Brenda VaccaroFilmography

Just Desserts

Actors: Lauren Holly, Costas Mandylor, Dorie Barton, Andy Lauer, Brenda Vaccaro

Synopsis: The Bronx bakery owned by the family of Marco Poloni (Costas Mandylor) is on the verge of bankruptcy, and Marco's Uncle Fab (David Proval) is poised to sell the place to a nationwide donut chain. To save the establishment and keep it in the family, Marco enters the "Golden Whisk Dessert Read More

Sonny

Actors: James Franco, Brenda Blethyn, Mena Suvari, Harry Dean Stanton, Brenda Vaccaro

Synopsis: Film superstar Nicolas Cage's directing debut, Sonny follows a very unconventional family as they struggle to overcome personal and financial adversity. Young Sonny (James Franco) returns home to New Orleans from Army service to find his mother Jewel (Brenda Blethyn), a prostitute, in dire Read More

Just a Walk in the Park

Actors: George Eads, Jane Krakowski, Brenda Vaccaro, Richard Robitaille, Deborah Odell

Synopsis: Adam (George Eads) makes his living as a dog walker for the wealthy New Yorkers who live near the Central Park district. So dedicated is Adam to his work that his family and friends are worried that he will never emerge from his professional shell and find a suitable wife. At present, Adam is Read More

The Directors: Barbra Streisand

Actors: Barbra Streisand

Synopsis: Directors: Barbra Streisand profiles the actress, producer, film director, and notorious perfectionist. Streisand, who directed Yentl, The Prince of Tides, and The Mirror Has Two Faces, discusses the challenge and responsibility of being a female power player in the male-centered entertainment Read More

Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo

Actors: Rob Schneider, William Forsythe, Eddie Griffin, Arija Bareikis, Oded Fehr

Synopsis: Yet another Saturday Night Live alumnus makes his bid for big-screen success as Rob Schneider, best remembered as the "Making copies!" guy, tackles his first leading role in this broad comedy. Deuce (Rob Schneider) earns a meager living as a professional fish tank cleaner until he's asked to Read More

When Husbands Cheat

Synopsis: Housewife Tess McCall (Patricia Kalember) knows that her sister's husband is a philanderer, but she can't prove it. With the help of her policeman husband Craig (Tom Irwin), Tess gleans a variety of surveillance and clue-gathering techniques, the better to trap her brother-in-law in the act. She Read More

Ally McBeal: The Attitude

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol

Synopsis: Ally's efforts to help a divorce (Brenda Vaccaro) make her separation legal in Jewish law go awry when she offends the woman's rabbi (Jason Blicker). ~ TV Guide, All Movie Guide Read More

Touched By an Angel: Out of the Darkness

Synopsis: Awakening from a coma after five years, Steve Bell (played by future West Wing regular Bradley Whitford) finds that his life is in a shambles. Most devastating is the discovery that Steve's wife Bonnie (Malcolm in the Middle's Jane Kaczmarek) has fallen in love with his business partner Matthew Read More

The Mirror Has Two Faces

Actors: Barbra Streisand, Jeff Bridges, Lauren Bacall, Pierce Brosnan, Mimi Rogers, George Segal, Elle MacPherson

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy-drama, a couple learns that the relationship between the mind and the body can take many different forms. Rose Morgan (Barbra Streisand) is a plain and pudgy middle-aged college English professor who shares a house with her mother, Hannah (Lauren Bacall). Rose got the Read More

Friends: The One With the Boobies

Synopsis: It isn't precisely "You show me mine, I'll show me yours" when Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) tries to get even with Chandler (Matthew Perry) for accidentally seeing her topless in the shower. Joey (Matt LeBlanc) discovers that his dad (Robert Costanzo) is having an affair with a gorgeous pet Read More

Love Affair

Actors: Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Katharine Hepburn, Garry Shandling, Chloe Webb

Synopsis: The 1939 Irene Dunne-Charles Boyer romance Love Affair, remade with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr in 1957 as An Affair to Remember, became a vehicle for real-life couple Warren Beatty and Annette Bening in this 1994 rendition. The well-worn story remains the same, as a man and a woman, both engaged Read More

Following Her Heart

Actors: Ann-Margret, George Segal, Brenda Vaccaro, Alexandra Powers, Sandra Reaves-Phillips

Synopsis: Ann-Margret stars as a recently widowed woman who pursues her dream of becoming a country singer by heading to Nashville on a bus tour. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Masque of the Red Death

Synopsis: A contemporary version of the masterpiece by Edgar Allan Poe follows a photographer (Michelle McBride) as she spies on a soap-opera star at a party in Bavaria. She must solve the crimes when several guests are murdered by someone in a skull mask and red coat. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Columbo: Murder in Malibu

Synopsis: The murder of a popular romance novelist sets America's favorite rumpled detective on the case. Columbo gets off on the wrong gumshoe when he forces an innocent gigolo to confess to the crime. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Fixer-Upper

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) heads to California, there to link up with her niece Victoria (Genie Francis), now employed as a real estate broker. Showing up at a dilapidated mansion to close a deal with the house's owner, Victoria finds that the owner is in no mood to bargain--mainly because he's Read More

Stolen: One Husband

Actors: Valerie Harper, Elliott Gould, Brenda Vaccaro, Brenda Bakke, Bruce Davison

Synopsis: A husband goes middle-age bonkers and leaves his wife in this comedy. Now she is determined to show him that she doesn't need him anyway. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Family Jewels

Synopsis: Brenda Vaccaro is featured as Sheila Kowalski Finley, a freewheeling society matron who has the cute habit of taking jewelry that doesn't belong to her. When her husband's chauffeur is murdered during a political fundraiser, Sheila is among the suspects, if for no other reason than she was Read More

Lethal Games

Ten Little Indians

Actors: Donald Pleasence, Frank Stallone, Sarah Maur-Thorp, Herbert Lom, Brenda Vaccaro

Synopsis: Ten Little Indians, the classic mystery by Agatha Christie, is again adapted, with enjoyable results. The setting of the now familiar mystery is moved to Africa, where the ten guests of a mysterious host are killed one by one as they travel on safari. None of the guests, played with great fun by a Read More

Cookie

Actors: Peter Falk, Dianne Wiest, Emily Lloyd, Michael Vincente Gazzo, Brenda Vaccaro

Synopsis: Directed by Susan Seidelman and written by Alice Arlen and Nora Ephron, Cookie comes across as an inconsequential piece of fluff, bolstered by a quirky performance by Emily Lloyd. Lloyd is Cookie Capisco, the daughter of mobster Dino Capisco (Peter Falk), who has just finished thirteen years in Read More

Heart of Midnight

Actors: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Peter Coyote, Gale Mayron, Sam Schacht, Denise Dummont

Synopsis: Heart of Midnight is a involving, well-above-average erotic, psychological thriller directed by Matthew Chapman. Carol (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is recovering from a nervous breakdown. She inherits a nightclub from her uncle and moves in. There she discovers strange and frightening secrets about her Read More

For Keeps

Actors: Molly Ringwald, Randall Batinkoff, Kenneth Mars, Miriam Flynn, Conchata Ferrell

Synopsis: Young, ambitious high school students Darcy Elliot (Molly Ringwald) and Stan Bobrucz (Randal Batinkoff) have a hitch thrown into their plans to attend college and pursue professional careers when they discover that Darcy is pregnant. Deciding against abortion or adoption, the couple decides to Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Just Another Fish Story

Synopsis: Having invested in a trendy New York seafood restaurant, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) is delighted that her nephew Grady (Michael London) has chosen the restaurant to celebrate his engagement to the lovely Donna Mayberry (Debbie Zipp). Alas, murder casts a pall on the party when the restaurant's Read More

Water

Actors: Michael Caine, Valerie Perrine, Brenda Vaccaro, Billy Connolly, Leonard Rossiter

Synopsis: Meant to be a parody of the recent invasions of Grenada and the Falkland Islands, this comedy about the laid-back governor (Michael Caine) of "Cascara," a fictional British island somewhere in the Caribbean, and the international parade of characters who come through his territory is a pastiche Read More

Deceptions

Actors: Stefanie Powers

Synopsis: Stefanie Powers does double duty as twin sisters in the two-part TV movie Deceptions. Stefanie #1 is a glamorous globetrotter; Stefanie #2 is a drab New Jersey housewife. On a whim, the two siblings exchange identities, leading to a dizzying series of unexpected complications. Filmed on location Read More

Paper Dolls [TV Series]

Actors: Nicollette Sheridan, Terry Farrell, Brenda Vaccaro, Jennifer Warren, Morgan Fairchild

Synopsis: This short-lived TV series was based on the 1982 television movie of the same name and focused on two young women and their mothers negotiating the New York modeling scene with the rich, the fashionable, and the powerful. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Supergirl

Actors: Faye Dunaway, Helen Slater, Peter O'Toole, Peter Cook, Brenda Vaccaro

Synopsis: A big-budget spin-off from the series of three successful Superman movies, this film stars Helen Slater as the counterpart to the famous comic-book superhero. Supergirl is Kara, Superman's young cousin. She is sent to Earth is search of a Krypton power source, a lost ring that has been turned into Read More

A Long Way Home

Synopsis: A young man searches for his brother and sister many years after the three were sent to separate foster homes in this made-for-TV drama. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Star Maker

Synopsis: The infamous casting couch is the center point of this Hollywood behind-the-scenes drama that chronicles the exploits of a movie mogul and the actresses he turns into stars. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Zorro, the Gay Blade

Actors: George Hamilton, Lauren Hutton, Brenda Vaccaro, Ron Leibman, Donovan Scott

Synopsis: In this spoof, Don Diego Vega (George Hamilton) follows in his father's footsteps as he dons the identity of Zorro in an attempt to defend the weak and innocent from the ravages of the evil. However, when Vega falls victim to a debilitating injury, it is up to his gay twin brother, Bunny Read More

Chanel Solitaire

Actors: Marie-France Pisier, Timothy Dalton, Rutger Hauer, Karen Black, Brigitte Fossey

Synopsis: An ambitious Parisian fashion designer finds romance and great career success in this story about the life and loves of the legendary couturier, Coco (Gabrielle) Chanel. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

The First Deadly Sin

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Faye Dunaway, Brenda Vaccaro, James Whitmore, George Coe, David Dukes, Joe Spinell

Synopsis: The First Deadly Sin was Frank Sinatra's final starring movie vehicle. Based on a novel by Lawrence Sanders, it casts Sinatra as Edward Delaney, a big-city detective on the verge of retirement. Beset with profound personal problems--including a gravely ill wife (Faye Dunaway)--Delaney nonetheless Read More

The Pride of Jesse Hallam

Actors: Johnny Cash, Brenda Vaccaro, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: In this moving made-for-cable television drama, Jesse Hallam is a poor and illiterate coal miner (Johnny Cash) who must learn to read in order to get a job in the city. He was forced to leave after one of his daughters becomes terribly sick. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones

Actors: Powers Boothe, Veronica Cartwright, Rosalind Cash, Brad Dourif, Randy Quaid

Synopsis: This two-part TV movie was, of course, sparked by the November 1978 mass suicide of 913 people at the South American religious "colony" of Jonestown. The catalyst for this tragedy was cult-leader Reverend Jim Jones (played by Powers Boothe, who won an Emmy for his performance), head of the Read More

Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider

Actors: David Carradine, Brenda Vaccaro, L.Q. Jones, R.G. Armstrong, Terry Kiser

Synopsis: In this exciting road comedy, a WW I veteran attempts to fulfill his dream of being the first to win a transnational motorcycle rally. To assist him, he hires former war buddies. These fellows have a quiet grudge against him because they believe he deserted them during a crucial battle. Still the Read More

Dear Detective

Capricorn One

Actors: Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Brenda Vaccaro, Sam Waterston, O.J. Simpson

Synopsis: Astronauts Charles Brubaker, John Walker, and Peter Willis (James Brolin, O.J. Simpson, and Sam Waterston, respectively) are hailed as heroes when they become the first men to be rocketed to Mars. Actually the space travelers are as phony as their mission controller, Dr. James Kelloway (Hal Holbrook Read More

Airport '77

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Brenda Vaccaro, Joseph Cotten, Olivia de Havilland

Synopsis: Stretching the Airport concept as far as it will go, this third film in the series sticks a jet full of old actors 50 feet underwater in the Bermuda Triangle. Oxygen (and credibility) grows short, and Jimmy Stewart plays an art collector targeted for a heist. Jack Lemmon is the unfortunate pilot Read More

Nestor the Long-Eared Christmas Donkey

Synopsis: In this animated holiday outing, a good-hearted little donkey is the butt of many jokes because of his exceptionally long ears. Despite the constant ribbing, Nestor grows up to perform a very important task on the very first Christmas Eve. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Tendre Poulet

Actors: Annie Girardot, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Alric, Hubert Deschamps, Paulette Dubost

Synopsis: Dear Inspector and Dear Detective were the English-language titles of Philippe De Broca's Tendre Poulet. Annie Girardot plays the old flame of Greek professor Philippe Noiret. The prof tries to rekindle the flames of passion, but Girardot seems curiously preoccupied. It turns out that she's a Read More

Death Weekend

Actors: Brenda Vaccaro, Don Stroud, Chuck Shamata, Richard Ayres, Kyle Edwards

Synopsis: William Fruet directed this tense Canadian rape-revenge thriller which attempted to capitalize on the success of Wes Craven's Last House on the Left (1972). The film concerns a vacationing couple, Harry and Diane (Chuck Shamata and Brenda Vaccaro), who are terrorized in a remote house on a Read More

Territorial Men

Synopsis: In this western, a 19th-century rancher locks horns with a pretty school teacher when they disagree over what she should do with her runaway son. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Territorial Women

Synopsis: In this western, a schoolteacher tries to help out two unhappy mothers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Once Is Not Enough

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Alexis Smith, David Janssen, George Hamilton, Melina Mercouri

Synopsis: In this high-suds potboiler based on the best-selling novel by Jacqueline Susann, Mike Wayne (Kirk Douglas) is a past-his-prime movie producer who lives to make his college-age daughter January (Deborah Raffin) happy. January is also very fond of her father, perhaps more so than would seem healthy Read More

The Big Rip-Off

Synopsis: The Big Rip-Off was the pilot film for Tony Curtis' shortlived TV series McCoy. Curtis plays a sly but basically decent con artist who is engaged to recover $250,000 in ransom money from a recent high-society kidnapping. In the tradition of The Sting, Curtis uses scam tactics to get the money Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: The Most Deadly Species

Synopsis: In retaliation for the death of his son, a big-time hoodlum hires an expert female assassin known as Sydney to murder the three thugs responsible. At the same time, SFPD detective Keller (Michael Douglas) becomes romantically involved with his attractive new neighbor (played by Douglas' Read More

Honor Thy Father

Actors: Brenda Vaccaro, Joseph Bologna, Raf Vallone, Richard S. Castellano, Joe de Santis

Synopsis: Gay Talese's bestseller Honor Thy Father is given a superb, albeit slightly expurgated, treatment in this made-for-TV movie. Joseph Bologna plays Bill Bonanno, the son of New York City Mafia-don Joe "Bananas" Bonanno (Raf Vallone). When his father disappears in 1964, Bill is compelled to take over Read More

Sunshine

Synopsis: After a young mother is diagnosed with terminal bone cancer, she begins writing a journal containing her most heartfelt thoughts. It is to be her legacy to her beloved husband and daughter. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Act of Duty

Synopsis: This 1973 episode features Brenda Vaccaro, the then girlfriend of series costar Michael Douglas (Steve Keller), as rookie SFPD officer Sherry Tate. When her roommate, likewise a cop, is murdered while tracking down an elusive rapist, Sherry volunteers to act as bait for the killer. Even after Read More

Banacek: To Steal a King

Synopsis: In this mystery, ace-detective Bancek looks into the case of a missing coin valued at $3-million. The priceless object was stolen from a hotel vault. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Going Home

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Brenda Vaccaro, Jan-Michael Vincent, Jason Bernard, Sally Kirkland

Synopsis: Robert Mitchum delivers a top-notch performance as Harry Graham, a lonely and tender lout of a father who, released from prison after having killed his wife many years ago, has to start anew but must deal with his embittered teenage son Jimmy (Jan-Michael Vincent). Jimmy, seeking vengeance upon Read More

Appointment in Palermo

Synopsis: The usually sobersided TV adventure series Name of the Game went comically wacko with the 90-minute episode Appointment in Palermo. Series regular Gene Barry plays Crime magazine publisher Glenn Howard, who finds himself mistaken for a Sicilian patriarch. He is kidnapped by one of the Read More

What's a Nice Girl Like You..?

Synopsis: In this comedy drama, an ingenious young woman from the Bronx impersonates a socialite so she can con a confused old man out of his money. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Summertree

Actors: Kirk Callaway, Dennis Clark Fimple

Synopsis: As he lies dying in Vietnam, a young soldier (Michael Douglas) recalls the events leading up to this moment. He remembers his sweetheart (Brenda Vaccaro), to whom he couldn't make a commitment. He recalls the battles he'd had with his parents (Jack Warden, Barbara Bel Geddes), when he forsook Read More

One of the Girls in Research

Synopsis: In this drama, the publisher of a magazine finds herself victimized by an a conniving industrialist. She also learns that one of her employees has a terrible crush upon her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Travis Logan, D.A.

Actors: Hal Holbrook, Vic Morrow

Synopsis: Travis Logan, D.A. is a TV pilot film, originally telecast in March of 1971. Vic Morrow heads the cast as Logan, while Hal Holbrook earns "special guest star" billing as a clever murderer. Logan is prepared to go around with Holbrook's defense team when they try to cop an insanity plea. But a Read More

I Love My Wife

Actors: Elliott Gould, Brenda Vaccaro, Angel Tompkins, Dabney Coleman, Leonard Stone

Synopsis: This romantic comedy finds Richard Burrows (Elliot Gould) as a medical student in residence engaged to marry the pregnant Jody (Brenda Vaccaro). When Jody abstains from sex and her mother moves in with the newlyweds, Richard engages in a series of love affairs with the hospital nurses. He meets Read More

The F.B.I.: Scapegoat

Synopsis: Harley Garnett (Michael Burns), a wealthy but seriously disturbed young man, murders socialite Karen Blakely (Brooke Mills) when she spurns his advances. Garnett commits his crime on government land, bringing the FBI into the investigation. Noticing that the murder follows the same M.O. as one Read More

Midnight Cowboy

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro

Synopsis: Based on a James Leo Herlihy novel, British director John Schlesinger's first American film dramatized the small hopes, dashed dreams, and unlikely friendship of two late '60s lost souls. Dreaming of an easy life as a fantasy cowboy stud, cheerful Texas rube Joe Buck (Jon Voight) heads to New York Read More

Where It's At

Actors: David Janssen, Robert Drivas, Rosemary Forsyth, Brenda Vaccaro, Warrene Ott

Synopsis: A.C. Smith (David Janssen) is a Las Vegas casino operator whose son visits during his summer vacation from Princeton. His son Andy (Robert Drivas) would rather go to Europe, but daddy dearest wants him to learn the ropes of the gambling business. Pappy approves of and pays for a showgirl to teach Read More

The Fugitive: See Hollywood and Die

Synopsis: During a gas station holdup, Richard Kimble (David Janssen) and Joanne Spencer (Brenda Vaccaro) are taken hostage by psychotic gunmen Miles (Chris Robinson) and Vinnie (Lou Antonio). In an effort to save Joanne's life, Kimble pretends to be a master criminal, offering to cut the two thugs in on a Read More