Bruno KirbyFilmography

Entourage: Guys and Doll

Synopsis: The newest member of Vince's posse, Dom (Domenick Lombardozzi), tells a moving story that helps Vince land a role in his dream project, Medellin. ~ Joe Friedrich, All Movie Guide Read More

A Slipping-Down Life

Actors: Lili Taylor, Guy Pearce, John Hawkes, Sara Rue, Irma P. Hall

Synopsis: Making its world premiere at the 1999 Sundance Film Festival, this story adapted for the screen and directed by first-timer Toni Kalem is based on the Anne Tyler novel of the same name. The story deals with finding love in a dead-end life. Evie (Lili Taylor) is a loner, living with her widowed Read More

Helter Skelter

Actors: Jeremy Davies, Bruno Kirby, Clea Duvall

Synopsis: The most infamous multiple murders of the 1960s are brought back to life in this, the second made-for-television adaptation of Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry's best-selling account of Charles Manson and his "family." Linda Kasabian (Clea DuVall) is a young runaway with a baby who, while Read More

One Eyed King

Actors: William Baldwin, Armand Assante, Chazz Palminteri

Synopsis: The debut feature from television producer Robert Moresco, One Eyed King is an ensemble crime drama detailing the trials and tribulations of several characters living together in the same Hell's Kitchen neighborhood. Starring Armand Assante, William Baldwin, Jim Breuer, Bruno Kirby, Chazz Palminteri Read More

American Tragedy

Actors: Ving Rhames, Ron Silver, Bruno Kirby, Darryl Alan Reed, Nicholas Pryor

Synopsis: The real-life drama of the 1994 O.J. Simpson trial is given quasi-fictional treatment in this two-part CBS miniseries, which aired in November 2000. Much of the miniseries' plot focuses on the battle of egos between defense lawyers Johnnie Cochran (Ving Rhames) and Robert Shapiro (Ron Silver) and Read More

Stuart Little

Actors: Miles Marsico, Michael J. Fox, Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, Jonathan Lipnicki, Nathan Lane, Jennifer Tilly

Synopsis: E.B. White's classic children's story is brought to the screen in this fantasy, which combines computer-animated characters with a cast of live actors. Mrs. Little (Geena Davis), Mr. Little (Hugh Laurie), and their son George (Jonathan Lipnicki) live in a brownstone near New York's Central Park. Read More

Spy Games

Actors: Bill Pullman, Irène Jacob, Bruno Kirby, Glenn Plummer, Udo Kier

Synopsis: Finnish director Ilkka Jarvilaturi directs an international cast in this deadpan post-Cold War spy farce. Jaded CIA veteran Harry (Bill Pullman) and young SVR agent Natasha (Irene Jacob) are on-again off-again lovers who have little to do in Helsinki except spy on one another, until a courier (Bruno Kirby Read More

The Larry Sanders Show: Putting the "Gay" Back in Litigation

Synopsis: Hesitant to have Illeana Douglas as a guest on the show despite the fact that he's currently dating her, Larry (Garry Shandling) is compelled to coach the confounded actress through her appearance. Meanwhile, amidst a seemingly endless barrage of gay jokes from Phil (Wallace Langham), Brian (Scott Thompson Read More

The Larry Sanders Show: Flip

Synopsis: Desperate for an A-list guest as his final show draws ever closer, Larry (Garry Shandling) determines that he must overcome his discomfort with affectionate old friend David Duchovny in order to secure an appearance from the X-Files star. Meanwhile, Artie (Rip Torn) struggles to keep the emotional Read More

Donnie Brasco

Actors: Johnny Depp, Al Pacino, Michael Madsen, Bruno Kirby, James Russo, Anne Heche

Synopsis: This drama about an undercover cop who learns the hidden dangers of working his way inside the mob was based on a true story. Joe Pistone (Johnny Depp) is an FBI agent who is given an assignment to infiltrate the Mafia; calling himself Donnie Brasco, he befriends Lefty Ruggiero (Al Pacino), a Read More

The Larry Sanders Show: The Book

Synopsis: When Larry (Garry Shandling) gets the first draft of his memoir back from the publisher, it soon begins to dawn on the host what a bitter and cynical man he has become. When Hank (Jeffrey Tambor) catches wind of Larry's book, the paranoid sidekick soon begins to fret that the dreaded "incident" Read More

The Larry Sanders Show: The Roast

Synopsis: While organizing a roast for Larry (Garry Shandling), Norman (David Paymer) invites Dana Carvey, Bill Maher, Jon Stewart, and Al Franken to take their best shot at the self-absorbed talk-show host. When Artie (Rip Torn) invites Carl Reiner to host instead of Hank (Jeffrey Tambor), the sensitive Read More

Mad About You: The Gym

Synopsis: Paul (Paul Reiser) works out at a local gym where no one knows who he really is. Jamie (Helen Hunt) ultimately gets a free ten-day pass to the selfsame gym, and promptly hands it over to a homeless individual. Need we add that "mystery man" Paul is somewhat put out by this turn of events? Bruno Kirby Read More

Sleepers

Actors: Kevin Bacon, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Billy Crudup, Bruno Kirby, Jason Patric, Brad Pitt, Vittorio Gassman

Synopsis: Barry Levinson directed this crime drama based on a controversial bestseller. Jason Patrick stars as Lorenzo, a New York reporter more commonly called "Shakes," a nickname courtesy of his three childhood pals from Hell's Kitchen -- Michael (Brad Pitt), John (Ron Eldard), and Tommy (Billy Crudup). Read More

The Basketball Diaries

Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jimmy Papiris, Nick Gaetani, Bruno Kirby, Lorraine Bracco, Alexander Gaberman, Ernie Hudson, Ben Jorgensen, Patrick McGaw, Akiko Ashley

Synopsis: Very loosely based on the memoir of the same name, The Basketball Diaries transposes the late '60s adolescence of writer/artist Jim Carroll to some unspecified time period at least 15 years later, further confusing the timeframe with three decades of rock music, some by Carroll himself. Jim Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Heartbeat

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Isabella Hoffman, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: The sudden exhumation of the remains of a person who was obviously walled up alive reopens a ten-year-old unsolved crime. Howard (Melissa Leo) and Munch (Richard Belzer) follow the trail of clues to a fanatical devotee of Edgar Allan Poe (this is, after all, in Baltimore). Elsewhere, the entire Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: The Gas Man

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Isabella Hoffman

Synopsis: Bruno Kirby guest stars as Victor Helms, a former plumber's assistant who was convicted of murder after causing the deaths of an entire family in a gas explosion. Newly released from prison, Helms has sworn vengeance against the Baltimore homicide cop who put him away: Frank Pembleton (Andre Braugher Read More

Golden Gate

Actors: Matt Dillon, Joan Chen, Bruno Kirby, Teri Polo, Tzi Ma

Synopsis: Playwright David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly) wrote this ambitious epic that attempts to examine the communist witch hunts of the 1950s, racial prejudice, abuse of governmental powers, guilt, and suicide. The film begins in 1952 as an eager young FBI recruit, Kevin Walker (Matt Dillon), finds Read More

The Larry Sanders Show: Artie's Gone

Synopsis: The Larry Sanders Show gets a new producer in this episode of HBO's popular late-night talk show satire. When Artie gets stuck on the freeway during torrential rains, Paula (Janeane Garofalo), the show's booker, momentarily takes over the reigns as producer. Guest stars include Bruno Kirby, Les Lannom Read More

Fallen Angels, Vol. 2

Synopsis: The second volume in this film noir style TV-anthology series, this collection of short stories revolves around the dark world of detectives and police officers. Called to look into a murder, an investigator (Gary Oldman) discovers that the victim of the crime is none other than his estranged wife Read More

Frasier: Call Me Irresponsible

Synopsis: Not for the first time in his life, Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) finds himself on the horns of an ethical dilemma. It seems that Frasier has begun dating an attractive woman named Catherine (Amanda Donohoe). Trouble is, Catherine's boyfriend has just broken up with her -- acting upon the advice given Read More

Getting Up and Going Home

Synopsis: Based on Robert Anderson's novel, the made-for-television Getting Up and Going Home is a drama about a divorced attorney (Tom Skerritt) who copes with a mid-life crisis by having affairs with no less than three women: his ex-wife, a single mother, and a married suburbanite. ~ Stephen Thomas Read More

City Slickers

Actors: Billy Crystal, Daniel Stern, Bruno Kirby, Patricia Wettig, Helen Slater

Synopsis: City Slickers blends sight gags, one-liners, and sincerity, with both humor and drama arising from the characters and their situations. Mitch (Billy Crystal) is a radio station sales executive who finds himself in the throes of a mid-life crisis; accompanied by two friends, Phil (Daniel Stern) and Read More

The Freshman

Actors: Matthew Broderick, Marlon Brando, Bruno Kirby, Penelope Ann Miller, Frank Whaley, Paul Benedict

Synopsis: In this farcical comedy, Matthew Broderick plays Clark Kellogg, an aspiring director who arrives in New York City to attend film school. However, moments after he arrives in the city, he's robbed by Victor Ray (Bruno Kirby), leaving him no money for the $700 in books required by his instructor Read More

We're No Angels

Actors: Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Demi Moore, Wallace Shawn, Hoyt Axton, Bruno Kirby, Ray McAnally

Synopsis: In this comedy, escaped prisoners Ned (Robert DeNiro) and Jim (Sean Penn) take refuge in a monastery where they pose as priests to avoid capture. Intending to flee across the Canadian border, the two convicts run into all kinds of unexpected trouble in their new-found priesthood. ~ Iotis Erlewine Read More

When Harry Met Sally

Actors: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Carrie Fisher, Bruno Kirby

Synopsis: Rob Reiner's romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally stars Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan as the title pair. The film opens with the two strangers, both newly graduated from the University of Chicago, share a car trip from Chicago to New York, where they are both going to make their way. During the trip Read More

Bert Rigby, You're a Fool

Actors: Robert Lindsay, Cathryn Bradshaw, Robbie Coltrane, Anne Bancroft, Corbin Bernsen

Synopsis: Tony award-winning British musical comedy star Robert Lindsay makes his first important American film appearance in Bert Rigby, You're a Fool. Lindsay, of course, plays the title character, a coal miner who dreams of becoming a big showbiz star. Only problem is, there's very little demand for Bert Read More

Bad Jim

Actors: James Brolin, Richard Roundtree, John Clark Gable, Harry Carey, Jr., Rory Calhoun

Synopsis: Veteran Hollywood screenwriter Clyde Ware handled the directing chores in Bad Jim. The film is worth noting as the cinematic debut of John Clark Gable, the son of guess who. Gable, James Brolin, and Richard Roundtree play three soft-hearted bandits who purchase a horse from Billy the Kid. They use Read More

Lady in White

Actors: Lukas Haas, Len Cariou, Alex Rocco, Katherine Helmond, Jason Presson

Synopsis: In this supernatural nostalgia piece, a young boy tracks down a murderer with help from the ghosts of a slain little girl and her mother. In a voice-over, grown-up writer Frankie Scarlatti describes the disturbing events that intruded on his idyllic small-town boyhood. Locked in the school Read More

The In Crowd

Actors: Donovan Leitch, Joe Pantoliano, Jennifer Runyon, Wendy Gazelle, Sean Gregory Sullivan

Synopsis: Perry Parker (Joe Pantoliano) is a Philadelphia dance-show host who hopes to take the place of Dick Clark after the world's oldest teenager takes his show to Hollywood in 1965. Del Green (Donovan Leitch) is a college-bound high schooler who crashes the Dance Party and becomes a favorite of the Read More

Nitti

Synopsis: Al Capone's imprisonment opened the way for mobster Frank Nitti to become the underworld king of Chicago as related in this true story. (AKA Nitti) ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Good Morning, Vietnam

Actors: Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker, Tung Thanh Tran, Chintara Sukapatana, Bruno Kirby

Synopsis: The film begins in 1965, when disc jockey Adrian Cronauer (Robin Williams) is assigned to take over the AFR's Saigon radio broadcasts. In contrast to the dull, by-rote announcers that have preceded him, Cronauer is a bundle of dynamite, heralding each broadcast with a loud "Goooooood morning Read More

Tin Men

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Danny DeVito, Barbara Hershey, John Mahoney, Jackie Gayle

Synopsis: The second of director Barry Levinson's Baltimore Trilogy (the first was Diner, the third Avalon), Tin Men seems at first glance to be much ado about nothing. Set in 1963, the story begins when two aluminum siding salesmen, played by Richard Dreyfuss and Danny DeVito, are involved in a traffic Read More

Armed and Dangerous

Actors: John Candy, Eugene Levy, Robert Loggia, Kenneth McMillan, Meg Ryan

Synopsis: In Armed and Dangerous, John Candy plays a cop who has been kicked off the force on a trumped up charge. Eugene Levy costars as a disbarred lawyer. The two outcasts take low-paying jobs as security officers at a company controlled by mob boss Robert Loggia. In their own stumblebum fashion, Candy Read More

Flesh + Blood

Actors: Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Burlinson, Jack Thompson, Susan Tyrrell

Synopsis: When an attempted political coup in Northern Italy fails, most of the mercenaries hired by the coup leaders disperse. Not so Martin (Rutger Hauer), who intends to rob his duplicitous former employer Arnolfini (Fernando Hillbeck). Martin is able to raise his own army by using a stolen religious Read More

Sweet Dreams

Actors: Jessica Lange, Ed Harris, Ann Wedgeworth, David Clennon, James Staley

Synopsis: Patsy Cline was one of the first great female stars of country music, and her best-known hits (such as "Sweet Dreams" and "Walking After Midnight") not only broadened the audience for country but brought a new sophistication to the Nashville sound. Cline was at the peak of her popularity when she Read More

This Is Spinal Tap

Actors: Rob Reiner, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, Tony Hendra, R.J. Parnell

Synopsis: Largely improvised by director Rob Reiner and his cast, This Is Spinal Tap looks and sounds like a "real" documentary, with Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, and Christopher Guest as David St. Hubbins, Derek Smalls, and Nigel Tufnel, the key members of a going-nowhere British heavy metal band called Spinal Tap Read More

Birdy

Actors: Matthew Modine, Nicolas Cage, John Harkins, Sandy Baron, Karen Young, Delores Sage, Bruno Kirby

Synopsis: Director Alan Parker tackles this adapation of William Wharton's novel, which retains much of the source material's texture and complexity. Matthew Modine is Birdy, who comes back from Vietnam mentally shattered and deludes himself into thinking that he is a bird, an animal that has obsessed him Read More

Kiss My Grits

Million Dollar Infield

Synopsis: Rob Reiner coproduced, cowrote and costarred in this TV-movie about suburban "angst" in the 1980s. Reiner is one of four wealthy Long Islanders who play for an amateur softball team. All four men (Reiner, Bruno Kirby, Robert Costanzo and Christopher Guest) suffer from profound personal and Read More

Modern Romance

Actors: Albert Brooks, Kathryn Harrold, Bruno Kirby, Jane Hallaren, James L. Brooks

Synopsis: Opening well past the point favored by most romantic comedies, director/co-writer/star Albert Brooks' take on the genre begins with a breakup. After exchanging harsh words in a diner, Brooks and Kathryn Harrold go their separate ways. Brooks then spends the next few days attempting to forget his Read More

Borderline

Actors: Charles Bronson, Bruno Kirby, Ed Harris, Karmin Murcelo, Bert Remsen, Michael Lerner, Enrique J. Castillo

Synopsis: Charles Bronson switches from his traditional role as a vigilante to playing an actual lawman in this crime drama. Jeb Maynard (Bronson) is a border patrol agent who is trying to stem the tide of illegal aliens from Mexico into the United States. Jeb is hot on the trail of Hotchkiss (Ed Harris), a Read More

Where the Buffalo Roam

Actors: Peter Boyle, Bill Murray, Bruno Kirby, René Auberjonois, R.G. Armstrong

Synopsis: Based on the writings and experiences of "gonzo" journalist Hunter S. Thompson, Where the Buffalo Roam details the adventures of Thompson (Bill Murray) and his attorney (Peter Boyle), whose character is rewritten as Mexican-American rather than Samoan, as they pillage and plunder their way across Read More

Some Kind of Miracle

Synopsis: David Dukes stars as a marriage-bound young man who is rendered a paraplegic by a surfing accident. Dukes fears that his paralysis has resulted in impotence. His future wife Andrea Marcovicci is similarly fearful. Without the help of counselors or physical therapists, the unmarried couple manages Read More

Almost Summer

Actors: Bruno Kirby, Lee Purcell, John Friedrich, Didi Conn, Thomas Carter

Synopsis: Bruno Kirby was labelled an "overnight" star of the early 1990s thanks to such films as The Freshman (90) and City Slickers (91), but he'd been working since the late 1970s in both films and TV. The 1978 low budgeter Almost Summer top-bills Kirby as a "mover and shaker" high schooler who helps a Read More

Fyre

Synopsis: When a young woman travels from her Midwestern home town to the fast-paced streets of Los Angeles, she gets sucked into the dark world of prostitution. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Godfather Saga

Actors: Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Robert Duvall, James Caan, John Cazale

Synopsis: Originally screened as a mini-series on the NBC television network, this epic-length feature combines the entirety of The Godfather and The Godfather Part II with 15 minutes of outtakes from the two films, recutting the material into chronological order (clarifying the complex structure of The Read More

Between the Lines

Actors: John Heard, Lindsay Crouse, Jeff Goldblum, Jill Eikenberry, Bruno Kirby

Synopsis: Director Joan Micklin Silver's follow-up to her acclaimed debut, Hester Street, is a more ambitious film that manages to be both an entertaining comedy and a pointed look at the corrupting power of money on an idealistic enterprise. Writer Fred Barron's characters are all associated with a weekly Read More

Baby Blue Marine

Actors: Jan-Michael Vincent, Glynnis O'Connor, Katherine Helmond, Dana Elcar, Bert Remsen

Synopsis:
In this WWII-era drama, Jan-Michael Vincent plays Marion Hedgepeth, a young Marine who fails out of a boot camp in 1943 and gets sent home wearing a baby blue suit to symbolize shame and dishonor. In Los Angeles, he runs into a veteran who -- eager to be discharged -- k.o.'s him and switches Read More

Kojak: Acts of Desperate Men

Synopsis: Bruno Kirby, here billed as Bruce Kirby Jr., essays one of his first important roles as Keith Wicks, a deranged ex-soldier turned serial sniper. As Wicks embarks upon a citywide killing spree, he finds an unexpected co-conspirator in the form of Seymour Hayward (Eugene Roche), a bored accountant Read More

The Godfather Part II

Actors: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Robert De Niro, John Cazale, Lee Strasberg

Synopsis: Francis Ford Coppola's legendary continuation and sequel to his landmark 1972 film, The Godfather, parallels the young Vito Corleone's rise with his son Michael's spiritual fall, deepening The Godfather's depiction of the dark side of the American dream. In the early 1900s, the child Vito flees Read More

Cinderella Liberty

Actors: Kirk Calloway, Marsha Mason, Eli Wallach, James Caan

Synopsis: A "Cinderella Liberty" is Navy jargon for a pass that runs out at midnight. Sailor John Baggs, Jr. (James Caan) has such a pass, and intends to make the most of it while his ship is docked in Seattle. He "wins" prostitute Maggie (Marsha Mason) in a pool game, but backs off at a "wham-bam-thank you Read More

Superdad

Actors: Sarah Fankboner, Jim Wakefield, Bob Crane, Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, Barbara Rush, Dick Van Patten

Synopsis: A concerned father decides to become closer to his daughter the hard way in this live-action comedy from Walt Disney Pictures. Charlie McCready (Bob Crane) is the father of Wendy (Kathleen Cody), a pretty teenager soon to enter college. Like most parents, Charlie only wants the best for his Read More

The Harrad Experiment

Actors: Tippi Hedren, James Whitmore

Synopsis: In The Harrad Experiment, young men and women attend Harrad College for what is essentially a one-year "control group" trial in pre-marital sex, to be overseen by Prof. Philip Tenhausen (James Whitmore) and his wife, Margaret (Tippi Hedren). Although initially paired off for the first month, they Read More

M*A*S*H: M*A*S*H -- The Pilot

Synopsis: M*A*S*H began its 11-year tour of duty on September 17, 1972, with its pilot episode, clevely titled "The Pilot," in which the staff of the 4077th tries to raise 1000 dollars tuition to send Hawkeye's (Alan Alda) Korean houseboy Ho-Jon (Patrick Adiarte) to medical college in America. One of the Read More

The Young Graduates

Synopsis: In this youthful drama, teenagers grow into young adults. The story centers on a young woman who falls in love with one of her teachers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

How to Frame a Figg

Actors: Savannah Bentley

Synopsis: In this comedy, a bungling bookkeeper's assistant works in the Dalton city hall and finds himself framed for embezzling by his corrupt superiors. A sweet young woman helps him clear his name. He is also assisted by Leo the computer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More