Beau Bridges Filmography

Americanizing Shelley

Actors: Namrata Singh Gujral, Beau Bridges, Brad Raider, Phillip Rhys, RonReaco Lee

Synopsis: Hollywood meets Bollywood in director Lorraine Senna's Pygmalion-like tale of a Tinseltown hanger-on who attempts to transform a Himalayan village belle into an A-list American celebrity. Having recently arrived in America to discover the man she was arranged to marry is far from the man of her Read More

Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience

Actors: Brian Marshall Turner, Jack Lewis, Han Sangjoon, Ed Hrivnak, John McCary

Synopsis: Using a project initiated by the National Endowment of the Arts as a launching point to explore the wartime experiences of those who have fought on the front lines of Iraq and Afghanistan, filmmaker Richard E. Robbins offers a humanizing study of the soldiers who have suffered through the Read More

Spinning Into Butter

Actors: Sarah Jessica Parker, Mykelti Williamson, Beau Bridges, Miranda Richardson, James Rebhorn

Synopsis: Sarah Jessica Parker produces and stars in stage director Mark Brokaw's adaptation the Rebecca Gilman play concerning a newly-hired dean of students at an elite New England college who finds her life consumed by chaos following a vicious series of hate crimes. Sarah Daniels (Parker) was just Read More

Don't Fade Away

Actors: Mischa Barton, Beau Bridges, Ja Rule, Ryan Kwanten

Synopsis: Mischa Barton, Beau Bridges, and Ja Rule star in director Luke Kasdan's drama concerning an engaged Manhattan couple who must tend to the needs of an ill family patriarch. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Charlotte's Web

Actors: Julia Roberts, Steve Buscemi, John Cleese, Oprah Winfrey, Cedric the Entertainer

Synopsis: E.B. White's classic children's story comes to the screen in this live-action adaptation with an all-star voice cast. Fern Arable (Dakota Fanning) is a young girl growing up on her family's farm. When a sow gives birth to some piglets, Fern's father (Kevin Anderson) intends to do away with the Read More

The Good German

Actors: George Clooney, Cate Blanchett, Tobey Maguire, Beau Bridges, Tony Curran

Synopsis: A U.S. Army war correspondent is drawn into a deadly mystery in post-war Berlin as he seeks out his wartime mistress in this adaptation of author Joseph Kanon's best-selling novel. The war is over, and Jake Geismar (George Clooney) is an American journalist assigned the task of covering the peace Read More

I See You.com

Actors: Beau Bridges, Rosanna Arquette, Mathew Botuchis, Shiri Appleby, Dan Castellaneta

Debating Robert Lee

Actors: Daniel Letterle, Beau Bridges, Kaley Cuoco, Dale Midkiff

Synopsis: A group of typical high-school students finds their foundations shaken and their beliefs challenged by a newly arrived debate teacher who makes it his mission to explore their innermost feelings on the subject of life and death. The setting is Palos Verdes, CA, and the teacher is Robert Lee (Dale Midkiff Read More

10.5: Apocalypse

Actors: Kim Delaney, Dean Cain, David Cubitt, Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon, Carlos Bernard

Synopsis: For those who survived the earth-shaking terrors of 10.5, the tremors just keep on coming in this sequel that finds scientist Samantha Hill (Kim Delaney) and President Hollister (Beau Bridges) doing battle against Mother Nature as she unleashes her formidable wrath in the heartland. Extinct Read More

Smile

Actors: Mika Boorem, Luoyong Wang, Beau Bridges, Cheri Oteri, Linda Hamilton

Synopsis: Two girls born at the same time on different sides of the world are brought together by an act of mercy in this drama. Katie (Mika Boorem) is a high-school student who has grown up in a wealthy suburb of Los Angeles. While Katie has never had to want for material things, she feels a certain Read More

The Ballad of Jack & Rose

Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Camilla Belle, Catherine Keener, Beau Bridges, Jason Lee

Synopsis: A young woman kept at arm's length from the world finds it suddenly appearing on her doorstep in this drama. In the 1960s, Jack (Daniel Day-Lewis) was a political radical and environmental activist who organized a self-sustaining commune on a small island off the East Coast as an alternative to Read More

Stargate SG-1: Season 09

Actors: Beau Bridges, Ben Browder, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge

Into the West

Actors: Matthew Settle, Josh Brolin, Skeet Ulrich, Keri Russell, Matthew Modine

Synopsis: Executive produced by Steven Spielberg, the sprawling six-part, 12-hour TV miniseries Into the West covers 65 years of American history, from the first major migration westward in the mid-1820s to the massacre at Wounded Knee in the early 1890s. The story is largely seen through the eyes of two Read More

Evel Knievel

Synopsis: Robert Knievel was a young man with a wild streak and a love for motorcycles who found a way to make the most of both when he got a motorcycle and learned to do tricks with it. As Knievel's stunts became more elaborate, he gained the nickname "Evel," and he put together a team of fellow stunt Read More

10.5

Actors: Kim Delaney, Beau Bridges, Fred Ward, David Cubitt, Dule Hill

Synopsis: Originally produced as a miniseries for NBC, 10.5 is a disaster film that wonders what might happen if the Western United States is ever ravaged by unprecedented earthquakes. After one quake wreaks havoc on Seattle, another strikes California, this one worse than the first. With scientists Read More

Out of the Ashes

Synopsis: This powerful, politically charged cable TV movie was based on the memoirs of Hungarian gynecologist and Holocaust survivor Gisella Perl. Having spent the WWII years in charge of the woman's infirmary at Auschwitz, Perl (played by Christine Lahti) hopes to leave her living nightmare behind when Read More

Shaolin Ulysses: Kung Fu Monks in America

Synopsis: Filmmakers Martha Burr and Chen Mei-jun join forces to explore the American immigrant experience from the unique vantage point of five émigré monks from China's legendary Shaolin Temple. From constructing new temples to performing under the bright lights in Las Vegas, these Zen masters and kung-fu Read More

We Were the Mulvaneys

Synopsis: Can it truly be said that a family is torn apart when they were never truly "together" to begin with? This is one of the disturbing questions posed by the wrenching made-for-cable drama We Were the Mulvaneys. Adapted from the novel by Joyce Carol Oates, the film stars Beau Bridges and Blythe Danner Read More

Heartland Ghost

Actors: Randy Birch, Beau Bridges, Richard Halliday, Lori Ravensbourg, Nia Long

Synopsis: Based upon an allegedly factual story featured in the paranormal reality series Sightings, this made-for-cable chiller stars Beau Bridges as Derek, a cynical TV producer. Despite his own personal skepticism concerning supernatural activity, Derek agrees to visit a supposedly haunted house in Read More

Sordid Lives

Actors: Newell Alexander, Rosemary Alexander, Bonnie Bedelia, Beau Bridges

Synopsis: Writer-director Del Shores serves up a heaping helping of Southern-fried comic melodrama in this adaptation of his own play about infidelity, country & western music, and Airstream trailers. When their sister dies, Latrelle (Bonnie Bedelia), LaVonda (Ann Walker), and Sissy (Beth Grant) plan her Read More

Boys Klub

Synopsis: A handful of kids buck the odds to make something of themselves in this comedy drama for the whole family. Mario (Chauncey Leopardi) is a boy in his early teens who has been looking forward to spending the summer on a camping trip with his father (Beau Bridges). But when dad lands a new job just Read More

The Christmas Secret

Synopsis: This Yuletide TV movie was based on the novel Flight of the Reindeer, which also served as the film's British release title. As a child, Jerry McNeal (Richard Thomas) was rescued from certain death by a creature he described as a flying reindeer. Now an adult and a professional zoologist, Jerry is Read More

Common Ground

Actors: Ed Asner, Beau Bridges, Harvey Fierstein

Synopsis: Harvey Fierstein, Terrence McNally, and Paula Vogel each wrote episodes for this three-part made-for-cable drama which examines changing attitudes and issues facing the gay and lesbian community in the small town of Homer, Connecticut. Opening in the 1950s and leading up to the present day, Common Read More

Voyage of the Unicorn

Actors: Beau Bridges

Synopsis: Based on James C. Christensen's novel Voyage of the Bassett, this two-part TV movie stars Beau Bridges as recently widowed mythology professor Alan Aisling. Subscribing to the theory credendo vides (by believing, one sees), Prof. Aisling finds this philosophy put to the test when his home Read More

Surfing for Life

Synopsis: "I don't think you can ever be too old to be stoked," claimed an interviewee in David L. Brown's documentary about geriatric surfers. The film focuses on ten life-long surfing enthusiasts, including some legends in the surfing world: Woody Brown, inventor of the catamaran, former Disney animator Read More

Inherit the Wind

Actors: Jack Lemmon, George C. Scott, Piper Laurie, Beau Bridges

Synopsis: The celebrated stage drama by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, based on the real-life Scopes trial in which a teacher was jailed in 1925 for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution, is filmed for the third time in this adaptation produced for the Showtime premium cable network. Jack Lemmon plays Read More

Biography: Brian Wilson - A Beach Boy's Tale

Synopsis: This edition of Biography chronicles the life of one of America's foremost boys of summer, Brian WIlson. Brian Wilson was the leader of the singing/instrumental group the Beach Boys, formed in California in 1961. The group consisted originally of the Wilson brothers Brian, Carl and Dennis with Read More

P.T. Barnum

Actors: Beau Bridges, Cynthia Dale, Jordan Bridges

Synopsis: Previously portrayed on stage and screen by the likes of Wallace Beery, Burt Lancaster and Jim Dale, colorful 19th century American showman Phineas T. Barnum lives again in the person of Beau Bridges) in this two-part, made-for-cable biopic. The film covers Barnum's career from his early Read More

White River

Actors: Beau Bridges, Ellen Barkin, Antonio Banderas, Bob Hoskins, Wes Bentley

Synopsis: Two small-time crooks find themselves in deeper water than they can handle in this offbeat comedy. Edgar (Bob Hoskins) and Morales (Antonio Banderas) are a pair of minor-league grifters posing as men of the cloth, who travel through the deep South selling cheap socks at inflated prices to raise Read More

Defenders: Choice of Evils

Actors: Beau Bridges, E.G. Marshall, Martha Plimpton

Synopsis: The second in a series of made-for-cable movies based on the once-popular TV series, The Defenders: Choice of Evils features Beau Bridges and E.G. Marshall as a pair of lawyers who this time are defending a reporter who has been falsely accused of murder and imprisoned. After he is mistakenly Read More

Meeting Daddy

Actors: Josh Charles, Alexandra Wentworth, Lloyd Bridges, Beau Bridges, Kristy Swanson

Synopsis: In this dark comedy, Peter (Josh Charles) is a well-educated Jewish writer from Los Angeles who has fallen in love with Melanie (Alexandra Wentworth), who was born and raised in the Deep South -- where much of her family still lives. Melanie travels to Georgia for a few days to visit her father Read More

The Defenders: Taking the First

Synopsis: An original production from the Showtime cable network, this feature is based on a well-regarded television series chronicling the lives of a family of lawyers. This episode centers on a heinous hate crime. The four chief suspects are jailed and promptly begin ratting on each other to the cops in Read More

Maximum Bob [TV Series]

Actors: Beau Bridges, Liz Vassey, Sam Robards, Kiersten Warren, Rae'Ven Larrymore-Kelly

Synopsis: The comedy-drama TV series, adapted from Elmore Leonard's best-selling novel, is directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, who previously brought Leonard to film as the executive producer of Out of Sight (1998) and the director of Get Shorty (1995). Beau Bridges stars as Judge "Maximum" Bob Gibbs, czar of the Read More

The Second Civil War

Actors: Beau Bridges, James Coburn, Phil Hartman, Dan Hedaya, James Earl Jones

Synopsis: This made-for-cable black-comedy stars Beau Bridges as a governor in a future United States, with an unusual plan for his state. Bridges stars as Jim Farley, the Governor of Idaho, who decides that the only way to keep the new immigrants out of his state is to close down the borders. Defying the Read More

The Defenders: Payback

Actors: E.G. Marshall, Martha Plimpton, Beau Bridges

Synopsis: Based on a popular television courtroom drama series (1961-65), this Showtime made-for-cable movie returns esteemed actor E.G. Marshall to the role of brilliant lawyer Lawrence Preston. In this episode, Preston teams up with his son, professor of law Don Preston (Beau Bridges) and his niece M. J. (Martha Plimpton Read More

Rocketman

Actors: Harland Williams, Jessica Lundy, Bill Sadler, Jeffrey DeMunn, James Pickens, Jr.

Synopsis: During training, a member of the first manned mission to Mars is injured, and NASA chooses a replacement, spaced-out spacecraft designer Fred Z. Randall (Canadian stand-up comic Harland Williams), to team with cocky crew captain William "Wild Bill" Overbeck (William Sadler), efficient mission Read More

Losing Chase

Actors: Helen Mirren, Kyra Sedgwick, Beau Bridges, Michael Yarmush, Lucas Denton

Synopsis: Chase Phillips, a chronically depressed, emotionally exhausted mother finally hires a helper while she attempts to recover in a tiny cottage upon Martha's Vineyard where she stays with her sons. The helper is the much younger Elizabeth. At first, Chase despises her and treats her terribly. Read More

Nightjohn

Actors: Carl Lumbly, Beau Bridges, Allison Jones, Lorraine Toussaint, Bill Cobbs

Synopsis: Sarny (Allison Jones) is born into slavery and separated from her mother at an early age. She's raised by Dealey (Lorraine Toussaint), who promises early on that "nuthin' too bad" will happen to her young charge. Clel Waller (Beau Bridges), who owns the plantation, is a cruel man, who sees the Read More

A Stranger to Love

Synopsis: Based on a true story, the made-for-TV A Stranger to Love stars Beau Bridges as Allan Grant, a reasonably happy Omaha man with a wife (Tess Harper) and two sons. Attacked by muggers and left for dead, Allan awakens with no memory of his past life--or even his name. Wandering from town to town, he Read More

Jerry Maguire

Actors: Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Renée Zellweger, Kelly Preston, Jay Mohr, Jerry O'Connell, Bonnie Hunt, Jonathan Lipnicki, Regina King

Synopsis: Combining drama, comedy, and romance, Jerry Maguire was a critical and commercial success built on an original script by writer/director Cameron Crowe and an Oscar-nominated performance by Tom Cruise. Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) is an agent with a major sports management firm. He's enthusiastic Read More

Hidden in America

Actors: Beau Bridges, Jena Malone, Shelton Dane, Bruce Davison, Frances McDormand

Synopsis: This moving drama explores a real, but often hidden American problem, hunger. It tells the story of how a lay-off destroys the life of a widower father and his children, reducing them to dire poverty. Part of the problem is that the man is too proud to accept welfare monies. Fortunately, a caring Read More

Victim Of the Haunt

Synopsis: Beau Bridges and Sharon Lawrence star in this spooky haunted house story of a family terrorized by a malevolent force within their new dream house. The Johnson's thought that this move would be the one. With their young daughter and spacious suburban home, things were looking up for them. Suddenly Read More

Kissinger and Nixon

Actors: Ron Silver, Beau Bridges, Matt Frewer, Ron White, George Takei

Synopsis: Walter Isaacson's book Kissinger: A Biography served as the basis for this made-for-television movie about the famed political leader. Beau Bridges stars as President Richard Nixon and Ron Silver portrays Henry Kissinger, Nixon's national security advisor. The adaptation shows how Kissinger worked Read More

Secret Sins of the Father

Crew: Director

Actors: Lee Purcell, Lloyd Bridges, Beau Bridges

Synopsis: Real-life father and son Lloyd and Beau Bridges star in the tense modern melodrama Secret Sins of the Father. Nebraska farmer Louis Thielman (Lloyd) is charged with murder of his wife. Making the charge is Louis's son Tom (Beau), the town sheriff. Though the evidence points to Louis, there are Read More

Million Dollar Babies

Actors: Beau Bridges, Kate Nelligan, Roy Dupuis, Celine Bonnier, Rémy Girard

Synopsis: This made-for-television drama recounts the story of how a selfish Canadian doctor attempted to exploit the Dionne quintuplets. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Harts of the West [TV Series]

Actors: Beau Bridges, Lloyd Bridges, Harley Jane Kozak

The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom

Actors: Holly Hunter, Beau Bridges, Swoosie Kurtz

Synopsis: A Texas housewife plots hire a hit man to kill the girl who beat out her daughter for a place on the cheerleading squad in this made-for-cable satire based on a true story. Holly Hunter stars as Wanda Holloway, a twice-married Baptist mother of two who becomes obsessed when her daughter, Shanna (Frankie Ingrassia Read More

Sidekicks

Actors: Chuck Norris, Jonathan Brandis, Beau Bridges, Mako, Julia Nickson

Synopsis: A teenager daydreams of getting some payback from the bullies who menace him in this hybrid of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) and The Karate Kid (1984). Barry Gabrewski (Jonathan Brandis) is an asthmatic schoolboy who can't participate in sports, much to the delight of a bullying classmate Read More

Elvis and the Colonel: the Untold Story

Actors: Beau Bridges

Synopsis: This NBC-TV movie, which premiered around the time of the issuance of the famous Elvis Presley postage stamp, chronicles the relationship between Elvis and his manager, "Colonel" Tom Parker (Beau Bridges). Contrary to the prevailing view of Col. Parker, this film does not show him as a villain Read More

Married to It

Actors: Beau Bridges, Stockard Channing, Robert Sean Leonard, Mary Stuart Masterson, Cybill Shepherd

Synopsis: Arthur Hiller directed this comedy/drama concerning three couples, thrown together by fate, who become friendly and help each other through their marriage difficulties. Claire (Cybill Shepherd) and Leo (Ron Silver) are a wealthy couple having trouble with a daughter from a previous marriage. John (Beau Bridges Read More

Dark Music: The Story of Elvis and the Colonel

Synopsis: This dramatic biography examines the relationship between Elvis Presley and his manager Colonel Tom Parker who worked with the King from 1956 til his death. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Without Warning: The James Brady Story

Actors: Beau Bridges, Joan Allen, David Strathairn, Christopher Bell, Bryan Clark

Synopsis: In the made-for-cable film Without Warning: The James Brady Story, Beau Bridges stars in the true-life story of the Ronald Reagan press secretary who was critically wounded in the 1981 assassination attempt on Reagan by John Hinckley. Brady was left crippled by the shooting, and the film follows Read More

Wildflower

Actors: Patricia Arquette, William McNamara, Reese Witherspoon, Beau Bridges

Synopsis: Set in the rural South of the '30s, the made-for-cable film Wildflower is about a pair of teenaged siblings who become friends with an epileptic girl named Alice (Patricia Arquette), who has been forced to live in the barn behind her father's house because he believed her seizures were the work of Read More

Tales From the Crypt: Abra Cadaver

Synopsis: In "Abra Cadaver," Marty (Beau Bridges) and Karl (Tony Goldwyn) are two brothers who are both doctors, and also share a rather morbid sense of humor. One day, Karl plays a practical joke on Marty that goes much too far, though Marty finds a startling way to return the favor. ~ Mark Deming, All Read More

Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will?

Actors: Beau Bridges, Beverly D'Angelo, Tess Harper, Judge Reinhold, Amy Wright

Synopsis: This screen version of Del Shores' play follows a dysfunctional Southern family as they squabble among themselves over the family fortune. As the title would suggest, Daddy (Bert Remsen), the patriarch of a large family in the deep South, is reaching the end of life's journey as his health and Read More

Guess Who's Coming for Christmas?

Actors: Richard Mulligan, Beau Bridges, Barbara Barrie

Synopsis: At last count, there were approximately eight million made-for-TV Christmas movies. Well, maybe not, but they sure are hard to tell apart. Guess Who's Coming for Christmas adds a soupcon of ET to the plum pudding by having Beau Bridges wander into a small, impoverished town and claim that he's an Read More

Help Save Planet Earth: Easy Ways to Make a Difference

Actors: Ted Danson

Women and Men: Stories of Seduction

Actors: Melanie Griffith, Elizabeth McGovern, Molly Ringwald, Peter Weller, James Woods

Synopsis: Originally aired on HBO, Women and Men: Stories of Seduction is a short-film anthology that brings to life three famous short stories. Mary McCarthy's "The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt" stars Elizabeth McGovern and Beau Bridges. The second, Dorothy Parker's "Dusk Before Fireworks," features Peter Weller Read More

The Wizard

Actors: Fred Savage, Beau Bridges, Christian Slater, Luke Edwards, Jenny Lewis

Synopsis: In this comedy, Corey Woods (Fred Savage) sneaks his emotionally disturbed little brother, Jimmy (Luke Edwards) out of the home he has been placed in, and sets off on a trip across the country. Along the way they team up with young Haley (Jenny Lewis), and together they discover that the silent Read More

The Fabulous Baker Boys

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Michelle Pfeiffer, Beau Bridges, Ellie Raab, Jennifer Tilly

Synopsis: Real-life siblings Beau and Jeff Bridges star as the eponymous Fabulous Baker Boys. Musical prodigies both, the Bakers have long been teamed as a twin-piano act, with the less talented Frank (Beau Bridges) coasting on the skills of his brilliant younger brother Jack (Jeff Bridges). Their career Read More

Signs of Life