Sharon AckerFilmography

Off Your Rocker

Synopsis: In this comedy, the aged residents of Flo Adler's Mapleview Nursing Home revolt against the corporate conglomerate threatening to take over their home. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Threshold

Actors: Donald Sutherland, John Marley, Sharon Acker, Mare Winningham, Jeff Goldblum

Synopsis: Donald Sutherland plays a brilliant surgeon who becomes a media celebrity after performing an artificial-heart transplant. Jeff Goldblum, inventor of the ersatz heart, likewise basks in the glow of sudden fame. The only person to have reservations about the procedure is heart recipient Mare Winningham Read More

Happy Birthday to Me

Actors: Melissa Sue Anderson, Glenn Ford, Tracey E. Bregman, Jack Blum, Matt Craven, Lawrence Z. Dane, Frances Hyland, Sharon Acker

Synopsis: Certainly the low point in Glenn Ford's acting career, this Canadian production is, nevertheless, one of the slickest-looking slasher films from that subgenre's early-'80s heyday. The plot (what one can make of it) involves an unseen killer stalking a group of college students at the prestigious Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Memories of Allison

Synopsis: Season Seven of Quincy, M.E. begins at a crowded job fair, where guest lecturer Quincy (Jack Klugman) ends up rushing to the aid of a young woman (Sharon Acker) who has fallen down an escalator. Recovering from her injuries in the hospital, the woman awakens with no idea who she is nor what has Read More

The Murder That Wouldn't Die

Actors: Lane Caudell, Tommy Aguilar

Synopsis: Originally intended as the pilot for a never-sold cop series titled Battles, this made-for-TV meller stars William Conrad as William Battles, a retired Los Angeles police detective spending his golden years in Hawaii. Somewhat bored by inactivity, Battles takes a job at a local college as Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Promises to Keep

Synopsis: After a four-year relationship, Quincy (Jack Klugman) still cannot summon the courage to propose to his lady friend Lynne (Sharon Acker), and in fact seems to be deliberately neglected her in favor of his work. During a particularly difficult forensic procedure in which he must clean up after an Read More

The Rockford Files: The Man Who Saw the Alligators

Synopsis: Though apparently killed at the end of the previous episode "To Protect and Serve", mob hit man "Anthony Boy" Gagglio (George Loros) actually survived to serve a prison term. Now a free man, Anthony Boy has sworn vengenace against the person who sent him up--namely, Jim Rockford (James Garner) Read More

Quincy, M.E.: The Last Six Hours

Synopsis: Quincy, M.E.'s fourth season begins several hundred miles away from Los Angeles, home turf for feisty medical examiner Quincy (Jack Klugman). After he and his girlfriend Barbara (Sharon Acker) are nearly run off the road in a very minor car accident, Quincy discovers that the driver, a woman, is Read More

The Rockford Files: Rosendahl and Gilda Stern Are Dead

Synopsis: Rita Moreno returns as freewheeling prostitute Rita Capkovic, who wants again begs Jim (James Garner) to save her life. It seems that Rita's most recent "John", Dr. Neil Rosendahl (William Joyce), was murdered right before her eyes--but she herself has been charged with the crime. Among other Read More

The Hostage Heart

Synopsis: When a billionaire checks into the hospital for a heart operation, he becomes the object of a massive terrorist attack, as they hold him for $10 million ransom. Complicating the problem is his absolute obsession with his privacy, a la Howard Hughes. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Breakup

Synopsis: Vengeful ex-convict Harlan Betts (Lawrence Pressman) is determined to get even with high-profile attorney Larry Drake (Lawrence Pressman), who when serving as deputy district attorney sent Betts to prison. At the same time, Charlie Finn (Pernell Roberts), a businessman facing bankruptcy, is Read More

Our Man Flint: Dead on Target

Synopsis: Our Man Flint had scored in 1966 as a high-gloss spy movie spoof starring James Coburn as Derek Flint, maverick operative of the Zonal Organization for World Intelligence and Espionage (or Z.O.W.I.E.). When the film spawned its inevitable TV-pilot spin-off, Ray Danton was Derek Flint and the Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: The Programming of Charlie Blake

Synopsis: The latest patient of ambitious psychiatrist Norman Jessup (William Smithers) is lifelong lawbreaker Charlie Blake (Dean Stockwell). In his efforts to advance himself, Dr. Jessup has no qualms about exploiting Blake's criminal past. These efforts prove to have their dangerous side when Jessup Read More

The Hanged Man

Actors: Steve Forrest, Cameron Mitchell, Sharon Acker, Dean Jagger, Will Geer

Synopsis: Steve Forrest, in his last starring role before moving permanently to series television with S.W.A.T., plays James Devlin, a once-notorious gunman who is wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Through an accident -- though the priest Father Alvaro (Rafael Campos) insists it was Read More

The Stranger

Synopsis: Astronaut Neil Stryker (Glenn Corbett) returns from space, only to find himself held incommunicado by government security people he's never seen before, in a hospital facility that he's never heard of. He escapes from the hospital and, to his shock, sees a night sky lit up by three moons. He now Read More

Mission: Impossible: Trapped

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Bert Convy

Synopsis: Scripted by Rick Husky from a story by Sam Roeca, "Trapped" is a radical departure from the usual Mission:Impossible format. Things start traditionally enough, as the IMF sets about to recover an $8 million army payroll from a family of smugglers: Joe, Arthur and Doug Stafford (Tom Tully, Jon Read More

The Century Turns

Synopsis: The Century Turns is the syndication title of the 2-hour pilot for the Hec Ramsey television series. Richard Boone stars as Ramsey, an old-fashioned western lawman coming to grips with the "modern technology" of the 20th century. Ramsey teams up with college-educated criminologist Oliver Stamp (Rick Lenz Read More

Hec Ramsey [TV Series]

Synopsis: A college-educated sheriff takes on an older crimefighter as his deputy in this western. (AKA Century Turns) ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The F.B.I.: The Watch Dog

Synopsis: Inspector Erskine (Stuart Whitman) is determined to put a Communist spy ring headed by Damian Howards (Stuart Whitman) out of commission for keeps. Meanwhile, Howards concocts a scheme to get his hands on some top-secret information. Essential to the spy's success is his former girl friend Kate Read More

The Act of the Heart

Actors: Geneviève Bujold, Donald Sutherland, Monique Leyrac, Bill Mitchell, Suzanne Langlois

Synopsis: A woman is led to the edge of madness as she wrestles between her spiritual life and her romantic longings in this unusual drama. Martha Hayes (Genevieve Bujold) is a young woman who was raised in a small rural community. A deeply committed Christian, Hayes moves to Montreal, where she earns a Read More

A Clear and Present Danger

Actors: Joseph Campanella, Cindy Eilbacher, Hal Holbrook

Synopsis: The Bold Ones was the umbrella title given a group of rotating hour-long TV series, which ran from 1969 to 1973. Joining established Bold Ones components The Doctors and The Lawyers in 1970 was The Senator, starring Hal Holbrook as RFK-like Senator Hays Stowe. The pilot for The Senator was A Clear and Present Danger Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Homecoming

Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: In a change-of-pace Mission:Impossible episode, Jim Phelps makes a sentimental journey to his rural home town. Even here, however, Phelps finds himself waist-deep in a danger, as a series of unexplained murders terrorizes the community. Summoning the aid of his fellow IMF agents, Phelps conducts Read More

The First Time

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Wes Stern, Ricky Kelman, Wink Roberts, Gerard Parkes

Synopsis: Three teenage boys yearn for their first sexual experience in The First Time. Kenny (Wes Stern) is sent to Buffalo for the summer to visit his grandmother. Terminally bored, he writes letters back home to his friends telling them what a good time he is having. Of particular interest is a bordello Read More

Star Trek: The Mark of Gideon

Synopsis: Traveling on a diplomatic mission to meet with the leaders of the planet of Gideon, Captain Kirk instead finds himself aboard a ghostly version of the Enterprise in this episode of the landmark science fiction series. Having fallen victim to what appears to be a transporter mishap, Kirk Read More

Waiting for Caroline

Synopsis: In this drama, a wealthy Canadian's daughter moves to Quebec and begins romancing a young actor. The romance is interrupted when her ex-lover arrives and asks for her hand. Soon the men become rivals for her love. But try as they might, neither take her father's place in her heart. When her father Read More

Don't Let the Angels Fall

Actors: Arthur Hill, Sharon Acker, Charmion King-Pinsent, Michele Magny

Synopsis: Robert (Arthur Hill) is a successful family man who attends an insurance convention in the U.S. Leaving behind his wife Barbara (Sharon Acker) and two sons ages 19 and 13, he has an affair with an American girl. His wife suspects something is wrong when he returns. The youngest son skips school Read More

Point Blank

Actors: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn, Carroll O'Connor, John Vernon

Synopsis: Based on Donald E. Westlake's novel The Hunter, John Boorman's gangster film hauntingly merges a generic revenge story with a European art cinema sensibility. In Alcatraz to divvy up the spoils from a robbery, thief Walker (Lee Marvin) is instead shot point blank by his double-crossing friend Mal Read More

One Plus One

Actors: Leo G. Carroll, Hilda Brawner, William Traylor, Madeleine Christie, Kate Reid

Synopsis: Neither fish nor fowl, this docudrama is an odd combination of ostensible statistics and dramatic fiction. Using the much-touted first Kinsey Report on sexual behavior as a resource, director Arch Oboler has strung together five different vignettes on the topics of premarital relations Read More

Lucky Jim

Actors: Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Hugh Griffith, Sharon Acker, Jean Anderson, Clive Morton

Synopsis: Lucky Jim is based on the same-named satirical novel by Kingsley Amis. The hero, Jim Dixon (Ian Carmichael), is a well-intentioned junior history professor in an unnamed British university. Hoping to impress the new chancellor, Jim succeeds only in bollixing up everything he touches. When he's not Read More