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Robert Donner
Born: 27th Apr 1931 New York City, New York, USA - Died 8th Jun 2006
Dept: Acting
Robert Donner (April 27, 1931 – June 8, 2006) was an American television and film actor.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 120
Film: 51 (43%)
Television: 69 (58%)
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Filmography
2006
A young man moves from Montana to Florida with his family, where he's compelled to engage in a fight to protect a population of endangered owls. ... view
Character:
Kalo
Sep 1997 (first aired)
Dharma & Greg is an American television sitcom that aired from September 24, 1997, to April 30, 2002.
It stars Jenna Elfman and Thomas Gibson as Dhar ... view
Character:
Joe (1 ep.)
1997
Stupid Little Golf Video (released as Leslie Nielsen's Stupid Little Golf Video in the United States) is the third and last of the how-to-golf-badly t ... view
Character:
His Trusted Caddie (as Bob Donner)
Sep 1996 (first aired)
Gary Hobson thinks he may even be losing his mind when tomorrow's newspaper mysteriously arrives today giving him a disconcerting look into the future ... view
Character:
Lucius Snow (2 ep.)
Mar 1996 (first aired)
Filmed on location at Santa Monica and Venice Beach, this series focuses on an elite bike cop unit of the LAPD. ... view
Character:
Luther (1 ep.)
Sep 1995 (first aired)
The Naked Truth is an American sitcom broadcast on ABC from 1995 to 1996, and on NBC from 1996 to 1998. The series stars Téa Leoni and Holland Taylor ... view
Character:
Mr. Clench (1 ep.)
Apr 1995 (first aired)
The irresistible and charming Ernest Pratt is a dime-store novelist who is living out the adventures of his fictional character Nicodemus Legend in th ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (5 ep.)
1994
Followup movie to the TV series about 250,000 aliens, or "newcomers" as they are known, who have by now settled alongside the humans in California. Mo ... view
Character:
Sheriff (uncredited)
1994
Leslie Nielsen and his caddy decide to drive a jerky golf player, Brad, insane by playing a round with him and making up rules, distracting him, and f ... view
Character:
Caddy
1993
Leslie Nielsen teaches frustrated rookie golfer Billy how to bend the rules of golf to his advantage. ... view
Character:
Caddie
Sep 1992 (first aired)
Frustrations and sparks fly in Washington, D.C. when a strict conservative hires a free spirited journalist as his boss's press secretary. Their misma ... view
Character:
Sheriff (1 ep.)
1991
When a desperate kid tries to steal the car of a famous movie director to help his family pay their debt to a predatory lender, the director and his s ... view
Character:
Otto
1989
In this Sci-fi Comedy a gentle video clerk has a secret double life as an intergalactic crime-fighter who must stop an evil alien from stealing the ha ... view
Character:
Hawkhead
Nov 1988 (first aired)
A middle school teacher keeps her personal and professional lives in balance as she helps her students. ... view
Character:
James Lyman (1 ep.)
Mar 1988 (first aired)
In the Heat of the Night is an American television series based on the motion picture and novel of the same name starring Carroll O'Connor as the whit ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
1986
After his brother Robeson disappears without a trace while exploring Africa in search of a legendary 'white tribe', Allan Quatermain decides to follow ... view
Character:
Swarma
Sep 1986 (first aired)
Starman is an American science fiction television series, starring Robert Hays and Christopher Daniel Barnes and continuing the story from John Carpen ... view
Character:
Joe Connell (1 ep.)
Mar 1986 (first aired)
Thrifty, folksy and cantankerous, Matlock charges a premium for his services but is worth every penny: This renowned attorney, always clothed in his t ... view
Character:
Roy (1 ep.)
Tom Jakes (1 ep.)
Sep 1985 (first aired)
He's everyone's favorite action hero... but he's a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a secret agent whose wits are his deadliest weapon. Armed ... view
Character:
Benjamin Wintergreen (1 ep.)
Milt Bozer (2 ep.)
Vince (1 ep.)
Sep 1984 (first aired)
An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life homicide cases. ... view
Character:
Silas Pike (1 ep.)
Sheriff Tyrone McKenna (1 ep.)
Jan 1984 (first aired)
Blue Thunder is a 1984 ABC television series based on the movie of the same title featuring the Blue Thunder helicopter.
The series uses the converte ... view
Character:
Neil Gerrard (1 ep.)
Jan 1983 (first aired)
A fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune while on the run from the Army after being branded as ... view
Character:
Sheriff J.C. Bickford (1 ep.)
1982
Frederic Lansing is a writer who hopes to find inspiration while vacationing in Hellview, Oregon; however, the lighthouse in which he's staying is hau ... view
Character:
Ralph
1982
Most of the Waltons have split up in the days approaching Thanksgiving 1947. But most of the family begins to arrive at Walton's Mountain begging with ... view
Character:
Yancy Tucker
Oct 1982 (first aired)
A member of a league of time travelers and a boy travel through time repairing errors in world history. ... view
Character:
Buffalo Bill Cody (1 ep.)
Jan 1982 (first aired)
Cassie & Co. is an American drama series broadcast on NBC as a mid-season replacement. 13 episodes were produced, but it was pulled after four episode ... view
Character:
Enders (1 ep.)
Jan 1982 (first aired)
An American television series originally produced between 1982 and 1987. The show is based on the 1980 motion picture of the same name. With a mixture ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Dec 1981 (first aired)
Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990. A ... view
Character:
Tucker Fixx (5 ep.)
Nov 1981 (first aired)
A.J. Simon is a polished fellow with a taste for classic cars and tailored suits. Rick Simon is his less refined (but still pleasant) older brother wh ... view
Character:
Cody Dexter (1 ep.)
Nov 1981 (first aired)
Hollywood stuntman Colt Seavers picks up some extra pocket money by using his rough-and-tumble skills to track and capture bail jumpers. ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (4 ep.)
1981
In World War II era Los Angeles, the manager of the Culver Hotel leaves his nephew in charge for a weekend. The nephew changes the name to the Hotel R ... view
Character:
The Assassin
Feb 1979 (first aired)
B.J. and the Bear is an American comedy series which aired on NBC from 1979 to 1981. Created by Christopher Crowe and Glen A. Larson, the series stars ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Sep 1978 (first aired)
A wacky alien comes to Earth to study its residents and the life of the human woman he boards with is never the same. ... view
Character:
Exidor (24 ep.)
1978
A man escapes from a Louisiana prison to be at the California hospital bedside of his ailing son. ... view
Character:
Karl Baldwin
Apr 1978 (first aired)
The Young Pioneers is a three-episode ABC western television series starring Linda Purl and Roger Kern in the role of young newlyweds Molly and David ... view
Character:
Mr. Peters (3 ep.)
1978
Two men taking horses to market run afoul of angry sheep herders and are hampered by a lack of water for the horses. ... view
Character:
The Sheep Boss
1978
Set in Montana in the year 1934, a half-breed rancher and his wife are harassed by a ruthless land robber, who forces them to stand tall and defend th ... view
Character:
Sheriff Brumfield
Nov 1977 (first aired)
During an experiment gone bad, radiation turns a scientist into a raging green behemoth whenever he becomes agitated. Unable to control his transforma ... view
Character:
Mr. Benedict (1 ep.)
Bernard Devlin (1 ep.)
Sep 1977 (first aired)
Lighthearted look at the adventures of two Highway Patrol officers in Los Angeles. The main characters are Jon Baker and Frank Poncherello, two motorc ... view
Character:
Coby (1 ep.)
1977
Following World War III, four survivors at a desert military installation attempt to drive across the desolate wasteland of America to Albany, where t ... view
Character:
Man / Guard
Jul 1977 (first aired)
Fernwood 2 Night was a comedic television program that ran from July 1977 – September 1977. It was created by Norman Lear and produced by Alan Thick ... view
Character:
Russ Tuttle (1 ep.)
Mar 1977 (first aired)
Eight Is Enough is an American television comedy-drama series that ran on ABC from March 15, 1977, until August 29, 1981. The show was modeled after s ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Feb 1977 (first aired)
The Macahans, a family from Virginia headed by Zeb Macahan, travel across the country to pioneer a new land and a new home in the American West. ... view
Character:
Mr. Evans (2 ep.)
Jan 1977 (first aired)
Code R is an American action-adventure television series that aired on CBS from January 21 to June 10, 1977. Code R focuses on the emergency services ... view
Character:
Bo Plummer (1 ep.)
1976
A young couple and their neighbors celebrate Christmas in 1874 on the Dakota prairie. Despite tragedy and an ongoing battle with the railway company, ... view
Character:
Mr. Peters
Sep 1976 (first aired)
Beautiful, intelligent, and ultra-sophisticated, Charlie's Angels are everything a man could dream of... and way more than they could ever handle! Rec ... view
Character:
Korbin (1 ep.)
1976
The story of Sara Yarnell, a schoolteacher who moves from Philadelphia to the Western frontier to start a new life. She becomes the only teacher in a ... view
Character:
Stevens
1976
In 1909 Arizona, retired lawman Sam Burgade's life is thrown upside-down when his old enemy Provo and six other convicts escape a chain-gang in the Yu ... view
Character:
Lee Roy
1976
Pilot for TV series of the same name released in 1978. The film told the tale of Molly and David Beaton, two teenage newlyweds, homesteading in the Da ... view
Character:
Mr. Peters
1975
After his cattle rancher boss dies, right-hand man Pike is given the job of returning $86,000 to some families who live across the border in Sonora, M ... view
Character:
Skave
1975
At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to run in a few days. 9 adventurers are competing, amo ... view
Character:
Reporter
Sep 1974 (first aired)
When the big woods of Wisconsin becomes a difficult spot for hunting, Charles Ingalls reluctantly decides to move his family, pioneering west. Their l ... view
Character:
Bart Younger (1 ep.)
1974
An American Indian deputy sheriff is caught in the middle of a community dispute when the tribe tries to save an historic mission from a housing devel ... view
Character:
Fischer
Jan 1974 (first aired)
Follow the adventures of Steve Austin, cybernetically enhanced astronaut turned secret agent, employed by the OSI, under the command of Oscar Goldman ... view
Character:
Horace Milser (1 ep.)
Kermit (1 ep.)
1974
The girlfriend of the Sundance Kid is on the run, with a price on her head, when she hears rumors that Sundance may still be alive. ... view
Character:
Ben Lant
Sep 1973 (first aired)
Griff is an American crime drama starring Lorne Greene and Ben Murphy, which aired on ABC from September 29, 1973, to January 4, 1974. ... view
Character:
Roscoe Horvath (1 ep.)
1973
Jody Deakes joins up with his father after many years, just to discover that his dad is part of an outlaw gang on the run from a relentless bounty hun ... view
Character:
J.C.
1973
A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen who tried to kill him, the townsfolk decide to hire the ... view
Character:
Preacher
1973
A commercial-jet captain (Chuck Connors) has ghosts on board from stones of an English abbey being shipped overseas. ... view
Character:
Dispatcher
Oct 1972 (first aired)
The adventures of a Shaolin Monk as he wanders the American West armed only with his skill in Kung Fu. ... view
Character:
Amos Houlton (1 ep.)
1972
An adopted boy's parents are killed, and to keep him from returning to the state's custody, he and his grandfather run away. ... view
Character:
Car Salesman
Sep 1972 (first aired)
Ghost Story is an American television anthology series that aired for one season on NBC from 1972 to 1973. Executive-produced by William Castle, it in ... view
Character:
Ralph (1 ep.)
Sep 1972 (first aired)
The Waltons live their life in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II. ... view
Character:
Yancy Tucker (17 ep.)
Sep 1972 (first aired)
The Rookies is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1972 until 1976. It follows the exploits of three rookie police officers working ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
1972
An elderly wanderer, a sexy young girl running away from home and a folk singer looking for stardom hitch-hike their way cross-country, trying to get ... view
Character:
Jesse (1st Farmer)
1971
Joe Baker has a dream. He wants to do 'something big.' When he needs a Gatling gun to accomplish this, he seeks out a black marketeer. The price he wa ... view
Character:
Angel Moon
Sep 1971 (first aired)
McMillan & Wife is a lighthearted American police procedural that aired on NBC from September 17, 1971 to April 24, 1977. Starring Rock Hudson and Sus ... view
Character:
Price (1 ep.)
Sep 1971 (first aired)
Longstreet is an American crime drama series that was broadcast on the ABC in the 1971-1972 season. A 90-minute pilot movie of the same name aired pri ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Sep 1971 (first aired)
Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing ap ... view
Character:
Drunk (1 ep.)
Zeke Rivers (1 ep.)
Arnie (1 ep.)
Sep 1971 (first aired)
Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26, 1971 to March 3, 1976. The primary protagonist is the ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (2 ep.)
1971
When a trio of ex-convicts led by Mattie Appleyard is released from prison, they hope to open a general store using money Mattie has saved during his ... view
Character:
Willis Hubbard
1971
Harker Flet and compatriots Timothy X. Nolan and Katy, along with three other men, steal $40,000 in money and jewelry from a California train in the g ... view
Character:
Sheriff Adams
1971
Mrs. Emily Pollifax of New Jersey goes to the CIA to volunteer for spy duty, being in her own opinion, expendable now that the children are grown and ... view
Character:
Larrabee
1971
Kowalski works for a car delivery service, and takes delivery of a 1970 Dodge Challenger to drive from Colorado to San Francisco. Shortly after pickup ... view
Character:
Old Cop
Jan 1971 (first aired)
Alias Smith and Jones is an American Western series that originally aired on ABC from 1971 to 1973. It stars Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes and Ben Murph ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (3 ep.)
1970
The James and Younger outlaw gangs ride into town, and it is up to the local marshal, who has lost both his nerve and his gun skills, to stop them. ... view
Character:
Roy Kirsh
Sep 1970 (first aired)
Hays Stowe is a new senator who comes to Washington DC with his wife Erin and daughter Norma. He arrives full of optimism that being on the side of ju ... view
Character:
Matlock (1 ep.)
1970
Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County Land War in the New Mexico Territory of 1878. ... view
Character:
Bradley Morton
1970
A dying man frames himself for murder so his widow can collect the reward. ... view
Character:
Sgt. Mason Weber
1970
After the Civil War, a former Union colonel searches for the two traitors whose perfidy led to the loss of a close friend. ... view
Character:
Whitey Carter
Feb 1970 (first aired)
Deputy Marshal Sam McCloud of the small western town of Taos, New Mexico is assigned to the metropolitan New York City Police Department (NYPD) as a s ... view
Character:
Val (1 ep.)
1970
In this touching drama a disparate group of people rally together to save a dog that has fallen into a deep well. ... view
Character:
Clay Braddock
1969
After the Civil War, ex-Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon are leading two disparate groups of people through st ... view
Character:
Judd Mailer
1968
Ex-gangster Tony Banks is called out of retirement by mob kingpin God to carry out a hit on fellow mobster "Blue Chips" Packard. When Banks demurs, Go ... view
Character:
Another Switchboard Operator
Sep 1968 (first aired)
The Mod Squad was the enormously successful groundbreaking "hippie" undercover cop show that ran on ABC from September 24, 1968, until August 23, 1973 ... view
Character:
George Thomas (1 ep.)
Emory (1 ep.)
Sep 1968 (first aired)
Adam-12 is a television police drama that followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, Pete Malloy and Jim Reed, as they patroll ... view
Character:
Teejay (5 ep.)
Harry Rustin (1 ep.)
Sep 1968 (first aired)
The Outsider was the story of David Ross, a go-it-alone private investigator who's always where the action is. Darren McGavin played Ross, a man livin ... view
Character:
Sheriff Wade (1 ep.)
1968
Sgt. O'Farrell an Army soldier on an island in the South Pacific during World War II is trying to bring the two basics of life to his fellow serviceme ... view
Character:
Marine Pvt. Ogg
1967
A group of swingin' teens take time out from having fun in the sun to try to foil a group of crooks searching for a stolen scroll. ... view
Character:
Fingers O'Toole
1967
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the ... view
Character:
Boss Shorty
Sep 1967 (first aired)
Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed b ... view
Character:
Rizo (1 ep.)
Sep 1967 (first aired)
The High Chaparral is an American Western-themed television series starring Leif Erickson and Cameron Mitchell which aired on NBC from 1967 to 1971. T ... view
Character:
Sam Pelletier (1 ep.)
Wilby (1 ep.)
Sep 1967 (first aired)
The Guns of Will Sonnett is a Western television series ... view
Character:
Lou Parkin (1 ep.)
Arch Merceen (1 ep.)
Sep 1967 (first aired)
Garrison's Gorillas is an ABC TV series broadcast from 1967 to 1968; a total of 26 hour-long episodes were produced. It was inspired by the 1967 film ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Sep 1967 (first aired)
In this flirty '60s sitcom, the action unfolds every day at a small Los Angeles radio station where Larry and Dave work as morning show DJs. While Lar ... view
Character:
Justice of the Peace (1 ep.)
1967
When Ben and Kate Powell rent a haunted New England house by the sea, their son Steve gets blamed for the destruction caused by three unruly ghosts. ... view
Character:
Ebenezer Twitchell
Mar 1967 (first aired)
When an assassin's bullet confines him to a wheelchair for life ending his career as Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside becomes a consultant to t ... view
Character:
Ralph Burns (1 ep.)
1966
Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Harrah. Together with a fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher ... view
Character:
Milt
Sep 1966 (first aired)
The Jean Arthur Show is an American situation comedy that aired on CBS from September to December 1966. The series stars Jean Arthur and Ron Harper, a ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Original title: El magnifico extranjero
1966
Rowdy Yates is accused of murder, and has to alert the Army to a bandit assault. ... view
Character:
Toland
1966
The head of the Human Aetiological Relations Machine pits an agent against a flesh-to-fungus spore gun. ... view
Character:
Morgue Attendant
1965
The lives and passions of a stock car team are revealed against the turbulent backdrop of the professional racing world. ... view
Character:
Leroy Agers (uncredited)
Sep 1965 (first aired)
Laredo is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from September 16, 1965, to April 7, 1967. Laredo stars Neville Brand, William Smith ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
Sep 1965 (first aired)
The Big Valley is an American western television series which ran on ABC from September 15, 1965, to May 19, 1969. The show stars Barbara Stanwyck, as ... view
Character:
Pete Haunch (1 ep.)
Sep 1965 (first aired)
Run for Your Life is an American television drama series starring Ben Gazzara as a man with only a short time to live. It ran on NBC from 1965 to 1968 ... view
Character:
Sheriff Hinkleman (1 ep.)
Scully (1 ep.)
Sep 1964 (first aired)
Daniel Boone is an American action-adventure television series starring Fess Parker as Daniel Boone that aired from September 24, 1964 to September 10 ... view
Character:
Pike (1 ep.)
Coot (1 ep.)
Sep 1964 (first aired)
Many Happy Returns is an American situation comedy that ran on CBS for twenty-six episodes, from September 21, 1964 to April 12, 1965, under the spons ... view
Character:
Unknown/various (1 ep.)
1963
A timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome Romeo. The Jekyll and Hyde game wor ... view
Character:
College Student (uncredited)
Oct 1962 (first aired)
Combat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The show covered the grim lives of a squad of American so ... view
Character:
American GI (1 ep.)
Sep 1962 (first aired)
The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is ... view
Character:
Matt Dooley (1 ep.)
Oct 1959 (first aired)
The Detectives is an American crime drama series which ran on ABC during its first two seasons, and on NBC during its third and final season. The seri ... view
Character:
Freddy (1 ep.)
Sep 1959 (first aired)
The High-Sierra adventures of Ben Cartwright and his sons as they run and defend their ranch while helping the surrounding community. ... view
Character:
Owen (1 ep.)
Robert Donner (1 ep.)
1959
A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a disabled man, a drunk, and a young gunfighter in his efforts to hold in jail the broth ... view
Character:
(uncredited)
Jan 1959 (first aired)
The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventu ... view
Character:
Toland (1 ep.)
Billings (1 ep.)
Billy Bob Harger (1 ep.)
Adjutant (1 ep.)
Sep 1955 (first aired)
Gunsmoke is an American radio and television Western drama series created by director Norman MacDonnell and writer John Meston. The stories take place ... view
Character:
Gil Boylan (1 ep.)
Brown (1 ep.)
Tom Belnap (1 ep.)
Oct 1954 (first aired)
Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series prem ... view
Character:
Burton (2 ep.)
The Sheep Boss (2 ep.)
Sep 1954 (first aired)
Lassie is the pet of Jeff Miller, an 11-year-old farm boy. The two become best friends and enjoy family adventures in the American countryside, teachi ... view
Character:
Clay Braddock (2 ep.)