Highest rated movie: A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story (1978)
Lowest rated movie: Moment by Moment (1978)
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Looking for reviews of James Luisi movies? Cinafilm has a total of 600 reviews across 10 movies.
Movies starring James Luisi have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 58%.
A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story - released in 1978 - is James Luisi's highest rated movie, with a score of 87% based on 1 reviews.
The lowest rated film from James Luisi is Moment by Moment - released in 1978 - with a score of 30% based on 4 reviews.
A native New Yorker, James Luisi attended St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights on a basketball scholarship. He served in the Army during the Korean War. He then played one season (1953-54) with the Baltimore Bullets in the National Basketball Association. His acting career began on the stage with early parts coming in the Broadway musicals "Sweet Charity" and "Zorba". His early movies were minor, though his "beefcake" appeal was evident in 1973's I Escaped from Devil's Island (1973) in which he rarely wore a shirt. Most of his later work was on TV. In 1976 he shared a "best actor" daytime Emmy for playing George Washington in a daytime drama special titled First Ladies Diaries: Martha Washington (1975). Also in 1976 he started his four-season role as Jim Rockford's (James Garner) nemesis Lt. Chapman in The Rockford Files (1974). In 1983 he played the cop in charge of some street-gang-members-turned-undercover-agents in the short-lived series The Renegades (1983), which provided a boost for Patrick Swayze, who played one of the gang members. Along with guest spots on numerous TV shows, Luisi also appeared in the soap operas Days of Our Lives (1965) and Another World (1964).
In the 1990s he returned to acting in and directing stage work in the Los Angeles area. Stricken with cancer he passed away on 7 June 2002 and is survived by his wife of 41 years, the former Georgia Phillips.
James Luisi has acted in films with Larry Cedar, Gail Strickland, Michael Yama and Morgan Paull.
James Luisi has worked with these film directors: William Witney, J. Lee Thompson, Jack Sholder and Martin Ritt.
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