Stephen MachtFilmography

DC 9/11: Time of Crisis

Actors: Timothy Bottoms, John Cunningham, David Fonteno

Synopsis: Filmed under the title The Big Dance, this tense, made-for-cable docudrama recreates the events following the devastating terrorist attack on New York City and Washington, D.C., on September 11, 2001. The focus is on President George W. Bush, here played by Timothy Bottoms. Inasmuch as the film Read More

Outside the Law

Actors: Dan Lauria, Stephen Macht, Cynthia Rothrock

Synopsis: A woman starting a new life discovers her old life won't go away so easily in this action-drama. Julie Cosgrove (Cynthia Rothrock) was an Federal intelligence agent working on a top secret assignment when she found herself in the middle of an ambush gone wrong which led to the death of the man she Read More

Touch Me

Actors: Amanda Peet, Michael Vartan

Synopsis: This drama deals with the impact of the AIDS epidemic on modern relationships. Bridgette (Amanda Peet) is an aspiring young actress who pays her bills by teaching aerobics classes. She meets Adam (Michael Vartan), a ladies' man who runs his father's gymnasium business. They embark on an affair. Read More

Watchers Reborn

Actors: Mark Hamill, Kane Hodder, Floyd Levine, Stephen Macht, Lou Rawls

Synopsis: In this sci-fi crime drama a super-smart canine and a detective team up to thwart a DNA-enhanced killer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

One Hot Summer Night

Synopsis: The long-suffering wife of despotic sports magnate Art Brooks (Barry Bostwick), Kelly Moore Brooks (Erika Eleniak) enters into an affair with her attorney Richard Linsky (Brian Wimmer). When Brooks is murdered, a detective named Mingus (Christopher Darden) suspects that Kelly and Linsky have hired Read More

Sliders: Common Ground

Synopsis: Materializing on Earth 147, the Sliders find themselves smack in the middle of a Kromagg weapons test. Captured and threatened with torture, the three travelers are rescued by superior officer Kromanus (Stephen Macht), whose life Maggie (Kari Wuhrer) had saved earlier. Magnanimously, Kromanus puts Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Track of a Soldier

Synopsis: The setting is a lodge in the Grand Tetons, where Jessica (Angela Lansbury) is a guest of the owner, a retired colonel. It soon develops that the colonel is being blackmailed, and that another of the guests has been involved in diamond smuggling. Somehow or other this all ends up with murder Read More

Babylon 5: A Day in the Strife

Actors: Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan, Andreas Katsulas

Synopsis: With G'Kar having returned to civilian life, he is replaced on B5 by Na'Far (Stephen Macht), a Narn representative of the ruling Centauri. While contending with an association of cargo pilots, Sheridan and Ivanova make contact with an alien probe, which offers B5 a daunting choice: All the Read More

Trancers 5: Sudden Deth

Actors: Tim Thomerson, Stacie Randall, Ty Miller, Terri Ivens, Mark Arnold

Synopsis: When the nefarious Lord Caliban and his wicked henchman start acting up again, its up to future cop Jack Deth and his intrepid Tunnel Rats to try to stop him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Adventures of Galgameth

Actors: Devin Oatway, Sean McNamara, Stephen Macht, Johna Stewart, Tom Dugan

Synopsis: This family-oriented fairy tale was shot on-location in Romania and is set in medieval times. There teenage Prince Davin and his father engage in a playful joust that unfortunately results in injury for the King who eventually dies, not because of the joust but because his devious head knight El Read More

A Mother's Deception: A Moment of Truth Movie

Actors: Joan Van Ark, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Stephen Macht, Brooke Langton, Tom Kurlander

Synopsis: In this made-for-television drama, a family battles to extricate their mother from the religious cult she joined after visiting an unscrupulous therapist. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Circle

Synopsis: Exiled to Bajor, Kira becomes acquainted with The Circle, a radical Bajoran resistance movement. Apparently breaking away from the status quo, The Circle announces its intention to join the Federation. But the DS9 crew rightly suspects that there's a sinister motive behind The Circle's altruistic Read More

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Siege

Synopsis: Sisko has his hands full when the Bajoran insurrectionist group The Circle mounts an invasion of DS9. Meanwhile, Dax and Kira race to Bajor with evidence (gleaned in the previous week's episode) that The Circle is being covertly assisted by the Cardassians. Frank Langella and Louise Fletcher Read More

A Child Too Many: A Moment of Truth Movie

Actors: Michele Greene, Nancy Stafford, Conor O'Farrell, Stephen Macht, Kevin McNulty

Synopsis: This made-for-television drama is based on the true story of a complicated custody fight between a surrogate mother and the adoptive parents. The trouble begins when doctors discover that the pregnant woman is carrying twins. The adoptive parents only want one of the babies and insist that it be a Read More

Trancers 4: Jack of Swords

Actors: Tim Thomerson, Stacie Randall, Ty Miller, Terri Ivens, Mark Arnold

Synopsis: Trancers 4: Jack of Swords follows the time-traveling policeman Jack Deth into another dimension, where aliens called the Trancers are keeping the natives as food. Deth's mission is to save the population from the Trancers. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Bloodlines

Synopsis: In 1944, Angela Lansbury and Mickey Rooney both appeared in the classic racetrack film National Velvet. The two veterans are reunited in this story, which appropriately enough revolves around a thoroughbred horse, and two families who have staked everything in an upcoming race. When her old Read More

Highlander: The Sea Witch

Actors: Adrian Paul, Alexandra Van Der Noot, Stan Kirsch, Stephen Macht, Joannah Newmarch

Synopsis: Richie (Stan Kirsch) is forced to go on the lam with Nikki (Joannah Newmarch), who has run afoul of drug dealers. Trying to help, Duncan finds himself face to face with his old Immortal enemy, Alexi Voshin (Stephen Macht). Meanwhile, back at Duncan's antique shop, Tessa (Alexandra Van Der Noot) Read More

Amityville 1992: It's About Time

Actors: Stephen Macht, Nita Talbot

Synopsis: Eschewing any connection with previous installments of the creatively strip-mined Amityville saga, this film is actually derived from one of a series of novels by John G. Jones and focuses on a mantle clock from the original Long Island horror-house which serves as a vessel of supernatural evil. A Read More

Trancers III: Deth Lives

Synopsis: This third entry in the sci-fi Trancers series involves a futuristic L.A. cop/detective who time-travels to battle more Trancers from a 23rd-century totalitarian government that maintains control by injecting victims with trance-inducing drugs, causing them to become virtual puppets. ~ Kristie Read More

Murder, She Wrote: A Killing in Vegas

Synopsis: While attending a convention in Las Vegas, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) links up with Susan Hartley (Amy O'Neill), the daughter of her editor Ted Hartley (Bruce Gray). When Susan's boyfriend is accused of murdering a nasty casino manager, Jessica steps in to prove the poor fellow's innocence. In so Read More

Memories of Midnight

Synopsis: Adaptation of Sidney Sheldon's novel features an amnesiac who works to recover her identity and the Greek billionaire who works to make sure that she never does. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Moving Violation

Synopsis: The focus in this episode is on Mort Metzger (Ron Masak), sheriff of Cabot Cove, Maine, and a close personal friend of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury). When Metzger jails a young man named Bradley (David Lansbury) on a drunk driving charge, he refuses to drop the matter despite the power and Read More

Graveyard Shift

Actors: David Andrews, Kelly Wolf, Stephen Macht, Brad Dourif, Andrew Divoff

Synopsis: One of countless Stephen King adaptations, this take on one of the author's Night Shift tales is set in a Maine textile mill whose overbearing manager (Stephen Macht) finds himself in a tight spot when county inspectors crack down on his less-than-safe operation after a fatal accident involving a Read More

Fear Stalk

Actors: Jill Clayburgh

Synopsis: Alexandra Maynard's (Jill Clayburgh) nightmare begins when her wallet is stolen by a psycho. In possession of Alexandra's identification and credit cards, her tormentor is able to follow her all over town, anticipating her every move. Adding to Alexandra's agony are those mocking phone calls from Read More

My Boyfriend's Back

Synopsis: Sandy Duncan, Judith Light, and Jill Eikenberry star in director Paul Schneider's made-for-television musical comedy about a 1960s-era female singing trio that reunites to take part in a television special produced to pay tribute to the pop superstars of yesteryear. Back in the 1960s, pop was king Read More

Blind Witness

Actors: Stephen Macht

Synopsis: Victoria Principal plays the sightless but extremely independent wife of Stephen Macht, who is murdered by intruders in her presence (a harrowing sequence, even within TV standards). Though she could see nothing, Principal is counting on her sensory and olfactory reminiscences, as well as her own Read More

A Friendship in Vienna

Synopsis: Set in Vienna during the German occupation, this made-for-cable television drama centers on the friendship between a Jewish girl and the young Christian who helps her escape. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Monster Squad

Actors: Andre Gower, Robby Kiger, Stephen Macht, Duncan Regehr, Tom Noonan

Synopsis: A group of adolescent monster movie enthusiasts form a club that meets in a treehouse in this pre-teen horror feature. When Dracula, The Mummy, Frankenstein, and The Wolfman are joined by Gill-Man in the search for a magic amulet, the boys form the Monster Squad to battle the forces of evil. The Read More

Graveyard Shift

Actors: Silvio Oliviero, Helen Papas, Cliff Stoker, Dorin Ferber, Dan Rose

Synopsis: This low-budget but slickly produced Canadian horror project is an engrossing, heady blend of steamy romance and jugular-gushing vampire mayhem. Silvio Oliviero stars in the quirky role of nocturnal New York cabbie Stephen -- who just happens to be a 350-year-old vampire. Into his clutches falls Read More

Strange Voices

Actors: Valerie Harper, Stephen Macht

Synopsis: College girl Nancy McKeon, up until recently the picture of normality, suddenly displays signs of schizophrenia. She hears voices, commits sudden acts of violence, and switches moods without warning. McKeon's parents Valerie Harper and Stephen Macht are at a loss to contend with the sudden change Read More

George Washington: The Forging of a Nation

Synopsis: It seems that even American History must sometimes succumb to Hollywood "sequel mania." The 4-hour TV movie George Washington: The Forging of a Nation was a follow-up to the successful 1984 miniseries George Washington (see entry 82308). Barry Bostwick is back as Washington, as is Patty Duke as Read More

The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer

Actors: Stacy Keach

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer was so named for two reasons. For one, this 1986 production appeared after two previous "Hammer" TV movies and a brief weekly series. For another, star Stacy Keach was returning to American television after a British prison term for Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Capitol Offense

Synopsis: Mrs. Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) goes to Washington, where she has been tapped to serve out the term of a recently deceased Congressman. Before long, however, Jessica is up to her eyebrows in political intrigue, one-upsmanship, backstabbing and blackmail. Inevitably, a murder occurs--the victim is Read More

Contract for Life: The S.A.D.D. Story

Synopsis: Contract for Life: The S.A.D.D. Story was originally produced as an ABC Schoolbreak Special. The titular acronym stands for Students Against Drunk Driving, an organization spearheaded by hockey coach Bob Anastas. Stephen Macht plays Anastas in this re-enactment of the tragic events leading Read More

Flight No. 90: Disaster on the Potomac

Synopsis: On a bitterly cold January day in 1982, Air Florida flight #90 crashed into the Potomac River while approaching Washington DC. Though many passengers were killed, many more were rescued. Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac is the story of the survivors, the rescuers, and the anxious friends and Read More

Samson and Delilah

Actors: Belinda Bauer, Anthony Hamilton, Stephen Macht, Clive Revill, Max von Sydow

Synopsis: This lavish retelling of the story of the Hebrew strong man and history's most famous lady barber was based in part on the Old Testament, in part on Eric Linkletter's book Husband of Delilah, and in great part on the same-named 1949 Cecil B. DeMille movie epic. Newcomer Anthony Hamilton stars as Read More

A Caribbean Mystery

Actors: Maurice Evans, Helen Hayes

Synopsis: Helen Hayes plays Agatha Christie's amateur sleuth Miss Jane Marple in A Caribbean Mystery. Recuperating from an illness at a resort in the Bahamas, Miss Marple makes the acquaintance of a genial British major (Maurice Evans). When her new friend is murdered, Miss M takes on the case herself. She Read More

Hakhoref Ha' Acharon

Actors: Kathleen Quinlan, Yona Elian, Stephen Macht, Zipora Peled, Michael Schneider

Synopsis: In this emotional film related to the Yom Kippur War of 1973, an American woman and an Israeli journalist both have husbands who do not return from the fighting, and each woman is convinced that the same prisoner who appears in a film taken in an Egyptian POW camp was her husband. At first the Read More

Who Murdered Joy Morgan?

Synopsis: Set in a city hospital, this film is essentially a whodunit -- with the resident pathologist investigating -- but was quite probably intended as a pilot for a possible series, so it plays more like a murderous version of E.R. ~ Mark Hockley, All Movie Guide 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

The Mountain Men

Actors: Charlton Heston, Brian Keith, Victoria Racimo, Stephen Macht, Seymour Cassel, John Glover, Victor Jory

Synopsis: In this subpar western, gratuitous profanity and violence are at odds with the theme of rescuing a Native American from a marriage she does not want. A bearded Charleton Heston (whose son wrote the screenplay) is the fur trader Bill Tyler, out in the remote mountain ranges looking for a legendary Read More

Enola Gay: The Men, the Mission, the Atomic Bomb

Synopsis: This made-for-TV historical drama chronicles the personal and professional lives of Colonel Tibbets and the airmen who dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The story is based on a book by Gordon Thomas and Max Gordon Witts and also looks at the ways in which the aftermath of the bombing affected Read More

Galaxina

Actors: Stephen Macht, Dorothy Stratten, James David Hinton, Ronald J. Knight

Synopsis: This low-budget sci-fi parody pokes fun at such "space operas" as Star Wars and Alien as it chronicles the adventures of the starship Infinity where poor Captain Cornelius Butt finds himself playing "mommy" to a baby alien while handsome crewman Thor falls in love with the beautiful robot pilot Read More

Nightwing

Actors: Nick Mancuso, David Warner, Kathryn Harrold, Stephen Macht, Strother Martin

Synopsis: In this chiller, a trio of heroes must enter a black Southwestern cave and destroy an entire colony of plague-bearing bats, vampire bats. The story is based on a novel by Martin Cruz Smith. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Immigrants

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling novel by Howard Fast, the two-part, four-hour miniseries The Immigrants is the saga of Dan Lavetta (Stephen Macht). The son of an impoverished Italian immigrant family, Dan manages to emerge from the rubble of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake (cunningly re-created via Read More

Rehearsal for Armaggedon

Hunters of the Reef

Synopsis: Intended as the pilot for the proposed weekly series "Peter Benchley's Mystery of the Deep," the made-for-TV Hunters of the Reef bears traces of such best-selling Peter Benchley novels as Jaws and The Deep. Much of the action is devoted to a race between two salvage-boat captains -- one poor, one Read More

Ring of Passion

Actors: Allen Garfield

Synopsis: Ring of Passion is a self-described "docudrama" of the professional rivalry between African-American boxing great Joe Louis and German fistic champ Max Schmeling. On June 19, 1936, Schmeling (Stephen Macht) beats Louis (Bernie Casey) for the European championship. Germany's Nazi government uses Read More

Quincy, M.E.: ...The Thigh Bone's Connected to the Knee Bone

Synopsis: The plot of this 90-minute (Quincy, M.E.) episode gets under way when a human bone, found at the excavation site for a new college building, is given to medical examiner (and temporary forensics teacher) Quincy (Jack Klugman) as a joke. But it is no laughing matter when, after a little lab work Read More

The Choirboys

Actors: Charles Durning, Louis Gossett, Jr., Perry King, Clyde Kusatsu, Stephen Macht

Synopsis: Loosely based on former policeman Joseph Wambaugh's humorous novel, The Choirboys determinedly explores the stunted interior lives of a large crew of callous, bigoted L.A. policemen. These men get together to lend one another emotional support. However, the means they choose for this do not Read More

Raid on Entebbe

Actors: Peter Finch, Charles Bronson, Horst Buchholz, Martin Balsam, John Saxon, Jack Warden

Synopsis: Raid on Entebbe constitutes one of two all-star made-for-TV reenactments of the Entebbe rescue of July 4, 1976. On June 27, 1976, a jet carrying an international mix of passengers is hijacked by pro-Palestinian revolutionaries. The plane lands in Entebbe, Uganda, where President-for-life Idi Amin (Yaphet Kotto Read More

Kojak: Where Do You Go When You Have No Place to Go?

Synopsis: Stephen Macht is cast as Joseph Arrow, an unemployed Native American ironworker who breaks into the apartment of a powerful and otherwise unapproachable construction boss, hoping to land a job. But when the boss mistakes him for a burglar, Arrow accidentally kills the man. Though sympathetic to Read More

Kojak: Deadly Innocence

Synopsis: Lieutenant Kojak (Telly Savalas) investigates the death of police chemist Harry Sentman (Whit Bissell), seemingly in a hit-and-run accident, and becomes convinced it was murder. He finds a connection between the victim and the case of Joey Fiorello (Anthony Ponzini), a police detective serving a Read More

Amelia Earhart

Actors: Susan Clark, John Forsythe, Stephen Macht

Synopsis: Susan Clark, the queen of the made-for-TV biopic (in 1976, at least), stars as legendary aviator Amelia Earhart. The story begins in 1921, with Amelia's first biplane flight. In 1928, she becomes the first woman ever to fly the Atlantic, albeit not at the controls. She gains international fame Read More