Sheree NorthFilmography

Defenseless

Actors: Barbara Hershey, Sam Shepard, Mary Beth Hurt, J.T. Walsh, Kellie Overbey

Synopsis: In this suspense drama, a lawyer finds out more than she wanted to know about her friends and lovers. T.K. Katwuller (Barbara Hershey) is a lawyer with a firm command of her career but an unstable hold on her private life; she's more single than she'd like to be, and she's become romantically Read More

Dead on the Money

Actors: Corbin Bernsen, Amanda Pays, John Glover, Eleanor Parker, Kevin McCarthy

Synopsis: Plot twists abound in this suspenseful made-for-television thriller as a beautiful actress tries to save her cousin from the schemes of a conniving murderer who just may be her lover. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Hunter: Shield of Honor

Synopsis: Hunter (Fred Dryer) is given the responsibility of mentoring fledgling detective Jack Ryan (Eric Larson)--the son of his own mentor, police commissioner Bill Ryan (Harry Guardino). Unfortunately, during the search for a robber-murderer who preys upon businessman at check-cashing stores, young Jack Read More

Jake Spanner: Private Eye

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Ernest Borgnine, Laurie Latham

Synopsis: In this mystery, based on a novel by L.A. Morse, retired L.A. detective Jake Spanner enlists the aide of a group of senior citizens to help him find an ex-mobster's daughter. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Cold Dog Soup

Actors: Randy Quaid, Frank Whaley, Christine Harnos, Sheree North, Nancy Kwan

Synopsis: In this black comedy starring Randy Quaid, a dead dog, a red-hot date, and a Zen-quoting cabbie with strange connections provide the ingredients for the most frustrating night in poor Michael Latchmer's heretofore dull life. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Maniac Cop

Actors: Tom Atkins, Bruce Campbell, Laurene Landon, Richard Roundtree, William Smith

Synopsis: A maniacal murderer is stalking New York City cops in this urban crime thriller. Jack Forrest (Bruce Campbell) is suspected of being the killer until Lieutenant McCrae (Tom Atkins) is found dead. Jack takes over the case after McCrae's death with help from undercover cop and sweetheart Theresa (Laurene Landon Read More

Murder, She Wrote: No Laughing Murder

Synopsis: Buddy Hackett and Steve Lawrence guest star as Murray Gruen and Mack Howard, a famous comedy team that has been dissolved for years because of a bitter feud between the two men. In a true "Romeo and Juliet" situation, Murray's daughter Corrie (Beth Windsor) and Mack's son Kip (a decidedly pre-ER Read More

The Hollywood Collection: Marilyn Monroe - Beyond the Legend

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Joshua Logan, Susan Strasberg, Don Murray

Synopsis: This documentary of Marilyn Monroe takes a novel approach in not dwelling on her love affairs and concentrating on her film career. Film clips and press conferences accompany interviews of Marilyn's friends and co-stars such as Shelly Winters, Robert Mitchum, Susan Strasberg, and Joshua Logan. Read More

Magnum, P.I.: The Return of Luther Gillis

Synopsis: St. Louis-based private eye Luther H. Gillis (Eugene Roche) pays a return visit to Hawaii to pick up an award from the National Academy of Private Investigators. Unfortunately, Luther's loyal secretary Blanche (Sheree North) is kidnapped along with Higgins (John Hillerman), forcing a flustered Read More

Scorned and Swindled

Actors: Tuesday Weld, Peter Coyote, Keith Carradine

Synopsis: In this crime drama, an antique dealer falls and marries a seemingly successful businessman who ends up conning her out of every penny and leaving her. Unlike the many others he has conned, this plucky lady decides to stop him once and for all. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Legs

Actors: Gwen Verdon

Synopsis: Legs is a made-for-television backstage saga of the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes. As in musical films of old, the plot concentrates on three young hopefuls who aspire to fill one vacancy in the famous 36-member precision dancing troupe. The heroines are played by Shanna Reed, Deborah Geffner Read More

Marilyn: The Untold Story

Actors: Richard Basehart, Catherine Hicks

Synopsis: The title of this made-for-TV biopic is faintly risible: is there anything about Marilyn Monroe that we don't know by now? Pleasingly enough, the story is told in a straightforward, nonexploitive manner (the affair with JFK warrants no more than a throwaway line). Emmy-nominated Catherine Hicks Read More

Amateur Night at the Dixie Bar and Grill

Actors: Henry Gibson, Tanya Tucker

Synopsis: Director Joel Schumacher makes like Robert Altman in the made-for-TV Amateur Night at the Dixie Bar and Grill. In the tradition of Altman's Nashville, Schumacher's film is a rambling, anecdotal study of an amateur talent show in a tawdry Southern saloon. The link between the two films is Read More

Portrait of a Stripper

Synopsis: This made-for-TV drama tells the story of how a nice young widow becomes a stripper. She only does it because she desperately needs money to support her young son. When her son's grandfather finds out, he immediately starts a custody battle to take the son away from her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Only Once in a Lifetime

Actors: Miguel Robelo, Estrellita Lopez, Sheree North, Claudio Brook

Synopsis: This routine drama is about Dominguez (Miguel Robelo), a Chicano artist living in L.A. who is going through a difficult period of mourning for his dead wife. He lives alone with their dog and continues to paint in the way he wants -- which is not a style that anyone in the public is willing to Read More

A Real American Hero

Actors: Brian Dennehy

Synopsis: This made-for-TV actioner was designed as the pilot for a series based on the popular Walking Tall films of the 1970s. This time out, a young Brian Dennehy is cast as the stick-wielding, scrupulously honest Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser (played in the films by Joe Don Baker and Bo Svenson), with Forrest Tucker Read More

Rabbit Test

Actors: Billy Crystal, Joan Prather, Alex Rocco, Doris Roberts

Synopsis: In this, Joan Rivers' first attempt at film direction, a young virgin male (Billy Crystal) is engaged to be married when he finds out he is pregnant! Using the film as a vehicle for her acerbic humor, director Rivers may as well be on stage, for interspersed throughout this questionable plot is an Read More

Telefon

Actors: Charles Bronson, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasence, Tyne Daly, Alan Badel

Synopsis: Don Siegel took over the directing chores from Peter Hyams on this taut cold war action film, based on the novel by Walter Wager. With the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union thawing, old KGB hard-liner Nicolai Dalchimsky (Donald Pleasence) activates a group of Americans who Read More

The Night They Took Miss Beautiful

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

Most Wanted

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV film later adapted into a TV series, a special detective (Robert Stack) and his unit investigate a series of attacks involving the rape and murder of nuns. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Shootist

Actors: John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, Bill McKinney, James Stewart

Synopsis: About ten minutes into The Shootist, Doctor Hostetler (James Stewart) tells aging Western gunfighter John Bernard Books (John Wayne), "You have a cancer." Knowing that his death will be painful and lingering, Books is determined to be shot in the line of "duty." In his remaining two months, Books Read More

Survival

Synopsis: In this psychodrama, a group of people hold a dinner party. Over dinner each guest discusss the reasons why he or she should be allowed to keep on living. Later the happy party-goers must vote on which two of them get to survive. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

A Shadow in the Streets

Actors: Tony Lo Bianco, Sheree North, Dana Andrews, Ed Lauter, Jesse Welles

Synopsis: Just one year before directing his breakthrough film, 1976's The Omen, filmmaker Richard Donner helmed this made-for-television drama about an ex-con, played by Tony Lo Bianco. After his release from prison, parolee Pete Mackey (Lo Bianco) is faced with a number of obstacles in his attempts to go Read More

Breakout

Actors: Charles Bronson, Robert Duvall, Jill Ireland, John Huston, Randy Quaid, Sheree North

Synopsis: The star-director team of Charles Bronson and Tom Gries (Breakheart Pass) combine their efforts again on Breakout. Bronson plays Nick Colton, a reckless pilot who heads to an unnamed South American country, in hopes of rescuing imprisoned Jay Wagner (Robert Duvall). Villain Harris Wagner (John Huston Read More

Kojak: The Chinatown Murders, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of Kojak's two part second-season opener (originally telecast as a single 120-minute episode), Lt. Kojak (Telly Savalas) races against time to solve a series of murders in New York's Chinatown--and, hopefully, prevent a bloody full-scale war between two rival crime clans. Read More

The Cloning of Clifford Swimmer

Synopsis: In this sci-fi film a man has himself cloned to help him escape the pressure of his marital and financial problems. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Kojak: The Chinatown Murders, Part 1

Synopsis: Kojak opens its second season with a powerful two-part episode (originally telecast in a single 120-minute timeslot). Several murders have occurred in New York's Chinatown district, and police detective Theo Kojak (Telly Savalas) is concerned that an all-out war between rival crime families is Read More

Winter Kill

Synopsis: Winter Kill was the pilot film for a potential Andy Griffith TV series, to be titled MacNeil. Griffith plays the easygoing sheriff in a Northwestern ski resort town (actually Big Bear, California). The object of Griffith's attentions is a mysterious serial killer, who leaves puzzling Read More

Murder in Movieland

Synopsis: Murder in Movieland was the first episode in the Hawkins TV series of 1973-74. Jimmy Stewart stars as Billy Jim Hawkins, a country lawyer who plays detective. Hawkins arrives in Hollywood to defend the husband of a movie star on a murder charge. The suspect has confessed--to clubbing another man Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Going Home

Synopsis: Just before assuming his "Howard Cunningham" duties on Happy Days, Tom Bosley guests in this episode as two-bit thief Eddie Coughlin. The hapless Eddie makes a potentially fatal mistake when he burglarizes a business that is being used as a front by The Syndicate. Sheree Northcostars as Eddie's Read More

Charley Varrick

Actors: Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Felicia Farr, Andrew Robinson, John Vernon

Synopsis: Don Siegel directed this offbeat crime thriller which stars Walter Matthau as the titular Charley Varrick. Varrick is a small-time stick-up man who, in tandem with his partner Harman Sullivan (Andrew Robinson), makes plans to rob a small bank in New Mexico. Varrick and Sullivan are expecting a Read More

Maneater

Synopsis: The next time you go on a camping trip, make sure there aren't any wild tigers roaming around. This precaution is not taken by city-bred vacationers Nick and Gloria Baron (Ben Gazzara and Sheree North) and their young friends, Shep (Kip Niven) and Polly (Laurette Spang). Once they've encamped in Read More

The Outfit

Actors: Tony Trabert, Robert Duvall, Karen Black, Joe Don Baker, Robert Ryan, Timothy Carey

Synopsis: A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death in this drama based on a novel by Donald E. Westlake. Earl Macklin (Robert Duvall) is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery only to discover that a pair of gunmen killed his brother. Read More

Snatched

Synopsis: In this made-for-television crime drama a trio of kidnapped wives struggle with their ordeal. Real trouble begins when one of their wealthy husbands refuses to pay the ransom and one of the wives goes into insulin shock. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Trouble Comes to Town

Synopsis: The "trouble" that comes to a small southern town is (ostensibly) Thomas Evans, an African American youth from the north. Town sheriff Lloyd Bridges, whose life was saved in Korea by Evans' father, invites the boy to live with his family. Racial tensions run high, but temporarily remain under Read More

Rolling Man

Synopsis: Dennis Weaver plays a tow-truck driver sent to prison on a trumped-up charges of attempted murder. Out after serving four years, Weaver finds himself a reluctant loner. His wife has died, and his two sons have disappeared. In seeking out his boys, Weaver also keeps an eye out for the man Read More

Key West

Synopsis: Wanna bet that Key West was a TV pilot film? You win! Stephen Boyd plays ex-CIA agent Steve Cutler, now happily running a boat service in-where else?--Key West. Cutler is forced to go back into action when he is marked for extermination by vengeful tycoon Ford Rainey. He is also kept busy trying Read More

The Organization

Actors: Lani Miyazaki, Sidney Poitier, Barbara McNair, Gerald O'Loughlin, Sheree North, Fred Beir

Synopsis: Police detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) returns to finds himself in hot water with the police over his acceptance of help from a neighborhood anti-drug group. The group has done some things which are far from textbook legal, such as stealing and destroying a large shipment of drugs. Though Read More

Lawman

Actors: Bill Brimley, Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Lee J. Cobb, Sheree North, Joseph Wiseman

Synopsis: In Lawman, Burt Lancaster is Jered Maddox, a dedicated marshal with an inflexible adherence to upholding the law at all costs. Riding into a nearby town to pick up a group of local carousers who, during a drunken spree, killed an old man, Maddox meets up with Vincent Bronson (Lee J. Cobb). Bronson Read More

Vanished

Actors: Chet Huntley

Synopsis: Vanished earned a niche in video history as the first two-part TV movie. Based on Fletcher Knebel's novel, the story concerns the sudden disappearance of a top Presidential adviser. Grilled by the media, the President's press secretary (James Farentino) reveals very little, simply because he Read More

The Trouble with Girls

Actors: Elvis Presley, Marlyn Mason, Nicole Jaffe, Sheree North, Edward Andrews

Synopsis: Walter Hale (Elvis Presley) is the manager of a chautauqua, a traveling show consisting of performances, lectures and entertainment. Along with manager Johnny (Edward Andrews), he helps some young kids break into show business and contends with the union-organizing Charlene (Marilyn Mason). Vincent Price Read More

The Gypsy Moths

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Gene Hackman, Scott Wilson

Synopsis: John Frankenheimer directed this low-key drama about three men who stage a sky-diving thrill show and what happens when they roll into a small town in Kansas. Mike Rettig (Burt Lancaster) is the oldest of the group and more than a bit jaded; Joe Browdy (Gene Hackman) is the fast-talking MC who Read More

Madigan

Actors: Richard Widmark, Henry Fonda, Inger Stevens, Harry Guardino, James Whitmore

Synopsis: It's a seemingly peaceful spring morning in New York City -- graduation day at the Police Academy -- and Police Commissioner Anthony X. Russell (Henry Fonda) is looking forward to giving a speech to the new officers. But all isn't well: Russell's been given apparently incontrovertible evidence Read More

Then Came Bronson

Actors: Bonnie Bedelia, Akim Tamiroff, Gary Merrill, Sheree North

Synopsis: This pilot film for the 1969-1970 TV series Then Came Bronson stars Michael Parks in the title role. A young, ambitious journalist, Bronson realigns his priorities after his best friend (Martin Sheen) commits suicide. Borrowing a page from Kerouac, Bronson gives up the rat race for the road. He Read More

Code Name: Heraclitus

Actors: Signe Hasso

Synopsis: Code Name: Heraclitus is an expanded version of a TV drama first seen in January of 1967 on Bob Hope Chrysler Theatre. Stanley Baker stars as a British spy who investigating the past of Signe Hasso, the widow of secret agent Kurt Kasner. Hasso is suspected of selling cold war secrets to the Read More

The Fugitive: The Walls of Night

Synopsis: Now working as a trucker under the alias "Stan Dyson", Kimble (David Janssen) falls in love with his company's dispatcher Barbara Wells (Janice Rule). What Kimble doesn't know is that Barbara is a parolee who must return to her jail cell every evening. Nor is he aware of this arrangement when Read More

Destination Inner Space

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

Synopsis: An underwater research station headed by Dr LaSatier (Gary Merrill) finds evidence of a very fast-moving undersea craft, and request assistance from the United States Navy. which sends its top submarine officer, Commander Wayne (Scott Brady). He is able to confirm that there's no submarine, on our Read More

The Fugitive: An Apple a Day

Synopsis: As "Ed Curtis", Richard Kimble befriends Josephus Adams (Arthur O'Connell), an old-fashioned rural doctor who believes in using "folk remedies" to cure all ills. After a woman in Adams' care dies of an untreated bronchial infection, Kimble insists upon intervening in the doctor's future cases. Read More

The Untouchables: Search for a Dead Man

Synopsis: This Untouchables episode is the second of two unsold pilot films for the spinoff series The Seekers, starring Barbara Stanwyck as Lt. Agatha "Aggie" Stewart of the Chicago Bureau of Missing Persons. On this occasion, Aggie is determined to identify the "John Doe" whose body was recently fished Read More

In Love and War

Actors: Robert Wagner, Dana Wynter, Jeffrey Hunter, Hope Lange, Bradford Dillman

Synopsis: Based on the Anton Myrer novel The Big War, In Love and War is an entertaining showcase for several of 20th Century-Fox's younger contract players. Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter and Bradford Dillman plays three young San Francisco residents who sign up for the Marines at the outbreak of WW2. The Read More

Mardi Gras

Actors: Pat Boone, Christine Carère, Tommy Sands, Sheree North, Gary Crosby

Synopsis: The only reason for the existence of the colorful musical 3DMardi Gras3D is the star power of Pat Boone. The plot is set in motion when a group of Virginia Military Institute cadets organize a raffle: the "prize" is French movie star Michelle Marton (Christine Carere), queen of the New Orleans Read More

Playhouse 90: Topaze

Actors: Ernie Kovacs, Carl Reiner, Richard Haydn, Sheree North, Roxanne Arlen

Synopsis: That zany video genius Ernie Kovacs plays it (sort of) straight in this Playhouse 90 adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's satirical stage play Topaze. A man constitutionally incapable of being dishonest, Monsieur Topaze (Kovacs) loses his teaching position at a small provincial French private school when Read More

The Way to the Gold

Actors: Jeffrey Hunter, Sheree North, Barry Sullivan, Walter Brennan, Neville Brand

Synopsis: In this adventure, a convict gets released and immediately begins looking for the $250,000 in loot a fellow inmate hid thirty years ago before coming to prison. While he looks, the ex-con is pursued by a strange family who wants a piece of the action. He is also accompanied by his new love, a Read More

No Down Payment

Actors: Joanne Woodward, Tony Randall, Jeffrey Hunter, Sheree North, Cameron Mitchell

Synopsis: A handful of suburban couples discover that emotional turmoil lurks behind the placid exterior of the planned community of Sunrise Hills in this drama based on the novel by John McPartland. David and Jean Martin (Jeffrey Hunter and Patricia Owens) find their relationship starting to crumble after Read More

The Best Things in Life Are Free

Actors: Gordon MacRae, Don Dailey, Sheree North, Ernest Borgnine, Tommy Noonan

Synopsis: The Best Things in Life are Free is the tuneful if uninspired life story of popular composers DeSylva (Gordon MacRae), Brown (Ernest Borgnine) and Henderson (Dan Dailey). Pooling their talents, the trio rises from Tin Pan Alley to fame and fortune. The team's future is threatened when Buddy Read More

The Lieutenant Wore Skirts

Actors: Tom Ewell, Sheree North, Rita Moreno, Rick Jason, Les Tremayne

Synopsis: Frank Tashlin directed this comedy about a man whose marriage hits the skids when his wife gets caught in the draft. Gregory Whitcomb (Tom Ewell) served with distinction in the Army during WWII, but he now makes his living as a television writer. Gregory's wife Katy (Sheree North), several years Read More

How to Be Very, Very, Popular

Actors: Betty Grable, Sheree North, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Tommy Noonan

Synopsis: Betty Grable's final film was a remake of the 1934 Bing Crosby-Miriam Hopkins musicomedy She Loves Me Not, which in turn was based on a play by Howard Lindsay. Betty and Sheree North star as a couple of striptease "artistes" who have the bad luck to witness a murder. Hoping to evade the killer Read More

Colgate Comedy Hour: February 28, 1954

Synopsis: Cole Porter is the focus for this episode of The Colgate Comedy Hour, featuring Frank Sinatra and Ethel Merman. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Living It Up

Actors: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Janet Leigh, Edward Arnold, Fred Clark

Synopsis: The 1954 Martin-and-Lewis romp Living It Up is an amusing remake of the 1937 comedy classic Nothing Sacred. More specifically, it is the film version of the Broadway musical Hazel Flagg, which was based on Nothing Sacred. The heroine of the original undergoes a sex change to become feckless Homer Read More

Here Come the Girls

Actors: Bob Hope, Tony Martin, Arlene Dahl, Rosemary Clooney, Millard Mitchell

Synopsis: Originally intended as a 3D film, this standard-issue Bob Hope musical comedy was released "flat." The 50-year-old Hope plays over-aged chorus boy Stanley Snodgrass, whose attempts to get ahead in the early 20th-century theatre world always come acropper. His luck suddenly changes when he's Read More

The Crime

Excuse My Dust

Actors: Red Skelton, Sally Forrest, MacDonald Carey, William Demarest, Monica Lewis

Synopsis: Excuse My Dust is one of the few Red Skelton musicals in which Skelton is not obliged to share screen space with the likes of Eleanor Powell, Esther Williams or Fernando Lamas. Set in 1900, the film stars Red as zany inventor Joe Belden. Enchanted by the new-fangled horseless carriages, Belden Read More

An Angel Comes to Brooklyn

Actors: Kaye Dowd, Robert Duke, David Street, Barbara Perry, Charles Kemper

Synopsis: In this inventive fantasy, a group of enthusiastic youths endeavor to stage a Broadway show. Things are difficult until the heads of Actor's Heaven send down a guardian angel to help them. Unfortunately, his unorthodox methods cause problems for every one involved, including his boss. ~ Sandra Read More