Orson Bean Movies

Families form patterns. Genes, habits, stories get passed down through the generations, seemingly on repeat.

A young filmmaker arrives in Hollywood and tries to get his first movie financed.

Two plays by William Saroyan portraying writers stymied, inspired, frustrated, excited, listful, wistful, slothful, awed, unnerved, perhaps corrupted...

A Hollywood agent finds himself in debt to a powerful bookie. To make a fast buck, he creates a team of exceptionally talented skateboarders and...

Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story takes a deeper look at the life and career of Boris Karloff, from 1931 to 1969, exploring films such as The...

A priest is suspected in the brutal murder of a young stripper. To prove his innocence, he descends into the world of strip clubs and pornography,...

In this charming TV adaptation of the 1947 film classic, a kindly old gentleman (Ed Wynn) working as a Macy's department store Santa causes a...

As a child, Frank McKlusky watched his daredevil father "Madman" McKlusky become comatose in an ill-fated motorcycle stunt. Now as a risk-avoiding...

The Star Wagon is a play in black and white starring Dustin Hoffman.

A down-on-his-luck film director sets fire to his home so he can collect the insurance money and fund his new movie. But crime apparently does pay,...

In Game of LIfe, a children's soccer team is the common link for a multi-layered story giving a candid look into the intersecting lives of five...

A young hustler tries to get drug money by selling a boy to a middle-aged man; his plans are disrupted when the kid dies.

Spy spoof about a double agent involved in a phony death plot. Episode of the Wide World of Mystery.

Short promotional film for a Saturday Evening Post sales convention.

One man with a website who forever changed the media paradigm, upending the traditional press and changing the ground rules of political journalism.

The writer of a bad TV series begins to rethink his life when he meets and falls in love with a beautiful actress.

Hank Dingo is the world's smallest private detective with the world's biggest ego. A rough, tough gumshoe full of attitude, he doesn't crack cases......

The life of a young Jesuit seminarian is turned upside down when he falls in love with a young woman while working as a volunteer at a soup kitchen.

A short film directed by Rupert Sanders based on a story written by Sanders and Milo Ross.

A touching story as a man learns how to live his life again after he inherits an urn of ashes by discovering the life and friends of the person...