Charles W. Fries

Nacimiento : 1953-09-15,

Historia

Charles W. Fries is an American film and television producer. He formed Charles Fries Productions in 1974.

Películas

La iniciación de Sarah
Executive Producer
Una estudiante de universidad utiliza sus poderes sobrenaturales contra las chicas de la hermandad rival.
Asesinos cibernéticos
Executive Producer
Thriller futurista ambientado en el año 2078. En un lejano planeta minero devastado por una década de guerras, un grupo de militares pretende aniquilar a unos androides que solamente se distinguen de los humanos por sus particulares chillidos
Woman on the Ledge
Executive Producer
Three longtime friends each struggle with a major life crisis threatening to destroy her.
Misión Tiburón
Executive Producer
Película basada en hechos reales que recuerda la trágica historia del crucero USS Indianápolis, que fue alcanzado por dos torpedos japoneses en julio de 1945. Después de los impactos, una parte importante de la tripulación consiguió sobrevivir durante cinco días sin comida ni bebida en un océano infestado de tiburones. Finalmente más de 800 hombres murieron. El Consejo de Guerra posterior encontró al Capitán Charles McVay III, que además sobrevivió, culpable de la tragedia al no tomar las medidas de precaución básicas.
Acero y seda
Executive Producer
Daniel Emerson es absuelto de la acusación de violación a una prometedora pianista de música clásica, Gaily Morton, gracias a los testimonios de sus amigos. El hermano de la joven, Albert, un prominente científico intenta ayudarla durante el juicio y no se separa ni un momento de ella. Pero el día del veredicto, justo al finalizar el juicio, Gaily se suicida tirándose desde la azotea de un edificio bajo la aterrada mirada de Albert. Cinco años después, Albert ha concluido su trabajo con Gaily. Ha convertido su cuerpo en un cyborg con extraordinarias habilidades, una máquina de matar cuya principal ambición es vengarse de los hombres que la violaron.
Peacemaker
Executive Producer
Two aliens arrive on Earth trying to kill each other. This is not easy, since they seem to be able to regenerate lost body parts and survive bullet wounds. Both of them happen to meet a young pathologist Dori Caisson, and each alien tells her that he is a peacemaker (an intergalactic cop) and that the other one is a bad guy. Whom can she trust?
Pacto en la Sombra
Executive Producer
Eric, es un pobre hombre arruinado por el centro comercial que se levanta sobre su antigua casa, incendiada años atras con el en su interior. Una vez construido el centro comercial, este se vera involucrado en una serie de estraños casos.
Pequeños Sacrificios
Executive Producer
Basada en el Best Seller de Anne Rule no cuenta la historia real de Diane Downs y sus hijos.
The Neon Empire
Executive Producer
New York mobster Junior Moloff begins plans to transform Las Vegas into a mecca of prostitution and gambling.
The Case of the Hillside Stranglers
Executive Producer
The chilling true story of the "two of a kind" killing cousins, Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, better known as the Hillside Stranglers.
La tropa de Beverly Hills
Executive Producer
Phyllis Nefler (Shelley Long), una rica ama de casa de Beverly Hills a punto de divorciarse, decide demostrar a su escéptico marido que no es la mujer frívola, caprichosa y vacía que parece. Phyllis aceptará liderar el grupo scout de su hija, sorprendiendo a su marido, amigos y conocidos con una faceta emprendedora que, hasta el momento, mantenía oculta. Dirigir el grupo de las niñas no va a ser una tarea sencilla, si además se tiene en cuenta que los planes de Phyllis van mucho más allá de lo normal. El objetivo: ser una mujer totalmente nueva...
Asalto final a Firebase Gloria
Executive Producer
Varios soldados que forman un grupo de combatientes en Vietnam alcanzan a través de una ruta infernal, un puesto americano en territorio enemigo con el nombre de Firebase Gloria. Su situación, rodeada de enemigos, no es nada favorable, ya que un regimiento del Vietcong espera el ataque final. (FILMAFFINITY)
Obesión Asesina
Executive Producer
Tras la muerte de su joven esposa Claudine en un accidente de tráfico, la vida del profesor Morris Martin se convierte en un infierno. Incapaz de aceptar su pérdida, perseguido por los recuerdos y por extrañas teorías conspirativas, el profesor Martin comienza una indiscriminada serie de crímenes. Tom Stewart, un ambicioso reportero de investigación que sigue los casos, no tarda en entrar de lleno en el obsesivo mundo del asesino. Sin embargo, lo peor aún está por llegar. (FILMAFFINITY)
Double Standard
Executive Producer
The true story of a judge who lives a double life, and stays married to two women for more than 15 years.
Drop-Out Mother
Executive Producer
A successful female executive makes the transition from big business to becoming housewife and mom.
Flores en el ático
Executive Producer
Bajo la perversa influencia de su abuela, tres muchachos malviven aislados en una de las habitaciones de una decrépita mansión. Basada en un obra de Virginia C. Andrews.
Deep Dark Secrets
Executive Producer
A woman finds hidden truths when her husband disappears and is presumed dead.
Fight for Life
Executive Producer
Jerry Lewis interpreta a un optometrista de Ohio que tiene una hija de seis años con epilepsia. Él lucha para que la FDA apruebe un medicamento (en ese momento solo disponible en Inglaterra) para su uso en los EE. UU.
Los cazadores del tiempo
Executive Producer
Dos viajeros del tiempo que vienen del año 2586 aparecen en la vida de Scott, un profesor de historia que investiga una vieja fotografía. Uno de los viajeros en el tiempo está decidido a cambiar el curso de la historia, mientras que el otro trata de detenerlo. La fascinación de Scott por el Viejo Oeste es muy útil cuando todos vuelven a 1886.
Thrashin': Patinar o morir
Executive Producer
Josh Brolin es Corey Webster, un chaval que aprovecha el verano para acercarse hasta la gran urbe de Los Ángeles para labrarse una carrera como patinador profesional. Allí conocerá a Chrissy, la hermana de otro skater (jefe de una banda rival, los temibles Daggers).
Fuera de limites
Producer
Los padres de Daryl Cage se están separando, así que éste deja su granja en Iowa para vivir una temporada con su hermano mayor que reside en Los Angeles, en cuyo aeropuerto ambos recogen la maleta equivocada que meten en su furgoneta, sin saber que contiene un alijo de heroína. Los receptores de la droga caen pronto en la cuenta de la equivocación e inician bajo las órdenes de su jefe Roy Gaddis la búsqueda del vehículo y sus ocupantes para recuperarla cuanto antes. Daryl no esperaba que su aventura en la gran ciudad le ofrecería la oportunidad de ser perseguido por traficantes de estupefacientes y por la misma policía que le acusará de asesinatos que nunca ha cometido.
Toughlove
Executive Producer
The Charters family falls into despair over their drug-addicted son Gary. They discuss his problems through the "Toughlove" program in searching for answers.
La afilada sombra de la duda
Executive Producer
Una mujer se ve dramáticamente afectada por los celos.
Through Naked Eyes
Executive Producer
A musician living in an apartment building likes to check out the residents of the building opposite him--until he finds out one day that an attractive woman in that building is checking him out. He strikes up a relationship with her. Soon afterwards a string of serial killings occurs in the neighborhood, and suspicion begins to fall on the musician.
Carpool
Executive Producer
Four strangers are thrown together in a carpool when a bag of money, almost a million dollars, falls from a Brinks truck into their path. Because of circumstances, they are unable to turn in the money, and they struggle over what to do. They are pursued by thieves, the mob, and the police.
Dempsey
Executive Producer
Nominated for two primetime Emmy Awards in 1984, this made-for-TV movie follows the true story of American boxer Jack Dempsey, who became a media sensation in the 1920s as the world heavyweight champion. Based upon the book by Jack Dempsey and Barbara Piatelli Dempsey.
Cocaine: One Man's Seduction
Executive Producer
A 47 year old real estate salesman gets trapped in the insidious web of cocaine addiction.
El beso de la pantera
Producer
Kinski interpreta a una mujer de la raza humana felina, que se convierte en pantera en determinadas situaciones. Un día dedice ir a Nueva Orleans a visitar a su hermano, y allí un hombre del zoo se queda fascinado con ella... Remake del conocido film de Jacques Tourneur.
The Ambush Murders
Executive Producer
An African-American political activist is wrongfully imprisoned for killing two white policemen; he is unwary of yet another white lawyer who claims that he will help free him.
Twirl
Executive Producer
Best friends compete for the title of "Miss Twirl" (similar to a Miss America contest with the primary category of competition being (what else?) twirling!). The real test, however, is whether their friendship will survive through the contest with the pressure and interference from their parents to win.
Spider-Man: El desafío del Dragón
Executive Producer
Min Lo Chan, Ministro de Desarrollo Industrial de la República Popular China, ha sido acusado falsamente de vender secretos militares a los Estados Unidos durante la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Decide entonces ir a Nueva York con el fin de reunir pruebas que le ayuden a recuperar su buen nombre. Le pide ayuda a su viejo amigo, el periodista J. Jonah Jameson, para encontrar a tres marines americanos que pueden probar su inocencia. Mientras tanto, en Hong Kong, un acaudalado industrial trabaja en un proyecto muy ambicioso relacionado con el acero, cuyo éxito depende de la eliminación de Min.
Bitter Harvest
Executive Producer
A farmer's herd sickens and dies, then his family and neighbors fall ill, so he bucks the state agricultural establishment as he pursues the politically-explosive investigation of how his farm, family, and friends came to be poisoned.
Leave 'Em Laughing
Executive Producer
Real-life clown Jack Thum, along with his devoted wife, Shirlee, cared for dozens of homeless children — 37 of them over the years — in the Chicago area, all of whom come back to visit when they discover he's terminally ill.
Solo ante el peligro, Parte II: El regreso de Will Kane
Executive Producer
Will Kane regresa a la ciudad de Hadleyville, un año después de los acontecimientos de Solo ante el peligro , y encuentra que la ciudad está ahora en las manos de un comisario corrupto y sus dos ayudantes. (FILMAFFINITY)
A Cry for Love
Executive Producer
Divorcee Susan Blakely, with no alimony and two kids to support, begins turning to amphetamines. While at her lowest ebb, she meets an alcoholic and three-time loser in marriage -- who, incredibly, turns out to be the ideal man!
The Children of An Lac
Executive Producer
Based on the true story of film actress Ina Balin and her efforts with American Red Cross volunteer Betty Tisdale, as well as a compassionate Vietnamese woman running a Saigon orphanage, to rescue as many children as possible and fly them out of the country before South Vietnam's fall in the spring of 1975 through the An Lac baby-lift.
For the Love of It
Executive Producer
An entrepreneur discovers a Russian plan for taking over the Middle East. He wants to use it to create a new video game but the KGB, the CIA and the FBI have different ideas.
Rage!
Executive Producer
In an attempt to be rehabilitated, a rapist goes to therapy while in prison.
The Two Worlds of Jennie Logan
Executive Producer
Con la esperanza de reparar su matrimonio, Jennie Logan y su esposo se mudan a una hermosa mansión victoriana. Cuando Jennie se prueba un vestido antiguo que encuentra en el ático, es transportada cien años atrás, donde conoce al anterior propietario de la casa, David. A medida que sus sentimientos por David crecen, se hace evidente que Jennie no solo está dividida entre dos hombres y dos veces, sino que también enfrenta el peligro en ambos mundos.
A la caza de Eichmann (TV)
Executive Producer
Los nazis, en un lugar no tan secreto, casi a simple vista, viajan a Bolonia, Italia, comenzando una concentración en un grupo secreto de inteligencia de Dwight David Eisenhower.
Fyre
Executive Producer
After an innocent country girl is violently raped, her family is killed in a car accident before she can come to terms with what happened. As her feelings of shame grow into self-degradation, she turns to prostitution
...And Your Name Is Jonah
Executive Producer
A couple whose son had been institutionalized for three years after being diagnosed as mentally retarded are shocked to discover that the diagnosis was wrong, and that their son is, in fact, deaf.
Spider-Man 2: El Hombre Araña en acción
Executive Producer
Unos estudiantes de ciencias de la universidad roban plutonio para construir una bomba y denunciar públicamente lo fácil que es hacerse con el material. Su intención no es explotarla, sino conseguir publicidad. Es entonces cuando el villano aparece con sus secuaces y roban la bomba. Peter Parker deberá impedir que logren hacerla estallar en pleno Nueva York.
Human Feelings
Executive Producer
Heavenly Mrs. G. (Nancy Walker) will level Las Vegas if an angel (Billy Crystal) cannot find six good people there within a week.
Are You in the House Alone?
Executive Producer
A beautiful high school student becomes the target of a terror campaign that eventually leads to devastating consequences.
Spider-Man: El hombre araña
Executive Producer
Una extraña ola de crímenes está teniendo lugar en Nueva York. Un extraño personaje controla las mentes de personas anónimas y respetables obligándolas a comportarse como vulgares criminales. Peter Parker es un joven estudiante a punto de doctorarse, por accidente una araña radioactiva le muerde en la mano y le dota de una fuerza y agilidad sobrehumana además de la capacidad de trepar por las paredes. La hija de uno de los detenidos por los robos, Judy Tyler, entra en la vida de Peter cuando este está sacando fotos para el periódico donde trabaja. Al ver que la gente a su alrededor e incluso toda la ciudad está en peligro, decide crearse un disfraz para detener al villano evitando un chantaje de millones de dólares. Gracias a sus recién adquiridos poderes podrá plantar cara a tan peligrosa amenaza.
Night Cries
Executive Producer
A young woman whose baby died in childbirth refuses to believe it and has dreams that her child is still alive and in danger. A scientist who is conducting experiments about dreams tries to help her.
A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story
Executive Producer
Legendary ballplayer and humanitarian Lou Gehrig and his relationship with his stalwart wife, Eleanor, are portrayed in this film that focuses on the Hall of Famer's life off the baseball field. Featuring unflinching looks at the Gehrigs' relationship, as well as Lou's feud with Babe Ruth. This film is for anyone interested in baseball. [imdb]
Intimate Strangers
Executive Producer
The pressures of problems at home and at work are taking a tremendous toll on a middle-aged husband, and he begins to take it out on his wife.
Halloween with the Addams Family
Executive Producer
The original TV Addams Family members prepare for Halloween.
¿Quien mató a J. F. Kennedy?
Executive Producer
Habría sido uno de los juicios criminales más relevantes en la historia de los Estados Unidos. Pero un único disparo impidió que se celebrara. Este extraordinario drama se atreve a preguntar qué hubiera ocurrido si Lee Harvey Oswald hubiera vivido para ser sometido a juicio por el asesinato del presidente John F. Kennedy. Un excelente reparto, que incluye a Lorne Greene, Ben Gazzara y John Pleshette, dan vida a este hipotético escenario donde en una fascinante batalla judicial se plantean las controvertidas cuestiones que aún persiguen al pueblo americano. ¿Actuó Oswald solo? ¿O quizá se trataba de una conspiración que involucraba al FBI, la CIA y el crimen organizado?
Terraces
Executive Producer
Story of the various joys and crises of neighbors who share terraces in a high-rise apartment building.
Control mental
Executive Producer
Rita Matches, una adolescente de 15 años de vida normal, está poseída por un poder sobrenatural que horroriza a la gente que le rodea. Rita es víctima de crueles tormentos por parte de sus compañeros. Sólo su madre y su profesor de gimnasia parecen entender lo que le sucede a Rita, pero ella se ve involucrada, sin quererlo, en la misteriosa muerte de una amiga.
Noche de terror
Executive Producer
Valerie Harper interpreta a una mujer que por circunstancias familiares se ve obligada a viajar sola en su coche durante toda la noche. Tan pronto inicia su viaje, presencia casualmente el asesinato de un policía. Esta noche será la noche más larga de su vida y quizás su última noche...
Stalk the Wild Child
Executive Producer
A young boy who had been abandoned as a child and raised by wild dogs is taken to a university where a team attempts to teach him civilized behavior.
The Million Dollar Rip-Off
Executive Producer
An electronics genius, who is an ex-con, and four of his lady friends devise a plot to steal millions of dollars from the Chicago Transit Authority. A detective, who had been keeping tabs on him since he got out of prison, suspects that he is up to something and tries to catch him at it.
Twin Detectives
Executive Producer
Identical twin brothers who own a detective agency hatch a plan to expose a phony group of psychics, but soon find themselves involved in a murder.
Hey, I'm Alive
Executive Producer
After their plane crashes, an older man and a young woman survive 49 days lost in the Yukon.
Someone I Touched
Executive Producer
A woman learns that her husband has been unfaithful and that he has acquired a venereal disease. Then she learns that, after years of trying, she is finally pregnant
The Secret Night Caller
Executive Producer
A man who is the pillar of his community has a secret - he has a compulsion to make obscene telephone calls.
The Hatfields and the McCoys
Executive Producer
A retelling of the famous feud between two mountain families, the Hatfields and the McCoys, in rural Kentucky in the late 1800s.
Betrayal
Executive Producer
Wealthy widow Helen Mercer hires a young woman, Gretchen Addison, to act as her personal assistant and companion. Unfortunately, Helen is a poor judge of character, as Gretchen is part of a murderous extortionist duo with her boyfriend, Jay. However, Gretchen has second thoughts when she develops genuine affection for Helen. When Gretchen informs Jay that she wants to call off their plot, he refuses and carries on with the plan. Now both Helen and Gretchen may be in grave danger.
Punch and Jody
Executive Producer
When a woman dies in a car accident, her former husband (a traveling circus worker) learns that his wife was pregnant when she divorced him many years earlier. The now teen-aged daughter enters his life. Can they form a relationship?
Strange Homecoming
Executive Producer
A small-town sheriff is surprised to see his brother show up in town, a man whom he hasn't seen in 20 years--and who has graduated from petty thievery to murder.
Terror on the 40th Floor
Executive Producer
A number of business people, keeping the Christmas Eve office party going longer than was originally intended, are beset by a fire that starts in the basement of their office building and creeps up at them from floor to floor.
Los sobrevivientes elegidos
Producer
Un grupo de hombres y mujeres que han destacado en el ejercicio de sus diversas profesiones, son raptados y conducidos en helicopteros hasta lo que parece ser un refugio situado en el desierto. A traves de una pantalla una mujer les explica que ellos han sido elegidos por el gobierno de los Estados Unidos para que sobrevivan a la guerra termonuclear que acaba de desatarse.
Catch My Soul
Executive Producer
Screenwriter John Good's rock & roll adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello who is a wandering evangelist who happens onto Iago's remote commune. There he marries the lovely Desdemona much to the chagrin of Iago, who also loves her. The conniving commune leader then manages to quietly pressure Othello until murder and tragedy ensue. Songs include: "Othello", "Working on a Building," "Eat the Bread, Drink the Wine," "Book of Prophecy," "That's What God Said," "Chug a Lug," "Open Your Eyes," "Lust of the Blood," "Put Out the Light" and more.
Scream of the Wolf
Executive Producer
A big-game hunter comes out of retirement to help track down a killer wolf, and begins to suspect that it isn't a wolf but an animal that can take human form.
Message to My Daughter
Producer
A confused teenager discovers a stack of tapes recorded years earlier by her dying mother.
Let the Good Times Roll
Executive Producer
Documentary of a 1950s rock and roll revival show, with split-screen editing to rival Woodstock.
La bóveda de los horrores
Executive Producer
Cinco historias terroríficas: 1) Un hombre busca a su hermana para asesinarla, pues ella es la beneficiaria de la herencia de su padre. Despues del crimen, el asesino entra en un macabro restaurante para celebrarlo. 2) Unos recién casados se instalan en una nueva casa, pero, muy pronto, el marido empieza a enfadarse porque su esposa Cambia todas las cosas de lugar. 3) Un mago está interesado en comprar una soga encantada de la India, pero la dueña, se niega a venderla. El mago asesina a la mujer y consigue la soga, pero este será el principio de una amarga venganza. 4) Un hombre simula su propia muerte con el objeto de estafar a una compañía de seguros, pero dos estudiantes, que buscan cuerpos para aprobar Anatomía, se encuentran con ese 'cadáver' que no huele a muerto. 5) Un artista trata de vengarse de sus representantes. Para ello se sirve de magia negra y vudú, de manera que pinta cuadros de personas que, al destruírlos, matan también a las personas.
Class of '63
Executive Producer
A jealous husband uses a college reunion to gauge whether or not his wife is still in love with her old flame.
Go Ask Alice
Executive Producer
Estados Unidos, años 60. Sin darse cuenta, una niña de 14 años es absorbida por una espiral de sexo y drogas, pero, pasado cierto tiempo, intentará buscar ayuda.
Sand Castles
Executive Producer
A young man who dies in an auto accident returns from the dead to meet up with the young woman who tried to save him.
Condenados de ultratumba
Executive Producer
Un grupo de personas llegan, en una guía turística, a un extraño museo con una cripta. Allí, el Guardián les contará una serie de atroces historias de las cuales ellos son protagonistas...
Heat of Anger
Executive Producer
A woman attorney and her young associate defend a wealthy contractor accused of murdering an ironworker who was having an affair with the contractor's daughter.
Future Shock
Executive Producer
“Our modern technology has achieved a degree of sophistication beyond our wildest dreams. But this technology has exacted a pretty heavy price. We live in an age of anxiety, a time of stress. And with all our sophistication we are in fact, the victims of our own technological strength. We are the victims of shock … of future shock.” No, this isn’t a quote from a Huffington Post column on the Facebookization of modern communication. Nor is it pulled from an academic treatise on the phenomenologies of post-industrial existence. This statement was made by Orson Welles in the 1972 futurist documentary Future Shock, and, unlike some of the more dated elements of 1970s educational films, Future Shock remains shockingly current in verbalizing the concerns and anxieties that come along with rapid societal and technological change. (Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive)
She Waits
Executive Producer
When a newlywed woman is taken to her husband's hometown to meet his mother, she is possessed by the vengeful spirit of his previous wife.
Hogar perdido
Executive Producer
Una joven profesora llega a un misterioso pueblo en un valle, donde la gente se comporta de manera extraña. Los niños no juegan y los adultos mantienen una actitud desconfiaza y secretista. Un día, la profesora sigue a dos niños desaparecidos hasta un bosque y descubre la asombrosa verdad
Murder Once Removed
Executive Producer
Television thriller in which a scheming doctor murders once for love and then has to kill again to cover it up.
A Tattered Web
Executive Producer
A detective discovers his son-in-law is cheating on his wife. He confronts the other woman and accidentally kills her, then tries to pin the crime on a local derelict.
Maybe I'll Come Home in the Spring
Executive Producer
Dennie has returned from a year among the hippies to her superficial, image-conscious suburban family. She must face their disapproval of her actions. They refuse to even try to understand. She must also deal with an ex-lover, and a beloved young sister who is following in her footsteps, wanting the idealistic hippie life but making some rash decisions in the process.
Last Hours Before Morning
Executive Producer
An ex-cop, now a private detective, investigating a gambler's murder finds that there may be a connection between that crime and the jewel robbery at a beautiful movie star's home.