Val Avery
13 titles
Filmography
13 results

Heroes
(1977)A woman becomes involved with a troubled Vietnam vet and his crazy scheme to start a worm farm.

Choices
(1981)When his partial deafness keeps him off the football team, a teen dabbles in risky behavior until his girlfriend convinces him to take another path.

The Messenger
(1986)A Green Beret unleashes his vengeance on the drug gangs he holds responsible for selling his girlfriend the drugs that led to her fatal overdose.

Easy Money
(1983)To inherit $10 million from his stern mother-in-law, a working-class slob has one year to give up his boozing, gambling and womanizing ways.

Firehouse
(1973)When a Black rookie is assigned to an all-White firehouse, he must battle both blazes and racism, as the fire department hunts for a serial arsonist

Jinxed!
(1982)A gambler’s luck ends—and the fun begins—when his unhappy gal Bonita falls for an unlucky blackjack dealer and deals him in on a madcap murder plot.

Too Late Blues
(1961)A jazz-band pianist bottoms out because of a blonde, then tries for a comeback.

Faces
(1968)An aging couple separate during a midlife crisis.

Continental Divide
(1981)Ernie Souchak (John Belushi), a tough Chicago reporter, gets a little too close to the Mob, and his apartment is blown up. To take the heat off of him, his editor sends him to Colorado to investigate an eagle researcher (Blair Brown). Sparring partners at first, the pair eventually fall in love, but Ernie Souchak must return to Chicago when one of his sources is mysteriously killed.

Requiem for a Heavyweight
(1962)Knockout performances by Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney and Julie Harris highlight this hard-hitting drama of corruption in the ring. Featuring Muhammad Ali.

The Anderson Tapes
(1971)Rounding up a gang of top-flight thieves, an ex-con fresh out of prison plans to ransack a posh New York apartment, unaware he's being surveilled.

Out of the Darkness
(1985)Suspenseful telefilm focuses on Eddie Zigo, the New York cop who captured the Son-of-Sam killer in the biggest manhunt in the history of New York.

Harry and Walter Go to New York
(1976)While in jail, two low-rent vaudevillians steal a fellow inmate’s plan to rob a bank after they are released. Can they get to the loot before he does?