William MimsFilmography

The Dukes of Hazzard: Good Neighbors, Duke

Synopsis: The Dukes find out that their personable new neighbors, Adam and Esther Venable (John Larch, Cynthia Leake) are actually in the Federal Witness Protection Program. Complicating matters are a band of vicious bounty hunters who are pursuing the Venables in hopes of tracking down $2,000,000 in stolen Read More

Underground Aces

Synopsis: Ever wonder what happens to your car when you give it to a parking lot attendant? Find out in this zany slapstick comedy set in an exclusive Beverly Hills Hotel. There the attendants gleefully smash and bash the expensive cars of patrons while trying to get them parked. The story really perks up Read More

Quincy, M.E.: A Test for the Living

Synopsis: No murder is committed nor autopsy performed in this episode, in which medical examiner Quincy (Jack Klugman) delves into psychology. The catalyst for the plot is Timmy Carson (David Hollander), a hyperactive seven-year-old with a severely limited attention span. Though Timmy has escaped from an Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Snake Eyes, Part 1

Synopsis: After a four-episode tryout as a component of the NBC Sunday Mystery Movie anthology, Quincy, M.E. launched its regular weekly run with this episode, originally telecast as a two-hour special but since re-edited for syndication as two one-hour installments. In Part One, we find LA County medical Read More

Quincy, M.E.: Snake Eyes, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of Quincy, M.E.'s two-part Season Two opener (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), Quincy (Jack Klugman) continues to look for the source of a mysterious epidemic that has caused several deaths at a pathologist's convention in a Lake Tahoe casino. The casino's Read More

Fer-De-Lance

Synopsis: In this s-s-suspenseful drama, a submarine carrying a load of poisonous snakes accidentally wedges itself amidst the rocks near the bottom of the sea. Now the crew must somehow avoid the unwanted slitherers and manage to extricate themselves. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Ironside: Downhill All the Way, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first half of a two-part story (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), Chief Ironside is assigned to protect little Jerry Abbott, an autistic 10-year-old who has witnessed a murder. Not long afterward, the newspapers are reporting that Jerry himself has been killed--and that Read More

Ironside: Downhill All the Way, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Ironside (Raymond Burr) has degenerated from a respected law enforcement officer to a seedy skid-row bum, apparently because 10-year-old murder witness Jerry Abbott (Lee H. Montgomery) was killed while in the Chief's protective custody. What even Ironside's Read More

Pickup on 101

Synopsis: In this counter-culture melodrama, a youthful hitcher teams up with an aging vagabond on a lonely Southwestern road. The two are given a lift by an unemployed rocker. Soon the three find themselves at odds with assorted "establishment" characters until the old hobo has a fatal heart attack. As he Read More

Bonanza: One Ace Too Many

Actors: Lorne Greene, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Mitch Vogel

Synopsis: Once more, Lorne Greene essays the dual role of Ben Cartwright and Ben's lookalike, confidence trickster Bradley Meredith. This time out, Meredith takes advantage of Ben's trip to Carson City to auction off the Ponderosa, piece by piece. Kate Jackson makes an early TV appearance as Ellen, while Read More

Johnny Got His Gun

Actors: Timothy Bottoms

Synopsis: The author of the famous late 1930's antiwar book Johnny Got His Gun wrote and directed this film adaptation. It concerns a nameless young soldier (Timothy Bottoms) in a veteran's hospital in the World War I period. The young man has had his face blown off, he is without the use of any of his Read More

Petticoat Junction: The Valley's New Owner

Synopsis: An old land deed reveals that feckless game warden Orrin Pike (Jonathan Daly) is legal owner of Hooterville Valley. This news comes a tad late to Uncle Joe (Edgar Buchanan),who has just banished Orrin from the Shady Rest. Now Joe must do a quick 180-degree turnaround and pull off the biggest Read More

Breakout

Synopsis: In this drama, set in the High Sierras, a prisoner's attempt to break out of a prison camp is thwarted by the hunt for a boy lost in the snowy mountains. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Traveling Executioner

Actors: Stacy Keach, Marianna Hill, Bud Cort, Graham Jarvis, James J. Sloyan

Synopsis: In this unusual black comedy, Stacy Keach plays Jonas Candide, a former carnival showman who roams the southern U.S. in 1918 with a portable electric chair. He offers his services as a freelance executioner for $100 a pop. He takes a job in a prison in Alabama, where he is supposed to execute a Read More

Flap

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Claude Akins, Tony Bill, Shelley Winters, Victor Jory

Synopsis: Flap is marginally significant as the only western ever directed by Britain's Sir Carol Reed. Anthony Quinn is top-billed as Flapping Eagle, a modern-day Native American stuck on a squalid reservation. Though liquored up most of the time, Flapping Eagle undergoes an eleventh-hour social awakening. Read More

The Ballad of Cable Hogue

Actors: Jason Robards, Jr., Stella Stevens, David Warner, Strother Martin, Slim Pickens

Synopsis: After the intense bloodshed of The Wild Bunch (1969), this comic western fable took the opposite approach to director Sam Peckinpah's continuing examination of the end of the West. Left for dead by a couple of lizard-slaughtering desperados in the middle of the desert, prospector Cable Hogue (Jason Robards Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: The Guru

Synopsis: Having read a book about yoga, Jethro decides to become a guru, declaring "that name strikes a spark in my psyche." As the Clampett mansion is turned into a yoga retreat, even Elly May is swept up in the excitement. Meanwhile a "genuine" guru (played by William Mims, who previously appeared as Read More

Adam-12: Log 31: Jimmy Eisley's Dealing Smack!

Synopsis: Acting on a tip, Officers Jim Reed (Kent McCord) and Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) participate in a raid on a drug ring operating from the home of a middle-aged man (William Mims). The two cops also come to the aid of a bewildered young woman (Jenny Sullivan) who is lost in the middle of L.A. Read More

Paint Your Wagon

Actors: Lee Marvin, Clint Eastwood, Jean Seberg, Ray Walston, Harve Presnell

Synopsis: After a debut on Broadway in 1951, Paramount spent an estimated 17 to 20 million dollars in production costs for this Lerner and Loewe musical. With Loewe's permission, Lerner wrote five additional tunes for the film with Andre Previn. Ben Rumson (Lee Marvin) is the grizzled prospector trying his Read More

The Bamboo Saucer

Actors: Dan Duryea, John Ericson, Lois Nettleton, Bob Hastings, Vincent Beck

Synopsis: A veteran cast gives the 1968 cheapie The Bamboo Saucer what little credibility it has. In his last role, Dan Duryea plays the head man of an expeditionary force in search of a missing UFO. Since the craft was last sighted in the mountains of Red China, the search takes on political significance. Duryea Read More

Petticoat Junction: Wings

Synopsis: Buddy Rogers and Richard Arlen, who costarred in the very first Oscar-winning movie Wings, are reunited in this episode. The two veteran actors show up in Hooterville Valley to save the Pixley Bijou Theater from demolition, agreeing to appear at the theater's premiere screening of Wings. . .some Read More

Petticoat Junction: Kate's Homecoming

Synopsis: After missing several episodes due to illness, Bea Benaderet returns to her familiar Petticoat Junction role as Kate Bradley, owner of Hooterville's Shady Rest Hotel. The entire town gears up for a gala homecoming party in Kate's honor, but there are a few hitches along the way--including a Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: The South Rises Again

Synopsis: In the second episode of a three-part story arc, Granny is still convinced that the Civil War epic being filmed near the mansion is an actual battle between North and South. A loyal daughter of Dixie, Granny forms her own "Confederate Army" to fight the actors dressed as Union soldiers. Lyle Talbot Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Jethro In the Reserve

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a three-part story arc, Granny captures General Ulysses S. Grant (William Mimms) and wins the Civil War on behalf of the Confederacy. Actually, Granny has merely captured an actor dressed as Grant, who is appearing in a war film being shot near the Clampett estate. But rather Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: The Reserve Program

Synopsis: Still anxious to serve his country in the military, Jethro heads to what he thinks is an Army-reserve recruiting office, and is immediately inducted into the ranks of the costumed movie extras appearing in a Civil War epic. The confusion is compounded when Granny, spotting the maneuvers of the Read More

Gunfight in Abilene

Actors: Bobby Darin, Emily Banks, Leslie Nielsen, Donnelly Rhodes, Don Galloway

Synopsis: Never once does Bobby Darin sing "Mack the Knife" or "Splish Splash" in Gunfight in Abilene. Instead, he plays a peaceable western sheriff, determined to stave off an outlaw invasion. The head outlaw is Leslie Nielsen, which makes this film very hard to watch with a straight face these days. The Read More

Hot Rods to Hell

Actors: Dana Andrews, Jeanne Crain, Mimsy Farmer, Laurie Mock, Paul Bertoya, Gene Kirkwood

Synopsis: In this youthful actioner, two young hot-rodding hoods torment a family while they are en route to a motel in the California desert. The film is also known as 52 Miles to Midnight. The family goes there to take over the establishment. When they finally arrive, tired and frightened by their ordeal Read More

Hogan's Heroes: Oil for the Lamps of Hogan

Actors: Bob Crane, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Robert Clary, Richard Dawson

Synopsis: To avoid bombardment from the Allies, the Germans intend to construct a synthetic fuel plant at Stalag 13. Realizing that this will uproot the prisoners -- and foul up his espionage operations -- Hogan schemes to sabotage the construction project by convincing Klink that there is oil on the camp's Read More

Bonanza: A Man to Admire

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, James Gregory

Synopsis: Accused of murder, Hoss Cartwright puts his life in the hands of celebrated lawyer Whitney Parker (James Gregory). Unforunately, Parker's glory days are behind him: more to the point, he is now the town drunk. The Cartwrights struggle to keep Parker sober long enough to save Hoss from the gallows. Read More

The Twilight Zone: The New Exhibit

Actors: Martin Balsam, Will Kuluva, Maggie Mahoney, William Mims, Milton Parsons

Synopsis: First telecast April 4, 1963, this grim 60-minute Twilight Zone installment would seem to be more suited to Alfred Hitchcock Presents or Thriller. Martin Balsam stars as Martin Senescu, curator of a "chamber of horrors" wax museum. Upon learning that the museum is to be demolished, Martin takes Read More

The Day Mars Invaded Earth

Synopsis: Those ever-sneaky Martians are at it again in this sci-fi horror outing that closely resembles Invasion of the Body Snatchers. This time, the crafty invaders are in the process of making exact doubles of an entire town and then killing the original models. The terrifying facts are discovered by a Read More

Lonely Are the Brave

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Gena Rowlands, Walter Matthau, Mike Kane, Carroll O'Connor

Synopsis: Although it never quite escapes the pitfalls of pretension, this film was Kirk Douglas's bid for the affections of the art house crowd, and it remains one of his best efforts. The star plays unreconstructed "rugged individual" Jack Burns, who rides throughout the modern west knocking down man-made Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Trial at Tablerock

Synopsis: Paladin (Richard Boone) must once again come to the defense of a "devil incarnate"--in this case, the much-feared, much-hated gunslinger Virge Beech (Sherwood Price). The citizens of Tabelrock, who have long lived in mortal terror of Beech, are determined to get revenge by hanging the gunman on a Read More

Sanctuary

Actors: Lee Remick, Yves Montand, Bradford Dillman, Harry Townes, Odette

Synopsis: Combining elements from William Faulkner's novel Sanctuary, its sequel Requiem for a Nun, and a stage adaptation of Requiem for a Nun by Ruth Ford, director Tony Richardson's film is set in 1920s Mississippi and recounts the story of Temple Drake (Lee Remick), a young, lustful white woman who Read More

Wild in the Country

Actors: Elvis Presley, Hope Lange, Tuesday Weld, Millie Perkins, John Ireland, Rafer Johnson

Synopsis: Rock 'n roll king Elvis Presley stars as Glenn Talbot, a country boy with a problem temper and a yen for literary greatness in this typical Presley vehicle directed by Philip Dunne. After Glenn is sent packing by his father for mixing it up one too many times with his brother, the court makes him Read More

Bonanza: The Bride

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, John McIntire

Synopsis: During Ben Cartwright's absence, a woman named Jennifer (Suzanne Lloyd) shows up at the Ponderosa, claiming to be Ben's new wife-and she has a marriage license to back up her claims. The Cartwright boys soon determine that Jennifer has been fleeced by a con artist who has been posing as their Read More

The Children's Hour

Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Shirley MacLaine, James Garner, Miriam Hopkins, Fay Bainter

Synopsis: Based on the 1934 play by Lillian Hellman, The Children's Hour is set at an exclusive girl's school managed by best friends Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine. When student Karen Balkin is punished for one of her many misdeeds, the mean-spirited youngster rushes to her wealthy aunt Fay Bainter Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Guilty Clients

Synopsis: Accompanied by her tempestuous cousin Concepcion (Faith Domergue), Lola Bronson (Lisa Gaye) breezes into LA from Argentina to finalize her divorce from her husband, aircraft designer Jeff Bronson (Lisa Gaye). But when she suspects Bill Ryder (played by singer Guy Mitchell) of deliberately Read More

Battle at Bloody Beach

Actors: Audie Murphy, Gary Crosby, Dolores Michaels, Alejandro Rey, Marjorie Stapp

Synopsis: Real-life WW II hero Audie Murphy stars in this war drama that follows the exploits of a civilian who works closely with Filipino resistance fighters against the Japanese invaders. The man has come to the islands to find his new wife after they are separated during their honeymoon in Manila. She Read More

Walk Tall

Actors: Willard Parker, Joyce Meadows, Kent Taylor, Russ Bender, Ron Soble

Synopsis: In every way a routine western except for its excellent color photography, Walk Tall by "B"-movie director Maury Dexter relates the struggles of lawman Ed Trask (Willard Parker) to bring in outlaw Ed Carter (Kent Taylor). Carter nearly provokes a war when he and his gang brutally raid a Shoshone Read More

Bonanza: The Magnificent Adah

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Ruth Roman

Synopsis: Legendary stage actress Adah Isaacs Menken (Ruth Roman) brings her celebrated Mazeppa troupe to Virginia City. Ben Cartwright welcomes the opportunity to renew his longstanding friendship with the "lady in pink tights." As for Ben's sons Adam, Hoss, and Little Joe, they become convinced that Adah Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Champagne Safari

Synopsis: An old friend of Paladin's named Gravely (Bill Mims) has organized a western "safari" for a group of wealthy British visitors. The highlight of the festivities is to be a mock Indian raid--but things take a deadly turn when one member of the party is found dead, shot by an arrow! Called in to Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Sons of Aaron Murdock

Synopsis: Beleagured rancher Aaron Murdock (Philip Coolidge) is accused of providing shelter for his son Lew (Wesley Lau), a sadistic escaped murderer. In his efforts to clear Aaron's name, Paladin finds himself saddled with another responsibility: preventing Aaron's younger son Jamie (Lee Kinsolving) from Read More

I Killed Wild Bill Hickok

Actors: Helen Westcott, Tom Brown, Virginia Gibson, Denver Pyle

Synopsis: The redoubtable John Carpenter strikes again with the ultra-low-budget I Killed Wild Bill Hickok. Carpenter serves as the film's producer and screenwriter, and also heads the cast, pseudonymously billed as John Forbes. Everybody knows that Wild Bill Hickok (here played by Tom Brown) was shot in Read More