Robert Fuller Filmography

Television: The First 50 Years

Drive-In Movie Memories

Actors: Leonard Maltin, Beverly Garland, Barry Corbin, Robert Fuller, Burton Gilliam

Maverick

Actors: Noah Emmerich, Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner, Graham Greene, James Coburn

Synopsis: A gunslinging con man develops a tricky scheme to make a killing at a major poker tournament in this comic Western inspired by the popular television show. Mel Gibson assumes the role of Bret Maverick, the handsome rogue who hopes to cheat his way to success. In need of a large stake to enter a Read More

The Program

Actors: James Caan, Halle Berry, Omar Epps, Craig Sheffer, Kristy Swanson

Synopsis: Eastern State University isn't particularly notable for anything except its football program. Lately, even that hasn't been doing too well, and the athletic staff led by Coach Winters (James Caan) are under considerable pressure by the administration and alumni to bring in a winning season. To do Read More

Repossessed

Actors: Linda Blair, Leslie Nielsen, Anthony Starke, Ned Beatty, Jesse Ventura, Lana Schawb

Synopsis: This is almost a follow-up to its relative The Exorcist, since it stars Linda Blair, also the leading lady in the '70s head-spinner tale. In Repossessed, a grown-up Blair plays a housewife who becomes possessed by the Devil while watching TV. Leslie Nielsen plays Father Mayii, who gets called to Read More

All Dogs Go to Heaven

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Judith Barsi, Dom DeLuise, Vic Tayback, Charles Nelson Reilly, Melba Moore, Loni Anderson

Synopsis: One of the most expensive of Don Bluth's animated cartoon features, All Dogs Go to Heaven was also among the most successful. Set in late-'30s New Orleans, the story centers upon a roguish German shepherd named Charlie B. Barkin (voice of Burt Reynolds), who is killed early in the proceedings by Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Body Politic

Synopsis: In the final episode of Murder She Wrote's fourth season, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) volunteers as a speech writer for her old friend Kathleen Lane (Shirley Jones), whose wealthy husband Jackson (Eddie Albert) is bankrolling her political campaign. Not surprisingly, politics and scandal go hand in Read More

Bonanza: The Next Generation

Synopsis: Bonanza: The Movie originally went out as Bonanza: The Next Generation. That title accurately reflected the film's content: death and previous commitments prevented the cast of the original Bonanza TV series of 1959-1973, thus the talent roster of The Next Generation was brand-new. John Ireland Read More

Megaforce

Actors: Barry Bostwick, Persis Khambatta, Michael Beck, Edward Mulhare, George Furth

Synopsis: A crack military team led by pilot Ace Hunter (Barry Bostwick) is called in to save democracy in a small nation threatened by tyranny. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Separate Ways

Actors: Karen Black, Tony Lo Bianco, Arlene Golonka, David Naughton, Sharon Farrell

Synopsis: In this standard romantic drama slated for TV movie channels, Valentine (Karen Black) is dissatisfied in her marriage to a racecar driver (Tony Lo Bianco) and begins a romantic liaison with a student at the community college she attends. Her husband has also been unfaithful, and his indiscretions Read More

Disaster on the Coastliner

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

Donner Pass: The Road to Survival

Synopsis: This made-for-TV movie relates the true story of the infamous Donner Party, the group of unlucky pioneers who were stranded in the Rockies by a snowstorm and had to eat the bodies of the dead to survive. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Greatest Rescues of Emergency!

Synopsis: It will be recalled that the Jack Webb-produced TV series Emergency! was originally networkcast from 1972 and 1977. Viewers may also remember that the series was headquartered at LA Ramparts hospital, where doctor Robert Fuller dispatched paramedics DeSoto (Kevin Tighe) and Gage (Randolph Read More

Mustang Country

Actors: Joel McCrea, Robert Fuller, Patrick Wayne, Nika Mina

Synopsis: After 14 years' retirement, Joel McCrea chose to appear in Mustang Country. Looking extremely robust, the septuagenarian McCrea plays Dan, a Montana rancher, vintage 1925, who is in pursuit of a wild mustang. He is joined in his quest by teenaged Native American lad Nika Mina. The magnificent Read More

Adam-12: Lost and Found

Synopsis: In this crossover episode with Adam-12's "sister" series Emergency!, mobile officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) join forces with doctors of Rampart Hospital and the paramedics of Emergency Squad 51. Their most urgent assignment consists of locating two runaways: a Read More

The Gatling Gun

Actors: John Carradine, Guy Stockwell, Woody Strode, Patrick Wayne

Synopsis: This Western presents a fictionalized account of the ways in which the Gatling gun was created. Also chronicled are its tremendous effects on the great frontier. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Emergency!

Actors: Robert Fuller, Julie London, Randolph Mantooth, Kevin Tighe, Bobby Troup

Synopsis: First telecast January 15, 1972, Emergency is of course the 2-hour pilot episode for the weekly series of the same name. Robert Fuller heads the cast as Dr. Kelly Brackett, head of the staff of LA's Ramparts General Hospital. Brackett oversees the activities of Paramedics Squad 51 of the Los Read More

The Hard Ride

Actors: Larry Eisley, Phyllis Selznick, Alfonso Williams

Synopsis: In this drama, a former sergeant accompanies his deceased friend, a black man, home from Vietnam. There he tries to persuade the deceased's white girlfriend and the Indian leader of his motorcycle gang to come to the funeral. The ex-sarge also tries to understand the ins-and-outs of biker life. Read More

Mittsommernacht

Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice?

Actors: Geraldine Page, Ruth Gordon, Rosemary Forsyth, Robert Fuller, Mildred Dunnock

Synopsis: Mrs. Marrable (Geraldine Page) is a bereaved widow who takes to hiring housekeepers then kills them for their money in this shadowy macabre drama. When Miss Tinsley (Mildred Dunnick) disappears, her former employer Alice (Ruth Gordon) investigates. Posing as a maid, she gains employment with the Read More

Sinai Commandos: The Story of the Six Day War

Actors: Robert Fuller, John Hudson, Eli Sinai

Synopsis: Captain Uri Litman (Robert Fuller) must lead a small group of soldiers in a vital mission to destroy a key Arab radar station during the Six-Day War. A woman transports the special troops by boat before sinking the vessel so it won't fall into the hands of the enemy. Actual black-and-white footage Read More

Return of the Magnificent Seven

Actors: Yul Brynner, Robert Fuller, Julián Mateos, Warren Oates, Jordan Christopher, Claude Akins

Synopsis: The first of two sequels to The Magnificent Seven (1960), this bloody western featured only Yul Brynner from the original picture's all-star cast. Once again, the residents of a pastoral Mexican village become enslaved by a maniacal brute, this time the insane rancher Lorca (Emilio Fernandez), who Read More

Incident at Phantom Hill

Actors: Robert Fuller, Jocelyn Lane, Dan Duryea, Tom Simcox, Linden Chiles

Synopsis: In this western, set at the end of the Civil War, a group of rebels steal a million bucks from a Union shipment, and stash the gold in a cave near Phantom Hill, Texas. They are subsequently captured. The ring leader bargains with his captors offering to reveal the loot's location in exchange for Read More

Teenage Thunder

Actors: Chuck Courtney, Robert Fuller, Tyler McVey, Paul Bryar

Synopsis: Howco Productions, purveyors of many a drive-in "classic" of the 1950s, was responsible for Teenage Thunder. Charles Courtney (usually billed as "Chuck" in his supporting-player appearances) stars as a young gas station attendant with a fondness for hot rods. Despite objections from his father Read More

The Brain from Planet Arous

Actors: John Agar, Joyce Meadows, Robert Fuller, Henry Travis

Synopsis: The plot of The Brain from Planet Arous has something to do with a huge floating brain which takes over the body of nuclear scientist Steve March (John Agar) as the first step in its takeover of the earth. Tipping off the fact that March is not himself are his strange eyeballs and his rather Read More

Above and Beyond

Actors: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, James Whitmore, Larry Keating, Larry Gates

Synopsis: Above and Beyond is the story of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, as told from the perspective of the man who flew the mission. Robert Taylor stars as Col. Paul Tibbetts, commander of the Enola Gay. Once selected for this extremely dangerous mission, Tibbetts must hand-pick a crew worthy of the Read More