Acting

Joshua Bryant

Born 1940-07-02 · Norfolk, Virginia, USA

Joshua Bryant is an American actor, director, author, and speaker who is the founder of the Taos Talking Pictures Film Festival in Taos, New Mexico. Bryant was born in Norfolk, Virginia. After attending the Pasadena Playhouse College of Theater Arts and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and serving for three years in the Signal Corps, he began a career in the theater that eventually led to his starring, guest-starring in several television shows. Bryant's movie credits have included acting roles in films and television movies, such as The Curious Female (1970), Black Noon (1971), Enter the Devil (1972), A Scream in the Streets (1973), The Morning After (1974), Trapped Beneath the Sea (1974), Framed (1975), The Night That Panicked America (1975), Maneaters Are Loose! (1978), Salem's Lot (1979), First Monday in October (1981), Gone Are the Dayes (1984), The Education of Allison Tate (1986), and Project Eliminator (1991) He was also active in television, including guest roles on Columbo, Little House on the Prairie, M*A*S*H (three episodes), The Rockford Files (four episodes) and Barnaby Jones (four episodes). For four years, Bryant hosted the syndicated series, Game Warden Wildlife Journal.

Acting credits

The Deliberate Stranger poster
6.3

Based on a true story, this film depicts the life of Ted Bundy, the serial killer. In 1974, after having murdered several young women, he leaves Seattle for Utah, where he is a law student and where other girls disappear. It takes the cooperation of a number of police forces to work efficiently on this case. Soon, but not soon enough, the police eliminate endless possibilities and close in on him. Bundy is tried in the media and his good-boy attitude brings him sympathy but also the hatred of many.

The Deliberate Stranger

1986

Framed poster
6.6

Joe Don Baker plays a gambler who is framed for a crime he did not commit. A corrupt legal system leads him into a plea bargain and four years behind bars. By the time he gets out of prison, he's determined to put together the pieces of his frame-up and dole out the justice he was denied to those responsible.

Framed

1975

A Scream in the Streets poster
4.5

Two Los Angeles detectives are assigned to track down and arrest a brutal rapist-murderer terrorizing the city. Their job is complicated by the fact that the killer is able to avoid capture because he can pose as a woman.

A Scream in the Streets

1973

The Thanksgiving Promise poster
6.0

A teenage boy is torn between his love for an injured Canadian goose that he has found and his agreement to fatten and kill it for an approaching Thanksgiving dinner for his neighbors.

The Thanksgiving Promise

1986

The Curious Female poster
4.3

In the year 2177, the world is under the control of a master computer. For recreation, however, people are allowed to view sex tapes.

The Curious Female

1970

The Rockford Files: Backlash of the Hunter poster
10.0

A woman hires Rockford to discover if her father's death was homicide or suicide.

The Rockford Files: Backlash of the Hunter

1974

Project Eliminator poster
3.7

A scientist working in a top-secret government weapons technology research becomes so disillusioned that he destroys his latest creation: an ultra-sophisticated flying attack laser. Soon, terrorists who want him to re-create the invention kidnap him. A shady government contact recruits two veteran Special Forces operatives Ron Morrell and John Slade who soon find themselves in a frantic race against the clock to rescue the scientist and keep his deadly knowledge a secret.

Project Eliminator

1991

First Monday in October poster
6.2

For the first time in history a woman is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, where she becomes a friendly rival to a liberal associate.

First Monday in October

1981

Secrets of a Mother and Daughter poster
7.0

A widowed mother, Ava Pryce (Katharine Ross) and daughter Susan Decker (Linda Hamilton) clash over the same man, a West Coast restaurant the owner named Alex Shepherd (Michael Nouri).

Secrets of a Mother and Daughter

1983

The Night That Panicked America poster
6.9

A dramatization of the Oct. 30, 1938 mass panic that Orson Welles' radio play, "The War of the Worlds" accidentally provoked.

The Night That Panicked America

1975

The Abduction of Allison Tate poster
10.0

When wealthy real estate developer Richard Tate seizes land belonging to a Native American tribe for his next construction project, a group of young men from the tribe decide to kidnap Tate's daughter Allison as a means of persuading her father to abandon the project and return their land. As time drags on with no resolution in sight, Allison begins to sympathize with the plight of her captors and joins them in their fight against her father.

The Abduction of Allison Tate

1986

Me poster
10.0

Tomby, a challenged teenage boy, manipulates his family who cater to his every desire. Only his twin brother Greg treats him as a human being capable of development. A powerful drama / dark comedy with a surprising ending.

Me

1973

Maneaters Are Loose! poster
10.0

Terror stalks a small California community when a broke and depressed animal owner and trainer is forced to abandon his tigers and let them fend for themselves in the nearby wilderness.

Maneaters Are Loose!

1978

Killer on Board poster
5.9

The passengers on a cruise ship are seized by panic when a deadly virus begins killing off passengers and crew.

Killer on Board

1977

Black Noon poster
6.5

Reverend John Keyes and his wife, Lorna, on their way to a new congregation out west, break down in the desert and are rescued by the residents of a nearby town. At first warm and welcoming, the townspeople become more and more solicitous of John and insistent that he stay on as their minister, against the wishes of Lorna, who goes unheeded and slowly becomes deathly ill. Will John realize the danger before it is too late?

Black Noon

1971

Killing Stone poster
7.0

Returning from prison after serving ten years on trumped-up charges, a freelance writer tries to uncover the truth behind a homicide involving the son of a U.S. senator in this pilot for a prospective series.

Killing Stone

1978

Trapped Beneath the Sea poster
6.4

Based on an incident that occurred off the coast of Florida in 1973, this film tells the story of four men who find themselves trapped in a mini-submarine in the ocean depths.

Trapped Beneath the Sea

1974

Suddenly, Love poster
8.3

Young lovers — she's a child of the ghetto, determined to escape her alcoholic, bickering parents; he's a socially prominent attorney with a long-standing health problem — attempt to defy every obstacle to their romance and ultimate marriage.

Suddenly, Love

1978

Gone Are the Dayes poster
8.0

After the Days family witnesses a gang shooting in a Japanese restaurant, the police persuades them to testify against mobster Delgado. Detective Mitchell gets the job to hide the four until the trial. But how shall he keep two nervous adults and their two teenage kids under control?

Gone Are the Dayes

1984

To Climb a Mountain poster
7.0

To Climb a Mountain is a made-for-TV movie starring Emilio Estevez

To Climb a Mountain

1982

Enter the Devil poster
5.1

People are disappearing in the wastelands. An occult researcher discovers that a devil-worshipping cult is responsible. Her inquiries lead her into great danger. Who can she trust?

Enter the Devil

1972

The Morning After poster
6.7

A successful public relations man's refusal to admit his alcoholism jeopardizes his career, his family and his life. ABC Movie of the Week.

The Morning After

1974

Wait Until Dark poster
6.5

A videotaped production of the Frederick Knott play in which three criminals play an elaborate scam on a blind woman who is in possession of a doll that, unbeknownst to her, is very incriminating. The play had already been famously adapted for the screen in 1967 starring Audrey Hepburn. This 1982 version was frequently shown on HBO in the 1980s.

Wait Until Dark

1982