Sonny Landham Filmography

Born:: Rome, GA
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Born William Landham, he is a former stuntman turned supporting actor, onscreen from the '70s. ~ All Movie Guide...Read More

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Best of the Best 2

Actors: Eric Roberts, Phillip Rhee, Chris Penn, Edan Gross, Ralph Moeller

Synopsis: In Best of the Best 2, Alex Grady and his partner, Tommy Lee, turn their karate talents toward crime fighting. An illegal fighting club, headed by Wayne Newton, is a center for crime and criminals. Alex and Tommy decide to take it down but first they have to fight their way through Brakus, the big Read More

1993
Taxi Dancers

Actors: Brittany McCrena, Sonny Landham, Robert Miano, Tina Fite

Synopsis: This sleazy little drama offers a grim slice from the lives of those who work in a seedy LA dime-a-dance ballroom. First there is ex-cop Miguelino who now makes a living finding ballrooms to buy while the drug-addicted dancer Sparkle gets drug money by informing for the mob. There is also the Read More

1993
Maximum Force

Actors: Richard Lynch, Sherrie Rose, Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: This crime thriller concerns three cops (Jason Carver, Sam J. Jones, Sherrie Rose) and their quest to stop a criminal kingpin (Richard Lynch) and the corrupt chief of police (Mickey Rooney). ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1992
Three Days to a Kill

Synopsis: Fred Williamson directed and stars in this average action film as Col. Wright, who teams up with a paroled thief (Bo Svenson) and the former lover of a Colombian druglord to rescue the kidnapped World Security Ambassador. Henry Silva is the kingpin, and the film is full of nudity and violence, but Read More

1991
Lock Up

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Donald Sutherland, John Amos, Sonny Landham, Tom Sizemore

Synopsis: Sylvester Stallone is a tough but essentially decent convict in a relatively humane prison. He's on such good terms with the authorities that he's occasionally allowed a weekend furlough. This idyllic situation ends abruptly when he's transferred to a nasty prison run by sadistic warden Donald Sutherland Read More

8/4/89
Action Jackson

Actors: Carl Weathers, Craig T. Nelson, Vanity, Sharon Stone, Thomas F. Wilson

Synopsis: Ex-football player Carl Weathers stars in this violent action film as Detroit policeman Jericho Jackson. The dedicated but brutal cop is plunged into nefarious doings concerning a crooked industrialist (Craig T. Nelson) and his drug-addicted girlfriend (pop-singer Vanity), breaking many people's Read More

2/12/88
Predator

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Elpidia Carrillo, Bill Duke, Jesse Ventura

Synopsis: Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger) has a code of honor which he will not violate, even when his life depends on it. Paradoxically, his code of honor gives him the backbone to survive as a military special forces operative when he is sent on a covert mission to rescue another group which was sent in to Read More

6/12/87
Firewalker

Actors: Chuck Norris, Louis Gossett, Jr., Melody Anderson, Will Sampson, Sonny Landham

Synopsis: Firewalker stars Chuck Norris as Max Donigan, an ex-Marine, and Louis Gossett, Jr. as his buddy, Leo Porter. Both set out to help Patricia Goodwyn (Melody Anderson) find a lost Aztec city and a temple filled with gold. After a few misadventures, their nemesis "El Coyote" (Sonny Landham) comes into Read More

11/21/86
Northstar

Actors: Greg Evigan, Deborah Wakeham, Mitchell Ryan

Synopsis: In this sci-fi film an astronaut finds himself endowed with superhuman powers after he was exposed to severe radiation resulting from a solar disturbance during the time he was in space. He uses those powers to find the one who murdered his colleague. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1986
Fortune Dane

Synopsis: This actioner was originally the pilot for a television series and follows the exploits of former pro-football player, Fortune Dane, a policeman investigating the assassination of nine people. During his search for the culprit, Dane is framed and must also clear his name. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

1986
The Dirty Dozen: The Next Mission

Actors: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Ken Wahl, Larry Wilcox, Sonny Landham

Synopsis: The first of two full-length television sequels which reprise the 1967 original, finds two convicts (Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine) again forced to lead a suicide mission behind enemy lines. This time, they head into Germany to thwart an unbelievable plot to assassinate Hitler. ~ John Bush, All Read More

1985
The A-Team: The Island

Synopsis: B.A. (Mr. T) owes his life to his fellow Vietnam veteran Captain Fallone (James Callahan), a former army doctor. Now it is B.A.'s turn to repay the favor when he and the rest of the A-Team respond to Fallone's call for assistance when the tropical island where his clinic is located is overrun by Read More

1984
Grace Quigley

Crew: Stunts

Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Nick Nolte, Elizabeth Wilson, Chip Zien, Kit Le Fever

Synopsis: When first released as Grace Quigley, this odd little black comedy proved too fey and quirky even for the most devoted fans of Katharine Hepburn. The star plays the title character, an old, worn-out woman with nothing to live for. Accordingly, she hires professional assassin Seymour Flint (Nick Nolte Read More

1984
Fleshburn

Actors: Steve Kanaly, Karen Carlson, Macon McCalman, Robert Chimento, Sonny Landham

Synopsis: In Fleshburn Calvin Duggai (Sonny Landham) is a Native American who can't put his wartime experiences behind him. His main beef is against the team of psychiatrists who shipped him off to an institution. After making his escape, Duggai kidnaps the four doctors and maroons them in the middle of the Read More

1984
48 Hrs.

Actors: Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole, Frank McRae, James Remar

Synopsis: A variation on the "buddy-cop" hybridized genre, 48 HRS. greatly bolstered the career of Nick Nolte and made comedian Eddie Murphy a bonafide box-office sensation. When a pair of reckless cop-killers break out of prison, grizzled detective Jack Cates (Nolte) is left no alternative but to spring Read More

1982
Poltergeist

Actors: Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Beatrice Straight, Dominique Dunne, Oliver Robins

Synopsis: With Poltergeist, directed by Tobe Hopper, Steven Spielberg had his first great success as a producer. Released around the same time as Spielberg's E.T., the film presents the dark side of Spielberg's California suburban track homes. The film centers on the Freeling family, a typical middle class Read More

1982
Southern Comfort

Actors: Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward, Franklyn Seales, T.K. Carter

Synopsis: A handful of part time soldiers unwittingly turn a field exercise into a miniature war in this offbeat action drama from writer and director Walter Hill. A group of National Guard reservists are sent to Louisiana on a chilly weekend for war games exercises. None of these weekend warriors seem Read More

1981
The Warriors

Actors: Michael Beck, James Remar, Thomas G. Waites, David Patrick Kelly, Dorsey Wright, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Mercedes Ruehl

Synopsis: Walter Hill's hip, super-stylized action film unfurls in a dystopian near-future, when various gangs control New York City. Each gang sports a unique moniker ('The Men in Blue,' 'The Baseball Furies,' 'The Rogues'), with a costume underscoring its "theme"; each, in turn, is also responsible for Read More

1979
Big Thumbs

Actors: Jamie Gillis, David Lipman, Crystal Field

1977
The Switch

1977
Abigail Leslie is Back in Town

Synopsis: Abigail Leslie is Back in Town was the brainchild of prolific (200-plus titles!) sexploitation director Joe Sarno. In the tradition of Durrenmatt's The Visit, a young woman is driven from a small town in disgrace after a messy extramarital affair. When she returns, she goes the "Harper Valley PTA" Read More

1976
The Passions of Carol

Actors: Mary Stuart, Marc Stevens, Jamie Gillis, Kim Pope

1975