Writing

Sam Rolfe

Born — Died

1924-02-18 — 1993-07-10

Known for

Writing

Credits

23 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Pillars of the Sky poster
5.5

First Sergeant Emmett Bell faces off with Apache chieftain Kamiakin in this nuanced portrayal of racial tensions between Native Americans and white settlers in 1860s Oregon Country.

Pillars of the Sky

1956

The Naked Spur poster
7.0

A bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers.

The Naked Spur

1953

The Spy with My Face poster
5.6

Napoleon Solo is captured by Thrush and replaced with a double.

The Spy with My Face

1965

They Call It Murder poster
6.4

A small-town district attorney is saddled with several major investigations, including a gambler's murder and a possible insurance scam.

They Call It Murder

1971

To Trap a Spy poster
5.9

The men from U.N.C.L.E. must stop the assassination of an African head of state with the help of a simple housewife.

To Trap a Spy

1965

Matt Helm poster
NR

In this pilot film for the later series, a former secret agent, now a private investigator, is hired to protect a beautiful film star and gets involved with black marketeers and gun runners.

Matt Helm

1975

Manhunter poster
6.7

Pilot movie for the short-lived TV series set in the 1930's about a World War I ex-marine-turned-bounty-hunter, named Dave Barrett, who goes after two Bonnie-and-Clyde style bank robbers who murdered his former girlfriend.

Manhunter

1974

Law of the Land poster
3.8

A frontier sheriff and his young deputies search for a serial killer who is murdering prostitutes.

Law of the Land

1976

The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair poster
5.6

When THRUSH steals a nuclear weapon and demands a ransom delivered by Napoleon Solo, UNCLE recalls him and his partner to duty.

The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair

1983

The McConnell Story poster
6.8

Joe McConnell was sure that he was meant to be a pilot, but was stuck as a restless army private. It seemed that his ambition was blocked at every step.

The McConnell Story

1955

Hardcase poster
6.2

A man thought-dead comes home to find that his wife has sold their ranch and married a Mexican revolutionary.

Hardcase

1972

Climb an Angry Mountain poster
10.0

Sheriff Elisha Cooper has to work with New York City officer Nelson after his son is taken hostage by a fugitive who is hiding out on California's Mount Shasta.

Climb an Angry Mountain

1972

The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment poster
9.0

The Delphi Bureau is a top-secret spy cadre answerable only to the U.S. president. The organization may have just one field operative, a supposed researcher named Glenn Garth Gregory. He gets his orders from an in-the-know Washington, D.C. socialite, and he relies on a resource that makes him a one-of-a-kind asset: his photographic memory. This adventure-packed, tongue-in-cheek pilot sets the pace and style for the 1972-73 series it launched. In it, Gregory sets out to find who's behind the disappearance of jets, tanks and other surplus weaponry. He'll be variously hunted by an assassin, tossed in jail for murder, half-buried inside a grain elevator and forced to cling to the undercarriage of a tractor while the driver tries to shred him under its tilling blades. One breathless escape after another invariably seems to land our hero in another jam.

The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment

1972

The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment poster
9.0

The Delphi Bureau is a top-secret spy cadre answerable only to the U.S. president. The organization may have just one field operative, a supposed researcher named Glenn Garth Gregory. He gets his orders from an in-the-know Washington, D.C. socialite, and he relies on a resource that makes him a one-of-a-kind asset: his photographic memory. This adventure-packed, tongue-in-cheek pilot sets the pace and style for the 1972-73 series it launched. In it, Gregory sets out to find who's behind the disappearance of jets, tanks and other surplus weaponry. He'll be variously hunted by an assassin, tossed in jail for murder, half-buried inside a grain elevator and forced to cling to the undercarriage of a tractor while the driver tries to shred him under its tilling blades. One breathless escape after another invariably seems to land our hero in another jam.

The Delphi Bureau: The Merchant of Death Assignment

1972

The Mask of Sheba poster
NR

Intrigue, romance, and the customary angry natives are the major elements in this tale of a hunt for a priceless gold mask in the jungles of Ethiopia.

The Mask of Sheba

1970

The Mask of Sheba poster
NR

Intrigue, romance, and the customary angry natives are the major elements in this tale of a hunt for a priceless gold mask in the jungles of Ethiopia.

The Mask of Sheba

1970

This Is the West That Was poster
9.0

A lighthearted look at the saga of Wild Bill Hickok and his relationship with Calamity Jane as he is targeted for revenge by some tough gunfighters.

This Is the West That Was

1974

Killjoy poster
7.9

A romantic rivalry leads to an innocent woman's murder. Or is it a hoax crime, part of a cunning deception? At City General Hospital, two young doctors engage in a move-and-countermove rivalry over Laury Medford. It may be more than Laury's beauty that motivates the men. Her father is the hospital's chairman of the board. Marrying her would be an inside track to the chief of staff post. Meanwhile, a senior hospital staffer, who is the mother of one of the two doctors, plots to enhance her son's chances, a mysterious outsider who says he knew the dead woman tails the two men, and Laury may be more than she appears. Murder? Hoax? The answer isn't revealed till the final freeze-frame.

Killjoy

1981

Rosetti and Ryan: Men Who Love Women poster
10.0

A couple of resourceful, free-wheeling criminal attorneys with an eye for the ladies confront a no-nonsense judge while trying to clear an heiress in the slaying of her husband, although her explanation of a mysterious intruder provides them with a rather weak case.

Rosetti and Ryan: Men Who Love Women

1977

Target Zero poster
6.1

International soldiers fight to ignore their differences while holding a hill during the Korean War.

Target Zero

1955

Relentless poster
7.3

An Arizona state trooper, who is also an Indian, pursues a gang of paramilitary-type robbers into the mountains. The gang has killed the trooper's uncle and taken a woman hostage, and the trooper must use his tracking and hunting skills to find the gang and rescue the hostage.

Relentless

1977

Enigma poster
7.0

The exploits of secret agent Andrew Icarus who works for a world wide crime-fighting organization.

Enigma

1977

Enigma poster
7.0

The exploits of secret agent Andrew Icarus who works for a world wide crime-fighting organization.

Enigma

1977