William Allen Young Filmography

Fear X

Actors: John Turturro, Deborah Kara Unger, Stephen McIntyre, William Allen Young, Eugene M. Davis

Synopsis: A man searching for the truth about his wife's killer learns more than he wanted to know about her own private story in this powerful drama. Harry Cain (John Turturro) works as a security guard at a large shopping mall in Wisconsin. Harry's life takes a sudden and disturbing left turn when his Read More

Fielder's Choice

Actors: Chad Lowe, K'Sun Ray, Marin Hinkle, Bodhi Elfman, George Segal

Synopsis: Ambitious young advertising man Phillip Fielder (Chad Lowe) has no time for relationships, and seems to have affection only for his creature comforts -- a source of great dismay for his erstwhile girlfriend, Holly Ford (Marin Hinkle). When his orphaned nephew, an autistic eight-year-old named Read More

Moesha: Season 06

Actors: Brandy, William Allen Young

Moesha: Season 05

Actors: Brandy, William Allen Young, Sheryl Lee Ralph

Moesha: Season 04

Actors: Brandy, William Allen Young, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Countess Vaughn

Moesha: Season 03

Actors: Brandy, William Allen Young, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Countess Vaughn

Moesha: Season 02

Actors: Brandy, William Allen Young, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Countess Vaughn

Moesha: Season 01

Actors: Brandy, William Allen Young, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Countess Vaughn

Fast Company

Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story

Actors: Glenn Close, Judy Davis, Jan Rubes, Wendy Makkena, Susan Barnes

Synopsis: Glenn Close won the "Outstanding Lead Actress" Emmy for her performance in this made-for-television drama about the rights of homosexuals in the military. Close stars as Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer, an Army medical officer with an eye on a promotion who is suddenly tossed into discharge Read More

Murphy Brown: Murphy's Law

Synopsis: Insisting upon taking a traffic ticket to court, Murphy (Candice Bergen) intends to fight for her rights all by herself--and without invoking any special celebrity privileges. But when a news story leaks out suggesting that the judge will be lenient for no other reason than Murphy is a TV star Read More

Babylon 5: A Race Through Dark Places

Actors: Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan, Andreas Katsulas

Synopsis: Walter Koenig returns as Psi Cop Bester, who is investigating reports of an underground railroad specializing in smuggling unregistered telepaths to freedom. Bester's vesit places Talia in the unenviable position of either remaining loyal to her B5 duties or aiding her fellow telepaths. Meanwhile Read More

Babylon 5: Mind War

Actors: Michael O'Hare, Claudia Christian, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan, Andreas Katsulas

Synopsis: Talia's former teacher and lover, rogue telepath Jason Ironheart (William Allen Young, arrives on B5 with the Psi Cops hot on his trail. The victim of a secret experiment, Ironheart now possesses artifically enhanced "psi" skills, enabling him to "think" people into oblivion. And in another Read More

Almost Dead

Stalking Laura

Synopsis: Based on a true story, I Can Make You Love Me: The Stalking of Laura Black largely takes place in California's Silicon Valley, where Virginia transplant Laura Black (Brooke Shields) is employed by a major high-tech firm as a computer specialist. Upset by the unsolicited advances of nerdish Read More

The Waterdance

Actors: Eric Stoltz, Helen Hunt, William Forsythe, Wesley Snipes, Elizabeth Peña

Synopsis: Paralyzed in a 1984 accident, writer/director Neal Jimenez (of River's Edge fame) channelled his own experiences and emotions into his 1991 film Waterdance. Eric Stoltz stars as a young writer left incapacitated by a hiking accident. He is placed in a paraplegic ward, peopled by patients of all Read More

Lies Before Kisses

Actors: Ben Gazzara

Synopsis: This made-for-TV thriller stars Ben Gazzara as a publishing magnate framed for murdering the call girl with whom he was having an affair. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Matlock: The Vacation

Actors: Brynn Thayer

Synopsis: If Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) could show up every so often in 2-hour TV movies, so too could good old Matlock (Andy Griffith). The Vacation finds the rustic attorney at a resort hotel, in the company of his pretty daughter Leanne (Brynn Thayer). Say, didja ever notice how, whenever someone like Read More

Without Her Consent

Actors: Melissa Gilbert, Barry Tubb, Scott Valentine

Synopsis: Without Her Consent is a better than average "issue of the week" TV movie. This week's issue is rape--specifically, acquaintance rape. Melissa Gilbert plays a young woman who is sexually assaulted by a man (Scott Valentine) whom she has known for quite some time. She files charges, but he claims Read More

Lock Up

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Donald Sutherland, John Amos, Sonny Landham, Tom Sizemore

Synopsis: Sylvester Stallone is a tough but essentially decent convict in a relatively humane prison. He's on such good terms with the authorities that he's occasionally allowed a weekend furlough. This idyllic situation ends abruptly when he's transferred to a nasty prison run by sadistic warden Donald Sutherland Read More

The Women of Brewster Place

Actors: Oprah Winfrey, Jackée, Cicely Tyson, Robin Givens

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Gloria Naylor, The Women of Brewster Place was produced by and stars Oprah Winfrey. The film concerns a variety of women who live in the housing project located on Brewster Place, and tells about their lives as they struggle in the face of racism, poverty, and troublesome Read More

Code Name: Chaos

Synopsis: A group of former CIA agents team up to ransom the entire world by staging an international crisis in the Orient. Only one man (Brian Kerwin), also an agent, can stop them. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Wisdom

Actors: Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, William Allen Young

Synopsis: In this film, an old felony conviction comes back to haunt the young, ambitious John Wisdom (Emilio Estevez) as he applies and is turned down for a number of jobs. Frustrated by his attempts to make a legitimate living, John and his girlfriend, Karen (Demi Moore), set out to commit a series of Read More

Johnnie May Gibson: F.B.I.

Synopsis: Bill Duke directed this fact-based tale of a poor Southern black woman who rose from poverty to become an FBI agent. Retitled Johnnie Gibson F.B.I. for home video. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Outrage!

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

The Atlanta Child Murders

Synopsis: The Atlanta Child Murders is a five-hour, two-part dramatization of one of the most tragic and controversial homicide cases of the past twenty years. From 1979 through 1982, some 28 African-American children and young adults disappeared from Atlanta--some without a trace, but others to later turn Read More

Jagged Edge

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Glenn Close, Peter Coyote, Robert Loggia, Leigh Taylor-Young

Synopsis: In this hit thriller, a prosecuting attorney-turned-defense lawyer falls in love with a rich, charming client who's been accused of murdering his wife and her maid with a hunting knife. When an unknown assailant gruesomely slays San Francisco newspaper heiress Paige Forrester (Maria Mayenzet), her Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: Robot P. Coltrane

Synopsis: Somewhat belatedly entering the Machine Age, Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) fires Roscoe (James Best), purchases a robot named Bobbie Joe (played by Robert Shields of "Shields and Yarnell" fame) and pins a sheriff's badge on the clattering hunk of tin. Little does Boss know that the robot has been Read More

A Soldier's Story

Actors: David Alan Grier, Wings Hauser, Howard E. Rollins, Jr., Adolph Caesar, Dennis Lipscomb, Patti LaBelle, Art Evans, Denzel Washington

Synopsis: Inspired by the Herman Melville novel Billy Budd, writer Charles Fuller created the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Soldier's Play, which he then adapted into this film drama in 1984, for socially conscious, liberal director Norman Jewison. In the racially-divided 1940s, Fort Neal, Louisiana, is a Read More

Victims for Victims: The Theresa Saldana Story

Actors: Theresa Saldana

Synopsis: Actress Theresa Saldana plays herself in this gut-wrenching fact-based TV movie. The film begins with Ms. Saldana being savagely attacked by a stalking fan in her own home in 1982. Sustaining multiple stab wounds, Saldana lies near death for quite some time, but eventually pulls together Read More

The Day After

Actors: Jason Robards, Jr., JoBeth Williams, Steve Guttenberg, John Cullum, John Lithgow, Amy Madigan

Synopsis: A peaceful Midwestern city attempts to recover after it is destroyed by a nuclear missile strike in this powerful and deeply disturbing testament to the folly of pro-military hawks who believed that annihilation was a justifiable means of attaining power and control. The Day After originally aired Read More

The Jeffersons: Florence's Cousin

Actors: Sherman Hemsley, Isabel Sanford, Marla Gibbs, Ned Wertimer, William Allen Young

Synopsis: William Allen Young guest stars as Ernie, the ne'er-do-well cousin of the Jeffersons' housekeeper, Florence (Marla Gibbs). In dire need of 1,000 dollars, Ernie prevails upon Florence to borrow the money from her boss, George Jefferson (Sherman Hemsley). George refuses, insisting that Ernie is a Read More

Freedom Road

Synopsis: Muhammad Ali made his TV-movie dramatic debut in this adaptation of Howard Fast's novel Freedom Road. Though some of the names are changed, the story concerns the true-life efforts of senators Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens to bring political order and racial equality to the post-Civil War Read More