J.A. Preston
Know for: Acting
Born: 1932-11-13
Place of birth: Washington, District of Columbia, USA
Also know as:
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985)
An officially "dead" cop is trained to become an extraordinary unique assassin in service of the U.S. President.
Narrow Margin (1990)
An L.A. District Attorney attempts to take an unwilling murder witness back to the United States to testify against a top-level mob boss. Frantically...
MacShayne: Winner Takes All (1994)
MacShayne is a gambler and small time con-man. After serving a short stretch in jail, he goes to Las Vegas to see his son, but when he gets there,...
Body Heat (1981)
In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman convinces her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.
Fire Birds (1990)
A joint task force operation between the Drug Enforcement Administration and the U.S. Army has been formed to dismantle one of the largest drug...
High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane (1980)
Former Marshal Will Kane and his Amish bride, Amy, return to Hadleyville a year after he resigned and find the town in the grip of a bounty-hunting...
Aftermath: A Test of Love (1991)
Based on a true story, an adoring wife and mother is taken hostage during a robbery and brutally murdered.
The White Lions (1981)
A college professor, his wife, and daughter go the the wilds of Africa to live, and study the rare white lions of the region.
Steel Justice (1992)
David Nash has lost his son and his will to live. But the boy appears in his dreams, as well as his Robosaurus toy ! A mythical figure will help Nash...
Desperate (1987)
In this thinly-veiled, though uncredited, new version of Hemingway's "To Have and Have Not," here a prospective series pilot, an ex-sailor living in...
Harvest of Fire (1996)
In a small Amish community, three barns are burnt down almost simultaneously. FBI agent Sally Russwell is sent in to investigate this possible hate...
The Plutonium Incident (1980)
A plutonium plant employee becomes the target of management, as well as union harassment, when she tries to blow the whistle on the company for...
Silver Streak (1976)
A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no...
The Court-Martial of Jackie Robinson (1990)
A film about the early life of the baseball star in the army, particulary his court-martial for insubordination regarding segragation.
A Few Good Men (1992)
When cocky military lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee and his co-counsel, Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway, are assigned to a murder case, they uncover a hazing...
Contact (1997)
A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and...
Captain Ron (1992)
When mild-mannered Martin Harvey finds out that he has inherited a vintage yacht, he decides to take his family on a Caribbean vacation to retrieve...
The Gifted (1993)
Psychic descendents of an African tribe reunite to save Earth. 5000 years ago certain members of the Dogon tribe in West Africa were granted psychic...
The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973)
A black man plays Uncle Tom in order to gain access to CIA training, then uses that knowledge to plot a new American Revolution.
Black Cop (1970)
Black Cop is a film documentary that shows the lives of individuals who are caught inexorably in intense community pressures that arise because they...
Two-Minute Warning (1976)
A psychotic sniper plans a massive killing spree in a Los Angeles football stadium during a major championship game. The police, led by Captain Peter...
Infiltrating Hollywood: The Rise and Fall of the Spook Who Sat by the Door (2011)
A documentary looking at the making and legacy of The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973).
Real Life (1979)
A pushy, narcissistic filmmaker persuades a Phoenix family to let him and his crew film their everyday lives, in the manner of the ground-breaking...
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle (1994)
A former associate of Perry Mason returns to handle the defense of a world-class chess player accused of murdering a prominent TV personality.
The George McKenna Story (1988)
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...