Stuart RosenbergFilmography

Let's Get Harry

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Schoeffling, Thomas F. Wilson, Glenn Frey, Gary Busey, Robert Duvall

Synopsis: Stuart Rosenberg, under the guise of Alan Smithee, directed this action film concerning a soldier of fortune sent into a South American country to rescue a kidnapped American during a revolutionary upheaval. Harry Burk Jr. (Mark Harmon) and United States Ambassador Douglas (Bruce Gray) are held Read More

The Pope of Greenwich Village

Crew: Director

Actors: Eric Roberts, Mickey Rourke, Daryl Hannah, Geraldine Page, Kenneth McMillan

Synopsis: Set on the streets of New York's Little Italy, this dramatic series of character studies chronicles the lives and relationships between a disparate pair of Italian American cousins. Both of them want to leave the poverty of ghetto life, but each takes a dramatically different route when one of Read More

Brubaker

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Murray Hamilton, David Keith

Synopsis: Fact-based drama starring Robert Redford as Henry Brubaker, the new inmate at a run-down Southern prison that's become notorious for corruption and violence. After he witnesses several instances of gross misconduct and defuses a tense confrontation with a crazed inmate (Morgan Freeman), Brubaker Read More

Love and Bullets

Crew: Director

Actors: Charles Bronson, Rod Steiger, Jill Ireland, Strother Martin, Bradford Dillman, Michael Vincente Gazzo

Synopsis: Charles Bronson is out for revenge (and doesn't that sound familiar) in this action drama. Jackie Pruit (Jill Ireland) is the girlfriend of notorious gangster Joe Bomposa (Rod Steiger). When it looks as if Jackie's life is being threatened by Bomposa's goons, the FBI moves in to protect Read More

The Amityville Horror

Crew: Director

Actors: James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger, Don Stroud, Natasha Ryan, Murray Hamilton

Synopsis: "For God's sake, GET OUT!" was the ad campaign for the 1979 shocker The Amityville Horror. The film was based on the allegedly true story of the luckless Lutz family, who move lock, stock, and barrel into a new home, only to find that it is possessed by the demonic spirits of its previous owners. Read More

Voyage of the Damned

Crew: Director

Actors: Faye Dunaway, Max von Sydow, Oskar Werner, Malcolm McDowell, Orson Welles

Synopsis: Often described as "Ship of Fools with a conscience," Voyage of the Damned is based on a true story. In 1939, the Nazis ostentatiously loaded a luxury liner with hundred of Jewish refugees from all walks of life. The ship then tried to drop anchor in Havana, Cuba-only to have its passengers Read More

The Drowning Pool

Crew: Director

Actors: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Murray Hamilton, Gail Strickland

Synopsis: Paul Newman returns as private detective Lew Harper is this tale of blackmail and murder based on a novel by Ross MacDonald. Iris Devereaux (Joanne Woodward), the wife of a wealthy oilman from Louisiana, hires Harper after she receives a threatening letter. A blackmailer is threatening to tell Read More

The Laughing Policeman

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Dave Belrose, Walter Matthau, Bruce Dern, Louis Gossett, Jr., Albert Paulsen, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: Stuart Rosenberg's taut police thriller, based on the Martin Beck novel by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahlöö, concerns a serial killer who is targeting bus riders. When a bus full of innocent commuters are killed on a San Francisco street, Jake Martin (Walter Matthau) is assigned to track down the Read More

Pocket Money

Crew: Director

Actors: E. Baca, R. Camargo, R. Manning, Wynn Pearce, Paul Newman, Lee Marvin, Strother Martin, Christine Belford, Kelly Jean Peters

Synopsis: Two modern day cowboys smuggle a herd of cows across the border in this loosely amiable comedy. Jim Kane (Paul Newman) is a cowboy who unexpectedly finds himself deep in debt and in need of some fast cash. A less-than-scrupulous businessman approaches Kane and offers him a handsome payday to Read More

WUSA

Crew: Director

Actors: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Perkins, Laurence Harvey, Pat Hingle

Synopsis: Paul Newman served as co-producer of this allegorical drama and stars as Rheinhardt, a opportunistic drifter who ends up in New Orleans and hits up his old friend Farley (Laurence Harvey), a con man-turned-phony preacher, for a job. Farley is able to get Rheinhardt hired on as an announcer at a Read More

Move

Crew: Director

Actors: Elliott Gould, Paula Prentiss, Geneviève Waïte, Joe Silver

Synopsis: This humorless comedy finds Hiram Jaffe (Elliott Gould) earning a living as a pornography writer and dog walker to the rich in New York. When he and wife Dolly (Paula Prentiss) decide to move to a new apartment, the problems cause Hiram to blur the line between his fantasy writing and reality. Read More

The April Fools

Crew: Director

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Catherine Deneuve, Peter Lawford, Jack Weston, Myrna Loy

Synopsis: Virtually the first third of The April Fools takes place at a trendy party held by sharkish executive Ted Gunther (Peter Lawford). It is here that Howard Brubaker (Jack Lemmon), one of Gunther's employees, makes the acquaintance of the boss' lovely young trophy wife Catherine (Catherine Deneuve). Read More

Cool Hand Luke

Crew: Director

Actors: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J.D. Cannon, Lou Antonio, Robert Drivas, Strother Martin

Synopsis: Paul Newman was nominated for an Oscar and George Kennedy received one for his work in this allegorical prison drama. Luke Jackson (Paul Newman) is sentenced to a stretch on a southern chain gang after he's arrested for drunkenly decapitating parking meters. While the avowed ambition of the Read More

Asylum for a Spy

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Asylum for a Spy stars Robert Stack as a CIA agent who becomes an alcoholic, believing himself responsible for the death of two close friends. The Russians believe that Stack would be useful in fingering potential soviet defectors. The Americans plans to use Stack's inebriated state to get him Read More

Fame is the Name of the Game

Crew: Director

Actors: Jack Weston

Synopsis: Originally telecast November 26, 1966, Fame is the Name of the Game was the first official entry in NBC-TV "Project 120" series of made-for-TV movies (after two false starts in 1964). Tony Franciosa plays a magazine writer investigating the suicide of a beautiful girl. He uses the girl's address Read More

The Twilight Zone: Mute

Crew: Director

Actors: Ann Jillian, Frank Overton, Barbara Baxley, Irene Dailey, Oscar Beregi

Synopsis: Scripted by Richard Matheson from his own short story, this episode stars 13-year-old Ann Jillian as the title character, a nonverbal young girl named Ilse Nielsen. Apparently the sole survivor of a fire, Ilse is unofficially adopted by Harry and Cora Wheeler (Frank Overton and Barbara Baxley) Read More

The Twilight Zone: He's Alive

Crew: Director

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Ludwig Donath, Curt Conway, Paul Mazursky, Howard Caine

Synopsis: The leader of a ragtag American neo-Nazi organization, Peter Vollmer (Dennis Hopper) is unable to attract many followers beyond his own buddies. Despairing, Peter is willing to accept advice from anyone -- even the mysterious, German-accented stranger (Curt Conway) who has seemingly emerged from Read More

The Untouchables: The Chess Game

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) heads to Boston to locate the source for the bootleg champagne that is flooding into Chicago's speakeasies. Ness is convinced that Ira Bauer (Richard Conte), a blind fishing magnate who enjoys such "exercises of the mind" as reading, playing chess, and outwitting the Read More

The Untouchables: The Stryker Brothers

Crew: Director

Synopsis: No sooner have they been released from prison than the four Stryker brothers pick up where they left off, assuming control of a string of night clubs and all illegal traffic within. In dire need of extra money to keep their operation afloat, the brothers plan to rob a mail shipment--and to this Read More

The Untouchables: The Ginnie Littlesmith Story

Crew: Director

Synopsis: When her gangster uncle is gunned down in the soup kitchen where "Untouchable" Rossi (Nick Georgiade) is working undercover, mild-mannered Ginnie Littlesmith (Phyllis Love) falls heir to her uncle's record books, which chronicle all illegal activities of a criminal organization known as The Group. Read More

The Untouchables: Downfall

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This episode is set in the late 1920s, explaining why Federal agent Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) appears to still be a bachelor. Bootlegger Pete "The Persuader" Kalminski has been encountering a lot of trouble getting his shipments past Ness and the Untouchables. Enter Joey December (Steven Hill), a Read More

The Untouchables: The Maggie Storm Story

Crew: Director

Synopsis: One year before her Oscar-winning performance in Hud, Patricia Neal guest-starred in this Untouchables episode as torch singer Maggie Storm (and never mind that we never hear her sing a note at any time). Maggie is the featured entertainer at the 808 Club, a night spot mentioned by dying drug Read More

The Untouchables: The Tommy Karpeles Story

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Once a big shot in the criminal world, Tommy Karpeles (Harold J. Stones) cuts quite a pathetic figure as a jury convicts him on a mail-theft charge. Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) is convinced that Tommy is innocent, and that he is taking the fall for a trio of clever hoodlums named Mendoza (Joseph Read More

The Untouchables: Jack

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Steven Hill guest stars in this episode as flamboyant mobster Jack "Legs" Diamond. The Mob doesn't like the publicity stirred up by Diamond's many extramarital affairs, so they order him out of town for a spell while they orchestrate a scheme to smuggle $5 million worth of narcotics into the Read More

The Untouchables: Tunnel of Horrors

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Hoping to capture narcotics boss Alexander Raeder (Joseph Ruskin) during a "business transaction" at a Chicago amusement pier, Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) is thwarted by another crook, Arnold Justin (Martin Balsam). Making this a particularly bitter pill to swallow is the fact that Justin used to Read More

The Untouchables: Augie

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Having been on the side of the law as one of the original "Untouchables" in the series' two-part pilot film, Keenan Wynn returns in the despicably villainous role of Augie "The Banker" Ciamino. Terrorizing his fellow Italian immigrants into submission, Ciamino forces them to set up small stills in Read More

The Untouchables: The Seventh Vote

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Nehemiah Persoff is back as Jake "Greasy Thumb" Guzik, hated rival of Frank "The Enforcer" Nitti (Bruce Gordon). As Nitti busies himself forcing other bootleggers out of business, Guzik moves in and orders Nitti to forget about booze and start trafficking in narcotics. The argument between the two Read More

The Untouchables: The Nero Rankin Story

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this sequel to "The Underground Court", Nero Rankin (Will Kuluva) has installed himself as chairman of the Syndicate, replacing the estimable Judge Foley. When Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) manages to convince Rankin's secretary Sylvia Orchins (Jean Carson) that her boss will be killed unless she Read More

The Untouchables: The Troubleshooter

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Season Three of The Untouchables begins with a return guest-star appearance by Peter Falk, this time in the role of mob troubleshooter Nate Selko (a character reportedly based on real-life gangster Murray "The Camel" Humphries). When Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) begins bearing down on the illegal Read More

The Untouchables: Death for Sale

Crew: Director

Synopsis: After his legitimate business goes bust, former drug king Phil Melnick (Lou Polan) returns to his old opium-dealing racket. This time, however, Melnick has taken a partner: 19-year-old Johnny Lubin (James MacArthur), who hopes to be a millionaire before his 20th birthday--and who is willing to Read More

Question 7

Crew: Director

Actors: Michael Gwynn, Margaret Jahnen, John Ruddock, Leo Bieber

Synopsis: Christian de Bresson plays the son of East German minister Michael Gwynn. The Communist regime has decreed that all children of "dissidents" will be denied entry in a prestigious music conservatory. Anxious to be accepted, young de Bresson prepares to answer the seven questions required by the Read More

The Untouchables: Hammerlock

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Bull Hanlon (John Larch), "The King of the Boardwalk", imposes Syndicate rule upon New York's bakeries at the behest of Joe "The Teacher" Kulak (Oscar Beregi). But Bull isn't working fast enough to suit Kulak, and if he wants to keep his job--and his life--he had better force the sole holdout Read More

The Untouchables: The Matt Bass Scheme

Crew: Director

Synopsis: With Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) raiding the Syndicate's distilleries left and right, Frank Nitti (Bruce Gordon) is forced to devise a new method of distribution. Enter ex-convict Matt Bass (Telly Savalas), who'd been Nitti's boss back in the "bad old days." Bass and his partner Jason Fiddler Read More

The Untouchables: Man Killer

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Ruth Roman proves the old adage about "the female of the species" in the role of ruthless mob wife Georgie Drake. A clever businesswoman, Georgie is the real brains behind the heroin-trafficking racket overseen by her husband Nick Dolov (Grant Richards); all she asks in return is Nick's total and Read More

The Twilight Zone: I Shot an Arrow Into the Air

Crew: Director

Actors: Dewey Martin, Edward Binns, Ted Otis, Leslie Barrett, Harry Bartell

Synopsis: During a manned space flight, a spaceship crashlands on a distant, desolate terrain, which may be an uncharted asteroid. The three surviving astronauts -- Donlin (Edward Binns), Corey (Dewey Martin), and Pierson (Ted Otis) -- begin a long and arduous search for food and water. Unfortunately, Corey Read More

Murder, Inc.

Crew: Director

Actors: Stuart Whitman, May Britt, Henry Morgan, Peter Falk, Sarah Vaughan, David J. Stewart

Synopsis: This true crime story was hardly "ripped from today's headlines," since the events took place some 20 to 30 years before the movie was released. Still, Murder, Inc. is not afraid to name names, notably those of syndicate boss Louis "Lepke" Buchalter (David J. Stewart) and killer Abe Reles (Peter Falk Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Escape to Sonoita

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Burt Reynolds appears in this episode as truck driver Bill Davis, who with his brother Andy is piloting a huge tanker through the desert. When the road is blocked by a stalled car, Bill and Andy climb out of their truck to offer assistance. The disabled auto turns out to be owned by a pair of Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Man With Two Faces

Crew: Director

Synopsis: While Alice Wagner (Spring Byington) is leaving a movie late one night, her purse is stolen by an unseen assailant. Heading to the police station to report the crime, Alice thumbs through the mug book -- only to find the picture of a criminal who closely resembles her own son-in-law Leo (Harp McGuire Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Backward, Turn Backward

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Sixty-year-old gardener Phil Canby (Tom Tully) woos neither wisely nor well when he falls in love with 18-year-old Sue Thompson (Phyllis Love). Later on, Sue's father is killed, and Sheriff Willetts (Alan Baxter) arrests Phil for the murder. Protesting his innocence, Phil insists that he was Read More

The Untouchables: The Underworld Bank

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This episode boasts the presence of two "Lieutenant Columbos": Thomas Mitchell, who created the role of disheveled detective Columbo in a 1960 theatrical production, and Peter Falk, who made the character internationally famous in a popular TV series. Mitchell is cast as Milo Sullivan, a gangland Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Dead Weight

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Philandering husband Courtney Masterson (Joseph Cotten) and his paramour, Peg Valence (Julie Adams), are attacked by a robber named Rudy (Don Gordon). Fortunately, Courtney and Peg manage to overpower their assailant and lock the man in the trunk of Masterson's car. At this point, Courtney should Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Road Hog

Crew: Director

Decoy: The Show Place

Crew: Executive Producer

Decoy: Ladies' Man

Crew: Director

Decoy: Night Light

Crew: Director

Decoy: Stranglehold

Crew: Executive Producer