Stuart Whitman Filmography

Second Chances

Actors: Tom Amandes, Kelsey Mulrooney, Stuart Whitman

Synopsis: In this inspiring drama based on a true story, Sunny Matthews (Kelsey Mulrooney) is a young girl whose life is shattered after she suffers severe leg injuries in an auto wreck which also claims the life of her father. Despondent over her tragedy, Sunny sinks into a deep depression, until she Read More

Wounded Heart

Actors: Paula Devicq, Stuart Whitman, Jon Hensley, Bibi Besch, Hank Stratton

Synopsis: Upon learning that her wealthy father has suffered a severe stroke, an independent, willful and successful Wall Street accountant leaves her high-powered job and heads down to her family's Texas ranch in hopes of guaranteeing her inheritance. While back home, the woman feels a strange stirring in Read More

Land of Milk and Honey

Synopsis: In this psychological drama, Sam has come to work on a dairy farm in Marin, California. He had been living in New York, but found himself tormented with terrible nightmares. On the farm he works closely with his friend Danny. Not long after his arrival, Sam gets in trouble with Robert, the owner. Read More

Bad Girls

Actors: Madeleine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson, Andie MacDowell, Drew Barrymore, James Russo

Synopsis: Madeleine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson, Andie MacDowell, and Drew Barrymore are the stars of this Western whose main gimmick is making heroes into heroines. They all start out as prostitutes, as Cody (Stowe) shoots a drunken colonel who attempts to molest Anita (Masterson). She is about to be Read More

Trial by Jury

Actors: Joanne Whalley, Armand Assante, Gabriel Byrne, William Hurt, Kathleen Quinlan

Synopsis: Joanne Whalley-Kilmer stars as a woman corrupted by the criminal justice system in this courtroom suspense thriller. She plays a civil servant named Valerie Alston, a single mother living in New York City, who gets placed on a jury trying the case of mob boss Rusty Pirone (Armand Assante). A Read More

Improper Conduct

Actors: Steven Bauer, Tahnee Welch, John Laughlin, Nia Peeples, Lee Ann Beaman

Synopsis: Sexual harassment and revenge are the themes of this thriller. A secretary is murdered in a New York office building. In L.A. Ashley, who works for an advertising agency, is at an office party.There she surreptitiously has sex with a fellow employee. Michael Miller just moved from New York to be Read More

Private Wars

Synopsis: In this crime drama, members of a formerly peaceful community fight back after the cops fail to protect them from the gangsters who have turned their neighborhoods into battlefields. They do this by hiring a boozy detective to investigate the backgrounds of the supposedly upstanding local Read More

Lightning in a Bottle

Actors: Lynda Carter, Dee Wallace, Martin Kove, Matt McCoy, Stuart Whitman

Synopsis: Following a terrible auto wreck, a woman reawakens but can remember nothing about herself or the events leading up to the tragedy. This makes it all the more painful when she discovers that a man and his little boy were killed in the crash, one that she may have caused. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Incident in Lot 7

Synopsis: This unforgettable episode is set at Universal Studios, where Jessica (Angela Lansbury) has arrived to supervise the film version of her novel "Messengers of Midnight." It isn't long before Jessica has had a confrontation with the film's abrasive producer Darryl Hayward (Ron Leibman), who seems to Read More

Heaven and Earth

Actors: Takaaki Enoki, Masahiko Tsugawa, Atsuko Asano, Tsunehiko Watase, Naomi Zaizen

Synopsis: Japan's answer to Don Simpson -- a flamboyant and brash producer drawn to make flamboyant and brash films -- Haruki Kadokawa takes a turn at the director's chair with this sprawling historical epic featuring a massive budget: a record-breaking five billion yen, and thousands of extras comprising Read More

Smooth Talker

Synopsis: Someone is killing phone-sex girls and a policeman is obsessed with finding the killer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Omega Cop

Synopsis: Set in the ruined future that inevitably follows WW III, this sci-fi actioner chronicles the courage of the last cop on Earth as he tries to save three imperiled women. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Mob Boss

Actors: Eddie Deezen, Morgan Fairchild, William Hickey, Stuart Whitman, Irwin Keyes

Synopsis: This gangster satire involves a boss (William Hickey) who turns over the reins of his organization to an incompetent son (Eddie Deezen). ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Deadly Reactor

Actors: Stuart Whitman, David Heavener, Darwyn Swalve, Barbara Kerek

Synopsis: In a post-apocalyptic world, peaceful citizens are terrorized by renegade biker gangs. When one of the gangs kills the family of a village preacher, however, he decides to turn vigilante in order to exact justice. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Moving Target

Actors: Linda Blair

Synopsis: After witnessing her boyfriend's killing by gangsters, a woman escapes to Florida with the mob hot on her trail. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Once Upon a Texas Train

Actors: Angie Dickinson, Richard Widmark, Willie Nelson

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Once Upon a Texas Train offers us the once-in-a-lifetime teaming of Richard Widmark, Willie Nelson and Angie Dickinson. Nelson plays a veteran outlaw who robs a bank less than 6 hours after being paroled from jail. He uses the money to reunite his old gang, then sets about to Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Trouble in Eden

Synopsis: When Mary Rose Welch (Joan Caulfield) is injured in a car accident, she prevails upon Jessica (Angela Lansbury) to travel to the town of Eden, where Mary's sister has recently died under mysterious circumstances. Figuring that the best way to get to the truth is to adopt a guise, Jessica poses as Read More

Without Honor

Stillwatch

Synopsis: This mystery is set in Washington, D.C. and chronicles the exploits of a TV correspondent who is sent there to interview a prominent senator. While there, she begins realizing that her subject and a weird old house are strangely connected. Mayhem ensues as she begins her investigation. ~ Sandra Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Powder Keg

Synopsis: Somewhere in the Deep South, young singer Matt Burns (Brian L. Green) has been arrested for the murder of local bully Ed Bonner (Jeffrey Osterhage), son of the town's most influential citizen (Stuart Whitman). Innocent bystanders to this developing drama are Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) and Read More

Beverly Hills Cowgirl Blues

Actors: James Brolin, Lisa Hartman

Synopsis: Not long after he lost that "chicken run" to James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause (1955), actor Corey Allen switched professional gears to become a prolific film and TV director. Allen was responsible for putting television perennials James Brolin and Lisa Hartman through their paces in Beverly Read More

Hunter: The Biggest Man in Town

Synopsis: Hunter (Fred Dryer) and McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) go undercover to find out why a seemingly insignificant accountant has been murdered gangland-execution style in the small resort town of Campo Alto. It turns out that the dead man was using an alias--and that he was somehow connected with the Read More

The A-Team: Blood, Sweat and Cheers

Synopsis: Hannibal (George Peppard) is reunited with his old flame Dana (played by Toni Hudson, real-life wife of A-Team costar Toni Hudson), who is the mother of race-car driver Kid Harmon (Ken Clandt). Naturally, Harmon is in dire need of assistant from Hannibal and the rest of the A-Team; one of his Read More

Greed

Synopsis: Greed was originally released as Treasure of the Amazon, the literal translation of its Spanish-language title. Ostensibly based on a true story, the film stars Stuart Whitman as Gringo, an aging but still virile soldier of fortune. Right now, Gringo is foraging deep into headhunter country in Read More

First Strike

Synopsis: Originally released in 1985, this fictional Cold War thriller revolves around the Soviet Union's nefarious attempt to steal the U.S. Navy's submarine ballistic missile codes and trigger what could potentially become the downfall of the United States. Once the codes are successfully retrieved, the Read More

The Treasure of the Amazon

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Emilio Fernández, Donald Pleasence, Bradford Dillman, John Ireland

Synopsis: An action adventure about a group of fortune hunters who search for gold and jewels in the jungles of South America. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Vultures in Paradise

Ransom

Synopsis: A killer dresses as an Indian and, with bow and arrow, starts de-populating the citizenry of an Arizona town in an outright ransom attempt (he's demanding $4 million). The town rich guy finds a hired gun to eliminate the assassin. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Hit, Run and Homicide

Synopsis: Angela Lansbury's former MGM colleagues Van Johnson and June Allyson are prominently featured in this episode. A double-dealing businessman is killed when he is run over by a remote-controlled station wagon. Suspicion immediately falls upon the victim's disgruntled former partner, an oddball Read More

Vultures

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Yvonne De Carlo

Synopsis: This peculiar thriller was directed by Paul Leder (I Dismember Mama) and features the husband-wife team of Greg Mullavey and Meredith MacRae, who appeared in several of his films. Another low-budget shocker concerning the murders of a greedy family gathering around the deathbed of a dying man Read More

The A-Team: West Coast Turnaround

Synopsis: The A-Team shows up in rural California, where ruthless landowner Chuck Easterland (Stuart Whitman) is trying to drive Penhall Produce Farms out of business. Championing the cause of Joe Penhall (Robert Sampson) and his daughter Ellen (Devon Ericson), the team volunteers their services to deliver Read More

Butterfly

Actors: Stacy Keach, Pia Zadora, Orson Welles, Lois Nettleton, Edward Albert

Synopsis: Pia Zadora stars in an over-cooked melodramatic adaptation of the 1946 James M. Cain novel that is every bit as smutty and sleazy as Zadora's vampish character of Kady. The location of the novel has been switched from Appalachia to the barren lands of Arizona and Nevada in 1937. Stacy Keach plays Read More

The Monster Club

Actors: Vincent Price, Donald Pleasence, John Carradine, Stuart Whitman

Synopsis: This quaint horror anthology is loosely based on the works of horror novelist R. Chetwynd-Hayes -- who is portrayed by John Carradine as an active participant in his own tales. The author is invited by a suave vampire (Vincent Price) to accompany him to the title establishment, where he observes Read More

Invaders of the Lost Gold

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Harold Sakata

Synopsis: Escorting a valuable gold shipment through the jungles of occupied Philippines in 1945, a group of Japanese troops are ambushed and killed by cannibals, although not before a dedicated few manage to hide the gold in a nearby cave. Several years later, a group of money-hungry businessmen hire a Read More

Demonoid

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Samantha Eggar, Roy Jenson, Narciso Busquets, Erika Carlson

Synopsis: This inept horror film is a rare treat for fans of laughably bad cinema. From the opening flashback, in which a group of hooded cultists chop off a woman's hand and the obviously rubber appendage bounces to the floor, Macabra starts to amuse. By the time the action shifts to present-day Mexico Read More

Fabricantes de Panico

Guyana, Cult of the Damned

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Gene Barry, John Ireland, Joseph Cotten, Bradford Dillman

Synopsis: "Names have been changed to protect the innocent" in this infamous fictionalization of the tragic mass suicide of 914 followers of Jim Jones' "People's Temple" in Guyana in the fall of 1978. Rev. James Johnson (Stuart Whitman) is a charismatic but deeply paranoid man of the cloth who moves his Read More

Condominium

Actors: Pamela Hensley, Jack Jones, Stuart Whitman

Synopsis: Condominium is a two-part, four-hour TV adaptation of the novel by John D. McDonald. The setting is a hastily constructed Florida high-rise, assembled at the least possible cost by its greedy owners. An oncoming hurricane threatens to topple the structure and its residents into the ocean. Various Read More

Cuba Crossing

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Robert Vaughn, Raymond St. Jacques, Caren Kaye, Woody Strode

Synopsis: Assignment: Kill Castro was originally released as Cuba Crossing. Stuart Whitman stars as a mercenary hired to "off" the Cuban dictator. He soon discovers that he will be immediately expendable once the deed is done, and that co-stars like Robert Vaughn should not automatically be trusted. Raymond St. Jacques Read More

Hostages

The Treasure Seekers

Synopsis: Four disparate scuba divers go to the Caribbean in search of lost treasure. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

The Seekers

Synopsis: The Seekers was the third and last TV movie based on John Jakes' Kent Family Chronicles (the others were The Bastard and The Rebels). Heading the huge all-star cast is Randolph Mantooth as Abraham Kent, son of elderly Revolutionary War vet Andrew Kent (played by Martin Milner, replacing the first Read More

Women in White

Synopsis: In this drama, the new chief of staff at a Florida hospital tries to get the place to run smoothly. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Jamaican Gold

Synopsis: Star Rod Taylor co-wrote the screenplay for Jamaican Gold. For centuries, the treasure of Morgan the Pirate has been resting somewhere beneath the waters of Carribean. Diver Taylor goes after it, hoping to beat his rivals Stuart Whitman, Elke Sommer and Jeremy Kemp to the punch. All four Read More

La Mujer De La Tierra Caliente

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Laura Gemser, Antonio Gamero

Synopsis: A village girl with ambitions has schemed and connived to get to the big cities in Colombia. Though she is beautiful and finds plenty of romance, nothing quite works out. She even tries prostitution for a while. Eventually, she decides that her discontent has nothing to do with the city and that Read More

Oil

Synopsis: In this made-for-television action adventure, brave firefighters attempt to quell a cataclysmic oil fire out in the Sahara. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Harold Robbins' The Pirate

Actors: Anne Archer, Olivia Hussey, Franco Nero

Synopsis: This four-hour TV movie is one more of novelist Harold Robbins' "guess who everyone is supposed to really be?" wallowfests (with nary a Jolly Roger in sight). The "pirate" is Baydr (Franco Nero), an anti-Semitic Lebanese oil sheik, who, unbeknownst to himself, is actually an Israel-born Jew Read More

Go West, Young Girl

Actors: Richard Jaeckel

Synopsis: Karen Valentine, who's probably starred in more unsold pilots than McLean Stevenson and Don Meredith combined, stars in this made-for-TV comedy western. Playing a "Nellie Bly" type reporter, Karen heads thattaway, hoping to interview Billy the Kid (Richard Jaeckel). This might prove difficult in Read More

Run for the Roses

Actors: Vera Miles, Stuart Whitman, Sam Groom, Panchito Gomez, Theodore Wilson

Synopsis: A lame racehorse is healed with the aid of a youngster's loving care and is able to enter the famed Kentucky Derby. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Ruby

Actors: Piper Laurie, Stuart Whitman, Roger Davis, Janet Baldwin, Chrystin Sinclaire

Synopsis: Piper Laurie (the mother in the horror film Carrie) appears here as the mother of a deranged deaf-mute girl. The mom runs a drive-in theater which shows mostly horror films. The girl is deranged because she is possessed by the spirit of her long-dead dad, a gangster who was gunned down by the mob. Read More

Maniac

Actors: Stuart Whitman

Synopsis: A maniacal Vietnam veteran begins killing people in an Arizona town, and then holds the entire city ransom unless a millionaire (Stuart Whitman) delivers with the money. The 1977 film is also known as Ransom. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Thoroughbreds

Quincy, M.E.: Hot Ice, Cold Hearts

Synopsis: The fourth of the feature-length Quincy, M.E. episodes produced for the NBC Sunday Mystery Movie anthology takes place on the Fourth of July, as medical examiner Quincy (Jack Klugman) is relaxing on the beach with the girlfriend Lee (Lynette Mettey). Quincy's idyll is cut short when a seriously Read More

Delta Fox

Actors: Richard Lynch, Priscilla Barnes, Stuart Whitman, John Ireland, Richard Jaeckel

Synopsis: In this "B" grade film noir wannabe, the U.S. government releases David Fox (Richard Lynch) from prison on the condition that he help them trap a tax-shelter specialist working for the mob. Armed with $1,000,000 in hot money, Fox is chased all over Miami and back as he vacillates between Read More

The White Buffalo

Actors: Charles Bronson, Jack Warden, Will Sampson, Kim Novak, Clint Walker

Synopsis: J. Lee Thompson directs Charles Bronson in this strange western variation on Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Bronson plays a man named James Otis, who is disturbed by dreams of a giant white buffalo. He returns to the west under his new name --Wild Bill Hickok. Amongst his travels, he meets Chief Read More

The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the African Safari

Synopsis: The Hardy Boys, Part 7 was first aired over the ABC TV network as "The Mystery of the African Safari." Joe and Frank Hardy (Shaun Cassidy and Parker Stevenson), Franklin W. Dixon's famed teenaged sleuths, are dispatched to Africa by their investigator father Fenton Hardy (Edmund Gilbert). Things Read More

Blazing Magnum

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Carole Laure, Martin Landau, Jean Le Clerc, Tisa Farrow

Synopsis: In this violent actioner, a misanthropic Ottawa police captain searches for the person who poisoned his little sister, who was attending the university in Montreal. So desperate is he for vengeance that he casts protocol to the winds and begins using his own brutal methods to find the killer. Soon Read More

Eaten Alive

Actors: Neville Brand, Mel Ferrer, Marilyn Burns, William Finley, Kyle Richards, Robert Englund

Synopsis: Director Tobe Hooper's follow-up to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre presents yet another Southern-fried psycho (this time in Louisiana) in the form of a scripture-mumbling, one-legged cracker named Judd (Neville Brand). The proprietor of a seedy bayou inn, Judd keeps a pet gator in the nearby swamp Read More

Las Vegas Lady

Actors: Stella Stevens, Stuart Whitman, George DiCenzo, Lynne Moody, Linda Scruggs

Synopsis: This heist film stars Stella Stevens as a robber who enlists her friends--a trapeze artist and a magician's aide--to help her make off with $500,000 in casino cash. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Crazy Mama

Actors: Cloris Leachman, Stuart Whitman, Ann Sothern, Tisha Sterling, Jim Backus

Synopsis: Cloris Leachman stars as Melba, a woman with whom violence is a way of life, in Jonathan Demme's high-pitched "B"-movie Crazy Mama. The film spans three decades in the violent life of Melba, beginning in Jerusalem, Arkansas in 1932, when law enforcers kill her father (Clint Kimbrough), turning her Read More

Mean Johnny Barrows

Actors: Roddy McDowall, Jenny Sherman, Fred Williamson

Synopsis: A Vietnam War veteran (Fred Williamson) is discharged from the Army, and becomes involved with mobsters when he is unable to find a job. The gang uses him on a job when one of the thugs (Roddy McDowall) and his girlfriend (Jenny Sherman) decide to provoke a gang war. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Call Him Mr. Shatter

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Ti Lung, Lily Li, Peter Cushing, Anton Diffring

Synopsis: Mr. Shatter (Stuart Whitman) is an international assassin, hired to bump off a top government official. He is compelled to fend off a host of Oriental kung-fu and karate experts. Peter Cushing and Anton Diffring make brief appearances. The film -- shot simultaneously with Legend of the Seven Read More

Welcome to Arrow Beach

Synopsis: The consumption of human flesh is the main course of this off-beat horror movie that centers on a war veteran who returns to California a cannibal. His sister likes peopleburgers too. The trouble begins when a gentle hippie chick encounters the hungry duo enthusiastically eating their latest meal. Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: The Set-Up

Synopsis: Stuart Whitman guest stars as retired hit man Nick Carl, returning to San Francisco after a long sojourn in France. What Nick is unaware of is the fact that he has himself been targeted for a "hit" by his ex-boss Johnny Harmon (Jason Evers)--and that he is being surreptitiously set up for Read More

The F.B.I.: The Double Play

Synopsis: Con artist Rex Benning (Stuart Whitman) is quite a piece of work, ruthlessly swindling not his wealthy victims but also his own accomplices. Currently, Benning is preparing to fleece both a multimillionaire and a small-time crook with big-time ideas. Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) hopes Read More

The Cat Creature

Actors: John Carradine, Gale Sondergaard

Synopsis: Cat Creature is a heady Curtis Harrington combination of high-gloss production values and spinechilling terror. A curse imposed thousands of years ago by a cat goddess wreaks havoc in the 20th century--all for the purpose of retrieving a long-lost golden amulet. Gale Sondergaard, whose association Read More

Night of the Lepus

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun, DeForest Kelley

Synopsis: Giant Flesh-Eating Rabbits Ravage American Southwest After Scientist Slips Up! Such is the plot of this unintentionally campy horror outing. The trouble begins when a researcher's experiment to use hormone injections to control Arizona's burgeoning rabbit population goes terribly awry, causing the Read More

The Woman Hunter

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV film, the rich Dina Hunter (Barbara Eden) believes that someone is out to kill her in order to steal her jewels. However, as she attempts to get help, Dina's fears are laughed off as being paranoid and unfounded. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

High Flying Spy

Synopsis: During a cross-country balloon race, 2 aeronauts become entangled in the start of the Civil War. ~ All Movie Guide Read More