Robert Houston Filmography

Occupation:: Actor, Director, Executive Producer, Cinematographer, Screenwriter, Book Author

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Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks

Crew: Director

2002
Rock the Boat

Crew: Director

Actors: Bill Sage, Paul Calderon

Synopsis: While it takes strength and determination to compete in the TransPacific Yacht Race, a 2,200 mile voyage from California to Hawaii, Rock the Boat records the journey of one crew in this race who display a different kind of bravery -- all 10 men on board are HIV-positive, and are battling not only Read More

3/5/99
The Human Race

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Sound/Sound Designer

Synopsis: Bobby Houston directed this 87-minute documentary about HIV-positive men competing in the 2200-mile TransPacific Yacht Race. After sailor-athlete Robert Hudson, diagnosed as HIV-positive in 1991, was joined by racing veteran John Plander, the duo moved on to fundraising (a necessary $100,000) Read More

1998
Caged Fear

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Because of her thieving new husband, a young woman is thrown into jail where she is harassed by fellow prisoners and by the warden. Before long, hubby gets a chance to take on the identity of a guard so he can help her escape. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

1992
Hotel Oklahoma

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: David Keith, Deborah May, Ray Sharkey, Karen Black

Synopsis: Certain fans of cheesy women-in-prison movies may be somewhat disappointed in this feature, as there is no nudity throughout the picture. In this story, Kristen Bell (Kristen Cloke) has taken the rap for her boyfriend's theft of an expensive ring and has been sentenced to prison. She finds herself Read More

1991
Trust Me

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Adam Ant, David Packer, Talia Balsam, William de Acutis, Joyce Van Patten

Synopsis: Rock star Adam Ant tops the cast in Trust Me. The premise is as old as dirt, maybe older: art dealer Ant decides that his paintings would be far more valuable if the artists were dead. Now comes the twist: Ant fully intends to make certain that his artists are dead. In particular danger is Ant's Read More

11/10/89
A Killing Affair

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Peter Weller, Kathy Baker, John Glover, Bill Smitrovich

Synopsis: When reviled labor boss Pink Gresham (Bill Smitrovich) is found murdered, his wife Maggie (Kathy Baker) is visited by Baston Morris (Peter Weller). Morris claims to have killed Pink before leaving his lifeless corpse symbolically in an outhouse. Instead of leaving, Morris moves in on the backwoods Read More

7/15/88
Bad Manners

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Martin Mull, Karen Black, Anne de Salvo, Murphy Dunne, Georg Olden

Synopsis: Everyone is a stereotypical extreme in this sometimes mean-spirited black comedy about the vicious staff at an orphanage, the garrulous punk kids who live there, and the pretentious overblown rich couple who adopt one of the orphans -- this is not a happy world. In the Bleeding Heart Orphanage Read More

1984
The Hills Have Eyes, Part 2

Actors: Michael Berryman, Tamara Stafford, Kevin Spirtas, John Bloom, Janus Blythe

Synopsis: This atrocious sequel to the 1977 horror classic is padded with so much of that film's footage that it seems more like a rerun than a new story. The entire cast seems to have lengthy flashbacks of the previous movie's events, including -- in what must be a cinematic first -- the German shepherd Read More

1984
Mad Mission

Actors: Sam Hui, Carl Mak, Sylvia Chang

Synopsis: A hugely successful crime-comedy from Cinema City and director Eric Tsang, Aces Go Places set records at the box office and made a star of Sam Hui. Hui plays King Kong, a clever thief who steals a cache of diamonds from some gangsters, framing another thief called White Glove for the crime. That's Read More

1982
Shogun Assassin

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Tomisaburo Wakayama, Masahiro Tomikawa, Kayo Matsuo

Synopsis: More a "greatest hits" movie than an actual stand-alone film of its own, Shogun Assassin is the delirious hybrid of two episodes of the popular Baby Cart series dubbed into English and fused together into a hyper-violent bloodbath ballet that's sure to entertain the samurai-film enthusiast with a Read More

1980
The Hills Have Eyes

Actors: Susan Lanier, Robert Houston, Virginia Vincent, Russ Grieve, Dee Wallace

Synopsis: Horror auteur Wes Craven followed his threadbare but horrifically compelling cult classic Last House on the Left with this wonderfully demented morality fable about a bloody war of attrition between two extremely different families. The story opens on the journey of the Carters, a mildly Read More

1977
You Are My World: Live Worship

Crew: Executive Producer