Walter E. Grauman Filmography

Born:
March 17, 1922 in Milwaukee, WI
Occupation:
Director
Biography:
A former stage director, Walter Grauman turned to films in 1957. Most of Grauman's big-screen efforts were unremarkable, with the exception of his taut 1964 thriller Lady in a Cage. He is best known for his TV work on such weekly series as The Untouchables and The Twilight Zone. Walter Grauman...Read More
  • Murder, She Wrote: Southern Double-Cross

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In Australia for a seminar, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) receives word that she has inherited 130,000 acreas of land currently used for sheep grazing. The locals aren't happy when Jessica arrives to claim her property, believing her to be in cahoots with a powerful mining company. Evidently someone Read More

    1996
  • Murder, She Wrote: Kendo Kill

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: This episode takes place in Osaka, Japan, where a wealthy motor-company executive has promised his daughter in marriage to the son of a business associate. An American race-car driver (Rick Walsh) dares to defy tradition by romancing the girl himself--and when the girl's husand-to-be is killed Read More

    1996
  • Murder, She Wrote: Twice Dead

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: To escape his persistent--and dishonest--corporate sponsors, a Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist fakes his own death. It's a clever ruse, but not a particularly healthy one: soon afterward, the missing scientist turns up murdered for real. Typically, the wrong man is accused of the crime Read More

    1995
  • Murder, She Wrote: Game, Set, Murder

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: J.C.Brandy is cast as teenage tennis star Louise Henderson, whose father--and manager--Lane Henderson (Leon Russom) is notorious for his domineering attitude towards his daughter. So rattled is Louise by her father's relentless badgering that begins suffering nightmares, and ultimately stands up Read More

    1995
  • Murder, She Wrote: The Murder Channel

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: While watching TV with a group of friends, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) is amused by an amateurish-looking production being presented on a cable-access channel. Before long, however, Jessica realizes that the "production" is the real thing: the TV is hooked up to a surveillance system. Worse still Read More

    1994
  • Murder, She Wrote: Murder of the Month Club

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: As part of a promotional book tour, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) agrees to appear in a TV informercial. Also appearing is Matt Matthews (Anthony Zerbe), a once-popular author laid low by alcoholism. It turns out that Matthews--who of course is an old friend of Jessica's--is acquainted with a member Read More

    1994
  • Murder, She Wrote: Wheel of Death

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Season Ten of Murder, She Wrote concludes as a small-time carnival pitches its tents just outside Cabot Cove. The troupe's arrival coincides with a series of mysterious burglaries which plagued the town. Then, the carnival's larcenous magician Carl Dorner (Bradford Dillman) is murdered--and that's Read More

    1994
  • Murder, She Wrote: Murder on the Thirtieth Floor

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Tragedy strikes the publishing industry when Jessica Fletcher's editor Edward Graham (Robert Desiderio), a man known for his extreme mood swings, falls out of his Manhattan office window to his death. The police are content to rule Graham's demise as a suicide, but Jessica doesn't buy this. She is Read More

    1994
  • Murder, She Wrote: Roadkill

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In Texas, a member of a truck-hijacking ring turns up murdered. The evidence points to Rob Platt (Patrick Cassidy), the son of Wayne Platt (Earl Holliman), owner of a small trucking firm that was being victimized by the crooks. Inasmuch as Wayne is an old friend of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Read More

    1994
  • Murder, She Wrote: Lone Witness

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Having just wrapped up four seasons of Doogie Howser MD, Neil Patrick Harris appears in this episode as delivery boy Tommy Ramsen. Having been found kneeling at the body of a murdered woman, Tommy claims that he merely witnessed the crime--and that he himself was shot by the killer. The police Read More

    1993
  • Murder, She Wrote: Final Curtain

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Cabot Cove has been chosen as the location for the pre-Broadway staging of a new play starring David North (Peter Donat), a prominent actor who is emerging from a 10-year retirement. No sooner have rehearsals started than a murder occurs, with North's business manager Eric Benderson (Bradford Read More

    1993
  • Murder, She Wrote: Murder at a Discount

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: George Segal plays the well-nicknamed Daffy Dave Navarro, who has recently been acquitted on charges of murdering his first wife. Now Daffy Dave is determined to sue for a generous share of royalties from a book written by Jessica (Angela Lansbury) and purportedly based on his case. But this time Read More

    1993
  • Murder, She Wrote: The Legacy of Borbey House

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: A mysterious gentleman named Lawrence Baker (David Birney) moves into Cabot Cove and takes possession of a Victorian mansion that is regarded as a local landmark. Baker's curious behavior causes rumors to fly that there is something supernatural, even vampiric about him. And then, Baker is found Read More

    1993
  • Murder, She Wrote: Angel of Death

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) heads to Carmel, California, to console her old friend, playwright Martin Tremaine (Darren McGavin), whose wife has recentlhy committed suicide. Before long, an attempt is made on Tremaine's life--but another member of his family ends up as the victim. Can it be that the Read More

    1992
  • Murder, She Wrote: To the Last Will I Grapple With Thee

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: This episode marks the first appearance of Sean Culhane (George Hearn) a retired Irish detective now serving on the same Manhattan University faculty as Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury). After being heard threatening the life of an old enemy from the Auld Sod--a contractor who had recently Read More

    1992
  • Murder, She Wrote: The Wind Around the Tower

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: This episode is set in Ireland, where Jessica (Angela Lansbury) has arrived to research a new book in the company of her college colleague, retired Irish detective Sean Culhane (George Hearn). Invited to stay at the home of wealthy developer Neal Gillen (Dakin Matthews), Jessica and Sean are among Read More

    1992
  • Murder, She Wrote: Family Secrets

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Randall Sloan (Brian McNamara), a former student of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury), returns to Cabot Cove to research his new book. Despite several ominous warnings to drop the project, Randall is determined to complete his volume, a searing expose of a 30-year-old scandal involving two of the Read More

    1992
  • Murder, She Wrote: Unauthorized Obituary

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Not long after ruthless journalist Jane Dawson (Jessica Walter) informs Jessica (Angela Lansbury) of her plans to publish an unauthorized biography of former movie star Ellen Lombard (Barbara Bain), Jane is found electrocuted in a hot tub, thanks to a TV set which "accidentally" tumbled into the Read More

    1991
  • Murder, She Wrote: Lines of Excellence

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) decides to retire her trusty typewriter and signs up for a computer course. While deep in study, she stumbles across a case of illegal computer hacking--which of course leads to murder. The victim this time out is one of the two men in charge of the computer school, while Read More

    1991
  • Murder, She Wrote: The Skinny According to Nick Culhane

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In the seventh-season finale of Murder She Wrote, Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) joins forces with her old friend, Boston PI Harry McGraw (Jerry Orbach), to solve a murder. The victim was Nick Culhane (Pat Harrington Jr.) a former writer turned spokesman for a major beer manufacturing firm. It Read More

    1991
  • Murder, She Wrote: Family Doctor

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: While dining out in Boston, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) and Seth (William Windom) are witness to a mob "hit." The victim is a member of the powerful Abruzzi crime family, who despite Seth's efforts to save him does not survive. Enter the dead man's vengeful son Michael (Vincent Irizarry), who Read More

    1991
  • Murder, She Wrote: Who Killed J.B. Fletcher?

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Imagine the astonishment of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) when she picks up a newspaper and reads that she has been killed in a Texas car accident! In truth, the dead woman was Marge Allen (Jane Withers), arguably the most obsessive member of the Jessica Fletcher Fan Club. While impersonating Read More

    1991
  • Murder, She Wrote: Terminal Connection

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Lois Nettleton guest stars as Ginny Blanchard, who is accused of killing her abusive husband, wealthy business executive and dilettante polo player Clark Blanchard (Chad Everett). When it becomes clear that the long-suffering Ginny is not about to defend in court, her friend Jessica (Angela Read More

    1991
  • Murder, She Wrote: The Return of Preston Giles

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: For the first time in Murder She Wrote history, a murderer whom Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) had turned over to the police in a previous episode makes a comeback appearance. The man in question is Jessica's first publisher (and erstwhile sweetheart!) Preston Giles (Arthur Hill), who had been Read More

    1990
  • Murder, She Wrote: How to Make a Killing Without Really Trying

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) shows up on Wall Street, there to make her very first personal investment in the stock market. As inevitably as night follows day, Jessica's stockbroker promptly turns up murdered. The police figure that the dead man's secretary is the culprit...but as usual, Jessica Read More

    1990
  • Murder, She Wrote: Always a Thief

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Keith Michell dominates this episode in the role of Dennis Stanton, ex-jewel thief turned insurance investigator. While probing into a theft and double murder, Dennis decides to use his own criminal knowhow to trap the culprit. At the center of the intrigue is a rare silver dollar, an icy dowager Read More

    1990
  • Murder, She Wrote: Shear Madness

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: 15 years ago, Jessica's cousin Anne (Shirley Jones was about to be married when her fiancĂ© was murdered, ostensibly by Anne's mentally unbalanced brother, who was promptly locked up in an institution. Now, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) is in attendance when Anne decides to give matrimony a second Read More

    1990
  • Nightmare on the 13th Floor

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In this made-for-cable television horror thriller, a travel writer visits a historic hotel to write a story about it and inadvertently finds herself on the 13th floor where she witnesses a Satanic rite and tangles with an axe-wielding killer. She escapes, but no one believes her story because the Read More

    1990
  • Columbo: Murder in Malibu

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: The murder of a popular romance novelist sets America's favorite rumpled detective on the case. Columbo gets off on the wrong gumshoe when he forces an innocent gigolo to confess to the crime. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1990
  • Murder, She Wrote: When the Fat Lady Sings

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Keith Michell returns in the role of Dennis Stanton, an ex-jewel thief turned insurance investigator. Jessica (Angela Lansbury) links up with her old friend Dennis when she arrives in San Francisco to attend the opening of a prestigious opera. Before long, things become "operatic" for real when a Read More

    1989
  • Murder, She Wrote: Trevor Hudson's Legacy

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: At the recommendation of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury), a young editor heads to Montana, there to organize the unpublished manuscript of the last novel written by a celebrated, recently deceased author. Unable to make heads or tails of the author's notes, the editor concocts a readable volume Read More

    1989
  • Murder, She Wrote: The Search for Peter Kerry

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Just before attending the funeral of an old friend, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) makes the acquaintance of young Rick Banner (Marc Singer), former college roommate of the dead woman's long-lost son Peter. When Rick hears a song written by Peter, the ball starts rolling for a onslaught of intrigue Read More

    1989
  • Murder, She Wrote: Prediction: Murder

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: This episode is a followup to the previous week's offering, in which Jessica (Angela Lansbury) had renewed her friendship with former Air Force pilot Lee Goddard (Dale Robertson). Invited to visit Lee's ranch in Arizona, Jessica attends a party where a psychic named Franchesco (David Birney) is Read More

    1989
  • Murder, She Wrote: A Very Good Year for Murder

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) heads to wine-growing country to help wealthy vintner Salvatori Gambini (Eli Wallach) celebrate his 75th birthday. Unfortunately, Gambini's fractious family isn't in a celebratory mood, and the festivities come to a grim climax when a corpse is found in the wine cellar. Read More

    1988
  • Murder, She Wrote: Mourning Among the Wisterias

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) heads Southward to visit an old friend, celebrated playwright Eugene McLendon (Barry Nelson). Inevitably, a murder occurs: the victim this time is Eugene's crooked business manager Jonathan Keeler (Elliott Reid). Deciding to stay on and help out when Eugene is suspected Read More

    1988
  • Murder, She Wrote: Curse of the Daanau

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: It seems there is this cursed ruby, the Danaau, that for decades has been the scourge of the family of Cabot Cove physician Seth Hazlitt (William Windom). Many people who have owned the Daanau Ruby in the past have come to a violent end, at it looks as though the next victim of the curse will be Read More

    1988
  • Murder, She Wrote: Coal Miner's Slaughter

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: A pre-Will and Grace Megan Mullally guest stars in this episode as Molly Connors, the feisty daughter of West Virginia coal miner Eben Connors (Denver Pyle). When Eben dies in a suspicious mining accident, Molly sweeps into town to accuse the mine's owner of being responsible for her dad's death. Read More

    1988
  • Murder, She Wrote: A Little Night Work

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: During a political fundraiser in San Francisco, a necklace is stolen (apparently) and a man murdered (positively!) The dead man was a powerful publisher with senatorial ambitions, whose body was found on the balcony of the hotel room occupied by Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury); the necklace Read More

    1988
  • Murder, She Wrote: Just Another Fish Story

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Having invested in a trendy New York seafood restaurant, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) is delighted that her nephew Grady (Michael London) has chosen the restaurant to celebrate his engagement to the lovely Donna Mayberry (Debbie Zipp). Alas, murder casts a pall on the party when the restaurant's Read More

    1988
  • Shakedown on the Sunset Strip

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In this crime drama set in LA during the '40s, an infamous Hollywood madam is arrested and mayhem ensues as the names of her famous patrons, among them government officials and policemen, are revealed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1988
  • Murder, She Wrote: Simon Says, Color Me Dead

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Comedian Foster Brooks curtails his "lovable lush" routine to play Simon Thane, a celebrated artist living in Cabot Cove. For the last several years, Thane has jealously guarded his favorite painting, which he has never allowed to be seen publicly. Jessica (Angela Lansbury) becomes involved in the Read More

    1987
  • Murder, She Wrote: The Corpse Flew First Class

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: During a non-stop flight to London, a valuable necklace is stolen and the courier hired to guard the necklace is poisoned. One of the passengers is Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury), who of course offers her services to Scotland Yard as they try to retrieve the gems and catch the killer. Among Read More

    1987
  • Murder, She Wrote: Night of the Headless Horseman

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Dorian Beecher (Thom Bray), the new poetry instructor at Cabot Cove's most exclusive prep school, tries to impress the girl of his dreams, Sarah Dupont (Karlene Crockett), by telling her that Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) is his mother. Meanwhile, Nate Findley (Barry Williams), the school's Read More

    1987
  • Murder, She Wrote: No Laughing Murder

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Buddy Hackett and Steve Lawrence guest star as Murray Gruen and Mack Howard, a famous comedy team that has been dissolved for years because of a bitter feud between the two men. In a true "Romeo and Juliet" situation, Murray's daughter Corrie (Beth Windsor) and Mack's son Kip (a decidedly pre-ER Read More

    1987
  • Murder, She Wrote: Doom with a View

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Once again, the life of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) is complicated by the misadventures of her nephew Grady (Michael Horton). This time, Grady's fraternity brother Gary (John Callahan) insists upon inviting Jessica to enjoy the hospitality of an expensive hotel owned by Gary's much-older Read More

    1987
  • Murder, She Wrote: Indian Giver

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Native American George Longbow (Bernie White), a member of the Algonquin tribe, shows up in Cabot Cove bearing a seemingly authentic land grant which states that Longbow owns the entire community. One of the locals is displeased by George's presence, threatening dire consequences if the Indian Read More

    1987
  • Murder, She Wrote: It Runs in the Family

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Angela Lansbury once again essays the dual role of Maine-based mystery writer Jessica Fletcher and her colorful cousin, British music-hall headliner Emma MacGill. This time around, Emma is suspected of murder when her fiancĂ©, Viscount Geoffrey Constable (Richard Johnson) expires after consuming Read More

    1987
  • Murder, She Wrote: If a Body Meet a Body

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: All of Cabot Cove turns out for the funeral of Henry Vernon, the town's chief financial advisor. The ceremony is halted by the arrival of a woman claiming that Henry was murdered. Investigating, the local authorities open the coffin--only to find out that the occupant isn't Henry! Before the story Read More

    1986
  • Outrage!

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Beau Bridges, Robert Preston

    Synopsis: Robert Preston stars as a family man who kills the man who raped and murdered his daughter. After confessing to the police, he is defended by an idealistic attorney played by Beau Bridges. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

    1986
  • Who Is Julia?

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Who Is Julia? was based on author Barbara H. Harris' "speculative fiction" page-turner. Mary Frances (Mare Winningham) is a dull, drab housewife suffering from brain disease. Julia (Judy Ledford) is a drop-dead-gorgeous model who is killed in a car accident. Out of desperation, the surgeons decide Read More

    1986
  • Murder, She Wrote: Unfinished Business

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Retired police lieutenant Barney Kale (Pat Hingle) insists upon reopening a 10-year-old murder case which he had never been able to solve. Heading to the murder scene, a lakeside mountain resort, Kale gathers together all of the likely suspects--including Dr. Seth Hazlitt (William Windom), an old Read More

    1986
  • Murder, She Wrote: Obituary for a Dead Anchor

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Vituperative TV news anchor Kevin Keats (Chad Everett) descends upon Cabot Cove with a full camera crew and retinue in tow, there to produce an investigative report on a long-ranging crime ring. Though Jessica (Angela Lansbury) dislikes Kevin, she agrees to an on-camera interview as a favor to an Read More

    1986
  • Murder, She Wrote: The Perfect Foil

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: This episode marks the first appearance of Calhoun Fletcher (Peter Bonerz), the troublesome--and trouble-prone--distant cousin of mystery writer Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury). At the behest of her Aunt Mildred (played in a delightful cameo by filmdom's former "Blondie" Penny Singleton) Read More

    1986
  • Murder, She Wrote: A Lady in the Lake

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Retreating to a placid Maine lake resort in order to finish her latest novel without distractions, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) decides to go birdwatching one fine morning. During this pursuit, Jessica witnesses what seems to be a struggle between a man and a woman in a boat on the lake, ending with Read More

    1985
  • Scene of the Crime

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: The made-for-television Scene of the Crime is an anthology crime film, featuring three different short films--"The Newlywed Murder," "Medium is the Murder" and "Vote for Murder"--which is narrated by Orson Welles. At the end of each film, Welles asks the audience to solve the murder, and offers Read More

    1985
  • The Covenant

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In this horror film an influential family, whose wealth comes from Nazi gold, in San Francisco must preserve an ancient evil rite that enables them to keep a supernatural power under their control. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1985
  • Murder, She Wrote: Murder to a Jazz Beat

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: The setting is New Orleans, where a prominent jazz musician is killed onstage in full view of a nightclub audience. It turns out that the victim was done in by a rare South American poison. So what does all this have to do with Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury? Well, it seems that a similar Read More

    1985
  • Murder, She Wrote: Hit, Run and Homicide

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Angela Lansbury's former MGM colleagues Van Johnson and June Allyson are prominently featured in this episode. A double-dealing businessman is killed when he is run over by a remote-controlled station wagon. Suspicion immediately falls upon the victim's disgruntled former partner, an oddball Read More

    1984
  • Bare Essence: The Final Chapter

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Bare Essence, based on a novel by Meredith Rich, began as a two-part TV movie, premiering October 4 and 5, 1982. General Hospital alumnus Genie Francis stars as Tyger Hayes, the daughter of a powerful movie mogul. When Tyger's father dies, her much-married mother Lady Bobbi Rowan (Linda EvansRead More

    1983
  • Illusions

    Crew: Director, Producer

    Synopsis: Fashion designer Linda Dobbins (Karen Valentine) smells a rat when her salesman husband dies in a highly suspicous airplane explosion during a European business trip. To get some answers, Linda retraces her husband's sales route, only to discover that there was a lot she didn't know about her late Read More

    1983
  • Bare Essence

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Bruce Boxleitner, Linda Evans, Genie Francis, Lee Grant, Joel Higgins

    Synopsis: The perfume business is dramatized in this soap opera-like made-for-television movie. Based on the novel by Meredith Rich, Genie Francis (who played the infamous Laura on General Hospital) stars as Tiger Hayes, a woman who decides to start her own fragrance company. Typical soap dramas abound in Read More

    1982
  • Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls

    Crew: Director

    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

    1981
  • The Memory of Eva Ryker

    Crew: Director

    Actors: Natalie Wood

    Synopsis: Donald A. Stanwood's original novel The Memory of Eva Ryker used the Titanic tragedy as its launching pad. This made-for-TV adaptation of Stanwood's book moved the action up some 27 years, motivating its plotline with the torpedoing of an Athenia-type luxury liner in 1939. The film flashes forward Read More

    1980
  • To Race the Wind

    Crew: Director, Executive Producer

    Synopsis: The autobiography of Harold Krent, Butterflies Are Free, is the basis for this made-for-television drama about a blind collegian and his struggle to be treated like any other law student. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

    1980
  • The Top of the Hill

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: The 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid provides the setting for this drama that centers on a man's mid-life crisis. While there, he gets involved with love, sex and other diversions. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1980
  • Pleasure Palace

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In this romantic made-for-television comedy, a womanizing, handsome gambler tangles with the feisty female owner of a large casino and ends up falling in love. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1980
  • Crisis in Mid-Air

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Crisis in Mid-Air is essentially a "problem drama" concentrating on a single individual. George Peppard plays a veteran air traffic controller who holds himself responsible for a mid-air collision. With an FAA investigator breathing down his neck, Peppard gets a chance to prove his value when Read More

    1979
  • The Golden Gate Murders

    Crew: Director

    Actors: David Janssen, Susannah York

    Synopsis: Because the producers couldn't get clearance to film on the real Golden Gate bridge, The Golden Gate Murders is enacted upon a distressingly unconvincing studio mock-up. The film itself is far better than its backdrop: David Janssen stars as a detective investigating the supposed suicide of a Read More

    1979
  • Are You in the House Alone?

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: This is an average made-for-TV thriller about a high-school student (Kathleen Beller) with a psychotic secret admirer. The usual stalking and false scares pad the 96 minutes between commercials, until Beller finally confronts her assailant. On a positive note, there is a good supporting cast, with Blythe Danner Read More

    1978
  • The Streets of San Francisco: The Cannibals

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Andrew Robinson, best remembered by Clint Eastwood fans as the maniacal serial killer in the original Dirty Harry, essays another odiously villainous role in this episode. The son of a gangster, Ron Maguire (Robinson) not only steals $250,000 from the Mob, but also murders a fellow hood and a cop Read More

    1977
  • The Streets of San Francisco: Let's Pretend We're Strangers

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: SFPD homicide inspector Robbins (Richard Hatch) falls in love with attractive public defender Susan Harper (Linda Kelsey). Unfortunately, the course of romance proves to be a bumpy one when Susan champions the cause of a murder suspect whom has been charged on the basis of prima facie evidence. Read More

    1977
  • Most Wanted

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: In this made-for-TV film later adapted into a TV series, a special detective (Robert Stack) and his unit investigate a series of attacks involving the rape and murder of nuns. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

    1976
  • Force Five

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: The made-for-TV Force Five can be described as "The Dirty Dozen Minus Seven." All that's missing is the WW II backdrop and the murderous impulses of the protagonists. Lt. Roy Kessler (Gerald Gordon) heads a police undercover unit, consisting of former convicts with unique lawbreaking skills (one Read More

    1975
  • The F.B.I.: The Animal

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Hoping to escape the country, syndicate hit man Ben Silliman (Gary Lockwood) needs a lot of money in a hurry. To raise the cash, he blackmails William Braden (Peter Mark Richman), the "respectable" businessman who has enabled Silliman to rise to the top of his profession. Not to be confused with Read More

    1974
  • The F.B.I.: Selkirk's War

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Peter Haskell guest stars as Major Edward Selkirk, an ex-Army officer who hopes to wreak a peculiar brand a vengeance against the military. Invading a stockade, Haskell frees two prisoners, then enlists them in a bold and painstakingly preplanned scheme to steal an Army payroll. With only a Read More

    1974
  • Manhunter

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: This pilot for a 1974-75 CBS TV series focuses on an ex-Marine (Ken Howard) who returns to Depression-era America to find his sister, who is heading a gang. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

    1974
  • The Streets of San Francisco: A Room With a View

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: When one of the key witnesses in a mob trial is murdered, Stone intensifies his protection of sole remaining witness Roy Chaffee (Sandy Kenyon). Stone and Keller install Chaffee in a nondescript house across the street from the apartment of shy, spinsterish English teacher Mary Rae Dortmunder Read More

    1973