Robert Jessup Filmography

License to Kill

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: James Farentino, Penny Fuller, Millie Perkins, Don Murray

Synopsis: License to Kill is a serious TV movie dealing with the subject of drunken driving. The film begins when a popular high school girl is killed in a head-on collision by inebriated-businessman Don Murray. Though he's had a drinking problem for some time, Murray has dismissed it as a byproduct of the Read More

Longarm

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: A showdown is staged between a U.S. deputy marshal and the outlaw gang that raised him in the New Mexico Territory of 1887. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Desperado

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Alex McArthur, Robert Vaughn

Synopsis: Desperado was the first of several made-for-TV movies revolving around the exploits of itinerant cowboy Duell McCall (Alex McArthur). This time around, McCall finds himself in the middle of a deadly feud in a small mining town. As the only honest man in the territory (comparatively speaking), our Read More

Sin of Innocence

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Megan Follows, Bill Bixby

Synopsis: While we're tempted to label the TV-movie Sin of Innocence as Brady Bunch: The Lost Episode, the film transcends all kidding with its intelligent, tasteful approach to its story material. Dermot Mulroney plays a teenager whose widowed father (Bill Bixby) marries a divorcee (Dee Wallace Read More

Target

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Gene Hackman, Matt Dillon, Gayle Hunnicutt, Victoria Fyodorova, Josef Sommer

Synopsis: Arthur Penn takes a crack at subverting the espionage film genre in Target. Walter Lloyd (Gene Hackman) is a quiet and unassuming lumberyard owner in Dallas, Texas. Chris (Matt Dillon) has dropped out of college to pursue a career as a race car driver. But all mundane tasks come to an end when Read More

Poison Ivy

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: This lively made-for-television comedy is set at a summer camp and chronicles the romantic misadventures of the staff. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Stormin' Home

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: In this drama, a divorced and irresponsible motocross racer grows up as he prepares to run the Big Race. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: The story of Olympic downhill racer Bill Johnson is related in this made-for-TV biopic. Future ER star Anthony Edwards plays Johnson, who while growing up in Oregon was known far and wide for his capacity as a troublemaker. After several brushes with the law (one landing him behind bars), Johnson Read More

Porky's Revenge

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Dan Monahan, Wyatt Knight, Tony Ganios, Mark Herrier, Kaki Hunter

Synopsis: In this third entry in the raunchy, sophomoric comedy series, the riotous students of Angel Beach High endeavor to get even with their old nemesis Porky who is trying to force the basketball coach into throwing the championship game. It seems Coach has been on a losing streak at Porky's newest Read More

He's Not Your Son

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Donna Mills, Ken Howard, John James

Synopsis: Based on a true story (it says here), He's Not Your Son is another variation on the old "switched at birth" plot device. Donna Mills and Ken Howard play Kathy and Michael Saunders, who are forced to face the possibility that their new baby may not be their new baby. It's a possibility that the Read More

Urge to Kill

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: Filmed in Dallas, the made-for-TV With Intent to Kill gets under way as high school football hero Bo Reinecker (Alex McArthur) tries to piece together the events leading up to murder of his girl friend Lisa Nolen (Catherine Mary Stewart). Claiming to have experienced a total blackout, Bo is Read More

Kentucky Woman

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Ned Beatty

Synopsis: Cheryl Ladd seemed bound and determined in the early 1980s to prove that she was a "Charlie's Angel" no more; we probably would have taken her word for it even if she hadn't tried so hard and stridently. Made for television, Kentucky Woman found Ladd as a poverty-stricken waitress who becomes a Read More

Cowboy

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: In this drama, a city-slicker teacher tries to fix-up a run-down cattle ranch. The ranch was his childhood home. As he works, he finds his progress delayed by as series of strange and upsetting events. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Silent Rage

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Chuck Norris, Ron Silver, Steven Keats, Toni Kalem, William Finley, Brian Libby

Synopsis: The sheriff of a small Texas town is pitted against a genetically engineered super-villain. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Split Image

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Michael O'Keefe, Karen Allen, Peter Fonda, James Woods, Elizabeth Ashley

Synopsis: Sure to generate conversation, this provocative drama tells the story of how a middle-class family is torn apart when their clean-cut high-achieving son, who has the potential of making it on the Olympic gymnast team, suddenly joins a religious cult. The parents become deeply worried and try to Read More

The Acorn People

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Ted Bessel, LeVar Burton, Cloris Leachman

Synopsis: First telecast March 2, 1981, The Acorn People was adapted by director Joan Tewksbury from the book by Ron Jones. Ted Bessell plays a no-nonsense children's counselor who takes a job at a summer camp for severely handicapped children. The kids jokingly refer to themselves as "the acorn people"--a Read More

Miss All-American Beauty

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Diane Lane

Synopsis: This TV-movie features a Texas beauty-queen contestant (Diane Lane) who is trying to earn money for college. A pianist, she learns a bit of self-respect during the competition. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Dixie Changing Habits

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: In this crime comedy, Dixie's life changes completely after the prostitution ring she runs is raided. She too is arrested and ends up sentenced to spend time in a convent. Though she is there to learn, she ends up teaching the Mother Superior and the others a thing or two about running a Read More

Broken Promise

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Chris Sarandon, Melissa Michaelsen

Synopsis: The "broken promise" was made to eleven-year-old Melissa Michaelsen, whose parents have deserted her and her siblings. Taken in by the County, Michaelsen has had to watch helplessly as her brothers and sisters are split up and farmed out to different families. One of the kids is even Read More

Deadly Blessing

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Maren Jensen, Susan Buckner, Sharon Stone, Jeff East, Lisa Hartman

Synopsis: Deadly Blessing, a disappointing effort from famed horror-film director Wes Craven, tells the story of a woman's fight against a religious cult which will not stop at murder. Martha (Maren Jensen) lives alone near a conservative, repressive religious cult led by Isaiah (Ernest Borgnine). Martha's Read More

The White Lions

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Michael York, Glynnis O'Connor, Donald Moffat, J.A. Preston, Roger E. Mosley

Synopsis: This easy-going television movie is about Chris McBride (Michael York), a real-life naturalist who brings his wife and daughter to an African wildlife preserve to join him in a research project. The area has a special meaning to him because he was born there. His wife is not as enthusiastic as he Read More

Battle Creek Brawl

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Jackie Chan, José Ferrer, Kristine de Bell, Mako, Ron Max, Rosalind Chao

Synopsis: After the death of Bruce Lee in 1973, writer/director Robert Clouse made several attempts to reproduce the success of his Enter the Dragon, which belatedly made Lee a household name in America. Clouse felt (with good reason) that Jackie Chan could be the next big martial arts star in America, and Read More

Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, Part 2

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Laraine Stephens

Synopsis: For those of you who didn't get your T&A fill from the 1979 TV movie The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, we submit for your approval The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, Part Two. The first film dealt with the selection and training of the famed pulchritudinous cheerleading lineup. The sequel finds the Read More

Thaddeus Rose and Eddie

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Bo Hopkins

Synopsis: Johnny and June Carter Cash star in the made-for-TV Thaddeus Rose and Eddie. But they don't necessarily play the title characters: true, Cash essays the role of indigent Texas Thaddeus Rose, but his buddy Eddie is played by Bo Hopkins. June is seen as T.R.'s girlfriend Crystal, while Eddie's Read More

The Seniors

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: When faced with graduation, four seniors plot to prolong their college experience for fear of steady employment, but they're also loathe to leave behind their accommodating housemate Sylvia (played with mute, topless allure by a pre-Three's Company Priscilla Barnes), who functions as a live-in Read More

Big Bob Johnson and His Fantastic Speed Circus

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Charles Napier, Robert Stoneman, William Daniels

Synopsis: Nice to see veteran hardcase character actor Charles Napier in a leading role, even if it's in something as eminently forgettable as Big Bob Johnson and His Fantastic Speed Circus. The eponymous Big Bob (Napier) is head man of a spit-and-vinegar auto racing team. Bob's aggregation makes a brief Read More

Cotton Candy

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: In this made-for-television movie, a group of high-school nerds form a band to gain both renown and romance. Directed by Ron Howard, the film was co-scripted by Howard and brother Clint. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Drive-In

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Lisa Lemole, Glenn Morshower, Gary Lee Cavagnaro, Billy Milliken, Trey Wilson

Synopsis: This off-beat comedy offers viewers the rare opportunity to view two movies nearly simultaneously. It is set in a small Texas drive-in and chronicles the fascinating and funny shenanigans of the various patrons. The drive in feature, a send-up of epic disaster films, is also a genuine hoot. Read More

The Hollywood Man

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: Desperate to make his own film, an actor accepts production money from the Mafia. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

A Small Town in Texas

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Susan George, Bo Hopkins, Art Hindle, John Karlen

Synopsis: This by-the-numbers action-revenge drama that plays like several other similarly-plotted, good ol' boy pulp flicks of its era, such as Billy Jack (1971) and Walking Tall (1973). Timothy Bottoms stars as Poke Jackson, a convict who's just been released from prison after a stint for drug Read More

Race with the Devil

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Loretta Swit, Lara Parker, R.G. Armstrong

Synopsis: This novel fusion of car-chase film and spooky horror became a surprise box-office hit in 1975. The story begins with car enthusiasts Frank (Warren Oates) and Roger (Peter Fonda) taking their wives, Kelly (Lara Parker) and Alice (Loretta Swit), on a vacation in a recreational vehicle. Their Read More

Sugar Hill

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Albert J. Baker, Thomas C. Carroll, Judy Hanson, Peter Harrell III, Larry D. Johnson, Charles Krohn, Walter Price, Ray Simpson, Marki Bey, Robert Quarry, Don Pedro Colley

Synopsis: In this blaxploitation horror movie, a young woman enlists the aide of a voodoo priest to help her get revenge upon the gangsters who killed her lover. With a few incantations and magical spells, the priest raises an army of zombies. Later the film was cut and shown on TV as The Zombies of Sugar Read More

Creature of Destruction

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: Legendary bad-movie maven Larry Buchanan does a virtual remake of The She Creature (for reasons unknown) with this enjoyably silly outing. The story involves deranged stage mesmerist Dr. Basso (Les Tremayne), whose sessions with his pretty assistant Doreena (Pat Delaney) result in her regression Read More

In the Year 2889

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: In this campy sci-fi film, the hero and his little band of post nuclear holocaust survivors find themselves stalked by telepathic cannibal mutants. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Mars Needs Women

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: In this sci-fi film, lonely Martians wire Earth in hopes of finding fertile women to repopulate their dying world. They are particularly interested in a voluptuous dancing scientist. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The 7th Commandment

Crew: Cinematographer

Synopsis: When Pete (Jonathan Kidd) gets amnesia after a car wreck, he assumes the life of an evangelist with the help of of a preacher (Frank Arvidson). After his newfound success, however, his old girlfriend, and her new boyfriend, decide to blackmail Kidd for a search of the money. Kidd's problems Read More