Robert Ginty Filmography

Charmed: The Wedding From Hell

Crew: Director

Actors: Sara Rose Peterson, Barbara Stock, Deenie Dakota, Neil Roberts, Christie Lynn Smith

Synopsis: Sara Rose Peterson guest stars as the sinister Jade D'Mon, who turns out to be the earthly incarnation of the demon goddess Hecate. At the moment, "Jade" is trying to conceive a demon child, and to that end has stolen the boyfriend (Todd Cattell) of an innocent young girl (Christie Lynn Smith). Read More

Here Come the Munsters

Crew: Director

Actors: Edward Herrmann, Veronica Hamel, Robert Morse

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV comedy adapted from the once-popular TV series The Munsters, Herman Munster (Edward Herrmann) and his wife Lily (Veronica Hamel) learn that they are no longer welcome in Transylvania, so they relocate to California with their children Eddie (Matthew Botuchis) and Marilyn Read More

Day of Reckoning

Crew: Screenwriter

Woman of Desire

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this erotic thriller, a luckless yacht captain is accused of tossing the millionaire boat owner into the briny and then raping the drowned owner's luscious young girl friend. The millionaire's twin brother is the one calling it murder. Fortunately a feisty old lawyer abandons retirement to Read More

Lady Dragon

Actors: Cynthia Rothrock, Richard Norton

Synopsis: Martial arts expert Cynthia Rothrock stars as a widow who learns karate in order to gain revenge on the crime boss (Richard Norton) who killed her husband. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man

Actors: Mickey Rourke, Don Johnson, Chelsea Field, Daniel Baldwin, Tom Sizemore

Synopsis: Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson star in this buddy-buddy futuristic action movie. Rourke is Harley Davidson, a biker with the Halloween-costume garb of a leather jacket, short haircut, earring, and a scar. Johnson joins Rourke in the trick-or-treating as Marlboro, an ex-rodeo rider wearing a cowboy Read More

Lonely Hearts

Actors: Beverly D'Angelo, Eric Roberts, Joanna Cassidy, Herta Ware

Synopsis: Lonely Hearts is a modern film noir in which a lonely woman meets and falls for a man whom she refuses to let go. Alma (Beverly D'Angelo) is a wallflower who lives with her mother and works at a Social Security office. In her desperation to make some sort of social life for herself, she answers a Read More

The Great Los Angeles Earthquake

Synopsis: The superb, utterly convincing special effects in the two-part TV movie The Big One: The Great Los Angeles Earthquake cannot be faulted. Less convincing are the scenes in which the fictional TV reporters, demoralized and in tears, can't bring themselves to describe the extent of the destruction. Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Moving Violation

Synopsis: The focus in this episode is on Mort Metzger (Ron Masak), sheriff of Cabot Cove, Maine, and a close personal friend of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury). When Metzger jails a young man named Bradley (David Lansbury) on a drunk driving charge, he refuses to drop the matter despite the power and Read More

Vietnam, Texas

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Ginty, Dr. Haing S. Ngor, Tim Thomerson, Kieu Chinh, Tamlyn Tomita

Synopsis: From a script by Tom Badal and C. Courtney Joyner comes this film about a man whose wartime experiences continue to affect his life back in the U.S. Robert Ginty, a veteran low-budget actor who specializes in portraying drifters and loners, directs himself as Thomas McCain, an American GI who Read More

Madhouse

Actors: John Larroquette, Kirstie Alley, Alison La Placa, John Diehl, Jessica Lundy

Synopsis: John Larroquette starred with Kirstie Alley in this comedy involving a couple's troubles with their starter home. An array of obstinate houseguests refuse to leave and provoke the anger of all involved. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Cop Target

Loverboy

Actors: Patrick Dempsey, Kate Jackson, Robert Ginty, Nancy Valen, Barbara Carrera, Kirstie Alley, Carrie Fisher

Synopsis: Joan Micklin Silver's farce stars Patrick Dempsey as a pizza delivery boy who begins satisfying the romantic needs of a group of bored Beverly Hills housewives. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Bounty Hunter

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Ginty, Bo Hopkins, Loeta Waterdown, Melvin Holt

Synopsis: The title is the story so far as Bounty Hunter is concerned. Doubling as star and director, Robert Ginty plays a soldier of fortune who hires on to catch a killer. Ginty is not as mercenary as he seems: the fugitive has murdered his best friend. Bo Hopkins costars as a crooked sheriff who impedes Ginty Read More

Out on Bail

Actors: Robert Ginty, Kathy Shower, Tom Badal, Sidney Lassick

Synopsis: In this drama, the witness to a brutal killing launches a private investigation and discovers a seething hotbed of local corruption. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Codename: Vengeance

Actors: Robert Ginty, Shannon Tweed, Cameron Mitchell, Don Gordon, Kevin Brophy

Synopsis: A former CIA agent (Robert Ginty) is released from prison to track down his terrorist rival (James Ryan), who has kidnapped the family of a Middle Eastern monarch. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Three Kinds of Heat

Actors: Robert Ginty, Victoria Barrett, Shakti, Sylvester McCoy, Barry Foster

Synopsis: A trio of agents are summoned by Interpol to trail the villain Harry Pimm (Sylvester McCoy) in this low-budget spy feature. Elliot Cromwell (Robert Ginty), Sergeant Terry O'Shea (Victoria Barrett), and Major Shan (Shakti) combine forces to track down the international crime boss ~ Dan Pavlides Read More

Programmed to Kill

Actors: Robert Ginty, Sandahl Bergman, James Booth, Alex Courtney, Paul Walker

Synopsis: The corpse of a beautiful Middle Eastern terrorist is outfitted with a special computer, programmed to reanimate and to seek and destroy other terrorists. The trouble in this sci-fi actioner begins when something goes wrong and she tries to kill her creators. The film is also known as The Read More

Mission to Kill

Synopsis: Weapons expert Cooper (Robert Ginty) travels to Central America to help deliver arms to a rebel force, but his friend (Cameron Mitchell) is killed by a mercenary force. Cooper takes over command of the rebel army, determined to finish what his friend started. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Mission Kill

Actors: Robert Ginty, Merete Van Kamp, Cameron Mitchell, Sandy Baron

Synopsis: Robert Ginty, star of James Glickenhaus's The Exterminator (1980), returns for a similar outing in the 1985 actioner Mission Kill. He plays Cooper, an explosives expert summoned by a Green Beret friend Harry (Cameron Mitchell), on a mission to smuggle arms into the (fictional) South American Read More

Hawaiian Heat

Synopsis: First telecast September 14, 1984, the weekly TV series Hawaiian Heat starred Robert Ginty and Jeff McCracken as Mac Riley and Andy Senkowski, a pair of Chicago cops forced to leave the City of Big Shoulders when Mac's police-officer father is accused of taking a bribe. Moving to Honolulu, Mac and Read More

Gold Raiders

Synopsis: A plane with a cargo of $200 million in gold is searched for in the Jungle of Laos by a dedicated secret agent team. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Exterminator 2

Actors: Robert Ginty, Mario Van Peebles, Deborah Geffner, Frankie R. Faison, Scott Randolph

Synopsis: This violent follow-up to the sadistic actioner The Exterminator (1980) again features Johnny Eastland (Robert Ginty), a Vietnam vet who is triggered into vengeful killing when his dancer girlfriend (Deborah Geffner) is first badly beaten and permanently crippled and later murdered by a gang of Read More

Warrior of the Lost World

Actors: Robert Ginty, Persis Khambatta, Donald Pleasence, Fred Williamson, Harrison Muller

Synopsis: This sci-fi adventure is set in a distant future wherein the scorched, irradiated Earth is run by the tyrannical Omega Force until a courageous motorcycle-riding maverick shows up to stop him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

I Want to Live

Synopsis: This drama is adapted from the true story of Barbara Graham, a woman sentenced to die in the mid-1950s after she allegedly committed a murder during a robbery. Graham pleaded innocent until the day she died in the San Quentin gas chamber. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Vivre pour Survivre

Actors: Robert Ginty, Fred Williamson, Belinda Mayne, Jess Hahn, Mirella Banti

Synopsis: Although the title is the same, this film is not related to the 1953 White Fire by John Gilling, except for their mutual interest in diamonds. Beau (Robert Ginty) and Ingrid (Belinda Mayne) are siblings who were raised by Sam (Jess Hahn) after they were orphaned while very young. Now all three are Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Give Me Your Weak

Synopsis: In this followup to the Season Six episode "Who Speaks for the Children", Quincy (Jack Klugman) continues his crusade to push forward the stalled "Orphan Drug Act" in congress, creating funding to develop curative drugs for rare diseases. The big problem is money, or lack of it: the major Read More

Scarab

Synopsis: Satanic Nazis gather to perform ancient rites for evil Egyptian gods in hopes of bringing one back from the dead. Actually, the revivified body belongs to a slain Nazi. Unfortunately, the soul is that of the vengeful diety. Terror ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Act

Actors: Robert Ginty, Sarah Langenfeld, John Aprea, John Tripp

Synopsis: John Sebastian's musical score lends an appropriately anachronistic touch to the endearingly outdated The Act. Robert Ginty and Sarah Langenfield are the principal participants in this satiric tale of political dirty trickery, with emphasis on underhanded union tactics. Also on hand are veterans Read More

The Alchemist

Actors: Robert Ginty, Lucinda Dooling, John Sanderford, Viola Kates Stimpson, Robert Glaudini

Synopsis: "B"-movie legend Charles Band cranked out this deadly-dull black magic flick through his then-fledgling Empire Pictures company in 1980, though the film never saw widespread American distribution until its video release five years later. The main character is an ageless glassmaker (Robert Ginty) Read More

The Exterminator

Actors: Christopher George, Samantha Eggar, Robert Ginty, Steve James, Tony di Benedetto

Synopsis: A Vietnam veteran declares a one-man war on crime in this vigilante revenge thriller. Michael Jefferson (Steve James) saved the life of his best friend John Eastland (Robert Ginty) while the two were serving in Vietnam, so when Jefferson is left permanently paralyzed after a vicious attack by Read More

Quincy, M.E.: The Night Killer

Synopsis: When one of the twin babies of Madeline and Bill Estes (Tyne Daly, Robert Ginty) dies under mysterious circumstances, the initial evidence points to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. But thanks to a small but criticial error in the coroner's office, Dr. Bob Gage (Jonathan Segal) suspects thar Madeline Read More

The Courage and the Passion

Synopsis: This film is a failed TV pilot. The action drama chronicles the lives and exploits of Air Force test pilots. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Coming Home

Actors: Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern, Robert Ginty, Penelope Milford

Synopsis: Hal Ashby's 1978 melodrama examines the impact of the Vietnam War on the "war at home" among the men who fought it and the women in their lives. Left alone in Los Angeles when her gung-ho Marine husband Bob (Bruce Dern) heads to Vietnam in 1968, proper wife Sally Hyde (Jane Fonda) decides to Read More

That's Action!

Synopsis: James R. Silke narrates this 1977 compilation of mayhem in the movies. This Rhino Video release features behind-the-scenes looks at how the stunts are done, and clips from 29 classic films that show heroes riding horses, falling off buildings, blowing up tanks, bare-knuckle fighting, and dodging Read More

Two-Minute Warning

Actors: Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, Martin Balsam, Beau Bridges, Marilyn Hassett

Synopsis: Larry Peerce directed this tired disaster movie about a mad sniper loose in a football stadium. At the beginning, the sniper picks off a cyclist for practice and then takes roost in the top tower of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Sent in to stop the terror is Captain Peter Holly (Charlton Heston Read More

The Turning Point of Jim Malloy

Actors: Gig Young

Synopsis: This TV movie was originally aired as John O'Hara's Gibbsville. Based on O'Hara's semi-autobiographical story anthology The Doctor's Son, the film tells the story of Jim Malloy (John Savage) and his youth in his Pennsylvania home town. Aspiring to become a reporter, Malloy goes to work for Read More

The Rockford Files: Caledonia - It's Worth a Fortune!

Synopsis: Jolene Hyland (Shelley Fabares), the wife of prison convict Gerald Hyland (Don Eichner), hires Jim (James Garner) to locate the stolen $500,000 which her husband claims to have hidden somewhere in Caledonia County. Before long, several shady characters are pressuring Jim to be cut in on the hidden Read More

And Baby Makes Three

Synopsis: The 1972 film And Baby Makes Three is completely unrelated to the 1949 comedy of the same title. Instead, it is a drama recounting the story of a couple with a newborn child, who decide to undergo detox so that their child won't have to grow up with junkie parents. Many of the events told in the Read More

The Gold Raiders

Actors: George O'Brien, Moe Howard, Shemp Howard, Larry Fine, Sheila Ryan

Synopsis: Filmed in a record five days, Gold Raiders was an attempt by producer Jack Schwartz to inaugurate a new western series starring old favorite George O'Brien. Adding novelty value to the proceedings are the Three Stooges: Shemp Howard, Larry Howard and Moe Howard. The action is fairly divided Read More