Bibi BeschFilmography

Born:: February 1, 1940 in Vienna, Austria
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: The daughter of Austrian actress Gusti Huber, Bibi Besch has been a Hollywood fixture since 1977, and a TV regular since long before that. A versatile character actress with nary a trace of a European accent, Besch's film roles have ranged from Carol in Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Kahn (1979) to...Read More

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Rattled

Actors: William Katt, Shanna Reed, Michael Galeota, Monica Creel, Ian Abercrombie

Synopsis: It would seem that the producers of the made-for-cable chiller Rattled had not only used Joseph Gilmore's novel Rattlers as their inspiration, but had also supped full of such horror movies as Poltergeist and Arachnophobia. The scene is Eden Valley, a luxurious housing development carved from a Read More

1996
ER: Fire in the Belly

Synopsis: Benton (Eriq La Salle) is removed from a round of surgery because no one on that shift wants to work with him. In other developments, Lewis (Sherry Stringfield) and her sister, Chloe (Kathleen Wilhoite), lock horns over custody of little Suzy; Ross (George Clooney) treats eight-year-old Jeremy (Kevin Duran Read More

1996
My Family

Actors: Elpidia Carrillo, Jenny Gago, Esai Morales, Eduardo Lopez Rojas, Jimmy Smits, Jacob Vargas, Edward James Olmos

Synopsis: Featuring Jennifer Lopez in her first major big-screen role, Gregory Nava's My Family traces three generations of the Sanchez's, a Mexican-American family living in East Los Angeles. Beginning in the 1930s, the film outlines the struggles faced by Jose (Jacob Vargas) and Maria (Lopez) as a Read More

1995
Wounded Heart

Actors: Paula Devicq, Stuart Whitman, Jon Hensley, Bibi Besch, Hank Stratton

Synopsis: Upon learning that her wealthy father has suffered a severe stroke, an independent, willful and successful Wall Street accountant leaves her high-powered job and heads down to her family's Texas ranch in hopes of guaranteeing her inheritance. While back home, the woman feels a strange stirring in Read More

1995
Murder, She Wrote: Murder by Twos

Synopsis: A murder has been committed in Cabot Cove, and the body is found in the garage of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury). Actually, two murders take place, and the cause of it all is the illicit affair between a married woman and the town bully. All the members of the couple's bowling league are Read More

1994
Tales From the Crypt: Revenge is the Nuts

Synopsis: In this episode of HBO's popular Tales from the Crypt horror anthology series, a wicked man who runs a home for the blind (and abuses its residents) gets a taste of his own medicine from two scheming denizens. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide Read More

1994
Law & Order: Apocrypha

Synopsis: A young woman is charged with the bombing of a parking garage. Further investigation reveals that the woman is the member of a cult, and that she may have been brainwashed. If so, the D.A.'s office is determined to bring up cult leader Daniel Hendricks (Sam Robards) on charges of murder and Read More

1993
Doing Time on Maple Drive

Actors: James B. Sikking, Bibi Besch, David Byron, Jayne Brook, Jim Carrey

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV drama, a New England family's secrets all come tumbling out at once as they spend a weekend together to celebrate the engagement of their youngest son. Lisa Carter (Bibi Besch) and her military husband, Phil (James B. Sikking), couldn't be happier when their youngest son, Matt Read More

1992
Lonely Hearts

Actors: Beverly D'Angelo, Eric Roberts, Joanna Cassidy, Herta Ware

Synopsis: Lonely Hearts is a modern film noir in which a lonely woman meets and falls for a man whom she refuses to let go. Alma (Beverly D'Angelo) is a wallflower who lives with her mother and works at a Social Security office. In her desperation to make some sort of social life for herself, she answers a Read More

1991
Crazy from the Heart

Actors: Christine Lahti, Rubén Blades, William Russ, Mary Kay Place, Tommy Muniz

Synopsis: In this frothy romantic comedy set in a small Texas town, a never-married high school principal starts a scandal when she falls in love with the handsome school janitor. Unfortunately, he is Mexican and she Anglo. The local community frowns on such relationships and ultimately, their new love Read More

1991
Betsy's Wedding

Actors: Alan Alda, Madeline Kahn, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Anthony LaPaglia

Synopsis: Offbeat fashion student Betsy Hopper (Molly Ringwald) and her straight-laced investment-banker fiancé, Jake Lovell(Dylan Walsh), just want an intimate little wedding reception, but Betsy's father, Eddie (Alan Alda), a Long Island construction contractor, feels so threatened by Jake's rich WASP Read More

6/22/90
Tremors

Actors: Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter, Michael Gross, Reba McEntire

Synopsis: Tremors is actually two movies in one. On its own terms, it's an enjoyable modern sci-fi horror-thriller, with good pacing and a sense of humor; but it's also a loving tribute to such 1950s low-budget desert-based sci-fi-horror films like Them!, It Came From Outer Space, Tarantula, and The Monolith Monsters Read More

1/19/90
Extreme Close-Up

Actors: Blair Brown, Craig T. Nelson, Morgan Weisser, Samantha Mathis, Kimber Shoop

Synopsis: Filmed in semidocumentary fashion, Extreme Close-up features Morgan Weisser as a 16-year-old boy grieving the death of his mother (Blair Brown). Trying to assuage his grief, Weisser runs family videotapes of his mother. It becomes increasingly clear that the woman was falling apart emotionally in Read More

1990
Night Court: Still Another Day in the Life

Synopsis: This is the series' fourth and final "Day in the Life" episode, in which the Night Court staff must process a huge number of cases before a predetermined deadline. On this occasion, the staffers must try a record 242 cases before midnight as workmen attempt to repair a hole in the courtroom Read More

1990
Blue Bayou

Actors: Mario Van Peebles

Synopsis: Alfre Woodard plays a Los Angeles DA who moves back to her home town of New Orleans. She does this so that her teenaged son (Keith Williams) can be nearer to his estranged dad (Mario van Peebles). No sooner has Woodard arrived in "The Big Easy" than she is swept up in a local sex scandal. While Read More

1990
Likely Stories, Vol. 3

Synopsis: This made-for-cable series features comedy performers starring in various skits and satires. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1990
Steel Magnolias

Actors: Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis, Julia Roberts

Synopsis: The title refers to those seemingly frail Southern belles who survive any and all deprivations through whims of iron. Robert Harling's original stage play was set exclusively in a Louisiana beauty parlor where an all-female cast of characters laughed, cried and compared menfolk. The film expands Read More

11/15/89
Kill Me Again

Actors: Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Michael Madsen, Pat Mulligan, Jonathan Gries, Nick Dimitri, Michael Greene

Synopsis: In his film debut, novice director John Dahl (who would later make The Last Seduction), weaves a quirky tale of love, murder and deception. Jack Andrews (Val Kilmer), a seedy private detective is hired by Fay Forrester (Joanne Whalley-Kilmer), to help her fake her own death in a clever scheme to Read More

10/27/89
Dead Solid Perfect

Synopsis: A cocky, irresponsible professional golfer discovers that he will have to clean up his act if he wants to compete in the PGA tour. Based on a novel by Dan Jenkins, this drama originally aired on cable television. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1988
Murder, She Wrote: A Very Good Year for Murder

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) heads to wine-growing country to help wealthy vintner Salvatori Gambini (Eli Wallach) celebrate his 75th birthday. Unfortunately, Gambini's fractious family isn't in a celebratory mood, and the festivities come to a grim climax when a corpse is found in the wine cellar. Read More

1988
Date with an Angel

Actors: Michael E. Knight, Phoebe Cates, Emmanuelle Béart, David Dukes, Phil Brock

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy fantasy, an angel (Emmanuelle Beart) with a heavenly body falls into the swimming pool of Jim Sanders (Michael E. Knight). Hung over from his bachelor party, his encounter with the angel has Jim questioning his upcoming marriage to Patty (Phoebe Cates), the daughter of a Read More

11/20/87
Who's That Girl?

Actors: Madonna, Griffin Dunne, Haviland Morris, John McMartin, Robert Swan, Bibi Besch

Synopsis: A year after appearing in the box-office sleeper Shanghai Surprise, pop superstar Madonna starred in the screwball comedy Who's That Girl? She plays Nikki Finn, who is being released from prison after serving a four-year sentence for a murder she didn't commit. Meanwhile, wealthy lawyer Loudon (Griffin Dunne Read More

8/7/87
He's My Girl

Actors: T.K. Carter, David Hallyday, Misha McK, Jennifer Tilly, Warwick Sims

Synopsis: When aspiring musician Bryan Peters (David Hallyday) wins a trip to L.A. to meet his rock idol (Warwick Sims), there's one catch: bachelor Bryan must bring a girl friend. This could present a problem, since he doesn't have one. The solution: his manager Reggie (T.K. Carter) goes drag. ~ Jason Read More

1987
Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry

Actors: Katharine Hepburn

Synopsis: Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry was especially written by playwright James Prideaux for Katharine Hepburn. It would have been impractical to attempt a live staging, so the script was committed to a TV movie, under the direction of Hallmark Hall of Fame veteran George Schafer. Hepburn plays another Read More

1986
Lady Blue

Synopsis: Known variously as "Skirty Harry" and "Dirty Harriet," beautiful but tough lady police detective Katy Mahoney (Jamie Rose) patrols the mean streets of Chicago. In her dealings with dope pushers, rapists, and loan sharks, Katy would just as soon dispense with Due Process and blast every outlaw away Read More

1985
Gone Are the Dayes

Synopsis: The wacky comedy-melodrama Gone are the Dayes was assembled in 1984 as an "original production" for the Disney cable channel. While dining out at a Japanese restaurant, the Day family witnesses a gangland slaying. Federal agent Mitchell (Harvey Korman) persuades the Daye parents (Susan Anspach, Robert Hogan Read More

1984
Dead Wrong: The John Evans Story

Synopsis: John Evan tells the story of his life in an interview before his death beginning with his crimes and ending with his electric chair execution. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1984
The Day After

Actors: Jason Robards, Jr., JoBeth Williams, Steve Guttenberg, John Cullum, John Lithgow, Amy Madigan

Synopsis: A peaceful Midwestern city attempts to recover after it is destroyed by a nuclear missile strike in this powerful and deeply disturbing testament to the folly of pro-military hawks who believed that annihilation was a justifiable means of attaining power and control. The Day After originally aired Read More

1983
Secrets of a Mother and Daughter

Synopsis: In this drama, a mother and daughter become rivals for a single man's affections. The mother is a widowed movie star and the daughter is recently divorced. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1983
The Lonely Lady

Actors: Pia Zadora, Lloyd Bochner, Bibi Besch, Joseph Cali, Anthony Holland

Synopsis: This undistinguished drama goes no further than clichéd views about women who gain success by bedding down those who have it. Pia Zadora stars as Jerilee, just out of high school and married to a prominent Hollywood screenwriter, with her own heart-felt aspirations to get her screenplays noticed Read More

1983
The Beast Within

Actors: Ronny Cox, Bibi Besch, Paul Clemens, Don Gordon, R.G. Armstrong

Synopsis: Tom Burman's innovative prosthetic special effects (used to greater effect in later horror films) are the saving grace of The Beast Within. The premise concerns a couple honeymooning in Mississippi. Caroline (Bibi Besch) is brutally raped by a hairy, sub-human monster and gives birth to a child Read More

1982
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Ricardo Montalban, George Takei, Walter Koenig

Synopsis: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is fondly regarded as being the closest in spirit to the 1966-69 TV series that spawned it. Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) escapes the tedium of a desk job to join Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy (DeForest Kelley) on another space mission. Read More

1982
Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Bruce Weitz

Synopsis: Death of a Centerfold: The Dorothy Stratten Story is a surfacy TV-movie rehash of the same real-life events which inspired the 1980 theatrical feature Star 80. Jamie Lee Curtis stars as Dorothy Stratten, here depicted as an ingenuous, highly vulnerable Canadian girl who aspires to show business Read More

1981
Tough Girl

Actors: Karin Argoud-Morrissey, Bibi Besch, Lin McCarthy, Gregory Koppel, Anne Seymour

Synopsis: Streetwise teenager Renie Lake (Karin Argoud) lands in juvenile hall charged with theft and drug dealing. Remanded to the custody of her father Russell (Lin McCarthy), Renie is ordered to move into the suburban home of Russell, his second wife Marlene (Bibi Besch), and her stepdaughter Gretchen Read More

1981
The Plutonium Incident

Synopsis: This made-for-TV drama produced by David Susskind preceded the release of Silkwood by three years, but tells basically the same story. Janet Margolin is the nuclear plant employee who blows the whistle on hazardous conditions and finds herself intimidated, harassed and finally targeted for Read More

1980
Backstairs at the White House

Actors: Leslie Uggams, Olivia Cole, Louis Gossett, Jr., Robert Hooks, Leslie Nielsen

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling memoirs of Lillian Rogers Parks, the NBC miniseries Backstairs at the White House traces over five decades of American political history as witnessed from the vantage point of the servants' quarters. Played by Tania Johnson as a teenager and by Leslie Uggams as an adult, Lillian Rogers Parks Read More

1979
Hardcore

Actors: George C. Scott, Peter Boyle, Season Hubley, Leonard Gaines, Dick Sargent

Synopsis: "Oh my God, that's my daughter." So read the advertising copy of Hardcore. George C. Scott plays Jake Van Dorn, a man of means and conservative values who discovers that his precious daughter is appearing in X-rated films. Desperately making his way through the sub-rosa world of pornography, Van Read More

1979
Transplant

Synopsis: In this drama, an ambitious executive must decide whether or not to have a much needed heart transplant. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1979
Meteor

Actors: Sean Connery, Natalie Wood, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Martin Landau

Synopsis: The Soviets and Americans combine forces to save the world from a meteor in this science fiction disaster adventure. Bradley (Sean Connery) is an American scientist who teams up with Dubov (Brian Keith), and his translator-assistant Tatiana (Natalie Wood) later falls in love with Bradley. Hong Read More

1979
The Promise

Actors: Kathleen Quinlan, Stephen Collins, Beatrice Straight, Laurence Luckinbill, Michael O'Hare, William Prince

Synopsis: A woman is torn between betraying her benefactor and keeping her pledge to the man she loves in this romantic drama. Nancy (Kathleen Quinlan) and Michael (Stephen Collins) are two college students who have fallen in love and want to get married. However, Michael's widowed mother, Marion (Beatrice Straight Read More

1978
Betrayal

Actors: Rip Torn

Synopsis: The second TV-movie to bear the title Betrayal stars Lesley Ann Warren and Rip Torn. Warren plays Julie Roy, a sensitive young woman seeking solace through therapy. Torn co-stars as Julie's psychiatrist Dr. Hartogs. It turns out that the far-from-ethical Hartogs has a hidden agenda: while Read More

1978
The Rockford Files: Beamer's Last Case

Synopsis: The Rockford Files opens its fourth season as detective Jim Rockford (James Garner) returns from a vacation in Puerto Rico, only discover that someone has stolen his clothes, his car, his trailer. . .and his identity. Nerdy garage mechanic Fred Beamer (James Whitmore Jr.) has always dreamed of Read More

1977
The Pack

Actors: Joe Don Baker, Hope Alexander-Willis, Richard B. Shull, R.G. Armstrong, Ned Wertimer

Synopsis: Director Robert Clouse, maker of the martial-arts masterpiece Enter the Dragon returns with The Pack, a well-directed, interesting little horror film about a pack of pugnacious puppies who run amok on an island resort. Veteran action star (Joe Don Baker) plays the marine biologist forced to deal Read More

1977
Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion

Synopsis: A Marguerite Henry novel was the source for the made-for-TV Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion. Recording artist Leif Garrett assumes the title role, a teen-aged boy growing up in the years just prior to the Civil War. The adventuresome Lundy signs on as a rider for the new Pony Express Read More

1977
Victory at Entebbe

Actors: Julius Harris, Helen Hayes, Elizabeth Taylor, Kirk Douglas, Richard Dreyfuss, Burt Lancaster

Synopsis: Within months after the spectacular July 4, 1976 rescue of hostages from Uganda's Entebbe airport, there were two competing TV movies on the subject. The longest (and least) of the two was Victory at Entebbe, hurriedly shot on videotape. The story begins when Arab terrorist capture a civilian Read More

1976
Distance

Actors: Paul Benjamin, Eija Pokkinen, James Woods, Bibi Besch

Synopsis: The marital difficulties of two army couples provides the focus of this drama, set in the 1950s. The first marriage is between a black sergeant and his German wife. The other chronicles the difficulty of a married private who is having an affair with an older woman. He doesn't love his wife Read More

1975

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