Roy Jenson

Roy Jenson

1927-02-09 Calgary, Alberta, Canada 101 Credits

Biography

Roy Jenson was born on February 9, 1927 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He is known for his work on Chinatown (1974), Soylent Green (1973) and Harper (1966). He was married to Marina Petrova and Barbara Dionysius. He died on April 24, 2007 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

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Los Angeles Plays Itself

Los Angeles Plays Itself

2004

as Mulvihill in Chinatown (archive footage)

7.6
Acting

From its distinctive neighborhoods to its architectural homes, Los Angeles has been the backdrop to countless movies. In this dazzling work, Andersen ...

Hard Time: Hostage Hotel

Hard Time: Hostage Hotel

1999

as Harve

6.7
Acting

A California congressman's wife and daughter are abducted and held hostage in a historic hotel. Logan McQueen is rushed to the scene to assist his for...

The Set Up

The Set Up

1995

4.2
Acting

Charlie Thorpe, a security systems expert, gets caught during a robbery. When he is released from jail he is hired by a bank owner to design a fool pr...

La Classe américaine

La Classe américaine

1993

as Goon (archive footage) (uncredited)

7.6
Acting

George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of...

Solar Crisis

Solar Crisis

1992

as Bartender

4.3
Acting

A huge solar flare is predicted to fry the Earth. Astronauts aboard the spaceship Helios must go to the Sun to drop a bomb equipped with an Artificial...

Sudamerica, matar o morir

Sudamerica, matar o morir

1989

5.0
Acting

Mexican feature film

Police Story: The Watch Commander

Police Story: The Watch Commander

1988

as Kearns

Acting

This is the story of policeman who has been on the job for over forty years. And one of his duties is to look out for all of the officers under him ca...

Deadly Stranger

Deadly Stranger

1988

as Charlie

6.0
Acting

An undercover cop infiltrates an illegal labor racket on a remote Texan/Mexican border farm. After falling for the farm owner's mistress, the two disc...

Cherry 2000

Cherry 2000

1987

Stunts

6.0

When successful businessman Sam Treadwell finds that his android wife, Cherry model 2000 has blown a fuse, he hires sexy renegade tracker E. Johnson t...

Red Dawn

Red Dawn

1984

as Mr. Morris

6.3
Acting

It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town—and their country—from invading Sovie...

Last of the Great Survivors

Last of the Great Survivors

1984

as Foreman

7.0
Acting

A dedicated social worker joins forces with a group of senior citizens fighting City Hall to prevent the demolition of their apartment building and fa...

Bustin' Loose

Bustin' Loose

1981

as Klan Leader

6.1
Acting

After ex-con Joe Braxton violates his probation, he is given a second chance. All he has to do is drive a group of special kids across the country.

Demonoid

Demonoid

1981

as Mark Baines

4.7
Acting

A British woman visits her husband at the Mexican mine he is attempting to reopen and discovers that the workers refuse to enter the mine, fearing an ...

Any Which Way You Can

Any Which Way You Can

1980

as Moody

5.8
Acting

Philo takes part in a bare knuckle fight – as he does – to make more money than he can earn from his car repair business. He decides to retire, but wh...

Foolin' Around

Foolin' Around

1980

as Blue

6.0
Acting

A working-class boy falls for a girl from a wealthy family, and must compete for her with a rich boy who also wants her.

Nightside

Nightside

1980

as Sgt. Duckman

Acting

Danny Dandoy is a good-humored, streetwise cop working the dusk-to-dawn shift in Los Angeles with his somewhat naive new partner, Macey, in this propo...

The Mountain Men

The Mountain Men

1980

Stunts

5.9

The story concerns two grizzled mountain men -- Bill Tyler and Henry Frapp -- during the dying days of the fur-trapping era. The plot begins when Runn...

Tom Horn

Tom Horn

1980

as Mendenhour

6.3
Acting

A renowned former army scout is hired by ranchers to hunt down rustlers but finds himself on trial for the murder of a boy when he carries out his job...

Every Which Way but Loose

Every Which Way but Loose

1978

as Woody

6.1
Acting

Philo Beddoe is your regular, easygoing, truck-driving guy. He's also the best bar-room brawler west of the Rockies. And he lives with a 165-pound ora...

The Gauntlet

The Gauntlet

1977

as Biker

6.6
Acting

Phoenix cop Ben Shockley is well on his way to becoming a derelict when he is assigned to transport a witness from Las Vegas. The witness turns out to...

Telefon

Telefon

1977

as Doug Stark

6.6
Acting

Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB agents sent to the U.S. in the 1950's. These agents g...

The Car

The Car

1977

as Ray Mott

6.3
Acting

The Utah community of Santa Ynez is being terrorized by a mysterious black coupe that appears out of nowhere and begins running people down. After the...

Helter Skelter

Helter Skelter

1976

as Punchy

6.8
Acting

The investigation of two horrific mass murders leads to the capture and trial of the psychotic pseudo-hippie Charles Manson and his "family".

The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox

The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox

1976

as Bloodworth

6.0
Acting

A female hustler is chasing after rich men, but becomes repeatedly mixed up with a suave con man and card shark through a series of misadventures befo...

Breakheart Pass

Breakheart Pass

1975

as Chris Banion

6.6
Acting

At the height of the frontier era, a train races through the Rocky Mountains on a classified mission to a remote army post. But one by one the passeng...

Framed

Framed

1975

as Haskins

6.6
Acting

Joe Don Baker plays a gambler who is framed for a crime he did not commit. A corrupt legal system leads him into a plea bargain and four years behind ...

The Wind and the Lion

The Wind and the Lion

1975

as Admiral Chadwick

6.5
Acting

At the beginning of the 20th century an American woman is abducted in Morocco by Berbers, and the attempts to free her range from diplomatic pressure ...

Breakout

Breakout

1975

as Spencer

6.3
Acting

A bush pilot is hired for $50,000 to go to Mexico to free an innocent prisoner.

Force Five

Force Five

1975

as Arnie Kogan

5.0
Acting
The Abduction of Saint Anne

The Abduction of Saint Anne

1975

as Woody

6.0
Acting

A cynical detective and a Roman Catholic bishop team up to investigate the reported miraculous powers of a 17-year-old girl being held captive in the ...

Hit Lady

Hit Lady

1974

as Eddie

3.0
Acting

At a Texas barbecue, a pretty woman chats up a wealthy rancher, and soon they're off on a horseback ride. Before she shoots him on an isolated road, s...

Nightmare Honeymoon

Nightmare Honeymoon

1974

as Sandy

5.0
Acting

A newlywed couple seek revenge after narrowly surviving a savage attack in rural Louisiana.

99 and 44/100% Dead

99 and 44/100% Dead

1974

as Jake

4.7
Acting

Uncle Frank Kelly calls on Harry Crown to help him in a gang war. The war becomes personal when Harry's new girlfriend is kidnapped by Uncle Frank's e...

Chinatown

Chinatown

1974

as Claude Mulvihill

7.9
Acting

Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to inve...

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

1974

as Dunlop

6.8
Acting

With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organise a daring new heist.

The Outfit

The Outfit

1973

as Al

6.8
Acting

A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsucc...

The Way We Were

The Way We Were

1973

as Army Captain

6.9
Acting

Opposites attract when, during their college days, Katie Morosky, a politically active Jew, meets Hubbell Gardiner, a feckless WASP. Years later, in t...

Dillinger

Dillinger

1973

as Samuel Cowley

6.6
Acting

After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. Waiting for him to break Feder...

Soylent Green

Soylent Green

1973

as Donovan

6.9
Acting

In the year 2022, overcrowding, pollution, and resource depletion have reduced society’s leaders to finding food for the teeming masses. The answer i...

The Red Pony

The Red Pony

1973

as Toby

Acting

A young farmboy who can't seem to communicate with his father develops an attachment to a young red pony.

Call to Danger

Call to Danger

1973

as Dave Falk

Acting

A federal agent recruits a computer whiz to try to free a Mafia witness who has been kidnapped and held in a heavily fortified compound.

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

1972

as Outlaw

6.4
Acting

Outlaw and self-appointed lawmaker Judge Roy Bean rules over an empty stretch of the West that gradually grows, under his iron fist, into a thriving t...

The Getaway

The Getaway

1972

as Cully

7.1
Acting

A recently released ex-convict and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes wrong.

Cry for Me, Billy

Cry for Me, Billy

1972

as Blacksmith

5.0
Acting

Drifter falls in love with Native American girl, with tragic results.

Journey Through Rosebud

1972

as Park Ranger

Acting

A young draft dodger helps militant Native Americans in their protest against the government at Wounded Knee.

Kung Fu: The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon

Kung Fu: The Way of the Tiger, the Sign of the Dragon

1972

as Fuller

7.1
Acting

After avenging the death of his teacher, a Shaolin monk flees China to the American West and helps people while being pursued by bounty hunters.

The Glass House

The Glass House

1972

as Officer Brown

6.5
Acting

Adapted from a story by Truman Capote ("In Cold Blood"), the world of the prison convict is open to the viewer. As the story develops, one thing becom...

Sometimes a Great Notion

Sometimes a Great Notion

1971

as Howie Elwood

6.9
Acting

Hank Stamper and his father, Henry, own and operate the family business by cutting and shipping logs in Oregon. The town is furious when they continue...

Sometimes a Great Notion

Sometimes a Great Notion

1971

Stunts

6.9

Hank Stamper and his father, Henry, own and operate the family business by cutting and shipping logs in Oregon. The town is furious when they continue...

Brute Corps

Brute Corps

1971

as Quinn

4.5
Acting

A hippy couple travelling cross country run foul of a band of mercenaries.

A Tattered Web

A Tattered Web

1971

as Bert Korawicz

5.6
Acting

A detective discovers his son-in-law is cheating on his wife. He confronts the other woman and accidentally kills her, then tries to pin the crime on ...

Big Jake

Big Jake

1971

as Gunman at Bathhouse in Escondero (uncredited)

6.9
Acting

An aging Texas cattle man who has outlived his time swings into action when outlaws kidnap his grandson.

Powderkeg

Powderkeg

1971

as Briggs

8.0
Acting

A Mexican bandit is about to be executed in the United States, so his brother takes over a train and holds the passengers as hostages unless his broth...

Fools

Fools

1970

as Man in the Park

1.0
Acting

A horror actor falls in love with the unhappily married young wife of an attorney.

Halls of Anger

Halls of Anger

1970

as Harry Greco

5.6
Acting

An all-black inner city school has to become an integrated school. Few dozen white kids are transfered there, but the black students are aggressively ...

Paint Your Wagon

Paint Your Wagon

1969

as Hennessey

6.4
Acting

A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a ...

Number One

Number One

1969

as Roy Nelson

5.1
Acting

A former football hero cannot accept his career is over. He loses himself in alcohol and women.

Stranger in the House

Stranger in the House

1968

as Walter

6.1
Acting

An American serial killer, known for his handiwork with a straight razor, manages to escape while being transported in Mexico and hides out inside a p...

5 Card Stud

5 Card Stud

1968

as Mace Jones

6.2
Acting

The players in an ongoing poker game are being mysteriously killed off, one by one.

The Thomas Crown Affair

The Thomas Crown Affair

1968

Stunts

6.8

Young businessman Thomas Crown is bored and decides to plan a robbery and assigns a professional agent with the right information to the job. However,...

Jigsaw

Jigsaw

1968

as Arnie

6.0
Acting

After inadvertently ingesting some sugar laced with LSD, a man wakes up with amnesia and in the middle of a murder plot.

The Helicopter Spies

The Helicopter Spies

1968

as Carl

5.0
Acting

The men from U.N.C.L.E must stop a band of would-be sorcerers from using a deadly weapon.

The Ambushers

The Ambushers

1967

as Karl

5.1
Acting

When an experimental flying saucer crashes, secret agent Matt Helm has to bring back the secret weapons hidden on board.

Will Penny

Will Penny

1967

as Boetius Sullivan

6.6
Acting

Will Penny, an aging cowpoke, takes a job on a ranch which requires him to ride the line of the property looking for trespassers or, worse, squatters....

The Bandits

The Bandits

1967

as Josh Racker

4.7
Acting

Three Americans get involved into the Mexican fight against the French Intervention.

Camelot

Camelot

1967

Stunts

6.2

The plot of his illegitimate son Mordred to gain the throne, and Guinevere's growing attachment to Sir Lancelot, threatens to topple King Arthur and d...

Waterhole #3

Waterhole #3

1967

as Doc Quinlen

6.1
Acting

After a professional gambler kills a Confederate soldier, he finds a map pinpointing the location in the desert where stolen army gold bullion is buri...

Red Tomahawk

Red Tomahawk

1967

as 2nd prospector

6.4
Acting

After Custer's defeat an army captain tries to warn a small town that the Sioux are coming. The inhabitants own two machine-guns but don't want to len...

The Fortune Cookie

The Fortune Cookie

1966

Stunts

7.2

A cameraman is knocked over during a football game. His brother-in-law, as the king of the ambulance-chasing lawyers, starts a suit while he's still k...

The Plainsman

The Plainsman

1966

as Renegade Soldier (uncredited)

4.8
Acting

Calamity Jane tries to help Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickock stop an Indian war.

Daniel Boone: Frontier Trail Rider

Daniel Boone: Frontier Trail Rider

1966

as Cash Doyle

5.0
Acting

Daniel Boone leads a party of settlers into Kentucky to found the town of Boonesborough. Along the way, he meets and falls in love with a lovely, red-...

Harper

Harper

1966

as Puddler

6.7
Acting

Harper is a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved alo...

Our Man Flint

Our Man Flint

1966

Stunts

6.4

When scientists use eco-terrorism to impose their will on the world by affecting extremes in the weather, Intelligence Chief Cramden calls in top agen...

Apache Uprising

Apache Uprising

1965

as Sgt. Hogan

6.2
Acting

Various stage coach passengers and outlaws travelling through Indian country are forced to join forces against the Apaches.

Morituri

Morituri

1965

as Merchant Marine (uncredited)

6.8
Acting

A German living in India during World War II is blackmailed by the English to impersonate an SS officer on board a cargo ship leaving Japan for German...

Shenandoah

Shenandoah

1965

Stunts

6.9

Charlie Anderson, a farmer in Shenandoah, Virginia, finds himself and his family in the middle of the Civil War he wants nothing to do with. When his ...

Baby the Rain Must Fall

Baby the Rain Must Fall

1965

as Tough Patron

6.2
Acting

Henry Thomas tries to overcome the horrors of his childhood and start a new life with his wife and kid. However, his abusive step-mother and his depen...

Stage to Thunder Rock

Stage to Thunder Rock

1964

as Harkins

6.0
Acting

An aging sheriff is put in the position of having to arrest the outlaw father and two sons with whom he was raised.

Law of the Lawless

Law of the Lawless

1964

as Roy Johnson

6.1
Acting

A former gunfighter, now a circuit court judge, faces his father's killer in a small post-Civil War Kansas town.

McLintock!

McLintock!

1963

Stunts

6.6

Ageing, wealthy, rancher and self-made man, George Washington McLintock is forced to deal with numerous personal and professional problems. Seemingly ...

The Great Escape

The Great Escape

1963

Stunts

7.9

The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-secu...

How the West Was Won

How the West Was Won

1962

as Henchman (uncredited)

7.0
Acting

The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one ...

How the West Was Won

How the West Was Won

1962

Stunts

7.0

The epic tale of the development of the American West from the 1830s through the Civil War to the end of the century, as seen through the eyes of one ...

Atlantis: The Lost Continent

Atlantis: The Lost Continent

1961

Stunts

5.2

A Greek Fisherman brings an Atlantean Princess back to her homeland which is the mythical city of Atlantis. He is enslaved for his trouble. The King i...

The Wackiest Ship in the Army

The Wackiest Ship in the Army

1960

as Shark Bait - USS Echo Crewman (uncredited)

5.9
Acting

Lieutenant Rip Crandall is hoodwinked into taking command of the "Wackiest Ship in the Navy" – a real garbage scow with a crew of misfits who don't kn...

Flaming Star

Flaming Star

1960

as Matt Holcom (uncredited)

6.5
Acting

Sam Burton's second wife is a Kiowa, and their son is therefore born mixed-race. When a struggle starts between the whites and the native Kiowas, the ...

Flaming Star

Flaming Star

1960

Stunts

6.5

Sam Burton's second wife is a Kiowa, and their son is therefore born mixed-race. When a struggle starts between the whites and the native Kiowas, the ...

Let No Man Write My Epitaph

Let No Man Write My Epitaph

1960

as Whitey (uncredited)

6.1
Acting

Nick Romano lives in a poor tenement building on the south side of Chicago with his well-meaning but drug-addicted mother, Nellie. She encourages him ...

13 Ghosts

13 Ghosts

1960

as Ghost (uncredited)

5.7
Acting

Reclusive Dr. Zorba has died and left his mansion to his nephew Cyrus and his family. They will need to search the house to find the doctor's fortune,...

The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond

The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond

1960

as Bodyguard (uncredited)

6.0
Acting

Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewelry thieves. After a spell in jail, the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the...

Warlock

Warlock

1959

Stunts

6.7

A band of murderous cowboys has imposed a reign of terror on the town of Warlock. With the sheriff humiliatingly run out of town, the residents hire t...

Ride Lonesome

Ride Lonesome

1959

as Outlaw (uncredited)

6.7
Acting

On the way to pick up the bounty on a wanted murderer, a bounty hunter stops at a staging post where he is forced to continue his journey with two out...

The Last Hurrah

The Last Hurrah

1958

as Fighter (uncredited)

7.1
Acting

In a changing world where television has become the main source of information, Adam Caulfield, a young sports journalist, witnesses how his uncle, Fr...

Buchanan Rides Alone

Buchanan Rides Alone

1958

6.5
Acting

Passing through a border town, a man is caught up in a Mexican's murder of a member of the town's most powerful family.

The Missouri Traveler

The Missouri Traveler

1958

as Simpson

6.4
Acting

Byron Turner, a 15-year-old runaway from the Eatondale Orphan Asylum, receives a ride into the rural Missouri town of Delphi with rich land-owner Tobi...

Operation Mad Ball

Operation Mad Ball

1957

as Hospital Guard (uncredited)

6.6
Acting

In this wacky military spoof, Lemmon plays a terminally bored Army private waging a war of wits as he tries to throw a party under the nose of his obn...

The Harder They Fall

The Harder They Fall

1956

as Fighter (uncredited)

7.1
Acting

Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Tor...

Broken Lance

Broken Lance

1954

as Bailiff (uncredited)

6.4
Acting

Cattle baron Matt Devereaux raids a copper smelter that is polluting his water, then divides his property among his sons. Son Joe takes responsibility...

The Caine Mutiny

The Caine Mutiny

1954

as Sailor

7.2
Acting

When a US Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardize his ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial ...

Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan

1954

Stunts

5.9

Story of blood brothers whose bonds are tested when marauding Sioux Indians cross the border to enlist the peaceful Cree in a battle against the Great...

Westward the Women

Westward the Women

1951

as (uncredited)

7.0
Acting

There's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solution is to bring a caravan of over 100 mail-order b...