Ted Shackelford Filmography

Born:: June 23, 1946 in Oklahoma City, OK
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Oklahoma native Tom Shackelford is best known for the role of Gary Ewing, which he played on two different TV shows, Dallas and Knots Landing. The actor already had plenty of experience, having previously appeared on the daytime soap Another World, and even after the character of Gary Ewing was...Read More

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Officer Down

Actors: Sherilyn Fenn, Casper Van Dien, Jerry Kroll, Larry Drake, Richard Gleason

Synopsis: The son of a powerful police commissioner, uniformed officer Philip Gammon (Casper Van Dien) is secretly in charge of the Vigilantes, an illegal band of fellow cops whose mission in life is to track down and kill all known drug dealers. Inevitably, the Vigilantes become drunk with their own power Read More

2005
Miracle Dogs

Actors: Kate Jackson, Ted Shackelford, Stacy Keach, Rue McClanahan, Daniel Roebuck, Wayne Rogers

Synopsis: The family friendly animal movie Miracle Dogs concerns a boy who befriends a three-legged dog. Soon his relationship with the canine deepens to the point that the boy is attempting to find new homes for a variety of homeless animals. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

2003
Cave In

Actors: Mimi Rogers, Ted Shackelford, Nikita Kearsley, Charlotte Woollams, Bruce Allpress

Synopsis: Inspired by the real-life rescue of several miners from a collapsed tunnel in North Carolina, this made-for-TV drama stars Mimi Rogers as Pat Bogen, superintendent of the Greymount Mine. Long concerned over safety issues at the mine, Pat finds that her worries are confirmed when a cave-in occurs Read More

2003
Air Panic

Synopsis: Bob Misiorowski's thriller Air Panic features an unhinged computer whiz named Cain who plans to kill a number of innocent victims unless a federal agent with the capacity to match wits with him can thwart the plan. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

2001
Stolen Women: Captured Hearts

Synopsis: Based on a true story, the made-for-TV Stolen Women, Captured Hearts takes place in Kansas in 1868. In retribution for the genocidal attacks of General George Armstrong Custer, a band of Lakota Sioux kidnap a pair of white women, Anna Brewster Morgan (Janine Turner) and Sarah White ({$Jean Louisa Read More

1997
Sweet Temptation

Actors: Beverly D'Angelo, Jenny Lewis, Rob Estes, Ted Shackelford

Synopsis: 16-year-old Jade Larson (Jenny Lewis) isn't terribly keen on the fact that her divorced mom Jesse (Beverly D'Angelo) has fallen in love with Billy Stone (Rob Estes), who in addition to being divorced himself is much closer to Jade's age than Jesse. As the relationship deepens, the impressionable Read More

1996
Touched By an Angel: The Quality of Mercy

Synopsis: Insisting that he has voluntarily turned his back on his Hollywood career, ex-soap opera star Joel Redding (Ted Shackelford) becomes a drama professor at a small-town college. Though Joel's son Marshall (Harley Cross) idolizes his dad, the same cannot be said for Joel's wife Sally (Stephanie Read More

1996
Harvest for the Heart

Actors: Ted Shackelford, Ron White, Rebecca Jenkins, Ken Pogue, Zack Ward

Synopsis: Two decades after he abandoned his family and their ranch, a son returns to help out after their livestock begins mysteriously dying. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1994
The Spider and the Fly

Actors: Mel Harris, Ted Shackelford, Kim Coates, Colm Feore, Frankie R. Faison

Synopsis: In this suspenseful made-for-cable whodunit, two rival mystery writers challenge each other to devise the perfect murder, and they quickly fall in love. The trouble is that one of them really is a murderer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1994
Dying to Remember

Actors: Melissa Gilbert

Synopsis: Fashion designer Melissa Gilbert is Dying to Remember in this USA Cable Network potboiler. Plagued by vivid nightmares, the fashion designer begins to believe that she's suffering from repressed-memory syndrome. It gets better: she might be conjuring up memories of a previous life. Whatever the Read More

1993
Knots Landing: Season 14

Actors: Ted Shackelford, Michele Lee, Kevin Dobson, William Devane, Nicollette Sheridan

Synopsis: The 14th and final season of Knots Landing is distinguished by the conspicuous absence of longtime regular Joan Van Ark, whose character, Val Ewing, mysteriously disappeared while researching a book on mob-connected politician and businessman Greg Sumner (William Devane). In his frantic efforts to Read More

1992
Knots Landing: Season 13

Actors: Ted Shackelford, Joan Van Ark, Michele Lee, Kevin Dobson, William Devane

Synopsis: Season Thirteen of Knots Landing gets under way with only one of the four original "couplings" of the series' first season intact: After many romantic side trips and emotional detours, Gary Ewing (Ted Shackelford) and his ex-wife Val (Joan Van Ark) have decided to let bygones be bygones and tie Read More

1991
Baby of the Bride

Actors: Rue McClanahan, Kristy McNichol

Synopsis: This made-for-TV domestic drama is a follow-up to 1990's Children of the Bride. Rue McClanahan plays a 53-year-old newlywed, the wife of much-younger Ted Shackelford (replacing the earlier film's Patrick Duffy) It's bad enough when McClanahan unexpectedly becomes pregnant. It gets worse when the Read More

1991
Knots Landing: Season 12

Actors: Ted Shackelford, Joan Van Ark, Michele Lee, Kevin Dobson, William Devane

Synopsis: Rendered mortally ill by anti-chemical activists during Season Eleven of Knot's Landing, scheming politician-businessman Greg Sumner (William Devane) is snatched from the jaws of death by a liver transplant--which, characteristically, he has secured by dishonest means. This leaves Sumner alive and Read More

1990
Love Boat: A Valentine Voyage

Actors: Steve Bond, Tom Bosley, Julia Duffy, Bernie Kopell, Ted Lange, Roddy Piper, Shanna Reed, Joe Regalbuto, Jill Whelan

Synopsis: Just when you thought it was safe to go into the water again, along came the "retro" TV movie The Love Boat: A Valentine Voyage. Four regulars of the original Love Boat series are back on board: Gavin McLeod ($Capt Stubbing), Bernie Kopell (Doc), Ted Lange (Isaac) and Jill Whelan (Vicki). Filmed Read More

1990
Knots Landing: Season 11

Actors: Ted Shackelford, Joan Van Ark, Michele Lee, Kevin Dobson, William Devane

Synopsis: Although the scheming Abby Cunningham (Donna Mills) had departed Knots Landing at the end of its tenth season, the series still managed to serve up a full recipe of fascinating intrigues during its eleventh season on the air. Dominating much of the proceedings is a plotline sparked by a Read More

1989
Knots Landing: Season 10

Actors: Ted Shackelford, Joan Van Ark, Donna Mills, Michele Lee, Kevin Dobson

Synopsis: Season Ten of Knots Landing begins with Val (Joan Van Ark) surviving the lethal drug overdose administered by Jill (Teri Austin). Worried that her current amour Gary (Ted Shackelford) was planning to re-wed his former wife Val, Jill had schemed to bump off her rival in a manner that would look Read More

1988
Rescue Me

1988
Sweet Revenge

Actors: Nancy Allen, Ted Shackelford, Martin Landau, Sal Landi, Michelle Little

Synopsis: Jillian Grey (Nancy Allen) is a television reporter who investigates the disappearance of young women in this routine action drama. She is kidnapped with three other woman from the streets of Los Angeles and sold into slavery in Southeast Asia. Martin Landau plays Cicero, the villainous head of Read More

2/13/87
Knots Landing: Season 09

Actors: Ted Shackelford, Joan Van Ark, Donna Mills, Michele Lee, Kevin Dobson

Synopsis: The big news of Knots Landing's ninth season is the apparent murder of unsavory politician Peter Hollister, who in the course of the previous season had had affairs with both Abby Cunningham (Donna Mills) and Abby's daughter Olivia (Tonya Crowe)--leading Abby to believe that Olivia was the killer Read More

1987
Knots Landing: Season 08

Actors: Ted Shackelford, Joan Van Ark, Donna Mills, Michele Lee, Kevin Dobson

Synopsis: Moving to its now-famous Thursday night timeslot on the occasion of its eighth season, Knots Landing quickly updates its fans on events left unresolved at the end of Season Seven, not least of which is the mysterious kidnapping of Karen MacKenzie (Michele Lee). It turns out that Karen's abductor Read More

1986
Knots Landing: Season 07

Actors: Ted Shackelford, Joan Van Ark, Donna Mills, Michele Lee, Kevin Dobson

Synopsis: The "Black Market Baby" story arc which dominated most of Knots Landing's sixth season is resolved in the first few episodes of Season Seven, as Val Ewing (Joan Van Ark) is tearfully reunited with her twin babies, who had been stolen and auctioned off on the illegal-adoption circuit. This settled Read More

1985
Knots Landing: Season 06

Actors: Ted Shackelford, Joan Van Ark, Donna Mills, Michele Lee, Kevin Dobson

Synopsis: Season Six of Knots Landing begins with the conniving Abby Cunningham (Donna Mills) finding herself the victim rather than the predator for a change when she is kidnapped by the sinister Mark St. Claire (Joseph Chapman). Meanwhile, Karen Fairgate MacKenzie (Michele Lee), having been wounded by a Read More

1984
Summer Fantasy

Actors: Julianne Phillips, Ted Shackelford, Michael Gross

Synopsis: Bikinis and rippling, manly muscles abound in this lively, youth-oriented Southern California-set adventure that chronicles the experiences of a curvaceous high school graduate who decides to work as a life guard for a summer before going to med school. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1984
Knots Landing: Season 05

Actors: Ted Shackelford, Joan Van Ark, Donna Mills, Michele Lee, Kevin Dobson

Synopsis: The fourth-season murder of singer Cijji Dunne still looms large over the main characters of Knots Landing as the series launches its fifth year on the air. After briefly suspecting Cijji's erstwhile lover Gary Ewing (Ted Shackelford) and Gary's wife Val (Joan Van Ark), Federal prosecutor Mack Read More

1983
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

1982
Knots Landing: Season 04

Actors: Ted Shackelford, Joan Van Ark, Donna Mills, Michele Lee, Kevin Dobson

Synopsis: Joining the cast of Knots Landing as the series begins its fourth season is Kevin Dobson as Federal prosecutor Marion Patrick "Mack" MacKenzie, who is brought into the storyline when Karen Fairgate (Michele Lee), widowed owner of Knots Landing Motors, decides to aggressively pursue the criminals Read More

1982
Terror Among Us

Synopsis: With Dandy Don Meredith in the cast, the made-for-TV movie Terror Among Us bears a resemblance to the 1970s series Police Story. Meredith plays a police sergeant who is desperately trying to track down serial rapist Ted Shackleford. Newly paroled, Shackleford may very well carry out the threats Read More

1981
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

1981
Knots Landing: Season 03

Actors: Ted Shackelford, Joan Van Ark, Donna Mills, Michele Lee, John Pleshette

Synopsis: Season Three of Knots Landing picks up where the previous season left off, as Sid Fairgate (Don Murray), owner of Knots Landing Motors and the boss of series protagonist Gary Ewing (Ted Shackelford), hovers between life and death after his car "accidentally" plummets over a cliff, the end result Read More

1981
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

1980
Knots Landing: Season 01

Actors: Ted Shackelford, Joan Van Ark, Don Murray, Michele Lee, John Pleshette

Synopsis: Season One of the Dallas spinoff Knots Landing begins as Gary Ewing (Ted Shackelford), ex-alcoholic "black sheep" of the oil-rich Ewing clan, moves from Texas to Southern California with his long-suffering wife Val (Joan Van Ark). The couple make their new home in the cul-de-sac community of Knots Read More

1980
Knots Landing: Season 02

Actors: Ted Shackelford, Joan Van Ark, Donna Mills, Don Murray, Michele Lee

Synopsis: Playing to disappointing ratings during its first season on the air, the Dallas spinoff Knots Landing made a spectacular leap forward during Season Two with the introduction to the cast of Donna Mills as Abby Cunningham, the manipulative and predatory sister of Sid Fairgate (Don Murray), Gary Read More

1980
The Rockford Files: Guilt

Synopsis: Rocky (Noah Beery Jr.) is delighted at the prospect of his son Jim (James Garner) being reunited with interior decorator Valerie Pointer (Patrick Crowley), who'd been Jim's girlfriend back in the late 1950s'. But Val has a habit of stirring up trouble wherever she goes--and on this occasion, she Read More

1979
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

1979
Ebony, Ivory and Jade

Synopsis: A scientist hunted by terrorists receives assistance from an unexpected source: two Las Vegas showgirls and their promoter who pretend to be detectives. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1979
The Jordan Chance

Synopsis: Raymond Burr attempted a return to weekly television in this feature-length pilot for the proposed series The Jordan Chance. Having spent seven years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, attorney Frank Jordan (Burr) dedicates his life to defending others who have been falsely accused. To this Read More

1978
The Defection of Simas Kudirka

Synopsis: Alan Arkin stars as real-life Lithuanian seaman Simas Kudirka, a radio operator on a Russian vessel. When his ship docks at Martha's Vineyard in early 1970, Kudirka makes a dramatic leap from the deck, landing on the American coast guard cutter Vigilant. He announces that he wishes to Read More

1978

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