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Rachel Marcus

Marcus' first acting job, apart from school plays, was when at 10-years-old she landed the starring role of Beatrice 'Booky' Thomson in Booky and the Secret Santa, a made for TV film based upon the novel series by Bernice Thurman Hunter.

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

The book has also been made into a made for TV film in 1978 starring Morgan Freeman in an earlier role ("Uncle Hammer") and used music composed by Fred Karlin.

Scattered Dreams

Scattered Dreams: The Kathryn Messenger Story is a 1993 made for TV drama film which based on a true story.


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A Deadly Game

Charlie Muffin, a 1979 made-for-TV film, later re-released as A Deadly Game

Astoria–Megler Bridge

It stands in for the doomed fictional Madison Bridge in Irwin Allen's 1979 made-for-TV disaster movie The Night the Bridge Fell Down.

Billy Goldenberg

He also composed the scores to countless films and made-for-TV movies; including Onassis: The Richest Man in the World, 18 Again!, Guilty Conscience, Helter Skelter, The Legend of Lizzie Borden, (Sidney Sheldon's) Rage of Angels and hundreds of others.

Booky's Crush

First announced in 2008, Booky's Crush is the third in a series of made-for-TV films about Beatrice 'Booky' Thomson, a little girl growing up in Toronto during the depression era.

Boško Radonjić

In the 1998 made-for-TV movie Witness to the Mob, a very loose depiction of the life of Sammy the Bull, Radonjich is played by Stephen Payne.

Brixton Karnes

Brixton Karnes (born February 5, 1960) is an American actor who starred as Steve Letourneau in the 2000 made-for-TV movie The Mary Kay Letourneau Story, as well as the team leader in the short-lived but well received Team Knight Rider, a 1997–1998 TV series based on the original Knight Rider series.

Chill factor

A Cold Night's Death, a 1973 American made-for-TV film, also called The Chill Factor

Conrad Yama

Highlights include The King of Marvin Gardens, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, the made for TV version of Year of the Dragon as Pa Eng, the father of George Takei's character, and Midway as Admiral Nobutake Kondō.

Death of Tina Watson

Lifetime produced a made-for-TV movie, Fatal Honeymoon, based on the death of Tina Watson, starring Harvey Keitel, Billy Miller and Amber Clayton.

Death Train

Death Train, also known as Detonator, is a 1993 made-for-TV movie featuring Pierce Brosnan, Patrick Stewart, Christopher Lee, Ted Levine, and Alexandra Paul.

E. J. Peaker

She co-starred with Robert Morse in the 1968 musical television series That's Life and played Minnie Fay in the 1969 movie Hello, Dolly! She was the associate producer of the 1993 made-for-TV movie Broken Promises: Taking Emily Back.

Fanny Kemble

Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble (1999), fictionalised made-for-TV movie adapted from her Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838–1839, starring Jane Seymour and Keith Carradine.

Get Smart, Again!

Get Smart, Again! is a made-for-TV movie based on the 1965-1970 NBC/CBS television series, Get Smart!, which originally aired February 26, 1989 on ABC (the network that rejected the original pilot for the Get Smart! TV series).

Gideon's Trumpet

A made-for-TV movie based on the book was released in 1980, starring Henry Fonda as Clarence Earl Gideon, José Ferrer as Abe Fortas and John Houseman as Earl Warren (though Warren's name was never mentioned in the film; he was billed simply as "The Chief Justice").

Ginger Grant

In the 1978 made-for-TV-movie, Rescue from Gilligan's Island; Tina Louise refused to return, for she believed the role had typecast her forever as a glamor queen, and was replaced by Judith Baldwin.

Gladys Nederlander

In 1982, she became executive producer for Nederlander Television and Film Productions which produced made-for-TV movies including A Case of Libel with Edward Asner and Daniel J. Travanti and Intimate Strangers starring Stacey Keach.

Graveyard Disturbance

Graveyard Disturbance (aka A Night in a Cemetery and Una notte al cimitero) is a 1987 Italian horror made-for-TV movie directed by Lamberto Bava and written by Dardano Sacchetti.

Happy Bottom Riding Club

A made-for-TV movie aired on the CBS TV network, Pancho Barnes (1988), starring Valerie Bertinelli as Pancho, featured a fictionalized version of Barnes' life and events relating to The Happy Bottom Riding Club.

Jacob Kraemer

In 2003, Kraemer played Andrew Smart in the CBS made for TV movie, The Elizabeth Smart Story.

Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen

— Made-for-TV movie directed by Ferry Radax for the WDR featuring d'Adelswärd-Fersen, Nino Cesarini, and a lot of other historical Capri celebrities.

Jaswinder Kaur Sidhu

The story of Jassi and Sukhwinder is the subject of Murder Unveiled, a made-for-TV movie.

John Clem

In 1963, Walt Disney produced a made-for-TV film entitled Johnny Shiloh, with Kevin Corcoran in the title role.

Josh Saviano

Other roles were as Kid Belz in the movie The Wrong Guys in 1988 and Max Plotkin in the made-for-TV movie Camp Cucamonga in 1990.

Kirk Baltz

Kirk has appeared in many made-for-TV movies and he starred in the 1999 miniseries To Serve and Protect.

Kristin Fairlie

Kristin starred in the Made for TV movie Gracie's Choice opposite Kristen Bell, Anne Heche and Diane Ladd a film that garnered an Emmy Nomination for Heche.

Laura Leighton

Leighton was seen in the made-for-TV movie Love Notes on Lifetime the western/horror/thriller The Burrowers directed by J.T Petty and the Hallmark Channel movies Daniel's Daughter and Mending Fences, opposite Angie Dickinson.

Lillian Gordy Carter

In 1977, Lillian Carter appeared in a cameo, as herself, in the made-for-TV movie, "Lucy Calls the President", starring Lucille Ball.

Manon Rhéaume

She guest-starred as herself in the made-for-TV movie A Beachcombers Christmas with Tiger Williams and Jyrki Lumme.

Marilyn Bell

The story of Bell's historic swim was told in the 2001 made-for-TV film Heart: The Marilyn Bell Story with Caroline Dhavernas portraying Marilyn Bell.

Marisol Nichols

From 2000 to 2002, she played Bahraini Princess, (Sheika) Meriam Al Khalifa in the highly anticipated, true, made for TV movie The Princess and the Marine.

Mary Ann Pascal

Pascal broke into television in 1984, at first in guest roles on such series as Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer and Hotel, and in a few made-for-TV movies before landing what is perhaps her best known role to date on Showtime's Brothers, in 1986.

Million Dollar Infield

Million Dollar Infield is a 1982 made-for-TV film, starring Bonnie Bedelia and Rob Reiner.

Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story

Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story is a 1986 made-for-TV biographical drama film, starring Farrah Fawcett in the title role, and Tom Conti.

Robert R. Garwood

The made-for-TV film The Last P.O.W.? The Bobby Garwood Story, starring Ralph Macchio and Martin Sheen, was released in 1992.

Same Place the Fly Got Smashed

The made-for-TV movie came out in 1990 and starred Lindsay Wagner.

Sancho Gracia

As well, Gracia has worked in Australia, performing as a regular cast member in the 1982 television series, Runaway Island and in the 1991 made-for-TV film, Pirates Island.

Secrets of the Mountain

Secrets of the Mountain is the first in a series of a made for TV movie produced by Procter & Gamble and Walmart aimed at families.

St John Fisher Catholic High School, Dewsbury

Victoria O'Keefe (1969-1990) — stage and film actor best known for playing nuclear war survivor Jane Beckett in made-for-TV movie "Threads" (1984).

Superchick

Since then, their music has appeared in several movies and television shows, including the movie Legally Blonde, the made for TV Disney movie Cadet Kelly, and the recent movie To Save a Life.

The Dumb Waiter

1987 – Robert Altman directed a made-for-TV feature film version of The Dumb Waiter, starring John Travolta and Tom Conti, filmed in Canada and first televised in the United States on WABC-TV on 12 May 1987, as part of Altman's two-part series entitled Basements; part one is Pinter's first play The Room.

The Gary Coleman Show

The half-hour series was based on Coleman's 1982 made-for-TV movie The Kid with the Broken Halo.

The Real World Movie: The Lost Season

The Real World Movie: The Lost Season is a 2002 made-for-TV fiction movie produced by MTV, based on their reality series The Real World.

They All Laughed

They All Laughed was the last theatrical film in which Audrey Hepburn played a lead role (she would later star in a made-for-TV film entitled Love Among Thieves and a cameo role in Always).

Vivien Endicott-Douglas

Her works include films such Finn on the Fly and the made-for-TV movie Fox, based on the story of Canadian hero Terry Fox.

Well of Souls

In Thirdspace, a made-for-TV episode of the science fiction series Babylon 5, the Vorlons attempt to connect with what they believe to be their own Well of Souls by building a special kind of jumpgate.

William Link

They also collaborated on several made-for-TV movies, including The Gun, My Sweet Charlie, That Certain Summer, The Judge and Jake Wyler, The Execution of Private Slovik, Charlie Cobb: A Nice Night for a Hanging, and Blacke's Magic; the last, which starred Hal Linden and Harry Morgan, was also developed into a short-lived TV series.

Young Pioneers

Young Pioneers' Christmas, a second 1978 made-for-TV film based on the novel