William CampbellFilmography

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Blood Oath

Synopsis: Three aging Klingon Warriors arrive on Deep Space Nine to makes certain that a blood oath made 80 years earlier by Curzon Dax be fulfilled. Though startled to learn that Curzon Dax has metamorphosed into Jadzia Dax, the Klingons insist that she honor the oath. As a result, Dax is torn between Read More

Waylon Jennings: Renegade. Outlaw. Legend.

Synopsis: A documentary that covers the life of country legend Waylon Jennings, from his beginnings to his breakthrough in the '70s. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Spirit Within

Crew: Director

Actors: Gil Cardinal

Quincy, M.E.: Quincy's Wedding, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), it looks like the wedding of Quincy (Jack Klugman) and Emily (Anita Gillette) will have to be postponed definitely. After all, Quincy cannot be bothered with mundane domestic details while he is busily Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Quincy's Wedding, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single, two hour "very special" episode), Quincy (Jack Klugman) and his fiancee Emily (Anita Gillette) are at last prepared to march down the aisle and tie the knot. While Emily is busily discussing details with wedding planner Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Underground

Synopsis: Officer Dan Segal (Robert Drivas) makes it his mission in life to avenge the death of his gambler brother (Harry Davis), who was murdered by a professional hit man. In order to expose the "brains" behind the murder, Segal goes undercover, posing as a bookie and infiltrating an unusually nasty Read More

Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry

Actors: Peter Fonda, Susan George, Adam Roarke, Vic Morrow, Kenneth Tobey

Synopsis: Three outlaws hit the road until the road hits back in this supercharged action thriller. Larry (Peter Fonda) is a stock car driver whose reckless nature has caused him a long run of bad luck. Larry and his friend and mechanic Deke (Adam Roarke) need money if they're to get a new car and get back Read More

Adam-12: North Hollywood Division

Synopsis: Officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) doesn't know whether to be flattered or annoyed when he becomes the subject of an article written by his partner Jim Reed (Kent McCord). Back on the job, the two cops are assigned to the North Hollywood Division, with assignments ranging from breaking up a Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Flags of Terror

Synopsis: Surrounded by the authorities after a bungled attempt to break through a police checkpoint, five terrorists take several people hostage. Unless they are given safe passage out of San Francisco, the terrorists will detonate a bomb, killing themselves and their prisoners. Making the situation Read More

Emergency!: Fools

Synopsis: Singer Bobby Sherman appears as Kenny Donaldson Jr., an arrogant young intern who makes a near-fatal diagnosis of a man who was injured in a chimney explosion. Dr. Brackett (Robert Fuller) figures out a suitable "punishment" for Donaldson, designed to teach the man a lesson and to improve his Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Chapel of the Damned

Synopsis: Signe Hasso guest stars as Madame Vasiliev, a self-styled psychic operating out of her own "Chapel of the Mind." Though Stone (Karl Malden) and Keller (Michael Douglas) suspect that Madame Vasiliev is a phony, they cannot deny that most of her prognostications have come true--and thus the two cops Read More

Ironside: Buddy, Can You Spare a Life?, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), Ironside (Raymond Burr) works in concert with attorney Ken Klaven (Cameron Mitchell) to secure the release of Walter Booth (William Campbell), whom the Chief had sent to prison on a manslaughter charge seven Read More

Emergency!: Peace Pipe

Synopsis: Fireman Chet Kelly (Tim Donnelly) is determined to learn more about the Native American "roots" of his coworker John Gage (played by Randolph Mantooth, a real-life descendant of the Seminole tribe). Chet's efforts are momentarily abandoned as the emergency staff tackles a huge work load, including Read More

Black Gunn

Actors: Martin Landau, Brenda Sykes, Jim Brown, Tommy Davis, Rick Ferrell, Jay Montgomery, Mark Tapscott

Synopsis: This violent blaxploitation film stars Jim Brown as the owner of a Los Angeles nightclub. When his brother, a Vietnam veteran, is murdered by gangsters, Brown gathers some of his brother's fellow veterans and an assortment of ex-convicts to get brutal revenge. Martin Landau, Luciana Paluzzi, and Jeannie Bell Read More

Ironside: Buddy, Can You Spare a Life?, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first half of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), Ironside (Raymond Burr) begins to question his judgment in a manslaughter case which occurred seven years ago. At the time, the Chief rammed through the conviction of chief suspect Walter Booth (William Read More

Adam-12: Ambush

Synopsis: Officers Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and Jim Reed (Kent McCord) are assigned to escort criminal Charlie Shanks (William Campbell) to jail. While shuffling their prisoner through Malibu Canyon, the two cops are ambushed by a pair of hired killers who are determined to prevent Shanks from ever Read More

Pretty Maids All in a Row

Actors: Rock Hudson, Angie Dickinson, Telly Savalas, John Carson, Roddy McDowall

Synopsis: Ocean View High is an upscale suburban school in an otherwise unidentified community. It's 1971, the point when the sexual revolution started moving into full swing and even a lot of Middle America, at least on the two coasts, admitted the existence of same revolution. It seems like the guys and Read More

Bonanza: The Late Ben Cartwright

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, David Canary, Sidney Blackmer

Synopsis: Ben Cartwright is determined to block the gubernatorial bid of John Faraday (Simon Scott), the corrupt stooge of crooked tycoon Sam Endicott (Sidney Blackmer). When Ben is shot by one of Endicott's henchmen, he decides to "play dead" until the convention, then expose both Endicott and Faraday as Read More

Star Trek: The Trouble with Tribbles

Synopsis: While the Enterprise is stopped at a space station to provide security for a valuable shipment of grain, Lt. Uhura purchases a new pet from ethically questionable station trader Cyrano Jones: a "tribble," which is basically a lovable, cooing ball of fur. The animals have some unexpected drawbacks Read More

Combat!: Nightmare on the Red Ball Run

Synopsis: Kirby (Jack Hogan) and Littlejohn (Dick Peabody) volunteer as relief drivers for a "Red Ball Express" squadron headed by an overbearing sergeant (Claude Akins). In an extended sequence reminiscent of the French "new wave" classic The Wages of Fear, the two soldiers find themselves maneuvering a Read More

Star Trek: The Squire of Gothos

Synopsis: Traveling through supposedly empty space, the Enterprise finds itself caught in the orbit of a previously uncharted planet with one rather bizarre inhabitant in this installment of the original Star Trek television series. Unable to free the ship, Kirk leads an expedition to the surface to Read More

The Money Trap

Actors: Glenn Ford, Elke Sommer, Rita Hayworth, Ricardo Montalban, Joseph Cotten

Synopsis: In this well-regarded film noir thriller, Joe Barron (Glenn Ford) is a police detective whose wife Lisa (Elke Sommer) has inherited a stock portfolio from her father. Joe and Lisa go on a spending spree, but when their new holdings fail to pay dividends, Joe finds himself deep in debt. Dr. Read More

Portrait in Terror

Synopsis: In this bizarre drama set in Venice, California, a professional thief and a crazed artist conspire to steal a valuable Titian painting. Unfortunately, they are thwarted by a courageous stripper who is almost killed in the process. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Track of the Vampire

Synopsis: This low-budget vampire quickie is distinguished mainly by the presence of director Stephanie Rothman, who emerged from Roger Corman's New World Pictures (for whom she directed the exploitation classic The Student Nurses) to become an acclaimed feminist filmmaker. The piecework story incorporates Read More

Combat!: Soldier of Fortune

Synopsis: Assigned to tap a German communications line, Pvt. Andy Marsh (Burt Brinckerhoff) is caught in an explosion and pinned down by a falling beam. Sgt. Saunders (Vic Morrow) tells Marsh that the other men have to move out, and that he'll send help. But Marsh replies that it's "no-go": unless he is Read More

Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

Actors: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Cecil Kellaway

Synopsis: An unusually long pre-credits sequence establishes the roots of faded Southern belle Charlotte's (Bette Davis) insanity; she'd been witness to the dismemberment murder of her fiance (Bruce Dern) and the suicide of the murderer, her own father (Victor Buono). Years later, Charlotte remains a Read More

The Secret Invasion

Actors: Stewart Granger, Mickey Rooney, Edward Byrnes, Henry Silva

Synopsis: Producer/director Roger Corman briefly abandoned Edgar Allan Poe for The Secret Invasion, a commendable attempt to make a war epic on a "B" budget. The story is a scaled-down precursor to The Dirty Dozen: Five criminals are given a chance at a pardon by agreeing to participate in a suicide Read More

The Young Racers

Actors: Mark Damon, William Campbell, Luana Anders, Rob Campbell, Patrick Magee

Synopsis: Joe Machin (William Campbell) is the devil-may-care auto racer with a reputation that doesn't endear him to other racers on or off the track. Joe makes fast time with women, often incurring the wrath of the jilted boyfriends that lose their girls to him. One such malcontent is Stephen Children, a Read More

Dementia 13

Actors: Patrick Magee

Synopsis: A young Francis Coppola was given the job of directing this moody low-budget chiller after begging producer Roger Corman for the opportunity to reuse the sets for another film which Corman was shooting in Ireland. The story centers on the dysfunctional Haloran family, who live in a state of Read More

Night of Evil

Synopsis: In this campy melodrama, a high school girl gets involved in the wrong crowd, and though innocent of wrong doing is sent to reform school. Soon after her release, she enters and wins the Miss Colorado contest, making her a contender for the Miss America title. Not long after winning the state Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Ill-Fated Faker

Synopsis: Feeling neglected by her rich husband Carl (Howard Petrie), Alice Gorman (June Dayton) is attracted to Carl's no-good, leeching nephew Jim Ferris (William Campbell). What follows is a treacherous morass of greed, grand robbery ($80,000 worth) and murder, with innocent secretary Betty Wilkins (Sue Read More

Natchez Trace

Synopsis: A Tennessee outlaw wants to create a huge network of other outlaws. In the process, he kills the father of a man's fiance, and the man swears his revenge. ~ Steve Huey, All Movie Guide Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Artful Dodger

Synopsis: The much-despised Allan Sheridan (William J. Campbell) is going to need the $162,000 he is due to inherit: deeply in debt to several people, Sheridan had better pay up in a hurry if he doesn't want his list of enemies to increase. As it turns out, one enemy is more than enough to bludgeon Sheridan Read More

The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw

Actors: Kenneth More, Jayne Mansfield, Robert Morley, Ronald Squire, David Horne, Henry Hull

Synopsis: Kenneth More portrays a British gunsmith who travels to the American West. After winning a rigged poker game, More is appointed sheriff of Fractured Jaw, a wide-open town where law officers are plugged and planted on a regular basis. He befriends hard-bitten saloon gal Jayne Mansfield, who doesn't Read More

Money, Women and Guns

Actors: Jock Mahoney, Kim Hunter, Tim Hovey, Gene Evans, Tom Drake

Synopsis: In this curious blend of Western and detective melodrama, Jock Mahoney plays a frontier gumshoe named Hogan. When an old prospector is murdered, Hogan takes on the assignment of finding the four heirs to the prospector's fortune. Briefly sidetracked by a romance with Mary Kingman (played by Kim Hunter Read More

The Naked and the Dead

Actors: Aldo Ray, Cliff Robertson, Raymond Massey, Barbara Nichols

Synopsis: Despite an ad campaign wherein RKO Radio congratulated itself for its "guts", this long-delayed film version of Norman Mailer's bestselling WW2 novel The Naked and the Dead still had to pull most of its punches (especially when it came to four-letter words). Aldo Ray heads the cast as sadistic Read More

Eighteen and Anxious

Actors: Mary Webster, William Campbell, Martha Scott, Jackie Loughery, Jim Backus

Synopsis: In this teenage exploitation drama, a young woman secretly marries. The trouble begins after her husband is killed while drag racing. She bears his child, but she cannot prove that she was married. Caring nothing for the child, she spends her time hitting on a jazz trumpeter who takes her to Las Read More

Backlash

Actors: Richard Widmark, Donna Reed, William Campbell, John McIntire, Barton MacLane

Synopsis: The breathtakingly beautiful Technicolor cinematography of Irving Glassberg is but one of the many small pleasures of the big-budget western Backlash. Set in post-Civil War Arizona, the film stars Richard Widmark as Jim Slater, who hopes to prove that his down-and-out father (John McIntire) was Read More

Man in the Vault

Actors: William Campbell, Karen Sharpe, Anita Ekberg, Berry Kroeger, Paul Fix

Synopsis: Frank Gruber's novel The Lock and the Key was adapted for the big screen by Burt Kennedy as The Man in the Vault. William Campbell stars as a locksmith who is forced to work for a gang of thieves. The bad guys want Campbell to make duplicates of the keys to a safety deposit box containing nearly a Read More

Love Me Tender

Actors: Richard Egan, Debra Paget, Elvis Presley, Robert Middleton, William Campbell

Synopsis: Elvis Presley made his motion picture debut in the Civil War drama Love Me Tender. Elvis, however, is not the star of the proceedings: that honor goes jointly to Richard Egan and Debra Paget. The story concerns three brothers--Egan, William Campbell and James Drury--who steal a Union payroll on Read More

Cell 2455, Death Row

Actors: William Campbell, Marian Carr, Kathryn Grant, Harvey Stephens

Synopsis: Cell 2455 Death Row is based on the autobiography of condemned prisoner and "jailhouse lawyer" Caryl Chessman. William Campbell plays the Chessman counterpart, here renamed Whit. A seriously disturbed misfit, Whit begins a life of crime, culminating in sexual assault as the "Lover's Lane Bandit." Read More

Man Without a Star

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Jeanne Crain, William Campbell, Claire Trevor, Richard Boone

Synopsis: In this deceptively titled and paced Western, Kirk Douglas shines in the hyper-macho role of Dempsey Rae, a good-natured drifter with a mysterious past up from Texas, a top hand with a gun, a horse, or a herd, who can even play the banjo and sing. He rides into a Wyoming town in a freight car, in Read More

Battle Cry

Actors: Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, Mona Freeman, Nancy Olson, James Whitmore, Tab Hunter

Synopsis: Adapted by Leon Uris from his own novel, the film follows a group of World War II marines, from Basic Training to Battlefield. Major Van Heflin knows that his men are spoiling for a real fight, but must make do with the desultory skirmishes assigned them by the Brass. All this changes with an Read More

Running Wild

Actors: William Campbell, Mamie van Doren, Keenan Wynn, Kathleen Case, Jan Merlin

Synopsis: One of the earliest examples of the hot rod/juvenile delinquency flick, Running Wild featured William Campbell as a rookie cop infiltrating a gang of teenagers that are stealing cars for Ken Osanger (Keenan Wynn), a nasty type who uses a gas station as a front for his nefarious purposes. Going Read More

The High and the Mighty

Actors: John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Laraine Day, Robert Stack, Jan Sterling

Synopsis: For The High and the Mighty, director William Wellman made a point of using Cinemascope to heighten the dramatic content of a confined screen space -- in this instance, the cockpit of a plane in flight. Copilot Dan Roman (John Wayne) seems a lot more in control of things than Captain John Sullivan Read More

Small Town Girl

Actors: Jane Powell, Farley Granger, Ann Miller, S.Z. Sakall, Robert Keith, Bobby Van

Synopsis: A remake of the 1936 Janet Gaynor vehicle of the same name, Small Town Girl stars Jane Powell in the title role. Powell plays Cindy Kimball, daughter of village judge Gordon Kimball (Robert Keith). When wealthy playboy Rick Livingston (Farley Granger) is arrested for speeding, Judge Kimball Read More

Escape from Fort Bravo

Actors: William Holden, Eleanor Parker, John Forsythe, William Demarest, William Campbell

Synopsis: A nail-biting Indian deadlock remains the climax of this otherwise overly verbose Western filmed in M-G-M's then-new Ansco colors (forerunner of Eastmancolor). After ruthlessly dragging an escaped prisoner through the Arizona desert, Union Army Captain Roper (William Holden) suffers rebuke from Read More

Battle Circus

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, June Allyson, Keenan Wynn, Robert Keith, William Campbell

Synopsis: In his only MGM film, Humphrey Bogart plays the commanding officer of a M*A*S*H unit during the Korean War. Bogart runs his operation by the book, though he can take time out now and again for compassion. When nurse June Allyson shows up, Bogie is irritated by her foolhardiness and misplaced Read More

The Big Leaguer

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Vera-Ellen, Jeff Richards, Richard Jaeckel, William Campbell

Synopsis: Big Leaguer was the inauspicious feature-film debut for director Robert Aldrich. Edward G. Robinson stars as the real-life Hans Lobert, the baseball scout in charge of the New York Giants' Florida training camp. Each year, a new crop of would-be ballplayers are given a two-week tryout under Read More

Code Two

Actors: Ralph Meeker, Sally Forrest, Keenan Wynn, Robert Horton, James Craig

Synopsis: The modest MGM programmer Code Two follows a group of police academy aspirants from the grueling training process to their first days on the job. The plot concentrates on three of these trainees: self-satisfied Chuck O'Flair (Ralph Meeker), bridegroom-to-be Harry Whenlon (Jeff Richards) and Read More

Holiday for Sinners

Actors: Gig Young, Janice Rule, Keenan Wynn, William Campbell, Richard Anderson

Synopsis: This minor MGM feature stars Gig Young, Janice Rule, Keenan Wynn and Richard Anderson as diverse individuals caught up in New Orleans' Mardi Gras celebration. Young is cast in the leading role as a doctor, whose plans for the celebration are altered when punch drunk prizefighter Wynn commits Read More

Operation Pacific

Actors: John Wayne, Patricia Neal, Ward Bond, Scott Forbes, Philip Carey

Synopsis: If one is a subscriber to cable TV's American Movie Classics, it is virtually impossible to avoid seeing the John Wayne starrer Operation Pacific; judging by the frequency of its showings, the film must be someone's very special favorite down at AMC. Set during WW II, the film casts Wayne as Duke Read More

The People Against O'Hara

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Pat O'Brien, Diana Lynn, John Hodiak, Eduardo Ciannelli

Synopsis: Fish-market worker Johnny O'Hara (James Arness) is named as a suspect when his boss -- with whom he had a dispute the previous day -- is shot to death in an apparent robbery. When he's arrested, his family appeals to their old friend James Curtayne (Spencer Tracy), who was once a renowned criminal Read More

Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison

Actors: Steve Cochran, David Brian, Philip Carey, Ted de Corsia, Scott Forbes

Synopsis: A prison guard at one of California's most notoriously brutal correctional facilities during the 1920s attempts to enact more humane ways of controlling the inmates in this drama. Much of the story was filmed on location and centers the relationships between the steel-tough inmate, Steve Cochran Read More

The Breaking Point

Actors: John Garfield, Phyllis Thaxter, Patricia Neal, Juano Hernandez, Wallace Ford

Synopsis: This second screen version of Ernest Hemingway's To Have and Have Not is closer in spirit to the original than the first version, though it still is far from faithful to its source. John Garfield stars as Harry Morgan, who has metamorphosed from Hemingway's gun-runner to an ex-PT boat captain, now Read More

Breakthrough

Actors: David Brian, Frank Lovejoy, John Agar, Paul Picerni, Bill Self

Synopsis: Filmed with the full cooperation of the U.S. Army, Breakthrough is a lean, no-nonsense war film set during the 1944 invasion of the continent. Led by Captain Hale (David Brian), a small group of infantrymen march through Normandy. The war-weary foot soldiers resent the presence of 90 Day Wonder Read More

Hi-De-Ho

Actors: Cab Calloway, Ida James, Jeni Le Gon, William Campbell

Synopsis: As the title indicates, Hi-De-Ho is a vehicle for entertainer Cab Calloway. The star plays a bandleader (what else?) who is torn between two lovers: his jealous girlfriend Jenni leGon and his crafty manager Ida James. leGon hires a gangland assassin to take Calloway for a ride, but at the last Read More