by David Bret
Scarlet Angel (Universal, 1952).
Director: Sidney Salkow. Script: Sidney Salkow, Oscar Brodney. Photography: Russell Metty. With Yvonne de Carlo, Richard Denning, Whitfield Connor, Amanda Blake, Bodil Miller. Rock (2nd billing) played Captain Frank “Panama” Truscott. 78 mins.
Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (Universal, 1952).
Director: Douglas Sirk. Script: Joseph Hoffman, based on a story by Eleanor H Porter. Photography: Clifford Stine. With Piper Laurie, Charles Coburn, Gigi Perreau, Lynn Bari, James Dean, Larry Gates, William Reynolds, Frank Ferguson, Skip Homeler. Rock (2nd billing) played Dan Stebbins. 89 mins.
Horizons West (Universal, 1952).
Director: Budd Boetticher. Script: Louis Stevens. Music: Henry Mancini. Photography: Charles P Boyle. With Julia Adams, Robert Ryan, Raymond Burr, John McIntire, Dennis Weaver, Judith Braun, James Arness. Rock (4th billing) played Neal Hammond. 81 mins.
The Lawless Breed (Universal, 1953).
Director: Raoul Walsh. Script: Bernard Gordon, William Alland. Photography: Irving Glassberg. With Julia Adams, Hugh O’Brian, John McIntire, Lee Van Cleef, Glenn Strange, Dennis Weaver. Rock (top billing) played John Wesley Hardin. 83 mins.
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Seminole (Universal, 1953).
Director: Budd Boetticher. Script: Charles K Peck. Photography: Russell Metty. Music: Henri Mancini. With Anthony Quinn, Barbara Hale, Hugh O’Brian, Richard Carlson, Lee Marvin, James Best, Russell Johnson, Ralph Moody, Dan Poore. Rock (top billing) played Lt. Lance Caldwell. 86 mins.
Sea Devils (RKO Radio, 1953).
Director: Raoul Walsh. Script: Borden Chase. Photography: Wilkie Cooper. Music: Richard Addinsell. With Yvonne de Carlo, Maxwell Reed, Bryan Forbes, Denis O’Dea, Gérard Oury, Michael Goodliffe, Jacques Brunius. Rock (2nd billing) played Captain Gilliatt. 91 mins.
The Golden Blade (Universal, 1953).
Director: Nathan Juran. Script: John Rich. Photography: Maury Gertsman. Music: Henry Mancini. With Piper Laurie, Gene Evans, Kathleen Hughes, George Macready, Steven Geray, Anita Ekberg, Edgar Barrier. Rock (2nd billing) played Harun. 81 mins.
Back to God’s Country (Universal, 1953).
Director: Joseph Pevney. Script: James Oliver Curwood, based on his novel. Photography: Maury Gertsman. With Steve Cochran, Marcia Henderson, Hugh O’ Brian, Chubby Johnson, John Cliff. Rock (top billing) played Peter Keith. 78 mins.
Gun Fury (Columbia 3D, 1953).
Director: Raoul Walsh. Script: Irving Wallace, based on the novel Ten Against Caesar, by Kathleen B George and Robert A Granger. Roy Huggins. Photography: Lester White. With Donna Reed, Phil Carey, Leo Gordon, Neville Brand, Lee Marvin. Rock (top billing) played Ben Warren. 83 mins.
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Taza, Son of Cochise (Universal 3D, 1954).
Director: Douglas Sirk. Script: G D Adams. Photography: Russell Metty. With Barbara Rush, Gregg Palmer, Lance Fuller, Jeff Chandler. Rock (top-billing) played Taza. 79 mins.
Magnificent Obsession (Universal, 1954).
Director: Douglas Sirk. Script: Robert Blees, Lloyd C Douglas. Photography: Russell Metty. With Jane Wyman, Agnes Moorehead, Barbara Rush, Otto Kruger, Gregg Palmer. Rock (2nd billing) played Bob Merrick. 108 mins.
Bengal Brigade [UK: Bengal Rifles] (Universal, 1954).
Director: Laslo Benedek. Script: Richard Simmons, Seton I Miller. Photography: Maury Gertsman. With Arlene Dahl. Rock (top-billing) played Jeff Claybourne. 87 mins.
Captain Lightfoot (Universal, 1955).
Director: Douglas Sirk. Script: W R Burnett. Photography: Irving Glassberg. With Barbara Rush, Jeff Morrow, Kathleen Ryan. Rock (top-billing) played Michael Martin. 91 mins.
One Desire (Universal, 1955).
Director: Jerry Hopper. Script: Conrad Richter, Lawrence Roman. Photography: Maury Gertsman. Music: Henry Mancini. With Anne Baxter, Julie Adams, Natalie Wood, William Hopper. Rock (top-billing) played Clint Saunders. 94 mins.
All That Heaven Allows (Universal, 1956).
Director: Douglas Sirk. Script: Peg Fenwick, based in the novel by Edna L Lee. Photography: Russell Metty. With Jane Wyman, Agnes Moorehead, Virginia Grey, Conrad Nagel, William Reynolds. Rock (2nd billing) played Ron Kirby. 89 mins.
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Never Say Goodbye (Universal, 1956).
Directors: Jerry Hopper, Douglas Sirk (uncredited). Script: Bruce Manning, Luigi Pirandello. Photography: Maury Gertsman. With Cornell Borchers, George Sanders, David Janssen, Shelley Fabares, Ray Collins, Frank Wilcox. Rock (top-billing) played Dr Michael Parker). 96 mins.
Giant (Warner Brothers, 1956).
Director: George Stevens. Script: Fred Guiol, based on the novel by Edna Ferber. Photography: William C Mellor. Music: Dimitri Tomkin. With Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, Carroll Baker, Jane Withers, Mercedes McCambridge, Chill Wills, Sal Mineo, Dennis Hopper, Paul Fix, Rodney Taylor, Judith Evelyn. Rock (2nd billing) played Jordan “Bick” Benedict. 198 mins.
Four Girls in Town (Universal, 1956).
Director/Script: Jack Sher. Photography: Irving Glassberg. With Julie Adams, George Nader, Gia Scala, Elsa Martinelli. Rock (unbilled) was a party guest. 99 mins.
Written on the Wind (Universal, 1956).
Director: Douglas Sirk. Script: George Zuckerman, Robert Wilder. Photography: Russell Metty. With Robert Stack, Lauren Bacall, Dorothy Malone, Robert Keith, Grant Williams, Robert J Wilke. Rock (top-billing) played Mitch Wayne. 99 mins.
Battle Hymn (Universal, 1957).
Director: Douglas Sirk. Script: Charles Grayson, Vincent B Evans. Photography: Russell Metty. With Martha Hyer, Anna Kashfi, Jock Mahoney, Dan Duryea, Jock Mahoney, Alan Hale, Philip Ahn, Carl Benton Reid, Don DeFore, James Edwards. Rock (top-billing) played Colonel Dean Hess. 108 mins.
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Something of Value (MGM, 1957).
Director/Script: Richard Brooks. Photography: Russel Harlan. Music: Miklós Rózsa. With Dana Wynter, Wendy Hiller, Sidney Poitier, William Marshall, Robert Beatty. Rock (top-billing) played Peter McKenzie. 113 mins.
A Farewell to Arms (20th Century Fox, 1957).
Director: Charles Vidor (replacing John Huston). Script: Ben Hecht, based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway. Photography: Oswald Morris, James Wong Howe (uncredited). With Jennifer Jones, Vittorio De Sica, Mercedes McCambridge, Kurt Kaznar, Alberto Sordi, Elaine Stritch. Music: Mario Nascimbene. Rock (top-billing) played Lieutenant Frederic Henry. 152 mins.
The Tarnished Angels (Universal, 1958).
Director: Douglas Sirk. Script: George Zuckerman, based on the novel by William Faulkner. Photography: Irving Glassberg. With Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Jack Carson, Robert Middleton, Troy Donahue. Rock (top-billing) played Burke Devlin. 91 mins.
Twilight for the Gods (Universal, 1958).
Director: Joseph Pevney. Script: Ernest K Gann. Photography: Irving Glassberg. With Arthur Kennedy, Cyd Charisse, Leif Erickson, Charles McGraw, Richard Haydn, Judith Evelyn. Rock (top-billing) played David Bell. 120 mins.
This Earth Is Mine (Universal, 1959).
Director: Henry King. Script: Casey Robinson, based on the novel The Cup & The Sword by Alice Tisdale Hobart. Photography: Russell Metty, Winton C Hoch. With Jean Simmons, Claude Rains, Dorothy McGuire, Anna Lee, Ken Scott. Rock (top-billing) played John Rambeau. 105 mins.
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Pillow Talk (Universal, 1959).
Director: Michael Gordon. Script: Stanley Shapiro, Maurice Richlin. Photography: Arthur E Arling. Music: Frank De Vol. With Doris Day, Tony Randall, Thelma Ritter, Nick Adams, Julia Meade, Marcel Dalio, Lee Patrick, Allen Jenkins, Mary McCarty. Rock (top-billing) played Brad Allen. 105 mins.
The Last Sunset (Universal, 1961).
Director: Robert Aldrich. Script: Dalton Trumbo, based on the novel Sundown At Crazy Horse by Howard Rigsby. Photography: Ernest Laszlo. Music: Ernest Gold. With: Kirk Douglas, Dorothy Malone, Joseph Cotton, Carole Lynley. Rock (top-billing) played Dana Stribling. 115 mins.
Come September (Universal, 1961).
Director: Robert Mul
ligan. Script: Stanley Shapiro, Maurice Richlin. Photography: William H Daniels. With Gina Lollobrigida, Sandra Dee, Bobby Darin, Walter Slezak, Joel Grey, Ronald Howard. Rock (top-billing) played Robert Lawrence Talbot. 112 mins.
Lover Come Back (Universal, 107 mins).
Director: Delbert Mann. Script: Stanley Shapiro, Paul Henning. Photography: Arthur E Arling. Music: Frank De Vol. With Doris Day, Tony Randall, Edie Adams, Jack Oakie, Jack Kruschen. Rock (top-billing) played Jerry Webster. 107 mins.
The Spiral Road (Universal, 1962).
Director: Robert Mulligan. Script: John Lee Mahin, Neil Patterson, based on the novel by Jan de Hartog. Photography: Russell Harlan. Music: Jerry Goldsmith. With Burl Ives, Gena Rowlands. Rock (top-billing) played Anton Drager. 145 mins.
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Marilyn (20th Century Fox, 1963).
Director: Harold Medford. Rock narrated this documentary about the life and career of Marilyn Monroe. 83 mins.
A Gathering of Eagles (Universal, 1963).
Director: Delbert Mann. Script: Robert Pyrosh. Photography: Russell Harlan. Music: Jerry Goldsmith. With Rod Taylor, Leif Erickson, Mary Peach, Kevin McCarthy, Barry Sullivan. Rock (top-billing) played Colonel Jim Caldwell. 115 mins.
Man’s Favourite Sport (Universal, 1964).
Director: Howard Hawks. Script: John Fenton Murray, based on the novel The Girl Who Almost Got Away by Pat Frank. Photography: Russell Harlan. Music: Henry Mancini. With Paula Prentiss. Rock (top-billing) played Roger Willoughby. 120 mins.
Send Me No Flowers (Universal, 1964).
Director: Norman Jewison. Script: Norman Barash, Carroll Moore, based on their play. Photography: Daniel L Fapp. Music: Frank De Vol. With Doris Day, Tony Randall, Hal March, Clint Walker. Rock (top-billing) played George Kimball. 100 mins.
Strange Bedfellows (Universal, 1965).
Director: Melvin Frank. Script: Melvin Frank, Michael Pertwee. Photography: Leo Tover. With Gina Lollobrigida, Gig Young. Rock (top-billing) played Carter Harrison. 99 mins.
A Very Special Favor (Universal, 1965).
Director: Michael Gordon. Script: Stanley Shapiro, Nate Monaster. Photography: Leo Tover. With Leslie Caron, Charles Boyer, Walter Slezak, Dick Shawn, Larry Storch, Nina Talbot. Rock (top-billing) played Paul Chadwick. 105 mins.
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Blindfold (Universal, 1965).
Director: Philip Dunne. Script: Philip Dunne, W H Menger, based on the novel by Lucille Fletcher. Photography: Joseph MacDonald. With Claudia Cardinale, Guy Stockwell, Jack Warden, Alejandro Rey. Rock (top-billing) placed Dr Bartholomew Snow. 98 mins.
Seconds (Paramount, 1966).
Director: John Frankenheimer. Script: Lewis John Carlino, based on the novel by David Ely. Photography: James Wong Howe. Music: Jerry Goldsmith. With Salome Jens, Frances Reid. Rock (top-billing) played Antiochus Wilson. 105 mins.
Tobruk (Universal, 1967).
Director: Arthur Hiller. Script: Leo Gordon. Photography: Russell Harlan. With George Peppard, Nigel Green, Guy Stockwell, Percy Herbert, Jack Watson, Norman Rossington. Rock (top-billing) played Major Donald Craig. 107 mins.
Ice Station Zebra (Filmways/MGM, 1968).
Director: John Sturges. Script: Douglas Heyes, Harry Julian Finl, W R Burnett, based on the novel by Alistair MacLean. Phptography: Daniel L Fapp. Music: Michel Legrand. With Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan. Rock (top-billing) played Captain James Ferraday. 148 mins.
Ruba al Prossimo Tuo (US/UK: A Fine Pair) (National General Films, 1969)
Director: Francesco Maselli. Script: Francesco Maselli, Virgil C Leone, Luisa Montagnana. Photography: Alfio Contini. With Claudia Cardinale. Rock (top-billing) played Mike Harmon. 88 mins.
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The Undefeated (20th Century Fox, 1969).
Director: Andrew McLaglen. Script: James Lee Barrett, Stanley Hough, based on the novel by Lewis Patten. Photography: William H Clothier. Music: Hugo Montenegro. With John Wayne, Roman Gabriel, Tony Aguilar, Marian McCargo, Lee Meriwether, Bruce Cabot, Merlin Olsen, Melissa Newman. Rock (2nd billing) played Colonel James Langden. 118 mins.
Darling Lili (Paramount, 1970).
Director: Blake Edwards. Script: Blake Edwards, William Peter Blatty. Photography: Russell Harlan. Music: Henry Mancini. With Julie Andrews, Jeremy Kemp, Lance Percival, Michael Witney, Jacques Marin, André Maranne. Rock (2nd billing) played Major William Larrabee. 139 mins.
Hornets’ Nest (United Artists, 1970).
Directors: Phil Karlson, Franco Cirono. Script: Stanley Colbert, S S Schweitzer. Photography: Gábor Pogány. Music: Ennio Morricone. With Sylva Koscina, Sergio Fantoni, Mark Colleano. Rock (top-billing) played Captain Turner. 110 mins.
Pretty Maids All in a Row (MGM, 1971).
Director: Roger Vadim. Script: Gene Roddenberry, based on the novel by Francis Pollini. Photography: Charles Rosher. With Angie Dickinson, Telly Savalas, Roddy McDowall, John David Carson. Rock (top-billing) played Tiger McDrew. 97 mins.
Showdown (Universal, 1973).
Director: George Seaton. Script: Theodore Taylor, based on a story by Hank Fine. Photography: Ernest Laszlo. With Dean Martin, John McLiam, Susan Clark, Donald Moffat. Rock (top-billing) played Charles Jarvis. 99 mins.
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Embryo (Ciné Artists, 1976).
Director: Ralph Nelson. Script: Anita Doohan, Jack W Thomas, Photography: Fred Koenekamp. With Diane Ladd, Barbara Carrera, Roddy McDowall, Anne Schedeen. Rock (top-billing) played Dr Paul Holliston. 104 mins.
Avalanche (New World Pictures, 1978).
Director: Corey Allen. Script: Corey Allen, Claude Pola, Frances Doel. Photography: Pierre-William Glenn. With Mia Farrow, Robert Forster, Jeanette Nolan, Rick Moses. Rock (top-billing) played David Shelby. 91 mins.
The Mirror Crack’d (EMI Films, 1980).
Director: Guy Hamilton. Script: Jonathan Hales, Barry Sandler, based on Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d From Side To Side. Photography: Christopher Challis. With Angela Lansbury, Edward Fox, Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, Tony Curtis, Dinah Sheridan, Geraldine Chaplin, Wendy Morgan, Margaret Courtenay. Rock (5th billing) played Jason Rudd. 100 mins.
The Ambassador (Cannon Films, 1984).
Director: J Lee Thompson. Script: Max Jack, Ronald M Cohen. Photography: Adam Greenberg. With Robert Mitchum, Fabio Testi, Ellen Burstyn, Donald Pleasence. Rock (top-billing) played Frank Stevenson. 97 mins.
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Appendix IV: Television/Theatre/Album
Television Features
Note: these do not include Rock’s guest appearances as himself on television shows. The dates are when the shows premiered on US television. Only the principle guest-stars are included.
McMillan & Wife (Universal Studios, 1971-6)
Rock played Stewart McMillan.
Devised by Leonard Stern and produced by Paul Mason.
Regular Cast: Susan Saint James, Nancy Walker, John Schuck.
Once Upon A Dead Man (17 September 1971). 95 mins.
Director: Leonard Stern. With Jack Albertson, Kurt Kasnar, René Auberjonois, Jonathan Harris.
Murder by the Barrel (29 September 1971). 76 mins.
Director: John Astin. With Kenneth Mars, Carmen Zapata.
The Easy Sunday Murder (20 October 1971). 76 mins.
Director: Barry Shear. With Paul Stewart, June Havoc.
Husbands, Wives & Killers (10 November 1971). 76 mins.
Director: Daniel Petrie. With Paul Stewart, Cesare Danova, Tyne Daly, John Abbott.
Death Is A Seven Point Favorite (8 December 1971). 76 mins.
Director: John Astin. With John Anderson, Don Stroud, Andrew Duggan, Jackie Coogan.
The Face of Murder (5 January 1972). 75 mins.
Director: Hy Averback. With Claude Akins, Hazel Court.
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Till Death Us Do Part (16 February 1972). 75 mins.
Director: Robert Michael Lewis. With Linda Watkins, Alice Nunn, Lawrence Pressman.
An Elementary Case of Murder (1 March 1972). 75 mins.
Director: Robert Michael Lewis. With Barbara McNair, Jack Carter, Michael Ansara.
Night of the Wizard (24 September 1972). 75 mins.
Director: Robert Michael Lewis. With Cameron Mitchell, Carole Cook, Eileen Brennan.
Blues for Sally M (22 October 1972). 74 mins.
Director: Robert Michael Lewis. With Keir Dullea, Edie Adams.
Cop of the Year (19 November, 1972). 76 mins.
Director: Robert Michael Lewis. With Edmond O’Brien, Michael Ansara, Kenneth Mars.
Terror Times Two (13 December 1972). 76 mins.
Director: Ron Winston. With Andrew Duggan, Charlotte Stewart, Martin E Brooks.
No Hearts, No Flowers (14 January 1973). 73 mins.
Director: Gary Nelson. With Sheree North, Dick Van Patten.
The Fine Art of Staying Alive (11 March 1973). 73 mins.
Director: Edward M Abroms. With Henry Jones, Cesare Danova, Alan Hale Jr.
Two Dollars on Trouble To Win (1 April 1973). 76 mins.
Director: Gary Nelson. With William Demarest, Jackie Coogan.
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Death of a Monster…Birth of a Legend (30 September 1973). 73 mins.
