Veronica HamelFilmography

Determination of Death

Synopsis: To escape his enormous gambling debts, the highly unlikable Reese Williams (Marc Singer) decides to fake his own death, with the help of his long-suffering wife, Katie (Michele Greene). Once Reese is safely "deceased," Katie will fall heir to a five-million-dollar insurance policy, which will help Read More

Touched by an Angel: The Wind Beneath Our Wings

Synopsis: Tess (Della Reese) and Monica (Roma Downey) come to the aid of a mother and daughter whose strong mutual dependence is holding both of them back. Mom Emma (Marion Ross) is a feisty veteran of a WW2-era female pilot squadron, while daughter Dorie (Veronica Hamel) is a highly respected judge. When Read More

Stranger in My Home

Actors: Veronica Hamel, Joe Penny, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Leigh Taylor-Young

Synopsis: In this drama, a prominent attorney begins suspecting that her latest client, a homeless transient, may in fact be the brother she lost many years before. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Talk to Me

Actors: Yasmine Bleeth, Veronica Hamel

Synopsis: Yasmine Bleeth stars in this "drawn from the headlines" TV movie as Diane Shepherd, the idealistic producer for the bomb-throwing talkfest "The Howard Grant Show." At present, Howard's most controversial guest is Kelly Reilly (Jenny Lewis), a drugged-out prostitute and single mom. Taking a Read More

Home Invasion

Actors: Bonnie Root, Veronica Hamel

Synopsis: Teenager Willow Patchett (Bonnie Root) and her mother Georgia (Veronica Hamel) seldom see eye to eye on anything. But both Willow and Georgia are forced to form a united front to save their lives when three desperate thieves (one of them mortally wounded) invade the Patchett household on the same Read More

In the Blink of an Eye

Actors: Veronica Hamel, Mimi Rogers, Piper Laurie, Polly Bergen, Carlos Gomez

Synopsis: After her lifelong friend is jailed for murder, a brave woman launches a private investigation to prove her innocent. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Secrets

Actors: Veronica Hamel, Richard Kiley, Julie Harris, Jessica Bowman, Shae D'Lyn

Synopsis: In this made-for-television domestic drama, a young adolescent girl is shocked to discover that the woman she calls "Mother" may not be related to her at all. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Here Come the Munsters

Actors: Edward Herrmann, Veronica Hamel, Robert Morse

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV comedy adapted from the once-popular TV series The Munsters, Herman Munster (Edward Herrmann) and his wife Lily (Veronica Hamel) learn that they are no longer welcome in Transylvania, so they relocate to California with their children Eddie (Matthew Botuchis) and Marilyn Read More

A Child's Cry for Help

Actors: Veronica Hamel, Pam Dawber, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Lisa Jakub, Cynthia Martells

Synopsis: In this drama, a caring doctor investigates a child's home life and deduces that the boy's bizarre infections are psychosomatic and are directly linked to his mother's mental instability. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Disappearance of Nora

The Conviction of Kitty Dodds

Synopsis: It is Veronica Hamel's show all the way in the fact-based CBS TV movie The Conviction of Kitty Dodds. Driven to desperation by her abusive policeman husband Charlie (Mark Rolston), Kitty Dodds (Hamel) ends up killing him and is sent to prison for life. Managing to escape from behind bars, Kitty Read More

Baby Snatcher

Crew: Producer

Actors: Veronica Hamel, Nancy McKeon

Synopsis: Veronica Hamel, who'd previously played a detective on the trail of a kidnapped baby, turns kidnapper herself in the made-for-TV The Baby Snatcher. After suffering a miscarriage, Hamel becomes convinced that she will lose her husband's love. Faking a new pregnancy, Hamel allows nine months to Read More

Stop at Nothing

Actors: Lindsay Frost, Veronica Hamel, Annabella Price, Deborah Anne Gorman, Joseph Hacker

Synopsis: Lindsay Frost is a private eye sucked into a messy domestic case. She's been hired by an anguished father to keep his allegedly psychotic ex-wife from kidnapping their daughter. Enter Veronica Hamel, another private detective, who has been engaged by the mother to reclaim the child from the Read More

Deadly Medicine

Crew: Producer

Actors: Veronica Hamel, Susan Ruttan

Synopsis: Actress Susan Ruttan, who played the quietly efficient legal secretary on LA Law, does an artistic about-face in the TV movie Deadly Medicine. She plays a Texas pediatrics nurse who may have committed several "mercy killings" of her charges. 43 babies die under mysterious circumstances, with Ms. Read More

Taking Care of Business

Actors: James Belushi, Charles Grodin, Anne de Salvo, Loryn Locklin, Stephen Elliott, Veronica Hamel

Synopsis: James Belushi and Charles Grodin team up for this variation on the Prince and the Pauper. Belushi plays Jimmy Dworski, a convicted car thief, serving time in a minimum security prison. But when Jimmy wins a pair of tickets to the World Series from a radio call-in show, he can't resist walking out Read More

She Said No

Actors: Veronica Hamel, Judd Hirsch, Lee Grant

Synopsis: The acting of its stars saves She Said No from the "lurid dreck" category. Judd Hirsch is a successful but utterly amoral attorney who rapes Veronica Hamel. She sues, but he uses his legal expertise to walk free. Then Hirsch turns around and sues Hamel for slander (or for libel, depending on Read More

Twist of Fate

Actors: Ben Cross, Veronica Hamel, John Glover, Bruce Greenwood, Sarah Jessica Parker

Synopsis: The four-part British miniseries Pursuit, based upon Robert L. Fish's novel of the same name, was first telecast in the United States as the two-part "movie special" Twist of Fate. Bruce Greenwood essayed the leading role of Helmut Von Schraeder, an ex-S.S. officer on the run after conspiring to Read More

The Brotherhood of the Rose

Actors: Robert Mitchum, David Morse, Peter Strauss

Synopsis: Based on a novel by David Morrell, the made-for-TV Brotherhood of the Rose is unabashedly old-fashioned escapist espionage fare. Peter Strauss and David Morse play polar-opposite CIA agents, code names Romulus and Remus. Their superior-and father figure-is crusty CIA official Robert Mitchum. Read More

A New Life

Actors: Alan Alda, Ann-Margret, Hal Linden, Veronica Hamel, John Shea

Synopsis: After 20 years of marriage, Steve Giardino (Alan Alda) and his wife Jackie (Ann-Margret) agree to a divorce in this situation comedy. The focus is on both of them as they suffer through matchmaking, blind dates, and their new life as eligible singles. Donna (Mary Kay Place) is Jackie's friend Read More

Pursuit, Part 1

Pursuit, Part 2

Hill Street Blues: Season 06

Kane & Abel

Actors: Peter Strauss, Sam Neill

Synopsis: Adapted from the phenomenally popular best-seller by Jeffrey Archer, the three-part, seven-hour CBS miniseries Kane & Abel is the tale of two tycoons -- one a self-made man, one born into wealth -- who both came into the world on the very same day. The illegitimate son of a Polish baron, Abel Read More

Hill Street Blues: Season 05

Hill Street Blues: Season 04

Hill Street Blues: Season 03

Sessions

Synopsis: Veronica Hamel makes the first of several 1980s breaks from her Hill Street Blues image in the made-for-TV Sessions. Hamel plays Leigh Churchill, the sort of high-cost, high-class call girl who seemingly exists only on screen. As of late, Leigh's professional calls have been fewer and farther Read More

Hill Street Blues: Season 02

Hill Street Blues: Season 01

Actors: Daniel J. Travanti, Michael Conrad, Mike Warren, Charles Haid, Veronica Hamel

Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls

Synopsis: This is the made-for-TV version of the romantic drama that chronicles the exploits of a group of glamorous women caught up in the entertainment industry. This version contains material author Jacqueline Susann omitted from her original novel. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Hustler of Muscle Beach

Synopsis: The hustler in Hustler of Muscle Beach is fast-talking New York promoter Nick Demec (Richard Hatch). Hoping to cash in on the bodybuilding craze, Demec stages a muscleman -- and musclewoman -- contest in Venice, CA (where the film was shot). The hero's get-rich-quick scheme gets him into hot water Read More

When Time Ran Out

Actors: Paul Newman, Jacqueline Bisset, William Holden, Edward Albert, Red Buttons

Synopsis: After producer Irwin Allen highlighted the dangers of fire in the Towering Inferno and the dangers of water in the Poseidon Adventure, he is back to fire again but this time it is within the earth, at least for awhile. This fairly routine disaster film is set on a resort island with a volcano that Read More

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

Actors: Michael Caine, Sally Field, Telly Savalas, Peter Boyle, Jack Warden

Synopsis: Irwin Allen's second water-logged disaster film picks up where The Poseidon Adventure left off; Salvagers Michael Caine, Karl Malden and Sally Field enter the Poseidon to take what they can, unaware that evil salvager Telly Savalas and his henchmen lie in wait. When an explosion rocks the ship Read More

The Gathering, Part 2

Actors: Rebecca Balding, Bruce Davison, Maureen Stapleton, Gail Strickland

Synopsis: Ed Asner dominated the proceedings of the 1977 TV movie The Gathering; inasmuch as Asner's character died at the end of that film, he is absent from the 1979 sequel The Gathering, Part 2. Said sequel could certainly have benefitted from Asner's presence, no matter how illogical that presence might Read More

Ski Lift to Death

Actors: Suzy Chaffee, Clu Gulager, Veronica Hamel, Don Johnson, Deborah Raffin

Synopsis: The most surprising aspect of the made-for-TV Ski Lift to Death is that it wasn't produced by Irwin Allen. Two ski-lift gondolas derail, hanging perilously close to destruction. Among the passengers are a former gangster and the hit man assigned to kill him. Also on board are a pair of champion Read More

79 Park Avenue

Actors: Barbara Barrie

Synopsis: The formal title for this TV mini-series was Harold Robbins' 79 Park Avenue, just in case you might mistake it for William Makepeace Thackeray's 79 Park Avenue. Originally presented in three parts, this adaptation of the Robbins best-seller stars Lesley Ann Warren as Marja Fludjicki, a Read More

The Gathering

Actors: Rebecca Balding, Gregory Harrison, Maureen Stapleton, Gail Strickland

Synopsis: The Gathering stars Ed Asner as an ill-tempered executive who long ago walked out on his family. Just before Christmas, Asner is told that he has only a few weeks to live. He confides this information to his estranged wife Maureen Stapleton, who suggests that he call his four adult children (Gail Strickland Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: Peeper Two

Actors: Bob Newhart, Suzanne Pleshette, Bill Daily, Peter Bonerz, Marcia Wallace

Synopsis: Tom Poston returns in the role of Bob's prankish college chum Cliff Murdock, aka "The Peeper." Arriving in Chicago, an uncharacteristically somber Cliff announces that his wife has left him. Bob invites Cliff to make the Hartley's home his own -- and, as usual, he does. Some of the outtakes for Read More

Cannonball

Actors: David Carradine, Bill McKinney, Veronica Hamel, Gerritt Graham, Robert Carradine

Synopsis: Paul Bartel rips off his own Death Race 2000 in this mindless car-crash saga, containing more twisted metal than a bombed-out steel mill. The nominal storyline concerns an illegal auto race from Los Angeles to New York that promises the winner 100,000 dollars. David Carradine is Coy "Cannonball" 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

The Rockford Files: Return to the Thirty-Eighth Parallel

Synopsis: Jim Rockford's old Army buddy Al Brennan (Ned Beatty) asks Jim (James Garner) to help Marcy Brownell (Veronica Hamel) locate her missing sister. What Jim doesn't know is that the mercenary Al is using him to pull off an elaborate swindle. The key player in this sordid little drama is an Read More

Kojak: How Cruel the Frost, How Bright the Stars

Synopsis: Crime doesn't take a holiday on Christmas Eve, and detectives Kojak (Telly Savalas) and Stavros (Demosthenes) have plenty to keep them busy. For starters, there's a gun-wielding man on the loose, determined to kill his cheating wife--and anyone else who gets in his way. At the same time, Stavros Read More

Apple Pie

Actors: Tony Azito, Brother Theodore

Synopsis: Two stories, which don't quite combine, thread through this short first film of director Howard Goldberg. In one story, a nymphomaniac tells of her past and the treatments she has received for her condition. In another, a Jewish mobster tells how he came to be a criminal, along with other Read More