Victor French

Acting

Victor French

Born 1934-12-04 · Santa Barbara, California, USA

Victor Edwin French (December 4, 1934 - June 14, 1989) was an American actor and director, known for roles on Gunsmoke, Little House on the Prairie, Highway to Heaven, and Carter Country. He also appeared in films such as The Quick and the Dead, Charro!, and An Officer and a Gentleman.

Acting credits

The Magnificent Seven poster
7.5

An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.

The Magnificent Seven

1960

An Officer and a Gentleman poster
7.0

Zack Mayo is an aloof, taciturn man who aspires to be a navy pilot. Once he arrives at training camp for his 13-week officer's course, Mayo runs afoul of abrasive, no-nonsense drill Sergeant Emil Foley. Mayo is an excellent cadet, but a little cold around the heart, so Foley rides him mercilessly, sensing that the young man would be prime officer material if he weren't so self-involved. Zack's affair with a working girl is likewise compromised by his unwillingness to give of himself.

An Officer and a Gentleman

1982

Chato's Land poster
6.5

In 1870s New Mexico, a half-breed kills a bigoted sheriff in self-defense but the posse that eventually hunts him finds itself in dangerous territory.

Chato's Land

1972

Rio Lobo poster
6.5

After the Civil War, a former Union colonel searches for the two traitors whose perfidy led to the loss of a close friend.

Rio Lobo

1970

Death of a Gunfighter poster
6.3

In the turn-of-the century Texas town of Cottonwood Springs, marshal Frank Patch is an old-style lawman in a town determined to become modern. When he kills drunken Luke Mills in self-defense, the town leaders decide it's time for a change. That ask for Patch's resignation, but he refuses on the basis that the town, on hiring him, had promised him the job for as long as he wanted it. Afraid for the town's future and even more afraid of the fact that Marshal Patch knows all the town's dark secrets, the city fathers decide that old-style violence is the only way to rid themselves of the unwanted lawman.

Death of a Gunfighter

1969

There Was a Crooked Man... poster
6.8

A charming but ruthless criminal is sent to a remote Arizona prison, where he enlists the help of his cellmates in an escape attempt with the promise of sharing his hidden loot.

There Was a Crooked Man...

1970

Spencer's Mountain poster
6.8

Clay Spencer and his wife, Olivia, live in a small town deep in the mountains. When Clay isn't busy drinking with his buddies or railing against the town minister, he's building the house he's always promised Olivia. He is overjoyed when he learns his eldest son will be the first Spencer to attend college, if he can resist the charms of a pretty local girl and rustle up the money for tuition.

Spencer's Mountain

1963

Charro! poster
5.4

Vince Hackett's gang steals a prized victory canon from Mexico and blames the deed on ex-member Jess Wade, who wants to go straight.

Charro!

1969

Little House on the Prairie: A Merry Ingalls Christmas poster
8.4

Celebrate the holidays with two classic "Little House" specials, restored and remastered for superior picture and sound. In "Christmas at Plum Creek," the members of the Ingalls family share a heartwarming first Christmas in their new home, and Laura makes a personal sacrifice that captures the meaning of the holidays. In "A Christmas They Never Forget," the family waits out a snowstorm by remembering favorite Christmases from the past.

Little House on the Prairie: A Merry Ingalls Christmas

2014

The Other poster
6.5

A series of gruesome accidents plague a small American farming community in the summer of 1935, encircling two identical twin brothers and their family.

The Other

1972

Flap poster
6.8

Comedy based on the plight of modern Native Americans living on reservations.

Flap

1970

Wild Rovers poster
6.1

Ross Bodine and Frank Post are cowhands on Walt Buckman's R-Bar-R ranch. Bodine is older and broods a bit about how he will get along when he's too old to cowboy. Post is young and rambunctious and ambitious for a better life than wrangling cows. When one of their fellow cowboys is killed in a corral accident, Post suggests a way into a better life for himself and his friend: robbing a bank. Bodine reluctantly joins in the plan and the two contrive to rob the local bank. They make good their escape initially, but Walt Buckman and his two sons, John and Paul, are incensed at this betrayal by their own trusted employees. John and Paul set out to bring Bodine and Post to justice.

Wild Rovers

1971

Little House: Look Back to Yesterday poster
6.9

Albert Quinn Ingalls wants to be a doctor. But soon he discovers that he is fatally ill. He decides to spend the rest of his life in Walnut Grove. Meanwhile children from school are preparing for their traditional climbing of the mountain.

Little House: Look Back to Yesterday

1983

The Ghosts of Buxley Hall poster
6.3

Ghosts and a young cadet try to save a military academy from being closed.

The Ghosts of Buxley Hall

1980

Little House: Bless All the Dear Children poster
5.4

During preparation for Christmas baby Rose Wilder is kidnapped by the woman who recently lost her child. Looking for her Laura, Almanzo and Mr Edwards meet lonely orphan boy, who finally stays with that woman.

Little House: Bless All the Dear Children

1983

Elvis: A Life in Music poster
NR

A retrospective on the life of the legendary entertainer Elvis Presley, featuring the most significant moments of his career.

Elvis: A Life in Music

2026

Little House on the Prairie poster
8.1

The story of the Ingalls family who left their house in Wisconsin and moved to the west, wanting to find a new place for home.

Little House on the Prairie

1974

Little House: The Last Farewell poster
7.1

While Charles and Caroline are visiting Walnut Grove, the townspeople learn that a land development tycoon has acquired title to all the land in Hero Township. They are inspired by Laura to vent their anger at this injustice.

Little House: The Last Farewell

1984

The Nickel Ride poster
5.8

A world-weary crime boss is losing his grip on his organization.

The Nickel Ride

1975

Cutter's Trail poster
8.0

The Marshal of Santa Fe returns home to find his town almost wiped out by Mexican bandits and enlists the help of a young Mexican boy and his mother to track them down.

Cutter's Trail

1970

Amateur Night at the Dixie Bar and Grill poster
6.0

A variety of people are drawn together through their participation in an amateur talent contest in a country roadhouse.

Amateur Night at the Dixie Bar and Grill

1979

The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story poster
NR

This Olympics film, tied in with the planned 1980 games from which the United States subsequently withdrew, focuses on an American athlete whose dreams of winning the Decathlon are threatened by his romance with a pretty Russian gymnast.

The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story

1980

Choices poster
5.6

A popular high school student seems to have it all; a spot on the football team, the love of playing music in the school orchestra and a girlfriend. His world seems to come apart when the school doctor discovers he is partially deaf, causing him to be cut from the football team on the advice of the doctor. The student's friends fight to keep him on the team; while he struggles with his problem by withdrawing from everything he loves and starts falling in with the wrong crowd.

Choices

1981

The Quick and the Dead poster
6.4

A small group of soldiers capture a German observation post, but in turn are captured themselves. They soon escape and--with the aid of two women--try to fight their way to safety.

The Quick and the Dead

1963

Behind the camera