Vincent Van Patten Filmography

Ultimate Poker's Winning Texas Hold 'Em

Synopsis: This instructional video from the Ultimate Poker series offers hints and tips on how to play Winning Texas Hold 'Em. The video offers guidance on how to figure pot odds, tips on what hands to play in particular positions at the table, and advice on setting traps in order to optimize your profit Read More

World Poker Tour: Season 03

Actors: Mike Sexton, Vincent Van Patten, Shana Hiatt

Synopsis: The Travel Channel's highest rated program, World Poker Tour delivers exactly what its title promises: A tour of the top poker-playing locales and tournaments, featuring the best players in the business. Season Three deals out twenty episodes, each with commentary by pro poker player Mike Sexton Read More

World Poker Tour: Season 02

Actors: Mike Sexton, Vincent Van Patten, Shana Hiatt

Synopsis: The Travel Channel's highest rated program, World Poker Tour delivers exactly what its title promises: A tour of the top poker-playing locales and tournaments, featuring the best players in the business. Season Two deals out twenty episodes, each with commentary by pro poker player Mike Sexton Read More

High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story

Actors: Michael Imperioli, Michael Nouri, Renee Faia, Joe La Due, Steven R. Schirripa

Synopsis: The true story of one of the most gifted card players in history provides the basis for this hard-hitting drama. Stu Ungar (Michael Imperioli) was barely in his teens when he first discovered his talent for playing cards, especially poker and gin rummy. His father, a nightclub owner and small-time Read More

World Poker Tour: Season 01

Actors: Mike Sexton, Vincent Van Patten, Shana Hiatt

Synopsis: The Travel Channel's highest rated program, World Poker Tour delivers exactly what its title promises: A tour of the top poker-playing locales and tournaments, featuring the best players in the business, competing for cash prizes numbering in the millions! Season One deals out thirteen episodes Read More

World Poker Tour [TV Series]

Actors: Mike Sexton, Vincent Van Patten, Shana Hiatt

Synopsis: The World Poker Tour covers a series of "elimination" poker tournaments in the top casinos throughout the world. Individual episodes boasted such colorful titles as "Bellagio Five Diamond," "Bicycle Casino," and "Ultimate Bet." The concluding program was a winner-take-all competition at the Read More

When Billie Beat Bobby

Actors: Holly Hunter, Ron Silver

Synopsis: This 2001 TV docudrama relates the story of tennis' 1973 "Battle of the Sexes" between Wimbledon champions Billie Jean King (Holly Hunter) and Bobby Riggs (Ron Silver), an event considered by many to be an early victory for feminism. Riggs, 20 years past his prime, lives to wager on anything and Read More

The Break

Actors: Vincent Van Patten, Rae Dawn Chong, Martin Sheen, Betsy Russell, Ben Jorgensen

Synopsis: In this youthful sports drama, a former professional tennis player begins acting as a mentor for a troubled teen whose life is being destroyed by an overbearing father. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Payback

Synopsis: The Newlywed Game host Bob Eubanks produced this action film, starring his son Corey as a convict who escapes prison to exact revenge for his brother's death and ends up romancing a small-town sheriff's daughter. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission

Actors: Ernest Borgnine

Synopsis: The second television film to capitalize on the classic original, The Deadly Mission concerns another team of convicts, this time assigned to rescue Nazi scientists working on a chemical-weapons project. Telly Savalas plays a different role than he did in the original (unlike Ernest Borgnine). Read More

Gidget's Summer Reunion

Synopsis: In this comedy, Gidget, the all-American surfer girl, has grown up, married Moondoggie, and become a travel agent. She and he, who have been married for seven years, are experiencing marital problems due to their careers and monetary pressure. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Spurs of Death!

Synopsis: A young man tries to break up the oft-disparaged sport of cockfighting in a rural Southern town. He's up against a whole lot of cockfight supporters and could use a few more folks on his side. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Hell Night

Actors: Linda Blair, Vincent Van Patten, Peter Barton, Kevin Brophy, Jenny Neumann

Synopsis: This plodding, derivative slasher opus -- a surprise box-office hit -- stars Exorcist vet Linda Blair as one of a quartet of sorority and fraternity pledges required to spend the title evening of their initiation inside the spooky Garth Manor. The mansion was the site of a gruesome multiple Read More

This Time Forever

Synopsis: Two cultures clash when a young American man and a French-Canadian woman fall in love while studying at a Montreal college. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Survival Run

Actors: Peter Graves, Ray Milland, Vincent Van Patten, Pedro Armendariz, Jr., Alan Conrad

Synopsis: In this youthful adventure, six adolescents head for a vacation in Arizona and end up stranded in the desert after their car crashes. They decide to hike to the closest town. En route they encounter drug smugglers who are willing to kill to keep their location a secret. Bloody mayhem ensues as the Read More

Yesterday

Actors: Claire Pimpare, Vincent Van Patten, Eddie Albert, Nicholas Campbell, Daniel Gadouas

Synopsis: Melodramatic and obvious in its ploy to dampen all the handkerchiefs in the theater, Yesterday pulls it off. Gabrielle (Claire Pimpare) is a radical French-Canadian artist from one side of the economic, political, and linguistic tracks, and Matt (Vince Van Patten) is a rich American kid studying Read More

Rock 'n' Roll High School

Actors: P.J. Soles, Vincent Van Patten, Clint Howard, Dey Young, Mary Woronov

Synopsis: Rock 'n' Roll High School is a prime example of a 1970s movie phenomenon: a cult film that was deliberately designed to be a cult film. High-schooler Riff Randell's (P.J. Soles) efforts to meet the Ramones are continually thwarted by rock & roll-hating principal Evelyn Togar (Mary Woronov). Ms. Read More

James at 15

Actors: Kate Jackson

Synopsis: Lawrence Kerwin stars as James Hunter, a gawky Oregon teenager who moves to Boston with his family. Suffering the requisite growing pains and insecurities, James has a few problems "fitting in" with his new crowd. The boy's sincerity and likability eventually wins the day, but the ending of the Read More

Three for the Road

Synopsis: In this drama, a widower and his sons embark upon a cross-country journey in a mobile home while the father does free-lance photography. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Chino

Actors: Charles Bronson, Marcel Bozzuffi, Jill Ireland, Vincent Van Patten

Synopsis: The US title of this Italian-Spanish-French coproduction is Chino, in deference to the character played by star Charles Bronson. Having long suffered the stigma of being part-Indian, New Mexico horse breeder Chino Valdez (Bronson) wants nothing more than to be left alone with his beloved horses. Read More

Charley and the Angel

Synopsis: Finding that he hasn't much time left to live, a man makes needed changes in his life with the help of an angel in this Disney feature. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

The Bravos

Actors: Vincent Van Patten

Synopsis: Filmed in Flagstaff, Arizona, The Bravos top-bills George Peppard as a frontier cavalry commander. It is Peppard's job to protect his fort, and the wagon train passengers sheltered within, from the 2000 Kiowa Indian warriors who dot the surrounding hills. This being a 1972 TV movie, the Native Read More

The Boy and the Bronc Buster

Synopsis: Earl Holliman and Vincent Van Patten star in the made-for-TV Disney movie The Boy and the Bronc Buster. Van Patten plays a farm kid of the 1880s who joins cowboy Holliman on the rodeo circuit. The plot thickens when the boy discovers that his mentor is a fugitive from justice, wanted for murder. Read More

The Last of the Curlews

Actors: Ross Martin, Vincent Van Patten, Ginny Tyler, Lee Vines

Synopsis: This Emmy-winning TV cartoon special focuses on the last two remaining curlews, tall striped birds who once thrived around the Arctic shore land. In order to save their species, the two birds must find appropriate mates. Alas, the curlews are being tracked down by a pair of relentless hunters to Read More

Bonanza: Stallion

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, David Canary, Clu Gulager, Mitzi Hoag

Synopsis: The beautiful black stallion given by Ben Cartwright as a birthday present to his son, Joe, is stolen. Searching for the horse, Joe comes across a family of drifters, and is soon embroiled in a potentially deadly rivalry between Bill Brenner (Clu Gulager) and his son, Tommy (Vincent Van Patten). Mitzi Hoag Read More

High Flying Spy

Synopsis: During a cross-country balloon race, 2 aeronauts become entangled in the start of the Civil War. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Adam-12: Truant

Synopsis: Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) round up some kids who have been committing minor crimes while playing hookey. Though society at large is willing to write off these youngsters as incorrigible, Reed decides to appeal to the kids' parents to help curb truancy. . .and Read More

Ironside: The Target

Synopsis: Ex-convict Gordy Brokaw (Earl Holliman), a demolitions expert, is being strongarmed into helping a gang of revolutionaries steal a huge cache of dynamite and assemble a time bomb. To bind the bargain, the rebels kidnap Gordy's young son (Vincent Van Patten). Though Ironside (Raymond Burr) is able Read More

Bonanza: A Matter of Circumstance

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Ted Gehring

Synopsis: The eleventh season of Bonanza was wrapped up on April 19, 1970 with the powerhouse episode "A Matter of Circumstance." Though several prominent actors-notably young Vincent Van Patten-appear in the supporting cast, the episode is virtually a one-man show, focusing on Michael Landon as Joe Read More

Dial Hot Line

Synopsis: Vincent Edwards, four years removed from Ben Casey, enters another branch of the healing profession in the made-for-TV Dial Hot Line. Edwards plays Matt Lincoln, a community psychiatrist who is patched into a "hot line" telephone for those troubled souls unable to afford therapy. This TV movie Read More