Candice BergenFilmography

The Women

Actors: Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett Smith, Candice Bergen

Synopsis: Veteran producer/director Diane English (The Lathe of Heaven, Murphy Brown) helms this contemporized remake of George Cukor's beloved proto-feminist comedy drama The Women (1939), an adaptation of Clare Boothe Luce's play. The English version follows the gossip, bitchy wisecracking, and overall Read More

Sex and the City

Actors: Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon, Chris Noth

Synopsis: The hit cable series Sex and the City catwalks its way onto the big screen in this feature-film continuation that fans all over have been clamoring for. Sarah Jessica Parker returns once again as Carrie Bradshaw, the style-maven journalist whose romantic exploits were the key focus of the show. Read More

Boston Legal: Season 05

Actors: William Shatner, James Spader, Candice Bergen, John Larroquette

Boston Legal: Season 04

Actors: William Shatner, James Spader, Candice Bergen, John Larroquette

Boston Legal: Season 03

Boston Legal: Season 01

Actors: James Spader, William Shatner, Candice Bergen, Mark Valley, René Auberjonois

Synopsis: David E. Kelley's legal spin-off was an instant success thanks to stars James Spader and William Shatner, who won Emmys in the final season of The Practice. Spader and Shatner each promptly collected another Emmy for their work in Season 1 of Boston Legal, which introduces the wide range of Read More

The In-Laws

Actors: Michael Douglas, Albert Brooks, Robin Tunney, Ryan Reynolds, Candice Bergen

Synopsis: Lots of people have misgiving about their in-laws, but in this offbeat comedy, a man discovers that his new son-in-law's father is significantly stranger than he's able to deal with. Jerry Peyser (Albert Brooks) is a well-meaning but slightly anal-retentive podiatrist who doesn't much care for Read More

View from the Top

Actors: Gwyneth Paltrow, Mark Ruffalo, Candice Bergen, Christina Applegate, Mike Myers

Synopsis: Brazilian filmmaker Bruno Barreto directs this comic look at the world of flight attendants starring Gwyneth Paltrow as Donna, a small town Nevada woman who dreams of seeing the world by becoming a first class international stewardess. Lacking the requisite poise and class, Donna finds a mentor in Read More

Great Women of Television and Comedy

Synopsis: Organized by New York's Museum of Television and Radio, this impressively assembled tribute to the funny women boasts a stellar all-female cast, drawn from half a century's worth of video entertainment. Hosted by Megan Mullally (Will & Grace), the special uses rare film clips and interviews to pay Read More

Footsteps

Actors: Candice Bergen, Bryan Brown, Michael Murphy, Bug Hall

Synopsis: Adapted from an unproduced play by Ira Levin (Rosemary's Baby, et al.), the made-for-TV Footsteps stars Candice Bergen as Daisy Lowenthal, a best-selling suspense novelist who has recently "killed off" her most popular fictional character -- and who is recovering from a nervous breakdown. Read More

Sweet Home Alabama

Actors: Reese Witherspoon, Josh Lucas, Patrick Dempsey, Candice Bergen

Synopsis: After establishing herself as a bankable star with the fish out of water comedy Legally Blonde, Reese Witherspoon returns in what could be described as a "fish back in water" comedy. Melanie Carmichael (Witherspoon) is a successful New York fashion designer who is dating Andrew Hennings (Patrick Dempsey Read More

Candice Checks It Out [TV Series]

Actors: Candice Bergen

Synopsis: Unlike her previous cable-TV interview series, Exhale With Candice Bergen, actress Bergen wasted little time with the standard, sedate couch-and-desk format on Candice Checks It Out. Instead, the host emulated both Charles Kuralt and George Plimpton, going on the road in search of courageous women Read More

Miss Congeniality

Actors: Sandra Bullock, Michael Caine, Benjamin Bratt, William Shatner, Ernie Hudson, John DiResta, Candice Bergen

Synopsis: Gracie Hart (Sandra Bullock) is an FBI agent with a reputation for being aggressive and hard-nosed, who has long wanted to duplicate the career of her deceased mother, also an FBI agent, who died in the line of duty. Her cantankerous nature, though, has made her few friends, excepting her Read More

The Thunderbirds: Thunder Over the Pacific

Synopsis: Hosted by Candice Bergen, The Thunderbirds: Thunder Over the Pacific is a History Channel documentary that provides an in-depth look at the U.S. Air Force Aerial Demonstration Squadron known as the "Thunderbirds." In addition to flight demonstrations and aerial shots, the film chronicles the Read More

Murphy Brown: Season 10

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Lily Tomlin

Synopsis: The tenth and final season of Murphy Brown resolves the previous season's cliffhanger finale, as TV reporter Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen) bids farewell to her co-workers on the Washington-based newsmagazine "FYI," in preparation of starting her new job as a White House correspondent. Not Read More

Mary & Tim

Actors: Candice Bergen, Thomas McCarthy, Richard Kiley, Shirley Knight, Louise Latham

Synopsis: This provocative made-for-television drama centers on a community's reaction when an aging widow becomes emotionally attached to a slightly retarded young man. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Images of Life: Magazine Photographs that Changed the World

Murphy Brown: Season 09

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Lily Tomlin

Synopsis: With the defection of series regular Grant Shaud at the end of Murphy Brown's eighth season, it was necessary to eliminate the actor's character Miles Silverberg, executive producer of "FYI," the Washington-based TV newsmagazine on which Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen) is star reporter. Miles' Read More

Who is Henry Jaglom?

Synopsis: Henry Jaglom is a filmmaker who was a pioneer of the independent film movement long before it had a name. Jaglom began his Hollywood career in the mid-Sixties as an actor, but in 1971 he wrote and directed his first feature film, A Safe Place, which starred his friends Orson Welles and Jack Read More

Murphy Brown: Season 08

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Grant Shaud

Synopsis: As Murphy Brown begins its eighth season, the titular heroine (played by Candice Bergen) has decided not to marry her current amour (and journalistic rival), Peter Hunt (Scott Bakula). Even so, wedding bells do ring at the outset for season eight -- but they're ringing for Murphy's fellow TV Read More

Murphy Brown: Season 07

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Grant Shaud

Synopsis: Few other TV sitcoms could boast Murphy Brown's distinction of opening its seventh season with an episode guest-starring both Senator Barbara Boxer and TV's "Captain Kangaroo." This initial episode also introduces Dyllan Christopher in the role of Avery, the son of TV reporter Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen Read More

Murphy Brown: Season 06

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Grant Shaud

Synopsis: Season six of Murphy Brown gets under way with the first appearance of Scott Bakula as Peter Hunt, a dashing and rather arrogant international reporter who is hired to pep up the ratings of the TV newsmagazine "FYI." Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen), heretofore the series' star reporter, resents Read More

Murphy Brown: Season 05

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Grant Shaud

Synopsis: In the weeks just prior to the opening episode of Murphy Brown's fifth season, the series, and its star Candice Bergen, were at the center of a controversy largely stirred up by then Vice President Dan Quayle. Commenting on the fact that season four had ended with an unmarried Murphy giving birth Read More

Murphy Brown: Season 04

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Grant Shaud

Synopsis: What TV reporter Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen) suspected at the end of season three of her eponymously titled sitcom has turned out to be true: Murphy is pregnant. Thus, season four of Murphy Brown begins with our heroine figuring out that her ex-husband, Jake (Robin Thomas), with whom she had a Read More

The Earth Day Special

Synopsis: A cast of celebrities gathered to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Earth Day. It is an entertaining special that points out the crisis state of our planet's environment. It provides scientific facts and detailed analysis. The show provides ways in which everyone can participate in saving the Read More

Murphy Brown: Season 03

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Grant Shaud

Synopsis: Season three of Murphy Brown opens with star TV reporter Murphy (Candice Bergen) and her co-workers balking at the "improvements" that executive producer Miles Silverberg (Grant Shaud) has made in the weekly newsmagazine "FYI." In subsequent episodes, a pre-Shield Michael Chiklis is cast as a Read More

Saturday Night Live: Candice Bergen [5]

Actors: Candice Bergen, Notting Hillbillies

Synopsis: This 1990 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Candice Bergen and features musical guest Notting Hillbillies. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

The Best of Gilda Radner

Synopsis: Within a single year, Gilda Radner rose from talented but obscure improv comedienne to "America's Sweetheart" thanks to NBC's Saturday Night Live. The 60-minute video The Best of Gilda Radner is culled from SNL's vintage years, 1975 to 1980. Included are such beloved Radner creations as Roseanne Read More

Murphy Brown: Season 02

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Grant Shaud

Synopsis: Season two of Murphy Brown begins as the titular TV-reporter heroine (Candice Bergen) gets on the bad side of her neurotic producer, Miles Silverberg (Grant Shaud), by dating his brother Josh (Jon Tenney) in an episode which also introduces Christopher Rich in the role of vacuous pretty-boy Read More

Murphy Brown: Season 01

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Grant Shaud

Synopsis: Fresh from a stay at the Betty Ford Clinic, hard-driving (but no longer hard-drinking) TV personality Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen) launches the first season of the CBS sitcom bearing her name. Returning to her job as star reporter of the Washington-based TV magazine show "FYI," Murphy is none too Read More

Murphy Brown [TV Series]

Actors: Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Joe Regalbuto, Faith Ford, Grant Shaud

Synopsis: Making its first appearance on November 14, 1988, the long-running, Emmy-winning CBS sitcom Murphy Brown starred Candice Bergen as the title character, the driving, driven, often overbearing but essentially likable star reporter of the Washington, D.C.-based TV magazine "FYI." A thorough Read More

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Mayflower Madam

Actors: Candice Bergen, Chris Sarandon, Chita Rivera, Victoria Loving, Caitlin Clarke

Synopsis: Based on the life of Sydney Biddle Barrows, this TV movie features Barrows (Candice Bergen) as a former debutante seeking to make money with an escort service for wealthy businessman and foreign dignitaries. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Saturday Night Live: Candice Bergen [4]

Actors: Candice Bergen, Cher

Synopsis: This 1987 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Candice Bergen and features musical guest Cher. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

The Best of Chevy Chase

Synopsis: "Good evening, I'm Chevy Chase-and you're not!" Maybe no one would want to be Mr. Chase these days (not with his recent string of box-office flops), but in 1975 and 1976, the world was Chevy's oyster. Those are the years that he rose to stardom on NBC's Saturday Night Live, and these are the years Read More

Stick

Actors: Dar Robinson, Burt Reynolds, Candice Bergen, George Segal, Charles Durning, Jose Perez

Synopsis: Burt Reynolds directed and starred in this actioner from an Elmore Leonard novel about an ex-con living dangerously close to the drug traffickers in Miami. When Stick (Reynolds) arrives in Miami just out of prison, an old buddy of his is murdered, sending Stick on a wild and complex journey to Read More

Arthur the King

Actors: Candice Bergen, Dyan Cannon

Synopsis: Originally filmed in 1982, Arthur the King wasn't able to secure a network-TV berth until April 26, 1985. Malcolm McDowell plays good King Arthur, whose dream of Camelot is endangered by the evil Morgan Le Fay, played by Candice Bergen in her TV-movie debut. That this might have been intended as Read More

Hollywood Wives

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Jackie Collins, the steamy ABC TV minseries Hollywood Wives began its three-evening run on February 17, 1985. Advertised with the teaser "If you think nothing can shock you anymore," part one got things up and running by introducing the central players, among them Elaine Read More

Murder: By Reason of Insanity

Actors: Candice Bergen

Synopsis: Murder: By Reason of Insanity was inspired by a disastrous series of events occurring in New York State in 1979. Candice Bergen portrays a Polish immigrant housewife whose husband Jurgen Prochnow has subjected her to years of physical abuse. At first, she tells herself that he is acting out of Read More

2010

Actors: Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban, Keir Dullea

Synopsis: This belated sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is directed by Peter Hyams. Roy Scheider plays the astronaut/skipper of a U.S.-Soviet space mission, sent to find out what happened to the missing Discovery flight that carried Keir Dullea into the beyond in the original 2001 Read More

Gandhi

Actors: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard

Synopsis: It was Richard Attenborough's lifelong dream to bring the life story of Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi to the screen. When it finally reached fruition in 1982, the 188-minute, Oscar-winning Gandhi was one of the most exhaustively thorough biopics ever made. The film begins in Read More

Rich and Famous

Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Candice Bergen, Meg Ryan, David Selby, Hart Bochner, Steven Hill

Synopsis: Two women find their friendship tested when one rises from obscurity to success in this glossy remake of Old Acquaintance. Liz Hamilton (Jacqueline Bisset) and Merry Noel (Candice Bergen) are close friends who met while they were freshmen at Smith College in the 1950s. Liz has become a highly Read More

Starting Over

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh, Candice Bergen, Charles Durning, Frances Sternhagen

Synopsis: Scripted by James L. Brooks from Dan Wakefield's novel, Alan J. Pakula's romantic comedy follows the tribulations of a freshly divorced man as he looks for love with a wary single woman. Phil Potter (Burt Reynolds sans mustache) can't quite believe it when his aspiring songbird wife Jessica (Candice Bergen Read More

La Fine del Mondo nel Nostro Solito Letto in una Notte Piena di Pioggia

Actors: Giancarlo Giannini, Candice Bergen, Michael Tucker, Mario Scarpetta, Lucio Amelio

Synopsis: Fine del Mondo nel Nostro Solito Letto in una Notte Piena di Pioggia, literally translated as "The End of the World in Our Usual Bed in a Night Full of Rain," was also released as Night Full of Rain. This film is director Lina Wertmuller's English-language film-debut. The poor critical and Read More

Oliver's Story

Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Candice Bergen, Nicola Pagett, Edward Binns, Benson Fong

Synopsis: Get ready for another dose of love and loss in this sequel to the four-handkerchief classic Love Story (1970). Oliver Barrett (Ryan O'Neal) is emotionally devastated after the death of his wife Jenny, and while he tries to lose himself in his work as a lawyer, the long hours don't ease his pain Read More

The Domino Principle

Actors: Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, Richard Widmark, Mickey Rooney, Edward Albert

Synopsis: Stanley Kramer directed this paranoid thriller involving a murderer who is inexplicably released from prison by a mysterious organization. Gene Hackman is Roy Tucker, serving time in San Quentin when he's busted out by a secret organization in return for having to assassinate an unnamed person. Read More

The Cassandra Crossing

Actors: Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster, Martin Sheen

Synopsis: This bizarre entry into the disaster film genre concerns a group of hapless passengers aboard a transcontinental luxury train who are infected with a viral plague by a group of terrorists. Burt Lancaster plays military man Mackenzie, who wants to send the train across a rickety bridge so all the Read More

Saturday Night Live: Candice Bergen [3]

Actors: Candice Bergen, Frank Zappa

Synopsis: This 1976 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Candice Bergen and features musical guest Frank Zappa. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Bite the Bullet

Actors: Sally Kirkland, Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, James Coburn, Ben Johnson, Ian Bannen, Jan-Michael Vincent, Dabney Coleman

Synopsis: An excellent cast, featuring Gene Hackman, Ben Johnson, and James Coburn, highlights this entertaining Western that came and went at the box office, barely noticed by audiences. That doesn't stop the exciting story from capturing the viewer's attention as a disparate group of riders assembles to Read More

Saturday Night Live: Candice Bergen [1]

Actors: Candice Bergen, Esther Phillips

Synopsis: This 1975 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Candice Bergen and features musical guest Esther Phillips. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Saturday Night Live: Candice Bergen [2]

Actors: Candice Bergen, The Stylistics, Martha Reeves

Synopsis: This 1975 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Candice Bergen and features musical guests the Stylistics and Martha Reeves. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

The Wind and the Lion

Actors: Sean Connery, Candice Bergen, Brian Keith, John Huston, Geoffrey Lewis

Synopsis: In the early 1900s, an American businessman was kidnapped by a rebellious Arab chieftain, principally as a means to embarrass the sultan of Morocco. This abduction sparked the threat of armed intervention by President Theodore Roosevelt, which was never carried out. In The Wind and the Lion, the Read More

11 Harrowhouse

Actors: Charles Grodin, Candice Bergen, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, James Mason

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Gerald A. Browne, 11 Harrowhouse is a 1974 heist spoof with an all-star cast. The story concerns millionaire Clyde Massey (Trevor Howard) pressuring diamond merchant Howard R. Chesser (Charles Grodin) into robbing a London diamond exchange owned by Meecham (John Gielgud. Read More

The Hunting Party

Actors: Eugenio Escudero Garcia, Rafael Escudero Garcia, Emilio Rodriques Guiar, Christine Larroude, Stephanie Pieritz, Lilibeth Solison, Bud Strait, Marisa Tovar, Oliver Reed, Candice Bergen, Gene Hackman, Simon Oakland, Mitchell Ryan

Synopsis: This infamously violent British Western stars Gene Hackman as Brandt Ruger, a wealthy rancher who goes away on a hunting trip with a group of friends. While he's gone, a thug named Frank Calder (Oliver Reed) kidnaps Melissa (Candice Bergen), Brandt's wife, under the mistaken impression that she's Read More

T.R. Baskin

Actors: Candice Bergen, Peter Boyle, James Caan, Marcia Rodd, Erin O'Reilly

Synopsis: Candice Bergen plays the title character, a naïve young woman from the countryside who ventures to the bright lights of Chicago in search of an interesting career, true love, and happiness. She ends up working a meaningless job and living in a drab apartment, and she remains lonely as her Read More

Carnal Knowledge

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Art Garfunkel, Candice Bergen, Ann-Margret, Cynthia O'Neal

Synopsis: "Maybe you're not supposed to like it with someone you love." With a script by satirist and cartoonist Jules Feiffer, Mike Nichols's Carnal Knowledge (1971) ruthlessly exposed the damage wrought by pre-1960s sexual mores. From their post-World War II college years at Amherst through the Vietnam Read More

Getting Straight

Actors: Elliott Gould, Candice Bergen, Robert F. Lyons, Jeff Corey, Max Julien

Synopsis: "Movies like Getting Straight are ceasing to be tolerable" complained one conservative movie magazine of 1970. Today, the once-relevant but now merely entertaining Getting Straight is not only tolerable, but downright user-friendly. Elliot Gould plays a Vietnam vet who decides to attend college Read More

The Adventurers

Actors: Bekim Fehmiu, Charles Aznavour, Alan Badel, Candice Bergen, Tommy Berggren

Synopsis: Based on Harold Robbins' bestseller, The Adventurers stars Yugoslav heartthrob Bekim Fehmiu as Porfirio Rubirosa clone Dax Xenos. Having suffered mightily as a child in a fictional South American country due to the political activities of his parents, Xenos grows up to become a sleazy, sexually Read More

Soldier Blue

Actors: Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss, Donald Pleasence, John Anderson, Jorge Rivero

Synopsis: A cavalry unit in Colorado is conducting two important cargoes to Fort Reunion, home of the 11th Colorado Volunteers: Cresta Marybelle Lee (Candice Bergen), the fiancée of an officer in the unit until two years ago, when she was taken by the Cheyenne, and who just escaped; and Captain Battles (Dana Elcar Read More

The Magus

Actors: Michael Caine, Anthony Quinn, Candice Bergen, Anna Karina, Paul Stassino

Synopsis: In Guy Green's adaptation of John Fowles's acclaimed second novel, Michael Caine plays Nicholas Urfe, an English schoolteacher evading serious romantic commitment with stewardess Anne (Godard muse Anna Karina). As a last resort, Urfe escapes the clutches of his paramour by accepting a Read More

Vivre Pour Vivre

Actors: Yves Montand, Annie Girardot, Candice Bergen, Irène Tunc, Uta Taeger

Synopsis: French director Claude Lelouch followed up his hit A Man and a Woman with this tale of a love triangle set against the background of late 1960s political unrest. A French television reporter, Robert Colomb (Yves Montand), on assignment in Kenya, has an affair with a young fashion model, Candice (Candice Bergen Read More

The Day the Fish Came Out

Actors: Tom Courtenay, Colin Blakely, Candice Bergen, Ian Ogilvy

Synopsis: Life on a remote Greek resort island is forever changed when two atomic bombs are accidentally dropped there when a NATO plane flies overhead. This comedy chronicles those changes. When the pilots realize they've lost their load, they bail out of their plane and head for the island to get help. Read More

The Sand Pebbles

Actors: Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen, Marayat Andriane

Synopsis: Steve McQueen received his only Academy Award nomination for his performance in this epic-scale war drama, based on the novel by Richard McKenna. In 1926, as China teeters on the edge of political revolution in the midst of a civil war, the USS San Pablo, is ordered to patrol the Yangtze Read More

The Group

Actors: Candice Bergen, Joan Hackett, Elizabeth Hartman, Shirley Knight, Joanna Pettet, Hal Holbrook

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Mary McCarthy, The Group was one of the slickest, and most highly publicized, cinematic soap operas of the 1960s. Filmed largely in New York, the story charts the exploits of eight young women, all of whom graduate from an exclusive Vassar-ish college in the middle of the Read More

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