Shelly Novack

Acting

Shelly Novack

Born 1944-01-10 · Los Angeles, California, USA

Shelly Novack was a star athlete at Venice High School in California. He later played football at Santa Monica City College, Long Beach State, and was drafted by the San Diego Chargers in 1965. He became an actor through football, much like some other athletes do. Shelly won the first Toyota Grand Prix Pro Celebrity Race in 1977. Although he was a decent actor his passion was sports. - IMDb Mini Biography

Acting credits

Airport poster
6.5

An airport manager tries to keep his terminals open during a snowstorm, while a suicide bomber plots to blow up a Boeing 707 airliner in flight.

Airport

1970

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here poster
5.8

While confronting the disapproving father of his girlfriend Lola, Native American man Willie Boy kills the man in self-defense, triggering a massive manhunt, led by Deputy Sheriff Christopher Cooper.

Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here

1969

The Intruders poster
5.0

The James and Younger outlaw gangs ride into town, and it is up to the local marshal, who has lost both his nerve and his gun skills, to stop them.

The Intruders

1970

Kansas City Bomber poster
5.8

Roller-derby skater K.C. Carr tries to balance her desire for a happy personal life and her dreams of stardom.

Kansas City Bomber

1972

Vigilante Force poster
5.0

In a small town in California, the quiet citizens find their lives disrupted by boisterous, lawless oil-field workers who have infested their community. One resident, Ben Arnold, enlists his brother Aaron, a Vietnam veteran, to assemble a group of men to restore law and order to the town. Though Aaron's crew succeeds, the newfound power goes to some of their heads, and Aaron and Ben must again reclaim the town for the citizens.

Vigilante Force

1976

Cop on the Beat poster
4.7

An aging street cop goes after a gang of toughs involved in several robbery-rapes on his beat in this pilot (a spin-off from "Police Story") for the 1975-76 series. The veteran cop concept also was the basis for "The Blue Knight" series at the same time — and that, too, was based on a Joseph Wambaugh creation. Also known as "The Return of Joe Forrester."

Cop on the Beat

1975

The 48-Hour Mile poster
10.0

An unusual assignment for a private investigator involves two women who are in love with the same man.

The 48-Hour Mile

1970

Superdome poster
4.5

It's the biggest event of the year — the Super Bowl! But the star players for the Cougars, gathered in New Orleans for the big game, are preoccupied with some serious off-the-field issues. Dave Walecki's marriage to his wife Nancy is falling apart, while Jim McCauley is involved in a shady deal with a management firm that could destroy his career. But that's nothing compared to the real drama. There's an assassin killing off many of the team's personnel (as well as their chances of winning)!

Superdome

1978

Love’s Dark Ride poster
6.7

A young advertising executive, blinded in a gun accident, attempts to rebuild his life and career by living through a nightclub entertainer who befriends him.

Love’s Dark Ride

1978

The Desperate Miles poster
7.0

A disabled Vietnam vet sets out to prove that disabled people don't have to be helpless by starting a 180-mile trip in a wheelchair. On the way he finds his life is endangered by a deranged truck driver.

The Desperate Miles

1975

The Letters poster
6.8

Story of people whose lives were changed because of a year-long delay in the delivery of some letters.

The Letters

1973

Toke poster
NR

Vietnam vet hitchhikes to Mexico, and goes on a revenge-o-matic.

Toke

1973