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RECENT CREDITS

The Desilu Story: The Rags to Riche... (TV) Aug. 24, 2003

Out of the Ashes (TV) Apr. 13, 2003

Judging Amy (TV) Nov. 26, 2002

The Day Reagan Was Shot (TV) Dec. 9, 2001

I Love Lucy -- 50th Anniversary Spe... (TV) Nov. 11, 2001

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HIGHLIGHTS

2001 Cast as Ronald Reagan in the Showtime drama "The Day Reagan Was Shot"

2001 Played a gruff cowboy grandfather in Showtime's "By Dawn's Early Light"

2000 Had recurring role as Tyne Daly's love interest on the CBS drama "Judging Amy"

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The Desilu Story: The Rags to Riches Success of the Desilu Empire 2003 -Interviewee

Actor

Out of the Ashes 2003 -Jake Smith

Actor

The Day Reagan Was Shot 2001 -Ronald Reagan

Actor

I Love Lucy -- 50th Anniversary Special 2001

Actor

History Vs. Hollywood 2001 -Interviewee

Actor

National Memorial Day Concert (2001) 2001

Actor

By Dawn's Early Light 2001 -Ben Maxwell

Actor

American Veteran Awards 2001 -Award Recipient

Actor

Commander-in-Chief 2000

Voice

Murder, She Wrote: A Story to Die For 2000 -Warren Pierce

Actor

Judging Amy 2000-2002 -Jared Duff

Actor

Boys to Men (2002) -Jared Duff

Actor

TV Episode

Damage Control (2002) -Jared Duff

Actor

TV Episode

Lost in the System (2002) -Jared Duff

Actor

TV Episode

Come Back Soon (2002) -Jared Duff

Actor

TV Episode

Blast from the Past (2000) -Jared Duff

Actor

TV Episode

The God Thing (2000) -Jared Duff

Actor

TV Episode

National Memorial Day Concert (1999) 1999

Actor

The Seedy Side of Plants 1999 -Narration

Narrator

To Serve and Protect 1999 -Howard

Actor

Legendary Lighthouses 1998 -Narration

Narrator

Steve McQueen: The E! True Hollywood Story 1998 -Interviewee

Actor

Wrongfully Accused 1998 -Marshal Fergus Falls

Actor

Film

Heart Full of Rain 1997 -Arliss Dockett

Actor

Cold Case 1997 -Host

Actor

Deep Family Secrets 1997 -Clay Chadway

Actor

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 1997 -Professor Aronnax

Actor

Las Vegas 1996 -Narration

Narrator

Race Against Time: The Search For Sarah 1996 -John Porter

Actor

Atlantis: In Search of a Lost Continent 1996 -Host

Actor

Sabrina 1995 -Patrick Tyson

Actor

Film

Jade 1995 -Governor Lew Edwards

Actor

Film

In the Name of Love: A Texas Tragedy 1995 -Lucas Constable Sr

Actor

Driving Passion 1995 -Narration

Narrator

A Silent Betrayal 1994 -Lieutenant Frank Janek

Actor

The Bermuda Triangle: Secrets Revealed 1994 -Host

Actor

Chasing India's Monsoon 1994 -Narration

Narrator

Jonathan Stone: Threat of Innocence 1994 -Jonathan Stone

Actor

The Forget-Me-Not Murders 1994 -Lieutenant Frank Janek

Actor

Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux -- A Filmmaker's Apology 1993

Actor

A Place to Be Loved 1993 -George Russ

Actor

Hot Shots! Part Deux 1993 -Colonel Denton Walters

Actor

Film

Terror on Track 9 1992 -Lieutenant Frank Janek

Actor

Intruders 1992 -Dr Neil Chance

Actor

Pros & Cons 1991 -Mitch O'Hannon

Actor

Citizen Carter 1991 -Host

Actor

And the Sea Will Tell 1991 -Vincent Bugliosi

Actor

Beautiful Killers 1991 -Narration

Narrator

Fifteenth Annual Circus of the Stars 1990 -Ringmaster

Actor

Murder Times Seven 1990 -Lieutenant Frank Janek

Actor

The Keepers of Eden 1990 -Narration

Narrator

Last Flight Out 1990 -Dan Hood

Actor

Montana 1990 -Hoyce Guthrie

Actor

The 47th Annual Golden Globe Awards 1990

Actor

Murder in Black & White 1990 -Lieutenant Frank Janek

Actor

Stuck With Each Other 1989 -Bert Medwick

Actor

Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition 1989 -Narration

Narrator

The Case of the Hillside Stranglers 1989 -Detective Bob Grogan

Actor

Leviathan 1989 -Doc

Actor

Film

Internal Affairs 1988 -Lieutenant Detective Frank Janek

Actor

Rambo III 1988 -Trautman

Actor

Film

Plaza Suite 1987 -Roy Hubley

Actor

Kids Like These 1987 -Bob Goodman

Actor

Wood Stork: Barometer of the Everglades 1987 -Host, Narration

Actor, Narrator

Police Story: The Freeway Killings 1987 -Deputy Chief Robert Devers

Actor

The High Price of Passion 1986 -Williams Douglas

Actor

On Wings of Eagles 1986 -H Ross Perot

Actor

A Case of Deadly Force 1986 -Lawrence O'Donnell Sr

Actor

The 12th Annual People's Choice Awards 1986

Actor

Doubletake 1985 -Frank Janek

Actor

Summer Rental 1985 -Al Pellet

Actor

Film

The Rape of Richard Beck 1985 -Richard Beck

Actor

Rambo: First Blood Part II 1985 -Trautman

Actor

Film

The Flamingo Kid 1984 -Phil Brody

Actor

Film

Passions 1984 -Richard Kennerly

Actor

London and Davis in New York 1984 -John Greyson Davis

Actor

Allison Sidney Harrison 1983

Director

Table for Five 1983 -Mitchell

Actor

Film

First Blood 1982 -Colonel Trautman

Actor

Film

It Takes Two 1982 -Dr Sam Quinn

Actor

The Day the Bubble Burst 1982 -Jesse Livermore

Actor

The Ordeal of Bill Carney 1981 -Mason Rose

Actor

Daniel Boone 1981 -of Daniel Boone

Voice

The Hoyt Axton Show 1981

Director

Musical Comedy Tonight 1981

Actor

Body Heat 1981 -Edmund Walker

Actor

Film

Fugitive Family 1980 -Brian Roberts

Actor

Joshua's World 1980 -Dr Joshua Torrance

Actor

Death Ship 1980 -Captain Trevor Marshall

Actor

Film

Mayflower: The Pilgrim's Adventure 1979 -William Brewster

Actor

Better Late Than Never 1979

Director

Turnabout 1979

Director

Wild Horse Hank 1979 -Bradford, Pace

Actor

Film

Stone Cold Dead 1979 -Sergeant Boyd

Actor

Film

A Fire in the Sky 1978 -Jason Voight

Actor

First You Cry 1978 -David Towers

Actor

Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell 1978 -Mike Barry

Actor

Centennial 1978 -Colonel Frank Skimmerhorn

Actor

Grandpa Goes to Washington 1978

Director

CBS: On the Air 1978 -Co-host

Actor

Rosetti and Ryan 1977

Director

Lou Grant 1977

Director

The War Between the Tates 1977 -Brian Tate

Actor

All's Fair 1976 -Richard Barrington

Actor

The Cheerleaders 1976

Director

A Girl Named Sooner 1975 -R J "Mac" McHenry

Actor

Honky Tonk 1974 -Candy Johnson

Actor

Shootout in a One-Dog Town 1974 -Zack Wells

Actor

Nightmare 1974 -Howard Faloon

Actor

Double Indemnity 1973 -Walter Neff

Actor

The Lily Tomlin Show 1973

Actor

Jonathan Livingston Seagull 1973 -of Parent

Voice

Film

Footsteps 1972 -Paddy O'Connor

Actor

Thief 1971 -Neal Wilkinson

Actor

Red Sky at Morning 1971 -Frank Arnold

Actor

Film

Doctors' Wives 1971 -Pete Brennan

Actor

Film

Marooned 1969 -Jim Pruett

Actor

Film

Make Room For Granddaddy 1969

Producer

A Run on Gold 1969 -Mike Warden

Actor

Film

Star! 1968 -Richard Aldrich

Actor

Film

Wait Until Dark 1967 -Mike Talman

Actor

Film

The Sand Pebbles 1966 -Collins

Actor

Film

No Time For Sergeants 1964

Director

Wendy and Me 1964

Director

The Andy Griffith Show 1960

Director

The Real McCoys 1957 -Luke McCoy; Amos's grandson

Director, Actor

Medic 1954 -Performer

Actor

Our Miss Brooks 1952 -Walter Denton; problem student

Actor

Marie

Director

Look at Us -Host

Actor

Chicago Hope -Dr Martin Rockwell

Actor

The Wild West -of Bat Masterson

Voice

Breakheart Pass -Richard Fairchild

Actor

Film

Catlow -Cowan

Actor

Film

50 Years of Action! -Narration

Narrator

Film

Un Flic -Simon

Actor

Film

The Man Called Noon -Noon

Actor

Film

The Evil -C J

Actor

Film

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home -John Goldfarb

Actor

Film

Hard Ride to Rantan

Actor

Film

Our Miss Brooks -Walter Denton

Actor

Film

La Spina Dorsale del Diavola -Major Brown

Actor

Film

Made in Paris -Herb Stone

Actor

Film

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Highlights

2001 Cast as Ronald Reagan in the Showtime drama "The Day Reagan Was Shot"

2001 Played a gruff cowboy grandfather in Showtime's "By Dawn's Early Light"

2000 Had recurring role as Tyne Daly's love interest on the CBS drama "Judging Amy"

1998 Played the pursuing federal marshall in "Wrongfully Accused," a "Fugitive" parody starring Leslie Neilsen

1997 Underwent thyroid surgery

1997 Starred in the CBS telepic "Heart Full of Rain"

1997 Starred in the CBS TV drama "Deep Family Secrets"

1997 Played Professor Aronnax in CBS's TV adaptation of "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"

1996 Starred in CBS's telepic "Race Against Time: The Search for Sarah" opposite Patty Duke"

1995 Appeared in director Sydney Pollack's remake of "Sabrina"

1995 Appeared in the thriller "Jade"

1993 Parodied his "Rambo" role Col. Trautman in "Hot Shots! Part Deux" opposite Charlie Sheen

1989 Appeared in the horror thriller "Leviathan"

1989 Starred as Det. Bob Grogan in NBC's detective drama "The Case of the Hillside Strangler"

1988 Last outing as Trautman for "Rambo III"

1988 Began lucrative side career as a host and narrator for television specials, including "Mort Sahl: The Loyal Opposition" (1989), "Circus of the Stars" (1990), "The Bermuda Triangle" (1994), A&E's "Las

1987 Appeared in ABC's TV adaptation of Neil Simon's "Plaza Suite" opposite Carol Burnett

1986 Played H. Ross Perot in NBC's mini-series adaptation of Ken Follet's best-seller "On Wings of Eagles," documenting Perot's funding of a mission to rescue two of his employees trapped in Iran in 1979

1986 Narrated the feature documentary, "50 Years of Action!", Made to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Directors Guild of America

1985 Reprised Trautman for "Rambo: First Blood Part II"

1985 Appeared with John Candy in the comedy "Summer Rental"

1985 Portrayed a sexually assaulted police officer in the ABC telepic "The Rape of Richard Beck"; later earned an Emmy as best actor in a TV movie

1984 Had an acclaimed turn as the slick gin rummy country club champ Phil Brody opposite Matt Dillon in "The Flamingo Kid"

1983 Co-starred with Jon Voight in the drama "Table for Five"

1982 Co-starred opposite Sylvester Stallone's Rambo character as Col. Trautman in "First Blood"

1981 Provided the voice of the title character for the animated children's adventure special, "Daniel Boone"

1981 Appeared as Kathleen Turner's doomed husband in writer-director LAwrence Kasdan's "Body Heat"

1979 Appeared in the she-Western "Wild Horse Hank"

1979 Starred in the action film "Stone Cold Dead"

1979 Appeared in the thriller "Death Ship"

1979 TV movie directing debut, "Better Late Than Never"

1978 Headlined NBC's meteor disaster thriller "A Fire in the Sky"

1977 Starred the the supernatural horror film "The Evil"

1975 Appeared with Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland in the Western "Breakheart Pass"

1973 Played the Fred MacMurray role in ABC telepic remake of "Double Indemnity"

1973 Starred in the Western "A Man Called Noon"

1973 Provided a voice for the film adapatation of Richard Bach's popular novel "Jonathan Livingston Seagull"

1971 Appeared with Yul Brenner and Leonard Nimoy in the Louis L'Amour Western "Catlow"

1970 Starred in the medical drama "Doctors' Wives" opposite Dyan Cannon, Gene Hackman and Carroll O'Connor

1969 Starred in the crime caper comedy "A Run on Gold"

1969 Starred as part of the team of stranded astronauts in the space adventure "Marooned"

1968 Starred opposite Julie Andrews in the musical biopic "Star!"

1967 Co-starred in the romantic comedy "Made in Paris"

1967 Appeared as a burglar terrorizing blind Audrey Hepburn in the thriller "Wait Until Dark"

1966 Appeared opposite Steve McQueen in "The Sand Pebbles"

1966 Founded Pendick Enterprises

1964 Played the title role in his first feature film in eight years, "John Goldfarb, Please Come Home", co-starring Shirley Maclaine

1952 Screen acting debut, "Pride of St. Louis"

1952 - 1956 TV series acting debut, as problem student Walter Denton on "Our Miss Brooks" (he later played in the 1956 film based on the series)

Began career as a guest actor and sometime regular on such radio series as "Boy Scout Jamboree" (at age 10), "A Date With Judy", "Burns and Allen", "The Hardy Family", "The Great Gildersleeve", "Our M

Starred as Luke McCoy on the popular sitcom, "The Real McCoys"

Began directing TV with the fifth and sixth seasons of "The Real McCoys"

Played idealistic state representative James Slattery on the CBS drama series, "Slattery's People"

Directed episodes of the TV sitcoms, "Wendy and Me" (1964-65), "No Time for Sergeants" (1964-65) and "The Andy Griffith Show", as well as the comedy pilot, "Cap'n Ahab" (1965) in the mid-1960s

Directed episodes of "The Andy Griffith Show," "No Time for Sergeants" and "Wendy and Me"

Debuted as a producer on the sitcom, "Make Room for Granddaddy", starring Danny Thomas in a reprise of the role he played on "Make Room for Daddy" (1953-57) and "The Danny Thomas Show" (1957-64)

Directed such TV pilots as "The Cheerleaders" (1976), "Marie" (1979), "The Hoyt Axton Show" (1981), and "Allison Sidney Harrison" (1983), and episodes of such series as "Grandpa Goes to Washington", "

Co-starred as Richard Barrington opposite Bernadette Peters on the CBS sitcom, "All's Fair"

Hosted the syndicated news magazine show, "Look at Us"

Starred opposite Patty Duke as Dr. Sam Quinn on the ABC sitcom, "It Takes Two"

Played tough police detective Lt. Frank Janek in a series of TV-movies and miniseries: "Doubletake" (1985), "Internal Affairs" (1988), "Murder in Black and White" (1990), "Murder Times Seven" (1990),

Co-starred opposite James Earl Jones on the short-lived detective comedy spinoff from "Gabriel's Fire", "Pros and Cons"