James Farentino

James Farentino

Nascimento : 1938-02-24,

Morte : 2012-01-24

Perfil

James Farentino

Filmes

Women of the Night
Sabatini
Three entwined stories of love, lust, danger and revenge.
The Last Producer
Poker Player
An old-time mogul struggles to reenter the club where power and money make the rules.
Murder in the Mirror
Frank Russo
Mary meets Paul, marries Paul and when Paul is murdered becomes the number one suspect. While the police are preparing their case against her she begins her own investigation which takes her to the seedy parts of town and begins to expose her husbands very secret double life.
Scandalous Me: The Jacqueline Susann Story
Drugs, alcohol and controversy mark the author's life.
Termination Man
Cain
When a Serbian terrorist blackmails NATO and the U.N. with a deadly nerve gas, a covert squad is the Free World's last hope. Led by Dylan Pope they must "terminate" the threat before it terminates them!
À Prova de Balas
Capt. Jensen
Keats (Damon Wayans) é um policial que tem a missão de investigar o chefão do crime Frank Colton (James Caan). Ele se passa por bandido e faz amizade com um dos subordinados de Colton, o traficante e ladrão de carros Archie Moses (Adam Sandler). É claro que a parceria dos dois termina quando a identidade do policial é revelada. Anos mais tarde, os ex-amigos terão de aturar um ao outro novamente. Isso acontece quando Keats é escalado para escoltar Archie, que agora faz parte do programa de proteção à testemunha.
Dazzle
Jimmy Rosemont
Beautiful successful photographer battles evil half-sisters and evil land developers to keep the family ranch intact, following her father's death. In the midst of all this, she finds love and fulfillment.
Honor Thy Father and Mother: The True Story of the Menendez Murders
Jose Menendez
TV movie based on the novel "Blood Brothers," about the murder of Jose Menéndez and his wife Kitty by their sons, Erik and Lyle.
Deep Down
Joey
A young musician with a talent for all things electrical spies on his sexy neighbor with a penchant for skinny dipping in the pool in broad daylight and her obviously violent husband. He is so violent that in the opening sequence he murders a man for talking with his mouth full of food. As the soft-core sex film advances, she gets involved sexually with the much younger man, all the while luring him into a trap involving the murder of her husband.
One Woman's Courage
Lieutenant Bill Lawson
When No One Would Listen
Gary Cochran
Jessica has been married to her controlling husband Gary for years. The abuse only gets worse when she gets a job at a bakery and makes two really caring friends: her co-worker and neighbor Lee, and her boss Walter.
Miles from Nowhere
John Reilly
Frank and Cam have been friends all their lives, Cam is on the High School Football team, coached by his dad, Frank is a promising runner, with a dream of completing a sub 4 minute mile and beating his arch rival. Cam persuades Frank to go to a party, when Frank wants to leave and Cam doesn't Frank decides to run home in the dark, with fatal consequences. Devastated by his friend's death and blaming himself, Cam decides to move from football to running with the goal of completing the sub 4 minute mile for his friend. A race against Frank's rival leaves the rival injured after falling off the track. The rival insults Frank and Cam starts a fight which leads to a disciplinary hearing, causing Cam to be banned from the championships. The rival organises another race though, to prove that he is better than Cam. The race is a close thing and Cam comes in a very close second, but in doing so breaks the 4 minute mile dream.
In the Line of Duty: A Cop for the Killing
Lieutenant Ray Wiltern
A look at the dangerous and bizarre life of an undercover cop who lives on the edge and the strife and heartbreak that comes with the job. There is also a tremendous amount of guilt and psychological pain when when an undercover sting goes bad and they lose a comrade in the line of duty.
Common Ground
Mayor Kevin White
Fact based story about the racial tensions that occurred in Boston in the 1970's because of court ordered busing to end desegregation. The story focuses on an African-American mother determined to get her children a quality education and a white lawyer trying to deal with inner city problems.
Naked Lie
Jonathan Morris
They are the perfect, and politically correct, couple. He is a judge, she is a high profile attorney. When she takes on a sensational murder case, the trail leads right to her own front door.
Adorável Sedutora
Frank Polito
Blackwood é um autor de romances de mistério que, sem inspiração, resolve frequentar os tribunais em busca de uma ideia. Ele fica fascinado por uma romena misteriosa acusada de assassinato e recupera a criatividade ao se envolver com a moça.
Who Gets the Friends?
Neat and interesting story about a couple being divorced. It is easy to split all the things they've bought, but the real question is: Who gets the friends?
The Red Spider
Lieutenant Daniel Malone
A cop is found dead in a hotel, brutally murdered, a spider cut into his stomach. The police believes his death might be connected to the fact that he was a dirty cop - the internal affairs commission already was after him - but then several other people are murdered in the very same way, and there seems to be no connection between the cases. The police seeks for a blonde woman among the prostitutes.
Family Sins
Gordon Williams
Gordon has a loving wife and two sons, Bryan and Keith, but he favors his spoiled younger son Keith over Bryan, who is defiant and not good at sports. As Gordon begins to yell and hit Bryan, Bryan's behavior slips towards the psychotic side and he takes it out on beings who can't defend themselves until he goes way too far one day during a summer camping trip.
That Secret Sunday
A police cover-up of the murder of two young women at a wild party is complicated by the possible faking of a story by an overzealous young reporter seeking instant newspaper stardom.
Picking Up the Pieces
Don Hagan
A sheltered wife of a surgeon suddenly finds herself thrust into the middle of a messy divorce.
O Quarto Sábio
Jesus (voice)
É a história de artaban (Martin Sheen), um médico da antiga Pérsia, que dedicou sua vida à busca do Messias. Procurando nas Sagradas escrituras o significado real da vida, Artaban descobre sobre Jesus, O Rei dos Reis. È então que ele se desfaz de todas as suas posses materiais, compra três pedras preciosas, e inicia uma jornada através do deserto onde deve encontrar-se com outros três Magos e, com eles, ir ao encontro de Jesus. Artaban não chega à tempo de encontrar-se com os Magos. Muitos imprevistos também o impedem de encontrar Jesus antes de sua crucificação… porém, na manhã de Páscoa, uma mensagem divina fará com que artaban compreenda o verdadeiro significado da vida.
A Summer to Remember
Tom Wyler
Silent since losing his hearing to meningitis, young Toby Wyler takes a bitter stance against the world and his family, refusing to accept his new stepfather. But when a highly trained orangutan named Casey is thrown from a truck near Toby's home, the boy soon has a secret friend he can communicate with via sign language.
License to Kill
John Peterson
A grieving family whose daughter was killed in a car crash with a drunken driver is outraged and frustrated as they encounter the inevitable bureaucratic delays in bringing the case to trial. Once in the courtroom, they are horror-stricken as the young, hard-pressed district attorney seems unable to overcome the technicalities and maneuverings that the driver's attorney uses to keep his client out of jail and still on the streets as a legal driver. When the judge is forced to rule time and again in favor of the defense, it appears that the driver might escape punishment altogether.
The Cradle Will Fall
Dr. Edgar Highley
Kathy DeMaio checks into the hospital and thinks she sees a body being loaded into the trunk of a car. When the body turns up later and the murderer, Dr. Highley, thinks that DeMaio can identify him, her life is put in jeopardy. Originally made for television and adapted from a novel by Mary Higgins Clark, the interesting twist to this thriller is that several cast members of the daytime soap opera "Guiding Light" play those same roles here.
Something So Right
Arnie Potts
Joey lives with his mother. His father isn't around, he doesn't like school, he is bored and doesn't take orders from anyone. In other words he is a real little scamp. Being at one's wit's end, his mother decides to look for a "big brother" (sort of surrogate father) for Joey. At first this clumsy Arnie doesn't know how to handle Joey but after a while everything changes and not only for Joey ...
Os Mortos Vivos
Sheriff Dan Gillis
Na pequena cidade de Potters Bluff, vários turistas são assassinados por um grupo de moradores, pórem, um tempo depois eles voltam a vida como moradores.
Evita
Gen. Juan Peron
Aspiring actress Eva Duarte rises from a minor celebrity to the wife of a powerful Argentine dictator, but her all consuming fiery rage, ambition, and hatred eventually become her downfall.
Nimitz de Volta ao Inferno
Wing Commander Richard T. Owens
O tempo é agora, o lugar é a bordo do U.S.S. Nimitz, o mais poderoso porta-aviões nuclear dos Estados Unidos em manobras militares no Oceano Pacífico. De repente, uma estranha tempestade elétrica atinge o navio e dispara o impossível: o Nimitz é arremessado de volta ao tempo para 09 de Dezembro de 1941, poucas horas antes do ataque japonês a Pearl Harbour. Enquanto o esquadrão inimigo voa em direção ao Havaí, o capitão do Nimitz (Kirk Douglas), um perito do Departamento de Defesa (Martin Sheen) e um senador à beira do desespero (Charles Durning) precisam decidir o que fazer. Será que eles devem permitir que os japoneses completem sua mortal invasão, ou devem lançar um pesado contra-ataque que mudará para sempre o curso da história?
Meu Filho, Meu Mundo
Barry Kaufman
Quando nasceu, Raun era um saudável e feliz bebê. Com o passar dos meses, seus pais começam a observar que há alguma coisa estranha com ele, sempre com um ar ausente. Um dia vem a confirmação do que suspeitavam: Raun tinha autismo. Decidem então penetrar no mundo da criança, acreditando que somente o milagre do amor poderia salvá-lo.
Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story
Duffy Hambleton
Based on the life of Kitty O'Neil, a young girl who overcame her deafness to become one of the top stuntwomen in Hollywood, and the holder of the women's land-speed record for driving a rocket-powered racing car.
Police Story: No Margin for Error
Anderson
Two policemen are suspected of excessive violence and causing two deaths. The investigation brings to light, little by little, the whole truth.
The Possessed
Kevin Leahy
A former priest, now an exorcist, battles the satanic forces that are threatening the students at a girls school.
Mitzi & 100 Guys
Self
Mitzi Gaynor in a song and dance hour with an all-male, star-studded ensemble featuring her main guests Michael Landon (Little House on the Prairie) and Jack Albertson (Chico and the Man), plus 28 celebrities as her "Million Dollar Chorus." Songs performed include: "I Got the Music in Me," "The Most Beautiful Guy in the World," and "You Are the Sunshine of My Life."
Crossfire
Vince Rossi
Vince Rossi is a cop who has been asked by the department to go undercover. Part of the process was being dismissed from the department and being branded a dirty cop. And his first job is to go after a mob boss.
The Elevator
Eddie Holcomb
A claustrophobic armed robber, fleeing from his latest job, finds himself trapped with a group of people between floors in a high-rise building's elevator that is teetering on collapse.
The Family Rico
Gino Rico
A Mafia chief is torn between his brother, who has defected from the family, and his loyalty to the organization.
The Longest Night
John Danbury
The daughter of a wealthy family is kidnapped and imprisoned underground in a custom-built, ventilated coffin while her family and the police search for her. But the battery that powers the ventilation is running out of juice and the ransom drop has been botched. This movie was originally shown as an ABC Movie of the Week on September 12, 1972. The story is based on the 1968 kidnapping of Barbara Mackle by Gary Krist.
Story of a Woman
Bruno Cardini
Karin studies music in Rome and falls in love with Bruno. She learns that he is married and therefore returns to Sweden. She meets David. They marry and have a daughter. David is sent to Rome. Karin meets Bruno again.
Me, Natalie
David Harris
Since she was a child, Natalie Miller has always thought she was an ugly ducking. Despite her mother's encouragement that she will grow up to be pretty, Natalie has never believed it will happen. She rents a Greenwich Village apartment from an eccentric landlady and gets a job at the Topless Bottom Club. She rides a motorcycle to work, decorates her loft with a moose head, and rides up and down a dumbwaiter to get to her apartment. There Natalie meets David an artist, and the two have a love affair before she discovers he is married.
The Whole World Is Watching
Neil Darrell
A student radical, accused of murdering a cop during a campus revolt, welcomes a court confrontation and then refuses to take the stand, despite the urging of the three high-priced lawyers he has hired to represent him in this second pilot of "The Lawyers," a rotating segment of "The Bold Ones" series.
The Sound of Anger
Neil Darrell
A young man is arrested on suspicion of sabotaging the plane of his girlfriend's father, a wealthy man who despises him.
Um Homem em Leilão
Chris Patton
A playboy golf pro, kicked off the circuit for alleged cheating, is forced to hustle for a living.
Rosie!
David Wheelright
An eccentric Los Angeles dowager decides to fight back when her two greedy daughters attempt to have her declared legally insane.
The Ride to Hangman's Tree
Matt
Three young outlaws try to stay together and keep one step ahead of the law.
Wings of Fire
Taff Malloy
A headstrong aviatrix enters and international air race to save her father's foundering business and to soothe the heart of an old flame who returned home with a new wife in tow.
The Pad and How to Use It
Ted
A man, who lives alone in his apartment, finds his ideal woman while going to the symphony. He dates her and brings her to his pad, only to find out she came to the symphony on a ticket she got from a co-worker.
Death of a Salesman
Happy Loman
Adaptation of Arthur Miller's play.
O Senhor da Guerra
Marc
A knight in the service of a duke goes to a coastal village where an earlier attempt to build a defensive castle has failed. He begins to rebuild the duke's authority in the face of the barbarians at the border and is making progress until he falls in love with one of the local women.
O Barco do Desespero
Insigna
1945, em um velho navio de carga em algum lugar nos confins do oceano Pacífico: o capitão Morton se esforça para se tornar comandante, e por isso exige a máxima qualidade do trabalho de sua tripulação, sem conceder-lhes liberdade ou favores - ignorando que estão a milhares de quilômetros de distância Da frente de Batalha. Em uma palavra: ele enlouquece sua tripulação. Eles estão quase revoltados, mas ninguém ousa dar o primeiro passo. Até que o alferes Pulver faz uma brincadeira com o capitão, o que desencadeia consequências fatais.
Violent Midnight
Charlie Perone
An axe murderer is loose in a small New England town.