Jeff Conaway Movies
Though
Jeff Conaway achieved TV fame by playing an actor who couldn't find work, he had in fact been a busy professional since childhood. At age ten,
Conaway made his first Broadway appearance in All the Way Home. Eleven years later, after completing his education at N.Y.U.,
Conaway was seen in his first film,
Jennifer on My Mind (1971). He played Kenicke in the New York staging of Grease, then repeated the role for the 1978 film adaptation. Also in 1978, he began a three-year run on the TV sitcom
Taxi, in the role of Bobby Wheeler, an incredibly luckless aspiring actor who made ends meet by driving a hack.
Conaway then delved into the realm of "fantastic television," appearing as Prince Erick Greystone in Wizards and Warriors (1983) and (occasionally) as Zack Allen on
Babylon 5 (1992). Active in the direct-to-video market,
Jeff Conaway both directed and acted in
Bikini Summer 2 (1992). His problems with substance escalated in later years, and after appearing on several intervention-style reality shows, Conaway succumbed to various health problems and died on May 27, 2011. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

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- 2008
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Season two of the popular reality show Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew begins with the same premise as the first season: to film the three week rehabilitation process of a group of celebrities, facilitated by widely respected internist and addiction medicine specialist Dr. Drew Pinsky. The celebrities seeking treatment in season two include Rodney King, Tawny Kitaen, and others, as well as the return of season one cast member Jeff Conway. Sober for 13 years, actor Gary Busey also appears as the group's sobriety coach. ~ Cammila Collar, Rovi
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- Starring:
- Drew Pinsky

- 2006
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Their lives going nowhere fast, two middle-aged friends from Los Angeles start up their own business in a bid to gain the respect of their friends and colleagues. As young children, Brenda (Sean Young) and her immigrant friend Jonathan (Christian Schoyen) were bullied mercilessly. Now they're adults, and not much has changed. In an attempt to get their lives on track, they take a shot at the American Dream. But while owning your own business is easy, getting to the top in a city like L.A. is nearly impossible. Seduced by the prospect of success and caught up dreams of fast cars and fat bank accounts, Brenda and Jonathan quickly realize that they don't know the first thing about running their own business. When their latest client Chuck (Danny Trejo) discovers they've been living the dream on his dime, the two friends are in for a rude awakening. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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- 2002
- R
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A gaggle of young adults discovers a cache of gold in an abandoned mine. Little do they realize that the vengeful ghost of the long-dead miner (Vernon Wells) protects the hoard with a gaffing hook, pick axe, and shovel, despite the efforts of the sheriff (John Phillip Law) and zany Aunt Nelly (Karen Black). ~ Buzz McClain, Rovi
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- 2000
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A vacation in paradise turns into a bloodbath in this modern-dress horror story. Six students from an exclusive East Coast university head down to Florida for spring break, but while sun and fun are the first order of business, things take a turn for the worst when the friends head out for a night on the town, and one of them is brutally murdered at a dance club. Over the next three days, three more of the vacationers turn up dead, and the two survivors have to figure out who the killer is and why they've been targeted -- before it's too late to save themselves. Do You Wanna Know A Secret stars Joseph Lawrence (better known as Joey Lawrence when he was the teen-dream star of Blossom), Chad Allen, Dorie Barton, and Jack McGee.
~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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- Starring:
- Joey Lawrence, Chad Allen, (more)

- 1999
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Although the popular science fiction series Babylon 5 had officially run its course, one final two-hour episode was deemed necessary to segue into the spinoff series Crusade. Thus, on January 3, 1999, the TNT Network offered the world premiere of Babylon 5: A Call to Arms. The year is 2266: After several years' development, the first destroyer prototypes based on the White Stars (proposed by B5 crew member Delenn in the fifth-season episode "Movements of Fire and Shadow") have been completed. While inspecting the results, Alliance President Sheridan (Bruce Boxleitner) experences disturbing visions of a future Apocalypse -- and of a doomsaying stranger named Galen. Sheridan's visions seem poised to become reality when the Drakh, the dreaded allies of the defeated Shadows, mount a counteroffensive against humanity. It is up to a new team of space warriors, manning the twin battlecruisers "Excalibur" and "Victory," to prevent Galen's predictions from coming true. Babylon 5: A Call to Arms was written by J. Michael Straczynski, and later novelized by Robert Sheckley. As for Crusade, that oft-postponed series finally debuted on June 9, 1999. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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- Starring:
- Bruce Boxleitner, Jerry Doyle, (more)

- 1999
- R
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At Ronald Reagan High School, the power elite clique consists of Courtney Shane (Rose McGowan), Julie Freeman (Rebecca Gayheart), Marcie Fox (Julie Benz), and Liz Purr (Charlotte Roldan). The four girls control the school through a combination of beauty, sex, and intimidation. Of the four, only Liz is actually liked by the less fortunate members of the student body, and Liz is also the only one who can keep Courtney, the vicious group leader, in check. Unfortunately for Liz, she's also the only thing keeping Courtney from becoming prom queen. To achieve her goal, Courtney convinces Marcie and Julie to kidnap Liz on her 17th birthday and force her to eat until she's too fat to win. The three sneak into Liz's house, tie her up, stick a jawbreaker in her mouth, and gag her to keep her quiet before they throw her into the trunk of a car. Once they decide to free her, though, they find Liz has choked to death. Courtney decides not to go to the police; her brilliant idea is to take the body back home and create a death scene where Liz is strangled during kinky sex. Predictably, the girls screw it up, and they end up with a witness, social outcast Fern Mayo (Judy Greer). To buy her silence, Courtney draws her into the clique, transforming much more than just her outward appearance. The identity of Fern disappears, to be replaced by the very popular Vylette. In parallel to the rise of Vylette, we witness Julie's descent. Overcome with guilt over Liz's death, Julie drops out of the clique, and without the veil of protection from the others, she is now a target of abuse throughout the school. Courtney's ordeal has just begun as Vylette now challenges her for prom queen and Julie, with the help of another outcast, Zach (Chad Christ), now wants to reveal the truth behind Liz's death. ~ Ron Wells, Rovi
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- Starring:
- Rose McGowan, Rebecca Gayheart, (more)

- 1999
- R
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Comedian Andy Kaufman gave performances that were bizarre and difficult to categorize, in which he might do or say almost anything: show cartoons, impersonate Elvis Presley, play conga drums while singing children's songs, read aloud from The Great Gatsby, or take the audience out for milk and cookies. Written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski and directed by Milos Forman (the team behind The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)), this biopic takes an in-depth look at Kaufman's life and art, with Jim Carrey as Kaufman, who could (and would) be any number of different people onstage: the quiet and childlike man, the little foreign guy, the overbearing showbiz "professional," the violently obnoxious wrestler, or the world's worst lounge singer. As Kaufman rose from comedy clubs to guest appearances on Saturday Night Live and a spot on the TV sitcom Taxi, his performances became more complex and dangerous -- so much so that when word got out in 1984 that he was suffering from lung cancer, many fans and associates thought it was just another bizarre stunt; the disease took his life later that year. Man on the Moon features Danny De Vito as Kaufman's manager George Shapiro, Courtney Love as his girlfriend Lynne Margulies, Paul Giamatti as his friend Bob Zmuda, and David Letterman, Judd Hirsch, Marilu Henner, Carol Kane, and Christopher Lloyd as themselves. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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- Starring:
- Jim Carrey, Danny DeVito, (more)

- 1998
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This feature-length sci-fi adventure is based on the television series Babylon 5. This time, the crew members stumble across an ancient device that can control their minds. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
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- Starring:
- Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, (more)

- 1994
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As part of a promotional book tour, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) agrees to appear in a TV informercial. Also appearing is Matt Matthews (Anthony Zerbe), a once-popular author laid low by alcoholism. It turns out that Matthews--who of course is an old friend of Jessica's--is acquainted with a member of the informercial's studio audience, and with a blackmailing professional extra, both of whom are murdered in the course of the action. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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- 1993
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The 200th episode of Murder, She Wrote finds Jessica (Angela Lansbury) supporting an effort to preserve a New York brownstone where Ernest Hemingway once wrote a novel. At the center of the conflict is a feud between Jessica's editor and a powerful land developer. Murder enters the scene when the brother of the man who opposes destroying the building is killed. And it is a bad kill. And nobody is dreaming about the lions. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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- 1993
- R
A cut-rate actor tires of trying to boost his career through normal channels and so decides to murder his way to the top in this lurid melodrama. Stand-in Victor Brandt, starts out by killing the rising international star Werner Soehnen during the filming of a historical romance. Sure enough, he gets the lead and ends up on a European estate learning horseback riding tricks from stunt coordinator/aspiring actress Tammy Brandon. She is angry that the part she was to play in the film was stolen by the pill-popping blonde, Crista Kelly. Victor is attracted to Tammy, and simultaneously woos her while continuing to murder the producer and his girl friend. Meanwhile, the mistress of the estate, Greta begins to suspect that something is horribly amiss with Victor. She tries to warn Tammy, but Tammy, thinking that lesbian Greta is only saying this out of jealousy, disbelieves her. Poor Greta doesn't live too long after that. Eventually Crista arrives and is immediately suspicious of the recent deaths. This suspicion leads Victor to tell Tammy the truth, leaving her to decide whether to join or stop his killing spree. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
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- 1993
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Star Wars saga costar Billy Dee Williams once more takes to the Great Beyond in Alien Intruder. The film is set in the future and the plot concerns a malevolent extraterrestrial virus which insinuates itself upon the Earth. Cleverly, the virus takes the shape of voluptuous Tracy Scoggins. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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- Starring:
- Billy Dee Williams, Melinda Armstrong, (more)

- 1992
- R
A movie star (Wendy McDonald) and her body double (Kathy Shower) square off for the affections of an oblivious Hollywood executive (David Heavener). ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi
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- 1992
- R
A couple of wealthy young California sisters decide to hit a few birds with one stone when they, with the help of some homeless folks, hold a talent show/bikini contest. ~ Kristie Hassen, Rovi
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- 1991
- R
Set in a strip club, and stylistically bearing more than a passing resemblance to Flashdance, this drama attempts to show the peelers as people who consider stripping an art form and therefore do all they can to find new and aesthetically pleasing ways to take off their clothes for a leering, drunken group of aficionados. Much of the story centers on the attempts of one stripper to use her experiences at the club to hone her dancing skills so she can win a dance contest and get a scholarship at a prestigious school. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
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- Starring:
- Jeff Conaway, Michelle Foreman, (more)

- 1991
- R
Fashion photographer Andi turns to private eye Dave to help clear her of a murder she claims to have been framed for. Including scantily-dressed models and plots concerning drugs and blackmail, this thriller contains nudity, violence, profanity and sexual situations--though one could never guess from the title. ~ Kristie Hassen, Rovi
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- 1991
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Dom DeLuise's son Michael holds the directorial reins in the direct-to-video Almost Pregnant. Onetime "Charlie's Angel" Tanya Roberts plays a woman who'll do anything to become pregnant. Since her hubby Jeff Conaway can't deliver the goods, she decides to rely upon a surrogate. Her first new partner turns out to have had a vasectomy-and this is only the beginning. The director's dad makes an amusing appearance in this strident but undeniably funny bedroom farce. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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- 1991
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On a lark, a bored housewife (Delia Sheppard) decides to masquerade as her twin sister, a stripper (also Delia Sheppard), and finds that men can't tell the difference between the two. However, she becomes involved with a serial killer intent on murdering both her and her sister. ~ John Bush, Rovi
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- 1991
- R
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In this thriller, a free-lance photographer is falsely convicted of possessing cocaine and is sentenced to jail time and 400 hours of community service. For the latter she must work with the LAPD and take favorable pictures of them doing their jobs for a public relations campaign. She willingly does this so she can regain custody of her young son. The trouble begins when she snaps a picture of Officer Eddie Martin, the cop who got her falsely arrested, killing a pimp. Unfortunately, the corrupt cop catches her catching him and now her life and the life of her son is in terrible danger. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
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- 1991
- NR
Joey Travolta and Jeff Conaway star in this black comedy about Geno, a talentless lounge singer whose career is going nowhere. A low-level mafioso makes Geno an offer -- he'll front him some much-needed cash in exchange for killing a bookie who owes him money. Geno isn't a murderer by nature but takes the assignment, only to lose his nerve once he arrives at the bookie's home. The bookie finds the whole situation very amusing, until he starts playing with Geno's gun -- and accidentally kills himself. So can Geno take credit for the killing without the police getting wind of all this? ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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- 1990
- R
In this horror film, after his recent divorce, Jason (David Naughton) takes up residence in a converted railroad car with the intention of finishing up his college education. His plans are soon disrupted, however, when the ghost of a vengeful railroad conductor begins to haunt and slay Jason's visitors. ~ Iotis Erlewine, Rovi
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- Starring:
- David Naughton, Judie Aronson, (more)

- 1989
- PG
When a movie star's ghost takes to haunting a writer's home on the beach, the two put their heads together to uncover the truth behind her suspicious demise. ~ Iotis Erlewine, Rovi
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- Starring:
- Audrey Landers, Judy Landers, (more)

- 1989
- R
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John Garfieldesque leading man Robert Forster plays a cop in The Banker. The title character is above-suspicion financier Duncan Regehr, whom Forster suspects of being a serial killer of prostitutes. Such is the banker's power that Forster is threatened with unemployment, or death, or both if he acts upon his suspicions. The detective is forced to use the "give him enough rope" ploy-and nearly ends up with his own neck in the noose. Old favorites Richard Roundtree, Leif Garrett, Jeff Conaway, and E. J. Peaker dot the supporting cast of this contemporary Jack-the-Ripper chiller. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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- Starring:
- Robert Forster, Duncan Regehr, (more)

- 1989
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Valerie Breiman and Claudia Christian play the two sisters of the title. Containing very little dialogue, the film details the ambitions and sensual yearnings of the two heroines. The whole production has the rhythm and texture of a poem--and for good reason. Tale of Two Sisters was based on a poem written Charlie Sheen, which, like most of his verse, has made the Hollywood rounds several times without ever actually being published. Sheen also "stars" in Tale of Two Sisters, albeit only as offscreen narrator. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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- Starring:
- Valerie Breiman, Claudia Christian, (more)