Wayne Rogers Filmography

Miracle Dogs

Actors: Kate Jackson, Ted Shackelford, Stacy Keach, Rue McClanahan, Daniel Roebuck, Wayne Rogers

Synopsis: The family friendly animal movie Miracle Dogs concerns a boy who befriends a three-legged dog. Soon his relationship with the canine deepens to the point that the boy is attempting to find new homes for a variety of homeless animals. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Love Lies Bleeding

Frozen with Fear

Synopsis: Bo Derek stretches her acting muscles in the role Katherine Sullivan, an agoraphobic who has not set foot out of her house in three years. Witnessing what she thinks is her husband's murder on the porch of her home, the terrified Katherine alerts the authorities. Shortly afterward, a detective Read More

Ghosts of Mississippi

Actors: Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, James Woods, William H. Macy, Craig T. Nelson, Susanna Thompson, Bill Cobbs

Synopsis: This is a long-awaited film telling the story of the trials of Medgar Evers' killer. Medger Evers (James Pickens, Jr.) was a black civil-rights activist in Mississippi who was shot to death in 1963. Despite very persuasive evidence that Byron De La Beckwith (James Woods) was indeed his killer, the Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Deadly Bidding

Synopsis: Once again, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) joins forces with Chicago P.I. Charlie Garrett (Wayne Rogers), this time at a New York cultural museum. At first, Jessica and Charlie are on opposite sides as they bid against each other during an auction for a rare manuscript allegedly written by "Sherlock Read More

Murder, She Wrote: A Quaking in Aspen

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) heads to the resort community of Aspen, Colorado, where dwells her old friend Laney Boswell (Leigh Taylor-Young). In time-honored Murder, She Wrote tradition, Laney's husband Grant turns up murdered, and a mountain of evidence points to the poor woman as the culprit. Also Read More

The Larry Sanders Show: Hank's Divorce

Synopsis: Hank (Jeffrey Tambor) must choose between his dedication to the show and his dedication to his marriage when his first wedding anniversary falls around the same time as the seventh anniversary of The Larry Sanders Show. After inviting Larry to his and Margaret's (Leah Lail) anniversary dinner Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Deadly Assets

Synopsis: A Chicago mobster is ticked off when he loses $900,000 to a petty burglar. In fact, the mobster is so angry that he dispatches a hit man to bump off the thief--except that the hit man is himself killed. Suspected in this murder is a friend of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury), who in turn joins Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Fatal Paradise

Synopsis: Wayne Rogers returns as Chicago PI Charlie Garrett, who journeys to Martinique in search of a missing woman. What follows for Charlie is an unanticipated romance--and a murder charge. Coincidentally, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) is also in Martinique, and she offers to help Charlie clear his name and Read More

The Goodbye Bird

Actors: Cindy Pickett, Christopher Pettiet, Concetta Tomei, Wayne Rogers

Synopsis: Goodbye Bird is the story of a boy accused by his principal of stealing her treasured talking parrot. With the help of a veterinarian, the boy attempts to discover the true identity of the thief. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Dead Eye

Synopsis: Having solved many another murder case in the past, Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) is finally given a crack at the JFK assassination! It seems that a Dallas private eye disappeared at the same time that Kennedy was shot, and now, thirty years later, there is positive proof that the P.I. was Read More

Miracle Landing

Synopsis: Miracle Landing is a quickly but carefully made TV movie dramatizing an actual near-disaster in the air. On April 28, 1968, Aloha Airline's Flight 737 was making a routine trip between Hilo and Honolulu. As the plane reached an altitude of 24,000 feet, the top portion of the fuselage suddenly Read More

Age Old Friends

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Hume Cronyn, Vincent Gardenia

Synopsis: Hume Cronyn and Vincent Gardenia star as two retirement-home residents, longtime friends who possess wildly diverse temperaments. - John Cooper (Cronyn) is crotchety and physically frail, but his brain is sharp as a tack. Michael Aylott (Gardenia) is easygoing and in excellent health, but his mind Read More

Passion and Paradise

Actors: Armand Assante, Catherine Stewart, Mariette Hartley, Kevin McCarthy, Rod Steiger, Michael Sarrazin

Synopsis: The hour-hour TV movie Passion and Paradise traces the rise and fall of real-life British playboy Alfred de Marigny (Armand Assante). Little better than a gigolo, de Marigny finds himself in the Bahamas during World War II, where he romances the daughter (Catherine Mary Stewart) of fabulously Read More

Bluegrass

Actors: Cheryl Ladd, Brian Kerwin, Mickey Rooney, Anthony Andrews, Shawnee Smith

Synopsis: Bluegrass was a two-part TV movie that resurrected virtually every "racetrack" cliche known to man. Widowed Cheryl Ladd heads to Kentucky to start up a horse farm. Her wicked neighbor is Wayne Rogers who seeks Ladd's downfall. Faithful farm manager Brian Kerwin won't let Rogers stand in the way of Read More

Drop-Out Mother

Actors: Danny Gerard, Valerie Harper, Carol Kane, Wayne Rogers, Alyson Court

Synopsis: The first new TV-movie of 1988 (it debuted January 1st), Drop-Out Mother is a belated follow-up to the 1983 Dick Van Dyke vehicle Drop-Out Father. Valerie Harper plays a busy executive who decides one day to turn her back on the business world to become a full-time mom. Problem is, her husband and Read More

The Killing Time

Actors: Beau Bridges, Kiefer Sutherland, Wayne Rogers, Joe Don Baker, Camelia Kath

Synopsis: A pair of homicidal lovers is forced to match wits with an inventive psychopath who has assumed the identity of a small, coastal-town sheriff's deputy in a film noir tale of the perfect crime gone wrong starring Kiefer Sutherland, Beau Bridges, Joe Don Baker, and Michael Madsen. A mysterious Read More

American Harvest

Actors: Wayne Rogers

Synopsis: Made for television, American Harvest is set in the heartland of Kansas. Two proud, stubborn families have not spoken to one another because of an incident in the distant past. Wayne Rogers, the patriarch of one of the families, is in danger of losing his wheat farm. He knows that his land will be Read More

The Girl Who Spelled Freedom

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Disney's The Girl Who Spelled Freedom is a made-for-television film about a teen-aged Cambodian refugee who arrives in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1979. As she adjusts to American culture, the girl becomes an excellent speller and, a mere four years after she arrived in the Read More

One Terrific Guy

Synopsis: In this teen drama, a courageous high school girl accuses her well-respected coach of improper conduct. Despite severe ostracism from her peers and the faculty, the brave girl refuses to back down until justice is done. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Gig

Actors: Wayne Rogers, Cleavon Little, Joe Silver, Warren Vache, Daniel Nalbach

Synopsis: Every week, six men from various walks of life get together to play music for their own satisfaction. Trombonist Wayne Rogers is a used-car dealer; drummer Daniel Nalbach is a mother-dominated dentist; clarinetist Jerry Matz is a somewhat self-centered music teacher; trumpeter Warren Vache could Read More

The Lady from Yesterday

Actors: Wayne Rogers, Bonnie Bedelia, Pat Hingle, Barrie Youngfellow, Blue Deckert

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV drama, a Vietnam vet's family life is shattered when the child he fathered during wartime suddenly appears on his doorstep. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

I Dream of Jeannie: 15 Years Later

Synopsis: In this comedy, a revival of the popular TV-series from the mid-60s, the wedded bliss of astronaut Tony Nelson and his magical djin and wife Jeannie is endangered when Jeannie desires to become more independent. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

He's Fired, She's Hired

Actors: Karen Valentine, Wayne Rogers

Synopsis: This by-the-numbers comedy stars Wayne Rogers and Karen Valentine as Alex and Annabelle Grier. Alex is a well-paid ad executive who is laid off during an economic downswing. In order to continue living in the manner to which she he is accustomed, Alex's wife Annabelle decides to look for work. Read More

Chiefs

Synopsis: This TV miniseries concerns a Southern village where the murder of a boy has puzzled three different police chiefs since the 1920s. By the time that a black sheriff (Billy Dee Williams) takes over in 1962, he might have just enough evidence to find the culprit. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Hot Touch

Actors: Wayne Rogers, Marie-France Pisier, Samantha Eggar, Patrick Macnee

Synopsis: In this routine action film, Danny Fairchild (Wayne Rogers) and Vincent Reblack (Patrick Macnee) are partners in an art-scam operation in which Danny forges valuable paintings and Vincent authenticates them; both pretend to run a company that legitimately authenticates art for sale at auction. Read More

The Top of the Hill

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

Once in Paris...

Actors: Wayne Rogers, Gayle Hunnicutt, Jack Lenoir, Philippe March, Clement Harari

Synopsis: Playwright Frank D. Gilroy wrote and directed this subtle, down-to-earth and autobiographical depiction of an American screenwriter in Paris who befriends his chauffeur and has an affair with a British aristocrat. Wayne Rogers is Michael Moore, an American scenario writer who has traveled to Paris Read More

Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery

Synopsis: Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery was the first in an intended series of TV-movies inspired by the Ten Commandments (the series came a premature end with 1981's Thou Shalt Not Kill). Louise Fletcher plays the wife of paralytic Robert Reed. Though she tries to remain loyal, Reed's incapacitation puts Read More

Having Babies 2

Actors: Rhea Perlman

Synopsis: Like 1976's "Part One," Having Babies, Part 2 is a multiplotted TV movie about the effect of parenthood on four couples. The first film concentrated on a natural childbirth class. This second film broadens the subject matter with glances at adoptions and unwanted pregnancies. Among the many new Read More

It Happened One Christmas

Synopsis: Marlo Thomas' first mistake was optioning the classic It's a Wonderful Life for this TV remake; her second was starring in it herself in the Jimmy Stewart part! This gender switch aside, It Happened One Christmas follows the original virtually to the letter. Thomas is a young woman who dreams of Read More

The November Plan

Attack on Terror: The F.B.I. vs. The Ku Klux Klan

Actors: Ned Beatty, John Beck, George Grizzard, Rip Torn, Dabney Coleman

Synopsis: Attack on Terror: The FBI Versus the Ku Klux Klan is a fact-based, two-part TV movie. The film is a dramatization of the murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964. The FBI, personified herein by southern operative Wayne Rogers, is brought in to investigate the trio's Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 03

Actors: Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, McLean Stevenson, Loretta Swit, Larry Linville

Synopsis: With an ever-increasing viewership and three Emmy awards to its credit, M*A*S*H had no trouble easing into a third successful season in the fall of 1974. Not wishing to tinker with the success, the series' producers retained all of the regular characters from previous years--Hawkeye (Alan Alda) Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 02

Actors: Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, McLean Stevenson, Loretta Swit, Larry Linville

Synopsis: Although M*A*S*H had played to less than spectacular ratings during its initial season, there was enough staunch viewer support to warrant a renewal for a second season in the fall of 1973. CBS acknowledged this small but significant upsurge in ratings by moving the series from its "graveyard" Read More

Pocket Money

Actors: E. Baca, R. Camargo, R. Manning, Wynn Pearce, Paul Newman, Lee Marvin, Strother Martin, Christine Belford, Kelly Jean Peters

Synopsis: Two modern day cowboys smuggle a herd of cows across the border in this loosely amiable comedy. Jim Kane (Paul Newman) is a cowboy who unexpectedly finds himself deep in debt and in need of some fast cash. A less-than-scrupulous businessman approaches Kane and offers him a handsome payday to Read More

M*A*S*H: Season 01

Actors: Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, McLean Stevenson, Loretta Swit, Larry Linville

Synopsis: One of the most famous and successful sitcoms of all time, M*A*S*H was based on the 1970 Robert Altman theatrical film of the same name--which, in turn, was inspired by an autobiographical novel by a former Army doctor, writing pseudonymously as Richard Hooker. Although set during the Korean War Read More

The F.B.I.: Superstition Rock

Synopsis: When an Indian agent is assaulted on a reservation, it's a federal crime demanding the attention of the FBI. Thus it is that Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) investigates several mining accidents near a sacred Indian burial ground--accidents that the locals have chalked up to supernatural Read More

WUSA

Actors: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Perkins, Laurence Harvey, Pat Hingle

Synopsis: Paul Newman served as co-producer of this allegorical drama and stars as Rheinhardt, a opportunistic drifter who ends up in New Orleans and hits up his old friend Farley (Laurence Harvey), a con man-turned-phony preacher, for a job. Farley is able to get Rheinhardt hired on as an announcer at a Read More

The F.B.I.: Deadfall

Synopsis: Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) is puzzled when Mary Cochella (Zohra Lampert), a woman of very modest means, is kidnapped. It turns out that Mary's abductors are using their victim to secure the cooperation of her husband Fred (Paul Picerni), a cashier at a big sports arena which has been targetted Read More

The F.B.I.: The Traitor

Synopsis: In desperate need of money to square a debt, Neil Stryker (Bradford Dillman) enters into an unholy alliance with Communist spy Bryan Carlson (Wayne Rogers). Stryker agrees to steal top-secret information from the Boston research firm where he works. A discarded cellophane cigar wrapper puts FBI Read More

The F.B.I.: The Ninth Man

Synopsis: Having captured seven of the nine men responsible for a two-million-dollar armored car robbery, Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) is anxious to locate the other two men--and of course, the money. Meanwhile, Anita Hale (Anne Helm), the wife of "robber number eight" Emory Hale (Murray Read More

The Invaders, Vol. 10: The Spores

Synopsis: Roy Thinnes was the star of this 1967-1968 science fiction series, about an Earth poised on the brink of alien takeover. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The F.B.I.: The Extortionist

Synopsis: Having previously played a homicidal kidnapper during The F.B.I.'s inaugural season, Wayne Rogers upholds his villainous tradition in this episode as a bigoted extortionist. Harboring a pathological hatred for all Latinos, Tyler Cray (Rogers) devises a nasty method of extorting $200,000 from a Read More

The F.B.I.: The Legend of John Rim

Synopsis: This prescient episode costars Tom Skerritt, soon to appear as "Duke Forest" in the movie version of M*A*S*H, with Wayne Rogers, the future "Trapper John" in the M*A*S*H TV series. Skerritt is cast as John Rim, a fugitive from justice who is hiding in a Gulf Coast community where he is regarded as Read More

The Astro-Zombies

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Wendell Corey, John Carradine, Tom Pace, Joan Patrick, Rafael Campos

Synopsis: This laughably-bad mess stars ubiquitous "Z"-movie journeyman John Carradine as Dr. DeMarco, a loony scientist whose original concept to build a humanoid robot for space missions is fouled somewhat by his choice of a psycho-killer's brain for his first subject. Instead of doing the sensible thing Read More

Cool Hand Luke

Actors: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J.D. Cannon, Lou Antonio, Robert Drivas, Strother Martin

Synopsis: Paul Newman was nominated for an Oscar and George Kennedy received one for his work in this allegorical prison drama. Luke Jackson (Paul Newman) is sentenced to a stretch on a southern chain gang after he's arrested for drunkenly decapitating parking meters. While the avowed ambition of the Read More

The Fugitive: The Chinese Sunset

Synopsis: As "Jack Fickett", Kimble (David Janssen) lands a general-purpose job at a motel called "The Chinese Sunset." Unfortunately, the motel is currently under police surveillance, due to the presence of big-time bookie Eddie Slade (Paul Richards) and his slovenly girl friend Penelope (Laura Devon). Read More

Chamber of Horrors

Actors: Cesare Danova, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Patrick O'Neal, Laura Devon, Patrice Wymore

Synopsis: This dull House of Wax variant involves a claw-handed escaped maniac (Patrick O'Neal), who rampages through late 19th-century Baltimore on a mission of vengeance. Hot on his trail are the proprietors of a "House of Horrors" wax museum and their Mexican dwarf sidekick Tun-Tun. Initially conceived Read More

Combat!: The Gun

Synopsis: The fifth and final season of Combat opens with the series' first color episode. After the tank in which they are riding is destroyed by a 75mm German gun, Saunders (Vic Morrow) and the squad manage to capture the weapon. Their next task is to use the gun to knock out the German bunker that is Read More

The F.B.I.: The Tormentors

Synopsis: TV buffs will undoubtedly relish this episode, in which future M*A*S*H "good guy" Wayne Rogers is cast as a psychotic killer, and future flint-eyed action star Kurt Russell appears as a terrified teenager. When Dan Winslow (Russell), the son of millionaire Marshall Winslow (Lew Ayres), is Read More

The Glory Guys

Actors: Tom Tryon, Harve Presnell, Senta Berger, James Caan, Andrew Duggan

Synopsis: Though written by Sam Peckinpah (he adapted the film from a novel by Hoffman Birney), the direction of The Glory Guys was entrusted to the competent but perfunctory Arnold Laven. Cavalry captain Demas Harrod (Tom Tryon) and his faithful scout Sol Rogers (Harve Presnell) are placed under the Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Debutante

Synopsis: Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired by wealthy San Francisco dowager Mrs. Quincy (Eleanor Audley) to locate her granddaughter and heir. The trail leads Paladin to a lonely farm, where he meets a wild, unkempt girl named Prudence Powers (Gale Garnett), who is treated as little better than a slave by Read More

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Big Kick

Synopsis: Beatniks Mitch (Brian G. Hutton) and Judy (Anne Helm) decide to sponge off a wealthy "square" named Kenneth (Wayne Rogers), who for reasons of his own enjoys attending "beat" parties. It isn't long before Kenneth has wooed Judy away from Mitch -- and for good measure, he arranges for Mitch to be Read More

Odds Against Tomorrow

Actors: Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters, Ed Begley, Sr., Gloria Grahame

Synopsis: Harry Belafonte was both producer and star of this hard-edged film noir crime drama. Dave Burke (Ed Begley, Sr.) is an ex-cop who has been kicked off the force for refusing to inform on his colleagues to the State Crime Committee. Short on money, the former policeman jumps to the other side Read More