Eric Laneuville

Directing

Eric Laneuville

Born 1952-07-14 · New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Eric Laneuville (born July 14, 1952, New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American television director, actor and martial artist. His first prominent acting roles were in the science-fiction film The Omega Man (1971) with Charlton Heston and the ABC television series Room 222 (1969–74). Although his role as Luther Hawkins in the television series St. Elsewhere is probably his best known role. He also starred in A Force of One playing Charlie, the stepson of Chuck Norris. In more recent years, he frequently directs such one-hour dramas as Ghost Whisperer and Lost.

Acting credits

Death Wish poster
6.9

After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad, prowling the streets for would-be muggers after dark.

Death Wish

1974

The Omega Man poster
6.2

Due to an experimental vaccine, Dr. Robert Neville is the only human survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. Besides him, only a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people remain; sensitive to light, and homicidally psychotic.

The Omega Man

1971

Love at First Bite poster
6.0

Dracula and Renfield relocate to '70s era New York in search of Cindy Sondheim, the reincarnation of Dracula's one true love, Mina Harker. "Trouble adjusting" is a wild understatement for the Count as he battles Cindy's psychiatrist, Jeffrey Rosenberg, a descendant of Van Helsing, who may be in love with Cindy too.

Love at First Bite

1979

A Force of One poster
4.9

Karate champion Matt Logan is enlisted by the police to train officers in self-defense after narcotics agents are killed by an assailant using the martial arts.

A Force of One

1979

Back Roads poster
5.4

A prostitute and a drifter find themselves bound together as they make their way through the rural South, doing what they have to do to survive.

Back Roads

1981

Twisted Desire poster
5.1

A teenage girl convinces a young, love-struck ex-con that the only way they can be together is to do away with her domineering parents.

Twisted Desire

1996

Black Belt Jones poster
6.0

Jones is a secret agent who has gone into semi-retirement, concentrating instead on teaching the martial arts to inner city youths. The karate school is run by a kindly old coot named Pops. His gambling debts, however, bring the local thug, Pinky, down on him. To make matters worse, Pinky is then hired by some white thugs who want to get a hold of the property Pops' school occupies so they can build a shopping mall. When things get heavy, Black Belt Jones leaps into action. Only he's not alone. Pops' daughter, Sidney, shows up to lend a hand, proving herself every bit as agile and powerful a martial artist as Jones.

Black Belt Jones

1974

A Piece of the Action poster
5.8

How does retired cop Joshua Burke (James Earl Jones) get two career criminals, Manny Durrell (Sidney Poitier) and Dave Anderson (Bill Cosby), to follow the straight and narrow? Con them into helping juvenile delinquents turn over a new leaf. But how? Burke has never been able to nail the duo, but he uses what he knows of their seedy past to blackmail them into volunteering.

A Piece of the Action

1977

The Baltimore Bullet poster
5.7

A tale of two hustlers trying to set up a big game.

The Baltimore Bullet

1980

Staying Afloat poster
10.0

In this comedy thriller, a prospective series pilot, Larry Hagman plays a disinherited socialite and high roller who, with the aid of a comely con artist and his sarcastic butler, helps the feds bring down an arms merchant.

Staying Afloat

1993

Sunnyside poster
7.0

Nick Martin, a young street tough, has a change of heart and attempts to stop the gang violence in his neighborhood.

Sunnyside

1979

Foster & Laurie poster
8.5

The story of two New York City police officers, one white and one black, their ambush and murder by black revolutionaries and the efforts to hunt down and capture their killers.

Foster & Laurie

1975

Scared Straight! Another Story poster
9.0

A group of young delinquents well on the road to careers in crime, are given a shock course in prison life. Brought face to face with hardened criminals many serving life sentences for rape and murder, they are suddenly confronted with the harsh realities of a top-security U.S. Penitentiary.

Scared Straight! Another Story

1980

Murder and the Computer poster
NR

After coming under suspicion for a computer technician's murder, six hackers team up to try to find the real killer.

Murder and the Computer

1973

No artwork available
NR

The brief feature introduces viewers to the film, looking at the changes between novel and script, the cast member's memories of working with Heston, the racial overtones presented in the film, and the film's status as a cult favorite.

The Omega Man: Introduction

2003

Shoot It Black, Shoot It Blue poster
7.0

A white cop apprehends, then murders, a Black purse thief in the street. A Black film student witnesses the murder and begins surveilling the cop in his everyday life. Based on the novel "Shoot It" by Paul Tyner; filmed in Kansas City.

Shoot It Black, Shoot It Blue

1974

Twice in a Lifetime poster
7.0

A tugboat operator and a waterfront cafe owner clash with a dock foreman who is trying to change the way things on the piers have been done.

Twice in a Lifetime

1974

Behind the camera

The Client List poster
5.9

After she and her husband lose their jobs, a former Texas homecoming queen inadvertently finds herself in the middle of a prostitution ring after she unknowingly accepts a position at a massage parlor.

The Client List

2010

M.A.N.T.I.S. poster
5.2

A brilliant, wheelchair-bound scientist invents a form of exo-skeleton called the Mechanically Augmented Neuro Transmitter Interception System (M.A.N.T.I.S.) that turns him into a superhero and gives him the ability to fight the crime wave that is engulfing his city.

M.A.N.T.I.S.

1994

Born Into Exile poster
7.3

This is the tale of two young lovers who flee from the miseries of their homelife to make it on there own. Nineteen year old Chris, rejected by his family, hopes to go to college and into forestry once he's out of the Army Reserves. Holly, who is fourteen, lives with her divorced, overprotective mother and her brother. She runs with an older crowd and soon attaches herself to Chris. Holly's mother is dead set against Chris because of his age, and she and Holly are at odd's over him. When she forbids them to see one another, and boots Chris out of her yard, Holly convinces a doubtful Chris to run off to the promises of California. The Trip West, with the couple penniless, avoiding the law, a lecherous trucker and other routine incidents, shows them that life will not be easy.

Born Into Exile

1997

The George McKenna Story poster
6.3

Washington plays a school principal in a tough inner city Los Angeles high school out to rid it of drugs, gangs, low moral of teachers, and restore educational values. Based on a true story.

The George McKenna Story

1988

L.A. Confidential poster
5.4

As corruption grows in 1950s LA, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.

L.A. Confidential

2003

Stolen Babies poster
5.5

A 1940s Tennesee welfare worker learns that Georgia Tann, the charismatic head of a local adoption agency, is actually running a black-market baby ring behind the Tennesee Childrens Home Society.

Stolen Babies

1993

Secret Witness poster
5.7

Fun turns serious for two kids when an innocent spying game forces them to do some real detective work.

Secret Witness

1988

Someone She Knows poster
4.8

A desperate mother becomes detective to solve her 5 year-old daughter's death. The authorities suspect that the girl has been killed by a well-known person of the family.

Someone She Knows

1994

Naughty or Nice poster
5.3

A Chicago sports radio shock jock is changed by a Christmas season encounter with a 15-year-old fan who is dying of cancer who forces him to be nice for a day.

Naughty or Nice

2004

If Someone Had Known poster
7.1

A young wife and mother is abused by her husband and keeps the secret from her friends and family.

If Someone Had Known

1995

Trapped in a Purple Haze poster
4.9

When a charismatic teenager falters under constant pressure from his parents and school, he makes a potentially deadly mistake.

Trapped in a Purple Haze

2000

Critical Assembly poster
5.4

Critical Assembly is based on two college students who build a nuclear device, which is stolen by a fellow student. When it ends up in the hands of a terrorist, they work with an FBI agent in a race against time.

Critical Assembly

2003

The Ernest Green Story poster
6.8

Follows the story of Ernest Green, one of the Little Rock Nine who were the first blacks to integrate into an all white school.

The Ernest Green Story

1993

No artwork available
8.0

Failed series pilot about a pair of mismatched law partners who struggle to stay ahead of their creditors.

Bar Girls

1990

Staying Afloat poster
10.0

In this comedy thriller, a prospective series pilot, Larry Hagman plays a disinherited socialite and high roller who, with the aid of a comely con artist and his sarcastic butler, helps the feds bring down an arms merchant.

Staying Afloat

1993

No artwork available
5.2

To save her unborn child, she had to fight for the right to die. A True Story

A Case for Life

1996

The Mighty Pawns poster
7.0

Inner city kids are given new direction when they are convinced to join the school chess team.

The Mighty Pawns

1987

Rewrite for Murder poster
7.0

Unaired CBS television pilot from 1991 starring George Clooney and Pam Dawber was an attempt at a breezy comedy/mystery in the style of Moonlighting about a pair of mismatched writers on a television mystery program who have to solve a real-life murder.

Rewrite for Murder

1991

No artwork available
4.3

Failed drama series pilot about events at a trauma center run by two doctors struggling to keep the Emergency Room open.

The Knife and Gun Club

1990

America's Prince: The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story poster
4.8

A look inside the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.

America's Prince: The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story

2003