely and shy and ever conscious about his weight problem. He stills lives at home with his mother Sarah (Lainie Kazan) and grandpa Irving Read More

Robocop 3

Actors: Robert John Burke, Nancy Allen, Rip Torn, John Castle

Synopsis: In this second sequel to Robocop, the mechanical humanoid opposes the evil designs of his creators, who have gone corrupt and are trying to take over all real estate in Detroit, kicking the poorer citizens out of their homes and turning them out into the streets. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Diplomatic Immunity

Actors: Bruce Boxleitner, Billy Drago, Ofelia Medina, Tom Breznahan, Christopher Neame, Fabiana Udenio

Synopsis: Bruce Boxleitner plays a second-rate Rambo in the action film Diplomatic Immunity. Boxleitner is grizzled and tight-lipped Vietnam veteran and U.S. Marine instructor Cole Hickel. When his daughter Ellen (Sharon L. Case) begins to date Paraguayan nationalist Klaus Hermann (Tom Breznahan), Cole Read More

Original Intent

Actors: Martin Sheen

Synopsis: In this earnest, socially conscious drama, a prominent young lawyer rethinks his yuppie lifestyle and risks it all to become a staunch defender of homeless people's rights. Look for Martin Sheen (a strong advocate for the homeless) in a cameo role as a street person. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

Robocop 2

Actors: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Belinda Bauer, Tom Noonan

Synopsis: The serialized story structure and barbed social commentary from comic book creator and co-writer Frank Miller earned critical respect in this satirical science fiction sequel directed by Irvin Kershner. Peter Weller returns as RoboCop, a futuristic cyborg fashioned from cutting-edge technology Read More

The Court Martial of Jackie Robinson

Actors: Andre Braugher, Stan Shaw

Synopsis: Made for the TNT cable network, The Court Martial of Jackie Robinson concentrates on the wartime service of major league baseball's first black player. Robinson (Andre Braugher), a star athlete at UCLA, is drafted during World War II. He hopes that his academic record will assure him entry into Read More

Miracle Mile

Actors: Anthony Edwards, Mare Winningham, John Agar, Lou Hancock, Mykelti Williamson

Synopsis: Miracle Mile starts conventionally enough, with bashful musician Anthony Edwards going ga-ga over waitress Mare Winningham. After a pleasant if somewhat quirky day together, Edwards and Winningham plan a tete-a-tete at the all-night restaurant where the girl works. While preparing to call her on a Read More

Paramedics

Actors: George Newbern, Christopher McDonald, Javier Grajeda, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Elaine Wilkes

Synopsis: Uptown (George Newbern) and Mad Mike (Christopher McDonald) are paramedic partners assigned to the tough South Central section of the city by their irate boss Captain Prescott (John P. Ryan). The duo uncovers a fiendish conspiracy that deals in harvesting internal organs from unwilling donors. Read More

Mercenary Fighters

Actors: Peter Fonda, Reb Brown, Ron O'Neal, James Mitchum, Robert DoQui

Synopsis: A team of mercenaries, led by Colonel Virelli (Peter Fonda), is hired by an African nation to get rid of a tribe of people who are trying to block a proposed dam. After the men learn that the tribe is merely fighting to save its life, they face mutiny and confusion as to which side they're on. Read More

Robocop

Actors: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith, Dan O'Herlihy

Synopsis: Paul Verhoeven's American breakthrough film, Robocop, is an exceedingly violent blend of black comedy, science fiction, and crime thriller. Set in Detroit sometime in the near future, the film is about a policeman (Peter Weller) killed in the line of duty whom the department decides to resurrect Read More

Good To Go

Actors: Art Garfunkel, Robert DoQui, Harris Yulin, Reginald Daughtry, Richard Brooks

Synopsis: The beat of "go-go" music -- hip-hop oriented dance music with a heavy emphasis on percussion -- provides the backdrop for this drama about corruption and racism in Washington D.C. There are the good guys who play and promote the music, the bad guys who deal in drugs and crime, the bad racist cop Read More

My Science Project

Actors: John Stockwell, Fisher Stevens, Raphael Sbarge, Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: In this sci-fi comedy, a high school hood, Michael Harlan, procrastinates on his science project until the day before it is due. Hastily seeking to rectify his predicament, the youth begins scouring an abandoned military dump and runs across a strange looking machine with a large crystal orb. He Read More

Fast Forward

Actors: John Scott Clough, Don Franklin, Irene Worth, Tamara Mark, Cindy McGee, Tracy Silver

Synopsis: In yet another rubber-stamped, mid-'80s teen dancing film, hot on the success of Flashdance, a group of high schoolers called the "Adventurers Eight" from Sandusky, Ohio (known by Midwest teens for its large amusement park), decide to undertake a journey to New York City to enter the Big Showdown Read More

Obsessive Love

Synopsis: "Her fantasy is to possess him. But now, it had become an obsession." The ad copy for the TV movie Obsessive Love said it all. Yvette Mimieux stars as the "number one fan" of soap-opera actor Simon McCorkindale. Not content with an autographed 8X10 glossy, Mimieux plots and plans to seduce Read More

Cloak and Dagger

Actors: Henry Thomas, Dabney Coleman, Michael Murphy, Christina Nigra, John McIntire

Synopsis: Juvenile actor Henry Thomas, late of E.T., is the star of Cloak and Dagger. Given to telling whoppers, Thomas finds himself in a boy-who-cried-wolf dilemma when he overhears two spies plotting to smuggle valuable info out of the US. When he can't get his own father Dabney Coleman to believe him, Thomas Read More

The Dark Mirror

Actors: Vincent Gardenia, Jane Seymour

Synopsis: The original 1946 Dark Mirror starred Olivia de Havilland as twin sisters, one of whom has committed a murder. Since each twin can provide an alibi for the other, a rumpled detective (Thomas Mitchell) and a handsome shrink (Lew Ayres) are compelled to get to the truth through patience and not a Read More

Making of a Male Model

Actors: Joan Collins, Jon-Erik Hexum

Synopsis: Joan Collins tops the cast of the made-for-TV The Making of a Male Model. No, silly: Joan doesn't play the title role. Rather, she is cast as the barracudalike owner of a top modelling agency, while Jon-Erik Hexum (at the time, a real-life male model) costars as a Nevada rancher whom Joan selects Read More

Andrea's Story: A Hitchhiking Tragedy

Actors: Michele Greene, Moosie Drier, Carrie Snodgress, Matt Clark, Robert DoQui

Synopsis: The dangers facing teenaged hitchhikers are forcefully brought home in this uncompromising ABC Afterschool Special. Though she has been warned never to hitch a ride, Andrea Cranston (Michele Greene) feels that she has no choice when she and her boyfriend are stranded in the middle of nowhere. Read More

I'm Dancing As Fast As I Can

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Nicol Williamson, Dianne Wiest, Joe Pesci, Geraldine Page

Synopsis: Jill Clayburgh plays, as one character calls her, "a pill-popping dingbat" in this film adaptation of television producer Barbara Gordon's autobiographical account of her addiction to prescription drugs. Clayburgh plays Gordon in the film as a successful television documentary filmmaker whose Read More

Carny

Actors: Gary Busey, Jodie Foster, Robbie Robertson, Elisha Cook, Jr., Meg Foster

Synopsis: In Robert Kaylor's Carny, the world of the carnival is an illusion manipulated by the carnies to fleece the suckers. The marks generally deserve what they get, because of their greed, corruption, or just plain stupidity. It's share and share alike for Frankie (Gary Busey) and Patch (Robbie Robertson Read More

Guyana, Cult of the Damned

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Gene Barry, John Ireland, Joseph Cotten, Bradford Dillman

Synopsis: "Names have been changed to protect the innocent" in this infamous fictionalization of the tragic mass suicide of 914 followers of Jim Jones' "People's Temple" in Guyana in the fall of 1978. Rev. James Johnson (Stuart Whitman) is a charismatic but deeply paranoid man of the cloth who moves his Read More

The Child Stealer

Actors: Tracey Gold

Synopsis: The child stealer of the title is Beau Bridges, the self-centered ex-husband of Blair Brown. She has custody of the kids, and he has been slapped with a restraining order. Bridges waits until Brown's guard is down and kidnaps his two daughters. Told by the authorities that there's little they can Read More

Centennial

Actors: William Atherton, Raymond Burr, Richard Chamberlain, Timothy Dalton, Alex Karras, Robert Conrad

Synopsis: The longest (26-1/2 hours), most expensive ($25 million) and most complicated (four directors, five producers, five cinematographers, almost 100 speaking parts, several hundred extras) project made for television up to that time, Centennial was shown in two- and three-hour installments over a Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Death by Good Intention

Synopsis: An affirmative-action program at a major metropolitan hospital is threatened when a young African American resident, who owes his job to the program, is suspected of causing a patient's death through negligence (to use the old cliché, the operation was successful but the patient died). The young Read More

The Rockford Files: The Trees, the Bees and T.T. Flowers, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Jim (James Garner) infiltrates a sanitarium called Horizon's Crest to rescue T.T. Flowers (Strother Martin), who is being victimized by evil land developer Jack Muellard (Scott Brady). But though Muellard is temporarily stopped in his tracks, T.T. still isn't Read More

Almos' a Man

Actors: LeVar Burton, Henry Fonda, Garry Goodrow, Madge Sinclair, Christopher Brooks, Robert DoQui

Synopsis: Based on the story by Richard Wright, Almos' a Man stars LeVar Burton as a black teenager in the South of the 1930s. Working as a field hand, Burton is frustrated at being considered inferior to the local whites. Perhaps if he purchases a gun, he can prove his manhood. This is the decision he Read More

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson

Actors: Paul Newman, Joel Grey, Kevin McCarthy, Harvey Keitel, Allan Nicholls

Synopsis: "Truth is whatever gets the loudest applause." Debunking western myths even more than he did in McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971), Robert Altman's Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976) sardonically explores the gap between western history and legend in show biz-obsessed Read More

Treasure of Matecumbe

Actors: Robert Foxworth, Joan Hackett, Peter Ustinov, Vic Morrow, Johnny Doran

Synopsis: This adventure chronicles two boys' search for a treasure buried somewhere in the Florida Keys during the mid 1800s. The children are assisted by three adults, who each have the their own agendas for finding the cache. The hunters are followed by a greedy gang of villains. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

The Jeffersons: Florence in Love

Actors: Sherman Hemsley, Isabel Sanford, Roxie Roker, Franklin Cover

Synopsis: George (Sherman Hemsley) is shocked upon discovering that his maid, Florence (Marla Gibbs), has allowed her latest boyfriend (Robert DoQui) to spend the night in the Jefferson apartment. After the inevitable loud and abrasive argument, Florence quits her job. This episode was later "replayed" Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Dead or Alive

Synopsis: With this episode, Richard Hatch "officially" becomes a series regular in the role of Dan Robbins, the brash new partner of veteran SFPD homicide detective Mike Stone (Karl Malden). The case at hand involves Larry Dobbs (Howard Duff), the wealthy father of a girl who has been raped and murdered. Read More

Green Eyes

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Green Eyes stars Paul Winfield as a Vietnam veteran who feels like a fish out of water in civilian life. Shunned by his family and friends and pushed aside by the Establishment, Winfield decides to find the one person who truly needs him. That person is the Vietnamese child whom he Read More

Sanford and Son: The Headache

Actors: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Whitman Mayo, Darrell Zwerling, Robert DoQui

Synopsis: Having suffered a splitting headache for two weeks, Lamont (Demond Wilson) goes to see a doctor. When it turns out that the headache is psychosomatic, Lamont is referred to a psychologist -- who determines that the pain is being caused by Lamont's own father Fred. The problem: How can Lamont break Read More

Walking Tall, Part 2

Synopsis: Tennessee Sheriff Buford Pusser and his trusty club return in this sequel. As with the first, he continues his single handed crusade against organized crime. Violence ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Adam-12: Pressure Point

Synopsis: New police recruit Ernie Sampson (Warren Munson) is afraid to reveal the fact that he stutters when under pressure. In his efforts to hide his impediment, Ernie fails to warn Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) that they're about to be ambushed by an armed robber. After Read More

Nashville

Actors: Henry Gibson, Barbara Baxley, Ned Beatty, Karen Black, Ronee Blakely, Lily Tomlin, Keith Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin

Synopsis: Following 24 characters through 5 days in the country music capital, Robert Altman's 1975 epic presents a complexly textured portrayal (and critique) of American obsessions with celebrity and power. Among the various stars, aspirants, hangers-on, observers, and media folk are politically ambitious Read More

Adam-12: Routine Patrol

Synopsis: The title of this episode is something of a misnomer: It's anything but routine for Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) when they pursue four young car thieves. The quartet has stolen a vehicle full of weaponry and ammunition, and now they're taking advantage of this Read More

Heatwave!

The Streets of San Francisco: Rampage

Synopsis: A group of solid citizens, upset by the increase of crime in their neighborhood, form a vigilante team. During the team's assault on a sleazy bar, a street informer is killed and the head of the vigilantes--who happens to be an old college friend of detective Steve Keller (Michael Douglas)--is Read More

Adam-12: Citizen's Arrest-484

Synopsis: Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) are intrigued when an off-duty officer makes a citizen's arrest of a female shoplifter (Pamela Jones). The woman insists that she has resorted to stealing in order to feed her starving baby. As it turns out, the woman is indeed caring Read More

A Dream for Christmas

Synopsis: Created by Earl Hamner, A Dream for Christmas is set in the 1950s. African-American minister Will Douglas (Hari Rhodes) moves his family from Arkansas to the Watts section of Los Angeles to take charge of an impoverished church. The attendance, at least at first, is as poor as the congregation. Read More

Coffy

Actors: John Perak, Pam Grier, Booker Bradshaw, Robert DoQui, William Elliott, Allan Arbus

Synopsis: Writer-director Jack Hill (Spider Baby, Switchblade Sisters) managed to beat Death Wish to the screens by a year with this violent tale of a citizen touched by crime and deciding to fight back. Her little 11-year old sister is a hopeless addict, the police can't help, and poor Nurse "Coffy" Coffin Read More

Visions...

Actors: Monte Markham

Synopsis: A college professor (Monte Markham) with the power of clairvoyance alerts the police that someone is about to plant a powerful bomb. He soon discovers that the police are focusing on a prime suspect -- him. ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide Read More

Lieutenant Schuster's Wife

Actors: Eartha Kitt

Synopsis: Lee Grant plays Mrs. Schuster, wife of a recently murdered Manhattan cop. Lt. Schuster died under a cloud, with intimations that the killing was orchestrated by criminals with whom the Lieutenant was chummy. Mrs. Schuster is forced to vindicate her husband, and to try to emotionally reassemble Read More

The Man

Actors: Elizabeth Ross, James Earl Jones, Martin Balsam, Burgess Meredith, Lew Ayres, William Windom

Synopsis: Rod Serling, a master of speculative scriptwriting, penned the screenplay of The Man. Set a few days into the future, the story contrives to kill off the President, the vice president, and virtually everyone in line of succession in a bizarre accident. This turn of events elevates Read More

Mission: Impossible: Kitara

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Robert DoQui guest-stars as African liberation leader John Darcy, code name Kitara. The IMF must rescue Darcy from the clutches of white supremacist ruler Colonel Alex Kohler (Lawrence Kohler)--and also smash the Colonel's brutally rigid segregationist policies. To accomplish this, the agents Read More

Tarzan's Deadly Silence

Actors: Ron Ely, Jock Mahoney, Woody Strode, Manuel Padilla, Gregorio Acosta

Synopsis: Tarzan (Ron Ely) tries to stop a bloodthirsty Colonel (Jock Mahoney) from taking over an African village with his soldiers of fortune. The ape-man has been rendered deaf by an exploding hand grenade, effectively limiting one of his keen senses. Tarzan relies on his telepathic powers to stop a Read More

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

Ironside: Five Miles High

Synopsis: This episode takes place almost entirely in the cabin of a night plane travelling from Hawaii to San Francisco. Among the passengers are Chief Ironside (Raymond Burr), his assistants, and a federal witness whom they are escorting to testify against a racketeer. Unfortunately, also on board is a Read More

The Devil's 8

Actors: Christopher George, Fabian, Tom Nardini, Leslie Parrish, Ross Hagen

Synopsis: Faulkner (Christopher George) is an ATF agent who shut down the moonshine operation of Burl (Ralph Meeker) in his Southern state hideaway. Along with agent Martin (Ron Rifkin), the duo uses eight escaped prisoners for the job, promising their freedom should the mission succeed. Fabian stars as one Read More

Uptight

Actors: Raymond St. Jacques, Ruby Dee, Frank Silvera, Roscoe Lee Browne, Julian Mayfield

Synopsis: Uptight is an updated remake of John Ford's The Informer (35). The Irish Republican rebels of the original are replaced by black activists, Dublin becomes the Cleveland ghetto, and "the troubles" of 1921 are transformed into the days just following the assassination of Martin Luther King. Julian Mayfield Read More

Ironside: Shell Game

Synopsis: The second-season opener of Ironside finds wheelchair-bound detective Robert Ironside (Raymond Burr) engaging in a high-stakes game of "sleight of hand". With a touring exhibition of rare jewels arriving at a San Francisco museum, Ironside must keep the method of shipment secret from master jewel Read More

Family Affair: Take Me Out of the Ballgame

Synopsis: Bill (Brian Keith) inadvertently lives his life vicariously through his nephew Jody (Johnnie Whitaker) when the boy decides to join the neighborhood stickball team. Determined that Jody become a second baseman--a position to which he himself had unsuccessfully aspired when he was a boy--Bill Read More

The Fortune Cookie

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ron Rich, Cliff Osmond, Judi West

Synopsis: The British title of Billy Wilder's classic comedy was Meet Whiplash Willie -- for, despite Jack Lemmon's star billing, the movie's driving force is Oscar-winning Walter Matthau as gloriously underhanded lawyer "Whiplash" Willie Gingrich. CBS cameraman Harry Hinkle (Lemmon) is injured when he is Read More

The Fugitive: The White Knight

Synopsis: Glenn Madison (Steven Hill), a war hero with political ambitions, is rescued from a plane crash by Richard Kimble (David Janssen). Normally, this would make Kimble a hero, but both he and Madison are anxious to keep the rescue a secret from the public--Kimble because he is a fugitive from justice Read More

Taffy and the Jungle Hunter

Synopsis: In this African adventure, a big game hunter's 8-year-old son finds fun and danger with his friends: a chimp and an elephant. The trouble begins when the three adventurers venture too far into the jungle and get lost. Later the boy's governess and others launch an exhaustive search for the lad. Read More

The Cincinnati Kid

Actors: Steve McQueen, Edward G. Robinson, Ann-Margret, Karl Malden, Tuesday Weld

Synopsis: Steve McQueen stars as the Cincinnati Kid, a crackerjack New Orleans stud poker player. Tired of chicken feed, the Kid decides to challenge The Man (Edward G. Robinson), the reigning poker champ, who is in town for a private game. The Shooter (Karl Malden), another gambling pro, arranges a game Read More

Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion

Actors: Marshall Thompson, Betsy Drake, Richard Haydn, Cheryl Miller, Alan Caillou, Maurice Marsac

Synopsis: Dr. Marsh Tracy (Marshall Thompson) is an animal behavioral research director who travels to East Africa with his daughter Paula (Cheryl Miller) in this engaging wildlife saga. While Tracy develops a relationship with anthropologist Julie Harper (Betsy Drake), Paula befriends the visually Read More