Steve KanalyFilmography

The Cowboy and the Movie Star

Actors: Sean Young, Perry King, Priscilla Barnes, David Groh, Michael Chieffo

Synopsis: Sean Young stars as a spoiled Hollywood star who finds herself marooned in the Wild West after a car wreck. When a handsome cowboy in the midst of a cattle drive suddenly appears, the pampered princess has little choice but to accompany him to the nearest town. This romantic adventure was made Read More

Fire on the Mountain

Crew: Intertitle Writer

Actors: Steve Kanaly

Synopsis: In 1941, as the United States was entering World War II, the U.S. Army formed the 10th Mountain Division, the first battalion trained specifically to fight under cold-weather conditions. In addition to traditional fighting skills, the 10th Mountain Division were also experts in skiing, avalanche Read More

Pumpkinhead 2: Blood Wings

Actors: Ami Dolenz, Andrew Robinson, Linnea Quigley, Steve Kanaly, Soleil Moon Frye

Synopsis: In a small town in Arkansas in 1958, a pitiful, deformed "feral boy" is tortured and killed by trouble-making local teenagers. The creature, however, was the son of the monster Pumpkinhead. Twenty-five years later, in the same town, a group of bored teenage punks manage to bring back his spirit Read More

Eye of the Eagle 3

Synopsis: The third film in this war series focuses on the exploits of a band of rebel U.S. soldiers who do battle in Vietnam. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Driving Me Crazy

Actors: Thomas Gottschalk, Billy Dee Williams, Michelle Johnson, James Tolkan, Steve Kanaly, Milton Berle, Dom DeLuise

Synopsis: It probably takes an intimate acquaintance with East Germany's famously awful car, a smoky, noisy two-cylinder lawnmower on wheels, the Trabant 601, to fully appreciate the jokes in this extremely popular, celebrity-filled comedy. In the story, Gunther (German television star Thomas Gotttschalk) Read More

Double Trouble

Actors: Peter Paul, David Paul, Roddy McDowall, James Doohan, A.J. Johnson

Synopsis: Two beefed-up twins (played by the Paul brothers, Peter and David, who have appeared in several programmers as "The Barbarian Brothers") operating on opposing sides of the law, team up to stop a nefarious crook in this actioner. Peter Jade is a notoriously arrogant burglar who ends up with the key Read More

Headhunter

Synopsis: Set in Florida but actually filmed in South Africa, this supernatural horror film involves the efforts of two detectives (Wayne Crawford and Kay Lenz) to track down an elusive psychopath responsible for a series of grisly decapitation murders. Thanks to the assistance of a local African Read More

Dallas: Season 12

Actors: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Barbara Bel Geddes, Charlene Tilton

Synopsis: Having avoided getting shot by his frustrated wife, Sue Ellen (Linda Gray), at the end of Dallas' 11th season, ruthless oil tycoon J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman) decides to relax a bit as season 12 gets under way. Embarking on a hunting trip to Arkansas, serial philanderer J.R. has brief tryst with Read More

Dallas: Season 11

Actors: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Barbara Bel Geddes, Steve Kanaly

Synopsis: Although Victoria Principal had left Dallas at the end of season ten, by the time the series' 11th season rolled around, Principal's character, Pamela Ewing, was still lingering about, swathed in bandages after being seriously injured in a car accident. As if to lead viewers to the conclusion that Read More

Dallas: Season 10

Actors: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Victoria Principal, Barbara Bel Geddes

Synopsis: At the tail end of Dallas' ninth season, Pamela Ewing (Victoria Principal) was awakened from her troubled slumbers by the sound of a familiar voice in her bathroom. Investigating, she peeked past the shower curtains -- and was astonished to find her ex-husband, Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy), who had Read More

Scene of the Crime

Synopsis: The made-for-television Scene of the Crime is an anthology crime film, featuring three different short films--"The Newlywed Murder," "Medium is the Murder" and "Vote for Murder"--which is narrated by Orson Welles. At the end of each film, Welles asks the audience to solve the murder, and offers Read More

Dallas: Season 09

Actors: Larry Hagman, Linda Gray, Barbara Bel Geddes, Steve Kanaly, Ken Kercheval

Synopsis: The infamous ninth season of Dallas begins with Pamela Ewing (Victoria Principal) grieving over the death of her ex-husband Bobby, who was killed saving Pamela from her vengeful half-sister, Katherine Wentworth. To Pamela, the whole situation seems like one horrible nightmare -- and as it turns Read More

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

Dallas: Season 08

Actors: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Donna Reed, Charlene Tilton

Synopsis: As season eight of Dallas gets under way, Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) painfully convalesces from the gunshot wound that felled him at the end of season seven. The most likely suspect would seem to be Cliff Barnes (Ken Kercheval), the brother of Bobby's ex-wife, Pam (Victoria Principal), but in Read More

Dallas: Season 07

Actors: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Barbara Bel Geddes, Charlene Tilton

Synopsis: The fire that trapped J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman), his wife, Sue Ellen (Linda Gray), their son, John Ross (now played by Omri Katz), and J.R.'s half-brother, Ray (Steve Kanaly), in the Southfork mansion at the end of Dallas' sixth season is still raging as season seven begins. Fortunately, J.R. et Read More

Balboa

Actors: Tony Curtis, Carol Lynley, Jennifer Chase, Chuck Connors, Lupita Ferrer

Synopsis: This is a soap opera about a rich, suave, but self-aggrandizing villain and the women who either love or hate him. The melodrama sudses up with Ernie Stoddard's (Tony Curtis) determination to bring legal gambling to an island off the California coast and a local councilman's equally strong Read More

Dallas: Season 06

Actors: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Victoria Principal, Barbara Bel Geddes

Synopsis: Season six of Dallas opens with the resolution of the cliffhanger that ended season five, as Cliff Barnes (Ken Kercheval), hated rival of conniving oil tycoon J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman), recovers from his suicide attempt. Though ostensibly ruined and disgraced through J.R.'s machinations, Cliff Read More

Dallas: Season 05

Actors: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Victoria Principal, Barbara Bel Geddes

Synopsis: Having closed its fourth season with the unidentified body of a young woman floating in the Ewing family swimming pool, Dallas launches its fifth season by casting suspicion of murder on both of the series' chief antagonists: the cunning, consciousless Texas oil tycoon J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman) Read More

Dallas: Season 04

Actors: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Victoria Principal, Barbara Bel Geddes

Synopsis: "Who shot J.R.?" Those were the words on the lips of Dallas fans throughout the world as the popular prime-time serial launched its fourth season on CBS. Speculation ran high over the identity of the person who, at the tail end of season three, had pumped several slugs in the chest of the Read More

To Find My Son

Synopsis: Richard Thomas plays a single man named David Benjamin in the made-for-TV To Find My Son. While tutoring a speech-impaired young man named Tommy (Justin Dana), David becomes determined to adopt the boy. The Child Welfare people, however, have different ideas. But David will not be dissuaded Read More

Dallas: Season 03

Actors: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Victoria Principal, Barbara Bel Geddes

Synopsis: Steadily building up its viewership during its first few seasons, Dallas certainly gives its fans their money's worth during season three, which begins as the newborn son of the delightfully demonic oil tycoon J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman) and his wife, Sue Ellen (Victoria Principal), is kidnapped. Read More

Dallas: Season 01

Actors: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Victoria Principal, Barbara Bel Geddes

Synopsis: Dallas begins its original five-week trial run as Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy), youngest son of Texas oil millionaire Jock Ewing (James Davis), shows up at Southfork, his family's estate, with new bride Pamela Barnes (Victoria Principal) in tow. "Your folks are gonna throw me off the ranch" worries Read More

Big Wednesday

Actors: Jan-Michael Vincent, William Katt, Gary Busey, Patti D'Arbanville, Lee Purcell

Synopsis: Jan-Michael Vincent plays a self-destructive beach bum to whom surfing is a Zen experience. We first meet Vincent in the devil-may-care 1960s, in the company of his carefree buddies William Katt and Gary Busey. The boys reunite ten years later, after one has served time in Vietnam. The beach is Read More

Dallas: Season 02

Actors: Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray, Victoria Principal, Barbara Bel Geddes

Synopsis: Having proven itself as a viewer magnet during its five-episode trial in the spring of 1978, the multi-plotted prime-time serial Dallas launched its second season (and its first "full" one) in the fall of that same year, though it would not be until the series was moved from Saturday to Friday Read More

Young Joe, The Forgotten Kennedy

Midway

Actors: Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford, Hal Holbrook

Synopsis: An expensive war epic, Midway emulates The Longest Day and Tora! Tora! Tora! in attempting to re-create a famous World War II battle from both the American and Japanese viewpoints. The 1942 battle of Midway was the turning point of the War in the Pacific; the Japanese invasion fleet was destroyed 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

The Wind and the Lion

Actors: Sean Connery, Candice Bergen, Brian Keith, John Huston, Geoffrey Lewis

Synopsis: In the early 1900s, an American businessman was kidnapped by a rebellious Arab chieftain, principally as a means to embarrass the sultan of Morocco. This abduction sparked the threat of armed intervention by President Theodore Roosevelt, which was never carried out. In The Wind and the Lion, the Read More

The Melvin Purvis: G-Man

Actors: Dale Robertson, Harris Yulin

Synopsis: Melvin Purvis: G-Man was one of two TV pilot films intended to launch a series based on the life of famed FBI agent Purvis. Dale Robertson played the title role in both, emphasizing the heroics and downpedalling Purvis' shameless self-aggrandizement (he was so rabid a publicity hound that many Read More

Act of Vengeance

Actors: Ninette Bravo

Synopsis: This sleazy exploitation feature from director Robert Kelljan (Count Yorga, Vampire) is more noteworthy for its cast than its content. The plot concerns a group of five women who learn martial arts and team up to avenge their violations by a rapist (Peter Brown) who forced them to sing Jingle Read More

The Terminal Man

Actors: George Segal

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Michael Crichton, Terminal Man is a sci-fi thriller about a scientist who decides to be the lab rat in an experimental surgery to control his violent tendencies. During the surgical procedure, a miniature computer is implanted in his head. Unfortunately, the mechanism Read More

The Sugarland Express

Actors: Goldie Hawn, Ben Johnson, Michael Sacks, William Atherton, Gregory Walcott

Synopsis: Based on an actual incident, Steven Spielberg's first theatrical feature follows the adventures of a Texas outlaw couple striving to keep their family together by any means necessary. Determined not to lose her child to the authorities, Lou Jean Poplin (Goldie Hawn) gets her obedient convict Read More

My Name Is Nobody

Actors: Henry Fonda

Synopsis: Spaghetti-Western star Terence Hill achieved international fame with 1974's My Name Is Nobody. A soldier of fortune, Nobody (Hill) is hired to gun down veteran outlaw Jack Beauregard (Henry Fonda). Before long, however, Nobody and Beauregard are bosom companions. When Beauregard announces his Read More

Dillinger

Actors: Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Michelle Phillips, Cloris Leachman, Harry Dean Stanton

Synopsis: John Milius's first directorial effort in its own small way set the stage in the 1970s for a subgenre of action films that depict a nostalgia for historical figures tinged with a hard-edged skepticism. Warren Oates stars as John Dillinger, whose short-lived career as Public Enemy No.1 was, at Read More

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

Actors: Alfred G. Bosnos, Fred Brookfield, Karen Carr, Dolores Clark, Margo Epper, Barbara J. Longo, Lee Meza, Paul Newman, Victoria Principal, Anthony Perkins, Ned Beatty, Jacqueline Bisset, Tab Hunter, John Huston

Synopsis: Paul Newman plays the title role in John Huston's surreal, revisionist western as the infamous Texas hanging judge. Upon arriving in the tiny West Texas town of Vinegaroon, Roy Bean draws a moustache on a wanted poster of himself, marches into a saloon, and declares his presence. He is immediately Read More