Troy DonahueFilmography

Showdown

Synopsis: When a quiet retirement community is overrun by a gang of drug-smuggling bikers, their leader, Kincade (Werner Hoetzinger), expects to set up his illegal operation with little difficulty. However, when the locals decide to fight back, he could be up against more resistance than he bargained for. Read More

Sounds of Silence

Synopsis: In this thriller, a deaf boy must prove that there is a murderous arsonist loose in his neighborhood. He can stop the killer if he can convince someone to listen to him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Double Trouble

Actors: Peter Paul, David Paul, Roddy McDowall, James Doohan, A.J. Johnson

Synopsis: Two beefed-up twins (played by the Paul brothers, Peter and David, who have appeared in several programmers as "The Barbarian Brothers") operating on opposing sides of the law, team up to stop a nefarious crook in this actioner. Peter Jade is a notoriously arrogant burglar who ends up with the key Read More

Deadly Diamonds

Synopsis: Murdering diamond smugglers are tracked by a police officer. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Cry-Baby

Actors: Johnny Depp, Amy Locane, Susan Tyrrell, Polly Bergen, Ricki Lake, Iggy Pop

Synopsis: John Waters does a quirky spin on '50s nostalgia in Cry-Baby, his musical homage to Rebel Without a Cause and Romeo and Juliet. Set in Baltimore in 1954 at the birth of rock & roll, the film features Johnny Depp as Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker. Depp is pure charisma as a juvenile delinquent with a Read More

Nudity Required

Synopsis: In this sex comedy, a pair of opportunistic would-be Lotharios masquerade as big-shot Hollywood producers to lure innocent starlets to their bogus casting couch. ~ 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

Shock 'em Dead

Actors: Traci Lords, Stephen Quadros

Synopsis: In this thriller, geek Martin (Stephen Quadros) makes his dream of becoming a famous rock musician come true when he sells his soul to the Devil. As Martin is rocketed to stardom as a performer known as Angel, he is also transformed into a ghoulish undead creature who must kill in order to Read More

Click: The Calendar Girl Killer

The Chilling

Actors: Linda Blair, Dan Haggerty, Troy Donahue

Synopsis: Originally titled Gamma 693, The Chilling emulates Night of the Living Dead, but falls somewhat short of that horror classic. In exotic Kansas City, several corpses lie frozen in a morgue. Comes the inevitable thaw, and the city is overrun with zombies. And, yes, they subsist on human flesh. Troy Donahue Read More

A Woman Obsessed

Synopsis: In this low-budget thriller, a young man (Gregory Patrick) finds out that his mother (Georgina Spelvin) is really a wealthy recluse. His mother -- jealous, possessive and overbearing -- begins to victimize his wife Evie (Linda Blair). Lovers of movie trivia will note the unusual cast, including Georgina Spelvin Read More

Hot Times at Montclair High

Actors: Troy Donahue, Kim Valentine, Ross Hamilton

Synopsis: The students of Ridgemont High have got nothing on these hard partying high schoolers, but when September rolls around and a new batch of seniors prepare for graduation, a class tragedy brings everyone together in this effort from director Jose Altonaga. Sean Willis is the jock who has it all, but Read More

Blood Nasty

Deadly Spygames

Actors: Troy Donahue, Tippi Hedren

Synopsis: Deadly Spygames is a direct-to-video espionager conceived in the spirit of James Bond. The target: A Cuban radar station. The mission: to neutralize the efforts by a group of megalomaniacs to launch a nuclear war. The first complication: the male and female spy (Jack M. Sell--who also Read More

Assault of the Party Nerds

Actors: Michelle Bauer, Linnea Quigley, Troy Donahue, Richard Gabai, Deborah Roush

Synopsis: It's Nerds vs. Frats (again) when the Nerds use a wing-ding party as a recruiting tactic. The jocks are out to spoil the party and harass the nerds. This is a video-only release. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Terminal Force

Hawkeye

Dr. Alien

Actors: Judy Landers, Olivia Barash, Stuart Fratkin, Raymond O'Connor

Synopsis: This comical, erotic sci-fi adventure is every nerd's fantasy come true as it tells the story of ultra-geeky Wesley Littlejohn who readily volunteers to participate in his voluptuous substitute biology professor Ms. Xenophia's (an alien from outer space) extra credit research experiment. Once in Read More

Sexpot

Actors: Ruth Collins, Joyce Lyons, Frank Stewart, Gregory Patrick, Jane Hamilton

Synopsis: Chuck Vincent directed this R-rated remake of his own hardcore classic Mrs. Barrington (1974). Ivy Barrington (Ruth Collins) is a beautiful woman whose rich husbands keep dying mysteriously after they name her sole heiress to their fortunes. Jane Hamilton, also known as porn's "Veronica Hart," Read More

Deadly Prey

Actors: Cameron Mitchell, Troy Donahue, Ted Prior, Fritz Matthews, David Campbell

Synopsis: This violent actioner owes an enormous tip-o-the-hat to The Most Dangerous Game (1932) for its plotline about a secret mercenary training camp where recruits shoot real people instead of stationary targets. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Cyclone

Actors: Heather Thomas, Jeffrey Combs, Ashley Ferrare, Dar Robinson, Martine Beswicke

Synopsis: In this fast-paced actioner, a brave young woman must deliver a specially designed, top-secret super-destructo armored motorcycle that runs on oxygen to the US military after the man assigned to deliver it, her lover, is murdered by enemy agents. Soon after finding his body, the woman finds a Read More

Hollywood Cop

Actors: James Mitchum, Cameron Mitchell, David Goss, Julie Schoenhofer, Lincoln Kilpatrick

Synopsis: Turkey (David Goss) is a Hollywood cop who goes undercover against the mob in this routine crime adventure. With his partner Jaguar (Lincoln Kilpatrick), Turkey helps Rebecca Fresno (Julie Schoenhofer) find her young son kidnapped when her husband Joe (Larry Lawrence) stiffs the mob to the tune of Read More

Low Blow

Actors: Leo T. Fong, Akosua Busia, Cameron Mitchell, Troy Donahue, Diane Stevenett

Synopsis: This is a dull, by-the-book actioner whose only merit is a good performance by actress Akosua Busia, later nominated for an Academy Award for her work in The Color Purple. When Karen, the daughter of a well-heeled businessman (Troy Donahue) has been swallowed up by a religious cult, her father Read More

Grandview, U.S.A.

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, C. Thomas Howell, Patrick Swayze, Troy Donahue, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Synopsis: The Saroyanesque Grandview USA focuses on a sleepy Midwestern town and its younger denizens. Bored out of his gourd, recent high-school graduate Tim (C. Thomas Howell), befriends the much-older Michelle (Jamie Lee Curtis), who runs the local demolition derby. Michelle's top driver is "Slam" (Patrick Swayze Read More

Malibu

Actors: George Hamilton, Ann Jillian, Richard Mulligan, Valerie Perrine

Synopsis: Malibu is a two-part, four-hour adaptation of William Murray's best-selling novel. William Atherton and Susan Dey play a green-as-grass married couple from Milwaukee who take a vacation in Malibu. Amidst the elite and their million-dollar beach houses, Atherton starts up an affair with divorcee Valerie Perrine Read More

Tin Man

Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Deana Jurgens, John Phillip Law, Troy Donahue

Synopsis: In this provocative drama, an auto repairman compensates for his deafness with an ingenious computer which allows him to both speak and hear. He created the device himself and shows it to his speech therapist who enthusiastically suggests he try to get the machine manufactured. The mechanic goes Read More

Laverne & Shirley: Studio City

Synopsis: Through the auspices of their landlord, part-time stuntman Sonny St. Jacques (Ed Marinaro), starstruck Laverne (Penny Marshall) and Shirley (Cindy Williams) land jobs in a major Hollywood movie. The good news is that the girls are going to be working shoulder to shoulder with 1960s hearthrob Troy Read More

Dying Declaration

Synopsis: The murder of a policeman is blamed on an ex-hooker, but the real killer may turn out to be her unfaithful husband. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Legend of Frank Woods

Synopsis: A quick-shot rifleman with a tragic past seeks refuge in a God-fearing Arizona town, only to discover that there's no running from the way of the gun in directors Hagen Smith andRichard Robinson's bullet-riddled Western. It was self-defense when Frank Woods killed three drunken hoodlums in a Read More

The Godfather Saga

Actors: Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Robert Duvall, James Caan, John Cazale

Synopsis: Originally screened as a mini-series on the NBC television network, this epic-length feature combines the entirety of The Godfather and The Godfather Part II with 15 minutes of outtakes from the two films, recutting the material into chronological order (clarifying the complex structure of The Read More

South Seas Massacre

Synopsis: While chained together, a policeman and his prisoner attempt to defend themselves against contemporary pirates and island natives in this feature. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

The Godfather Part II

Actors: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, John Cazale, Lee Strasberg

Synopsis: Francis Ford Coppola's legendary continuation and sequel to his landmark 1972 film, The Godfather, parallels the young Vito Corleone's rise with his son Michael's spiritual fall, deepening The Godfather's depiction of the dark side of the American dream. In the early 1900s, the child Vito flees Read More

Seizure

Actors: Roger DeKoven

Synopsis: After being plagued by recurring dreams where three strange creatures play havoc with his mind, a novelist pulls an overnighter during which his mind-spun creatures become a reality and horror happens. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Cockfighter

Actors: Warren Oates, Richard B. Shull, Harry Dean Stanton, Troy Donahue, Millie Perkins

Synopsis: Frank Mansfield (Warren Oates) is a game cock trainer who has taken a vow of silence; he once bragged too loudly about his cockfighting prowess and ended up losing his best fowl in a drunken, late-night match before an important tournament. To regain his pride after such hubris, Frank refuses to Read More

The Love Thrill Murders

Actors: Troy Donahue

Synopsis: This film exploits the more unpleasant features of the Sharon Tate tragedy. In an interesting bit of casting, the charismatic cult leader Moon is played by Troy Donahue in what is clearly an attempt to "broaden" his wholesome image. In the story, a pregnant starlet has called upon the hippyish Read More

Split Second to an Epitaph

Synopsis: In this drama, the second in the "Ironside" series, the Chief becomes marked for murder after he witnesses the execution of hospital security guard. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Lonely Profession

Actors: Ina Balin, Harry Guardino

Synopsis: A superb throwback to the "films noir" of old, The Lonely Profession puts icing on the cake with a strong dose of 1960s realism--within reasonable TV-movie limits. Harry Guardino plays a businesslike private eye assigned to trail the mistress (Ina Balin) of a Hughes-like reclusive millionaire. Read More

Ironside: Split Second to an Epitaph, Part 1

Synopsis: Ironside departs from its usual one-hour format with this extended episode, originally telecast in a two-hour slot and later syndicated as a two-parter. While witnessing a murder committed by a drug thief, Ironside (Raymond Burr) incurs a shock to his spinal chord which may enable doctors to Read More

Ironside: Split Second to an Epitaph, Part 2

Synopsis: In this second half of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), Ironside (Raymond Burr) is in the hospital awaiting an operation that may cure his paralysis--or bring about his death if things go wrong. In typical fashion, the detective is able to put aside his own Read More

Nightmare

Synopsis: In this crime drama, Dan Farrel patiently prepares to exact his revenge upon the robbers that murdered his wife. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Those Fantastic Flying Fools

Actors: Burl Ives, Troy Donahue, Gert Fröbe, Hermione Gingold, Terry-Thomas, Lionel Jeffries

Synopsis: Produced in the wake of the all-star "comedy spectacular" Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Fantastic Flying Fools (originally titled Blast-Off, and also released as Those Fantastic Flying Fools) is based very loosely on a Jules Verne novel. A 19th century British newspaper offers a Read More

Come Spy with Me

Actors: Troy Donahue, Andrea Dromm, Albert Dekker, Mart Hulswit, Dan Ferrone

Synopsis: Set amidst the steamy underworld of Bermuda and Jamaica, this spy adventure chronicles the exploits of a female spy trying to investigate the mysterious murders of two colleagues before an important meeting between the world's most powerful leaders. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

My Blood Runs Cold

Actors: Troy Donahue, Joey Heatherton, Barry Sullivan, Nicolas Coster, Jeanette Nolan

Synopsis: My Blood Runs Cold was a typically lurid horror chiller produced and directed by William Conrad during his 1960s tenure on the Warner Bros. staff. Heiress Joey Heatherton falls prey to the charms of a handsome young man (Troy Donahue) who claims to be the reincarnation of a legendary lothario. Read More

A Distant Trumpet

Actors: Troy Donahue, Suzanne Pleshette, Diane McBain, James Gregory, William Reynolds

Synopsis: Troy Donahue stars in this drive-in quality "B"-Western from the Warner Brothers backlot, directed by veteran director Raoul Walsh. Donahue is U.S. Cavalry Lieutenant Matt Hazard, who arrives at Fort Delivery on the Mexican border of Arizona for a new assignment. Kitty Mainwaring (Suzanne Pleshette Read More

Palm Springs Weekend

Actors: Troy Donahue, Connie Stevens, Ty Hardin, Stefanie Powers, Robert Conrad

Synopsis: This light romantic comedy filmed on location in Palm Springs finds couples engaging in a kissing frenzy of puppy love. Jim (Troy Donahue) has eyes for Bunny (Stephanie Powers), unaware she is the daughter of the local chief of police (Andrew Duggan). Connie Stevens, Jack Weston, Ty Hardin and Jerry Van Dyke Read More

Rome Adventure

Actors: Troy Donahue, Angie Dickinson, Rossano Brazzi, Suzanne Pleshette, Constance Ford

Synopsis: Delmer Daves directs this cross between a travelog and a routine romantic drama set in Italy. The story begins when beautiful librarian Prudence (a misnomer, played by Suzanne Pleshette) decides to take off for Italy. She works in a women's college and was brought up short for recommending a racy Read More

Parrish

Actors: Troy Donahue, Claudette Colbert, Karl Malden, Dean Jagger, Connie Stevens

Synopsis: A scenic, tobacco-road soap opera by director Delmar Daves, known more for his westerns, Parrish features Troy Donahue in the eponymous title role. Parrish's mother Ellen (Claudette Colbert in her last movie role) happens to marry one of two competing tobacco growers in the Connecticut River Read More

Susan Slade

Actors: Troy Donahue, Connie Stevens, Dorothy McGuire, Lloyd Nolan, Brian Aherne, Bert Convy

Synopsis: A complicated soap opera, Susan Slade features Connie Stevens as the title character, a naïve, virginal 17-year-old, raised by her parents in Chile, where her father Roger (Lloyd Nolan) works as an engineer. As the story opens, the family returns to their home in California on a luxury cruise Read More

The Crowded Sky

Actors: Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, Anne Francis, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., John Kerr

Synopsis: A navy jet piloted by Captain Dale Heath (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) and carrying a junior officer (Troy Donahue), making a quick hop across country on leave, has already taken off when Heath realizes that both his radio and his navigation equipment have malfunctioned. They might be on the right course Read More

Maverick: Pappy

Synopsis: Maverick launches its third season with one of the series' best and most fondly remembered episodes, in which James Garner essays the dual role of frontier gambler Bret Maverick and his own, grey-haired "Pappy", Beau Maverick. Having long relied upon the sage advice of their beloved Pappy--which Read More

A Summer Place

Actors: Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Sandra Dee, Arthur Kennedy, Troy Donahue

Synopsis: The Jorgensons are a wealthy family spending the summer on a resort island. Ken (Richard Egan), Helen (Constance Ford) and daughter Molly (Sandra Dee) settle in to a beach house on the island where Ken was a young lifeguard twenty years ago. He rediscovers Sylvia (Dorothy McGuire), with whom he Read More

Imitation of Life

Actors: Lana Turner, John Gavin, Juanita Moore, Sandra Dee, Dan O'Herlihy, Robert Alda, Susan Kohner

Synopsis: This glamorized remake of the 1934 film Imitation of Life bears only a passing resemblance to its source, the best-selling novel by Fannie Hurst. Originally, the heroine was a widowed mother who kept the wolf from the door by setting up a successful pancake business with her black housemaid. In Read More

The Perfect Furlough

Actors: Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Linda Cristal, Keenan Wynn, Elaine Stritch

Synopsis: In this frothy romantic comedy, a hard-working female Army shrink (Janet Leigh) devises the "perfect furlough" for battle weary men and convinces the brass to let her try it on selected men stationed at her base. According to her plan, selected men would be given three weeks, tailor made to fit Read More

Summer Love

Actors: John Saxon, Molly Bee, Rod McKuen, Judi Meredith, Jill St. John, Fay Wray

Synopsis: Summer Love is a sequel to 1957's Rock Pretty Baby, with John Saxon repeating his role as aspiring musician Jim Daley. When his band is hired to perform at a summer resort, Jim falls in love with two girls: sweet Joan Wright (Judy Meredith) and not-so-sweet Erica Landis (Jill St. John). Meanwhile Read More

Live Fast, Die Young

Actors: Mary Murphy, Norma Eberhardt, Sheridan Comerate, Michael Connors, Peggy Maley

Synopsis: In this low-budget crime drama a runaway girl joins a gang of jewel thieves and finds herself leading an exciting luxurious life until her older sister shows up during a caper and gets her and the rest of the gang in trouble. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Monster on the Campus

Actors: Arthur Franz, Joanna Moore, Judson Pratt, Nancy Walters, Troy Donahue

Synopsis: In this sci-fi film, a college professor must deal with the cataclysmic consequences that ensue when a transmogrifying dragonfly bites a prehistoric fish from Madagascar. Soon after the bite, the strange fish becomes gigantic and begins passing on its new ability to morph all it comes in contact Read More

The Voice in the Mirror

Actors: Richard Egan, Julie London, Arthur O'Connell, Walter Matthau, Troy Donahue

Synopsis: In this sensitive drama, a commercial artist is devastated by his tiny daughter's death and takes to drinking to numb the terrible pain. Soon he has become a full-blown alcoholic. His loving wife and caring doctor are unable to help. He wants to stop drinking, but he simply cannot until he meets Read More

Wild Heritage

Actors: Will Rogers, Jr., Maureen O'Sullivan, Rod McKuen, Casey Tibbs, Judi Meredith

Synopsis: Will Rogers Jr. follows in the cinematic footsteps of his famous father in the evenly-paced western Wild Heritage. Rogers is cast as a frontier judge, given to his own special, down-to-earth brand of jurisprudence. In truth, however, Will Jr's role is a subordinate one; most of the film's running Read More

This Happy Feeling

Actors: Debbie Reynolds, Curd Jürgens, John Saxon, Alexis Smith, Mary Astor

Synopsis: This Happy Feeling is based on the F. Hugh Herbert play For Love or Money. Debbie Reynolds plays impulsive Janet Blake, who develops a crush on retired stage star Preston Mitchell (Curt Jurgens). Rejuvenated by Janet's ardor, Mitchell decides to return to the stage, where he must contend with Read More

The Tarnished Angels

Actors: Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Jack Carson, Robert Middleton

Synopsis: William Faulkner's novel Pylon was optioned by Universal producer Albert Zugsmith, who used it as the source for his 1957 production The Tarnished Angels. Robert Stack is a disillusioned World War One ace eking out a living as a barnstorming pilot/parachutist during the early 1930s. New Orleans Read More

Man Afraid

Actors: George Nader, Phyllis Thaxter, Tim Hovey, Eduard Franz, Harold J. Stone

Synopsis: Man Afraid stars George Nader as a clergyman serving a big-city slum district. He is forced to kill a young hoodlum in self-defense; the police are willing to forgive him of the killing, but the victim's psychotic father (Harold J. Stone) is not so pliable. The father threatens not only to wreak Read More

Karate Cops