Warren Berlinger Filmography

The Feminine Touch

Actors: George Segal, Paige Turco

Synopsis: In this actioner a beautiful designer journalist uses her black-belt in karate to stop an assassin from continuing to kill presidential candidates. Journalist Jennifer Barron begins her fight while doing a story about the optimistic Senator Ashton and his running mate Kahn. They are both victims Read More

Hero

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Geena Davis, Andy Garcia, Joan Cusack, Kevin J. O'Connor

Synopsis: Stephen Frears' Hero is a contemporary re-working of a Frank Capra-styled fable about a two-bit criminal named Bernie (Dustin Hoffman) who saves several passengers from a plane crash and leaves the scene without being identified, leaving only a lost shoe for identification. One of the passengers Read More

Columbo: Death Hits the Jackpot

Actors: Peter Falk, Rip Torn, Jamie Rose, Gary Kroeger, Warren Berlinger

Synopsis: In this murder mystery, the rumpled detective battles wits with an unscrupulous jeweler over a dead nephew and a winning lotto ticket. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Ten Little Indians

Actors: Donald Pleasence, Frank Stallone, Sarah Maur-Thorp, Herbert Lom, Brenda Vaccaro

Synopsis: Ten Little Indians, the classic mystery by Agatha Christie, is again adapted, with enjoyable results. The setting of the now familiar mystery is moved to Africa, where the ten guests of a mysterious host are killed one by one as they travel on safari. None of the guests, played with great fun by a Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Jack & Bill

Synopsis: This time, the spotlight is on a friend of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury--namely, Bill Boyle (Ken Howard), a former football star turned detective. When Bill agrees to temporarily take care of a pal's valuable poodle, he ends up permanently saddled with the pooch when the owner is murdered Read More

What Price Victory

Outlaw Force

Actors: David Heavener, Paul L. Smith, Frank Stallone, Robert Bjorklund, Devin Dunsworth

Synopsis: Essentially a western, this actioner chronicles the bloody battles between a vicious band of redneck punks and a country-music-crooning Vietnam vet. The conflict begins after the punks murder his wife and rape his daughter. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Take Two

Actors: Grant Goodeve, Robin Mattson, Frank Stallone, Nita Talbot, Warren Berlinger

Synopsis: Separated at birth, in this thriller, a "good" twin seeks out his brother in order to claim a share in his inheritance but becomes embroiled in a plot with the "bad" twin's wife to murder the bum. Unfortunately for them, a few other people are involved in the scheme, and a great many more murders Read More

My African Adventure

Actors: Dom DeLuise, Jimmie "J.J." Walker, David Mendenhall, Deep Roy, Warren Berlinger

Synopsis: For all we know, there may be even more unknown and unseen Dom DeLuise films lurking around out there. Until we did the research, we didn't know My African Adventure existed. Based loosely on a comic novel by Tamar Burstein, the film concerns the son of an American ambassador who meets a steady Read More

Free Ride

Actors: Gary Hershberger, Reed Rudy, Dawn Schneider, Peter DeLuise, Brian MacGregor

Synopsis: Another horny-teen epic from Galaxy International, Free Ride asks us to identify with jerky preppie Gary Hershberger. Anxious to impress a sexy but monumentally stupid young woman, Hershberger claims that a snazzy red sports car that has just pulled up to a singles bar is his. He "borrows" the car Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Corned Beef and Carnage

Synopsis: Jessica's niece Victoria (Genie Francis) and the girl's husband Howard (Jeff Conaway), previously introduced in the first-season episode "Birds of a Feather", make return appearances here--and, as before, the couple promptly embroils Jessica (Angela Lansbury) in a murder case. This time, the Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Sudden Death

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury is given a crash course in the nomenclature of football when she inherits a small percentage in a pro football team. She also stumbles upon a murder case (surprise!) when the team's much-hated owner is killed in the locker room . It's going to be tough to discern the Read More

The Jeffersons: The Gang's All Here

Actors: Sherman Hemsley, Isabel Sanford, Marla Gibbs, Roxie Roker, Franklin Cover

Synopsis: Charlie the bartender (Danny Wells) has the opportunity to multiply his profits by hosting a big party. When Charlie is unexpectedly called out of town, Louise (Isabel Sanford) offers to serve drinks in his place. What Louise doesn't know is that the party is a reunion for a gang of tough, unruly Read More

The A-Team: The Road to Hope

Synopsis: Heavily disguised for a new assignment, Hannibal (George Peppard) is mistaken for a skid-row wino named Jim Beam (Elisha Cook Jr.)--and vice versa. It soon becomes obvious that someone is trying to murder Beam. . .but why? To solve this mystery, and to rescue Hannibal in the process, the A-Team Read More

The Other Woman

Actors: Hal Linden, Anne Meara, Madolyn Smith

Synopsis: Directed by seasoned comedy man Melville Shavelson, The Other Woman is a "menage a trois" TV movie with a twist. The stars are middle-aged Anne Meara and Hal Linden, and youngish Madolyn Smith. The twist? Linden, a book publisher, is married to half-his-age Smith, a fashion designer. It is Anne Meara Read More

Laverne & Shirley: Lightning Man

Synopsis: After being struck by lightning and foiling an armed robbery, Carmine (Eddie Mekka) becomes convinced that he is indestructable. Capitalizing upon this, Squiggy (David L. Lander) acts as agent when Carmine re-emerges in public as "Lightning Man", replete with cape and purple tights. Unfortunately Read More

The World According to Garp

Actors: Robin Williams, Mary Beth Hurt, Glenn Close, John Lithgow, Hume Cronyn

Synopsis: The 1982 film version of the John Irving novel The World According to Garp attempts to captures the quirky spirit while condensing the Irving original. Robin Williams plays the title character, the son of unmarried, unorthodox feminist Jenny Fields (Glenn Close, in her film debut). Every effort Read More

Sex and the Single Parent

Synopsis: Based on Jane Adams' book of the same name, the made-for-TV Sex and the Single Parent stars Susan Saint James as Sally and Mike Farrell as George. Newly divorced from their respective spouses, both Sally and George intend to celebrate their independence by throwing sexual caution to the wind. But Read More

The Cannonball Run

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett, Dom DeLuise, Dean Martin

Synopsis: Burt Reynolds and director Hal Needham team up for the fourth time, this time bringing an all-star cast of characters on a cross-country car race in the vein of 1976 release The Gumball Rally. The police are the least of the Cannonballers' worries as they push the pedal to the metal in a race from Read More

Alice: Dog Day Evening

Synopsis: More paranoid than usual after his safe is stolen, Mel (Vic Tayback) rents a pair of ferocious guard dogs. The huge hounds know their job, and they do it well--the result being that Mel, Alice (Linda Lavin) and the rest of the staff is trapped in the diner by the snarling "sentinels." Warren Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: Arrest Jesse Duke

Synopsis: Jeff Altman makes his first appearance as Boss Hogg's nephew Hughie, not yet the shifty schemer he'd become in later episode, but here the relatively honest temporary sheriff of Hazzard County (regular sheriff Roscoe does not appear because series costar James Best was sitting the episode out Read More

The Magician of Lublin

Actors: Alan Arkin, Louise Fletcher, Valerie Perrine, Shelley Winters, Maia Danziger

Synopsis: This expensive production attempts to bring Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer's subtle philosophical novel The Magician of Lublin to the screen. In the story, Yasha Mazur (Alan Arkin) is a perfectionistic turn-of-the-century Jewish stage magician, con-man and mystic, who is touring Read More

Alice: The Pain of No Return

Synopsis: Bookish IRS agent Marion Barlett (Warren Berlinger) shows up at the diner with some bad news for Alice (Linda Lavin). It seems that her late huband never paid his back taxes, and thus she now owes the government $2000. However, the possibility exists Mr. Bartlett might overlook this discrepancy in Read More

Charlie's Angels: Dirty Business

Actors: Farrah Fawcett-Majors, Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith, David F. Doyle, Warren Berlinger

Synopsis: The mother of young film producer Marvin Goldman (Warren Berlinger) wants to know who set fire to her darling boy's office. Investigating, the Angels discover something that Mrs. Goldman (Eda Reiss Merin) is blissfully unaware of: It seems that the "respectable" Marvin has been moonlighting as a Read More

The Shaggy D.A.

Actors: Dean Jones, Tim Conway, Suzanne Pleshette, Keenan Wynn, Jo Ann Worley

Synopsis: Robert Stevenson, Walt Disney Productions' house director, cobbled together his 19th family film for the organization with this slapstick sequel to the Disney comedy The Shaggy Dog (produced 17 years after the fact). Dean Jones plays Wilby Daniels, a lawyer running against the villainous John Read More

Harry and Walter Go to New York

Actors: James Caan, Elliott Gould, Michael Caine, Diane Keaton, Charles Durning, Lesley Ann Warren

Synopsis: Harry and Walter Go to New York was born of the theory that, the more stars and money that you throw into a film, the better the film will be. The theory has seldom been proven true, and it certainly wasn't in this case. Harry (James Caan) and Walter (Elliot Gould) are a third-rate vaudeville Read More

I Will, I Will for Now

Actors: Elliott Gould, Diane Keaton, Paul Sorvino, Victoria Principal, Robert Alda

Synopsis: Norman Panama directed and wrote (along with Albert E. Lewin) this mediocre piece of fluff about unhappily divorced marriage partners. Elliot Gould stars as Les Bingham, who takes umbrage that his ex-wife Katie (Diane Keaton) has a new love in life. What Les doesn't realize is that her new Read More

Lepke

Actors: Tony Curtis, Anjanette Comer, Michael Callan, Warren Berlinger, Gianni Russo

Synopsis: Tony Curtis stars as the feared leader of "Murder Incorporated" in this underworld drama based on the life of Louis "Lepke" Buchalter. Lepke began his criminal career as a petty thief in his teens; a stretch in prison taught him the finer points of life on the wrong side of the law. After getting Read More

Ellery Queen

Synopsis: Ellery Queen (also known as Too Many Suspects) was the 78-minute pilot film for a TV series based on the fictional intellectual author/sleuth created by cousins Frederick Dannay and Manfred Lee. Jim Hutton plays Ellery (the tenth actor to do so on screen!), while David Wayne is his police Read More

Emergency!: The Inspection

Synopsis: Squad 51 isn't exactly looking forward to an inspection by a very exacting battalion chief. The emergency manifest this week includes a parachutist snagged on a high radio tower, an accident victim who lapses into a deep and dangerous shock, and a heart-transplant patient (Warren Berlinger) with a Read More

The Four Deuces

Actors: Warren Berlinger, Carol Lynley, Jack Palance

Synopsis: TThough barely released to theaters, the tongue-in-cheek crime melodrama Four Deuces became a Late Late Show fixture in the '80s. Jack Palance plays Vic Morano, a high-ranking Prohibition-era mobster with a weakness for women. Vic's humanity begins surfacing when he falls for gorgeous blonde Wendy Read More

The Red Badge of Courage

Actors: Richard Thomas, Michael Brandon, Wendell Burton

Synopsis: In this acclaimed version of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage, Richard Thomas stars as a young Civil War soldier who runs away during his first big battle. Tortured by his seeming lack of bravery, he eventually learns that courage is just as dependent upon common sense as on bravado. He Read More

The Girl Most Likely To...

Actors: Stockard Channing, Ed Asner

Synopsis: This TV movie stars Stockard Channing as an "ugly duckling" who is dumped on by everyone with whom she comes in contact. After her heart is broken by a callous campus jock, Stockard tearfully speeds off in her car and is involved in a serious accident. Plastic surgery is required, and when Ms. Read More

Emergency!: Inheritance Tax

Synopsis: Squad 51 paramedics Roy (Kevin Tighe) and John (Randolph Mantooth) don't quite know what to do with a large inheritance they've received from a former patient--until the IRS tells them exactly what do. On a more serious note, the emegency team must deal with a hard-driving stockbroker (Warren Read More

The Long Goodbye

Actors: Elliott Gould, Nina Van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Henry Gibson, Mark Rydell

Synopsis: "It's OK with me...." Applying his deconstructive eye to the "film noir" tradition, Robert Altman updated Raymond Chandler in his 1973 version of Chandler's novel, The Long Goodbye. Smart-aleck, cat-loving private eye Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) is certain that his friend Terry Lennox (Jim Bouton Read More

Ironside: If a Body Sees a Body

Synopsis: After coming across a corpse stuffed in a sack and deposited in a park, Sgt. Ed Brown (Don Galloway) notifies the homicide division. When the cops arrive, the sack is still there--but the corpse is gone. Embarrassed by the taunts of rival cop Larry Muller (Warren Berlinger), Ed dedicates himself Read More

Family Affair: The Flip Side

Synopsis: Broadway star Eddie Hodges (The Music Man) guests in this episode as British pop idol Chris Higgins. Sweeping Cissy (Kathy Garver) off her feet, Chris goes so far as to write a song about her. Naturally, Cissy is convinced that Chris has fallen in love with her--little realizing that she is on the Read More

Thunder Alley

Actors: Annette Funicello, Fabian, Diane McBain, Warren Berlinger, Jan Murray

Synopsis: The fast-paced world of stock-car racing provides the backdrop for this drama that centers upon a driver who is forced to retire after a blackout causes the death of another driver. He then begins working at a "Thrill Circus" as a stunt driver. There he meets the proprietor's daughter, who also Read More

The F.B.I.: The Defector, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Dr. Gregory Holman (George Voskovec), a cryptographer from an Iron Curtain country, has come to the US as part of a touring chess tournament. Just after the FBI receives word that Holman is planning to defect, the man is reported killed in a nightclub Read More

Spinout

Actors: Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares, Diane McBain, Deborah Walley, Dodie Marshall, Jack Mullaney, Carl Betz

Synopsis: Elvis Presley plays rock singer and racecar driver Mike McCoy in the typical musical romp Spinout, directed by Norman Taurog. His band includes Curly Jack Mullaney, Larry Jimmy Hawkins and the female tomboy drummer Les Deborah Walley. Mike is coveted by a bevy of beauties that include the Read More

Billie

Actors: Patty Duke, Jim Backus, Jane Greer, Warren Berlinger, Billy De Wolfe

Synopsis: Billie is a screen version of Ronald Alexander's perennial stage favorite Time Out For Ginger. Patty Duke plays a tomboyish high schooler who excels in athletics but who continues to strike out socially. Jim Backus and Jane Greer perform yeoman service as Duke's parents, who wonder how long it's Read More

The Wackiest Ship in the Army

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Ricky Nelson, John Lund, Chips Rafferty, Tom Tully

Synopsis: Hijinks and spyjinks lighten this effective comedy by Richard Murphy, based -- very loosely -- on an actual incident in World War II. The place is somewhere in the Pacific and the not-so-good ship USS Echo, captained by the comic Lt. Rip Crandall (Jack Lemmon), has a very specific assignment. The Read More

All Hands on Deck

Actors: Pat Boone, Buddy Hackett, Dennis O'Keefe, Barbara Eden, Warren Berlinger, Gale Gordon

Synopsis: This is a somewhat serviceable, light comedy by prolific director Norman Taurog (a favored helmer of Elvis Presley and Jerry Lewis films). Squeaky-clean Pat Boone is a singing lieutenant who has to briefly ship out to the Aleutians and regrettably leave Sally (Barbara Eden), his new love behind. Read More

Platinum High School

Actors: Mickey Rooney, Terry Moore, Dan Duryea, Conway Twitty, Warren Berlinger

Synopsis: This is a low-budget, standard drama by Charles Haas (his last film) in which a father investigates the mysterious death of his son in a military school. Steven Conway (Mickey Rooney) never knew his son who was raised by the ex-Mrs. Conway after their divorce. The son had been enrolled in a Read More

Because They're Young

Actors: Dick Clark, Michael Callan, Victoria Shaw, Roberta Shore

Synopsis: This fast-paced, entertaining drama set in a high school is directed by Paul Wendkos who has a talent for turning teen-oriented movies into hits, as proven just before this release (his 1959 Gidget). The ever-young Dick Clark plays Neil, a new, dedicated history teacher who becomes involved with Read More

Blue Denim

Actors: Carol Lynley, Brandon de Wilde, MacDonald Carey, Marsha Hunt, Warren Berlinger

Synopsis: A surprisingly serious and well-acted major studio variation on the "teens in trouble" films that AIP and Allied Artists cranked out in the 1950's, Blue Denim stars Brandon De Wilde and Carol Lynley as Arthur and Janet, a pair of high school sweethearts who find in each other the love and Read More

Three Brave Men

Actors: Ray Milland, Ernest Borgnine, Frank Lovejoy, Nina Foch, Dean Jagger

Synopsis: The only thing genuinely brave about Three Brave Men is the second word in the title. The film is based on the true story of a Navy employee who was fired as a security risk, then took the case to court to prove his loyalty to the United States. Ernest Borgnine plays the victimized employee, whose Read More

Teenage Rebel

Actors: Ginger Rogers, Michael Rennie, Mildred Natwick, Rusty Swope, Lili Gentle, Betty Lou Keim, Warren Berlinger

Synopsis: Teenage Rebel was the misleadingly lurid title bestowed upon this film version of Edith R. Sommer's Broadway play A Roomful of Roses. Ginger Rogers heads the cast as Nancy Fallon, a divorcee who has trouble communicating with 15-year-old daughter Dodie (Betty Lou Keim). Left in the custody of her Read More