Vince Edwards

Vince Edwards

Birth : 1928-07-09, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Death : 1996-03-11

History

Vince Edwards (born Vincent Edward Zoine; July 9, 1928 – March 11, 1996) was an American actor, director, and singer. He was best known for his TV role as doctor Ben Casey and as Major Cliff Bricker in the 1968 war film The Devil's Brigade.

Profile

Vince Edwards

Movies

And the Oscar Goes To...
Self (archive footage)
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.
The Fear
Uncle Pete
A weekend of 'fear therapy' turns into a nightmare of terror when a mannequin comes to life. Only those with the courage to confront their demons will survive.
Jailbreakers
Mr. Frank Norton
A 1950s high school cheerleader meets a leather clad rebel biker and goes out on the town with him. When he steals an item of jewellery he gets thrown in prison but not for long. He makes a desperate escape and he is determined to catch up with his lost love and re-new their criminal activities.
Original Intent
Theodore Daniels
Matthew Cameron (Jay Richardson) is a lawyer undergoing a midlife crisis despite having a seemingly perfect life with his wife, advertising executive Jessica (Candy Clark), and his young son. When he champions a homeless shelter facing eviction, his problems only deepen. Matthew faces pressure from Jessica, whose agency is representing the corporate honcho pushing the eviction, and Matthew is forced to question his values and loyalties.
Motorama
Doctor
A ten year old boy gets tired of life with abusive parents and cashes in his piggy bank and steals a Mustang. He rides off into a surreal America playing "Motorama," a game sponsored by Chimera Gas Company. He has various encounters with different people, and eventually reaches the Chimera Gas Company where he finds they are not playing by the rules of the game.
Dillinger
J Edgar Hoover
Crime drama based on the real-life story of US gangster John Dillinger, who was hunted by the FBI after a string of armed bank robberies during the Great Depression. When Dillinger's attacks on banks threaten to make him a dangerous folk hero, the pressure mounts on the FBI - even from the White House - for his capture
The Gumshoe Kid
Ben Sherman
A young man has to take over the ruined detective agency of his father and his uncle. There are two major difficulties to manage: His uncle and his new job.
The Saint: Wrong Number
General Daniel T. Donovan
Soon after checking into his usual suite at a luxury hotel in West Berlin, Simon answers a phone call not meant for him. His curiosity piqued, he investigates and finds a dead man in another room.
Cellar Dweller
Norman Meshelski
In the 1950s, a horror-comic artist's creations come alive and kill him. Years later a new cartoonist revives the creatures in his house, now part of an artist's colony.
The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission
Sgt. Holt
Learning of a Nazi plot to attack Washington, D.C. with a deadly nerve gas, Major Wright leads twelve convicts on a suicide mission deep into occupied France to destroy the secret factory where the poison is made.
Return to Horror High
Richard Birnbaum
A few years ago, a mysterious serial-killer caused panic on Crippen High School. The killer was never caught. A movie company, Cosmic Pictures, has decided to make a feature movie about these events - on location, at the now abandoned school. Since members of cast and crew disappear without a trace, it seems as if history is repeating itself...
Sno-Line
Steve King
A New York City district attorney secretly runs a cocaine-smuggling ring in Texas. When the mob tries to move in on his operation, he goes down there to try to stop them.
The Fix
Members of a touring Southern band are unknowingly involved in the nefarious plans of drug czar Frank Lane. When federal agents show up on the scene, chaos, confusion, and high-speed car chases ensue.
Deal of the Century
Frank Stryker
Arms dealers from several companies vie to sell the most expensive and highest tech weapons to a South American dictator. There are complications; understanding the exact nature of how 'gifts' are used to grease the wheels of a sale, a religious conversion from one of the salesman and a romance that begins to grow between two competitors.
Space Raiders
Hawk
A futuristic, sensitive tale of adventure and confrontation when a 10 year old boy is accidentally kidnapped by a spaceship filled with a motley crew of space pirates.
Knight Rider: Knight of the Phoenix
Fred Wilson
Feature length pilot for the TV Series Knight Rider
The Seduction
Maxwell
A beautiful newscaster is stalked and tormented by a photographer obsessed with her beauty.
Mission Galactica: The Cylon Attack
Director
Running low on fuel, the Battlestar Galactica receives the help of the supposedly lost Battlestar Pegasus which is taking the offensive with the Cylons.
Evening in Byzantium
Bret Easton
While the prestigious Cannes Film Festival goes on around him, American movie producer Jesse Craig struggles to develop a pitch-worthy thriller about a terrorist plot. Before long, Craig becomes concerned that a shocking act of real-life terrorism already may be underway. Meanwhile, radical actor Bret Easton works in cahoots with a group of extremists to coordinate the hijacking of a trio of passenger planes in a devastating, multi-city nuclear attack.
The Courage and the Passion
Executive Producer
The lives and loves of a group of U.S. Air Force test pilots on a sprawling airbase called "Joshua Tree."
The Courage and the Passion
Col. Joe Agajanian
The lives and loves of a group of U.S. Air Force test pilots on a sprawling airbase called "Joshua Tree."
Cover Girls
Bradner
Two beautiful fashion models work undercover as secret agents.
Death Stalk
Jack Trahey
The whitewater raft trip of two couples is interrupted by a visit from four prison escapees who take the women hostage to aid in their escape. The husbands break free from their bonds and raft down the river in hopes of rescuing their wives.
The Lion Roars Again
Himself
A chronicle of the 1975 International Press Conclave hosted by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer over two days in May 1975.
Maneater
Writer
Two couples on a camping trip are hunted by two tigers set upon them by a crazed animal trainer.
Maneater
Director
Two couples on a camping trip are hunted by two tigers set upon them by a crazed animal trainer.
Saga of Sonora
Sheriff Sam
A musical TV special with Vince Edwards as a hero who must stop gold-greedy villains, Jill St. John and Zero Mostel, and prove his love to his girl, Lesley Ann Warren.
The Mad Bomber
Geronimo Minneli
Los Angeles detectives Minelli and Blake must track down a serial rapist who may know the identity of a mentally disturbed bomber.
Firehouse
Spike Ryerson
Conflict erupts within a close-knit engine company of a big-city fire department when a black recruit and a bigoted white veteran clash during a wave of suspected arson in the ghetto. Pilot to the short-lived series that began a run in January 1974.
Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
Mal Weston
Four elderly ladies with a lot of time on their hands get the idea to create a fictional "girl" for a computer dating service. However, things take a turn for the worse when their description of the "girl" attracts a psychopath.
Dial Hot Line
David Leopold
The head of a psychiatric telephone hotline inspires his associates to get out of the office and into the streets to help people with psychiatric problems.
Sole Survivor
Maj. Michael Devlin
In 1960, the ruins of an American bomber were found in the Libyan desert, but the remains of the crew were never located. In Guerdon Trueblood's teleplay, the ghosts of a bomber crew hang around their derelict plane, awaiting the day that their bones will be recovered and given a decent burial. The sole survivor, navigator Russell Hamner, has in the intervening 25 years become a General. He joins an investigation team that has come across the wreckage, while the ghosts, headed by Major Devlin, plot to expose Hamner as a coward who deserted his post and left his crew mates to die.
The Desperados
David Galt
A Confederate and his sons become postwar marauders and face another son who left them, in Texas.
The Dean Martin Christmas Show
Self (uncredited)
A Classic Holiday Celebration with Dean and Friends.
Hammerhead
Charles Hood
An American agent has tracked down the stronghold of an evil criminal mastermind, determined to take over the world (what, another one ?).
The Devil's Brigade
Major Cliff Bricker
At the onset of World War II, American Lt. Col. Robert Frederick is put in charge of a unit called the 1st Special Service Force, composed of elite Canadian commandos and undisciplined American soldiers. With Maj. Alan Crown leading the Canadians and Maj. Cliff Bricker the acting head of the American contingent, there is initial tension -- but the team comes together when given a daunting mission that few would dare to attempt.
The Victors
Baker
Intercutting dramatic vignettes with newsreel footage, the story follows the characters from an infantry squad as they make their way from Sicily to Germany during the end of World War II.
The Outsider
George (uncredited)
Ira Hayes, a young Pima Indian, enlists in the Marine Corps. At boot camp, he is shunned and mocked by everyone, aside from a Marine named Sorenson, who he befriends. They happen to be two of the six marines captured in the famous photograph of Marines raising the U.S. flag on Suribachi during the battle of Iwo Jima, but Sorenson is killed soon after. Although he is hailed as a hero, Ira's life begins to spiral out of control after the war.
Too Late Blues
Tommy Sheehan
Ghost is an ideological musician and leader of a jazz band who would rather play his blues in the park to the birds than compromise himself. His peripatetic performances lead him to cross paths with a singer, while his masculinity is thrown into question following a violent brawl.
The Scavengers
Stuart Allison
This low-budget Asian-set adventure concerns a reformed smuggler (Vince Edwards of TV's Ben Casey) who finds his missing wife (Carol Ohmart) in Hong Kong.
City of Fear
Vince Ryker
An escaped convict gets a hold of some radioactive material after his escape. Authorities desperately try to find the man that unknowingly is threating the lives of everyone in the city.
Murder by Contract
Claude
Claude is a ruthless and efficient contract killer. His next target, a woman, is the most difficult.
Island Women
Mike
Mike is an American charter boat captain involved in a romance with tourist Jan but Jan's aunt, Elizabeth also has the hots for Mike and tries to break up the romance. She hides her bracelet in a straw bag belonging to Mike's mate, Eban, and then claims it was stolen. She then agrees to drop the theft charges if Mike will ditch Jan and go off with her.
The Three Faces of Eve
Army Sergeant (uncredited)
A doctor treats a woman suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder.
Ride Out for Revenge
Little Wolf
When an Indian chief is murdered in a hateful town, a sympathizing ex marshal tries to stop the Indians from attacking for revenge.
The Hired Gun
Kell Beldon
A rich Texan hires a gunman (Rory Calhoun) to bring an escaped woman (Anne Francis) back to hang.
Hit and Run
Frank
A garage owner marries a much younger woman. Trouble begins when he becomes friends with a man who has his eyes on his former-showgirl wife.
The Killing
Val Cannon
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.
Serenade
Marco Roselli
A wealthy woman discovers a vineyard worker with a beautiful operatic singing voice. She helps make him a star but then breaks his heart. He flees in misery to Mexico where he meets a sweet farm girl.
The Night Holds Terror
Victor Gosset
A group of escaped convicts holds a household prisoner as the police close in.
Cell 2455 Death Row
Hamilton
A Death Row inmate uses his prison law studies to fight for his life. Based on a true story.
Rogue Cop
Joey Langley
A police detective on the take tries to catch his brother's killer.
Hiawatha
Hiawatha (as Vincent Edwards)
A young Indian brave attempts to bring peace to two warring tribes.
Sailor Beware
Blayden
Meeting in a navy recruiting line, Al Crowthers and Melvin Jones become friends. Al has tried to enlist before, but was always rejected. He keeps trying so that he can impress women. Melvin, is allergic to women's cosmetics and his doctor prescribed ocean travel, so he decided to join the navy.
Mister Universe
Tommy Tomkins
A gullible and honest "Mr. Universe" winner, Tommy Tomkins, gets added to the stable of a con-man and a wrestling prompter.
Dark Passage
Cop at Tollbooth (uncredited)
A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.