Robert Halmi, Jr. Filmography

Final Approach

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Dean Cain, Anthony Michael Hall, William Forsythe, Ernie Hudson, Sunny Mabrey

Synopsis: Dean Cain and Anthony Michael Hall go toe-to-toe at 30,000 feet in this action-packed mini-series that finds a radical terrorist poised to take down domestic flight or die trying. FBI hostage rescue specialist Jack Bender (Cain) is traveling across the country on a domestic flight when the members Read More

The Hive

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Tom Wopat, Kal Weber, Elizabeth Healey, Jessica Reavis, Mark Ramsay

Synopsis: A young scientist and his resourceful band of entomologists feel the fury of Mother Nature firsthand after being summoned to the jungles of Brazil to defeat an army of ants and realizing that these particular insects possess unusual strength and intelligence. The Brazilian jungle is teeming with Read More

The Pledge

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Luke Perry, C. Thomas Howell, Kim Coates

Synopsis: A vengeful sheriff sets out to capture the escaped convict who murdered his wife and son in this gunpowder stained western starring Luke Perry and C. Thomas Howell. When his family was killed, Sheriff Matt Austin swore that he would take violent revenge on the man responsible for that woeful Read More

Finish Line

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Samuel Page, Scott Baio, Taylor Cole

Synopsis: A desperate stock car racer enters into a dangerous deal with a shady importer in this thriller starring Scott Baio and Samuel Page. Stock car racer Mitch Camponella (Page) has just driven himself into financial destitution. Now, in order to make some fast cash, Mitch strikes up a partnership with Read More

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Dougray Scott, Krista Bridges, Tom Skerritt, Danette MacKay, Cas Anvar, Ellen David

Synopsis: Dougray Scott essays the role of author Robert Louis Stevenson's maniacal medico in director Paolo Barzman's retelling of the classic gothic tale. A highly regarded physician who dedicates all of this spare time to unlocking the secrets of a rare Amazonian flower, Dr. Henry Jekyll (Scott) is about Read More

Prairie Fever

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Kevin Sorbo

Synopsis: A drunken gunfighter, a female outlaw, and three deeply disturbed women discover just what it takes to survive in the wild west when they're targeted by a relentless killer and a jealous husband in this western adventure starring Kevin Sorbo, Lance Henriksen, and Dominique Swain. Preston Biggs Read More

Shark Swarm

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: John Schneider, Daryl Hannah, Armand Assante, F. Murray Abraham, Roark Critchlow

Synopsis: Tourist season sets the stage for terror when a greedy developer attempts to transform a quiet California fishing town into a gaudy tourist trap, and a swarm of man-eating Great Whites begin devouring anyone who dares venture into the once-peaceful waters. Decades of dumping has turned the Pacific Read More

Aces N' Eights

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Casper Van Dien, Bruce Boxleitner, Ernest Borgnine

Synopsis: Casper Van Dien, Bruce Boxleitner and Oscar winner Ernest Borgnine star in this action-packed western about a town of old west settlers beset by a ruthless group of trigger-happy gunmen. They knew they were taking a risk by settling in uncharted territory, but the land was bountiful and the future Read More

Vipers

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Tara Reid, Jonathan Scarfe, Genevieve Buechner, Aaron Pearl, Claire Rankin

Synopsis: When a mishap at a remote medical research laboratory unleashes a mass of genetically enhanced vipers on a nearby seaside community, the only hope for survival is to make it to the shore before the snakes and hope for the best. It was supposed to be a secure facility, but when thieves broke in to Read More

Kung Fu Killer

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Lim Kay Tong, Osric Chau, Jimmy Taenaka

Synopsis: Kill Bill stars David Carradine and Daryl Hannah reunite for this two-part television mini-series set in late 1920s China, and following a Wudang monk and a vengeful lounge singer on their violent quest to assassinate the man responsible for killing their loved ones and destroying their lives. The Read More

Lone Rider

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Lou Diamond Phillips, Vincent Spano, Samuel Bottoms

Synopsis: An honored soldier returns home attempting to pick up his life where he left off before the war, only to find that his oldest friend is his newest enemy in this western starring Lou Diamond Phillips. Bobby Hathaway (Phillips) served his country with pride; now all he wants is to rest easy while Read More

Love's Unending Legacy

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Erin Cottrell, Dale Midkiff, Victor Browne, Samantha Smith, Holliston Coleman

Synopsis: It's been two years since Missie's husband Willie died in a tragic accident, and now after returning to her father's Tettsford Junction ranch the girl who once lost all faith will find new cause to live after adopting a desperate teenage orphan. Compelled to defend her adopted daughter's orphaned Read More

Tin Man

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Zooey Deschanel, Neal McDonough, Alan Cumming, Raoul Trujillo, Kathleen Robertson, Richard Dreyfuss, Anna Galvin

Synopsis: Produced for the Sci-Fi Channel, this twisted variation on L. Frank Baum's classic tale follows a young girl named D.G. and her newfound friends as they embark on a wondrous adventure through the Outer Zone (O.Z.) on a mission to locate a powerful wizard known as the Mystic Man, and break the Read More

A Grandpa for Christmas

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Juliette Goglia, Jamie Farr, Katherine Helmond

Synopsis: A retired showman and twenty-five year divorcee connects with the granddaughter he never knew in this warmhearted holiday film starring Earnest Borgnine, Katherine Helmond, Tracy Nelson, and Jamie Farr. Ever since his divorce twenty-five years ago, eighty year old bachelor Bert O'Riley (Borgnine) Read More

Avenging Angel

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Cynthia M. Watros, Nick Chinlund

Synopsis: A man of the cloth takes up arms to avenge the violent murder of his wife and child in this made for television western starring Kevin Sorbo, Wings Hauser, and Cynthia Watros. Preacher (Sorbo) has just watched helplessly as his wife and child are brutally gunned down by ruthless land baron Colonel Read More

Pandemic

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, French Stewart, Faye Dunaway, Vincent Spano, Eric Roberts

Synopsis: Armand Mastroianni, the gifted director of the legendary 1980 horror sleeper He Knows You're Alone, returns to helm the three-hour, all-star medical miniseries Pandemic. The program explores the lethal consequences that can unfurl when a deadly plague, with an unknown cure and an even more Read More

Son of the Dragon

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: John Reardon, David Carradine, Desiree Siahaan, Rupert Graves

Synopsis: A small time con artist and his loyal companion must fight to prove their innocent when they are accused of attempting to poison a princess in this adventure mini-series directed by David Wu (The Bride with White Hair) and starring David Carradine. D.B. (John Reardon) was abandoned at birth on the Read More

Something Beneath

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Peter MacNeill, Natalie Brown, Brendan Beiser, Frank Adamson

Synopsis: The attendees at an ecological conference have been noticing some disturbing changes in the local environment, and now in order to prevent an unprecedented catastrophe from spreading to the outside world, the event coordinator and a fearless priest will team to fight a powerful creature that could Read More

Marco Polo

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ian Somerhalder, Brian Dennehy, Desiree Siahaan, B.D. Wong, Luo Yan, Lim Kay Tong

Synopsis: A journey that starts as a die-hard mission to net Christian converts soon evolves into the adventure of a lifetime, in the sweeping historical epic Marco Polo. It is the 13th century. Polo (Ian Somerhalder), a Venetian trader, sets out to both prove the existence of China to European priests, and Read More

Sharpshooter

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: James Remar, Mario Van Peebles, Bruce Boxleitner

Synopsis: James Remar and Melvin Van Peebles headline this relentlessly tense tale of a special ops sniper who reluctantly accepts one final mission before disappearing into retirement. Dillon (Remar) is a special ops sharpshooter extraordinaire - the kind of triggerman who could take out a Tic Tac at Read More

The Sitter

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gail O'Grady, William R. Moses, Stacy Haiduk

Synopsis: Resident Evil: Extinction director Russell Mulcahy takes the helm for this tense domestic thriller concerning a young couple who believe they have found the perfect live-in nanny, but discover just how wring they are when she begins to methodically destroy their picture perfect suburban lives. Read More

All I Want for Christmas

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gail O'Grady, Greg Germann, Robert Mailhouse, Jimmy "Jax" Pinchak

Synopsis: It's Christmastime, and all young Jesse wants this year is a new father. But while Jesse's mother Sarah knows the importance of having a male role model for her son to look up to, she just can't seem to muster the motivation to start dating again. Reluctantly agreeing to go on a series of dates as Read More

Grizzly Rage

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Tyler Hoechlin, Graham Kosakoski, Brody Harms, Kate Todd

Synopsis: A group of joyriding high school students inadvertently incur the wrath of mother nature when they run over a bear cub in their car and mama grizzly comes seeking flesh-ripping revenge. Now, as night falls over the forest and the frightened teens scramble for safety, the enraged mother bear comes Read More

A Stranger's Heart

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Samantha Mathis, Peter Dobson, Mary Matilyn Mouser, Kevin Kilner, Gina Hecht, Thomas Kopache

Synopsis: Suddenly diagnosed with a potentially terminal illness, a woman facing the darkest days of her life discovers lightness and hope in the last place she ever expected. Samantha Mathis, Peter Dobson, and Mary Matilyn Mouser star in a romantic drama that highlights how sometimes that once in a Read More

Crash and Burn

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Erik Palladino, Michael Madsen, David Moscow, Peter Jason, David Groh

Synopsis: Michael Madsen, Erik Palladino, and David Moscow star in director Russell Mulcahy's action thriller about an undercover FBI agent on a mission to infiltrate the treacherous world of "choppers." Special Agent Kevin Hawkins (Palladino) knows that the stakes are high when he ventures into the world Read More

Love's Unfolding Dream

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Erin Cottrell, Dale Midkiff, Victor Browne, Samantha Smith, Scout Taylor-Compton

Synopsis: An eighteen year old aspiring doctor finds her life suddenly pulled in two opposing directions in this period romantic drama starring Erin Cottrell and Scout Taylor-Compton. Eighteen year old Belinda Tyler (Taylor-Compton) lives in the quiet western town of Anderson Corner. As the turn of the 20th Read More

Love's Abiding Joy

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Erin Cottrell, Logan Bartholomew, John Laughlin, Dale Midkiff, Drew Tyler Bell

Synopsis: Acclaimed author Janette Oke's bestselling series of books comes to life on the screen once again in this, the fourth feature following the continued Westward journey of settlers Missie and Willie Lahaye. Their roots now firmly planted as they set up homestead in the far West, Missie (Erin Read More

Final Days of Planet Earth

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Daryl Hannah, Gil Bellows, Campbell Scott

Synopsis: Daryl Hannah, Campbell Scott, and Gil Bellows star in an end-of-days sci-fi thriller about a rogue archeologist who stumbles onto a terrifying alien conspiracy. Lloyd Walker scours the globe in search of answers to mankind's greatest mysterious, and what he's about to discover with forever change Read More

Merlin's Apprentice: The Search for the Holy Grail

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Sam Neill, Miranda Richardson, John Reardon, Christopher Jacot, Andrew Jackson

Synopsis: Directed, acted, and produced in the same mold -- and on the same level -- as its many other family friendly, critically-acclaimed television specials, Hallmark Entertainment presents Merlin's Apprentice: Search for the Holy Grail. Starring screen legend Sam Neill (Dead Calm, A Cry in the Dark) in Read More

Though None Go with Me

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Amy Grabow, Christopher Allport, Cheryl Ladd

Synopsis: On the day of her granddaughter's departure to California -- in the company of her rock musician boyfriend -- Elizabeth Leroy Bishop (Cheryl Ladd) tries to tell her the story of how she came to spend her life in the town of Three Rivers, and the rewards she has received from that life. We flash Read More

Hidden Places

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Sydney Penny, Jason Gedrick, Shirley Jones, Tom Bosley

Synopsis: Robert Tate Miller adapts Lynn Austin's best-selling, Christy Award-winning 2001 novel for the screen in the family-friendly drama Hidden Places. Sydney Penny (All My Children) stars as Eliza Wyatt, a Christian widow and mother of two grappling with a loss of faith, and forced to pull in the Read More

The Ten Commandments

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Naveen Andrews, Omar Sharif, Linus Roache, Padma Lakshmi, Dougray Scott, Mía Maestro

Synopsis: Dougray Scott, Linus Roache, Omar Sharif, and Naveen Andrews headline this epic mini-series from director Robert Dornhelm, and following the Prince of Egypt as he discovers his true identity and sets out on a mission from God. An oracle has prophesized that a child will grow up to become the Read More

What I Did for Love

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jeremy London, Dorie Barton, James Gammon, Sally Struthers

Synopsis: A Los Angeles defense attorney discovers that in order to marry the love of his life, he'll first have to convince her rugged father that all lawyers aren't sharks. James White (Jeremy London) is a successful young lawyer who will soon be happily married if all goes as planned. Deeply in love with Read More

Falling in Love With the Girl Next Door

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Reunited as adults, childhood friends Mark Lucas (Bridget Brannagh and Theresa Connolly (Crystal Allen) fall in love and decide to get married. The wedding plans are okay so far as Mark and Theresa's golfing-buddy dads are concerned. Alas, the couple's mothers constitute a different story: Betsy Read More

Murder 101

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Dick Van Dyke draws heavily from both his classic 1960s sitcom and his later detective-series vehicle Diagnosis Murder as star of the made-for-cable whodunit Murder 101. Van Dyke is cast as Dr. Jonathan Maxwell, a retired detective who teaches a course on criminology in a small-town college. Read More

Eye of the Beast

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: James Van Der Beek, Alexandra Castillo, Ryan Black, Arne MacPherson

Synopsis: Fear rises from the depths when a government scientist travels to a remote fishing village in order to investigate rumors of a massive underwater beast with a frightful taste for human flesh. Panic has spread through the fishing village where locals have lived off of the sea's bounty for Read More

Terry Pratchett's Hogfather

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: David Jason, David Warner, Ian Richardson, Joss Ackland, Marc Warren, Michelle Dockery

Synopsis: From the mind of bestselling author Terry Pratchet comes this off-the-wall holiday film. In the parallel universe of Discworld, they don't celebrate Christmas. Instead, children look forward to December 32nd, also known as Hogswatchnight, when they'll receive gifts, not from Santa Claus, but from Read More

In the Spider's Web

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Lance Henriksen

Synopsis: In this creepy-crawly entry into the "Maneater Series," a venomous spider that's worshipped as a god by the local tribes bites a backpacker making her way through the jungles of India. On the last night of an extended tour through India, six hikers go to sleep thinking that tomorrow they will Read More

Blood Monkey

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: F. Murray Abraham, Matt Reeves, Sebastian Armesto, Matthew Ryan

Synopsis: Six American graduate students studying apes in the African jungle discover a new species of killer chimpanzees that could prove to be the most formidable threat ever known to humankind. Upon first spotting this bizarre new breed, Greg, Dani, Amy, Josh, Sydney, and Seth were all assured by their Read More

Croc

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Michael Madsen, Peter Tuinstra, Sherry Phungprasert, Elizabeth Healey, Scott Hazell

Synopsis: An enormous crocodile terrorizes a Thai beach resort in this tale of terror in the water starring Michael Madsen. As the local begin to mysteriously disappear and various appendages are found floating in the swamps, the locals offer $5000 to anyone able to capture the beast responsible for all the Read More

Maneater

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Gary Busey, Ian D. Clark, Ty Wood, Marina Stephenson-Kerr, Diana Reis

Synopsis: When a hungry tiger begins terrorizing a peaceful small town, it's up to the fearless sheriff (Gary Busey) to take the ravenous predator down in this made for television thriller that brings the terror of Jaws out of the ocean and onto dry land. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Supernova

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: In the tradition of The Day After Tomorrow, Deep Impact, and Armageddon, Peter Fonda, Tia Carrere, Luke Perry, and Emma Samms star in Supernova, a three-and-a-half hour miniseries originally created and produced for The Hallmark Channel. In this special effects-laden sci-fi actioner, Fonda plays a Read More

Mysterious Island

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Kyle MacLachlan, Gabrielle Anwar, Vinnie Jones, Omar Gooding, Patrick Stewart

Synopsis: Five prisoners of war escape captivity in a Confederate prison camp only to land in an uncharted Pacific island where time stands still and dastardly pirates don't take kindly to strangers in director Russell Mulcahy's screen adaptation of fantasy author Jules Verne's literary classic. They Read More

The Poseidon Adventure

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: A luxury liner has capsized in the middle of the ocean, and it's up to the few remaining survivors to navigate through the treacherous, upside-down maze of terror and make their way to safety in the made-for-television remake of the 1972 disaster film. A terrorist has boarded the luxury liner Read More

Ordinary Miracles

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Jaclyn Smith, Lyndsy Fonseca, Corbin Bernsen, C. Thomas Howell, Sarah Aldrich

Synopsis: A belief in "angels on earth," not to mention a belief in oneself, may enhance the enjoyment of this made-for-cable drama. Jaclyn Smith stars as Kay Woodbury, a tough, no-nonsense judge whose intractability in legal matters is intensified by a number of personal crises, including a bitter feud Read More

Fielder's Choice

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Chad Lowe, K'Sun Ray, Marin Hinkle, Bodhi Elfman, George Segal

Synopsis: Ambitious young advertising man Phillip Fielder (Chad Lowe) has no time for relationships, and seems to have affection only for his creature comforts -- a source of great dismay for his erstwhile girlfriend, Holly Ford (Marin Hinkle). When his orphaned nephew, an autistic eight-year-old named Read More

Love's Long Journey

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Erin Cottrell, Logan Bartholomew

Synopsis: The third chapter from popular novelist Janette Oke's Love Comes Softly series of books arrives on the screen in a wondrous tale of new frontiers starring Erin Cottrell and Logan Bartholomew. Missie (Cottrell) is pregnant, and it's time that her and husband Willie (Bartholomew) strike out on their Read More

Frederick Forsyth's Icon

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Patrick Swayze, Ben Cross, Annika Peterson, Patrick Bergin, Niko Nicotera, Jeff Fahey

Synopsis: In this two-part cable miniseries based on a novel by Frederick Forsyth (hence the proprietary title), a post-Communist Russia is mired in chaos and confusion. Emerging from the crowd to lead his fellow Russians out of the darkness and into the light is the fabulously popular presidential Read More

Hercules

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Paul Telfer, Leelee Sobieski, Sean Astin, Elizabeth Perkins, Timothy Dalton

Synopsis: Advertised as telling the tale of "The Man Behind the Myth," the expensive-looking but economically produced NBC miniseries Hercules stars Paul Telfer as the musclebound protagonist. The issue of a romantic fling between Alcmene (Elizabeth Perkins), the Princess of Thebes, and God of the Read More

Out of the Woods

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ed Asner, Jason London, Missy Crider, Mel Harris

Synopsis: Young, self-absorbed attorney Matt Fleming (Jason London) is sent out of the city and into the woods by his mother, who is worried over the welfare of Matt's crusty, eccentric nature-loving grandfather Jack (Ed Asner). Not surprisingly, Matt is in for quite a culture shock. Not only does Jack do Read More

McBride: The Chameleon Murder

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: This Hallmark Channel TV movie is one of a series starring John Larroquette as McBride (no first name), a hard-nosed cop turned compassionate defense lawyer, specializing in "lost causes." McBride's client this time is a hitchhiker named Dudley Banks (Devon Gummesall), who had the rotten luck to Read More

McBride: It's Murder, Madam

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: This Hallmark Channel TV movie is one of a series starring John Larroquette as McBride (no first name), a hard-nosed cop turned compassionate defense lawyer, specializing in "lost causes." A brutal murder has been committed, and the victim is prominent Beverly Hills madam Heather Bradley. The most Read More

Mystery Woman: Snapshot

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: This Hallmark Channel TV movie is one of several starring Kellie Martin as Samantha "Sam" Kinsey, the owner of a British-style American bookshop which traffics in mystery novels. The game is afoot when Sam's friend Barbara Sommers (Patricia McCormack, a dyed-in-the-wool conspiracy buff, suspects Read More

Jane Doe: The Harder They Fall

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Lea Thompson is both star and director of this made-for-cable movie, another entry in the Hallmark Channel's series about a suburban housewife who leads a double life as a government agent. Not long after he is fired from the staff of a billionaire cereal-company mogul, former Central Security Read More

Meet the Santas

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: In this sequel to the extraordinarily popular 2004 cable movie Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus, Steve Guttenberg returns in the role of Nick, son of the soon-to-be retired Santa Claus (John Wheeler) and heir to the North Pole toyshop. Likewise, Crystal Bernard repeats her characterization of Beth Read More

Mystery Woman: Game Time

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: This Hallmark Channel TV movie is one of several starring Kellie Martin as Samantha "Sam" Kinsey, the owner of a British-style American bookshop which traffics in mystery novels. This time out, Sam scores a coup when she manages to get reclusive mystery writer Donald Fiske (William Katt) to make a Read More

Mystery Woman: Vision of Murder

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: This Hallmark Channel TV movie is one of several starring Kellie Martin as Samantha "Sam" Kinsey, the owner of a British-style American bookshop which specializes in mystery novels. As is her habit, Sam ends up playing amateur detective herself, this time at a fancy health spa called Drummonds. Read More

McBride: Tune in for Murder

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: This Hallmark Channel TV movie is one of a series starring John Larroquette as McBride (no first name), a hard-nosed cop turned compassionate defense lawyer, specializing in "lost causes." On this occasion, McBride's client is one-half of a popular FM radio "shock jock" team, accused of murdering Read More

Family Plan

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Tori Spelling, Greg Germann, Jordan Bridges, Abigail Breslin

Synopsis: The made-for-cable The Family Plan will probably seem a breath of fresh air to anyone who hasn't seen such movies as Picture Perfect and Good Neighbor Sam, or who can't remember the mid-1960s TV sitcom Occasional Wife. A longtime employee at Sugar Dot Bakeries, Ms. Charlie McKenzie (Tori Spelling) Read More

The Reading Room

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: James Earl Jones, Georg Stanford Brown, Douglas Spain, Tim Reid, Joanna Cassidy, Monique Coleman, George Stanford Brown

Synopsis: After the death of his beloved wife, Helen (Lynne Moody), wealthy African-American suburbanite William Campbell (James Earl Jones) finds that Helen has left behind a "living will" in the form of a videotape. As William watches the video, his late wife urges him to take his huge personal library Read More

Back to You and Me

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: After too many years away, brittle big-city doctor Sydney Ludwick (Lisa Hartman Black) returns to her home town of Bloomfield for a high school reunion. She is mildly surprised to find out that her widowed mother Helen (Rue McLanahan), with whom she hasn't communicated since the death of her dad Read More