John Gowans

Acting

John Gowans

Born 1943-12-23

Acting credits

Oppenheimer poster
8.0

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

Oppenheimer

2023

Star Trek: The Motion Picture poster
6.5

When an unidentified alien destroys three powerful Klingon cruisers, Captain James T. Kirk returns to the newly transformed U.S.S. Enterprise to take command.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

1979

No Other Love poster
8.0

A young marginally intellectually-disabled girl and boy meet, plan to marry, and convince the world that they are entitled to a life of their own -- despite attempts by the girl's parents to separate them.

No Other Love

1979

Battle Beyond the Stars poster
5.4

A young farmer assembles a band of diverse mercenaries to defend his peaceful planet from an evil tyrant.

Battle Beyond the Stars

1980

Question of Faith poster
9.0

A woman struck down by terminal cancer shuns conventional medical techniques at her husband's insistence and turns to alternative treatment to combat the disease.

Question of Faith

1988

Holy Moses poster
4.7

In 1963 a cow goes missing from an Irish Magdalene Asylum only to reappear 25 years later at a gas station in Texas. The attendant calls the sheriff, the sheriff calls the doctor, and together the three discover a strange mystery in the middle of an American nowhere.

Holy Moses

2018

Lacy and the Mississippi Queen poster
3.5

This lighthearted Western was an unsuccessful series pilot in which two sisters -- a gun-toting tomboy and a beauty with an engaging smile -- team up to track down a pair of train robbers, suspects in the shooting of their father.

Lacy and the Mississippi Queen

1978

First Family poster
3.4

When the First Daughter is kidnapped by an African tribe, the President must do what he can to keep them from sacrificing her.

First Family

1980

Promised a Miracle poster
5.3

True story of a couple charged with manslaughter when their rejection of modern medicine in favor of religion to treat their diabetic child resulted in his death.

Promised a Miracle

1988

Quarter poster
NR

Kelly, a young woman living with Type 1 diabetes, is about to turn 25, as she deals with the ups and downs of her blood sugar levels and the ups and downs of her personal life.

Quarter

Fantasies poster
3.8

A crazed killer stalks the cast of a television soap-opera.

Fantasies

1982

The Heroes of Desert Storm poster
4.0

The first Iraq war saw many tragedies and acts of heroism. This is the story seen through the eyes of the men and women involved.

The Heroes of Desert Storm

1991

Not My Kid poster
7.5

A teenaged drug addict is sent to Dr. Royce's controversial drug intervention program where the addicts in the program confront each other in supervised group meetings. Also, in evening meetings, the addicts are confronted by their families. The girl's parents want to remove her from the program because it upsets them that their daughter is being forced to associate with addicts who admit to stealing and trading sex for drugs.

Not My Kid

1985

Storm and Sorrow poster
6.3

In 1974, mountain climber Molly Higgins (Lori Singer) begins her ascent of Lenin Peak, located in the Pamir Mountains on the edge of the Himalayas. She's part of an international climbing expedition that has brought a team of U.S. climbers into the USSR. But completing their mission won't be easy, as Mother Nature and internal divisions hamper their journey up the perilous peak, putting all their lives in jeopardy. This made-for-TV movie is based on a true story.

Storm and Sorrow

1990

Tiger Orange poster
5.0

In the small Central California town where they grew up, two estranged gay brothers struggle to reconnect after the recent death of their father.

Tiger Orange

2014

You Light Up My Life poster
5.4

Laurie has been in show business since she was a child. Her dream is to be a singer, songwriter and actress. Her father wants her to be a comedian like him and Laurie only tries because it pleases her father. But she is a lousy comedian. She auditions for everything and is engaged to Ken, but Ken does not understand her needs. She has a one night stand with Chris, only to later find that he is a director. She has many emotions that have not yet been addressed and she must face them before she can get on with her life.

You Light Up My Life

1977

Maybe Someday poster
NR

Hal Donnelly, a hopeless 20-something slacker, gets his life back on track with the help of a teenage girl claiming to be his daughter from the future

Maybe Someday

2017

George's 40th Birthday poster
NR

To the outside world, George is just an average middle-aged, middle-class, and middle-sized salesman. But to George, the outside world is out to get him, and on his 40th birthday he decides to do something about it. "George's 40th Birthday" is a dark comedy about a self-deprecating man who is so fed up with his monotonous life that he loses his grip on reality. Our story begins when, on the morning of his 40th birthday, George decides to bring a gun to work. George's birthday turns out to be no different from any other; a complete and utter disaster. Yet just when George decides to put himself out of his misery, he receives a surprise.

George's 40th Birthday

2009