Blair Brown Filmography

Fringe [TV Series]

Actors: Anna Torv, Mark Valley, John Noble, Joshua Jackson, Blair Brown

Synopsis: The lines between science fiction and reality blur as J.J. Abrams, Roberto Orci, and Alex Kurtzman, the team behind Star Trek and Alias, regroup to craft this mind-bending series that begins as an international flight lands at Boston's Logan Airport with everyone of the passengers and crew members Read More

American Experience: Sister Aimee - Saint or Sinner?

The Mysterious Human Heart [TV Series]

Synopsis: A collaboration between Award-winning filmmaker David Grubin and the PBS affilitates WNET-New York and WETA-Washington DC, The Mysterious Human Heart was a three-part miniseries offering a guided tour of that vital organ, showing how it work, where things can go wrong, and the medical and Read More

Loverboy

Actors: Kyra Sedgwick, Kevin Bacon, Blair Brown, Matt Dillon, Oliver Platt

Synopsis: A mother once neglected as child but possessed of a heart overflowing with love grows increasingly despondent as her beloved child begins to claim his independence in director Kevin Bacon's adaptation of Victoria Redel's best-selling novel. If loving too much were a crime, well-meaning but Read More

The Sentinel

Actors: Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland, Eva Longoria, Martin Donovan, Ritchie Coster

Synopsis: A man who has devoted himself to serving the leader of the free world is accused of plotting against him in this thriller. Pete Garrison (Michael Douglas) is a veteran Secret Service agent who has had a long and distinguished career helping protect the president of the United States. David Read More

The Treatment

Actors: Christopher Eigeman, Famke Janssen, Ian Holm, Harris Yulin, Stephanie March

Synopsis: A man and a woman are faced with an unusual "fifth wheel" in their relationship -- his analyst -- in this offbeat independent comedy. Jake Singer (Chris Eigeman) is a schoolteacher working at a respected private school for boys. Jake recently parted ways with his longtime girlfriend and isn't Read More

Griffin & Phoenix

Actors: Dermot Mulroney, Amanda Peet, Sarah Paulson, Blair Brown, Alison Elliott

Synopsis: Ed Stone's bittersweet drama Griffin & Phoenix concerns Griffin (Dermot Mulroney), a divorcee suffering from cancerous lesions in his chest that give him a life expectancy of less than two years. He falls in love with academic advisor Phoenix (Amanda Peet), and the pair decide to 'live life to the Read More

Marie Antoinette

Synopsis: Explore the live of the woman whose name has become synonymous with the French monarchy as filmmakers explore just how one wanton sovereign set into motion the wheels of the French Revolution. From her early childhood in the powerful Austro-Hungarian Empire to her grim final hours in a French Read More

American Experience: Test Tube Babies

First Born

Actors: Elisabeth Shue, Steven Mackintosh, Kathleen Chalfant, Blair Brown

Synopsis: A woman who wanted nothing more in life than to become a mother finds her sanity slipping after the birth of her child in a terrifying look at the horrors of parenthood starring Academy Award nominee Elisabeth Shue. The only thing that seems to be missing from Laura (Shue)'s otherwise perfect life Read More

American Experience: The Massie Affair

Synopsis: In 1931, Hawaii had not yet been granted statehood, but the presence of the United States was already strong - the islands had been declared a U.S. territory, and the American military wasted no time in taking advantage of their strategic location, while agricultural firms made use of the abundant Read More

Destination America [TV Documentary Series]

Dogville

Actors: Nicole Kidman, John Hurt, Paul Bettany, Philip Baker Hall, James Caan, Stellan Skarsgård, Jeremy Davies, Chloë Sevigny

Synopsis: Set in a small fictional town in the U.S. during the 1930s, Lars von Trier's Dogville was filmed in a studio with a minimal set and features narration by John Hurt. On the run from a group of gangsters, Grace (Nicole Kidman) arrives in the small mining town of Dogville. Town philosopher Tom Edison Read More

American Experience: RFK

Synopsis: This documentary explores Robert Kennedy's life and his search for a purpose to devote it to both before and after his legendary brother's death. Sympathetic and tragic, the perspective of this program is that Robert Kennedy's true voice was suppressed over and over again until it was silenced Read More

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Outcry

Synopsis: Missing for several days, 16-year-old Tani McCain (Amanda Seyfried is found bound and beaten in an abandoned building. When the girl claims that she was kidnapped and raped by three uniformed men, suspicious immediately falls on a group of college army cadets. But in the days that follow, Tami Read More

American Experience: The Pill

Actors: Blair Brown

Synopsis: This entry in the PBS documentary series American Experience traces the history of the birth control pill, from the moment of FDA approval in 1960 to the present day. The Pill also generously provides the backstory to its subject matter, detailing older and less reliable forms of contraception Read More

Law & Order: Seer

Actors: Fred Dalton Thompson

Synopsis: The detectives are skeptical when Tim Grayson (Robert Stanton), a self-proclaimed psychic, insists that he has envisioned the murder of his attractive neighbor, who is found beaten to death outside a sex club. The fact that Grayson is the archetypal misfit loner, coupled with the discovery of his Read More

An Exceedingly Dangerous Woman: The Radical Life of Emma Goldman

Synopsis: The remarkable life of the immigrant christened "the most dangerous woman in America" is explored in this documentary focusing on noted birth-control advocate and anti-military conscription activist Emma Goldman. A noted Russian-born woman who became the leader of the anarchist movement upon Read More

Young Dr. Freud

The Secret Life of the Brain, Part 4: The Adult Brain - To Think By Feeling

The Secret Life of the Brain, Part 3: The Teenage Brain - A World of Their Own

The Secret Life of the Brain, Part 1: The Baby's Brain - Wider Than The Sky

Synopsis: With its billions of cells linked by trillions of connections, the human brain is the most complex thing in the universe. Within weeks of conception, fetal brain cells develop at the rate of 500,000 per minute. From birth to age one an infant's brain is most easily molded by external influences Read More

The Secret Life of the Brain, Part 2: The Child's Brain - Syllable From Sound

Synopsis: Part two in The Secret Life of the Brain series explores the development of the brain in young children, most specifically the phenomenon of language, whose explosion in children after age one most dramatically illustrates the brain at work. But how do we learn to talk and read? Whereas linguistic Read More

Follow the Stars Home

Synopsis: A woman gets a crash course in the realities of love and commitment when she gets some startling news about the child she's carrying in this made-for-TV adaptation of the novel by Luanne Rice. Dianne Parker (Kimberly Williams) is a lovely young woman who is engaged to marry Mark McCune (Eric Read More

The Secret Life of the Brain, Part 5: The Aging Brain - Through Many Lives

Touched by an Angel: A Winter Carol

Synopsis: The Angels arrive in a small New York community just before Christmas, where town mayor Victoria (Blair Brown) is having trouble summoning up any kind of genuine Yuletide spirit. Only recently have the townsfolk discovered that beloved music teacher Bill Harper was killed in the 9/11 attacks in Read More

Space Cowboys

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, James Garner, James Cromwell, Marcia Gay Harden

Synopsis: In this adventure drama, four men passed over by the space program get one last chance to be heroes and live out their dreams. Frank Corvin (Clint Eastwood), Hawk Hawkins (Tommy Lee Jones), Jerry O'Neill (Donald Sutherland), and Tank Sullivan (James Garner) were top pilots within an elite Air Read More

Hamlet

Actors: Campbell Scott, Blair Brown, Jamey Sheridan, Roscoe Lee Browne, Lisa Gay Hamilton

Synopsis: Campbell Scott is both star and co-director of this elaborate (albeit economically produced) four-hour TV version of Shakespeare's immortal tragedy Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. The film is based on Scott's earlier theatrical production of the same play, with several of the same actors repeating Read More

In His Life: The John Lennon Story

Synopsis: In Liverpool in the 1950s, a young man named John Lennon (Philip McQuillen) combats the traditional education system and the wishes of his well-meaning aunt, Mimi Smith (Blair Brown), to become a musician in the incipient field of rock & roll. He forms a number of bands and with each new effort Read More

Random Hearts

Actors: Harrison Ford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Charles S. Dutton, Bonnie Hunt, Dennis Haysbert, Sydney Pollack, Richard Jenkins, Paul Guilfoyle, Peter Coyote, Bill Cobbs

Synopsis: Two people who've known the pain of loss and the sting of betrayal are brought together under trying circumstances in this romantic drama. Dutch van den Broeck (Harrison Ford) is a police detective based in Washington D.C. whose wife works for an upscale department store; flying to Miami on Read More

The Astronaut's Wife

Actors: Johnny Depp, Charlize Theron, Joe Morton, Clea Duvall, Donna Murphy

Synopsis: Science fiction blends with domestic horror in this thriller. Spencer Armacost (Johnny Depp) is an astronaut on a routine mission in space when something goes horribly wrong and it looks as if he's doomed. However, Spencer is rescued at the last moment and returns to earth a hero. He soon Read More

The Pill

Actors: Blair Brown

Synopsis: Erna Buffie and Elise Swerhone's incisive documentary examines the politics of gender, sexuality, health, and the health-care business at the time when oral contraceptives were first designed and tested. Archival footage and commentary from leading scientists is juxtaposed with the stories of Read More

The Homes of FDR

Actors: Blair Brown, Edward Herrmann

Synopsis: The documentary Homes of FDR provides a revealing look at the personal connections between President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and three of his homes, discussing ways in which each residence shaped this powerful man. The American President who lead the nation through both the Great Depression and Read More

Convictions

Synopsis: Nine years ago, the teenaged son of Idaho woman Zalinda Dorcheus (Blair Brown) was shot and killed by another teen, Jeff Parker (Cameron Bancroft). Now Jeff is up for parole, and the grimly vengeful Zalinda is determined to keep him behind bars. Going so far as to visit the jail where Jeff is Read More

The Ultimate Lie

Actors: Kristin Davis, Blair Brown, Michael Murphy

Synopsis: A father and his teenaged daughter get the shocks of their lives the night he surreptitiously rings for a high-class hooker and she shows up for the appointment. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

A Season in Purgatory

Actors: Blair Brown, Patrick Dempsey, Brian Dennehy, Sherilyn Fenn, David Marshall Grant, Craig Sheffer

Frasier: Shrink Rap

Synopsis: Milo O'Shea guest stars as Dr. Schachter, a "couples" specialist. During this particular session, the good doctor is counseling a most odd couple indeed -- namely, sibling psychiatrists Frasier and Niles Crane (Kelsey Grammer and David Hyde Pierce), whose relationship is in danger of collapsing. Read More

American Experience: Murder of the Century

Synopsis: The details of the murder trial were considered so sexy and lurid that for a time, by presidential order, news accounts of the scandal were forbidden to be carried in the U.S. mail. Originally televised as an installment of the award-winning PBS series The American Experience, this documentary Read More

The Gift of Love

Actors: Andy Griffith, Blair Brown, Olivia Burnette, Will Friedle, Joyce Van Patten

Synopsis: Reeling with guilt after he accepts the healthy heart of his darling, deceased grandson, an elderly man lapses into a deep depression that does not abate until he hooks up with a troubled teenage runaway. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Day My Parents Ran Away

Synopsis: The comedy The Day My Parents Ran Away concerns a teenager named Matt whose wishes come true when his mother and father abandon him in their home. Soon the realities of caring for oneself overwhelms Matt and he seeks out his parents to convince them to return home. However, they have found a much Read More

Passed Away

Actors: Bob Hoskins, Jack Warden, William L. Petersen, Helen Lloyd Breed, Maureen Stapleton, Patricia Reed

Synopsis: In this black comedy, elderly Jack Scanlan (Jack Warden) passes away just as he's about to tell his oldest son Johnny (Bob Hoskins) what he's decided is truly important in life, which does little to ease Johnny's mid-life anxieties. Jack's funeral and the subsequent wake brings together the Read More

Those Secrets

Synopsis: In this drama, a wife is so angered that her husband has been untrue to her that she decides to return to prostitution. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Majority Rule

Synopsis: A U.S. general confronts the struggle of her lifetime when she decides to run for president in this drama. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Lethal Innocence

Actors: Blair Brown, Brenda Fricker

Synopsis: There oughta be a law against TV-movie "title thinker uppers." Lethal Innocence is not a crime or judicial melodrama, but instead an innocuous family-oriented effort about a Cambodian refugee child. Adopted by an American couple, the child presses her new family to bring the rest of her Cambodian Read More

Strapless

Actors: Blair Brown, Bruno Ganz, Bridget Fonda, Alan Howard, Michael Gough

Synopsis: As she enters middle age, expatriate American M.D. Lillian Hempel (Blair Brown) ends a long-term relationship with her actor boyfriend and embarks on a tour of European churches. After a chance encounter with charming businessman Raymond Forbes (Bruno Ganz), Lillian finds herself tempted to Read More

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

Stealing Home

Actors: Mark Harmon, Blair Brown, Jodie Foster, Jonathan Silverman, Harold Ramis

Synopsis: The storytelling device of the flashback gets an intense workout in this tragic coming of age drama. Mark Harmon stars as washed-up baseball player Billy Wyatt, who is shocked when he receives news that his childhood sweetheart and friend Katie Chandler (Jodie Foster) has committed suicide and Read More

Hands of a Stranger

Actors: Armand Assante, Blair Brown, Beverly D'Angelo, Arliss Howard

Synopsis: Hands of a Stranger was adapted by playwright Arthur Kopit from the best-selling novel by Robert Daley. Armand Assante plays a New York City narcotics officer who aids DA Blair Brown in her investigation of a rape case in which drugs were involved. In the subsequent days, Assante becomes something Read More

Don't Touch

Actors: Kelly Wolf, Niki Scalera, Lenny Von Dohlen, Blair Brown, John Glover

Synopsis: The sensitive topic of child molestation is compellingly (and tastefully) handled on this ABC Afterschool Special. While babysitting for six-year-old Molly Stewart (Niki Scalera), teenager Karen Anderson (Kelly Wolf) cannot help but notice the inordinate amount of attention showered upon the child Read More

The Bad Seed

Actors: Blair Brown, Lynn Redgrave, Carrie Wells, David Carradine

Synopsis: The 1985 TV movie The Bad Seed is the second film version of Maxwell Anderson's 1956 Broadway play. Carrie Wells plays Rhoda Penmark, a 9-year-old girl who is perfection itself--unless she's crossed or challenged. Several disturbing recent incidents have led Rhoda's mother Christine (Blair Brown) Read More

A Flash of Green

Actors: Ed Harris, Blair Brown, George Coe, Joan Goodfellow

Synopsis: A John D. MacDonald novel was the source material for A Flash of Green. Ed Harris plays a reporter for a Florida resort-town newspaper. His best friend is shady county-commissioner Richard Jordan. When Harris shows signs of sympathizing with a local ecology group that is dead set against a new Read More

Kennedy: The Presidential Years

Kennedy

Actors: Martin Sheen, Blair Brown, Vincent Gardenia

Synopsis: The 1,000-day presidency of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in the early '60s is depicted from the glorious beginning to the tragic ending. Kennedy (Martin Sheen) faces down the Soviets, the Cubans, his military leaders (over the war in Vietnam), FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover (Vincent Gardenia), and Jackie Read More

The Skin of Our Teeth

Synopsis: The cast of the Old Globe Theater's acclaimed early-'80s revival of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic reunited to re-create their roles for this made-for-TV production, taped for PBS's anthology series American Playhouse. The Skin of Our Teeth follows the often funny and Read More

Continental Divide

Actors: John Belushi, Blair Brown, Allen Garfield, Carlin Glynn, Tony Ganios

Synopsis: Michael Apted directed and Lawrence Kasdan wrote the screenplay for this diverting romantic comedy -- a film that attempts to recapture the spirit of an old Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn vehicle. A very subdued John Belushi plays a star columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times named Ernie Souchak Read More

One Trick Pony

Actors: Paul Simon, Blair Brown, Rip Torn, Joan Hackett

Synopsis: The struggle of a has-been singer to work his way back up the charts is the focus of this drama by Robert M. Young with screenplay and music by Paul Simon. Simon plays Jonah, a once-popular singer who now opens for punk rock bands. In the ten years since he had a hit song, Jonah's wife has Read More

Altered States

Actors: William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Charles Haid, Drew Barrymore, Thaao Penghlis

Synopsis: In this 1980 sci-fi horror film, William Hurt plays Eddie Jessup, a scientist obsessed with discovering mankind's true role in the universe. To this end, he submits himself to a series of mind-expanding experiments. By enclosing himself in a sensory-deprivation chamber and taking hallucinogenic Read More

The Child Stealer

Actors: Tracey Gold

Synopsis: The child stealer of the title is Beau Bridges, the self-centered ex-husband of Blair Brown. She has custody of the kids, and he has been slapped with a restraining order. Bridges waits until Brown's guard is down and kidnaps his two daughters. Told by the authorities that there's little they can Read More

Arthur Hailey's Wheels

Actors: Rock Hudson, Lee Remick, Blair Brown, John Beck, Ralph Bellamy

Synopsis: Another of the many Arthur Hailey literary properties which were transformed into TV miniseries in the 1970s, the five-part, ten-hour Wheels took place in Detroit sometime in the late 1960s. Rock Hudson starred as Adam Trenton, executive in charge of project development at the fictional Read More

And I Alone Survived

Actors: Blair Brown, Maggie Cooper

Synopsis: This TV movie dramatizes a catastrophic event of April 26, 1976. A plane carrying Lauren Elder (Blair Brown), and two other passengers, crashes into Mount Bradley in the Sierra Nevadas.12,000 miles above sea level, the survivors are tortured by their injuries and battered by the elements. Read More

Charlie Cobb: Nice Night for a Hanging

Synopsis: Nice Night for a Hanging was the feature-length pilot film for the never-sold TV series Charlie Cobb. Clu Gulager stars as Cobb, a private detective operating in the Old West. Our hero comes to California at the behest of a powerful rancher (Ralph Bellamy), and is hired to locate the rancher's Read More

Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years

Actors: Edward Herrmann, Jane Alexander

Synopsis: First aired March 13, 1977, Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years was the brilliant follow-up to the equally praiseworthy 1976 TV movie Eleanor and Franklin: The Early Years. The film is framed in a flashback experienced by first lady Eleanor Roosevelt (Jane Alexander) while accompanying the Read More

The 3,000 Mile Chase

Actors: Cliff De Young, Glenn Ford

Synopsis: A casual glance at the cast list for the made-for-TV 3000 Mile Chase might lead one to conclude that stars Cliff De Young and Glenn Ford play dual roles. In fact, De Young is a bonded courier, and Ford is a government witness. Both men are obliged to assume false identities while en route to a Read More

The Choirboys

Actors: Charles Durning, Louis Gossett, Jr., Perry King, Clyde Kusatsu, Stephen Macht

Synopsis: Loosely based on former policeman Joseph Wambaugh's humorous novel, The Choirboys determinedly explores the stunted interior lives of a large crew of callous, bigoted L.A. policemen. These men get together to lend one another emotional support. However, the means they choose for this do not Read More

The Quinns

Synopsis: The Quinns follows the exploits of four generations of an Irish-American family. Much of the screen time is spent on domestic problems regarding growing pains, romance, and the generation gap. Amidst these personal travails, director Dan Petrie inserts several moderately exciting fire sequences Read More

Kojak: Where Do You Go When You Have No Place to Go?

Synopsis: Stephen Macht is cast as Joseph Arrow, an unemployed Native American ironworker who breaks into the apartment of a powerful and otherwise unapproachable construction boss, hoping to land a job. But when the boss mistakes him for a burglar, Arrow accidentally kills the man. Though sympathetic to Read More

Captains and the Kings

Synopsis: One of four dramatic miniseries carried by NBC under the blanket title Best Sellers, Captains and the Kings was adapted from a novel by Taylor Caldwell. Covering a time span from 1857 to 1912, this was the saga of the Irish-immigrant Armagh clan, with emphasis on the rags-to-riches career of Read More