Bruce WeitzFilmography

El Cortez

Actors: Lou Diamond Phillips, Tracy Middendorf, Bruce Weitz, James McDaniel, Glenn Plummer

Synopsis: An autistic ex-con attempting to readjust to life on the outside finds that the past isn't so easy to escape as he becomes caught in the middle of a deadly triple-cross in director Stephen Purvis' labyrinthine thriller. For five long years Manny (Lou Diamond Phillips) has repaid his debt to Read More

The Metrosexual

Actors: Shaun Benson, Mya Harrison, Bruce Weitz, Nick Paonessa

Synopsis: Eric Bremer (Shaun Benson) is an LA metrosexual who pays meticulous detail to his manners, personal appearance, and unwavering appreciation for the finer things in life. While looking for love in the city can be a bit of a challenge for even the most rugged type, this preening and hyper-sensitive Read More

Grey's Anatomy: If Tomorrow Never Comes

Synopsis: The interns are dumbstruck by patient Annie Connors (Alex S. Alexander), who checks in with a 65-pound tumor--an all-time record for Seattle Grace. Another patient, Mr. Levangie (Bruce Weitz), suffers from Parkinson's disease, the proper treatment of which sparks a war of words between surgical Read More

DinoCroc

Actors: Costas Mandylor, Charles Napier, Jane Longenecker, Joanna Pacula, Max Perlich

Synopsis: "It feeds on fear!" read the advertising tagline for this Roger Corman-produced shocker. What could be scarier than a rogue crocodile, except maybe a rogue dinosaur? How about a combination thereof -- a DinoCroc? Hoping to create a cheap alternative to expensive prescription medicines, the greedy Read More

ER: The Advocate

Synopsis: Weaver (Laura Innes) again does a secret favor for "closeted" Chicago politician John Bright (Bruce Weitz) -- this time with disastrous results and calamitous consequences. Elsewhere, Kovac (Goran Visnjic) uses unorthodox methods to get a grip on his personal problems. And the romance between Read More

ER: No Strings Attached

Synopsis: Was Abby's (Maura Tierney) bipolar brother piloting the plane that has plunged into Lake Michigan? As Abby agonizes over this possibility, other dramas play themselves out at the ER. A teenaged driver who may have deliberately run down her taunting classmates is brought in; Chen (Ming-Na) reveals Read More

ER: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

Synopsis: After trying and failing to help an elderly doctor (Edward Asner) who runs a free clinic, Carter (Noah Wyle) is forced to make some difficult decisions regarding his own future. Elsewhere, Pratt (Mekhi Phifer) comes to the aid of his brain-damaged brother, Leon (Marcello Thedford), who has run Read More

ER: A Saint in the City

Synopsis: Weaver (Laura Innes) begins spinning a self-entangling web of deception when she agrees to secretly treat a communicable disease picked up by "closeted" Alderman John Bright (Bruce Weitz). Kovac (Goran Visjnic) resorts to a subterfuge of Biblical proportions to convince a seriously injured patient Read More

Half Past Dead

Actors: Steven Seagal, Morris Chestnut, Ja Rule, Nia Peeples, Tony Plana, Bruce Weitz

Synopsis: Action hero Steven Seagal goes behind bars -- though don't worry, he isn't really a bad guy -- in this action thriller. Sascha Petrosevitch (Seagal) is an FBI agent working undercover to infiltrate a gangland kingpin's operations. While Petrosevitch is able to gain the trust of one of the Read More

No Place Like Home

Actors: Judge Reinhold, Joanna Pacula, Bruce Weitz, Adrienne Barbeau, Richard Moll

Synopsis: After discovering an alien that just crash landed on Earth, two teenage siblings due the best to keep their extraterrestrial secret under wraps as they help the desperate star man find his way back home. Mel and his brother Mac were simply going about their business when the sky was suddenly set Read More

Fools Gold

Actors: Blair Singer, Billy Gallo, J.E. Freeman, Camryn Manheim, Tonie Perensky

Synopsis: A road comedy that touches on issues of racial and personal identity, Fools Gold was the feature-length debut for writer/director Jeffrey Janger. Flimp Lopez (Billy Gallo) is Hispanic and Sam Wechter (Blair Singer) is Jewish, which makes both of them outsiders in Oiltown, OK, where they work in a Read More

Memorial Day

Actors: Bruce Weitz, Stephanie Niznik, Jeff Speakman

Velocity Trap

Actors: Jorja Fox, Olivier Gruner, Bruce Weitz, Alicia Coppola, Ken Olandt

Synopsis: In this sci-fi adventure, an honest cop is given an assignment that will supposedly keep him out of trouble, but it soon lands him in a maelstrom of deadly danger. In the year 2150, the economic needs of most people on Earth and the surrounding galaxy are satisfied by on-line exchanges, but a Read More

Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story

Actors: Mario Lopez, Michael Murphy, Jeffrey Meek, Rosemary Dunsmore, Aki Aleong, Bruce Weitz

Synopsis: The real-life story of Olympic diver Greg Louganis is chronicled in this made-for-television drama. Mario Lopez stars as Louganis, an adopted child who went through a difficult adolescence, only to emerge as a world-class diver in the 1988 Olympics. After a notorious diving injury during those Read More

NYPD Blue: Yes Sir, That's My Baby

Synopsis: Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) and Simone's (Jimmy Smits) investigation of a limo driver's murder leads to a vice ring. Henry (Willie Garson), the nephew of the woman from whom Simone inherited an apartment building, finally reveals what he knows about a murder that occurred just outside the building. Read More

Sudden Terror: The Hijacking of School #17

Actors: Maria Conchita Alonso, Marcy Walker, Michael Paul Chan, Dennis Boutsikaris, Bruce Weitz

Synopsis: This made-for-TV melodrama is based on an actual event that had been so thoroughly documented by the news services of the day that one is amazed that any suspense could possibly be engendered. In Dade County, Florida, disgruntled taxpayer Harry Kee (Michael Paul Chan) angrily protests a huge IRS Read More

Legend of the Ruby Silver

Actors: John Schneider, Bruce Weitz, Jonathan Jackson, Rebecca Jenkins

Synopsis: In this adventure, a quartet of dreamers sets out on a search for a famous lost mine. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Justice for Annie, a Moment of Truth Movie

Actors: Peggy Lipton, Susan Ruttan, Bruce Weitz, Danica McKellar, Aloka McLean

Synopsis: Following the mysterious death of her 19-year-old daughter, a mother attempts to prove that her killer was the woman who not only took the troubled young divorcee under her wing, but also took out a large life insurance policy upon her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Twice Dead

Synopsis: To escape his persistent--and dishonest--corporate sponsors, a Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist fakes his own death. It's a clever ruse, but not a particularly healthy one: soon afterward, the missing scientist turns up murdered for real. Typically, the wrong man is accused of the crime Read More

Danielle Steel's 'Mixed Blessings'

Actors: Gabrielle Carteris, Scott Baio, Bruce Greenwood, James Naughton, Alexandra Paul

Synopsis: The happiness and heartbreaks of first-time parenting are lavishly visualized in this TV adaptation of Danielle Steel's novel Mixed Blessings. The teleplay by Virginia L. Browne and Rebecca Soladay evenly divides its time among three newly married couples, each one seriously contemplating Read More

Her Hidden Truth

Actors: Kellie Martin

Synopsis: Kellie Martin stars as a teen wrongly accused of setting a deadly arson fire in this made-for-television drama. Martin plays Billie Calhoun, a girl who has been held in a juvenile detention facility since being accused of killing her mother and sister in a fire. Up for a possible early release on Read More

Prehysteria! 3

Actors: Fred Willard, Bruce Weitz

Synopsis: In this youthful fantasy-adventure a quintet of miniature dinosaurs try to help a nearly bankrupt miniature golf-course owner get back on his financial feet. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Highlander: The Fighter

Actors: Adrian Paul, Stan Kirsch, Jim Byrnes, Philip Akin, Cali Timmins

Synopsis: Duncan's old pal, pixyish ex-prizefighter Tommy Sullivan (Bruce Weitz), has turned manager, handling an up-and-coming young boxer. As before, Duncan (Adrian Paul) finds Sully amusing, especially when the little man tries to express his love for a cute waitress. It is, however, anything but amusing Read More

Molly and Gina

Actors: Frances Fisher

Synopsis: Two women (Frances Fisher, Natasha Gregson) hit the road to seek revenge for the killers of their boyfriends. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Windrunner

Actors: Russell Means, Jason Wiles, Margot Kidder

Synopsis: Margot Kidder and Russell Means star in this drama about a young man whose father is convicted of a serious crime and sent to prison. His family moves to be closer to where their father is incarcerated, but the teen quickly discovers that people look down on him because of his father's legal Read More

No Place to Hide

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Drew Barrymore, Martin Landau, O.J. Simpson, Dey Young

Synopsis: In this gory thriller, a troubled dancer has just enough time to convince her little sister to hide a videotape before she is stabbed to death by an unseen killer, leaving the surviving sister in grave danger. Fortunately, a cynical but determined cop comes on the case to help her. ~ Sandra Read More

The Liars' Club

Actors: Soleil Moon Frye, Wil Wheaton

Synopsis: The Liars Club is a group of football buddies, so named because of their tendency to exaggerate their accomplishments. This sort of harmless fun comes to an end when one of the "club" members brutally assaults a young girl. Now the friends close ranks and become liars for real. The outlook Read More

Babe Ruth

Actors: Bruce Weitz, Lisa Zane, Donald Moffat, Brian Doyle-Murray

Synopsis: Babe Ruth is a made-for-TV biopic about the titular baseball legend, here played by Stephen Lang. The film covers the events of Babe's life from his orphanage childhood to his retirement from baseball in 1935. Recounted are Babe's two marriages, the first to the benighted Helen Woodford (Yvonne Suhor Read More

Leona Helmsley - The Queen of Mean

Synopsis: Based on fact, this TV drama details the life of New York property magnate, Leona Helmsley, her personal ups and downs and her well publicised run in with the IRS. ~ Mark Hockley, All Movie Guide Read More

Rainbow Drive

Actors: Peter Weller, Sela Ward, Bruce Weitz

Synopsis: In this made-for-cable adaptation of Roderick Thorp's crime thriller, Peter Weller stars as a Hollywood cop whose murder investigation runs into a wall of police corruption. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

A Cry for Help: The Tracey Thurman Story

Actors: Nancy McKeon, Bruce Weitz, Dale Midkiff, Yvette Heyden, Terri Hanauer

Synopsis: Tracey Thurman was a real-life Connecticut housewife who, throughout her marriage, suffered horrendous abuse at the hands of her husband. The beatings culminate in a single bloody night when Buck Thurman stabs his estranged wife 13 times. She survives--barely--and Buck is arrested. Having failed Read More

A Deadly Silence

Actors: Heather Fairfield, Charles Haid

Synopsis: Made for TV, A Deadly Silence was based on the book by New York Times reporter Dena Kleiman. It is the doleful story of Long Island teenager Cheryl Pierson (Heather Fairfield), who in February of 1986 orchestrated the murder of her electrician father James Pierson (Charles Haid). The film does not Read More

Baby M

Actors: John Shea, Robin Strasser, JoBeth Williams

Synopsis: Baby M is a two-part TV movie predicated on a headline-making true event. In 1985, Mary Beth Whitehead accepted $10,000 to bear a child, which then would be adopted by William and Elizabeth Stern. But after the baby's birth in March of 1986, Whitehead reneged on the agreement. The subsequent Read More

If It's Tuesday, It Still Must Be Belgium

Synopsis: When a tour bus driver plans to save his daughter from her captors, a Belgian circus performer, the Americans on his European bus tour lend a help hand. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Hill Street Blues: Season 06

Hill Street Blues: Season 05

A Reason to Live

Synopsis: In this melodrama, a fourteen-year-old son tries to keep his father, who is suffering a mid-life crisis, just lost his job and his wife, from killing himself. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Hill Street Blues: Season 04

Hill Street Blues: Season 03

Hill Street Blues: Season 02

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

Hill Street Blues: Season 01

Actors: Daniel J. Travanti, Michael Conrad, Mike Warren, Charles Haid, Veronica Hamel

Quincy, M.E.: The Hero Syndrome

Synopsis: Meek-and-mild longshoreman Pete Thornwall (Robert Walker Jr.) steps forward to take credit for the murder of much-despised loan shark Jake Hennafy (Roy Jenson). Although he is taken into custody, Pete basks in the knowledge that he has become a hero amongst his fellow dock workers, who rationalize Read More