Scott Brady Filmography

Winds of War, Part 7: Into the Maelstorm

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Ali MacGraw, Jan-Michael Vincent, John Houseman, Polly Bergen

Synopsis: In the final episode of the seven-part, eighteen-hour miniseries The Winds of War, Ambassador-at-large "Pug" Henry (Robert Mitchum) represents the US in a series of conferences with the intansigent Russian premier Josef Stalin (Anatoly Chauginian). Dallying briefly with his erstwhile British Read More

This Girl for Hire

Synopsis: In this detective drama set in Hollywood, a private investigator uses logic to solve the murder of a famous mystery writer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Strange Behavior

Actors: Michael Murphy, Louise Fletcher, Dan Shor, Fiona Lewis, Arthur Dignam

Synopsis: Dead Kids, aka Strange Behavior, is a creepy exercise from director Michael Laughlin--who conceived this as part one of an abortive "Strange Trilogy" which also included 1983's Strange Invaders. Although lensed in New Zealand, the film is set in a sleepy American town, in which a series of gory Read More

American Dream

Actors: Karen Carlson, Stephen Macht

Synopsis: Officially premiering April 27, 1981, the weekly TV drama American Dream was preceded by a 90-minute pilot film, telecast April 26. The six-member Novak family, headed by Marshall Field employee Danny Novak (Stephen Macht), moves from the comfort of suburban Arlington Heights to inner-city Chicago Read More

Power

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV "roman a clef", Joe Don Baker stars as Tommy Vanda, a Hoffa-esque labor leader. Told in flashback, the film recounts Vanda's humble beginnings on the Chicago docks, where he gains fame and notoreity amongst his coworkers and his bosses by spearheading a wildcat strike. Rising Read More

The China Syndrome

Actors: Jane Fonda, Jack Lemmon, Michael Douglas, Scott Brady, James Hampton, Wilford Brimley

Synopsis: This gripping 1979 drama about the dangers of nuclear power carried an extra jolt when a real-life accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania occurred just weeks after the film opened. Kimberly Wells (Jane Fonda) is a TV reporter trying to advance from fluff pieces to harder Read More

Taxi: The Great Race

Actors: Julie Payne, Kres Mersky, Scott Brady, James Hong, Jean Owens Hayworth

Synopsis: The garage becomes a unofficial gambling emporium when the cabbies place bets as to whether Alex (Judd Hirsch) can bring in more fare money than Louie (Danny DeVito) during a single night, or vice versa. Elaine (Marilu Henner) is particularly anxious over the outcome of this wager, especially Read More

Arthur Hailey's Wheels

Actors: Rock Hudson, Lee Remick, Blair Brown, John Beck, Ralph Bellamy

Synopsis: Another of the many Arthur Hailey literary properties which were transformed into TV miniseries in the 1970s, the five-part, ten-hour Wheels took place in Detroit sometime in the late 1960s. Rock Hudson starred as Adam Trenton, executive in charge of project development at the fictional Read More

When Every Day Was the Fourth of July

Synopsis: Taking a breather from his usual horror and science-fiction endeavors, producer/director/writer Dan Curtis reminisces about his childhood in When Every Day Was the Fourth of July. Set in Bridgeport, Connecticut in the 1930s, the film concentrates on attorney Dean Jones and his 9-year-old daughter Read More

The Rockford Files: Local Man Eaten by Newspaper

Synopsis: Jim (James Garner) goes undercover at a tabloid rag, "The National Investigator", to find out if its reports have burglarized the private files of "Doctor to the Stars" Richard Hagens (Dallas Mitchell). When Hagens is murdered, the "Investigator" goes after Jim with both barrels, all but accusing Read More

Laverne & Shirley: Buddy, Can You Spare a Father?

Synopsis: After an absence of many years, Shirley's irresponsible father Jack (Scott Brady) shows up and makes a dinner engagement with his daughter. Hours pass, and Jack fails to show up. Disconsolately, Shirley (Cindy Williams) tries to track down her dad by searching every two-bit beer joint and gin mill Read More

Pressure Point

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a watch commander becomes a father figure to the men he oversees. He helps them in all aspects, professional and personal, of their lives. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Rockford Files: The Trees, the Bees and T.T. Flowers, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Jim (James Garner) infiltrates a sanitarium called Horizon's Crest to rescue T.T. Flowers (Strother Martin), who is being victimized by evil land developer Jack Muellard (Scott Brady). But though Muellard is temporarily stopped in his tracks, T.T. still isn't Read More

The Rockford Files: The Trees, the Bees and T.T. Flowers, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Rocky's somewhat eccentric friend T.T. Flowers (Strother Martin) has been forced off his "Freedom" property, declared mentally incomptetent, and placed in a sanitarium called Horizon's Crest. It's all the handiwork of crooked land developer Jack Muellard Read More

All in the Family: Edith's Night Out

Actors: Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers, Scott Brady

Synopsis: Given an attractive pantsuit by Gloria, Edith would like to show off her new outfit in public. Alas, Archie is his usual stick-in-the-mud self, and refuses to take Edith out. Undaunted, Edith decides to have a good time on her own, and takes her first step toward that goal by heading down to Read More

Law and Order

Actors: Art Hindle

Synopsis: Former policewoman Dorothy Uhnak wrote the book upon which this 150-minute TV movie was based. The central characters of Law and Order are the male members of an Irish-American family--three generations of police officers. The bulk of the drama concerns the conflicts between Deputy Chief of Public Read More

All in the Family: Archie's Brief Encounter, Part One

Actors: Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers, Janis Paige

Synopsis: Season seven of All in the Family opened with an hour-long episode -- the first of a two-part story arc -- which put the relationship between Archie and Edith Bunker to its severest test. With Edith busy at the Sunshine Nursing Home, a lonely Archie gravitates to an attractive middle-aged waitress Read More

All in the Family: Archie's Brief Encounter, Part Two

Actors: Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner, Sally Struthers, Scott Brady

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story arc, Edith is outraged that Archie has been "stepping out" with a waitress named Denise (Janis Paige), despite Archie's insistence that the relationship never went beyond the flirtation stage. Ultimately, Archie and Edith separate, with both parties to proud Read More

The Kansas City Massacre

Actors: Dale Robertson

Synopsis: In this sequel to Melvin Purvis, G-Man, Dale Robertson returns as the crime fighter, who must battle such notorious gangsters as Pretty Boy Floyd, John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Rockford Files: Gearjammers, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Jim (James Garner) has finally figured out that his dad Rocky (Noah Beery Jr.) has been targeted for elimination by the same hijacking ring that bumped off Rocky's friend Johnny LoSalvo. To flush out the villains, Jim goes undercover as a truck company road Read More

Ironside: A Game of Showdown

Synopsis: While on a fishing trip, Ironside (Raymond Burr) and Ed (Don Galloway) make a quick stopover at a roadside inn. It soon becomes obvious that the establish is the front for an illegal gambling house, run by a sinister professional speculator named Lou Hogan (Robert Webber), who may also have the Read More

The Night Strangler

Actors: John Carradine, Darren McGavin

Synopsis: The Night Strangler is the sequel to the enormously successful 1972 TV movie The Night Stalker. Darren McGavin returns as seedy reporter Carl Kolchak, who previously ran into conflict when Las Vegas authorities refused to acknowledge Kolchak's uncovering of a modern-day vampire. Now he's in Read More

Bonnie's Kids

Synopsis: Several good actors are laid low by the tawdriness of Bonnie's Kids. The title characters, played by Tiffany Bolling and Robin Mattson, are sisters of a single mind. They intend to be criminals, and they succeed beyond their wildest dreams. Before the film's 107 minutes has run its course Read More

Wicked, Wicked

Actors: Kirk Bates, Indira Danks

Synopsis: Set on a coastal resort in California, the thrills in this mystery begin as a strange killer chops up three blonde beauties forcing the house detective to work overtime to figure out that the killer is right under his nose. The film was shot in "Duo-Vision," a technique that splits the screen and Read More

Banacek: No Stone Unturned

Synopsis: No Stone Unturned was the second-season opener of the Banacek TV series. George Peppard plays insurance investigator Banacek, whom the police call in whenever they're stumped. Banacek is assigned to find a 3 ton, 10 foot sculpture, that has apparently walked away by itself. Scott Brady, Gary Lockwood Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Pendulum

Actors: Peter Graves, Lynda Day George, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: "Nightfall" is the code name of a widespread terrorist attack planned by a secret organization called the Pendulum. The IMF must learn the nature of the attack, and also bring down Pendulum leader Gunnar Malstrom (Dean Stockwell). As an interesting change of pace, the viewer is given far more plot Read More

The Leo Chronicles

The Loners

Actors: Larry O'Leno

Synopsis: Three teens--a half Navajo (Dean Stockwell), a rebellious girl (Pat Stich) and a retarded boy (Todd Susman)--hit the road after they're accused of killing a policeman. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Cain's Cutthroats

$ (Dollars)

Actors: Warren Beatty, Goldie Hawn, Gert Fröbe, Robert Webber, Scott Brady

Synopsis: Originally billed as merely $, Dollars stars top box office draws Warren Beatty and Goldie Hawn. Beatty plays a security whiz, employed in Hamburg, Germany. He devises a clever method of robbing the secret bank vaults of notorious criminals, reasoning that the crooks will never turn to the cops. Read More

Nightmare Blood Bath

Hell's Bloody Devils

Actors: Harland Sanders, John Gabriel, Kent Taylor

Synopsis: Bikers, Nazis, Mafiosi, and the FBI all clash in this wild and wooly exploitation picture from director Al Adamson. Mark Adams (John Gabriel) is an FBI agent who has been assigned to infiltrate an organized crime ring that has obtained a set of printing plates that will allow them to produce Read More

Caine's Cutthroats

The War Merchants

Doctors' Wives

Actors: Dyan Cannon, Richard Crenna, Gene Hackman, Rachel Roberts, Carroll O'Connor

Synopsis: Among a cliquish set of country club doctors and surgeons, it seems that sleeping around is the norm. Early in the film, however, one husband murders his promiscuous wife (Dyan Cannon) while she is in bed with a rather unlikely adulterer. The various alliances and rivalries in this close-knit Read More

Murder One

Actors: Diane Baker, Howard Duff, Robert Conrad

Synopsis: Murder One was the pilot film for the Jack Webb-produced TV series The D.A. Howard Duff plays the title role, with Robert Conrad his able-bodied deputy. The indictment they must prepare for the Grand Jury is that of nurse Diane Baker. Several of Baker's husbands and relatives have met untimely Read More

The Ice House

Synopsis: This disturbing low-budget psycho-thriller stars twins Robert Story and David Story as a serial strangler and his detective brother on opposite sides of the same case. Robert's psychotic aversion to romantic rejection leads to a growing heap of female bodies in his walk-in freezer; David's Read More

Adam-12: Log 102: We Can't Just Walk Away From It

Synopsis: Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) are summoned to the scene of a potential suicide, as young Larry Harris (Roger Garrett) threatens to end it all. Making this crisis even more dicey is the fact that Larry is heavily armed, and has threatened to "take out" anyone who Read More

The Mighty Gorga

Synopsis: The hunt for a gigantic African gorilla provides the basis for this adventure-fantasy. A circus manager leads the expedition right into a native ambush. The explorers are captured and slated to become human sacrifices when the towering title primate shows up and destroys everything. Fortunately Read More

Love in Cold Blood

Synopsis: A police investigator examines the murders committed by a criminal who hides the dead bodies in a meat freezer. (AKA Ice House) ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Satan's Sadists

Actors: Russ Tamblyn, Scott Brady, Kent Taylor, John Cardos, Jackie Taylor, Robert Dix

Synopsis: The Mojave desert becomes a battleground when vicious bikers go on a killing spree, causing innocent would-be victims to get bloody revenge. Classic exploitation film violence and action ensues. This low-budget film marks the comeback of formerly popular child actor Russ Tamblyn who goes against Read More

Nightmare in Wax

Actors: Scott Brady, Cameron Mitchell

Synopsis: Cameron Mitchell's most flamboyantly silly role came as the horribly disfigured ex-makeup-artist Vincent Renard in this cult variation on the horror classic House of Wax. The vengeful Renard runs the Movieland Wax Museum, where he kidnaps actors, gives them paralyzing drugs, and dips them in wax Read More

The Cycle Savages

Actors: Bruce Dern, Chris Robinson, Melody Patterson, Maray Ayres, Karen Ciral

Synopsis: Film editor Bill Brame directed this violent biker film featuring an intense performance by Bruce Dern as Keeg, the sadistic leader of a vicious gang of cyclists. When Keeg's girlfriend Lea (Melody Patterson) poses nude for an artist named Romko (Chris Robinson), the hooligan goes on a drunken Read More

Cain's Way

Synopsis: This extra-violent Civil War melodrama was also released as Cain's Way and The Blood Seekers. Scott Brady plays a homesteader whose biracial family is butchered by Confederate renegades. Teaming up with bounty hunter-cum-preacher John Carradine, Brady goes after the men responsible. After Read More

Five Bloody Graves

Synopsis: Ben Thompson (Robert Dix) rides through the wilds of Arizona seeking revenge in this violent, low-budget Al Adamson Western. For many years, Thompson has been searching for the Indian who killed his bride on their wedding day, with Death as his only companion. The man he seeks is Satago (John Cardos Read More

Marooned

Actors: Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen, James Franciscus, Gene Hackman, Lee Grant

Synopsis: In this tense and suspenseful science fiction thriller, Charles Keith (Gregory Peck) is the ground commander in Houston who monitors the space mission of three astronauts. Buzz (Gene Hackman), Jim (Richard Crenna) and Clayton (James Franciscus) have their lives put in jeopardy when the oxygen Read More

The Road Hustlers

Synopsis: A clan of Carolina moonshiners struggle to outsmart the revenuers and deliver their potent brew in this crime drama. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

They Ran for Their Lives

Synopsis: In this crime adventure, a young woman carrying an important paper finds herself pursued by three crooks who chase her into the desert. She is saved by a helpful stranger. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Arizona Bushwackers

Actors: Howard Keel, Yvonne De Carlo, John Ireland, Marilyn Maxwell, Scott Brady

Synopsis: Producer A.C. Lyles managed to do quite well for himself in the 1960s by making low-budget westerns crammed full of familiar faces whose stock in the film industry had slipped a bit. Starring in Arizona Bushwackers were such celebrities of yesteryear as Howard Keel, Yvonne De Carlo, John Ireland, Marilyn Maxwell Read More

Journey to the Center of Time

Synopsis: Time Warp is the alternate title for the moderately budgeted Journey To the Center of Time. The scene is a research center, where experimental time-travel is in its formative stages. The center's directors are informed that, if they don't prove the efficacy of their research within 24 hours, they Read More

Red Tomahawk

Actors: Howard Keel, Joan Caulfield, Broderick Crawford, Scott Brady, Wendell Corey

Synopsis: In this routine western, Captain Tom York (Howard Keel) tries to warn the residents of Deadwood of an impending Sioux Indian attack in the wake of the Custer massacre. The people mistake him for a deserter and pay no heed to Tom's warning. Local gunfighter Ep Wyatt (Scott Brady) convinces the Read More

Fort Utah

Actors: John Ireland, Virginia Mayo, Scott Brady, John Russell, Robert Strauss

Synopsis: An insane, renegade cavalryman leads his vicious band of outlaws into a series of brutal raids against settlers and local Indians in this western. Fortunately, a former gunslinger and a brave Indian agent ride up to save the imperiled pioneers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Castle of Evil

Actors: Scott Brady, Virginia Mayo, Lisa Gaye, David Brian, Hugh Marlowe

Synopsis: A bunch of hopeful heirs arrives on an isolated island to hear the will of a horribly scarred, mad scientist. They must not only find the person who is responsible for his disfigurement, but also survive the rampages of a vicious robot the scientist has made in his own image. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Read More

Destination Inner Space

Actors: Scott Brady, Sheree North, Gary Merrill, Mike Road

Synopsis: When oceanographers working at an undersea lab discover a submerged spaceship and alien pod, they bring the pod back to their lab for investigation. Of course, the pod turns into an amphibious monster who could be the twin of the Creature from the Black Lagoon. About what you'd expect from this Read More

Black Spurs

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Linda Darnell, Scott Brady, Lon Chaney, Jr., Bruce Cabot

Synopsis: In this western, a world-weary bounty hunter begins working for an avaricious crook who wants to destroy the good name of a little town so that the railroad will be built across his land. To enact his plan he brings a notorious gambler to town. He also establishes a brothel in the saloon. The Read More

Stage to Thunder Rock

Actors: Barry Sullivan, Marilyn Maxwell, Keenan Wynn, Scott Brady, Lon Chaney, Jr.

Synopsis: In this western adventure, a sheriff prepares to retire and finds himself forced to deal with his past when he is assigned to round up a gang of outlaws comprised of the sons of the man who raised him after his own parents were killed. The sheriff has to kill one of the desperadoes. The other he Read More

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home

Actors: Peter Ustinov, Shirley MacLaine, Richard Crenna, Jim Backus, Scott Brady

Synopsis: Politics and sports clash in this occasionally funny spoof centered around a downed U2 pilot and an extravagant oil sheik. John Goldfarb (Richard Crenna), a former football player, now pilot, sent on a reconnaissance mission over the Soviet Union, is lost and crash-lands in the Middle Eastern Read More

Operation Bikini

Actors: Tab Hunter, Frankie Avalon, Scott Brady, Jim Backus, Gary Crosby

Synopsis: This conventional wartime drama is comprised of an inexplicable mix of moods and genres as a U.S. submarine in World War II heads out to the island of Bikini in the South Pacific to destroy the remains of a sunken sister ship. The ruined ship has some delicate radar equipment on board that cannot Read More

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Run for Doom

Actors: John Gavin, Diana Dors, Scott Brady, Carl Benton Reid, Tom Skerritt

Synopsis: Head over heels in love with brassy nightclub singer Niki Carroll (Diana Dors), Dr. Don Reed (John Gavin) intends to marry her despite the objections of his father, Horace Reed (Carl Benton Reid), and Niki's former boyfriend, Bill Floyd (Scott Brady). Even the fact that all three of Niki's former Read More

The Untouchables: The Floyd Gibbons Story

Synopsis: This episode of The Untouchables was intended as the pilot for a spinoff series starring Scott Brady as celebrated war correspondent and gonzo journalist Floyd Gibbons. When his fellow reporter Carleton Edmunds (Paul Langton) is murdered while investigating a illegal scrap-metal operation, Gibbons Read More

Battle Flame

Actors: Scott Brady, Elaine Edwards, Robert Blake, Wayne Heffley, Gordon Jones

Synopsis: This routine and somewhat trite war movie develops slowly until a group of five nurses are captured by North Korean troops and quite clearly need to be rescued. At the head of the rescue task force is Lt. Frank Davis (Scott Brady). Frank has a special interest in freeing the women because one of Read More

Blood Arrow

Actors: Scott Brady, Paul Richards, Phyllis Coates, Don Haggerty, Rocky Shahan

Synopsis: Phyllis Coates, TV's erstwhile Lois Lane, essays one of her largest film roles in Blood Arrow. Coates is cast as a devout Mormon girl whose mission is to transport smallpox vaccine to her friends and neighbors. Unfortunately, this requires her to journey through hostile Indian territory. Read More

Ambush at Cimarron Pass

Actors: Scott Brady, Margia Dean, Baynes Barron, William Vaughan, Ken Mayer, Clint Eastwood

Synopsis: Despite the glut of TV westerns in 1958, 20th Century-Fox's Regal Films subsidiary continued grinding out profitable sagebrushers. In Ambush at Cimarron Pass, cavalry sergeant Scott Brady is ordered to escort a prisoner through treacherous Indian territory. A diehard Union sympathizer, Brady is Read More

The Storm Rider

Actors: Scott Brady, Mala Powers, Bill Williams, Olin Howland, William Fawcett

Synopsis: Edward Bernds, graduate of Columbia's "Three Stooges" shorts and Allied Artists' "Bowery Boys" epics, expertly guides The Storm Rider through its paces. Scott Brady plays an ex-gunslinger who is hired by a group of ranchers to protect them from covetous land baron Roy Engel. Unbeknownst to the Read More

The Restless Breed

Actors: Scott Brady, Anne Bancroft, Jay C. Flippen, Rhys Williams, Jim Davis

Synopsis: Another of director Allan Dwan's underrated but well-crafted westerns of the 1950s, The Restless Breed stars Scott Brady as a young gunslinger who lives for revenge. When Brady's father is killed by gun runners, he pursues the villains across the Mexican border. Gang leader Jim Davis, beyond the Read More

Mohawk

Actors: Scott Brady, Rita Gam, Neville Brand, Lori Nelson, Allison Hayes

Synopsis: Though released by 20th Century-Fox, Mohawk was produced independently by Edward L. Alperson, who also doubled as the film's musical composer. Scott Brady stars as an 18th century Boston artist, sent to Mohawk Valley to paint landscapes and portraits of Native Americans. Brady is forced to pack u