Robert M. Lewis Filmography

Occupation:
Director

  • Perfect Crime

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Mitzi Kapture, Jasmine Guy, Nick Searcy, Andrew Masset, Richard Fullerton

    Synopsis: An intelligence officer attempts to prove that despite a lack of hard evidence, a Marine officer is indeed guilty of killing his own wife. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1997

  • The Crying Child

    Crew: Director, Producer

    Synopsis: In this spooky made-for-TV drama a young wife finds herself unable to emotionally recover from a particularly painful miscarriage. Concerned, her husband brings her to a quiet old house to recuperate. But when she begins hearing the eerie wails of an unseen child when no one else is around, the Read More

    1996

  • Circumstances Unknown

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Judd Nelson, William R. Moses, Isabel Glasser, Rhys Huber, Phillip MacKenzie

    Synopsis: A celebration becomes a desperate struggle for survival when a murderous crazy decides to act upon his fixation on his childhood buddie's wife. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1995

  • Don't Talk to Strangers

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Shanna Reed, Terry O'Quinn, Pierce Brosnan, Keegan Macintosh, Douglas Stewart

    Synopsis: In this suspenseful made-for-television drama, a young mother is horrified to realize that her creepy ex-husband is quietly following her and her son as they travel across the country to their new home. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1994

  • Memories of Murder

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Nancy Allen, Vanity, Robin Thomas, Robyn Simons, Olivia Brown

    Synopsis: Based on the true story of a still-unsolved series of rapes and murders that happened in rural Korea in 1986-1991, this film by Bong Joon-ho (Barking Dogs Never Bite) follows the ultimately unsuccessful police investigation led by a pair of small town cops. After bungling the investigation of the Read More

    1990

  • Dead Reckoning

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Made for cable TV, Dead Reckoning concerns a deadly love triangle aboard a cruise ship. A plastic surgeon discovers that the ship's captain is his wife's lover, and as the seas grow stormy, so does their relationship. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

    1989

  • The Secret Life of Kathy McCormick

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a grocery store employee endeavors to attract the attention of a wealthy playboy by pretending to be a high society girl. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1988

  • Ladykillers

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Marilu Henner, Susan Blakely, Lesley-Anne Down, Thomas Calabro, William Lucking

    Synopsis: Marilu Henner stars as a Los Angeles police detective in The Ladykillers. Thomas Calabro co-stars as Henner's new partner, who also happens to be her lover. Together, Henner and Calabro attempt to solve the murder of a stripper. No, the title does not refer to the murderer: "The Ladykillers" is a Read More

    1988

  • Hello Again

    Actors: Shelley Long, Judith Ivey, Gabriel Byrne, Corbin Bernsen, Sela Ward

    Synopsis: Writer Susan Isaacs and director Frank Perry of Compromising Positions re-team for this unsuccessful resurrection fantasy comedy. Shelley Long plays Lucy Chadman, the accident-prone wife of plastic surgeon Jason Chadman (Corbin Bernsen). When she chokes to death after eating a South Korean chicken Read More

    11/6/87

  • A Stranger Waits

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In this drama, the life of a San Francisco widow changes forever when she has a brief encounter with a younger man. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1987

  • Deep Dark Secrets

    Crew: Director

    Actors: James Brolin, Melody Anderson, Pamela Bellwood, Morgan Stevens, Joe Spano

    Synopsis: James Brolin harbors several Deep Dark Secrets in this made-for-TV melodrama. Brolin plays a rural hotelier, married to Melody Anderson. When her husband is ostensibly killed in an auto accident, Melody learns a few horrible truths that she'd rather not know. Brolin, who isn't dead after all Read More

    1987

  • Firefighter

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Nancy McKeon

    Synopsis: Also released as The Greater Alarm, the made-for-TV Firefighter is based on a true story. Nancy McKeon (who also co-produced), plays Cindy Fralick, the first female member of the Los Angeles Fire Department. The plotline details the prejudice and chauvinism lurking at every turn during Fralick's Read More

    1986

  • A Greater Alarm

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: The Greater Alarm is the syndication title of the made-for-TV Firefighter. Based on a true story, the film stars Nancy McKeon as Cindy Fralick, the first female member of the Los Angeles County Fire Department. Recruited in 1982, Cindy faces prejudice and hostility from her male co-workers as she Read More

    1986

  • Embassy

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Nick Mancuso stars in the made-for-TV Embassy. Cast as an American ambassador stationed in Rome, Mancuso's life is thrown into turmoil by a crucial computer chip. When not trying to keep U.S. defense secrets from falling into the wrong hands, he must juggle the affections of his Read More

    1985

  • Lost in London

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Diminutive Webster star Emmanuel Lewis is virtually the whole show in this made-for-TV update of Oliver Twist. Upset when his divorced fashion-designer mother (Lynne Moody) relocates to London, 8-year-old Davey Williams (Lewis) runs away. Soon thereafter, he joins up with a group of orphaned Read More

    1985

  • Florida Flight 90

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: This film tells the true story of the rescue of 5 passengers who were pitched into the chilly Potomac River after their Air Florida jet crashed in 1982. (AKA Flight No 90) ~ All Movie Guide Read More

    1984

  • Flight No. 90: Disaster on the Potomac

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: On a bitterly cold January day in 1982, Air Florida flight #90 crashed into the Potomac River while approaching Washington DC. Though many passengers were killed, many more were rescued. Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac is the story of the survivors, the rescuers, and the anxious friends and Read More

    1984

  • A Summer to Remember

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: The friendship between a deaf boy and an orangutan skilled in sign language provides the basis of this heartwarming made-for-TV drama. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1984

  • City Killer

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Originally made for television, a psychotic blackmails his beloved by demolishing areas of the city until she goes out with him. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

    1984

  • A Caribbean Mystery

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Maurice Evans, Helen Hayes

    Synopsis: Helen Hayes plays Agatha Christie's amateur sleuth Miss Jane Marple in A Caribbean Mystery. Recuperating from an illness at a resort in the Bahamas, Miss Marple makes the acquaintance of a genial British major (Maurice Evans). When her new friend is murdered, Miss M takes on the case herself. She Read More

    1983

  • Sparkling Cyanide

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Anthony Andrews

    Synopsis: Scriptwriters Robert Malcolm Young, Sue Grafton and Stephen Humphrey transposed the Agatha Christie story Sparkling Cyanide from its veddy British locale to the plush environs of Pasadena for this 1983 TV-movie adaptation. Leading character Anthony Andrews is still a Briton, mingling with the rich Read More

    1983

  • Summer Girl

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In this suspenseful thriller, the happy family life of a married couple is dangerously disrupted by a wicked, seductive baby-sitter who wants their children for her own. She is ready to kill for the privilege and mayhem ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1983

  • Desperate Lives

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Helen Hunt

    Synopsis: In this made-for-TV film, a high-school counselor (Joyce Brothers) faces ineffectual help from administration in combating drugs, so she recruits several students to help in the battle. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

    1982

  • Between Two Brothers

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Michael Brandon, Pat Harrington, Jr., Helen Shaver, Mary Jackson, Peter White

    Synopsis: In this family drama, a famed lawyer is forced to come to grips with the lousy way he has treated his emotionally disturbed brother. Most of the story centers on the attorney's attempts to atone for his actions. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1982

  • The Gods Must Be Crazy

    Crew: Cinematographer

    Actors: Hans Strydom, Lena Farugia, Marius Weyers, Sandra Prinsloo, N!xau, Louw Verwey, Michael Thys

    Synopsis: Kalahari bushman Xi (played by genuine bushman N!xau) is as surprised as the rest of his tibe when a Coke bottle, thrown from a passing plane, lands in the middle of their village. This "gift from the gods" proves to be a mixed blessing when the tribesmen fight over it and eventually use it for a Read More

    1981

  • The Miracle of Kathy Miller

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Helen Hunt, Sharon Gless, Frank Converse, Bill Beyers

    Synopsis: Helen Hunt is outstanding as the real-life Kathy Miller, a 13-year-old Arizona athlete and honor student whose world came screeching to halt in 1977. Struck by a car on a lonely highway, Kathy spends the next ten weeks in a coma. Upon awakening, she is unable to walk, talk, read or write: she has Read More

    1981

  • The Child Bride of Short Creek

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Originally made for television and based on a true story from the '50s, this film concerns a rural Arizona town that deals in polygamy. Specifically, a boy is shocked that his father (Christopher Atkins), a veteran of the Korean War, wishes to take a 15-year-old girl for another wife. ~ John Bush Read More

    1981

  • Fallen Angel

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Once seen, the made-for-TV Fallen Angel can never be forgotten. The late Dana Hill is nothing short of brilliant as Jennifer, a 13-year-old runaway girl who is slowly but inexorably seduced into the world of child pornography. Adding depth to Lew Hunter's screenplay is the fact that the older man Read More

    1981

  • Escape

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Colleen Dewhurst, Kay Lenz

    Synopsis: The made-for-TV Escape was inspired by the true story of Dwight Worker, an American imprisoned in Mexico for smuggling hashish. Given the country's stringent anti-drug laws, Worker's chances of release are slim to none (a situation similar to the protagonist's plight in Midnight Express). Against Read More

    1980

  • A Private Battle

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: A Private Battle was adapted by the ubiquitous John Gay from the posthumously published memoirs of historical author Cornelius Ryan. At the height of his fame, Ryan (Jack Warden) is stricken with prostate cancer. During his last four deteriorating years, Ryan keeps a secret record of the events Read More

    1980

  • S*H*E

    Crew: Director

    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

    1979

  • If Things Were Different

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Suzanne Pleshette, Tony Roberts, Arte Johnson, Chuck McCann, Dan Shor

    Synopsis: In this drama, a suburban housewife shows great inner strength when she must suddenly keep the family together after her husband suffers a complete breakdown and falls into an irreversible catatonic state. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1979

  • No Room to Run

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In this thriller, a concert promoter is sent to Australia where he ends up entangled in corporate spying and is forced to fight for his life. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1978

  • Ring of Passion

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Allen Garfield

    Synopsis: Ring of Passion is a self-described "docudrama" of the professional rivalry between African-American boxing great Joe Louis and German fistic champ Max Schmeling. On June 19, 1936, Schmeling (Stephen Macht) beats Louis (Bernie Casey) for the European championship. Germany's Nazi government uses Read More

    1978

  • The Night They Took Miss Beautiful

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In this drama, five beauty aspiring beauty queens are abducted in a hijacked airplane. Also upon the plane is a strain of deadly virus. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1977

  • Computercide

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Joe Cortese, Susan George

    Synopsis: The Final Eye began life as the pilot for a futuristic TV series. Joe Cortese stars as Mike Stringer, who in the year 1996 is the last private eye left on earth. Stringer is hired by Lisa Korter (Susan George), the daughter of a mysterious financier (Liam Sullivan). Twenty years earlier, the Read More

    1977

  • The Invisible Man

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: This TV-movie update of the old H.G. Wells fantasy novel stars David McCallum as brilliant scientist Daniel Weston. He's so brilliant that he develops an invisibility serum, which he applies to himself. Two inconveniences: Weston must wear a special mask so that his wife (Kathleen Fee) can see Read More

    1975

  • Guilty or Innocent: The Sam Sheppard Murder Case

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Long before Dr. Richard Kimble's one-armed man, there was Dr. Sam Sheppard's "curly-headed man." On July 4, 1954, Dr. Sheppard's wife was found murdered in their Cleveland home. Sheppard, the prime suspect, insisted that he'd seen a man with curly hair fleeing from his home. No matter: he was Read More

    1975

  • The Day the Earth Moved

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Cleavon Little

    Synopsis: Jackie Cooper and Cleavon Little star as aerial photographers who spot a few threatening cracks in the San Andreas fault. Will anyone listen? No. Do they suffer in the subsequent quake? Yes, but not as expensively as the all-star cast in Earthquake. Still, The Day the Earth Moved doesn't aspire to Read More

    1974

  • Pray for the Wildcats

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In this made-for-television drama, a trio of advertising executives take a motorcycle trip across the desert and end up in a life-threatening situation. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1974

  • Message to My Daughter

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: A girl finds herself getting closer to her dead mother after viewing hours of tape made especially for her 17 years ago. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

    1973

  • The Alpha Caper

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Henry Fonda, Leonard Nimoy, Larry Hagman, James McEachin, Elena Verdugo

    Synopsis: Henry Fonda stars in this TV movie as a worn-out probation officer who decides to heist a $30,000,000 gold shipment, using three ex-convicts as his "mob". Fonda's cohorts include Leonard Nimoy, James McEachin and Larry Hagman. The plan is meticulous (due in part to Fonda's inside knowledge), the Read More

    1973

  • Money to Burn

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: The flammable money of the title is of the counterfeit variety. Enterprising prison inmate E. G. Marshall devises a scheme to churn out phony moola in his jerry-built printing machine. Conspiring with his wife Mildred Natwick, Marshall intends to smuggle the funny money out of jail, then swap it Read More

    1973

  • The Astronaut

    Crew: Director

    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

    1972

  • She-Devils on Wheels

    Crew: Composer (Music Score)

    Synopsis: Cult filmmaker Herschell Gordon Lewis directed this outrageously campy story of an all-female motorcycle gang called The Man-Eaters. The butch, chain-wielding women pick men to service them from a line-up, fight with male bikers, and hold orgies. Nancy Lee Noble (The Girl, the Body, and the Pill) Read More

    1968

  • Just for the Hell of It

    Crew: Songwriter

    Synopsis: A violent gang of teenage miscreants terrorize their city with a rash of cruel practical jokes, vicious assaults, and random vandalism. When one of the hoods threatens an upstanding young man named Doug (Rodney Bedell), the gang's leader Dexter (Ray Sager) nixes the fight. Some time before, Doug Read More

    1968

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