Wings Hauser Filmography

Monk: Mr. Monk Gets Jury Duty

Synopsis: It promises to be a busy week at the Federal courthouse in this final episode of Monk's fourth season. The Feds are prepared to escort "most-wanted" criminal Miguel Escobar (Carlos Gomez) to his long-overdue trial, and Monk (Tony Shalhoub) is summoned to jury duty on a minor robbery case. Though Read More

House: Hunting

Synopsis: House (Hugh Laurie) faces a possible lawsuit after a confrontation with a gay "stalker" named Kalvin (Matthew John Armstrong). It is soon established that Kalvin is a victim of AIDS, but his symptoms are most confusing--as are those suffered by the patient's father (Wings Hauser). The situation Read More

Irish Eyes

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, John Novak, Wings Hauser, Torri Higginson, Alberta Watson

The Clean and Narrow

Actors: Jack Noseworthy, Laura Leighton, Wings Hauser

Synopsis: William Katt directs this indie crime drama about a loser on the run. Buddy (Jack Noseworthy) manages to pull off a drug store robbery but kills a clerk in the process, thanks to his blood-thirsty partner. Now his longtime nemesis and law enforcement officer Wayne (Paul Francis) is hot on his Read More

The Insider

Actors: Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer, Diane Venora, Philip Baker Hall

Synopsis: The Insider tells the true story of a man who decided to tell the world what the seven major tobacco companies knew (and concealed) about the dangers of their product. Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe) was a scientist employed in research for a tobacco firm, Brown and Williamson. Not long after he Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Track of a Soldier

Synopsis: The setting is a lodge in the Grand Tetons, where Jessica (Angela Lansbury) is a guest of the owner, a retired colonel. It soon develops that the colonel is being blackmailed, and that another of the guests has been involved in diamond smuggling. Somehow or other this all ends up with murder Read More

Life Among the Cannibals

Actors: Kieran Mulroney, Juliet Landau, Mason Adams, Bette Ford, Daryl Haney

Original Gangstas

Actors: Fred Williamson, Jim Brown, Pam Grier, Paul Winfield, Richard Roundtree

Synopsis: Larry Cohen, who directed a number of interesting and subversive exploitation films in the 1970s and 1980s, including Black Caesar and Hell Up in Harlem, reunited some of the biggest stars of the blaxploitation era for this tough-minded action opus. John Bookman (Fred Williamson) is a successful Read More

Tales From the Hood

Actors: Clarence Williams III, Joe Torry, Corbin Bernsen, Wings Hauser, Anthony Griffith, Michael Massee

Synopsis: Boyz N the Hood meets Tales from the Crypt in this alternately horrific, funny, and socially conscious anthology film. The four grim vignettes are framed by the tale of three street hoods who break into Mr. Simm's inner-city funeral home to find a stash of drugs. The mortician puts them off, by Read More

Watchers 3

Synopsis: In this horror movie based on a sci-fi book by Dean Koontz, a brave hero and his regiment head for the jungle to fight a deadly mutant creature. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Roseanne: Crime and Punishment, Part 1

Synopsis: D.J. gets in trouble at school for bringing a coarse comic book to class, which he got from his sister Darlene. Meanwhile, Dan gets hostile when he finds out that Fisher (Matt Roth) has been physically abusing Jackie. Ed Begley Jr. guest stars as Mr. Alexander. Part one of a two-part episode. Read More

Roseanne: Lose a Job, Winnebago

Synopsis: The Conners and the Tildens go on a trip to Los Angeles, CA, in a motor home. Roseanne wants to go to Hollywood to watch The Jackie Thomas Show (starring her then-husband Tom Arnold). Dan thinks about adding to the family. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Love and Hate in Cabot Cove

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) returns home from New York when she finds out that her accountant Samuel Bennett (Wings Hauser) hasn't been paying her bills in Cabot Cove. It turns out that Bennett is deeply in debt to a local illicict gambling casino. Soon after, a crooked deputy (Matthew Flint) is Read More

Roseanne: Stand on Your Man

Synopsis: Roseanne finally opens her restaurant, the Lanford Lunch Box. After getting threatened by one of her first customers, Roseanne is prompted to take a self defense class with Jackie and Nancy (Sandra Bernhard). Meanwhile, Arnie (Tom Arnold) returns to Lanford to try and get back together with Nancy. Read More

Roseanne: Good Girls, Bad Girls

Synopsis: Against Roseanne's better judgment, Darlene goes to a concert in Rockford, IL, to see Daisy Chainsaw with next-door neighbor Molly Tilden (Danielle Harris), only to get deserted when Molly meets up with a boy. When she comes home way past curfew, Dan and Roseanne don't believe her story. ~ Andrea Read More

Roseanne: Pretty in Black

Synopsis: Roseanne hosts a surprise party for Darlene's 16th birthday. Darlene is disgusted and dyes her hair jet black, then Roseanne lets her leave while the adults enjoy the party. Meanwhile, the Tildens move in next door to the Conners and Roseanne contemplates joining in on a business opportunity with Read More

Frame-Up 2: The Cover-Up

Synopsis: Released in 1993, this direct-to-video melodrama is a followup to Frame-Up (1992), with a handful of the same cast members. Wings Hauser returns as Sheriff Baker, who once again butts up against local corruption. The first "frame" didn't work in the first film, so the bigoted, cigar-chomping town Read More

In Between

Actors: Alexandra Paul, Robert Forster, Wings Hauser

Synopsis: In this fantasy-drama, three people who have never met before find themselves trapped in a strange house, with no idea of where they are or why they're there. In time, they come to the shocking realization that they've died, and they're stuck in limbo between Earth and the next world. In-Between Read More

Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time

Actors: Marc Singer, Kari Wuhrer, Wings Hauser, Sarah Douglas, Charles W. Young, James Avery

Synopsis: The most fascinating thing about Beastmaster 2 is how well the cartoonish sword-and-sorcery characters blend in to contemporary Los Angeles -- it may as well be documentary. Marc Singer plays Dar, a muscle-headed barbarian whose main claim to fame is his ability to communicate with a wide array of Read More

Pale Blood

Actors: George Chakiris, Wings Hauser, Pamela Ludwig, Darcy de Moss, Earl Garnes

Synopsis: In this violent pseudo-erotic horror outing, a serial killer fancies himself a vampire until his wanton ways attract the attention of a real bloodsucker. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Wilding

Bump in the Night

Actors: Meredith Baxter, Richard Bradford, Corey Carrier, Christopher Reeve

Synopsis: Karen Arthur, the Emmy-winning director of Cagney and Lacey, was in the driver's seat for the made-for-TV psychological terror film Bump in the Night. Meredith Baxter-Birney plays a onetime famous reporter who's drunk herself into near-oblivion. Her turbulent life takes a desperate turn when her Read More

Blood Money

Actors: Wings Hauser, Karen Black, Robert Z'Dar, Joe Palese, Elaine Pelino

Synopsis: Wings Hauser stars in this direct-to-video thriller as John Saxon, an L.A. cop who learns that the head of a counterfeiting plot is the same man who rescued him from certain death in Vietnam. Also titled Blood Money. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Mind, Body & Soul

Actors: Ginger Lynn Allen, Jesse Kaye, Wings Hauser

Synopsis: A woman (Ginger Lynn Allen) is invited to a satanic ceremony--complete with human sacrifice--by her boyfriend (Jesse Kaye), and is accused of being a member when police raid the place. Taken under the wing of an attorney (Wings Hauser), the woman tries to bring the cult to justice before they can Read More

Living to Die

Crew: Director

Actors: Wings Hauser, Darcy de Moss, Asher Brauner, Arnold Vosloo, R.J. Walker

Synopsis: Wings Hauser directed and stars in this mystery about a Las Vegas detective who learns that a woman believed dead is actually alive and well and involved in a blackmail plot. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Frame Up

Synopsis: A young mens' hazing turns to murder in this crime drama set in a small town run by a powerful businessman. The victim was beaten to death with a monogrammed baseball bat, and later the head-killer tried to make it seem as if the young man was run down by the car of Frank Govers, a traveling Read More

Deadly Conspiracy

Synopsis: Honest small-town cop Wings Hauser is weighed down by personal problems. This fact must be put on the back burner when crooked businessman John Saxon commits murder. Though the identity of the killer is never in question, Saxon manages to buy everybody off except Hauser. In order to collar the Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Night Fears

Synopsis: Wings Hauser appears as Wallace Evans, a policeman turned professor who use to teach the Manhattan College criminology course now helmed by Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury). In the spirit of friendly rivalry, Evans challenges Jessica to find the person responsible for a series of recent campus Read More

Coldfire

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A team of cops investigate the destructive power of a lethal street drug being promulgated on the streets of Los Angeles. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Art of Dying

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Wings Hauser both stars in and directs The Art of Dying. Hauser plays Jack, a vice cop who tries to unravel the mystery behind a series of murders in which each of the corpses has been found with stage makeup on its face. Turns out that the killer is Roscoe (Gary Werntz), a demented movie-maker Read More

Exiled in America

Synopsis: This political drama takes a look at the underground network that helps South American refugees travel safely to the US. The story centers on a freedom fighter from Central America who uses the underground to get to the US and settle in a small town. His wife lies to a restaurant owner, telling Read More

Wilding, The Children of Violence

Synopsis: This violent crime drama is based on a well-known rape that happened in New York City's Central Park. The story is set in LA and concerns the disgusting practice of "wilding' in which a group of frenzied, affluent suburban youths go on terrifying crime sprees raping, murdering and pillaging anyone Read More

Street Asylum

Synopsis: In this lurid sci-fi actioner a psycho LA police chief has surgeons implant a device into the spines of wounded officers that turns them into lunatic killers who are then assigned to his Scum Quelling Urban Assault Division (SQUAD). After cleaning the streets of slimy crooks, the officers are Read More

Reason to Die

Actors: Wings Hauser

Synopsis: Wings Hauser plays a heroic bounty hunter searching for the serial killer who has been slaying streetwalkers in this slice-n-dicer. To catch him, the hero offers his own girl friend as a decoy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Siege of Firebase Gloria

Actors: Wings Hauser, R. Lee Ermey, Albert Popwell

Synopsis: Based on the true story, this film follows the struggle of a group of brave marines as they attempt to defend Firebase Gloria during the Tet Offensive, even though they are greatly outnumbered. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Carpenter

Actors: Wings Hauser, Lynne Adams, Pierre Lenoir, Barbara Jones

Synopsis: This nutty low-budget thriller initially resembles a kind of suburban Repulsion, with harried, neurotic housewife Alice Lynn Adams returning from a brief stint in a psychiatric hospital after chopping her smug husband's Bill Blass suits into itty bitty pieces. Upon her release, her husband sets Read More

Bedroom Eyes 2

Actors: Wings Hauser, Kathy Shower, Linda Blair, Jane Hamilton, Joseph P. Giardina

Synopsis: This sequel to 1986's Bedroom Eyes is the mixture as before, with Wings Hauser replacing the first film's star Kenneth Gilman. Once again, stockbroker Hauser begins succumbing to his chronic voyeurism. And also once again, his obsession gets him mixed up in a murder. The film's secondary Read More

Marked for Murder

Synopsis: A frame job corners two TV-station employees trying to recover an important video. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

L.A. Bounty

Actors: Sybil Danning, Wings Hauser, Henry Darrow, Lenore Kasdorf, Robert Hanley

Synopsis: In this thriller, a bountiful female ex- cop teams up with a bounty hunter to find the psychotic artist and drug dealer who killed her partner and kidnapped an LA mayoral candidate. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Out of Sight, out of Her Mind

Synopsis: A mother is plagued with mental problems years after she saw her daughter immolated in a terrible fire. The terror in this horror outing begins shortly after she is released from the mental hospital where she has stayed since the accident. Though the doctors say she is better, the woman is plagued Read More

Nightmare at Noon

Actors: Wings Hauser, Bo Hopkins, George Kennedy, Brion James, Kimberly Beck

Synopsis: Exposure to a chemically-contaminated water supply turns scientists into raving lunatics who begin terrorizing a tiny desert burg in this violent actioner. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

No Safe Haven

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Wings Hauser, Robert Tessier, Robert Ahola, Marina Rice, Branscombe Richmond

Synopsis: In this action thriller, a CIA agent heads out for personalized revenge against the South American drug lords who murdered his family. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Dead Man Walking

Actors: Wings Hauser, Brion James, Pamela Ludwig, Sy Richardson, Leland Crooke

Synopsis: This grim sci-fi film presents a dim view of the near future in which humanity has been decimated by a virulent plague. The survivors are rigidly divided into those who are plague-free and those who are dying. The former live in heavily-guarded areas and have most of the wealth and power, while Read More

Tough Guys Don't Dance

Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Isabella Rossellini, Debra Sandlund, Wings Hauser, John Bedford Lloyd

Synopsis: Norman Mailer wrote and directed this demented film noir, which takes place in a Provincetown of perpetual twilight. Most of the tale, based on his best-selling novel, is told in flashback as Dougy Madden (Lawrence Tierney) pays a visit to his son Tim (Ryan O'Neal). Dougy, a tough ex-bartender, is Read More

Hostage

Actors: Wings Hauser, Karen Black, Kevin McCarthy, Nancy Locke, Robert Whitehead

Synopsis: Tim Shaw (Kevin McCarthy) is a retired army officer enjoying the life of a farmer on a ranch in South Africa. When a plane bound for Nairobi is hijacked by Arab terrorists, he calls on military veterans to intervene on behalf of the airborne hostages. Karen Black and Wings Hauser co-star in this Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel

Actors: Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Katt, David Ogden Stiers, Susan Wilder

Synopsis: The last of the four Perry Mason movies telecast in 1987, The Case of the Scandalous Scoundrel rounds up veterans Raymond Burr (as Mason) and Barbara Hale (as Della Street), with comparative newcomers William Katt (as Paul Drake Jr.) and David Ogden Stiers (as the "Hamilton Burger"-style Read More

The Highwayman

Synopsis: In this adventure, an undercover cop must protect an endangered, unemployed Vietnam vet who has become a hitman's target. The story is also titled The Highwayman. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Wind

Actors: Meg Foster, Wings Hauser, David McCallum, Robert Morley, Steve Railsback

Synopsis: One of the few Greek filmmakers to work substantially in international productions, Nico Mastorakis has primarily been responsible for undistinguished genre efforts like Blood Tide, Grandma's House, and this thriller. Meg Foster stars as Sian, an American mystery writer who comes to an imposing Read More

Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling

Actors: Dennis Farina, Wings Hauser, Richard Pryor, Debbie Allen, Art Evans, Fay Hauser, Barbara Williams

Synopsis: Popular African-American comedian Jo Jo Dancer is severely burned while free-basing cocaine. Producer/director/writer Richard Pryor insists that the movie is not autobiographical. While hovering between life and death, Dancer flashes back to his childhood, when he grew up in a brothel. Read More

3:15 - The Moment of Truth

Actors: Adam Baldwin, Deborah Foreman, René Auberjonois, Ed Lauter, Scott McGinnis

Synopsis: Street gang member Jeff (Adam Baldwin) leaves the organization, seeking out a quieter existence. Meanwhile, gang leader Cinco (Danny De La Paz) and his minions have taken over the local high school, dispensing drugs with impunity. When Cinco is arrested, a rumor spreads that he's been sold out by Read More

The Last Precinct

Synopsis: In this pilot film for the short-lived satirical TV series The Last Precinct, a group of misfit police-academy rejects are given one final opportunity to distinguish themselves in the field of law enforcement when they are assigned to the LA's seediest and most woebegone precinct, the 56th. Under Read More

The A-Team: The Big Squeeze

Synopsis: In order to bring loan shark Jack "The Ripper" Lane (Wings Hauser) out in the open, the A-Team opens its own Irish pub, The Naked Lady. Disguised as pub owner Sean O'Shay, Hannibal (George Peppard) is apparently killed on orders from Lane, but it's actually a clever ploy to get inside the head Read More

Command 5

Synopsis: This action movie chronicles the exciting exploits of a crack crime fighting force. They are notorious for their unusual tactics when dealing with criminals. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Long, Hot Summer

Actors: Don Johnson, Jason Robards, Jr., Cybill Shepherd, Ava Gardner, Judith Ivey

Synopsis: The made-for-TV The Long Hot Summer was based on the 1958 theatrical film of the same name-which, in turn, was based on two William Faulkner short stories. Don Johnson plays Ben Quick, a Southern drifter who is under suspicion as a "barn burner." Ben secures a job at the Mississippi mansion of Read More

The A-Team: Blood, Sweat and Cheers

Synopsis: Hannibal (George Peppard) is reunited with his old flame Dana (played by Toni Hudson, real-life wife of A-Team costar Toni Hudson), who is the mother of race-car driver Kid Harmon (Ken Clandt). Naturally, Harmon is in dire need of assistant from Hannibal and the rest of the A-Team; one of his Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Reflections of the Mind

Synopsis: Ann Blyth guest stars as Franchesca Lodge, an old friend of mystery writer Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury). Recently married to a much-younger man named Scott (Stacey Nelkin), Franchesca has been terrorized of late by what seems to be the ghost of her first husband. Since Franchesca has had a Read More

Dark Horse

Synopsis: In this action movie an investigative journalist joins a survivalist camp and finds himself in danger. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

A Soldier's Story

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

Hunter: Dead or Alive

Synopsis: Hunter (Fred Dryer) and McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) butt heads with Jimmy Jo Walker (Wings Hauser), a sadistic bounty hunter who has a bad habit of beating criminals to death before hauling them in. Walker's latest target is a murder suspect which Hunter has been pursuing--and when it becomes Read More

Code of Honor

Actors: Kevin Dobson, Kelly McGillis, Alec Baldwin, Savannah Smith, Wings Hauser

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Code of Honor covers a time span of over a dozen years. Merritt Butrick plays Captain Paul Dennison, whose career-and life-is unfairly snuffed out by fellow officer Joseph Cheever (Kevin Dobson). Fourteen years later, Cheever, now a highly decorated and universally respected major Read More

Her Revenge

Synopsis: A fashion designer vows revenge on the man responsible for ruining her brother's reputation over 14 years ago. (AKA Sweet Revenge) ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Deadly Force

Actors: Wings Hauser, Joyce Ingalls, Paul Shenar, Al Ruscio, Arlen Dean Snyder

Synopsis: After being kicked off the force, Stoney Cooper (Wings Hauser) turns private detective for special cases; one involves tracking down a serial killer noted for carving X's into the forehead of each woman he kills. While Cooper is on the case, he's harassed by an old job partner (Lincoln Kilpatrick) Read More

Ghost Dancing

Actors: Dorothy McGuire, Victoria Racimo

Synopsis: In a rare television appearance, Dorothy McGuire plays a farm widow who has been impoverished by the siphoning of her water supply. A nearby big-city aqueduct has priority over water rights, leaving the rural outskirts virtually dry. Attempting to bring her cause to the forefront, McGuire Read More

Uncommon Valor

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Gene Hackman, Robert Stack, Fred Ward, Reb Brown, Randall "Tex" Cobb

Synopsis: Ted Kotcheff continues his First Blood fervor with Uncommon Valor. Gene Hackman stars as Cal Rhodes, a former Marine Colonel who has been getting the run-around for ten years from the government concerning the disappearance of his son and his buddies - all Marines who enlisted years prior and Read More

Mutant

Actors: Joseph Long, Johnny Popwell, Sr., Stuart Culpepper, Larry Quackenbush, Earl Ramsey, Dale Echols, Lavon Lacey, Pat Moss, Wings Hauser, Bo Hopkins, Lee Montgomery, Jennifer Warren, Jody Medford

Synopsis: A muscular pair of Yankee brothers visit a backwater Georgia town and end up involved with rednecked mutant zombies. The campy horror begins when brother Mike suddenly disappears. Puzzled brother Josh, with the help of Sheriff Will Stewart and schoolmarm Holly begin a desperate search. Read More

Hear No Evil

Synopsis: A drug-running biker gang is the target of a San Francisco police detective who was rendered deaf by the gang. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Vice Squad

Actors: Season Hubley, Gary Swanson, Wings Hauser, Pepe Serna, Beverly Todd

Synopsis: When pimp Ramrod (Wings Hauser) is wanted by the police for murder, an undercover detective, Tom Walsh (Gary Swanson), enlists the aid of prostitute Princess (Season Hubley), a loving mother struggling to support her kid, to help capture the fiend. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide