Screenplay: Steven Karpf

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Steven Karpf. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Direction Douglas Heyes · Allen Reisner

Cast Richard Jordan · Perry King · Patty Duke · Henry Fonda

Synopsis Rags-to-riches tale of an Irish immigrant. Joseph Armagh was a poor Irish immigrant who came to the United States in the mid-19th century, and proceeded, through struggle, heartache and hard work, to become one of the richest and most powerful...

7.1

103 votes

7.1

103 votes

Dynasty (TV Series)

1981 · Series · 45 min. · United States

Direction Richard Shapiro · Esther Shapiro · Irving J. Moore · Don Medford

Cast John Forsythe · Linda Evans · Joan Collins · Gordon Thomson

Synopsis TV Series (1981-1989). 9 Seasons. 220 Episodes. Drama. The saga of a wealthy Denver family in the oil business: Blake Carrington, the patriarch; Krystle, his former secretary and wife; his children: Adam, lost in childhood after a kidnapping; Fallon, pampered...

4.9

4K votes

4.9

4K votes

Gargoyles (TV)

1972 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Bill L. Norton

Cast Cornel Wilde · Jennifer Salt · Grayson Hall · Bernie Casey

Synopsis An anthropologist/paleontologist and his daughter, while travelling through the southwestern US, stumble upon a colony of living, breathing gargoyles who in the end only want to be left alone.

4.8

45 votes

4.8

45 votes

The Jayne Mansfield Story (TV)

1980 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Dick Lowry

Cast Loni Anderson · Arnold Schwarzenegger · Ray Buktenica · Kathleen Lloyd

Synopsis Born Vera Jayne Palmer on April 19, 1933, Jayne Mansfield always knew she wanted to be a star. Losing her father at a young age, Mansfield found solace on the stage. Eventually achieving her goal of celebrity, she became famous...

4.1

52 votes

4.1

52 votes

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City of Angels (TV Series)

1976 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Don Medford · Robert Douglas · Douglas Heyes · Hy Averback

Cast Wayne Rogers · Pepper Martin · Meredith Baxter · Steve Kanaly

Synopsis TV Series (1976-). 13 episodes. Wayne Rogers plays a determined but unethical private detective, Jake Axminster, who looks out for himself -and somewhat less aggressively for his clients- amid the corruption of Los Angeles, California, in the mid-1930s. He is...

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Capitol (TV Series)

1982 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Elinor Karpf · Steven Karpf · Corey Allen · Patrick Corbett

Cast Constance Towers · Debrah Farentino · Rory Calhoun · Carolyn Jones

Synopsis This daytime serial dramatized the power struggles and personal machinations between two feuding political families the wealthy Cleggs and middle-class McCandlesses. Storylines developed from the star-crossed romance between Julie Clegg and Tyler McCandless, which re-activated a lifetime feud between their...

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Adam at Six A.M.

1970 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Robert Scheerer

Cast Michael Douglas · Lee Purcell · Joe Don Baker · Louise Latham

Synopsis A disenchanted young Professor of Semantics at a California college learns of a distant relative's death in Missouri. He journeys cross-country to the funeral, then decides to spend the summer there and work as a laborer for a power-line company....

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Rolling Man

1972 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Peter Hyams

Cast Dennis Weaver · Don Stroud · Donna Mills · Jimmy Dean

Synopsis During the 1970s, a tow-truck driver serves 4 years in prison and upon release he tries to find his 2 motherless children and to put his life back together.

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A Cry in the Wilderness (TV)

1974 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Gordon Hessler

Cast George Kennedy · Joanna Pettet · Lee Montgomery · Collin Wilcox Paxton

Synopsis The father of a wilderness family gets bitten by a skunk, and fearing rabies, chains himself to a barn to protect his family should he go mad. He orders his son not to come near him no matter how persuasive...

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