Marjoe Gortner

Acting

Marjoe Gortner

Born 1944-01-14 · Long Beach, California

Hugh Marjoe Ross Gortner, generally known as Marjoe Gortner (born January 14, 1944, in Long Beach, California), is a former revivalist who first gained a certain fame in the late 1940s when he became the youngest ordained preacher at the age of four. He then gained outright notoriety in the 1970s when he starred in an Oscar-winning, behind-the-scenes documentary about the lucrative business of Pentecostal preaching. The name "Marjoe" is a portmanteau of the names "Mary" and "Joseph". Description above from the Wikipedia article Marjoe Gortner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw poster
4.6

Aimless country girl Bobbie Jo Baker abandons her carhop job to join Wild West outlaw wannabe Lyle Wheeler for an adventure in theft, mayhem, and murder.

Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw

1976

Earthquake poster
6.2

Various interconnected people struggle to survive when an earthquake of unimaginable magnitude hits Los Angeles, California.

Earthquake

1974

Wild Bill poster
5.7

Biopic about famous gunslinger Wild Bill Hickock. The early career of legendary lawman is telescoped and culminates in his relocation in Deadwood and a reunion with Calamity Jane.

Wild Bill

1995

American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt poster
4.8

Jackson is back, and now he has a new partner, karate champion Sean, as they must face a deadly terrorist known as "The Cobra", who has infected Sean with a virus. Sean and Jackson have no choice but to fight the Cobra and his bands of ninjas.

American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt

1989

Starcrash poster
4.2

A pair of smugglers manage to pick up a castaway while running from the authorities, who turns out to be the only survivor from a secret mission to destroy a mysterious superweapon designed by the evil Count Zartharn. The smugglers are soon recruited by the Emperor to complete the mission, as well as to rescue the Emperor's son, who has gone missing.

Starcrash

1978

Playboy's Roller Disco & Pajama Party poster
1.0

Hugh Hefner invites you to Playboy’s Roller Disco and Pajama Party! With your host, Richard Dawson!

Playboy's Roller Disco & Pajama Party

1979

The Food of the Gods poster
5.0

Morgan and his friends are on a hunting trip on a remote Canadian island when they are attacked by a swarm of giant wasps. Looking for help, Morgan stumbles across a barn inhabited by an enormous killer chicken. After doing some exploring, they discover the entire island is crawling with animals that have somehow grown to giant size. The most dangerous of all of these, however, are the rats, who are mobilizing to do battle with the human intruders.

The Food of the Gods

1976

Mayday at 40,000 Feet poster
6.4

The co-pilot and engineer of a passenger jet struggle to keep the plane airborne after a marshal onboard, transporting a murderer to prison, has a heart attack and the killer uses his gun to shoot the captain and blow out the hydraulics.

Mayday at 40,000 Feet

1977

The Debtors poster
4.3

The Debtors is a comedy about a group of people with various addictions who meet up at the tables in Las Vegas.

The Debtors

1999

Jungle Warriors poster
4.1

A group of models fly into the jungle of some South American country to look for a photo location. Their plane is shot down and they are captured by a drug baron's private army. At the same time, the Mafia's representative arrive to negotiate future collaboration.

Jungle Warriors

1984

Marjoe poster
7.6

Part documentary, part expose, this film follows one-time child evangelist Marjoe Gortner on the "church tent" Revivalist circuit, commenting on the showmanship of Evangelism and "the religion business", prior to the start of "televangelism". Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2005.

Marjoe

1972

Playboy's Playmate Party poster
NR

Playboy's Playmate Party 1977

Playboy's Playmate Party

1977

Sidewinder 1 poster
10.0

An ageing motocross champ agrees to help design and endorse a new motorcycle.

Sidewinder 1

1977

Hellhole poster
4.9

An unlucky woman’s mother is murdered by a scarf-wielding killer named Silk, leaving the woman injured, traumatised and suffering from amnesia. She’s committed to a mental institution, where Silk follows her, looking for the papers he was trying to get from her mother. And Silk’s only the beginning of her problems, since the asylum is run by a mad doctor, performing experiments in chemical lobotomies!

Hellhole

1985

FantastiCozzi poster
6.0

A feature-length documentary about the life and career of Italian director Luigi Cozzi and his obsession with Science Fiction and Fantasy.

FantastiCozzi

2016

Fire, Ice and Dynamite poster
4.6

Action-comedy about a wealthy man who fakes suicide for the amusement of watching his family and creditors compete for his wealth. Many cameo appearances!

Fire, Ice and Dynamite

1990

The Survivalist poster
3.3

An atomic bomb falls in Siberia and the USA is blamed.

The Survivalist

1987

The Robber Bridegroom poster
NR

In a small Southern town, a plantation owner is duped into thinking a thief is a kind stranger. To repay the stranger for stopping a robbery, the plantation owner invites him to his home to meet his daughter.

The Robber Bridegroom

1980

Mausoleum poster
5.1

By way of an unnatural urge during her Mother's funeral, Susan enters her family's mausoleum, which unleashes an evil presence to lurk inside of her.

Mausoleum

1983

Viva Knievel! poster
4.0

The legendary stuntman plans his most incredible stunt yet while battling the mob in this action-adventure.

Viva Knievel!

1977

The Marcus-Nelson Murders poster
7.6

A homicide detective begins to suspect that the black teenager accused of murdering two white girls is being framed by his fellow detectives.

The Marcus-Nelson Murders

1973

Pray for the Wildcats poster
6.2

Three ad agency executives are pressured into taking a motorbike trip to Baja by a big-ticket client. Along the way, the client is spurned by a young woman whose boyfriend sticks up for her. The client later disables their van, leading to their deaths in the desert. When the executives piece together what has happened, it leads to a showdown.

Pray for the Wildcats

1974

Return Engagement poster
5.3

Filmmaker Alan Rudolph shows Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy and hippie guru Timothy Leary, alone and together onstage.

Return Engagement

1983

The Gun and the Pulpit poster
6.0

In the days of the "Wild West," a gunslinger, with a price on his head, discovers the body of a traveling minister who has been killed in an ambush. Fearing those who are following him, he assumes the dead minister's identity.

The Gun and the Pulpit

1974

Behind the camera