Ted White Filmography

City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold

Crew: Stunts

Actors: Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Jon Lovitz, Jack Palance, Patricia Wettig

Synopsis: Mitch Robbins (Billy Crystal) returns in this sequel to the original City Slickers that attempts to recapture the first film's warmth and character comedy. Despite feeling re-invigorated when we last left him, Mitch again faces a few personal dilemmas: his radio station job is going nowhere and Read More

Conagher

Actors: Sam Elliott, Katharine Ross, Barry Corbin, Billy Green Bush, Ken Curtis

Synopsis: This well-wrought made-for-cable television western is faithfully adapted from a Louis L'Amour novel and centers on the budding relationship between brave but lonely widow (Katharine Ross) who runs a remote stagecoach way station and the handsome cowpoke (Sam Elliot) who comes to help her out. Read More

Downtown

Actors: Anthony Edwards, Forest Whitaker, Penelope Ann Miller, Joe Pantoliano, David Clennon

Synopsis: When suburban police officer Alex Kearney (Anthony Edwards) angers a wealthy, influential citizen by stopping him for a traffic violation, he finds himself transferred to the city's worst precinct. Struggling to adapt to his new inner-city surroundings, Kearney must deal with his gruff new Read More

Follow Your Heart

Actors: Patrick Cassidy, Frances Sternhagen, Catherine Stewart, Jace Alexander, Nicole Francois

Synopsis: Made for television, Follow Your Heart was first telecast April 2, 1990. Ex-marine David Larson (Patrick Cassidy) is tooling along aimlessly in the middle of Wyoming when his jeep breaks down. Awaiting the verdict from the local repair shop, Larson takes a part-time job as a rest-stop attendant. Read More

Sunset

Crew: Stunts

Actors: Bruce Willis, James Garner, Malcolm McDowell, Mariel Hemingway, Kathleen Quinlan, Dermot Mulroney

Synopsis: Director Blake Edwards departed from his customary sex farces to direct an unusual satirical Western comedy-thriller. In 1927, legendary lawman Wyatt Earp (James Garner) comes to Hollywood to serve as an advisor to a film studio making a movie about Earp's life. He meets silent screen cowboy star Tom Mix Read More

Deadly Stranger

Actors: Darlanne Fluegel, Michael Moore, John Vernon, Taylor Lacher, Ted White

Synopsis: In this socially-conscious drama, a migrant worker finds a new job on a plantation. He isn't there very long before he discovers that the local union leader is in cahoots with the plantation owner in a scheme to mistreat the other workers. Upon hearing this, the newcomer helps the workers to stand Read More

The Hidden

Actors: Michael Nouri, Kyle MacLachlan, Ed O'Ross, Clu Gulager, Claudia Christian

Synopsis: A cop discovers that there's something unusual about his new partner in this unusual sci-fi thriller. A seemingly well-mannered stock broker one day snaps, robbing a bank, stealing a Ferrari, and driving straight into a police barricade without any thought for his own safety, and he's mowed down Read More

Hot Pursuit

Actors: John Cusack, Robert Loggia, Jerry Stiller, Wendy Gazelle, Monte Markham

Synopsis: Dan Bartlett (John Cusack) is a lovestruck teen who misses his plane to the Caribbean in this engaging comedy. He was to join sweetheart Lori (Wendy Gazelle) and her father Bill (Monte Markham) in the tropical paradise. Determined to get to the island, his efforts are stalled by three natives with Read More

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Gene Simmons, Robert Guillaume, Mel Harris, William Russ

Synopsis: Nick Randall (Rutger Hauer) is a modern-day bounty hunter who goes after notorious terrorist Malak Al Rahim (Gene Simmons) in this action feature. Nick is called on after Malak disrupts Los Angeles with a series of fatal bombings. William Russ plays Nick's friend and retired LAPD lieutenant Danny Read More

Over the Summer

Synopsis: This undistinguished "country-punk" version of teens apparently maturing into what passes for adulthood may not quite have made the transition itself, since it seems geared to a young teen audience. When Tina (Laura Hunt) from the big city of Atlanta goes to spend the summer with her grandparents Read More

Hunter: War Zone

Synopsis: Hunter (Fred Dryer) knows that the murder of a hooker is somehow connected with a huge pharamaceutical theft, but he can't figure out why the woman was killed. In order to get the answers and flush out the villains, McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) goes undercover as a "working girl." This strategy may Read More

Magnum, P.I.: A Pretty Good Dancing Chicken

Synopsis: Magnum (Tom Selleck) is asked by Deputy DA Carol Baldwin (Kathleen Lloyd) to help locate her 17-year-old cousin Becky (Linda Grovenor). The one person who may know the girl's whereabouts is her former boyfriend Darryl (Asher Brauner), who is now serving time on a prison farm. In order to pry the Read More

Silverado

Actors: Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Kevin Costner, Danny Glover, John Cleese

Synopsis: Lawrence Kasdan's Silverado is a fond hark back to the all-star, big-budget westerns of the 1950s and 1960s. The various plotlines converge at the town of Silverado, held in thrall by crooked sheriff Brian Dennehy and his behemoth "deputies." The four disparate heroes--Kevin Kline, Kevin Costner, Scott Glenn Read More

Fire in the Night

Crew: Choreography

Actors: John Martin, Graciela Casillas, Muni Zano, Burt Ward

Synopsis: This drama combines equal portions of martial arts and feminist drama. Well-muscled Terry (Graciela Casillas) is relentlessly pursued by the rich, obnoxious Mike (Patrick St. Esprit), who has sex and matrimony as his objective. On one occasion, Mike nearly rapes Terry, who is saved only by the Read More

The Wild Life

Actors: Ilan Mitchell-Smith, Eric Stoltz, Jenny Wright, Lea Thompson

Synopsis: Comprised of classic teen movie elements scattered like croutons over a salad, this undistinguished high school drama involves several inconsequential stories at once, set in a seven-day period before the beginning of school. Tom Drake (Christopher Penn, Sean's brother) is a high-school wrestler Read More

Starman

Actors: Ted White, Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen, Charles Martin Smith, Richard Jaeckel, Robert Phalen

Synopsis: Having crashed to Earth, an extraterrestrial space traveller must assume a human identity lest he be captured by the authorities. The alien (Jeff Bridges) chooses the likeness of the recently deceased husband of Jenny Hayden (Karen Allen). At first dumbstruck, Jenny becomes both hostile toward Read More

Friday the 13th - The Final Chapter

Actors: Crispin Glover, Kimberly Beck, Barbara Howard, Erich Anderson, Corey Feldman

Synopsis: Hockey-masked killer Jason Vorhees returns to terrorize a lakeside family and their rowdy teen neighbors in this fourth installment of the long-running slasher series. After the events of Friday the 13th, Part 3, Jason's seemingly lifeless body is brought to the morgue, where horny attendant Axel (Bruce Mahler Read More

Against All Odds

Actors: Rachel Ward, Jeff Bridges, James Woods, Alex Karras, Jane Greer, Richard Widmark, Pat Corley

Synopsis: A remake of Jacques Tourneur's noir classic Out of the Past (1947), in this version a labyrinthine web of corruption touches on the world of pro football. When an injury-riddled body causes pro football player Terry Brogan (Jeff Bridges) to be cut by his team, Jake Wise (James Woods), a shady Read More

Romancing the Stone

Actors: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito, Zack Norman, Alfonso Arau

Synopsis: Kathleen Turner plays a writer of adventure stories, Joan Wilder, who has been having trouble selling her works of late because they aren't remotely believable. The basic problem is that the mousy Joan has never had any real adventure in her life. All this changes when she receives a frantic phone Read More

The Comeback Trail

Crew: Stunts

Actors: Chuck McCann, Robert Staats, Ina Balin, Jara Kahout

Synopsis: In this comedy a producer of "B" movies makes a film featuring a has-been cowboy star in the hopes that he can bring back his failing studio. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Tron

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, David Warner, Cindy Morgan, Barnard Hughes

Synopsis: One of the earliest feature films to reflect the video-game craze of the 1980s, Disney's Tron stars Jeff Bridges as computer programmer Kevin Flynn, who becomes part of the very game that he's programming. Flynn's principal antagonist is his glory-grabbing boss, Ed Dillinger (David Warner), who Read More

Cutter's Way

Crew: Stunts

Actors: Jeff Bridges, John Heard, Lisa Eichhorn, Anne Dusenberry, Stephen Elliott

Synopsis: After emigrating to the United States in 1969, Czech-born director Ivan Passer finally broke through to American audiences with his fourth film, a unique blend of mystery and social commentary. Cutter's Way is set in Santa Barbara, CA, a community of wealth and power. Its main characters, however Read More

Escape from New York

Crew: Stunts

Actors: Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Isaac Hayes

Synopsis: The year is 1997. Manhattan Island is now a heavily guarded maximum-security prison, where the scum of the earth have converged. When Air Force One crash-lands in Manhattan, the president (Donald Pleasence) is held hostage by its denizens. One-eyed mercenary Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) is Read More

The Legend of the Lone Ranger

Actors: Klinton Spilsbury, Michael Horse, Christopher Lloyd, Matt Clark, Juanin Clay, Jason Robards, Jr.

Synopsis: In this latter-day big-screen revival, the masked man (Klinton Spilsbury) and Tonto (Michael Horse) attempt to stop an assassin from murdering President Ulysses S. Grant. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Going Ape!

Actors: Tony Danza, Jessica Walter, Stacey Nelkin, Danny DeVito, Art Metrano

Synopsis: In this comedy, the death of his rich father leaves Foster (Tony Danza) as the sole heir to a five-million-dollar estate -- if he can keep his dad's three pet orangutans safe and sound for the next five years. With the help of his disgruntled girlfriend (Stacey Nelkin), Foster must struggle keep Read More

Flesh and Blood

Synopsis: Adapted from the novel by Pete Hamill, Flesh and Blood stars Tom Berenger as Bobby Fallon, a street punk who develops into a topnotch boxer while in prison. Upon his release, Bobby is taken under the wing of manager John Cassavetes. Outwardly tough and unmovable, Bobby is tortured with memories of Read More

Comes a Horseman

Crew: Stunts

Actors: James Caan, Jane Fonda, Jason Robards, Jr., George Grizzard, Richard Farnsworth

Synopsis: Old man Ewing (Jason Robards) owns a ranch right next to the ranch of Ella (Jane Fonda). This is a source of two problems: Ewing wants to gobble up most of the land around the two ranches and also wants Ella's ranch; secondly, when Ella was too young to know better, she went to bed with the man Read More

Black Oak Conspiracy

Crew: Stunts Coordinator

Actors: Jesse Vint, Karen Carlson, Albert Salmi, Seymour Cassel, Douglas Fowley

Synopsis: In this Roger Corman production, co-producer Jesse Vint stars as Jingo Johnson, a stuntman who goes to work for a backwater mining company. Jingo unearths a hotbed of corruption, partially orchestrated by redneck sheriff, Grimes (Albert Salmi). The hero and heroine (Karen Carlson) are forced into Read More

Kojak: Market to a Dead Bookie

Synopsis: In a disturbing turn of events, Lt. Theo Kojak (Telly Savalas) appears to be on the take, living extravagantly, spending lavishly and gambling heavily. Only a handful of intimates are aware that Kojak's "corruption" is actually part of a scheme to trap a heroin dealer who has repeatedly eluded the Read More

Point Blank

Actors: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn, Carroll O'Connor, John Vernon

Synopsis: Based on Donald E. Westlake's novel The Hunter, John Boorman's gangster film hauntingly merges a generic revenge story with a European art cinema sensibility. In Alcatraz to divvy up the spoils from a robbery, thief Walker (Lee Marvin) is instead shot point blank by his double-crossing friend Mal Read More

Smoky

Actors: Fess Parker, Diana Hyland, Katy Jurado, Hoyt Axton, Robert J. Wilke

Synopsis: In this touching western horse story, a wandering cowboy and rodeo rider finds a beautiful wild stallion, captures him, and trains him into a fine horse. Unfortunately, the cowboy's wicked brother trades the horse so he can pay off some debts. Just as he is trying to take Smoky from his pen Read More

The Andy Griffith Show: The Legend of Barney Fife

Actors: Don Knotts, Jack Burns

Synopsis: While on a visit to Mayberry, Barney Fife discovers that he is idolized by his successor, deputy Warren Ferguson. Unfortunately, the nervous Barney has to live up to his reputation when a convict escapes. As he has done so often in the past, Andy comes to Barney's rescue without anyone knowing Read More

Cat Ballou

Actors: Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin, Michael Callan, Dwayne Hickman, Nat "King" Cole, Stubby Kaye

Synopsis: This musical spoof of Westerns featured Lee Marvin in dual roles that won him a Best Actor Oscar. Jane Fonda stars as the title character, a prim schoolmarm returning to her hometown of Wolf City, Wyoming, after receiving an Eastern education. On the train ride, Cat meets up with a pair of Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Tarnished Trademark

Synopsis: The spokesman for a highly respected group of Danish artisans, cabinetmaker Axel Norstaad (Karl Swenson) is talked into selling the group's famous trademark to Martin Somers (Dennis Patrick), who claims that the money will be donated to charity. Only when several pieces of inferior furniture are Read More

The Alamo

Actors: John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Frankie Avalon, Richard Boone, Patrick Wayne

Synopsis: John Wayne's directorial debut The Alamo is set in 1836: Wayne plays Col. Davy Crockett, who, together with Colonels Jim Bowie (Richard Widmark) and William Travis (Laurence Harvey) and 184 hardy Americans and Texicans, defends the Alamo mission against the troops of Mexican general Santa Ana. Read More

Rio Bravo

Actors: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan

Synopsis: Set in Texas during the late 1860s, Rio Bravo is a story of men (and women) and a town under siege. Presidio County Sheriff John T. Chance (John Wayne) is holding Joe Burdette (Claude Akins), a worthless, drunken thug, for the murder of an unarmed man in a fight in a saloon -- the problem is that Read More

Maverick: Alias Bart Maverick

Synopsis: This episode marks the first Maverick appearances of urbane swindler Gentleman Jack Darby (Richard Long) and Southern-fried dance hall gal Cindy Lou Brown. Through a series of incredible plot convolutions, Cindy Lou helps Gentleman Jack switch places with Bart, so that Jack can abscond with $1000. Read More