Larry Stewart Movies
Larry Stewart spent most of his life in the entertainment industry and was most particularly aligned with television having begun his career in childhood playing the first Video Ranger in Captain Video. He became a television director as an adult primarily during the 1970s, directing over 200 episodes of a wide assortment of series including The Waltons, The Bionic Woman, and Fantasy Island. Stewart's most important contribution to Hollywood, however, has been as the founding president of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (ATAS) when it first separated from the New York-set National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) in 1977. Thanks to Stewart, the new organization was able see that the national Emmy awards were telecast from Hollywood where most television shows originated. After that victory, Stewart continued his campaign to make ATAS unique from its parent organization in order to meet the agendas and creative needs of the Hollywood television industry. After having devoted nearly two decades of service to ATAS, the organization rewarded him with the Syd Cassyd Founders Award in 1995 to show their appreciation. Stewart passed away on February 26, 1997, from a bacterial infection and heart failure. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide- 1986
Face (Dirk Benedict) is given a trial membership at an exclusive country club, an honor that proves to be a mixed blessing when he finds out that Murdock (Dwight Schultz) is already a guest at the club--and that the A-Team's perennial nemesis Fullbright (Jack Ging) is a fully paid-up member. But that's not the worst of it; another member, crooked bank executive McKeever (Kevin McCarthy), is masterminding an elaborate counterfeiting scheme right on the club grounds. Ingredients vital to the action are a deadly golf game, an escape on a private jet, and a most unusual celebrity "roast." ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1984
- R
The appealing Daphne Zuniga makes her inauspicious debut in this dreary slasher film as a pampered freshman sorority pledge haunted by memory lapses and bizarre, violent dreams involving her parents (Clu Gulager and Vera Miles). Despite some progress in dream-research, her condition becomes dangerously unstable during a Hell Week initiation stunt -- held after hours in her father's shopping mall -- further abetted by the discovery that a psychopathic killer has escaped from the local asylum. It's no surprise to learn where said killer turns up next, nor is it much of a challenge determining the killer's identity (a clue: Zuniga's nightmares are actually repressed memories). The cast is summarily whittled down, courtesy of several sharp implements looted from various sporting goods and gardening departments, leaving the filmmakers to tie the loose ends together for the ridiculously contrived climax. ~ Cavett Binion, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Vera Miles, Clu Gulager, (more)
- 1980
An episode of the television series, with Buck and Wilma stuck on a quarantined ship, which was invaded by an ancient space monster. ~ All Movie Guide
- 1979
Budding photojournalist Ben (Eric Scott) takes a picture of his sister Erin (Mary McDonough), who happens to be dressed in fetchingly brief shorts. The photo quickly gains wide exposure at the local army base, and before long Erin is basking in fame as "The Jefferson County Cutie" -- which, needless to say, does not meet with the approval of her father John (Ralph Waite). On a more serious note, the newly widowed Mary Ellen (Judy Norton-Taylor) has become obsessively overprotective of her infant son John Curtis. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
