CCH PounderFilmography

Born:: Guyana
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Born in Guyana, actress CCH Pounder made her first film appearance as a nurse in Bob Fosse's All That Jazz (1979). Pounder went on to play a small part in Prizzi's Honor before her first big role as truckstop owner Brenda in Bagdad Cafe. Her first TV-series assignment was as husband-murderer Dawn...Read More

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Actors: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Joel David Moore, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez

Synopsis: A paraplegic ex-marine war veteran is unwillingly sent to establish a human settlement on the distant planet of Pandora, only to find himself battling humankind alongside the planet's indigenous Na'vi race in this ambitious digital 3-D sci-fi epic from Academy Award-winning Titanic director James Cameron Read More

12/18/09
Orphan

Actors: Peter Sarsgaard, Vera Farmiga, Isabelle Fuhrman, CCH Pounder, Jimmy Bennett

Synopsis: An outwardly angelic little girl displays an unforeseen devilish streak upon moving into the home of her new adoptive parents in this shocker starring Peter Sarsgaard and Vera Farmiga. In the aftermath of a miscarriage, prospective parents Kate (Farmiga) and John (Sarsgaard) find their lives Read More

7/24/09
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: The Boy With the African Heart

Synopsis: An American woman (CCH Pounder) ask Precious to find out what happened to her son, who vanished without a trace from a remote farming commune a decade earlier. Meanwhile, Grace angles for a promotion and later shares a secret about her personal life with her boss. ~ Joe Friedrich, All Movie Guide Read More

2009
Brothers [TV Series]

Actors: Michael Strahan, Daryl Mitchell, CCH Pounder, Carl Weathers, Colton Dunn

Synopsis: A recently retired NFL player (Michael Strahan) strapped for cash moves back home with his parents and younger brother, who runs a struggling sports bar. ~ Ray Stackhouse, All Movie Guide Read More

2009
Superman/Batman: Public Enemies

Actors: Kevin Conroy, Tim Daly, Clancy Brown

Synopsis: Lex Luthor has been elected President of the United States, he's using an earthbound Kryptonite asteroid as grounds for declaring a $1 billion bounty on the heads of Superman and Batman. Now, the two heroes must team up to save both the planet and their own necks. They can't do it on their own Read More

2009
Warehouse 13 [TV Series]

Actors: Eddie McClintock, Joanne Kelly, Saul Rubinek, Genelle Williams, CCH Pounder

2009
Baby Mammoth

Synopsis: Many academicians scoffed at Jurassic Park as scientifically impossible, but the Discovery Channel documentary Baby Mammoth suggests otherwise. This program travels to the wilds of central Siberia, where a cadre of gold miners happens to unearth a baby mammoth, frozen and preserved in ice during Read More

2008
The Shield: Season 06

Synopsis: Season Six of The Shield opens as Detective Vic Mackey (Michael Chilkis) and the rest of the Farmington District Strike Force mourn the death of their colleague Curtis Lemensky (Kenneth Johnson), who was killed by a hand grenade just before he was to be shipped out of the country to prevent his Read More

2007
Rain

Actors: Renel Brown, Nicki Micheaux, CCH Pounder, Irma P. Hall, Calvin Lockhart

Synopsis: Determined to reconcile with the mother who abandoned her when she was just a toddler, a Bahamian adolescent boards a local mail boat and sets sail for Nassau in director Maria Govan's intimate family drama. Rain has lived a sheltered life on Ragged Island, but now the death of her grandmother has Read More

2007
Breaking the Maya Code

Synopsis: The discovery of Mayan hieroglyphs qualifies as something of a miracle in and of itself,, given the 16th Century Spaniards' systematic destruction of all books, monuments and pottery bearing the written language. History took a turn for the better in the 18th century, however, when archaeologists Read More

2007
The Shield: Season 05

Synopsis: It looks like the career of the spectacular successful--and spectacularly corrupt--Farmington District Stike Force is about to screech to a halt in the the fifth season of the gritty cop drama The Shield. It's hard for Force leader Det. Vic Mackey (Michael Chilkis) to go about his business as Read More

2006
The Shield: Season 04

Actors: Michael Chiklis, Glenn Close, Catherine Dent, Walton Goggins, Michael Jace

Synopsis: Although the gritty cop drama The Shield would become the FX's network longest-running dramatic series during its fourth season, a serious drop in ratings at the end of season three could well have precipitated the show's cancellation. Giving the program a major shot in the arm was the addition of Read More

2005
Justice League Unlimited: The Doomsday Sanction

Actors: CCH Pounder, Michael Jai White, J.K. Simmons, Armin Shimerman

Synopsis: This episode elaborates upon the secret government conspiracy against the Justice League, introduced in such third-season episodes as "Fearful Symmetry" and "Ultimatum." As Batman tries to halt the conspiracy that has been fomented by the sinister Amanda Waller, Superman heads into the bowels of a Read More

2005
The Shield: Season 03

Actors: Michael Chiklis, Walton Goggins, Kenny Johnson, Benito Martinez, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: Fans of The Shield were outraged when, at the end of the series' second season, it looked as if popular supporting character Officer Danielle "Danny" Sofer (Catherine Dent) had been fired from the Farmington District Strike Force. But when season three rolled around, it was revealed that Danny's Read More

2004
Justice League Unlimited: Ultimatum

Actors: Scott Rummel, James Sie, Gregg Rainwater, Tim Matheson, Grey DeLisle

Synopsis: Following up the events in the previous episode "Fearful Symmetry," "Ultimatum" probes further into the secret government conspiracy against the Justice Leaguers. The Ultimen, a newly formed and very popular superhero group led by the mysterious Max Lord, offer a helping hand to the Justice Read More

2004
The Shield: Strays

Synopsis: The Strike Team has been turned loose again, and immediately pays dividends. Shane (Walton Goggins) gets shot at while the team tries to bust a gang member, but it leads them to a massive money-laundering operation. Vic (Michael Chiklis) convinces Aceveda (Benito Martinez) to let Danny (Catherine Dent Read More

2004
The Shield: Safe

Synopsis: The president's in town, so The Barn is operating with a skeleton crew, which gives Vic (Michael Chiklis) and the Strike Team a window of opportunity. They somehow have to get the documents denoting the marked bills from the "Money Train" heist, which Aceveda (Benito Martinez) got from the Read More

2004
The Shield: Posse Up

Synopsis: Tommy (Matt Gerald), Julien's (Michael Jace) old partner, gets word that his ex-wife and son have been found murdered in their home. A detective from Wilshire division, where the crime was committed, is questioning Tommy as though he were a suspect. This enrages Vic (Michael Chiklis), who sees it Read More

2004
The Shield: The Quick Fix

Actors: Catherine Dent, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: Armadillo Quintero (Danny Pino), a Mexican drug dealer, is in L.A. and is making his presence felt, brutally murdering two captains from rival gangs. Mackey (Michael Chiklis) has hired Gordie Liman (Mark Rolston), a private detective, to track down his missing wife, but he's not having much luck. Read More

2003
The Shield: Dead Soldiers

Actors: Catherine Dent, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: Mackey (Michael Chiklis) and the Strike Team bust some thugs that recently joined Armadillo's (Danny Pino) gang, and leave the team's calling card as a message. Armadillo responds by torching Tio's (Cedric Pendleton) drug crib, and leaves a dead pig at the scene with Mackey's card. Mackey tries to Read More

2003
The Shield: Homewrecker

Actors: Catherine Dent, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: Aceveda (Benito Martinez) finds a minority candidate for the Strike Team, but Mackey (Michael Chiklis) manages to scare the guy off. Danny (Catherine Dent) tells Julien (Michael Jace) she won't let his fiancée know about his "former" homosexuality, but she warns him that his secret could come back Read More

2003
The Shield: Greenlit

Actors: Catherine Dent, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: Mackey (Michael Chiklis) and Shane (Walton Goggins) tell the team about their plans to take down the money train. Lem (Kenny Johnson) thinks it's a bad idea to take on the Armenian mob, and he bows out, making Shane and Mackey question his loyalty to them. Connie (Jamie Brown) shows up with a tip Read More

2003
Race: The Power of an Illusion [TV Documentary Series]

Synopsis: Actress CCH Pounder narrates this three-part documentary miniseries, which explores the myths, meanings, and importance of racial distinctions in the United States. Most viewers "know" the differences and similarities of the red, black, white, and yellow race bases; Race: The Power of an Illusion Read More

2003
The Shield: Co-Pilot

Actors: Catherine Dent, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: This episode takes us back 14 months, to the origin of the Strike Team. A less hardened Mackey (Michael Chiklis) convinces Gilroy (John Diehl) to let him handpick and run the team, which will be based in a new satellite precinct, the Barn. Aceveda (Benito Martinez) gives them their first case, a Read More

2003
The Shield: Partners

Actors: Catherine Dent, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: After viciously assaulting Armadillo (Danny Pino), Mackey (Michael Chiklis) storms off into the night. Claudette (C.C.H. Pounder) begins to investigate Tio's murder. Someone dumps a severed arm on Dutch's (Jay Karnes) desk, and he desperately tries to find the girl it belongs to in the hopes that Read More

2003
The Shield: Carte Blanche

Actors: Catherine Dent, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: Aceveda (Benito Martinez) gives Mackey (Michael Chiklis) a medal after the Fleetwood Walker bust. It turns out it was Lanie's (Lucinda Jenney) idea. The cops at "The Barn" also add a new twist to their annual "Toys for Guns" drive -- a raffle, which also gets them the address of everyone who turns Read More

2003
The Shield: Breakpoint

Actors: Catherine Dent, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: After seeing the auditor's report on the Barn, Chief Bankston (Ron Canada) tells Aceveda (Benito Martinez) he wants the unit cut by 20 percent, and he wants Aceveda to give him a list of names by the end of the day, so Aceveda is forced to neglect his city council campaign with the primary Read More

2003
The Shield: Dominoes Falling

Actors: Catherine Dent, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: Mackey (Michael Chiklis) gets out of jail and goes back to work, plotting to take down the money train. Chief Bankston (Ron Canada) lets him know that Aceveda (Benito Martinez) wanted him and the whole Strike Team fired. Claudette's (CCH Pounder) ex-husband is murdered in an apparently random gang Read More

2003
Redemption

Actors: Jamie Foxx, Lynn Whitfield, Lee Thompson Young, Brenden Jefferson, Brenda Bazinet

Synopsis: Jamie Foxx once again brilliantly demonstrates his acting chops as Stan "Tookie" Williams, the South Central Los Angeles native who, at the age of 17, co-founded the infamous Crips street gang. If one is to believe the script of this made-for-cable film, Williams hadn't intended the Crips to Read More

2003
The Shield: Season 02

Actors: Catherine Dent, Benito Martinez, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: Season two of The Shield begins with Detective Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis), the hard-nosed, sometimes homicidal, and seldom ethical leader of the Farmington District Strike Force, desperately missing his wife, Corinne (Cathleen Cahlin Ryan), and his three kids, who have left him; meanwhile, the Read More

2003
The Shield: Coyotes

Actors: Catherine Dent, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: Lannie's (Lucinda Jenney) scalding report on the Barn is leaked to the local newspapers, causing major embarrassment for Aceveda (Benito Martinez) and the Strike Team. Gilroy (John Diehl) calls Mackey (Michael Chiklis) to tell him that he's escaped house arrest, and that the DA wants him to rat Read More

2003
The Shield: Inferno

Actors: Catherine Dent, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: Julien (Michael Jace) single-handedly takes down an armed suspect in a department store, but his triumph is short-lived, as Tomas (Brent Roam) returns, and threatens to expose his recent sexual past to his new family. Aceveda's (Benito Martinez) city council campaign is losing steam, and Mackey (Michael Chiklis Read More

2003
The Shield: Pilot

Actors: Catherine Dent, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: As Captain David Aceveda (Benito Martinez) gives a press conference, touting impressive crime statistics and community outreach in Farmington (L.A.) under his watch, Detective Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis) and his Strike Team chase down a drug dealer, and Mackey impolitely exposes the perp's Read More

2002
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

Synopsis: Among the tasks undertaken by the WPA's Federal Writers' Project in the 1930s was to transcribe the memories of those former African-American slaves who were still living. The result was a massive collection of notes, documents, and recordings, all of which found their way into the Library of Read More

2002
The Shield: Throwaway

Actors: Catherine Dent, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: A truck is hijacked and the driver viciously beaten. Mackey (Michael Chiklis) goes to work on the case, despite the fact that it's his day off, annoying his overburdened wife, Corrine (Cathy Cahlin Ryan). The driver describes his assailant's tattoos, leading Mackey and the Strike Team to suspect Read More

2002
The Shield: Dawg Days

Actors: Catherine Dent, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: Danny (Catherine Dent) and Lemonhead (Kenny Johnson) are moonlighting, working security at a "shake club," where rap impresario Kern Little (Sticky Fingaz) is having a party with his girl and fellow recording artist, Tyesha (Chene Lawson). Kern's rival and former labelmate, T-Bonz (Dex Elliott Sanders Read More

2002
The Shield: The Spread

Actors: Catherine Dent, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: Aceveda (Benito Martinez) announces a Farmington-wide sweep of all outstanding warrants. Connie (Jamie Brown) goes to see Mackey (Michael Chiklis) to complain that a john slashed her when she tried to put a condom on him. He's busy serving warrants, so he asks Dutch (Jay Karnes) to take her to the Read More

2002
The Shield: Our Gang

Actors: Catherine Dent, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: Danny (Catherine Dent) shows up at the hospital, where Aceveda (Benito Martinez) gives everyone the news that Crowley (Reed Diamond) is dead. Acevedo wants to conduct his own investigation, but Assistant Chief Gilroy (John Diehl) tells him to let IAD handle it. Danny offers Mackey (Michael Read More

2002
The Shield: Two Days of Blood

Actors: Catherine Dent, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: Mackey (Michael Chiklis) busts a cockfighting ring. One of the suspects offers to help the Strike Team nab a major gun dealer, so Shane (Walton Goggins) goes undercover as a trainer to catch him. But Shane is more interested in the bounty that the Mexican government is offering for the gunrunner Read More

2002
The Shield: Circles

Actors: Catherine Dent, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: Tensions grow in the neighborhood where two women were killed due to a delayed police response to a 911 call. Julien (Michael Jace) and Danny (Catherine Dent) receive a phony 911 call, which lures them into an ambush in which two other uniform cops are killed. Mackey (Michael Chiklis) has to move Read More

2002
The Shield: Season 01

Actors: Catherine Dent, Benito Martinez, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: The first season of The Shield almost instantly establishes Detective Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis) as "Not Your Typical TV Cop." The leader of the Farmington District Strike Force, Mackey is mean, profane, violent, and some distance removed from honest. And it is not simply that Mackey is willing Read More

2002
The Shield: Carnivores

Actors: Catherine Dent, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: Someone is trying to drive Rondell (Walter Emanuel Jones) out of the drug business. Things come to a head when they shoot up Kern's (Sticky Fingaz) car. Rondell suspects the Nation of Islam, which has been trying to push him out of the neighborhood around their mosque, leading to a scuffle between Read More

2002
The Shield: Dragonchasers

Actors: Catherine Dent, Michael Chiklis, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: One of the strippers at a local club is leading customers into a back alley for sex so that her partner can mug them. While Mackey (Michael Chiklis) and the Strike Team work an unconventional sting operation, Julien (Michael Jace) and Danny (Catherine Dent) catch a guy, Sean Taylor (Michael Read More

2002
Things Behind the Sun

Actors: Kim Dickens, Gabriel Mann, Don Cheadle, Eric Stoltz, Elizabeth Peña

Synopsis: Writer and director Allison Anders, who used the world of rock & roll as the backdrop for her films Border Radio, Grace of My Heart, and Sugar Mountain, returns to the music scene for this tale of a woman struggling to come to terms with an emotionally devastating past. Sherry McGrale (Kim Read More

10/12/01
Boycott

Actors: Jeffrey Wright, Terrence Howard, CCH Pounder, Carmen Ejogo, Reg E. Cathey

Synopsis: In 1955, an African-American woman named Rosa Parks dared to take an empty seat in the "Whites Only" section on a city bus in Montomery, AL, and sparked one of the first major battles in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, thus bringing the work of Martin Luther King to the attention Read More

2001
The West Wing: Celestial Navigation

Actors: Dulé Hill, Kathryn Joosten, Timothy Busfield

Synopsis: This episode of The West Wing is structured as a flashback while Josh (Bradley Whitford) addresses a college class on the day-to-day workings of the White House. Toby (Richard Schiff) and Sam (Rob Lowe) must travel to Connecticut in order to smooth over troubles when Bartlet's (Martin Sheen) Read More

2000
Cora Unashamed

Actors: Regina Taylor, Cherry Jones, Michael Gaston

Synopsis: A short story by Langston Hughes provides the source material for this emotional made-for-TV drama. Ma Jenkins (CCH Pounder) and her adult daughter Cora (Regina Taylor) work as servants for the Studevant family, a wealthy clan living in a small Iowa community in the 1930s. Cora and Ma are also the Read More

2000
Disappearing Acts

Actors: Wesley Snipes, Sanaa Lathan, Regina Hall, Lisa Anderson

Synopsis: In this drama based on the novel by Terry McMillan, Zora (Sanaa Lathan) is a woman who dreams of becoming a singing star, meanwhile supporting herself as a schoolteacher. Franklin (Wesley Snipes), a father of two whose divorce is about to become final, has lost his job as a construction worker and Read More

2000
End of Days

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Byrne, Robin Tunney, Kevin Pollak, CCH Pounder, Rod Steiger

Synopsis: 1999 proved a banner year for screen portrayals of Satan's love life: first his relationship with Saddam Hussein went under the microscope in South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, and a few months later his search for a girl to settle down with became the basis of this thriller. With the Read More

11/24/99
Funny Valentines

Actors: Alfre Woodard, Loretta Devine, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: After returning to her hometown to contemplate her troubled marriage, a woman finds renewed hope as she and the cousin with whom she was once best friends slowly reconcile their own fractured relationship. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1999
Netforce

Actors: Scott Bakula, Joanna Going, Xander Berkeley, Brian Dennehy, Kris Kristofferson

Synopsis: Best-selling author Tom Clancy was executive producer of this made-for-TV spy thriller, which debuted on ABC in 1999. In the year 2005, the FBI has established a special division --"Netforce" -- to investigate crimes committed using the Internet. Agents Alex Michaels (Scott Bakula) and Steve Day (Kris Kristofferson Read More

1999
Touch of Hope

Actors: Anthony Michael Hall, Abraham Benrubi, CCH Pounder, Fay Masterson, Sean O'Bryan

Synopsis: This made-for-TV feature is based on the true story of Dean Kraft, who worked within the traditional medical community as a hands-on healer. Discovering his unique gift at an early age, Kraft (played as an adult by Anthony Michael Hall) is reluctant to utilize his healing talents, agreeing to do Read More

1999
The Big Day

Actors: Julianna Margulies, Ivan Sergei, Kevin Tighe, Dixie Carter, Clayton Rohner

Synopsis: Julianna Margulies and Ivan Sergei star in this romantic comedy about a wedding gone awry when the bridegroom's recovering alcoholic brother reveals that he slept with the bride years previously. The revelation causes groom John to get cold feet and the bride's controlling mother Carol (Dixie Carter Read More

1999
Little Girl Fly Away

Actors: Mare Winningham, Bruce Davison, CCH Pounder, James Pickens, Jr., Clayton Rohner

Synopsis: Made-for-television and based on a true story, this drama recounts the bizarre case of a mentally unstable woman who believes that someone is trying to kill her. When police hear Catherine's story of how a strange man has threatened her with notes and phone calls they take her seriously and launch Read More

1998
Race

Actors: Paul Rodriguez, CCH Pounder, Cliff Robertson, Una Damon, Efren Ramirez

Synopsis: Tom Musca directed this social satire on the United States electoral system. The comedy-drama explores how class and race divisions impact on the process when a Chicano housepainter in East Los Angeles decides to run for the city council. Pressured by his wife (Annette Murphy), Gustavo Alvarez (Paul Rodriguez Read More

1998
ER: Fortune's Fools

Synopsis: Discovering that Carla (Lisa Nicole Carson) is pregnant, Benton (Eriq La Salle) has trouble concentrating on the job, and as a result is chewed out by Carter (Noah Wyle). Greene (Anthony Edwards) and Weaver (Laura Innes) agree to disagree while escorting three interns around the ER. And after Read More

1997
ER: Post Mortem

Synopsis: The death of Gant causes a major blowup between Carter (Noah Wyle) and Benton (Eriq La Salle). Ross (George Clooney) uncovers some facts about battered homeless teen Charlie (Kirsten Dunst). HIV-positive Jeanie (Gloria Reuben) dates Greg Fischer (Harry J. Lennix), a specialist in infectious Read More

1997
ER: You Bet Your Life

Synopsis: Fearing that something may be wrong with Carla's (Lisa Nicole Carson) unborn baby, Benton (Eriq La Salle) illegally obtains a copy of her ultrasound. Jeanie (Gloria Reuben) finds that she has much in common with would-be suicide patient Suzane Alner (Gia Carides). Anspaugh (John Aylward) refuses Read More

1997
ER: Tribes

Synopsis: After seven weeks of reruns and pre-emptions, ER resumed its third season on April 10, 1997, with a steady string of new episodes. In this one, Greene (Anthony Edwards) is accused of favoring a white patient over a black one when both teenagers arrive at the same time in the ER with gunshot Read More

1997
ER: Faith

Synopsis: Pomerantz (Jami Gertz) refuses to put a woman with Down's syndrome on a heart-transplant list; Greene (Anthony Edwards) and Doyle (Jorja Fox) try to persuade her to change her mind. Now that he is of legal age, Jad Houston (Chad Lindberg), suffering from terminal cystic fibrosis, insists upon Read More

1997
ER: Whose Appy Now?

Synopsis: Should Doug Ross (George Clooney) honor the wishes of 17-year-old Jad Houston (Chad Lindberg), terminally ill with cystic fibrosis, who wants to be allowed to die -- or should Ross bow to the legalities of the situation and do everything he can to save the boy's life? In other developments, Greene Read More

1997
ER: One More For the Road

Synopsis: As their premature baby son struggles for his life in the ICU, Benton (Eriq La Salle) and Carla (Lisa Nicole Carson) mull over their future. Increasingly paranoid after being beaten by an unknown assailant, Greene (Anthony Edwards) purchases a gun. Anspaugh (John Aylward) is upset that Carter (Noah Wyle Read More

1997
ER: Something New

Synopsis: Benton (Eriq La Salle) gives British surgeon Corday (Alex Kingston) a crash course in American ER procedures and later helps Carla (Lisa Nicole Carson) choose a name for their baby. Carter (Noah Wyle) and Del Amico (Maria Bello) are assigned to train two new med students, with Carter drawing the Read More

1997
Face/Off

Actors: John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen, Alessandro Nivola, Gina Gershon, Dominique Swain

Synopsis: The third of John Woo's American-made feature films, Face/Off stars John Travolta as Sean Archer, an FBI agent obsessed with capturing Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage), a criminal genius who years before killed Archer's son while trying to assassinate the agent. Archer's single-minded pursuit of Troy Read More

1997
ER: Random Acts

Synopsis: The ER staff is galvanized by the brutal beating of Greene (Anthony Edwards) in the men's room. Jeanie (Gloria Reuben) is forced to make several difficult decisions involving the three men in her life. Carol (Julianna Margulies) accuses Ross (George Clooney) of giving preferential treatment to the Read More

1997
All She Ever Wanted

Actors: Marcia Cross, James Marshall, Leila Kenzle, Carrie Snodgress, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: Per the title of this made-for-TV drama, all Rachel Stockman (played by future "Desperate Housewife" Marcia Cross) has ever wanted is to bear children. Unfortunately, Rachel suffers from a bipolar disorder, requiring her to take lithium, which thus far has prevented her from becoming pregnant. In Read More

1996
ER: True Lies

Synopsis: Reluctant to tell his daughter, Rachel (Yvonne Zima), that he and Jenn (Christine Harnos) are about to get a divorce, Greene (Anthony Edwards) instead takes her ice skating -- and invites Lewis (Sherry Stringfield) along, much to Rachel's open dismay. Elsewhere, Vucelich (Ron Rifkin) has invited Read More

1996
ER: Baby Shower

Synopsis: An already crowded ER is besieged by a dozen very pregnant females, among them a 13-year-old who now regrets her promise to give her child to an adult couple, a nervous crack addict, and a mentally unbalanced woman who insists that she was impregnated by space aliens. Making a bad situation worse Read More

1996
If These Walls Could Talk

Synopsis: The compilation film If These Walls Could Talk consists of three short films that each deal with the controversial issue of abortion. Although each of the stories is set in a different decade, the unifying element (aside from the subject matter) is that all three transpire in the same house. The Read More

1996
ER: Fire in the Belly

Synopsis: Benton (Eriq La Salle) is removed from a round of surgery because no one on that shift wants to work with him. In other developments, Lewis (Sherry Stringfield) and her sister, Chloe (Kathleen Wilhoite), lock horns over custody of little Suzy; Ross (George Clooney) treats eight-year-old Jeremy (Kevin Duran Read More

1996
ER: The Match Game

Synopsis: Having missed a bone tumor on a child's x-ray, Ross (George Clooney) is none too anxious to tell the patient's grandfather (Bill Cobbs) about the mistake -- especially since four months have elapsed and the tumor has gotten worse. Meanwhile, Chloe (Kathleen Wilhoite) sweeps back into Lewis' (Sherry Stringfield Read More

1996
ER: The Right Thing

Synopsis: Benton (Eriq La Salle) strongly suspects that Vucelich (Ron Rifkin) is manipulating the results of his study on the "clamp-and-run" procedure. Elsewhere, rumors buzz throughout the ER that Greene (Anthony Edwards) and Lewis (Sherry Stringfield) are lovers. And Carter (Noah Wyle) risks his career Read More

1996
ER: Fevers of Unknown Origin

Synopsis: With baby Suzy gone, Lewis (Sherry Stringfield) tries to get over the loss by throwing herself in her work. Meanwhile, Greene (Anthony Edwards) and Weaver (Laura Innes) discuss the possibility of making Lewis chief resident. Elsewhere, paramedic Shep (Ron Eldard), unable to cope with the dearth of Read More

1996
ER: Happy New Year

Synopsis: Rule-bound Dr. Kayson (Sam Anderson) again incurs the wrath of Lewis (Sherry Stringfield) when he orders the early release of a heart patient named Vennerback (Michael Monks). But when Vennerback is brought back to the ER in critical condition, it is Lewis who is held responsible for the tragedy Read More

1995
ER: The Birthday Party

Synopsis: Hicks (CCH Pounder) warns Benton (Eriq La Salle) that he's spending too much time worrying over his ailing mother and not enough time concentrating on his job. Ross (George Clooney) has a violent showdown with an abusive father. The rivalry between Carter (Noah Wyle) and Deb (Ming-Na) intensifies. Read More

1995
White Dwarf

Actors: Paul Winfield, Neal McDonough, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV sci-fi-drama, the world has entered into an age when travel between the planets has become an everyday event, and Driscoll Rampant (Neal McDonough), a medical student, finds himself taking an internship on the distant planet of Rusta. Unlike Earth, Rusta does not turn on its Read More

1995
Zooman

Actors: Louis Gossett, Jr., Cynthia Martells, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: In this tough but literate urban drama (based on a play by Charles Fuller), Zooman (Khalil Kain) is a petty criminal and gangbanger who in the midst of a shootout with other gangsters accidentally kills a nine-year-old girl. The girl's father, Rueben Tate (Louis Gossett Jr.), is distraught over Read More

1995
ER: Sleepless in Chicago

Synopsis: Despite orders from Hicks (CCH Pounder), Benton (Eriq La Salle) is determined to stay awake throughout a 48-hour shift, with potentially disastrous results. Elsewhere, a terminally ill patient (Sanford Meisner) is inadvertently given a brief "reprieve" by Carter (Noah Wyle). Ross (George Clooney) Read More

1995
ER: Do One, Teach One, Kill One

Synopsis: In his zeal to prove his value to the ER and impress Harper (Christine Elise), Carter (Noah Wyle) loses his first patient, a barfly named Ed. Meanwhile, Carol (Julianna Margulies) and Shep (Ron Eldard) work together to subdue a drug-crazed patient, and Ross (George Clooney) copes with a Read More

1995
ER: What Life?

Synopsis: When Benton (Eriq La Salle) breaks his hand in a parking-lot fracas, Carter (Noah Wyle) must replace him in surgery. Greene (Anthony Edwards) is forced to mediate in the ongoing battle of wills between Lewis (Sherry Stringfield) and Weaver (Laura Innes), and also tends to the needs of an elderly Read More

1995
ER: Everything Old is New Again

Synopsis: The wedding of Carol Hathaway (Julianna Margulies) and John Taglieri (Rick Rossovich) is complicated by the fact that bridesmaid Susan Lewis (Sherry Stringfield) is called away to care for the baby of her missing sister, Chloe (Kathleen Wilhoite). This minor crisis, however, is supplanted by a Read More

1995
ER: Motherhood

Synopsis: Oscar-winning filmmaker Quentin Tarantino directed this episode, which contains all manner of characteristic black comedy touches, not to mention Tarantino's trademarked use of a popular 1960s songs to comment upon the action. The story occurs on Mother's Day, when the long-suffering Lewis (Sherry Stringfield Read More

1995
Demon Knight

Actors: Billy Zane, Bill Sadler, Jada Pinkett Smith, Brenda Bakke, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: This first theatrical feature spun off from the television series Tales from the Crypt (which was in turn inspired by the infamous EC horror comics of the 1950s) concerns a mysterious man named Brayker (Bill Sadler), who arrives at a church-turned-rooming house in a small town in New Mexico. Hot Read More

1994
ER: The Gift

Synopsis: Rosemary Clooney (aunt of series regular George Clooney) returns as a mysterious mental patient wandering the halls of the ER singing Christmas songs. Likewise invested with the Yuletide spirit is Benton (Eriq La Salle), who upon finding an organ-donor card among the effects of a brain-dead Read More

1994
ER: Blizzard

Synopsis: A blizzard has left Chicago blanketed in two feet of snow -- and the ER is completely bereft of patient activity. But no sooner does the staff try to take advantage of their unexpected "layoff" than disaster strikes in the form of a horrendous 32-car pileup. In the midst of the ensuing chaos, Dr. Read More

1994
Lifepod

Actors: Ron Silver

Synopsis: Actor Ron Silver made his directorial debut with this made-for-TV, futuristic retelling of Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat, in which the survivors of a sabotaged spaceship must face mounting evidence that the terrorist responsible for their plight is among them. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1993
Benny & Joon

Actors: Johnny Depp, Mary Stuart Masterson, Aidan Quinn, Julianne Moore, Oliver Platt

Synopsis: Johnny Depp was nominated for a Golden Globe for his astonishing performance in Benny & Joon, though the entire cast is equally impressive. Benny (Aidan Quinn) runs a small car repair shop. He must also take care of his mentally ill sister Juniper, better known as Joon (Mary Stuart Masterson). Read More

1993
The Ernest Green Story

Actors: Ossie Davis

Synopsis: This well-mounted made-for-cable film zeroes in on the personal story of Ernest Green, the only senior among the nine black students who integrated Arkansas' Little Rock High School in 1957. Faced with pressure from both his taunter and his peers, Ernest manages to survive a harrowing year with Read More

1993
Sliver

Actors: Sharon Stone, William Baldwin, Tom Berenger, Polly Walker, Colleen Camp

Synopsis: Phillip Noyce directed Joe Eszterhas's adaptation of Ira Levin's novel about voyeurism, starring Sharon Stone as Carly Norris, a book editor on the rebound from an emotionless seven-year marriage. Carly decides that a change of location will help her in the healing process, so she moves into a Read More

1993
For Their Own Good

Synopsis: Corporate women launch a bitter courtroom battle when their avaricious employer tells them that they will lose their jobs if they do not get sterilized. The fight takes the women through a disillusioning jungle of government red tape. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1993
Return to Lonesome Dove

Actors: Barbara Hershey, Jon Voight

Synopsis: The first of a number of sequels to the highly successful western mini-series Lonesome Dove featured few of the same actors as the original, nor was it based on a novel by Larry McMurtry. In this outing, onetime Texas Ranger Call (Jon Voight, replacing Tommy Lee Jones) heads a group of cowboys Read More

1993
The Importance of Being Earnest

Actors: Wren T. Brown, Daryl Roach, Chris Calloway, Lanei Chapman, Ann Weldon

Synopsis: This adaptation of playwright Oscar Wilde's memorable romantic comedy about two wealthy noblemen who begin calling themselves Ernest in hopes of winning the love of two beautiful girls is set in modern times. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1992
The Cosby Show: Clair's Reunion

Synopsis: Clair (Phylicia Rashad) and her former college classmates attend a retirement dinner for their philosophy teacher, Professor Capel, whom they recall as both a strict taskmaster and a committed civil rights activist--qualities which, in one memorable instance, thoroughly contradicted each other! Read More

1992
Robocop 3

Actors: Robert John Burke, Nancy Allen, Rip Torn, John Castle

Synopsis: In this second sequel to Robocop, the mechanical humanoid opposes the evil designs of his creators, who have gone corrupt and are trying to take over all real estate in Detroit, kicking the poorer citizens out of their homes and turning them out into the streets. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1992
Postcards From the Edge

Actors: Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Richard Dreyfuss, Rob Reiner

Synopsis: Mike Nichols lends some comic structure to Carrie Fisher's best-selling confessional novel concerning a woman's struggles with drug addiction and mother-daughter rivalry (subjects Fisher admits to understanding all too well). Meryl Streep, in her most full-blown comic performance up to that point Read More

9/12/90
Murder in Mississippi

Actors: Tom Hulce, Blair Underwood, Jennifer Grey, Josh Charles, CCH Pounder

Synopsis: Made for television, Murder in Mississippi covers the same historical ground that was fictionalized in the theatrical film Mississippi Burning (89). The film recounts the murders by the Ku Klux Klan of three civil rights workers in 1964. Rather than detail the subsequent FBI investigation, the Read More

1990
Psycho IV: The Beginning

Actors: Anthony Perkins, Henry Thomas, Olivia Hussey, CCH Pounder, Donna Mitchell

Synopsis: This third sequel to Alfred Hitchcock's classic thriller was originally made for cable television and looks into murderous Norman Bates' traumatic past in hopes of explaining his need to kill. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1990
Common Ground, Part 1

Actors: Jane Curtin, Richard Thomas

Synopsis: J. Anthony Lukas' 1985 Pulitzer Prize winning book Common Ground served as the basis of the two-part TV movie Common Ground. Jane Curtin plays Alice McGoff, and CCH Pounder plays Rachel Twymon, two Boston housewives and mothers on opposite sides of one of the city's bitterest racial battles. In Read More

1990
No Place Like Home

Actors: Christine Lahti, Jeff Daniels, Kathy Bates, Anne Pitoniak, Scott Marlowe

Synopsis: Written with heartbreaking attention to detail by Ara Watson and Sam Blackwell, No Place Like Home was one of the first TV movies to direct itself to the plight of the homeless. Jeff Daniels plays a Pittsburgh apartment superintendent and aspiring electrician who loses his job--and his home--when Read More

1989
Third Degree Burn

Actors: Treat Williams, Virginia Madsen, Richard Masur, CCH Pounder, Michael Chapman

Synopsis: Third Degree Burn, from concept to title, is an HBO-produced Body Heat clone. Treat Williams stars as a tough private eye involved in murder and cuckoldry. Virginia Madsen is the smouldering femme fatale. Here's what the ads for Third Degree Burn promised: "Passion in the third degree. Murder in Read More

1989
Bagdad Cafe

Actors: Marianne Sägebrecht, CCH Pounder, Jack Palance, Christine Kaufmann, Monica Calhoun

Synopsis: This West German film is set in the California Desert. A husband-and-wife pair of Bavarian tourists become stranded when their car breaks down; after a quarrel, the wife, Marianne Sagebrecht, gathers her luggage and stalks off. She stops at the Bagdad Cafe, a fleapit truckstop run by outspoken Read More

4/22/88
Run Till You Fall

Synopsis: In this detective drama, a private gumshoe takes so many little cases that he can barely afford to support his wife and kids. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1988
Leap of Faith

Actors: Anne Archer, Sam Neill

Synopsis: A young woman learns that she has a lethal, rare kind of cancer. This fact-based, heart-wrenching made-for-TV drama chronicles her struggle to cope with her own personal feelings and those of her family. She then begins looking for alternative ways to treat her disease while her husband deals with Read More

1988
As Summers Die

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, Bette Davis, Scott Glenn

Synopsis: As Summers Die was produced as an "HBO Premiere" attraction. Set in the segregationist South of the 1950s, the film pits the wealthy but decadent members of a landed-gentry white family against a feisty old black woman, on whose property oil has been discovered. Idealistic attorney Scott Glenn Read More

1986
Resting Place

Actors: John Lithgow

Synopsis: Set in 1972, The Resting Place stars John Lithgow as an Army major who accompanies the body of a young black lieutenant killed in action to the dead man's Georgia home town. Though the local cemetery is for whites only, the town's resident liberal has paid for a plot for the deceased lieutenant. Lithgow Read More

1986
The Atlanta Child Murders

Synopsis: The Atlanta Child Murders is a five-hour, two-part dramatization of one of the most tragic and controversial homicide cases of the past twenty years. From 1979 through 1982, some 28 African-American children and young adults disappeared from Atlanta--some without a trace, but others to later turn Read More

1985
Prizzi's Honor

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, Anjelica Huston, William Hickey, Robert Loggia

Synopsis: Richard Condon's delicious black comedy was lovingly translated to the screen by legendary director John Huston in one of his last movies. The Prizzis are a powerful family of mobsters, as devoted to their code of honor as they are to bending laws and breaking skulls. Charley Partanna (Jack Nicholson Read More

1985
Go Tell It on the Mountain

Actors: Paul Winfield, Rosalind Cash, Roderick Wimberly, Olivia Cole

Synopsis: In this poignant adaptation of James Baldwin's novel about a few generations in the life of an Afro-American family, a young boy's efforts to gain some approval from his Bible-thumping, disciplinarian father takes center stage, and the family's background is told in a series of flashbacks. The Read More

1984
Booker

Actors: LeVar Burton, Shelley Duvall, CCH Pounder, Judge Reinhold, Shavar Ross

1983
I'm Dancing As Fast As I Can

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Nicol Williamson, Dianne Wiest, Joe Pesci, Geraldine Page

Synopsis: Jill Clayburgh plays, as one character calls her, "a pill-popping dingbat" in this film adaptation of television producer Barbara Gordon's autobiographical account of her addiction to prescription drugs. Clayburgh plays Gordon in the film as a successful television documentary filmmaker whose Read More

1982
All That Jazz

Actors: Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Ann Reinking, Cliff Gorman, Leland Palmer, John Lithgow

Synopsis: "It's showtime!" In this part film à clef, part musical phantasmagoria, director/choreographer Bob Fosse takes a Felliniesque look at the life of a driven entertainer. Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider, channeling Fosse) is the ultimate work (and pleasure)-aholic, as he knocks back a daily dose of Read More

1979
Union City

Actors: Dennis Lipscomb, Deborah Harry, Irina Maleeva, Everett McGill, Sam McMurray, Terina Lewis

Synopsis: Mark Reichart wrote and directed this disturbing tale of mounting paranoia, based on a story by Cornell Woolrich. Harlan (Dennis Lipscomb) is a New Jersey businessman who becomes obsessed with trying to catch the person who has been stealing sips from the milk bottle delivered to his doorstep Read More

1979

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