Amanda WyssFilmography

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: You've Got Male

Synopsis: The bodies of two girls are found stuffed in pipes at a rural highway construction site. Investigating, Grissom (William L. Petersen) and Sara (Jorja Fox) determine that the girls were sisters, and that one of them was intimate with a recently paroled convict. Elsewhere, another body found in the Read More

ER: Suffer the Little Children

Synopsis: When the wife (Swoosie Kurtz) of televangelist Emmitt Chambliss (Gary Grubbs) is brought into the ER suffering the aftereffects of a recent face-lift, Chambliss draws up plans to telecast a fundraiser from the hospital. Elsewhere, Ross (George Clooney) and Carol (Julianna Margulies) put their Read More

Strategic Command

Actors: Michael Dudikoff, Paul Winfield, Richard Norton, Amanda Wyss, Nick Corri

Synopsis: When terrorists hijack an airborne passenger jet containing the Vice President of the United States and a devastating amount of poison gas, it's up to an expert hostage negotiator to save the day. A veteran of the Gulf War, he has developed numerous skills for dealing with enemies such as these. Read More

NYPD Blue: Sorry, Wrong Suspect

Synopsis: The Medavoys have split up again: Greg (Gordon Clapp) leaves home and camps out at the precinct station, while Marie (Deborah Taylor) finally meets her husband's "significant other," Donna (Gail O'Grady). A curious tattoo leads Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) and Simone (Jimmy Smits) to a Chinese Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Another Killing in Cork

Synopsis: During her annual visit to Ireland, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) enjoys the hospitality of a fishing lodge near Kilcleer. Coinciding with Jessica's stay is the arrival of a consortium which wants to buy the lodge in order to begin strip-mining the property. Before long, the lodge's owner, Tom Dempsey Read More

Highlander: Deadly Medicine

Actors: Adrian Paul, Alexandra Van Der Noot, Stan Kirsch, Amanda Wyss, Joe Pantoliano

Synopsis: After being involved in a horrible accident, Duncan (Adrian Paul) is rushed to a hospital ER -- where, by virtue of his Immortal status, he makes an immediate recovery. This rouses the curiosity of a Dr. Wilder (Joe Pantoliano of The Sopranos), who kidnaps Duncan in hopes of learning the secret of Read More

Highlander: Bad Day in Building A

Actors: Adrian Paul, Alexandra Van Der Noot, Stan Kirsch, Amanda Wyss, Andrew Divoff

Synopsis: Accompanied by Richie (Stan Kirsch), Tessa (Alexandra Van Der Noot) storms down to the courthouse to argue about her recent parking tickets. Almost immediately, both Richie and Tessa are taken hostage by a gang trying to free their leader, Bryan Slade (Andrew Divoff), who has just been sentenced Read More

Gunsmoke: To the Last Man

Actors: James Arness, Pat Hingle, Jason Lively

Synopsis: When retired lawman Matt Dillon takes off hunting for some stolen cattle, he and his daughter discover a vigilante gang and get involved in one of the bloodiest and most deadly feuds in the history of the West. Gunsmoke fans will not be disappointed by this James Arness outing. ~ Tana Hobart, All Read More

Bloodfist IV: Die Trying

Synopsis: In this martial arts thriller, a repo man accidentally brings back the wrong car and finds himself in deep trouble with the LAPD, both national security organizations, and a ring of international gun runners. When someone kidnaps the repo man's daughter, he uses his fists of fury to get bloody Read More

Highlander: Season 01

Actors: Adrian Paul, Stan Kirsch, Alexandra Van Der Noot, Amanda Wyss

Synopsis: To the citizens of Vancouver, Duncan MacLeod (Adrian Paul) is just your average handsome, ponytailed, introspective antiques dealer. In truth, however, Duncan is an Immortal, born 400 years ago in Scotland, totally impervious to death or serious injury unless he is beheaded in a sword fight with Read More

Highlander: Eyewitness

Actors: Adrian Paul, Alexandra Van Der Noot, Stan Kirsch, Amanda Wyss, Tim Reid

Synopsis: Tessa (Alexandra Van Der Noot) is the only witness to the murder of artist Anne Wheeler (Diana Barrington). Unfortunately, no body turns up, and the police decide that Anne was just imagining things. The only person who believes her is the murderer -- a crooked cop who happens to be an Immortal. Read More

Highlander: Innocent Man

Actors: Adrian Paul, Alexandra Van Der Noot, Stan Kirsch, Amanda Wyss, Vincent Schiavelli

Synopsis: Living a hermitlike existence in the woods, Vietnam veteran Leo Atkins (Vincent Schiavelli) is charged with murder by sheriff Howard Crowley (John Novak). The victim was a mortal friend of Immortal Duncan MacLeod (Adrian Paul) -- and Duncan is convinced that Leo is innocent. Could the actual Read More

Son of Darkness: To Die For II

Actors: Rosalind Allen, Steve Bond, Scott Jacoby, Michael Praed, Jay Underwood, Amanda Wyss

Synopsis: A substantial improvement on its predecessor, this in-name-only sequel retains only a few characters from the original To Die For, standing alone as an effective vampire tale in its own right. The complex plot revolves around the facilities of vampire Doctor Max (Michael Praed), whose stores of Read More

Black Magic Woman

Actors: Mark Hamill, Amanda Wyss, Victor Rivers, Abidah Viera

Synopsis: This sexually-tinged supernatural thriller involves the owner of an art gallery (Mark Hamill) who falls victim to the seductive and dangerous wiles of a coven of suburban witches -- the kind who brew their magic potions in the microwave -- when he enters a torrid affair with the smoldering Read More

Checkered Flag

Synopsis: In this drama, a race car driver takes on the friend and rival driver who stole his lover. Macho posturing (some of it violent) ensues until the two learn to work together and become a winning team. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

To Die For

Actors: Brendan Hughes, Sydney Walsh, Amanda Wyss, Scott Jacoby, Micah Grant

Synopsis: The never ending battle between good and evil continues as history's most notorious bloodsucker turns up in modern day Los Angeles in director Deran Sarafian's updating of Bram Stoker's timeless tale of terror. He may have a new look and a new life, but when Vlad Tepish arrives on Los Angeles in Read More

Powwow Highway

Actors: A. Martinez, Gary Farmer, Amanda Wyss, Joanelle Nadine Romero, Sam Vlahos

Synopsis: The road movie gets a smart update with this seriocomic tale of two Cheyenne men traveling from their reservation in Montana to New Mexico. For one of them, Buddy Red Bow (A Martinez), a quick-tempered activist, the journey is a practical one; his sister has been arrested and he is the only family Read More

Shakma

Actors: Christopher Atkins, Amanda Wyss, Ari Meyers, Roddy McDowall

Synopsis: A group of medical research scientists decide to take a break and play a little Dungeons and Dragons. This horror film follows what happens when one of their experiments comes forth to join them. Bloody mayhem ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Final Days

Actors: Ann Hearn, Lane Smith, Amanda Wyss

Synopsis: The three-hour TV docudrama The Final Days was based on the Bob Woodward/Carl Bernstein chronicle of President Richard M. Nixon's last months in the White House. Given his behavior during the entire Watergate imbroglio, Nixon cannot help but come off as a paranoid power-abuser. As played by Lane Smith Read More

Deadly Innocents

Synopsis: A young woman is being taught the subtle craft of murder by a crazed psychotic, and a local sheriff begins to suspect the truth. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Deadly Innocence

Synopsis: A woman haunted by her mysterious past boards with a timid, isolated girl who opens her home after her father dies. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Independence

Synopsis: In this western, a sheriff finds himself faced with the most unpleasant type of deja vu when the gang that murdered his first wife and family rides up to threaten his second. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Firefighter

Actors: Nancy McKeon

Synopsis: Also released as The Greater Alarm, the made-for-TV Firefighter is based on a true story. Nancy McKeon (who also co-produced), plays Cindy Fralick, the first female member of the Los Angeles Fire Department. The plotline details the prejudice and chauvinism lurking at every turn during Fralick's Read More

Cheers: The Book of Samuel

Synopsis: Miffed at having to meet the fiancé of the hometown sweetheart (Amanda Wyss) who rejected him, Woody (Woody Harrelson) is determined to prove that he has a new girlfriend (actually, he is forced to prove this, thanks to the "helpful" Diane [Shelley Long]). Desperate, Woody looks up a few names in Read More

Something in Common

Actors: Ellen Burstyn, Tuesday Weld

Synopsis: Something in Common is a made-for-television comedy about a middle-aged, widowed career woman (Ellen Burstyn) who discovers that her grown son is having a love affair with a woman (Tuesday Weld) her own age. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Flag

Synopsis: The 90-minute TV movie Flag was meant to be a joint spoof of the nighttime serials Dallas and Knots Landing. In this instance, it was "bite the hand that feeds you time": Flag was produced by David Jacobs, creator of both Dallas and Knots, and distributed by Lorimar-Telepictures, which also Read More

Cheers: Woody Goes Belly Up

Synopsis: Worried that bartender Woody (Woody Harrelson) has no romance in his life, the Cheers gang arranges for Woody's former girlfriend Beth (Amanda Wyss) to come to Boston. Alas, Beth's presence prods Woody back into some bad old habits -- chief among them a disturbing tendency to make a pig of himself Read More

Better Off Dead

Actors: John Cusack, David Ogden Stiers, Kim Darby, Demian Slade, Scooter Stevens, Diane Franklin, Amanda Wyss

Synopsis: Most animation aficionados of the 1990s know "Savage Steve Holland" as the cocreator (with Bill Kopp) of the all-stops-out TV cartoon series Eek! The Cat. But Holland had been exercising his own peculiar brand of deviltry on live characters long before Eek! came into being. In Holland's Better Off Dead Read More

Silverado

Actors: Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Kevin Costner, Danny Glover, John Cleese

Synopsis: Lawrence Kasdan's Silverado is a fond hark back to the all-star, big-budget westerns of the 1950s and 1960s. The various plotlines converge at the town of Silverado, held in thrall by crooked sheriff Brian Dennehy and his behemoth "deputies." The four disparate heroes--Kevin Kline, Kevin Costner, Scott Glenn Read More

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Actors: John Saxon, Ronee Blakely, Heather Langenkamp, Amanda Wyss, Nick Corri, Johnny Depp, Robert Englund

Synopsis: A decade of wisecracking sequels have not diminished the power of this striking horror film from the director of Scream. Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter (Heather Langenkamp) traces the cause to Read More

My Mother's Secret Life

Actors: Loni Anderson, Paul Sorvino, Amanda Wyss

Synopsis: After a long separation, a young girl finds her mother (Loni Anderson) and is surprised to find that she's working as a high-class call girl. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

Actors: Sean Penn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judge Reinhold, Robert Romanus, Brian Backer, Phoebe Cates, Ray Walston

Synopsis: Amy Heckerling's adaptation of Cameron Crowe's Fast Times at Ridgemont High is often considered one of the finest films of a disreputable genre (the teen sex comedy), and kick-started the careers of many future stars. The center of this ensemble film is Jennifer Jason Leigh as Stacy Hamilton. She Read More

She Drinks a Little

Actors: Amanda Wyss, Bonnie Bartlett, Michael Le Clair, Anna Gray Garduno, Elliot Jaffe

Synopsis: This is one of a handful of ABC Afterschool Special presentations produced to heighten awareness of Ala-Teen, an organization for the teenaged children of alcoholics. Although 16-year-old Cindy (Amanda Wyss) is all too aware that her mom is a problem drinker, the girl refuses to admit the fact and Read More

Force: Five

Actors: Joe Lewis, Pam Huntington, Richard Norton, Benny Urquidez

Synopsis: In this martial arts film, a twisted cult lead by the evil Reverend Rhee (Bong Soo Han) has kidnapped a young girl, and it is up to renegade Jerry Martin (Joe Lewis) and his friends to rescue her before it is too late. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

This House Possessed

Synopsis: This made-for-TV Amityville Horror knock-off ranks among the more interesting titles from a spate of early-1980s haunted-house efforts. The title abode is the sumptuous new residence of recuperating neurotic rock star Gary Stralhorn (Parker Stevenson), who resides there with his young amnesiac Read More

Highlander: Band of Brothers

Actors: Adrian Paul, Alexandra Van Der Noot, Stan Kirsch, Amanda Wyss, Werner Stocker

Synopsis: Werner Stocker makes his first series appearance as Darius, a 2000-year-old monk and the mentor to Immortal Duncan (Adrian Paul). Darius warns Duncan that he is being stalked by evil Immortal Grayson (James Horan), who has also added celebrated philanthropist and peace activist Victor Paulus (Earl Pastko Read More

Highlander: See No Evil

Actors: Adrian Paul, Alexandra Van Der Noot, Stan Kirsch, Amanda Wyss, Tim Reid

Synopsis: Duncan (Adrian Paul) goes after "The Scalper," a serial killer who preys on blonde women. The murderer is either patterning himself after an insane Immortal Duncan thought he disposed of over 68 years ago -- or he is that selfsame Immortal back in business. Tessa (Alexandra Van Der Noot) Read More

Highlander: Family Tree

Actors: Adrian Paul, Alexandra Van Der Noot, Stan Kirsch, Amanda Wyss, Peter DeLuise

Synopsis: After years of searching through orphanage records, Richie (Stan Kirsch) is convinced that he has found his real father. Duncan (Adrian Paul) doubts this, especially after meeting Richie's self-confessed "daddy", a two-bit gambler named Joe Scanlon (J.E. Freeman). As it happens, Richie is being Read More