Susan StrasbergFilmography

Working with Orson Welles

Synopsis: It is rumored that Orson Welles spent the last 25 years doing little more than wine commercials and appearing on the Johnny Carson Show. Working With Orson Welles disproves that. It's a documentary done by Welles' cameraman Gary Graver that focuses on the last 15 years of the great director's Read More

Il Giardino Dei Ciliegi

Actors: Susan Strasberg, Barbara de Rossi, Gabriele Gori, Marisa Berenson

Synopsis: Those looking for an intelligible filmed rendition of Anton Checkhov's famous play, The Cherry Orchard might be well advised to look elsewhere. This version had the curious distinction of receiving the universal and enthusiastic condemnation of critics attending its 1992 San Sebastian Film Read More

Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend - The Definitive Visual Biography

Synopsis: This video is a close-up of Marilyn Monroe as seen by some of those who knew her best. The award-winning program is filled with memories as told by her friends and fellow actors, including Celeste Holm, Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Susan Strasberg, and Josh Logan. Clips from her best moments Read More

The Light in the Jungle

Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Helen Jessop, Andrew Davis

Synopsis: Malcolm McDowell stars as Albert Schweitzer in this biographical account of the Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian's years as an African missionary, as he establishes a hospital despite the medical superstitions of the local tribesmen. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Runnin' Kind

Synopsis: A funny coming-of-age story about a young man who is expected to take over his Father's Ohio law firm but first decides to take the Summer off and "discover himself." To do this, he joins up with an all-girl rock band and the drummer, Brie Howard, shows him the underbelly of the Los Angeles punk Read More

Prime Suspect

Synopsis: A man escapes from a mental hospital to try and clear his name after he is accused of the murder of his girlfriend--the murder which he witnessed. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Days Dwindle Down

Synopsis: This classic episode adroitly utilizes footage from the 1949 theatrical film Strange Bargain--with three of that film's stars, Jeffrey Lynn, Martha Scott and Harry Morgan, reprising their roles in the "new" scenes. Released from prison after serving 30 years for the murder of his boss, Sam Wilson Read More

The Delta Force

Actors: Chuck Norris, Lee Marvin, Martin Balsam, Joey Bishop, Robert Forster

Synopsis: Menahem Golan melds a Chuck Norris action spectacle with the disaster film genre in The Delta Force. The story is based upon the June, 1985 hijacking of a TWA jet, where passengers were held at gun-point by terrorists in Beirut, Lebanon. The film re-enacts various real life incidents from the Read More

The Hollywood Collection: Marilyn Monroe - Beyond the Legend

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Joshua Logan, Susan Strasberg, Don Murray

Synopsis: This documentary of Marilyn Monroe takes a novel approach in not dwelling on her love affairs and concentrating on her film career. Film clips and press conferences accompany interviews of Marilyn's friends and co-stars such as Shelly Winters, Robert Mitchum, Susan Strasberg, and Joshua Logan. Read More

The Returning

Actors: Gabriel Walsh, Susan Strasberg, Victor Arnold, Ruth Warrick

Synopsis: In this unremittingly serious, undistinguished, yet well-acted tale of the supernatural, two different men are possessed by spirits of Native Americans after they separately wander into a sacred burial ground, angering the spirits enough for them to retaliate. When John (Gabriel Walsh) and Sybil (Susan Strasberg Read More

Mazes and Monsters

Synopsis: Remember that controversial participation game of the 1980s called "Dungeons and Dragons"? Remember how sociologists warned us that the game was potentially dangerous to those who couldn't altogether separate fantasy from reality. This is the premise of Mazes and Monsters, a made-for-TV film based Read More

Death by Law

Synopsis: A syndicate gambling organization receives a new member in the form of a police detective in disguise. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Sweet Sixteen

Actors: Bo Hopkins, Susan Strasberg, Don Stroud, Dana Kimmell, Aleisa Shirley

Synopsis: This standard slasher film from director Dimitri Sotirakis (using the pseudonym "Jom Sotos") is notable only for its fascinating cast. The story is a rather predictable affair as young Melissa (Aleisa Shirley) sees all of her friends being murdered after their 16th birthdays. Her mother (Susan Strasberg Read More

Acting: Lee Strasberg and the Actors Studio

Actors: Lee Strasberg, Ellen Burstyn, Dick Cavett, Jane Fonda, Susan Strasberg

Synopsis: Although the Actors Studio and Lee Strasberg have been famous for many decades in the U.S., this documentary is the first film to go into the studio and record sessions with actors, showing Strasberg in action. Aside from interviews with Strasberg, he is also seen responding to filmed performances Read More

Prime Suspect

Synopsis: In this thriller, a snoopy and ambitious television news reporter causes an average citizen to become suspected of being a serial killer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Bloody Birthday

Actors: Susan Strasberg, José Ferrer, Lori Lethin, Melinda Cordell, Julie Brown

Synopsis: Sort of a triple-threat Bad Seed with a more overtly violent streak, this film tells the tale of trio of cherubic youngsters whose births all coincided with a solar eclipse, which somehow initiated a kind of time-release evil reaction that reaches its climax on the kids' tenth birthday, causing Read More

Beggarman, Thief

Actors: Jean Simmons, Glenn Ford, Lynn Redgrave, Tovah Feldshuh, Andrew Stevens

Synopsis: Beggarman, Thief is the 4-hour sequel to the ratings-busting miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man; both productions were based on the works of novelist Irwin Shaw. For the purposes of the sequel, a new member of the Jordache clan is introduced: filmmaker Gretchen Jordache Burke, played by Jean Simmons. Read More

The Manitou

Actors: Tony Curtis, Michael Ansara, Susan Strasberg, Stella Stevens, Jon Cedar

Synopsis: Low-budget horror director William Girdler's last film stars Susan Strasberg as Karen Tandy, a San Francisco woman who develops a strange growth on her neck. After an operation fails because the doctor is forced to cut his own hand, Karen seeks out an Indian shaman (Michael Ansara), who tells her 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

In Praise of Older Women

Actors: Tom Berenger, Karen Black, Susan Strasberg, Helen Shaver, Marilyn Lightstone

Synopsis: In Hungary, 12-year-old Andras Vadya supported himself during World War II by serving as a pimp for prostitutes. Once the war is over, he tries his hand at a number of different jobs, but has a sexual fixation on "older" women. Andras (Tom Berenger) tells the story of seven of his affairs. One Read More

The Mafu Cage

Actors: Lee Grant, Carol Kane, Will Geer, James Olson

Synopsis: In this combination of domestic melodrama and offbeat suspense flick, an astronomer must shoulder the burden of caring for and sleeping with her mentally ill sister after their anthropologist father dies in Africa. Ellen (Lee Grant) and Cissy (Carol Kane) share a possibly incestuous relationship Read More

SST: Death Flight

Actors: George Maharis, Doug McClure, Martin Milner, Robert Reed, Susan Strasberg, Billy Crystal, Burgess Meredith

Synopsis: Death Flight was originally known as SST: Death Flight when it was first telecast February 25, 1977. Though fairly expensive so far as TV movies go, the film is brought down to earth by its standard B-flick plot. On its maiden flight, America's first supersonic transport runs into deadly danger Read More

Rollercoaster

Actors: George Segal, Richard Widmark, Timothy Bottoms, Henry Fonda, Harry Guardino

Synopsis: Rollercoaster was a by-product of the brief "Sensurround" craze of the 1970s. Nutsoid Timothy Bottoms sabotages an amusement-park roller coaster, killing several innocent revelers. After several other acts of terrorism, Bottoms (whose character is credited as Young Man) presents his demands to the Read More

The Rockford Files: A Bad Deal in the Valley

Synopsis: Jim's former girlfriend Karen Stiles (Susan Strasberg) sweet-talks the detective into delivering a briefcase full of escrow papers to a real estate office. Only when it is too late does Jim (James Garner) discover that he has been conned into transporting $100,000 worth of counterfeit money. And Read More

Sammy Somebody

Mystery at Malibu

Synopsis: A woman calls together all of her prospective wedding guests to locate the killer of her late fiance. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Rockford Files: The Countess

Synopsis: Jim Rockford (James Garner) is hired by former countess Deborah Ryder (Susan Strasberg), who is being blackmailed about her less-than-savory past by Carl Brego (Dick Gautier). After filming Deborah meeting Brego at the drop-off point, Jim confronts the blackmailer and "leans" on him a little to Read More

The Best of All the Safecrackers

Synopsis: Best of the Safecrackers is an ersatz movie made up of a two-part installment from the Toma TV series. Tony Musante stars as Dave Toma, a real-life Newark police detective. Toma is a master of disguise, and this time around he poses as a bank robber. He joins the gang of ace safecracker William Daniels Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: One Last Shot

Synopsis: Leslie Nielsen is the guest star in the season-three opener of Streets of San Francisco. Nielsen is cast as Joe Landers, an alcoholic police officer whose drunken bungling has caused the death of his longtime partner. Going to desperate and dangerous lengths to cover up his negligence, Officer Read More

Frankenstein

Actors: Robert Foxworth, Susan Strasberg, Bo Svenson

Synopsis: Produced by Dan "Dark Shadows" Curtis, this TV adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic spine-chiller Frankenstein remains fairly faithful to its source. Robert Foxworth stars as Dr. Victor Frankenstein, who comes to grief when he "plays God" by creating a human being from spare body parts. The Read More

Toma

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Toma was inspired by the real-life career of New Jersey plainclothes detective Dave Toma. Tony Musante stars as the detective, whose penchant for impenetrable disguises makes him indispensable to the undercover division of the Newark police department. Toma's fierce independence Read More

The Legend of Hillbilly John

Actors: Honor Hound

Synopsis: Based primarily on the "Silver John" tales of Manly Wade Wellman, this enthusiastically silly low-budgeter tells the story of young John (Hedge Capers), a balladeer who returns home to find that his Grandpappy (Denver Pyle) -- also named John -- has decided to do battle with the Devil by playing a Read More

... And Millions Will Die

Actors: Richard Basehart

Synopsis: Somewhat reminiscent of the 1965 film The Satan Bug, And Millions Will Die is a thriller based upon the premise of germ warfare. A lunatic plans to extort millions of dollars by threatening to unleash a deadly nerve gas upon the citizens of Hong Kong. He prepares to make good his threat--but then Read More

Sibling

Synopsis: The only noteworthy element of this otherwise undistinguished low-budget suspense flick is the presence of director Reginald LeBorg, who helmed numerous Joe Palooka comedies and several horror projects (including the excellent Vincent Price thriller Diary of a Madman) before taking a career dive Read More

Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones

Synopsis: Veteran director King Vidor had long harbored hopes of directing a filmization of Ann Head's novel Mr. and Mrs. Bo Jo Jones, but couldn't get backing from a major studio. The book was finally filmed in 1971 but as a TV movie rather than a theatrical feature and with Robert Day in the director's Read More

Hauser's Memory

Actors: David McCallum, Lilli Palmer, Susan Strasberg

Synopsis: David McCallum stars in Hauser's Memory as scientist Hillel Mondoro. At the behest of the CIA, Mondoro willingly has himself injected with the brain fluid from a dying fellow scientist named Hauser. The purpose of this experiment is to preserve the missile secrets lodged in Hauser's memory banks. Read More

Le Sorelle

Pineapple Rose

Synopsis: This episode of the weekly TV series Name of the Game was first telecast December 20, 1968. As in every 90-minute episode of Game, the story concentrates on the exploits of an employee of Crime magazine. This time the focus is on researcher Peggy Maxwell (Susan St. James), who is Read More

Ternos Cacadores

Actors: Sterling Hayden, Maureen McNally, Susan Strasberg, Stuart Whitman, Andrew Hayden

Synopsis: A family living on a remote island learns an escaped prisoner may be in the area. Allan (Sterling Hayden) is the professor who studies the migratory habits of birds. His wife Clea (Maureen McNalley) has a fascination for all things dead. Her sister Lis (Susan Strasberg) is visiting to break the Read More

Chubasco

Actors: Richard Egan, Christopher Jones, Susan Strasberg, Simon Oakland

Synopsis: Chubasco (Christopher Jones) is a wayward youth who is given a choice by the presiding judge. His choices are go to jail or take an honest job on a fishing boat. He chooses to set sail, leaving behind his girl Bunny (Susan Strasberg) and her father Sebastian (Richard Egan), who obviously has it Read More

The F.B.I.: The Quarry

Synopsis: Dean Stockwell guests stars as Mike Riley, a two-bit errand boy for the Mafia. Though he could arrest Riley at moment's notice, Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) intends to use the man as bait to trap the higher-ups in the Mob. Unfortunately, Erskine may not get the chance: Having been Read More

Psych-Out

Actors: Susan Strasberg, Dean Stockwell, Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Adam Roarke

Synopsis: Jennie (Susan Strasberg) travels to San Francisco to locate her hippie brother Steve (Bruce Dern). She meets Stoney (Jack Nicholson) in a coffeehouse and he helps her look for Steve, who Stoney has seen in his various attempts to start a rock & roll band. Stoney and his pals transform the square Read More

The Name of the Game Is Kill

Actors: Jack Lord, Susan Strasberg, Collin Wilcox, Tisha Sterling

Synopsis: Hawaii Five-O's Jack Lord stars in this odd little thriller directed by Gunnar Hellstrom. Lord plays a Hungarian man named Lipa who meets the beautiful Mickey (Susan Strasberg) while wandering the highways of Arizona. Mickey runs a gas station in the desert with her mother (T.C. Jones) and two Read More

The Brotherhood

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Alex Cord, Irene Papas, Luther Adler, Susan Strasberg

Synopsis: In Martin Ritt's The Brotherhood, Kirk Douglas plays Frank Ginetta, an old-line Mafioso who resents the newer policies encouraged by his younger brother Vince (Alex Cord). Frank resists all attempts at modernizing his operation, whereupon Vince cajoles his father-in-law Dominick Bertolo (Luther Adler Read More

Bonanza: A Severe Case of Matrimony

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Susan Strasberg, J. Carrol Naish

Synopsis: Breaking from tradition, Bonanza offered two first-run episodes amidst the usual sea of reruns in the summer of 1968. The first of these, "A Severe Case of Matrimony", aired on July 7, 1968. Susan Strasberg plays Rosalita, a fiery gypsy girl who aspires to a career in opera-and never mind that she Read More

Marcus Welby, M.D. [TV Series]

Synopsis: The launching pad for the long-running ABC medical series Marcus Welby, M.D. was this feature-length pilot film, first aired March 26, 1969. Robert Young of course stars as Dr. Welby, a crusty but golden-hearted general practitioner forced by a mild coronary to take on a partner. At first, Welby Read More

The F.B.I.: The Executioners, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, the FBI continues to exert pressure on La Cosa Nostra, even while a bitter turf war between two mob families threatens to destroy the organization from within. Things come to head when gangland boss Leo Roland (Walter Pidgeon) orders the murder of potential Read More

The F.B.I.: The Executioners, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, the FBI squares off against La Cosa Nostra (evidently J. Edgar Hoover had finally acknowledged the fact that Organized Crime really did exist!) Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) is hoping that dissension within the ranks of the Mob will cause the Read More

The Trip

Actors: Peter Fonda, Susan Strasberg, Bruce Dern, Dennis Hopper, Salli Sachse

Synopsis: Roger Corman directed this psychedelic odyssey concerning the curative properties of LSD, with a surrealistic screenplay written by Jack Nicholson. Peter Fonda is Paul Groves, a television commercial director whose estranged wife Sally (Susan Strasberg) is pressuring him to sign their divorce Read More

The Invaders, Vol. 4: Quantity Unknown

Synopsis: Roy Thinnes was the star of this 1967-1968 science fiction series, about an Earth poised on the brink of alien takeover. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

McGuire, Go Home!

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, George Chakiris, Susan Strasberg, Denholm Elliott, Gregoire Aslan

Synopsis: This story of love and espionage focuses on political turmoil as a small nation struggles to free itself from colonial rule, and one man tries to serve both justice and his own heart. In the late 1950s, the island of Cyprus is under the political control of Great Britain, but groups of Cypriot Read More

Cosa Nostra, Arch Enemy of the FBI

Actors: Celeste Holm, Susan Strasberg, Telly Savalas

Synopsis: Released theatrically in Europe, Cosa Nostra, Arch Enemy of the FBI originated as "The Executioner", a two-part episode of the weekly TV series The FBI. The series' usual stars Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Philip Abbott and Stephen Brooks are joined on this occasion by guest artists Walter Pidgeon, Celeste Holm Read More

Four Kings

Synopsis: Four Kings is a 60-minute World War II drama starring Peter Falk, Robert Strauss, Vito Scotti and Than Wyenn as four prisoners serving life sentences. They are pulled out of jail by the US military and given an opportunity for a pardon. The "brass" isn't asking for much: all the four lifers are Read More

Il Disordine

Actors: Renato Salvatori, Sami Frey, Louis Jourdan, Curd Jürgens, Antonella Lualdi, Alida Valli, Tomas Milian

Synopsis: Disorder was a French/Italian co-production, released as Le Desordre in France and Il Disordine in Italy (somebody was in a rut). This leisurely paced modern fable stars Renato Salvatore as a poor young man, struggling to pay for his mother's medical bills. Virtually everyone whom Salvatore Read More

Adventures of a Young Man

Actors: Richard Beymer, Diane Baker, Corinne Calvet, Paul Newman, Fred Clark, Ricardo Montalban, Dan Dailey

Synopsis: The "official" title of this film is Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man; its screenplay is adapted from semi-autobiographical "Nick Adams" stories written by Ernest Hemingway. Played by Richard Beymer (West Side Story), Nick Adams is a young Michigan boy who sets out in the early 1900s to learn Read More

Scream of Fear

Actors: Susan Strasberg, Ronald Lewis, Ann Todd, Christopher Lee, Leonard Sachs, John Serret

Synopsis: The British writer/director team of Jimmy Sangster and Seth Holt was never satisfied unless it scared the bejeepers out of its audience. Scream of Fear stars Susan Strasberg as the crippled daughter of Ann Todd, whom she meets for the first time during a vacation on the Riviera. There's something Read More

Kapo

Actors: Didi Perego, Gianni Garko, Emmanuelle Riva, Susan Strasberg, Laurent Terzieff

Synopsis: The French/Italian/Yugoslav concentration camp drama Kapo stars Susan Strasberg, who several years earlier had originated the title role in the Broadway production The Diary of Anne Frank. Here, Ms. Strasberg is once again a European Jewish teenager victimized by the Nazis. Interred in a Read More

Stage Struck

Actors: Henry Fonda, Susan Strasberg, Joan Greenwood, Herbert Marshall, Christopher Plummer

Synopsis: This remake of Zoe Akins' Morning Glory stars Susan Strasberg as Eva Lovelace, the role that won Katharine Hepburn her first Oscar back in 1933. Fresh from the midwest, the starry-eyed Eva arrives in New York, convinced that she has what it takes to be Broadway's greatest actress. Armed with more Read More

Picnic

Actors: William Holden, Rosalind Russell, Kim Novak, Betty Field, Susan Strasberg, Cliff Robertson

Synopsis: One of the biggest box-office attractions of the 1950s, Picnic was adapted by Daniel Taradash from the Pulitzer Prize-winning William Inge play. William Holden plays Hal Carter, a handsome drifter who ambles into a small Kansas town during the Labor Day celebration to look up old college chum Alan Read More

The Cobweb

Actors: Richard Widmark, Lauren Bacall, Charles Boyer, Gloria Grahame, Lillian Gish

Synopsis: William Gibson's novel The Cobweb was brought to the screen by MGM with an impressive, hand-picked cast. Richard Widmark plays the head of a posh psychiatric clinic. Widmark's wife Gloria Grahame jockeys for the honor of selecting new drapes for the hospital's library. One wouldn't think that such Read More