Bruce Abbott Filmography

Black Scorpion

Actors: Joan Severance, Garrett Morris

Synopsis: This B-movie from director Rodman Flender (The Unborn) was originally broadcast on Showtime's Roger Corman Presents series. Joan Severance stars as a cop who becomes a leather-clad superhero named Black Scorpion when her father is murdered in a barroom shooting. The murder is part of a seemingly Read More

The Demolitionist

Actors: Nicole Eggert, Richard Grieco, Susan Tyrrell, Bruce Abbott, Sarah Douglas

Synopsis: Set in a future American metropolis, Metro City, this sci-fi-thriller features a policewoman heroine who like the hero in Robocop was brought back from the dead and turned into a super-human fighter. Unlike the aforementioned robot-man, however, she is brought back not with hardware, but with Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Shooting in Rome

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) journeys to Rome to provide rewrites for a film based on one of her novels. As can be expected, all is not going well on the movie set, especially after a stuntman dies in a highly suspicious "accident." Among the principal players in this mystery is guest star Michael Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Murder in High-C

Synopsis: Once again, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) finds herself immersed in the world of Grand Opera, this time during a visit to Genoa Italy. The plot is set in motion by a series of death threats leveled at an American opera diva poised to make her European debut. There are those who dismiss these threats Read More

Dark Justice: Season 03

Actors: Bruce Abbott, Dick O'Neill, Clayton Prince, Janet Gunn, Joanne Haas

Synopsis: The third and final season of Dark Justice finds ex-cop Nick Marshall (Bruce Abbott) continuing to lead his double life as a respected judge by day, and a leather-jacket vigilante by night. Using an admirably variety of stings and scams, Marshall and his team of "Night Watchmen"--Moon (Dick Read More

Dark Justice: Season 02

Actors: Bruce Abbott, Dick O'Neill, Clayton Prince, Janet Gunn, Joanne Haas

Synopsis: Moving its production unit from Spain to Hollywood for its second season, Dark Justice serves up 22 new episodes in which the benevolent vigilante group The Night Watchman, secretly commandeered by Judge Nick Marshall, mete out punishment to criminals who have otherwise evaded capture by using the Read More

Bride of Re-Animator

Actors: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Claude Earl Jones, Fabiana Udenio, David Gale

Synopsis: Loosely adapted from H.P. Lovecraft's Herbert West -- Re-Animator comes this sequel to one of the wildest, bloodiest, and funniest horror films to ever come down the pipe. Set eight months after the gruesome events of the first film, the follow-up opens with the demented Dr. Herbert West (Jeffrey Read More

Dillinger

Actors: Mark Harmon, Sherilyn Fenn, Will Patton, Patricia Arquette, Vince Edwards

Synopsis: Dillinger is a messily directed, haphazardly edited TV movie, which takes a revisionist squint at the criminal career of the 1930s' Public Enemy Number One. Mark Harmon captures some of the charisma but little of the ruthlessness of John Dillinger, while Sherilyn Fenn gives an anachronistic Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Thicker Than Water

Synopsis: Jessica's return to Cabot Cove coincides with the arrival of Wayne Metzger (Bruce Abbott), the "black sheep" brother of town sheriff Mort Metzger (Ron Masak). Recently released from prison, Wayne wants to mend fences with his brother, but the uncharacteristically bitter Mort refuses to have Read More

Johnny Ryan

Synopsis: In this crime drama set during the 1940s an honest detective and his task force take on the mob in old Chicago. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Danielle Steel's 'Kaleidoscope'

Actors: Jaclyn Smith, Perry King, Claudia Christian, Patricia Kalember

Synopsis: Wealthy, but yearning for the family he lost after his parents' untimely deaths, a businessman hires a private eye to locate his three sisters, each of whom was sent to a different foster home following the mysterious accident. One particularly traumatized sister seems to know the truth about the Read More

Trapped

Actors: Kathleen Quinlan, Bruce Abbott, Ben Loggins, Katy Boyer, Tyrees Allen

Synopsis: Kathleen Quinlan is Trapped in this made-for-cable thriller. Cast as a junior executive, Quinlan finds herself electronically locked inside a high-rise office building. Think she's all alone? Mais non, monsieur. There must needs be a homicidal maniac (Ben Loggins) on the premises, else the movie Read More

Casual Sex?

Actors: Lea Thompson, Victoria Jackson, Stephen Shellen, Jerry Levine, Andrew Dice Clay

Synopsis: In the late '80s, good-time girl Stacy (Lea Thompson) and her timid friend, Melissa (Victoria Jackson), decide to hit a health spa for singles in hopes of spicing up their unfulfilled sex lives. Afraid of AIDS, Stacy has gone celibate, while Melissa has only ever managed to get it on with two lame Read More

Bad Dreams

Actors: Jennifer Rubin, Bruce Abbott, Richard Lynch, Dean Cameron, Harris Yulin

Synopsis: The sole survivor of a psycho-led mass suicide awakens from a 13-year coma and begins having visions of the cult leader who was also killed in the fiery death scene. She resists his efforts to have her join him in the hereafter, and soon members from her therapy group start dropping like flies. Read More

Interzone

Synopsis: Mutants pose a problem to humans in a post-holocaust world. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Out of Time

Actors: Bruce Abbott, Adam Ant

Synopsis: Out of Time is a patchwork of notions lifted from such earlier sources as Time After Time, Back to the Future, The Terminator, and the 1961 Twilight Zone episode "Back There." Bruce Abbott plays a dedicated law enforcement officer from the year 2088 who is in pursuit of time-travelling lawbreaker Adam Ant Read More

Summer Heat

Actors: Lori Singer, Anthony Edwards, Bruce Abbott, Kathy Bates, Clu Gulager

Synopsis: The lonely wife of a struggling tobacco farmer succumbs to temptation and sleeps with a transient harvester in this drama set in Depression-ravaged North Carolina. The drifter offers her more excitement than the bored young mother has felt in years and it is no surprise that she and he begin Read More

Baja Oklahoma

Actors: Lesley Ann Warren, Peter Coyote, Swoosie Kurtz, Billy Vera, Anthony Zerbe

Synopsis: Based on a 1983 novel by Dan Jenkins, Baja Oklahoma is set sometime in the 1950s. Texas barmaid Lesley Ann Warren wants more than anything to be a rich and famous country-western songwriter. Unfortunately, she spends most of her time sorting out her many dead-end romances. Just when she thinks Read More

Re-Animator

Actors: Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, Barbara Crampton, Robert Sampson, David Gale

Synopsis: Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) is a brilliant medical student who has perfected a green-glowing serum for regenerating life into dead things -- or even parts of dead things. But a corrupt superior, Dr. Carl Hill (David Gale), assumes control of West's experiments and winds up, by ghastly Read More

Command 5

Synopsis: This action movie chronicles the exciting exploits of a crack crime fighting force. They are notorious for their unusual tactics when dealing with criminals. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Last Starfighter

Actors: Lance Guest, Robert Preston, Dan O'Herlihy, Catherine Stewart, Barbara Bosson

Synopsis: Trailer-park teenager Lance Guest regularly escapes from his humdrum existence by playing the video game Starfighter. His expertise at this recreational endeavor attracts the attention of affable stranger Robert Preston. Before he knows what's happening, Guest is whisked by Preston into the Read More

Why Me?

Actors: Glynnis O'Connor, Armand Assante

Synopsis: Made for television, Why Me? is the true story of Air Force nurse Leola Mae Harmon (Glynnis O'Connor), whose face is all but destroyed in a head-on automobile accident. As Leola recuperates in a military hospital, her will to live is seriously tested, not only by her shattered face, but also by Read More

T.A.G.: The Assassination Game

Actors: Robert Carradine, Linda Hamilton, Bruce Abbott, Kristine de Bell, Frazer Smith

Synopsis: Students at a college with obviously low graduation requirements spend their time and energy playing a game that involves mock assassinations with rubber-tipped darts fired from plastic guns. If you are shot, you are assassinated and out of the game and whoever remains alone at the end wins. When Read More