Rod Cameron Filmography

The Rockford Files: A Bad Deal in the Valley

Synopsis: Jim's former girlfriend Karen Stiles (Susan Strasberg) sweet-talks the detective into delivering a briefcase full of escrow papers to a real estate office. Only when it is too late does Jim (James Garner) discover that he has been conned into transporting $100,000 worth of counterfeit money. And Read More

Jessie's Girls

Synopsis: Three female prisoners are liberated by a vengeful woman in this thriller. The woman is angry after her husband is murdered; she uses the fugitives to find the murderers and slay them one-by-one. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Psychic Killer

Actors: Paul Burke, Jim Hutton, Julie Adams, Nehemiah Persoff, Neville Brand

Synopsis: In this thriller, an innocent man is wrongfully committed to an asylum for the criminally insane. While there he learns how to tap into his psychic powers and to affect the lives of others via astral projection. These skills come in mighty handy after he is released and he heads out for revenge Read More

Adam-12: Follow Up

Synopsis: 1950s western star Rod Cameron appears in this episode as Martin Broule, the owner of a riding academy. Several horses have been stolen from Broule's establishment, and Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) investigate accusations that Broule himself is the thief. Read More

Adam-12: Foothill Division

Synopsis: Adam-12 takes on an "Old West" flavor in this episode, as Officers Pete Malloy (Kent McCord) and Jim Reed (Kent McCord) investigate the theft of valuable riding equipment from a rancher. Later on, the two cops temporarily abandon Adam-12 and mount a pair of horses to pursue a gang of car thieves. Read More

The Long Chase

Synopsis: Crime is committed wherever 2 expert criminals go. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Adam-12: Log 88: Reason to Run

Synopsis: Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) investigate a series of baffling thefts at a fancy riding school run by a washed-up cowboy star (Rod Cameron). Elsewhere, the two cops bust up a drug ring, and confront the problem of a young girl who has been hoodwinked into driving Read More

Evel Knievel

Actors: Ben Bentley, Roger Edington, Ten Henningsen, George Hamilton

Synopsis: George Hamilton produced and stars in this appealing bio-pic about real-life stunt daredevil Evel Knievel. Knievel's famous motorcycle stunts and early life are remembered in flashback by the performer in the moments before a big jump. The cast includes familiar drive-in movie faces like Vic Tayback Read More

The Last Movie

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Stella Garcia, Samuel Fuller, Peter Fonda, Julie Adams

Synopsis: With a barrage of cinematic distancing devices at hand (flashbacks and flash-forwards, super-imposed titles, missing frames, projectionist cue-marks placed in the wrong locations in a film reel), Dennis Hopper concocts a hallucinatory acid-trip concerning an American movie company making a western Read More

The Civilized Men

Synopsis: Civilized Men first saw the light of day as an episode of the TV series Name of the Game. Dan Farrell (Robert Stack), two-fisted editor of Crime magazine, heads to Florida to probe into a cattle scam. Someone has been selling tainted meat, the end product of a rustled shipment of government Read More

Bonanza: Ride the Wind, Part One

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Victor Jory, Noah Beery, Jr., Rod Cameron, Dorothy Green

Synopsis: Written by Paul Schneider, "Ride the Wind" was Bonanza's first two-part story. Ben Cartwright is willing to provide Charles Ludlow (Victor Jory) with money to help finance the new Pony Express service, but isn't keen on allowing his son Joe to join Ludlow's riders. Nor is the Paiute Indian tribe Read More

Ride the Wind

Synopsis: This western is the movie-length pilot for the long-running television series Bonanza. The story follows the Cartwright clan as they help keep the nearly bankrupt Pony Express from going under. They also work to keep the angry Paiute Indians at bay. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Winnetou und sein Freund Old Firehand

Actors: Rod Cameron, Pierre Brice, Marie Versini, Harald Leipnitz, Todd Armstrong

Synopsis: In this western, a brave cowboy and his loyal partner Winnetou agree to help Mexican villagers defend their home from a vicious bandito gang. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Branded: Barbed Wire

Synopsis: Leif Erickson and Rod Cameron guest star in this episode as two headstrong men on opposite sides of a bitter range war. Erickson plays Roy Beckwith, a cattleman who hires Jason McCord (Chuck Connors) to string barbed wire around his property. This puts Jason on a blacklist compiled by the local Read More

Bonanza: Ride the Wind, Part Two

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Rod Cameron, Tom Lowell

Synopsis: In Part Two of "Ride the Wind", Curtis Wade (Rod Cameron takes over from the late Charles Ludlow as head of the new Pony Express service. Determined to keep the service running and to finish the route despite attacks by the Paiutes, Wade is driven not so much by duty as by his ego, which has been Read More

The Bounty Killer

Actors: Dan Duryea, Rod Cameron, Audrey Dalton, Richard Arlen

Synopsis: Dan Duryea plays a Western bounty hunter, expert in his job, but ill at ease with his conscience. He is shunned by the "good" townsfolk until they need him to track down and kill a criminal; the gratitude doesn't last long, and it's back to outcast status for Duryea. At one juncture, the Read More

Requiem for a Gunfighter

Synopsis: In this western, a gunfighter finds himself mistaken for a judge when he journeys to a beleaguered town that is under the oppressive influence of an outlaw and his evil gang. One couple knows the gunslinger's true avocation and they talk him into working as a lawman and putting one of the crooks Read More

Bullets Don't Argue

Bullet in the Flesh

Synopsis: In this drama a greedy lumber baron tries to harvest the sacred Cherokee forest by tormenting the tribe. Instead he loses his beloved daughter. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Gun Hawk

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Rod Cameron, Ruta Lee, Rod Lauren, Morgan Woodward

Synopsis: Allied Artists' Gun Hawk puts Rory Calhoun through his usual paces as an aging gunman. Calhoun has pretty much retired from shoot outs, and now runs a small town populated by outlaws. He befriends hotheaded fast gun Rod Lauren, who behaves as impulsively as Calhoun had in his earlier days. When Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Bouncing Boomerang

Synopsis: Eula Johnson (Diana Millay), the bored young bride of rancher Grover Johnson (Rod Cameron), begs her husband to sell his bleak desert spread, but he refuses. Enter wealthy Texas Nelson Barclift (a pre-Gilligan's Island Alan Hale Jr), who offers to pay Johnson four times what his property is worth. Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Man Who Found the Money

Synopsis: The scene is Las Vegas, where William Benson (Arthur Hill) has dropped a bundle at the gaming tables. But Benson's luck seems to change when he finds a fancy money clip containing 92,000 dollars. Ultimately determining that honesty is the best policy, Benson turns the clip over to the authorities Read More

The Man Who Died Twice

Synopsis: In this drama, a singer finds herself implicated in the fatal immolation of her husband. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Electronic Monster

Actors: Rod Cameron, Mary Murphy, Meredith Edwards, Peter Illing, Carl Jaffe, Kay Callard

Synopsis: When a movie star dies mysteriously, insurance investigator Jeff Keenan (Rod Cameron) is put on the case. It seems that the dead man was attending a private psychiatric clinic on the Riviera. Keenan learns that one of the staff doctors has been tinkering with an experimental "dream machine," Read More

Spoilers of the Forest

Actors: Rod Cameron, Vera Ralston, Ray Collins, Hillary Brooke, Edgar Buchanan

Synopsis: Every time Republic Pictures head honcho Herbert J. Yates starred his minimally talented wife Vera Ralston in a film, the studio's stockholders began trembling in their boots. Like most of its predecessors, the 1957 Ralston vehicle Spoilers of the Forest just barely made back its cost. Vera plays Read More

Yaqui Drums

Synopsis: In this western, a Mexican bandit and an angry rancher team up and take on a crooked saloon keeper. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Passport to Treason

Actors: Rod Cameron, Lois Maxwell, Clifford Evans, Douglas Wilmer, Andrew Faulds

Synopsis: Passport to Treason was put together by Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman, the same team who'd later collaborate on the TV series The Saint. Rod Cameron stars as an American private eye, stationed in London. For the sake of a murdered friend, the detective takes over the dead man's case, which Read More

Headline Hunters

Synopsis: In this drama, the eagerness of a rookie reporter gets him into deep trouble after he finds himself entangled with big city racketeers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Fighting Chance

Synopsis: A friendship is ripped apart by a greedy woman in this drama. The trouble begins when a horse trainer and a jockey, both long-time friends, fall for the same woman. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Santa Fe Passage

Actors: John Payne, Faith Domergue, Rod Cameron, Slim Pickens, Irene Tedrow

Synopsis: In this western, a man is falsely accused of betraying a wagon train to the Apaches and is punished by his employers, but not fired. His boss gives him a second chance and the man is assigned to make sure that an arms shipment makes it safely through the Indian land. The woman who owns the Read More

Hell's Outpost

Actors: Rod Cameron, Joan Leslie, John Russell, Chill Wills, Jim Davis

Synopsis: This "modern" western stars Rod Cameron as opportunistic Korean war veteran Tully Gibbs. Posing as a friend of the late son of mine owner Kevin Russel (Chill Wills), Tully intends to work the mine for all it's worth and then pull out. By and by, Tully slowly turns honest, but the same cannot be Read More

Double Jeopardy

Synopsis: Mark Hill Rod Cameron is the attorney for Emmet Devrey, a real estate developer with a past, who is being blackmailed by his former partner Sam Baggett. When Sam's unfaithful wife Marge cooks up a scheme with her used car salesman lover Jeff Calder to bilk both Devrey and her alcoholic husband Read More

Southwest Passage

Actors: Joanne Dru, Rod Cameron, John Ireland, John Dehner

Synopsis: In this western, a forward thinking hero joins in on the promotion of camels as the perfect desert pack animals. He embarks upon a journey with a group of others. Among them is a fugitive bankrobber and his girl friend who are trying to outfox a posse. One of the hero's men recognizes the Read More

San Antone

Actors: Rod Cameron, Arleen Whelan, Forrest Tucker, Katy Jurado, Rodopho (Rudy) Acosta

Synopsis: Republic "regulars" Rod Cameron, Arleen Whelan and Forrest Tucker star in the A-minus western San Antone. During the Civil War, Texan Carl Miller (Rod Cameron) adopts a neutral stance regarding the conflict. Miller is branded a coward by Brian Culver (Forrest Tucker), a Confederate blowhard whose Read More

The Steel Lady

Actors: Rod Cameron, Tab Hunter, John Dehner, Richard Erdman, John Abbott

Synopsis: The Steel Lady in this crazy-quilt actioner is the armored tank commandeered by star Rod Cameron. Marooned in the Sahara desert, airplane pilot Mike Monohan (Cameron) and his melting-pot crew (including a young Tab Hunter) come across a deserted Afrika Korps tank. As they roll across the burning Read More

Ride the Man Down

Actors: Brian Donlevy, Rod Cameron, Ella Raines, Forrest Tucker, Barbara Britton

Synopsis: Will Ballard (Rod Cameron) is the longtime foreman of the Hatcher ranch, a spread renowned for its size and the wealth it contains. When owner Phil Evarts dies suddenly, the speculation in the territory is that Hatcher will be broken up, especially since it was Evarts' determination coupled with Read More

Woman of the North Country

Actors: Ruth Hussey, Rod Cameron, John Agar, Gale Storm, J. Carrol Naish

Synopsis: Ruth Hussey stars in this big-budget Republic actioner. She plays Christine Powell, the grasping, conniving sister of Minnesota mining magnate David Powell (John Agar). Using her feminine wiles, Christine tries to undermine her brother's competition by romancing rival mine owner Kyle Ramlo (Rod Cameron Read More

Wagons West

Actors: Rod Cameron, Noah Beery, Jr., Peggie Castle, Michael Chapin, Henry Brandon

Synopsis: Rod Cameron's western vehicles for Monogram were always worth watching, even when Cameron was better than the scripts. In Wagons West, the star plays wagonmaster Jeff Curtis, who guides a group of Easterners to California in the 1870s. Trouble looms in the form of a Cheyenne tribe who is being Read More

The Jungle

Actors: Rod Cameron, Cesar Romero, Marie Windsor, M.N. Nambiar

Synopsis: This Lippert release teams studio "regulars" Cesar Romero and Marie Windsor with Monogram's Rod Cameron. The three stars head to India to investigate reports that the elephant population is being terrorized and stampeded by prehistoric mammoths. There's lots of lovely scenery and fascinating Read More

Fort Osage

Actors: Rod Cameron, Jane Nigh, Morris Ankrum, Douglas Kennedy, John Ridgely

Synopsis: Lesley Selander took time off from his directorial duties on Tim Holt's RKO western series to helm the Monogram oater Fort Osage. Rod Cameron stars as frontier scout Tim Clay, assigned to guide a wagon train through Indian territory. Clay knows that he's in for a lot of trouble because of the Read More

Oh! Susanna

Actors: Rod Cameron, Adrian Booth, Forrest Tucker, Chill Wills, William Ching

Synopsis: Oh! Susanna is a "big" western by Republic standards, decked out with lavish production values and an extended running time (90 minutes, as compared to the usual "B"-picture length of 60 or 70 minutes). Rod Cameron stars as Captain Calhoun, a cavalry officer dedicated to protecting the rights of Read More

Cavalry Scout

Actors: Rod Cameron, Audrey Long, Jim Davis, James Millican, James Arness

Synopsis: Rod Cameron heads the cast of the Monogram "B-plus" western Cavalry Scout. Cameron plays army scout Kirby Frye, who has been assigned to track down a stolen cache of weaponry. Frye suspects that local troublemaker Martin Gavin (James Millican) is the criminal mastermind, but he needs proof. The Read More

The Sea Hornet

Actors: Rod Cameron, Adele Mara, Adrian Booth, Chill Wills, Jim Davis

Synopsis: This Republic "special" stars Rod Cameron as deep-sea diver Gunner McNeil. When his partner (James Brown) drowns under mysterious circumstances, McNeil investigates, all the while carrying out a salvage assignment for the lovely Suntan Radford (Adele Mara). The titular Sea Hornet is a vessel which Read More

Stage to Tucson

Actors: Rod Cameron, Wayne Morris, Kay Buckley, Carl Benton Reid, Roy Roberts

Synopsis: Rod Cameron and Wayne Morris star as Civil War officers who become federal agents. The duo is sent west to investigate a series of stage hijackings. The criminals tend to bypass gold and valuables, and are seemingly interested only in the weapons carried on these coaches. It turns out that the Read More

Short Grass

Actors: Rod Cameron, Cathy Downs, Johnny Mack Brown, Raymond Walburn, Jonathan Hale

Synopsis: Western aficionados tend to regard Short Grass as the best-ever directorial effort by Lesley Selander. Considerably longer than most Monogram westerns (82 minutes), the film never lags, thanks to the expertise of Selander and a top-rank cast. Rod Cameron plays Steve, a drifter who briefly settles Read More

Dakota Lil

Actors: George Montgomery, Rod Cameron, Marie Windsor, John Emery, Wallace Ford

Synopsis: Although Marie Windsor plays the title role in Dakota Lil, she is shunted away to third billing, right after male leads George Montgomery and Rod Cameron. Montgomery is cast as a secret service agent Tom Horn, sent West to round up a gang of counterfeiters. He starts by gaining the confidence of Read More

Stampede

Actors: Rod Cameron, Gale Storm, Johnny Mack Brown, Don Castle, Donald Curtis

Synopsis: Stampede is a choice example of the Lesley Selander B-plus westerns of the late 1940s/early 1950s. Rod Cameron and Don Castle star as feuding brothers who own separate cattle ranches. The siblings find themselves on opposite sides of a water-rights battle, in which settlers are being deprived Read More

Brimstone

Actors: Rod Cameron, Adrian Booth, Walter Brennan, Forrest Tucker, Jack Holt

Synopsis: The age-old enmity between cattle ranchers and settlers once again takes center stage in this slightly above-average Western filmed in Republic Pictures' Trucolor system. Walter Brennan plays Pop "Brimstone" Courteen, an ornery rancher who avenges the loss of the free range by robbing stagecoaches Read More

The Plunderers

Actors: Rod Cameron, Ilona Massey, Adrian Booth, Forrest Tucker, George Cleveland

Synopsis: Hero Rod Cameron kills Sheriff Sam Borden (George Cleveland) at point-blank range and in front of several witnesses in the opening of this Republic Pictures Western, released in the company's patented Trucolor system. The "killing," however, is merely a ruse set up to allow army agent Johnny Drum (Cameron Read More

Panhandle

Actors: Rod Cameron, Cathy Downs, Reed Hadley, Anne Gwynne, Blake Edwards

Synopsis: Regarded by some film buffs as the best of director Leslie Selander's many westerns, Panhandle stars Rod Cameron as an ex-lawman turned gunslinger. He hopes to bury his past and homestead in Texas, but his plans change when his newspaper-reporter brother (John Champion) is killed. Reluctantly, Cameron Read More

Strike It Rich

Actors: Rod Cameron, Bonita Granville, Don Castle, Stuart Erwin, Lloyd Corrigan

Synopsis: Wildcatters in search of a gusher during the late 1920s provide the basis of this comedy-drama that centers on a rambunctious trio of men. When not drinking and fighting, the three are enthusiastically drilling for black gold. The trouble begins when one of the wildcatters grows dissatisfied with Read More

River Lady

Actors: Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea, Rod Cameron, Helena Carter, Lloyd Gough

Synopsis: Yvonne DeCarlo dons 19th century "adventuress" garb once more in River Lady. This time she's a 19th century gambling queen, in charge of a profitable Mississippi riverboat casino. DeCarlo falls in love with logger Rod Cameron; when he won't succumb to her charms, she tries to buy his affections Read More

Pirates of Monterey

Actors: Rod Cameron, George Lewis, George Magrill

Synopsis: Pirates of Monterey is set during the early 19th century, at a time when California was asserting its independence from Mexico. Rod Cameron plays Phillip Kent, a devil-may-care mercenary hired to transport a shipment of rifles to the American army detachment at Monterey. Along the way, he is Read More

Belle Starr's Daughter

Actors: George Montgomery, Rod Cameron, Ruth Roman, Wallace Ford, Charles Kemper

Synopsis: A young woman rides out for vengeance against the marshall who killed her notorious outlaw mother in this western sequel to 1941's Belle Starr. Once in the rough-and-tumble town where he works she learns the surprising truth. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Runaround

Actors: Rod Cameron, Ella Raines, Broderick Crawford, Frank McHugh, Samuel S. Hinds

Synopsis: The Runaround is a game attempt to return to the "screwball comedy" genre so popular in the 1930s. Rival detectives Kildane (Rod Cameron) and Prentice (Broderick Crawford) are hired simultaneously by millionaire Norman Hampton (Samuel J. Hinds). Their client informs the two gumshoes that he has a Read More

Swing Out, Sister

Actors: Rod Cameron, Billie Burke, Arthur Treacher, Jacqueline De Wit

Synopsis: Though on its last legs, Universal's "B"-musical unit continued grinding out tune-filled quickies like Swing Out, Sister well into 1946. Universal cowboy star Rod Cameron plays Geoffrey, conductor of a high-toned symphony orchestra. Secretly harboring the desire to become a swingin' jazz Read More

Frontier Gal

Actors: Yvonne De Carlo, Rod Cameron, Andy Devine, Fuzzy Knight, Andrew Tombes

Synopsis: Johnny Hart (Rod Cameron) is on the run from the law after killing one of the men who shot his partner. He passes through a town and stops at a saloon owned by singer Lorena Dumont (Yvonne de Carlo). The two seem a good, albeit tempestuous match, although Johnny has no plans to marry -- Lorena has Read More

Salome, Where She Danced

Actors: Yvonne De Carlo, Rod Cameron, David Bruce, Walter Slezak, Albert Dekker

Synopsis: This campy little drama launched the career of B-girl Yvonne De Carlo. It is set during the Franco-Prussian war and chronicles the exploits of Salome, a beautiful Viennese dancer who falls for an American reporter and for him gets involved in cloak-and-dagger activities involving the Bismarck Read More

Beyond the Pecos

Synopsis: Shortly before Universal Pictures disbanded its "B" unit, the studio inaugurated an energetic western series starring Rod Cameron. In Beyond the Pecos, Cameron plays a rancher at odds with longtime rival Eddie Dew (himself a "B" sagebrush star at other studios). The two brawny men in Stetsons Read More

Renegades of the Rio Grande

Synopsis: In this western, a young man infiltrates a vicious gang of bank robbers in order to capture his father's killer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Trigger Trail

Synopsis: In this western, a group of avaricious businessman try to coerce settlers from their valuable land until a brave cowboy rides up to protect them and round up the villains. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Old Texas Trail

Synopsis: In this western, set in Texas, the brave heroes Rod, Fuzzy, and their good-guy gang attempt to keep a band of ruthless outlaws who are trying to take over the reins of a stage coach line. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Mrs. Parkington

Actors: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Edward Arnold, Agnes Moorehead, Cecil Kellaway, Peter Lawford

Synopsis: The usual modus operandi for Hollywood "through the years" sagas was to gradually age its young actors in the course of the film. In Mrs. Parkington, 35-year-old Greer Garson appears in old-lady makeup for virtually the entire 124-minute running time, even though this filmization of Louis Bromfield Read More

Boss of Boomtown

Synopsis: Boss of Boomtown was Rod Cameron's first western at Universal Pictures. The film's action highlights are loosely basted to a nickel's worth of plotline. Much of the footage is given over to the friendly-enemy banter between Cameron and his co-star Tom Tyler. Neither leading man was known for his Read More

Riders of the Santa Fe