Robert Schenkkan (Actor)

I Know Catherine, the Log Lady

An authorized feature documentary about Catherine E. Coulson, best known as the Log Lady in David Lynch & Mark Frost's "Twin Peaks".

Release Date: 2025-04-09

Character: Self

Hacksaw Ridge

WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Release Date: 2016-10-07

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 14129

All the Way

Lyndon B. Johnson's amazing 11-month journey from taking office after JFK's assassination, through the fight to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act and his own presidential campaign, culminating on the night LBJ is actually elected to the office – no longer the 'accidental President.'

Release Date: 2016-05-23

Department: Production

Job: Executive Producer

Vote Count: 297

Spartacus

Sentenced to spend out the rest of his adult life laboring in the harsh deserts of Egypt, the Thracian slave Spartacus gets a new lease on life when he is purchased by the obese owner of a Roman gladiator school. Moved by the defiance of an Ethiopian warrior, Draba, Spartacus leads a slave uprising which threatens Rome's status quo. As Spartacus gains sympathy within the Roman Senate, he also makes a powerful enemy in form of Marcus Lucinius Crassus, who makes it a matter of personal honor to crush the rebellion.

Release Date: 2004-03-17

Department: Writing

Job: Teleplay

Vote Count: 75

The Quiet American

Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her attention. In retaliation, Fowler informs the communists that the American is selling arms to their enemy.

Release Date: 2002-11-22

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 305

Crazy Horse

The legendary Native American chieftain refuses to go with his people peacefully to the reservation and starts a rebellion.

Release Date: 1996-07-07

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 8

Friday Night Lights

A look at the lives of young American football players in a small town Del Rio, Texas. A remake of the 2004 film.

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

The Pacific

Track the intertwined real-life stories of three U.S. Marines – Robert Leckie, John Basilone, and Eugene Sledge – across the vast canvas of the Pacific Theater during World War II. A companion piece to the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers.

Release Date: 2010-03-14

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 10

Vote Count: 2400

The Andromeda Strain

A U.S. satellite crash-lands near a small town in Utah, unleashing a deadly plague that kills virtually everyone except two survivors, who may provide clues to immunizing the population. As the military attempts to quarantine the area, a team of highly specialized scientists is assembled to find a cure and stop the spread of the alien pathogen, code-named Andromeda.

Release Date: 2008-05-26

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 223

Spartacus

Spartacus, who was enslaved by the Romans after they murdered his father, leads fellow slaves in an attempt to overthrow the repressive Roman Empire.

Release Date: 2004-04-18

Department: Writing

Job: Teleplay

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 18

Keys

A one-time investigator gets back in the game when a family suffers a trauma similar to her own.

Release Date: 1994-01-01

Character: Ry Bimstone/Cyrus Rockworth

Vote Count: 3

Victim of Love: The Shannon Mohr Story

When a woman dies in a supposed accident, her parents suspect their son-in-law of foul play. When the police begin to agree, the murder suspect vanishes.

Release Date: 1993-11-09

Vote Count: 5

In Broad Daylight

The fanatically uncompromising Len Rowan and his family insult and terrorize the citizens of a small town for years. One day the comment of a saleswoman about Len's son not being able to pay his sweets triggers off his persecution complex. As revenge for the believed insult, the whole family starts stalking the shop owner and her husband... until this escalates and the old man gets badly injured. Len is arrested, but gets off, free on bail. His clever attorney delays the court session for more than a year - while Rowan keeps threatening the witnesses. But then, the people feel they've had enough of this and decide to take the law in their own hands...

Release Date: 1991-02-03

Character: Rev. Don Douglas

Vote Count: 7

Son of the Morning Star

The story of George Custer, Crazy Horse and the events prior to the battle of the Little Bighorn, told from the different perspectives of two women.

Release Date: 1991-02-03

Character: Capt. Weir

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 10

Pump Up the Volume

Mark Hunter, a lonely high school student, uses his shortwave radio to moonlight as the popular pirate DJ "Hard Harry." When his show gets blamed for a teen committing suicide, the students clash with high school faculty and the authorities.

Release Date: 1990-08-22

Character: David Deaver

Vote Count: 370

Revealing Evidence - Stalking the Honolulu Strangler

After months of a search for a serial killer, the police are able to catch the killer of some of the women. But the search is not over when the assistant of the attorney discovers some details in the last case that differ from the assassinations before...

Release Date: 1990-06-03

The Image

When career-focused journalist's investigation indirectly causes a suicide, he questions his own methods and life in general.

Release Date: 1990-01-27

Character: Wilton Hale

Vote Count: 5

Out Cold

Sunny is married to the butcher, Ernie, and their marriage is about to end as both of them have affairs. Thus Sunny hires Lester Atlas as private investigator in order to collect proof for the divorce. One evening drunken Ernie and his partner Dave have a fight in the butcher shop with Ernie getting knocked out in the fridge where he dies during the night. But it was not Dave's fault but intentional murder by Sunny. Only Lester has proof so Sunny kills him, too. Thus she only has to kill Dave to get rid of all witnesses, but he can free himself out of the fridge and wants to take revenge.

Release Date: 1989-03-03

Character: Sgt. Roberts

Vote Count: 22

Police Story: The Watch Commander

This is the story of policeman who has been on the job for over forty years. And one of his duties is to look out for all of the officers under him cause he is the watch commander. And it seems that a lot of them have a lot of problems including the new lieutenant. And a 15 year veteran who's feeling the stress of the job. And at the same time he is being egged by the captain to retire cause he thinks he's too old. And his wife would like him to retire also.

Release Date: 1988-11-12

Beverly Hills Buntz

Beverly Hills Buntz is a spinoff from Hill Street Blues. It aired on NBC during the 1987–88 season.

Release Date: 1987-11-05

Character: Officer Mayhew

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 1

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Follow the intergalactic adventures of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and his loyal crew aboard the all-new USS Enterprise NCC-1701D, as they explore new worlds.

Release Date: 1987-09-28

Character: Lt. Cmdr. Dexter Remmick

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 1579

Amazing Grace and Chuck

Average American boy Chuck Murdock goes on a school outing to a nuclear weapons facility, where he learns about the destructive power that sits at the fingertips of the military. Knowing that the world could end with the push of a button, he protests against nuclear war by walking out on his Little League team during a game. Chuck's stunt ends up in the local paper, and as the story snowballs, basketball star "Amazing Grace" Smith decides to boycott sports, too.

Release Date: 1987-05-22

Character: Pollack

Vote Count: 16

Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder

A sociopathic socialite plots her father's murder.

Release Date: 1987-03-22

Character: Campbell

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 2

The Bedroom Window

Baltimore, Maryland. Sylvia sees a girl being attacked from her lover Terry's bedroom window. The assailant flees and his victim is saved. But that same night another girl is found murdered.

Release Date: 1987-01-16

Character: State Attorney Peters

Vote Count: 130

L.A. Law

L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.

Release Date: 1986-09-15

Character: Dr. Gregory

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 71

Act of Vengeance

In 1969, an administrator runs against the corrupt president of the United Coal Miners Union, and becomes the target of a murder plot.

Release Date: 1986-09-04

Character: Paul Gilly

Vote Count: 17

The Manhattan Project

A gifted high school student steals plutonium from the secret nuclear weapons facility in his home town in order to construct his own nuclear bomb, win a national science fair, and expose the government's secrets.

Release Date: 1986-06-13

Character: Government Aide

Vote Count: 103

Sweet Liberty

Michael Burgess is an academic who has written a scholarly book on the American Revolution which Hollywood has bought the film rights to. The arrival of the film crew seriously disrupts him as actors want to change their characters, directors want to re-stage battles, and he becomes infatuated with Faith who will play the female lead in the movie. At the same time, he is fighting with his crazy mother who thinks the Devil lives in her kitchen, and his girlfriend who is talking about commitment.

Release Date: 1986-05-16

Character: Helicopter Pilot

Vote Count: 37

Kane & Abel

Kane & Abel is a television miniseries, based on the novel of the same name written by Jeffrey Archer, that aired on CBS in 1985. It stars Peter Strauss as Rosnovski and Sam Neill as Kane.

Release Date: 1985-11-17

Character: Jack Thomas

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 19

The Twilight Zone

This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two or three) rooted in horror or suspense, often with a surprising twist at the end. Episodes usually feature elements of drama and comedy.

Release Date: 1985-09-27

Character: (segment "Devil's Alphabet")

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 228

Chain Letters

Nine Manhattanites receive a chain letter. Depending on their decision to either pass the letter on or to break the chain, the various characters can encounter romance, fulfillment -- and sudden death.

Release Date: 1985-09-08

Character: Rick

Vote Count: 9

Places in the Heart

In 1935 rural Texas, recently widowed Edna Spaulding struggles to survive with two small children, a farm to run, and very little money in the bank - not to mention a deadly tornado and the unwelcome presence of the Ku Klux Klan. Edna is aided by her beautician sister, Margaret; a blind boarder, Mr. Will; and a would-be thief, Moze, who decides to teach Edna how to plant and harvest cotton.

Release Date: 1984-09-11

Character: Texas Voice #2

Vote Count: 171

Murder in Coweta County

Wallace a wealthy landowner in Meriwether County, Georgia, has virtually unlimited power in the county, including having the sheriff under his control. When he murders a share cropper he thinks that he is powerful enough to get away with it. Because the act of murder took place in Coweta County, it is under the jurisdiction of the Coweta County sheriff who hunts the murderer without trepidation.

Release Date: 1983-02-15

Character: Wilson Turner

Vote Count: 10

Newhart

Dick Loudon and his wife Joanna decide to leave life in New York City and buy a little inn in Vermont. Dick is a how-to book writer, who eventually becomes a local TV celebrity as host of "Vermont Today." George Utley is the handyman at the inn and Leslie Vanderkellen is the maid, with ambitions of being an Olympic Ski champion; she is later replaced by her cousin Stephanie, an heiress who hates her job. Her boyfriend is Dick's yuppie TV producer, Michael Harris. There are many other quirky characters in this fictional little town, including Dick's neighbors Larry, Darryl, and Darryl...three brothers who buy the Minuteman Cafe from Kirk Devane. Besides sharing a name, Darryl and Darryl never speak.

Release Date: 1982-10-02

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 52

The Neighborhood

A neighborhood in Brooklyn reacts to the first black families moving into the community.

Release Date: 1982-04-25

Character: Neighbour

Sanctuary of Fear

A Manhattan priest with a penchant for solving crimes goes to the aid of a young actress. She is becoming enmeshed in a series of bizarre incidents she can't explain, and her complaints to the police have gone ignored.

Release Date: 1979-04-23

Character: Father Wembley

Vote Count: 1