Hugh Benson (Production)
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Works
Liz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story
The story of the life of the actress Elizabeth Taylor. The making of an iconic American film star: Elizabeth Taylor. Based on the novel by C. David Heymann, this biographical miniseries follows Elizabeth Taylor's rise to stardom, her seven marriages, her bouts with substance abuse, and her cementation as a Hollywood legend.
Release Date: 1995-05-21
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 4
Message from Nam
Journalism Major Paxton Andrews loses the man she loves in the Vietnam War. Always having followed the beat of a different drum, she decides to work out her grief by going to Vietnam and writing a column that will hopefully help those at home better understand the War.
Release Date: 1993-10-17
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 10
Changes
Melanie is a top TV news reporter, living in New York with her twin teenage daughters. Peter is a handsome and divorced heart surgeon working at an L.A. hospital with three children of his own. A chance meeting leads to instant romance and eventual marriage, bringing about drastic changes in their lives...not all of them good.
Release Date: 1991-04-01
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 11
Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
This is yet another telling of the adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as the two try to clear their friend Jim of murder charges.
Release Date: 1990-10-21
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 19
Fine Things
Bernard Fine's career leaves little time for romance, so fate takes over. When Bernie befriends a little girl, he meets - and falls for - her single mother, Liz. They soon marry and add a son to their new family. But the happiness is short-lived as Liz is fatally stricken by cancer. Added to the heartbreak is a threat from the past that could tear the family apart. For Bernie, it's a struggle to hold on to and savor the truly fine things in life.
Release Date: 1990-10-15
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 13
Daughter of the Streets
A divorcée struggling to make ends meet, but still utilizing her spare time for social causes neglects her daughter in this fact-based story. At 18, the daughter starts drifting into bad company and eventually becomes a prostitute. To try to get her back in a proper life, her mother abducts her off the street and forcibly brings her home.
Release Date: 1990-02-26
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 2
Miracle of the Heart: A Boys Town Story
A kindly but firm priest mentors a troubled young boy at the famous Boys Town, a residential care community for troubled youth.
Release Date: 1986-03-31
Department: Production
Job: Producer
The Other Lover
A novelist (Jack Scalia) enters into a complicated affair with a doctor's wife (Lindsay Wagner), who happens to be his publishing company's marketing director and a mother of two.
Release Date: 1985-12-03
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 4
The Master of Ballantrae
The Master of Ballantrae is a 1984 TV movie based on the 1889 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.[2] It was a co production between the US and England for the Hallmark Hall of Fame
Release Date: 1984-01-31
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 3
Goliath Awaits
During World War II the passenger liner "Goliath" is sunk by a German submarine. Portions of the ship's hull remain airtight, and some of the passengers and crew survive. Over the decades they build a rigidly regulated society completely isolated from the surface world until, in contemporary times, a diving team begins to explore the wreck.
Release Date: 1981-11-11
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 12
Goldie and the Boxer Go to Hollywood
In this sequel to 1979's "Goldie and the Boxer," the ingratiating twosome, heavyweight champ and his 10-year-old manager, flee to California when a vengeful promoter who lost a bundle on the title fight wants retribution.
Release Date: 1981-02-19
Department: Production
Job: Producer
The Dream Merchants
This star-laden adaptation of Harold Robbins' best-selling 1949 novel about the birth of the movies features Mark Harmon as a drifter who comes under the wing of visionary nickelodeon operator Vincent Gardenia and goes on to become a pioneer in the incipient film business, facing the good times and the bad over a 20-year period.
Release Date: 1980-05-12
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 2
Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop
14 year police veteran, Evelyn Carter looks to make it to retirement while experiencing the highs and lows of police work in a male-dominated metropolitan police department.
Release Date: 1980-04-28
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 1
Goldie and the Boxer
Lighthearted tale of a 10-year-old girl who, when her boxer father dies, strikes up a relationship with a struggling fighter who was his sparring partner and takes on the job of managing him from obscurity to the championship.
Release Date: 1979-12-30
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 4
The Child Stealer
A young mother battles to get her children back after her ex-husband kidnaps them and the law won't help her in her efforts.
Release Date: 1979-03-09
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 1
A Fire in the Sky
Astronomers discover a comet that they believe will crash into Phoenix, Arizona. They attempt to warn officials, but without 100% certainty, the governor of Arizona is reticent to cause a panic. Even after a television news reporter discovers the truth and threatens to go live with it, the response is understated enough to doom some residents of Phoenix to certain death.
Release Date: 1978-11-26
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 10
Father Knows Best: Home for Christmas
The original cast of "Father Knows Best" returns for the second reunion movie. After learning that none of the children will be home for Christmas, Jim and Margaret decide to sell their house.
Release Date: 1977-12-18
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 3
Contract on Cherry Street
A policeman devises an unorthodox plan for bringing criminals to justice after his partner is brutally gunned down.
Release Date: 1977-11-19
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 3
The Father Knows Best Reunion
First of two reunion movies starring the original cast of the popular 1950's series "Father Knows Best." Jim and Margaret Anderson invite their children and grandchildren for a visit to celebrate their wedding anniversary.
Release Date: 1977-05-15
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 2
Woman of the Year
The story of the tumultuous marriage of a gruff sportswriter and a sophisticated international reporter who work together on the same newspaper.
Release Date: 1976-07-28
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Logan's Run
In the 23rd century, inhabitants of a domed city freely experience all of life's pleasures — but no one is allowed to live past 30. Citizens can try for a chance at being "renewed" in a civic ceremony on their 30th birthday. Escape is the only other option.
Release Date: 1976-06-23
Department: Production
Job: Associate Producer
Vote Count: 950
Nightmare Honeymoon
Sadistic low-budget thriller about newlyweds Dack Rambo and Rebecca Danna Smith who are pursued and terrorized by a pair of rural killer rapists.
Release Date: 1974-09-20
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 5
The Castaway Cowboy
A Wayward Texas cowboy washes up on the beaches of Hawaii and is taken home by an fatherless boy. He saves the family's business while romancing the single mom.
Release Date: 1974-08-01
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Vote Count: 25
Honky Tonk
In the wild west con-man 'Candy' Johnson heads to Nevada to set up his own gambling den and teams up with Lucy Cotton, a young woman he meets there. This failed television pilot film is loosely based on Honky Tonk (1941), which starred Clark Gable.
Release Date: 1974-04-01
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Shirts/Skins
Six businessmen who have a weekly after-hours basketball game get caught up in a bet about a hide-and-seek contest.
Release Date: 1973-10-09
Department: Production
Job: Producer
The Eyes of Charles Sand
A young man inherits the ability to see visions beyond the grave.
Release Date: 1972-02-29
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 3
Harpy
Architect's life is plagued by his ex-wife, a master manipulator, whose constant clawing is about to drive off his new love, and his clientèle. As a hobby, he enjoys training a rare harpy eagle, with a Native-American pal, who empathizes with his plight, and a plan of action coalesces.
Release Date: 1971-03-12
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 2
The Brotherhood of the Bell
A successful professor has his life disrupted by a secret from his past — in his college days he became a member of a powerful secret society, and now the society has a job for him.
Release Date: 1970-09-17
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 8
Hunters Are for Killing
A man comes home after serving time in prison to claim his share of his deceased mother's estate. However, his adoptive father, who holds him responsible for his biological son's death, intends to fight him for everything.
Release Date: 1970-03-12
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 2
The Outcasts
A bounty hunter who was a Confederate Officer teams up with an ex-slave who was a Union Soldier during the Civil War… An American Western genre television series, appearing on ABC in the 1968-69 season. The series stars Don Murray and Otis Young. It is most notable for being the first television Western with an African American co-star.
Release Date: 1968-09-23
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 3
For Those Who Think Young
A wealthy young man tries to woo a university student, while her two uncles work to popularize a local club.
Release Date: 1964-06-01
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 9