Ted Bessell

Acting

Ted Bessell

Born 1935-03-20

Acting credits

Lover Come Back poster
7.0

Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each dislike each other’s methods. After he steals a client out from under her cute little nose, revenge prompts her to infiltrate his secret "VIP" campaign in order to persuade the mystery product’s scientist to switch to her firm.

Lover Come Back

1961

Captain Newman, M.D. poster
6.7

In 1944, Capt. Josiah J. Newman is the doctor in charge of Ward 7, the neuropsychiatric ward, at an Army Air Corps hospital in Arizona. The hospital is under-resourced and Newman scrounges what he needs with the help of his inventive staff, especially Cpl. Jake Leibowitz. The military in general is only just coming to accept psychiatric disorders as legitimate and Newman generally has 6 weeks to cure them or send them on to another facility. There are many patients in the ward and his latest include Colonel Norville Bliss who has dissociated from his past; Capt. Paul Winston who is nearly catatonic after spending 13 months hiding in a cellar behind enemy lines; and 20 year-old Cpl. Jim Tompkins who is severely traumatized after his aircraft was shot down. Others come and go, including Italian prisoners of war, but Newman and team all realize that their success means the men will return to their units.

Captain Newman, M.D.

1963

Billie poster
5.0

A 16-year-old tomboy and high school athlete becomes embroiled with the lives around her boyfriend whose conservative father is running for mayor.

Billie

1965

Don't Drink the Water poster
5.3

The Hollander family's European vacation is interrupted when their plane is forced to land in Vulgaria. The Hollanders leave the plane to take pictures which results in accusations of spying. Chased by Vulgarian soldiers, they take refuge in the American Embassy under the protection of the absent ambassador's hapless son.

Don't Drink the Water

1969

McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force poster
5.5

The crew of PT-73 are in trouble again when Ensign Parker is mistaken for a pilot and gets shanghied into the Air Force.

McHale's Navy Joins the Air Force

1965

The Acorn People poster
3.7

An unemployed teacher becomes a counselor at a summer camp for severely disabled children.

The Acorn People

1981

Scream, Pretty Peggy poster
6.2

A sculptor hires young college girls to take care of his elderly mother and his supposedly insane sister, both of whom live in the old family mansion with him.

Scream, Pretty Peggy

1973

Two on a Bench poster
6.3

An outgoing young girl and a square stockbroker meet on a park bench in Boston and are mistaken for international spies and chased by both sides.

Two on a Bench

1971

Your Money or Your Wife poster
6.3

A TV script about a kidnapping inspires a real-life plot.

Your Money or Your Wife

1972

What Are Best Friends For? poster
8.0

A married couple is determined to find a girl for their recently divorced best friend.

What Are Best Friends For?

1973

Behind the camera