Robert Lansing Filmography

Maxwell Anderson - Lost In the Stars

Synopsis: This documentary is named for a play written by Maxwell Anderson, one of the giants of 20th century American theater. The film is an intimate portrait of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Anderson, who was born in 1888 and educated at Stanford University before turning to journalism and then to the Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Prodigal Father

Synopsis: Long believed to be dead, bank robber Ned Jinks (Donnelly Rhodes) returns to Cabot Cove after twenty years in hopes of visiting his daughter Bonnie (Claudia Christian). Not only must Ned face the hostility of the local citizenry, but he is also slapped with a murder charge when one of his oldest Read More

Law & Order: Blue Wall

Synopsis: Season One of Law & Order came to an end with this emotionally charged episode, in which police captain Don Cragen (Dann Florek) is himself a suspect in a conspiracy investigation. Cragen's longtime friend and colleague Peter O'Farrell (Robert Lansing), the NYPD's Chief of Operations, is suspected Read More

Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman

Actors: Richard Anderson, Sandra Bullock, Lee Majors, Lindsay Wagner, Jeff Yagher

Synopsis: Six Million Dollar Man Lee Majors and Bionic Woman Lindsay Wagner are reunited for the made-for-TV Bionic Showdown. Also on hand is Richard Anderson as Oscar Goldman, the government supervisor for both Majors and Wagner on their respective 1970s TV series. Something new has been added, however: Jeff Yagher Read More

After School

Actors: Samuel Bottoms, Renee Coleman, Edward Binns, James Farkas, Page Hannah

Synopsis: "Hip" Catholic priest Sam Bottoms is asked by his monsignor to defend their faith on The Dick Cavett Show. While preparing for his appearance, however, Bottoms begins having doubts about his religious committment. Especially troublesome is his relationship with Renee Coleman, a brilliant student Read More

The Nest

Actors: Robert Lansing, Lisa Langlois, Franc Luz, Terri Treas, Stephen Davies

Synopsis: A science project goes awry and the world is threatened by giant cockroaches in this horror outing. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Equalizer: Season 01

Actors: Edward Woodward, Robert Lansing, Keith Szarabajka

Automan [TV Series]

Island Claws

Synopsis: A virtual remake of Roger Corman's drive-in classic Attack of the Crab Monsters, this Florida-lensed cheapie is more than just a throwback to low-budget monster movies of the 1950s -- it's a throwback in every sense of the word. The claw-wielding killer crustaceans here are the product of a Read More

Life on the Mississippi

Synopsis: Explore the Mississippi River with young Mark Twain. A shorter classroom version is also available. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Mark Twain Classics: Life on the Mississippi

S*H*E

Actors: Anita Ekberg

Synopsis: The initials in the title of this made-for-TV movie stand for "Security Hazard Expert"--an apt description for the heroine, sexy superspy Lavinia Kean (Cornelia Sharpe). Shuttling throughout Italy and Germany, Lavinia thwarts the villainous machinations of Italian blackmailer Cesare Magnanon (Omar Read More

The Deadly Triangle

Actors: Dale Robinette, Linda Scruggs

Synopsis: Deadly Triangle was intended as the pilot of a TV action series, to be called Steadman. Accordingly, the leading character is one Bill Steadman, played by Dale Robinette. A former Olympic ski champ, Steadman is now employed as a Sun Valley sheriff. The case at hand in this outing is the Read More

Empire of the Ants

Actors: Joan Collins, Robert Lansing, John Carson, Albert Salmi, Jacqueline Scott

Synopsis: In the '50s, Bert I. Gordon made a career out of sci-fi movies about gigantic mutated insects (Beginning of the End, Earth vs. the Spider), lizards (King Dinosaur, Serpent Island), and even people (The Amazing Colossal Man), and in 1977, he was still up to his old tricks with this picture, loosely Read More

Bittersweet Love

Actors: Lana Turner, Robert Lansing, Celeste Holm, Robert Alda, Scott Hylands

Synopsis: Michael and Patricia meet in an unusual way – while he is on a date and is trying to retrieve his date’s car keys from a fountain. When Michael’s date abandons him, he hangs out with Patricia and these two nice young people soon find themselves falling in love. They decide to wed and hold the Read More

Widow

Synopsis: In this drama, based on a story by Lynn Caine, a vulnerable widow tries to deal with her own substantial grief, that of her children, and the prospect of raising them alone with no money. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Scalpel

Actors: Robert Lansing, Judith Chapman, Arlen Dean Snyder, David Scarroll, Sandy Martin

Synopsis: A deranged plastic surgeon, who has probably murdered his wife and who definitely has murdered his daughter's boyfriend, is distressed when he learns of his father-in-law's will. Rather than leave any money to the transparently awful son-in-law, the man leaves his entire (very large) estate to the Read More

Crime Club

Actors: Scott Thomas, Eugene Roche, Robert Lansing, Barbara Rhoades, Biff McGuire

Synopsis: The second and last TV pilot film to bear the Crime Club title, the 1975 Crime Club once again involves a state-of-the-art crime solving organization whose members are professional investigators from various public and private sectors. The principal characters are a detective (Scott Thomas), a Read More

Wild in the Sky

Actors: Brandon de Wilde

Synopsis: This action/comedy picture follows the adventures of a group of anti-war, anti-establishment guerillas, who come up with a scheme to destroy Fort Knox with an atom bomb. The most notable feature of this film is that it features Brandon de Wilde in his last performance. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Read More

The Astronaut

Synopsis: Astronaut Monte Markham has been dispatched to the heavens on the first US space trip to Mars. When TV coverage is abruptly cut off, the official story reads that there's been a slight malfunction, and that Markham is heading home. Only space official Jackie Cooper and a handful of associates know Read More

Acapulco Gold

Synopsis: This crime drama is set on the beautiful Hawaiian island of Kauai and follows the exploits of an undercover cop who involves himself in a drug-smuggling operation. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Bonanza: Heritage of Anger

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Mitch Vogel, Robert Lansing, Fionnula Flanagan

Synopsis: Robert Lansing guest-stars as Dundee, an ex-convict determined to prove that he spent five years in prison as the result of a frame-up. Ben Cartwright's efforts to help Dundee adjust to his new-found freedom are thwarted by the coldness of Dundee's wife Elizabeth (Fionnula Flanagan), and the Read More

Killer by Night

Synopsis: Killer by Night is reminiscent of such early 1950s film noir exercises as The Killer That Stalked New York and Panic in the Streets. The police of a large city are plagued with two crises at once: A diphtheria epidemic and a triple murderer. With the help of health officials Robert Wagner and Diane Baker Read More

The Grissom Gang

Actors: Kim Darby, Scott Wilson, Tony Musante, Irene Dailey, Robert Lansing

Synopsis: The Grissom Gang is a remake of the notorious 1949 British melodrama No Orchids for Miss Blandish. Kim Darby plays a 1920s-era debutante who is kidnapped and held for ransom. Her captors are the Grissoms, a family comprised of sadists and morons, and headed by Ma Barker clone Irene Dailey. One of Read More

The Deserter

Actors: Bekim Fehmiu

Synopsis: A captain convicted of deserting his cavalry (Bekim Fehmiu) is released to lead a band of deputized renegades. Together, the force must defeat a band of Apache braves. The film was released to video as Ride to Glory. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Flying Nun: The Dumbest Kid in School

Synopsis: Robert Lansing guest-stars as Mr. Sanders, a former (and none too distinguished) student of San Tanco's convent school. Now a successful businessman, Sanders wants to demonstrate his gratitude to the nuns by adopting the most backward and troublesome orphan in Sr. Bertrille's classroom, a lad Read More

Bonanza: Danger Road

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Robert Lansing

Synopsis: Robert Lansing is cast as Gunny, a former Army officer dishonorably discharged for desertion, and now the owner of a small freight-hauling concern. Though Ben Cartwright cannot forgive Gunny for his dereliction of duty, he is willing to let the man prove his mettle by delivering three 30-foot Read More

Swingers Only

Synopsis: This 90-minute episode from the TV series Name of the Game stars Robert Stack as Dan Farrell, senior editor of Crime magazine. Farrell takes a hand in the investigation of a murder at a "swinging singles" apartment. The victim is the mistress of Robert Lansing, one of Farrell's editors. Ann Blyth Read More

It Takes All Kinds

Actors: Robert Lansing, Vera Miles, Barry Sullivan, Penny Sugg

Synopsis: In this drama, a sailor is blackmailed into stealing a valuable panel of stained glass. The trouble begins when the sailor gets into a fight with another and jumps ship in Sydney, Australia. Upon the docks he is knocked out. When he wakes up, he finds himself in a woman's apartment. She is the Read More

Ironside: The Lonely Hostage

Synopsis: After stealing $150,000 from a bank and shooting another officer, rogue cop Fred Hickman (Robert Lansing) offers to give himself up to Chief Ironside (Raymond Burr). Instead, he takes both the Chief and Mark (Don Galloway) hostage, forcing them to accompany him as he attempts to escape. Ironside Read More

Star Trek: Assignment: Earth

Synopsis: Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise travel back in time to 20th-century Earth on a special observation mission but soon discover that they are not the only time traveler in town in this second-season episode of the enduringly popular science-fiction series. While in orbit around Earth, the Read More

Branded: Call to Glory, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a three-part story, President Grant (William Bryant) asks Jason (Chuck Connors) to find out the reason that maverick general George Armstrong Custer (Robert Lansing) has been making public attacks against the Grant adminstration's Indian policy. Outwardly, it seems that Read More

An Eye for an Eye

Actors: Robert Lansing, Slim Pickens, Gloria Talbott, Paul Fix

Synopsis: Talion is the alternate title for the blood-splattered western An Eye for an Eye. You know that the filmmakers aren't kidding around when, in the very first scene, outlaw Slim Pickens puts a bullet into a squalling baby! Robert Lansing plays Talion, a homesteader who, after his ranch is burned to Read More

Namu, My Best Friend

Actors: Robert Lansing, John Anderson, Robin Mattson, Richard Erdman, Lee Meriwether

Synopsis: Based on a true story and suitable for the whole family, Namu, the Killer Whale was a film that debunked many myths about orca whales--animals that have traditionally been considered voracious, merciless killers. Set in Puget Sound on one of the San Juan islands, the tale centers on the Read More

Danger Has Two Faces

Synopsis: In this drama, a Yankee spy begins impersonating a dead man who looks just like him. In doing so he begins a fun-filled life as a jet-setting playboy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Blade Rider

Branded: Call to Glory, Part 3

Synopsis: In the concluding episode of a three-part story, sinister forces have conspired against both General Custer (Robert Lansing) and Indian chief Crazy Horse (Michael Pate), making a final bloody confrontation at the Little Big Horn all but inevitable. Acting on behalf of President Grant, Jason McCord Read More

Branded: Call to Glory, Part 2

Synopsis: In the second episode of a three-part story, Presidential emissary Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) has managed to disuade his former West Point comrade General Custer (Robert Lansing) from sparking an Indian war to further his own political ambitions. Shortly thereafter, Chief Crazy Horse (Michael Read More

The Spy with the Perfect Cover

Synopsis: In this suspenseful espionage drama, a secret agent uses the fact that the enemy believes that he is dead to continue his work. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Twilight Zone: The Long Morrow

Actors: Robert Lansing, Mariette Hartley, George Macready, Edward Binns, William Swan

Synopsis: Just before embarking upon a 40-year space journey, Cmdr. Douglas Stansfield (Robert Lansing) falls in love with the beautiful Sandra Horn (Mariette Hartley). Blasting into space, Stansfield in placed in a state of suspended animation, which will enable him to retain his youth and vitality during Read More

A Gathering of Eagles

Actors: Rock Hudson, Rod Taylor, Mary Peach, Barry Sullivan, Kevin McCarthy

Synopsis: A Gathering of Eagles stars Rock Hudson as a colonel in the peacetime Strategic Air Command. His devotion to his duty as a wing commander takes a toll on his men, his marriage, and his own well-being. It is to Hudson's credit that he was willing to put his image on the line with this essentially Read More

Under the Yum-Yum Tree

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Carol Lynley, Dean Jones, Edie Adams, Imogene Coca

Synopsis: Jack Lemmon stars as Hogan, who lives a bachelor's dream as the manager of an apartment building that caters only to single women. Hogan likes to romance his tenants, and he sets his sights on a newcomer named Robin (Carol Lynley). Robin and her boyfriend David (Dean Jones) have moved in together Read More

Bonanza: Cut Throat Junction

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Robert Lansing

Synopsis: The Cartwrights accompany freight-company troubleshooter Ted Trask (Robert Lansing) to the far from peaceful community of Cut Throat Junction. Trask has been hired to round up a gang of thieves, and has been given a full and free hand to accomplish his goal. But when he is abruptly fired in the Read More

One Step Beyond: The Voice

Synopsis: Jared Corning (Robert Lansing) is assigned to cover a trial in a small New England town, where several townsfolk are accused of burning down the barn owned by Tom Goss (Paul Genge). Questioning Goss' daughter Joan (Luana Anders), Corning is surprised to learn that the blaze was started for express Read More

The Pusher

Actors: Kathy Carlyle, Felice Orlandi, Robert Lansing

Synopsis: The Pusher is a well-intentioned but routine drama about the effects of poverty and drugs in the Puerto Rican community in New York and the death of an addict. When two cops, Lt. Peter Byrne (Douglas F. Rodgers) and Steve Carella (Robert Lansing) start investigating the death of a young addict Read More

4D Man

Actors: Robert Lansing, Lee Meriwether, James Congdon, Robert Strauss

Synopsis: James Congdon plays Tony Nelson, a brilliant but foolhardy young scientist who is experimenting with matter and its relationship to time and space. Using a specially designed amplifier, he thinks he has found a way of releasing matter from the time and space that it occupies, thus allowing its Read More