Anne JacksonFilmography

The Education of Gore Vidal

Actors: Anne Jackson, Gore Vidal, Paul Newman, Tim Robbins, Sarah Sarandon, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: Always his own best audience, celebrated author, social critic, and self-described political "nag" Gore Vidal also proves the ideal master of ceremonies (via film clips from an extended interview) for this biographical documentary. From the vantage point of his villa in Ravello, Italy, Vidal Read More

Something Sweet

Actors: Nick Chinlund, Anne Jackson, Daniel J. Travanti

Synopsis: A young woman learning to make her own way in the world has to deal with the disapproval of her family -- who, as it turns out, have some secrets they haven't been sharing -- in this independent drama. Mel (Lauren Stamile) is a law student whose father Harrison (Daniel J. Travanti) insists that Read More

Law & Order: Burned

Synopsis: A young girl from a wealthy family is killed in a suspicious fire. Confronted with an incriminating answering-machine message, the teenaged stepbrother of the victim confesses. Things take an even more sinister turn when D.A. Schiff (Steven Hill) tangles with the wealthy and well-connected Read More

Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women

Actors: Elizabeth Perkins, Sela Ward, Anne Jackson, Fritz Weaver, Al Waxman

Synopsis: Based on Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage in the Holocaust, a book by Gay Block and Malka Drucker, this made-for-cable drama was intended as the first of a trilogy inspired by the same literary source. The film is divided into two segments, both set in Europe during WWII. Scripted by Ernest Kinoy Read More

Reading Rainbow: Stellaluna

Actors: LeVar Burton

Synopsis: Anne Jackson reads Stellaluno by Jannell Cannon, a tale about a baby bat adopted by birds. Host LeVar Burton explores the world of bats and other nocturnal animals in this episode of Reading Rainbow. He discusses with a guest scientist the habits of creatures who come out only at night. Other Read More

Folks!

Actors: Tom Selleck, Don Ameche, Anne Jackson, Christine Ebersole, Wendy Crewson

Synopsis: In this comedy, stockbroker Jon Aldrich (Tom Selleck) is the man who has it all, until his ill, aging parents (Don Ameche and Anne Jackson) move in with him. As his perfect life begins to disintegrate bit by bit, Jon becomes more and more depressed and disillusioned. Finally, broke and friendless Read More

Funny About Love

Actors: Gene Wilder, Christine Lahti, Mary Stuart Masterson, Robert Prosky, Stephen Tobolowsky, Anne Jackson

Synopsis: The once-in-a-lifetime collaboration between star Gene Wilder and director Leonard Nimoy resulted in the charmingly haphazard and anachronistic Funny About Love. Wilder plays political cartoonist Duffy Bergman, who falls in love with much-younger Meg (Christine Lahti) during a book-signing Read More

Dear Papa

Synopsis: This informative discussion looks into the thoughts of a mother and daughter and they discuss and remember their deceased Father/Grandfather. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Baby M

Actors: John Shea, Robin Strasser, JoBeth Williams

Synopsis: Baby M is a two-part TV movie predicated on a headline-making true event. In 1985, Mary Beth Whitehead accepted $10,000 to bear a child, which then would be adopted by William and Elizabeth Stern. But after the baby's birth in March of 1986, Whitehead reneged on the agreement. The subsequent Read More

Out on a Limb

Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Charles Dance, John Heard, Anne Jackson, Jerry Orbach

Synopsis: Actress/author Shirley MacLaine described her 1983 book Out on a Limb as the tale of her "personal spiritual quest." In this two-part TV-movie adaptation of the book, MacLaine plays herself, meeting the emotional challenge of passing 40 by entering into an affair with a Socialist member of the Read More

Sam's Son

Actors: Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson, Timothy Patrick Murphy, Hallie Todd, Alan Hayes

Synopsis: This largely autobiographical story written and directed by Michael Landon stars Timothy Patrick Murphy as Gene Orowitz (Landon's real name was Eugene Orowitz), a frail teenager with a talent for throwing the javelin and a close relationship to his father Sam (Eli Wallach), the manager of a movie Read More

Blood Debts

Synopsis: In this grim drama, a young woman is brutally gang-raped and her boy friend murdered by a hunting party. The girl's father goes out and gets bloody revenge against every single one of them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

A Woman Called Golda

Actors: Ingrid Bergman

Synopsis: A Woman Called Golda is a made-for-television account of the life and times of Golda Meir, Israel's powerful prime minister during the '60s and '70s. Judy Davis portrays Golda as a young woman, while Ingrid Bergman plays Meir as an older woman; Bergman won an Emmy for her performance. ~ Stephen Read More

Blinded by the Light

Actors: Jimmy McNichol, Kristy McNichol, Anne Jackson, Michael McGuire, Jenny O'Hara

Synopsis: Real-life brother and sister Jimmy and Kristy McNichol star in this made-for-television drama about a claustrophobic cult. Jimmy McNichol stars as David, oldest son of the seemingly well-adjusted Bowers. When David disappears from his family to live with the Light of Salvation cult, sister Janet (Kristy McNichol Read More

Leave 'em Laughing

Actors: Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: Mickey Rooney stars in this made-for-TV docudrama as circus clown Jack Thum, who aids his wife (Anne Jackson) in raising dozens of orphans; despite learning he is dying, Jack still struggles to earn money to support his growing brood. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Shining

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson

Synopsis: "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" -- or, rather, a homicidal boy in Stanley Kubrick's eerie 1980 adaptation of Stephen King's horror novel. With wife Wendy (Shelley Duvall) and psychic son Danny (Danny Lloyd) in tow, frustrated writer Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) takes a job as the Read More

A Private Battle

Synopsis: A Private Battle was adapted by the ubiquitous John Gay from the posthumously published memoirs of historical author Cornelius Ryan. At the height of his fame, Ryan (Jack Warden) is stricken with prostate cancer. During his last four deteriorating years, Ryan keeps a secret record of the events Read More

The Bell Jar

Actors: Marilyn Hassett, Julie Harris, Anne Jackson, Barbara Barrie, Donna Mitchell

Synopsis: Poet Sylvia Plath wrote an immensely popular roman à clef, The Bell Jar, which chronicles a woman's descent from functioning as a highly educated, motivated, and capable young woman to being completely incapacitated at the hands of mental illness. Sadly, Plath committed suicide at age 30 Read More

The Family Man

Synopsis: A middle-aged husband must choose between his wife and family, and the younger woman he is having an affair with in the made-for-TV movie. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

20 Shades of Pink

Actors: Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson

Synopsis: The made for TV 20 Shades of Pink stars real-life husband and wife Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson as a happily married blue collar couple. Wallach is perfectly content to work as a house painter, but Jackson, hoping to fatten the family bank account, talks her husband into opening his own business. Read More

Independence

Actors: William Atherton, Pat Hingle, Anne Jackson

Synopsis: Historical overview of the events and personalities involved in the creation of the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Nasty Habits

Actors: Glenda Jackson, Melina Mercouri, Geraldine Page, Sandy Dennis, Anne Jackson

Synopsis: An all-star female cast (Glenda Jackson, Melina Mecouri, Geraldine Page, Sandy Dennis, Anne Jackson, Anne Meara, and Dame Edith Evans) enliven this satirical treatment of the Nixon Watergate scandal, Nasty Habits -- based on Muriel Sparks's novella The Abbess of Crewe. When a dying abbess (Dame Read More

The Typists

Actors: Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson

Synopsis: Veteran husband and wife acting team Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson return to the roles that they created in the 1963 Off-Broadway musical in Kultur video's release of playwright Murray Schisgal's The Typists. As a married man and a spinster resign themselves to a fate of mindless duplication in a Read More

Dirty Dingus Magee

Actors: Frank Sinatra, George Kennedy, Anne Jackson, Lois Nettleton, John Dehner, Jack Elam

Synopsis: Frank Sinatra stars in this bawdy western satire as Dingus Magee, a would-be outlaw who robs Hoke Birdsill (George Kennedy) while Hoke is en route to Yerkey's Hole, New Mexico. Hoke reports the theft to Belle Knops (Anne Jackson), the mayor of Yerkey's Hole and proprietor of the town's biggest Read More

The Angel Levine

Actors: Zero Mostel, Harry Belafonte, Ida Kaminska, Milo O'Shea, Gloria Foster

Synopsis: Bernard Malamud seldom saw his works faithfully transferred to the screen (take a look at The Natural sometime), but he issued no complaints over the cinemazation of his The Angel Levine. Zero Mostel plays an elderly Jew whose life experiences have left him an embittered agnostic. Into Mostel's Read More

Lovers and Other Strangers

Actors: Bea Arthur, Bonnie Bedelia, Michael Brandon, Richard S. Castellano

Synopsis: Lovers and Other Strangers became a "sleeper" hit, based on a play by Renée Taylor and Joseph Bologna. The story is essentially a series of vignettes and anecdotes, unified by an impending marriage. Father of the bride Hal (Gig Young) has problems with his long-suffering mistress, Cathy (Anne Jackson Read More

Zigzag

Actors: George Kennedy, Anne Jackson, Eli Wallach, Steve Ihnat, Joan Tompkins

Synopsis: False Witness is the British title of the American thriller Zigzag, which in turn was partially inspired by the 1950 film D.O.A. George Kennedy plays an insurance investigator who learns that he is dying from a brain tumor. Hoping to provide for his family, Kennedy confesses to a murder he didn't Read More

The Secret Life of an American Wife

Actors: Walter Matthau, Anne Jackson, Patrick O'Neal, Edy Williams, Richard Bull

Synopsis: This light romantic comedy finds Victoria (Anne Jackson) the 34-year-old wife of public-relations man Tom Layton (Patrick O'Neal). Tom's biggest client is a big movie star (Walter Matthau), and Tom drops everything to insure that, while in New York, his client is surrounded by beautiful women Read More

How to Save a Marriage (And Ruin Your Life)

Actors: Jack Albertson, Dean Martin, Monroe Arnold, Katherine Bard, Betty Field, Anne Jackson, George Furth

Synopsis: Friends don't let friends mess around on the side in this comedy, though it quickly becomes obvious that making this happen isn't as easy as it may sound. When David Sloane (Dean Martin), a single lawyer with an eye for the ladies, learns that his best friend, Harry Hunter (Eli Wallach), has been Read More

The Tiger Makes Out

Actors: Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson, Bob Dishy, John Harkins, Ruth White

Synopsis: Expanded from a two-character play by Murray Schisgal, this comedy stars Eli Wallach as Ben Harris, a disgruntled New York City mail carrier. Harris is fed up with being cheated by his landlords, the Kellys (Roland Wood and Ruth White), so he terrorizes them and the city's housing authority until Read More

The Untouchables: The Cooker in the Sky

Synopsis: In his never-ending efforts to outmaneuver Elliot Ness (Robert Stack), bootlegger Joe Lassiter (J.D. Cannon) commissions architect Harry Gordon (Milton Selzer) to build a "Ness-proof" brewery. The finished product is perched atop a six-story warehouse, undetectable to anyone at street level. Read More

Tall Story

Actors: Jane Fonda, Anthony Perkins, Marc Connelly, Ray Walston, Anne Jackson

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a young basketball star proposes to a tall and intelligent coed while attending Custer College. She accepts, and he begins to worry about how they will get the money they need to survive. He then finds himself tempted to take a gambler's bribe and throw the game during an Read More

Lullaby

Actors: Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson, Ruth White, Thomas Carlin

The Journey

Actors: Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr, Jason Robards, Jr., Robert Morley, E.G. Marshall

Synopsis: The two romantic leads in this standard but well-acted political drama renew a famous pairing that began with The King and I in 1956. Deborah Kerr is Lady Diana Ashmore, caught at the wrong side of the Hungarian-Austrian border in 1956, and Yul Brynner is Major Surov, a Russian commander who works Read More

So Young, So Bad

Actors: Paul Henreid, Catherine McLeod, Grace Coppin, Cecil Clovelly, Anne Jackson, Anne Francis

Synopsis: Actor Paul Henreid made his directorial debut with the well-intentioned So Young, So Bad. The scene is a correctional home for delinquent girls, where sadistic warden Riggs (Cecil Clovelly) and head matron Beuhler (Grace Coppin) rule with an iron fist. Compassionate psychiatrist Dr. Jason (Paul Henreid Read More