Sherry JacksonFilmography

Alice: Good Buddy Flo

Synopsis: The new man in Flo's life is trucker Smilin' Sy Davis (Michael MacRae). The fact that Sy has a thriving transport business is good news to Flo (Polly Holliday); the bad news is that Sy also has a female partner named Toni (Sherry Jackson). Determined to outdo her competition, Flo demands to take Read More

Daniel in the Lion's Den

Stingray

Synopsis: The trouble in this violent action comedy begins when two buddies buy a '62 Corvette together. After the deal is done, the two check the trunk and find it filled with money and heroin. Soon afterward, they discover themselves pursued by gangsters. The film is known as Abigail: Wanted on video. Read More

Bride of the Incredible Hulk

The Streets of San Francisco: One Last Trick

Synopsis: Police officer Brady (Peter Brown) hopes to persuade his call-girl sweetheart Carol Revson (Lee Purcell) to give up her profession and go straight. Meanwhile, Carol's former pimp, feeling that his business in jeopardy, orders the murders of both Brady and Carol. In order to save her boyfriend and Read More

Bare Knuckles

Actors: Robert Viharo, Sherry Jackson, Michael Heit, Gloria Hendry, John R. Daniels

Synopsis: In this martial arts thriller, a bounty hunter must find and stop an urban slasher from killing any more women. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Rockford Files: The Real Easy Red Dog

Synopsis: A woman identifying herself as Jennifer Sandstrom claims that her sister's death was not a suicide as reported, and hires Jim (James Garner) to find out for sure. It doesn't take long for Jim to determine that his client has not been entirely honest and up-front--and indeed, she isn't even Read More

Returning Home

Synopsis: Returning Home attempts to do in 72 minutes what the Oscar-winning 1946 film The Best Years of Our Lives did in 172. This TV movie is a potted remake of that classic film, tracing the lives of three returning World War II servicemen. Dabney Coleman plays the Fredric March role as a married banker Read More

The Girl on the Late, Late Show

Actors: Van Johnson, Cameron Mitchell, John Ireland

Synopsis: Don Murray stars as slick network news producer William Martin in The Girl on the Late, Late Show. In addition to his administrative duties, Martin is a news reporter, and it is in this capacity that he investigates a series of Hollywood murders. The unifying link between the killings would seem Read More

Hitchhike!

Synopsis: For middle-aged vacationer Claire Stevens (Cloris Leachman), the nightmare begins when she picks up personable young hitchhiker Keith Mile (Michael Brandon). Feeling a bit lonely, Claire strikes up a friendship and then a romance with her handsome passenger. Little does she know that Keith has Read More

The Curse of the Moon Child

Synopsis: In this horror movie, set upon the English moors during Victorian times, children born under the astrological sign of Cancer are compelled to become part of a demonic union. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Cotter

Synopsis: A Native American rodeo clown (Don Murray) causes the death of a rider, and retires from the business to re-examine his life. He ends up back in his home town where he inadvertently becomes involved in a murder mystery. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Wild Women

Synopsis: While tension runs high between Americans and Mexicans in Texas, a group of Army engineers travel in disguise, with female prisoners posing as their wives, while they attempt to map important routes for the war effort. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Monitors

Actors: Guy Stockwell, Susan Oliver, Avery Schreiber, Sherry Jackson, Shepperd Strudwick

Synopsis: Featuring members of Chicago's distinguished Second City comedy troupe, this way-out sci-fi comedy tells the tale of a failed alien invasion. The basically friendly Monitors have come to Earth to take over and force humans to clean up their acts by forbidding them to engage in politics, violence Read More

The Mini-Skirt Mob

Actors: Jeremy Slate, Diane McBain, Sherry Jackson, Patty McCormack, Ross Hagen

Synopsis: Diane McBain, who'd been a sort of star at Warner Bros. in the early 1960s, is the leading lady of The Mini-Skirt Mob. She's in charge of a fearsome (and toothsome) gang of biker chicks, even though she herself looks as though she'd go into conniptions over a broken nail. McBain's mob gets its Read More

Gunn

Actors: Craig Stevens, Laura Devon, Ed Asner, Albert Paulsen, Sherry Jackson

Synopsis: Blake Edwards directed this big-screen adaptation of the once-popular TV detective series Peter Gunn, which Edwards helped create. Peter Gunn (Craig Stevens) is a tough but polished private eye who fights crime with the help of friendly advice from an inside source at the police department, Lt. Read More

Star Trek: What Are Little Girls Made Of?

Synopsis: The Enterprise must thwart a mad scientist who plans to exterminate the human race and replace them with androids in this episode from the first season of the landmark science fiction series. Captain Kirk discovers the plans of the brilliant Dr. Korby while accompanying the Enterprise's Nurse 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

Lost in Space: The Space Croppers

Synopsis: Oscar-winning dramatic actress Mercedes McCambridge lets down her hair in the raucously comic role of Sybilla, the matriarch of a family of outer-space hillbillies (their spacecraft looks like the Clampett family's tarpaper shack!) Hoping to be taken back to earth, Dr. Smith (Jonathan Harris) Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Festive Felon

Synopsis: Althhough she is on her deathbed, wealthy Be Be Brent (Anne Barton) is sufficiently hale and hearty to enrage her relatives by leaving the bulk of her estate--one million dollars--to her nurse Hetty Randall (Anne Seymour). The family members hire Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) to contest the will, but Read More

The Twilight Zone: The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank

Actors: James Best, Sherry Jackson, Edgar Buchanan, Lance Fuller, Dub Taylor

Synopsis: Writer-director Montgomery Pittman's final Twilight Zone offering was the bucolic comedy "The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank." As the youthful title character (James Best) lies in his coffin during his funeral, the assembled mourners listen to the droning words of the local pastor (William Fawcett) Read More

Maverick: Red Dog

Synopsis: Seeking shelter from a particularly brutal Montana winter, Beau finds himself in a cave which is being used as a bank robbers' hideout. Overhearing the gang planning another heist, Beau realizes that his life isn't worth a plug nickel if he's found out. Thus, he poses as the notorious outlaw Red Read More

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Actors: Tony Randall, Eddie Hodges, Archie Moore, Patty McCormack, Neville Brand

Synopsis: MGM's all-star 1960 filmization of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn surgically removes the sociological subtext of Mark Twain's novel in the interests of "entertainment for the whole family." The emphasis is on the adventuresome escapades of Huck (Eddie Hodges) and fugitive slave Jim (played by Read More

The Swamp Fox: Day of Reckoning

Synopsis: In the fourth episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, Continental Army guerilla leader Francis Marion (Leslie Nielsen) feels responsible when his nephew Gabe is killed by the Tories. Letting revenge outweigh his duty to his men, Marion personally sets out to kill Gabe's Read More

The Swamp Fox: Tory Vengeance

Synopsis: In the third episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion (Leslie Nielsen) must pretend to despise his sweetheart, Mary Videaux (Barbara Eiler), lest anyone suspects Mary is one of Francis' most valuable allies against the Redcoats. Despite Read More

Maverick: Naked Gallows

Synopsis: Convicted murderer Clete Overton (Ed Kemmer) escapes from jail on the eve of his hanging. Bart tries to prove Cleve's innocence when the fugitive insists that he was charged on circumstantial evidence. Unfortunately, someone is determined that Clete remain under the shadow of the noose--and that Read More

Come Next Spring

Actors: Ann Sheridan, Steve Cochran, Walter Brennan, Sherry Jackson, Richard Eyer

Synopsis: In this upbeat drama, a reformed father returns to the Arkansas farm of his estranged family after having spent too many years living in the fast lane. Included in the family are his mute daughter and his baby son, whom he'd never seen. The father is determined to set things right and immediately Read More

Trouble Along the Way

Actors: John Wayne, Donna Reed, Charles Coburn, Tom Tully, Sherry Jackson

Synopsis: "Winning isn't everything -- it's the only thing." These words were spoken not by Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi but by Steve Williams, the fictional college athletics instructor played by John Wayne in Trouble Along the Way. Recently divorced, Williams has trouble finding a job due to his Read More

Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation

Actors: Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Ray Collins, Bodil Miller, Sig Rumann

Synopsis: This fifth entry in Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series finds the Kettle family taking a trip to Paris (courtesy of the Universal back lot). All the standard "innocents abroad" gags are in attendance, including Pa Kettle's (Percy Kilbride) efforts to extinguish a flaming serving of crepes Read More

Make Room for Daddy [TV Series]

Actors: Danny Thomas

Synopsis: Make Room for Daddy was the first modern family sitcom, although, to see it at any time since the 1960s, one would think that it was hopelessly dated. In fact, it was the most important 1950s sitcom after I Love Lucy -- and has a production history closely connected to that show -- and it spawned Read More

This Woman Is Dangerous

Actors: Joan Crawford, Dennis Morgan, David Brian, Richard Webb, Mari Aldon

Synopsis: Joan Crawford is appropriately cast as the title character in This Woman is Dangerous. Crawford plays master criminal Beth Austin, the lady friend of dangerous gangster Matt Jackson (David Brian). After being caught in the crossfire of a robbery engineered by Jackson, Beth recuperates in a Read More

Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair

Actors: Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, James Best, Lori Nelson, Esther Dale

Synopsis: Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair was Number Four in Universal's immensely successful "B"-picture series. It is giving away nothing to reveal that Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride once more assume the title roles. The plot is motivated by Ma's desire to send daughter Rosie (Lori Nelson) to college. To Read More

Something to Live For

Actors: Joan Fontaine, Ray Milland, Teresa Wright, Richard Derr, Douglas Dick

Synopsis: Something to Live For is the last of director George Stevens' "small" films, before he concentrated full-time on such blockbusters as Shane and Giant. Joan Fontaine plays a popular actress who descends into alcoholism. Ray Milland, in an unofficial extension of his Lost Weekend role, plays a Read More

The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima

Actors: Gilbert Roland, Angela Clarke, Frank Silvera, Jay Novello, Richard Hale

Synopsis: Like its spiritual predecessor Song of Bernadette, Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima is based on a true story. The year is 1917: the place, Fatima, Portugal. While tending sheep, three farm children (Susan Whitney, Sherry Jackson and Sammy Ogg) claim to see a vision of the Virgin Mary. The local Read More

The Lion and the Horse

Actors: Steve Cochran, Ray Teal, Bob Steele, Harry Antrim, George O'Hanlon

Synopsis: The Lion and the Horse is one of the best efforts to come out of Bryan Foy's "B"-picture unit at Warner Bros. Steve Cochran stars as Ben Kirby, an easygoing cowboy who is dead set on owning a magnificent wild stallion. After Kirby and his partners capture the horse, the animal is purchased Read More

The Great Caruso

Actors: Mario Lanza, Ann Blyth, Dorothy Kirsten, Jarmila Novotna, Richard Hageman

Synopsis: The film traces Naples-born Caruso's ascension from adolescent choir singer to the uppermost ranks of the opera world. Caruso is brought to America, getting off to a bad start by inadvertently insulting the impresario (Carl Benton Reid) responsible for his Metropolitan debut. This complication has Read More

When I Grow Up

Actors: Bobby Driscoll, Robert Preston, Martha Scott, Sherry Jackson, John McGovern

Synopsis: When I Grow Up is an uncharacteristically modest film from producer Sam Spiegel (during his "S. P. Eagle" years). Bobby Driscoll plays a young boy who feels neglected and misunderstood at home. Preparing to run away, Bobby chances across an old diary once kept by his grandfather (Charley Read More

Lorna Doone

Actors: Barbara Hale, Richard Greene, Carl Benton Reid, William Bishop, Ron Randell

Synopsis: Lorna Doone is based on the oft-filmed novel by Richard D. Blackmore. Set in 17th century Scotland during the reign of Britain's Charles II, the story concerns young Lorna (Barbara Hale), a member of a much-hated landowning family. Lorna falls in love with a humble villager (Richard Greene), who Read More

Hello God

Synopsis: This rather obscure drama has a background story more interesting than the film itself. It starred Errol Flynn who agreed to make it for long-time friend and director William Marshall. Part of Flynn's motivation was to escape a Warner's Brothers contract. The film caused controversy because it had Read More

Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town

Actors: Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Richard Long, Meg Randall, Gregg Martell

Synopsis: The second of Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series, Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town stars, as ever, Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride. This time, the Kettles win a letter-writing contest, which offers as first prize an all-expense-paid trip to New York City. Once in Manhattan, the huge Kettle brood Read More

Where Danger Lives

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue, Claude Rains, Maureen O'Sullivan, Charles Kemper

Synopsis: Faith Domergue, the latest of Howard Hughes' protegees, made her film debut in 1950's Where Danger Lives. Domergue plays Margo Lannington the wife of Frederick Lannington (Claude Rains), an elderly millionaire possessed of a sadistic streak. Robert Mitchum co-stars as Jeff Cameron, a poor soul who Read More

Louisa

Actors: Spring Byington, Ronald Reagan, Charles Coburn, Edmund Gwenn, Ruth Hussey

Synopsis: Never mind the top-billed Ronald W. Reagan; the real stars of Louisa are sprightly seniors Charles Coburn, Spring Byington and Edmund Gwenn. Spring plays Reagan's widowed mother, who is outwardly satisfied with her lot but inwardly lonely. Enter Coburn and Gwenn, who vie for Spring's attentions. Read More

A Modern Marriage

Actors: Reed Hadley, Margaret Field, Robert Clarke, Nana Bryant, Charles Smith

Synopsis: The sexual dysfunction of a married couple provides the basis of this thought-provoking drama that was originally released in 1950 and was then re-released 11 years later with a prologue tacked on. In the prologue, the couple begin attending a group therapy session helmed by a prominent doctor. Read More

Covered Wagon Raid

Actors: Allan Lane, Eddy Waller, Alex Gerry, Lyn Thomas

Synopsis: Covered Wagon Raid stars Allan "Rocky" Lane as a frontier insurance investigator named...Allan "Rocky" Lane. The story concerns a gang of hijackers who've been bushwhacking and murdering wagon train passengers. Someone has been tipping the gang off as to the locations and routes of the wagon Read More

The Breaking Point

Actors: John Garfield, Phyllis Thaxter, Patricia Neal, Juano Hernandez, Wallace Ford

Synopsis: This second screen version of Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not is closer in spirit to the original than the first version, though it still is far from faithful to its source. John Garfield stars as Harry Morgan, who has metamorphosed from Hemingway's gun-runner to an ex-PT boat captain, now Read More

You're My Everything

Actors: Dan Dailey, Anne Baxter, Anne Revere, Shari Robinson, Stanley Ridges

Synopsis: Set in the 1920s and 1930s, 20th Century-Fox's You're My Everything borrows elements from several true-life showbiz stories, include the rise to fame of Fox's own Shirley Temple. Vaudeville hoofer Timothy O'Connor (Dan Dailey) sweeps proper New England gal Hannah Adams (Anne Baxter) off her feet. Read More