Cheryl LaddFilmography

Though None Go with Me

Actors: Amy Grabow, Christopher Allport, Cheryl Ladd

Synopsis: On the day of her granddaughter's departure to California -- in the company of her rock musician boyfriend -- Elizabeth Leroy Bishop (Cheryl Ladd) tries to tell her the story of how she came to spend her life in the town of Three Rivers, and the rewards she has received from that life. We flash Read More

Eve's Christmas

Actors: Elisa Donovan, Cheryl Ladd, Sebastian Spence, James N. Kirk, Peter Williams

Synopsis: Thirty-three-year-old ad executive Eve Simon (Elisa Donovan) is, to all outward appearances, a success, and a fabulously wealthy one in the bargain. Even so, as she sits alone nursing an expensive drink in an upscale Manhattan watering hole on Christmas Eve, our heroine wonders if it's all been Read More

Charmed: The Day the Magic Died

Actors: Brian Krause, Julian McMahon, Cheryl Ladd, James Read, W. Morgan Sheppard

Synopsis: Upon finding out that the pregnant Piper suffers from toxemia, her doctor prescribes complete rest and avoidance of all tension. This may prove difficult, inasmuch as Piper's sisters and her Whitelighter, Leo (Brian Krause), have suddenly lost all their powers -- and worse still, all magic in the Read More

A Dog of Flanders

Actors: Jack Warden, Jeremy James Kissner, Jesse James, Jon Voight, Cheryl Ladd

Synopsis: The fifth film version of the classic 19th century children's tale by Ouida (aka Marie-Louise de la Ramée), A Dog of Flanders tells the story of young Nello (Jesse James), a boy growing up with his grandfather Jehan (Jack Warden) after the death of his parents. Although Jehan has little in the way Read More

Intimate Portrait: Cheryl Ladd

Michael Landon, The Father I Knew

Synopsis: Although actor-director-producer Michael Landon died of pancreatic cancer in 1991, his life and career remained indelibly etched on the collective consciousness of America for many years afterward, as witness this warts-and-all TV biopic written and directed by Michael Landon Jr. Although it is Read More

Permanent Midnight

Actors: Ben Stiller, Elizabeth Hurley, Maria Bello, Owen Wilson, Lourdes Benedicto

Synopsis: David Veloz made his directorial debut with this drama adapted from the autobiography of comedy writer Jerry Stahl (Ben Stiller), whose $6000-a-week heroin habit had him taking his infant daughter along on his drug runs and doing smack during TV script conferences. Departing detox, Stahl explores Read More

Perfect Little Angels

Actors: Cheryl Ladd, Jody Thompson, Michael York, Jade Pawluk, Brendan Fehr

Synopsis: Having just moved to a new town, widow Elaine Freedman (Cheryl Ladd) and her teenage daughter, Justine (Jody Thompson) are greeted by the effusive, terribly nice Dr. Calvin Lawrence (Michael York). Sensing that Justine is bit testy and out of sorts (most kids her age tend to get that way, you Read More

Every Mother's Worst Fear

Synopsis: This chilling drama cautions parents about the potential dangers of letting children have unsupervised access to the Internet. The story centers on a troubled, emotionally isolated teenaged girl who turns to the Net chat-rooms for the solace and companionship she needs. It does not take long for Read More

Kiss and Tell

Actors: Peter Howitt, Daniel Craig

Synopsis: In this low-budget screwball-mystery, the death of an L.A. woman leads to a surreal murder investigation on the outer fringes of la-la land. When Molly McMannis (Justine Bateman) turns up dead, still impaled with the murder weapon -- a carrot -- the police launch a probe into the colorful world Read More

2 Days in the Valley

Actors: Danny Aiello, Greg Cruttwell, Jeff Daniels, James Spader, Teri Hatcher, Glenne Headly, Charlize Theron

Synopsis: A variety of crooks, losers, and working stiffs living in the shadow of Hollywood find their various personal crises overlapping in this intricately woven melodrama. Lee Woods (James Spader) is a cold-blooded hit man and Dosmo Pizzo (Danny Aiello) a soft-at-heart gangster; they've been sent to Read More

The Haunting of Lisa

Actors: Cheryl Ladd, Duncan Regehr, Don Allison, Kate Lynch

Synopsis: In this suspenseful made-for-TV thriller, a little girl finds herself tormented by scary visions of a woman in trouble. Lisa then receives information about a missing child's body. Her mother, knowing full well what her daughter is going through, hurries to help her solve the mystery for she fears Read More

Vows of Deception

Actors: Cheryl Ladd, Mike Farrell, Nick Mancuso, Nancy Cartwright

Synopsis: Also known as A Deadly Seduction and A Tangled Web, this made-for-TV melodrama stars Cheryl Ladd as Lucinda, a convict paroled in the custody of a hardboiled detective. Ladling on the charm in buckets, Lucinda inveigles the detective's brother, a wealthy widowed attorney, into falling in love with Read More

Dancing with Danger

Broken Promises: Taking Emily Back

Actors: Cheryl Ladd, Polly Draper, Robert Desiderio, Kathleen Wilhoite, D David Morin

Synopsis: Desperate and unable to bear a child of their own, a young couple tries to adopt the child of impoverished parents. But when those parents resist, a huge custody battle ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Dead Before Dawn

Synopsis: In the tradition of such woman-in-jeopardy nail-biters as Extremities and Sleeping With the Enemy comes the ABC made-for-television pic Dead Before Dawn, starring small-screen vets Cheryl Ladd (Charlie's Angels) and Jameson Parker (Simon & Simon). Though to outsiders' eyes all is well in the life Read More

Poison Ivy

Actors: Drew Barrymore, Sara Gilbert, Tom Skerritt, Cheryl Ladd, Alan Stock

Synopsis: The always challenging transition from adorable child performer to sexy adult star was achieved flamboyantly by actress Drew Barrymore with this erotic drama that unfolds like a paranoia-drenched Lolita (1962). Sylvie Cooper (Sara Gilbert) is a misanthropic student at a private high school for Read More

Locked Up: A Mother's Rage

Synopsis: When a woman is falsely convicted for selling drugs, she asks her sister to raise her young children in this true story. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Danielle Steel's 'Changes'

Actors: Cheryl Ladd, Michael Nouri, Christie Clark, Renee O'Connor, Christopher Gartin

Synopsis: In this made for TV movie based on Danielle Steele's novel, Cheryl Ladd portrays a successful New York television anchorwoman. When she marries a successful surgeon in Los Angeles, romance becomes difficult with their careers on opposite ends of the country. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Lisa

Actors: Cheryl Ladd, D.W. Moffett, Staci Keanan, Tanya Fenmore, Jeffrey Tambor

Synopsis: Lisa, a well-crafted, sly, thriller, directed by Gary Sherman tells the story of a young girl who makes telephone calls to a man who she later finds out is a serial killer. Lisa (Stacy Keanan) is a 14-year-old girl whose mother Katherine (Cheryl Ladd), having been herself an unwed mother, forbids Read More

Millenium

Jekyll and Hyde

Actors: Joss Ackland, Michael Caine, Cheryl Ladd, Ronald Pickup

Synopsis: In assembling the 1990 TV-movie version of Jekyll and Hyde, writer/director David Wickes recycled many of the elements of his 1988 adaptation of Jack the Ripper--including props, costumes, sets, and star Michael Caine. Caine goes through the standard motions as kindly Henry Jekyll, who dabbles Read More

Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501

Actors: Cheryl Ladd, Doug Sheehan

Synopsis: Cheryl Ladd stars as the wife of an airline pilot (Doug Sheehan), who is killed along with 127 other people in a mysterious crash. The authorities, egged on by a gonzo newsman, rush to judgment and chalk up the tragedy to pilot error. Ladd can't go along with this, and insists that the Read More

The Lookalike

Actors: Melissa Gilbert

Synopsis: Drawn from the novel by Kate Wilhelm, this made-for-cable thriller stars Melissa Gilbert as a grieving young mother who doubts her sanity after seeing the daughter she lost in a car accident. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Girl Who Came Between Them

Actors: Anthony John Denison, Cheryl Ladd

Synopsis: The Girl Who Came Between Them is still another "torn from today's headlines" TV movie. Anthony John Denison plays a Vietnam veteran, who is happily married to Cheryl Ladd and comfortably settled in a medium-sized American town. One morning, 13-year-old Vietnamese girl Melissa Chan shows up on Denison Read More

Millennium

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Cheryl Ladd, Daniel J. Travanti, Robert Joy, Al Waxman, Lloyd Bochner

Synopsis: Where has director Michael Anderson been since Logan's Run? Earning his keep on such slick TV-style time-fillers as Millennium. Kris Kristofferson plays the head of an official committee investigating the head-on collision of two commercial jets. A thorough analysis reveals the presence of a Read More

The Fulfillment

Actors: Cheryl Ladd, Ted Levine, Lewis Smith

Synopsis: Based on a novel by LaVyrle Spenser, this made-for-TV drama was originally titled The Fulfillment of Mary Gray. Cheryl Ladd stars as Mary, a farm woman living in 1910 Minnesota. Mary's husband (Ted Levine) is not only neglectful, but impotent. Anxious to have an heir, he suggests that she allow Read More

Bluegrass

Actors: Cheryl Ladd, Brian Kerwin, Mickey Rooney, Anthony Andrews, Shawnee Smith

Synopsis: Bluegrass was a two-part TV movie that resurrected virtually every "racetrack" cliche known to man. Widowed Cheryl Ladd heads to Kentucky to start up a horse farm. Her wicked neighbor is Wayne Rogers who seeks Ladd's downfall. Faithful farm manager Brian Kerwin won't let Rogers stand in the way of Read More

Deadly Care

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Deadly Care stars Cheryl Ladd as an intensive-care nurse. The pressures of her job, coupled with problems at home, lead Cheryl to resort to desperate "coping" measures. She develops an addiction to drugs and liquor, a deadly combination for anyone in the medical profession. Only Read More

Danielle Steel's 'Crossings'

Actors: Cheryl Ladd, Lee Horsley, Christopher Plummer, Jane Seymour, Garrick Dowhen

Synopsis: A six-hour adaptation of Danielle Steel's best-selling novel, the ABC miniseries Crossings began on board a transatlantic ocean liner in 1938. In the course of a truly eventful sea voyage, a torrid romance developed between powerful American steel magnate Nick Burnham (Lee Horsley) and Liane Read More

The Hasty Heart

Synopsis: Previously filmed in 1950, John Patrick's play The Hasty Heart was restaged 33 years later as a cable-TV special. Set in a British military hospital in 1944 Burma, Patrick's story concentrates on three people: dedicated Red Cross nurse Sister Margaret, insouciant American officer "Yank," and a Read More

Crime of Innocence

Synopsis: In this prison drama, two adolescent girls are incarcerated with adults by an obsessive judge. There they are terribly exploited and abused. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Romance on the Orient Express

Synopsis: En route to a business meeting in Paris, newly promoted American magazine editor Lily Conrad (Cheryl Ladd) boards the legendary Orient Express. Her she is unexpectedly with her long-ago lover, aristocratic Englishman Alex Woodward (Stuart Wilson). It turns out that this rendezvous was no accident Read More

A Death in California

Actors: Granville van Dusen, Cheryl Ladd, Sam Elliott, Alexis Smith

Synopsis: Adapted from a book by Joan Barthel, A Death in California is a harrowing two-part TV movie based on fact. Cheryl Ladd plays Hope Masters, a wealthy Beverly Hills woman who is forced to watch in mute horror as a criminal sociopath (Sam Elliot) murders her boyfriend (Granville Van Dusen). She is Read More

The Kermit & Piggy Story

Synopsis: Made for video, The Kermit & Piggy Story charts the course of America's most unlikely romantic couple. Breathes there anyone within reach of a TV who doesn't know all about Kermit The Frog and Miss Piggy, stars of TV's The Muppet Show and any number of theatrical-movie sequels? Within its 57 Read More

Purple Hearts

Actors: Ken Wahl, Cheryl Ladd, Stephen Lee, David Harris, Cyril O'Reilly

Synopsis: This tale of doomed romance set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War was the last in a string of box office disappointments from director Sidney J. Furie before he struck gold again with Iron Eagle (1986). Ken Wahl stars as Dr. Don Jardian, a Navy medical officer assigned to duty in Vietnam. Read More

Grace Kelly

Actors: Cheryl Ladd, Ian McShane

Synopsis: Grace Kelly, the high-society beauty who became an Oscar-winning actress and then a European princess, is the subject of this TV biopic. Cheryl Ladd has the looks and poise of the original Grace, though she isn't quite as charismatic. The early portion of the film retraces the stormy relationship Read More

Kentucky Woman

Actors: Ned Beatty

Synopsis: Cheryl Ladd seemed bound and determined in the early 1980s to prove that she was a "Charlie's Angel" no more; we probably would have taken her word for it even if she hadn't tried so hard and stridently. Made for television, Kentucky Woman found Ladd as a poverty-stricken waitress who becomes a Read More

Now and Forever

Actors: Cheryl Ladd, Robert Coleby, Carmen Duncan, Christine Amor, Aileen Britton

Synopsis: This romantic melodrama is based on a novel by Danielle Steele and chronicles a wife's reaction to her husband's run of bad luck. Their troubles begin when she returns home from a business trip and discovers that her husband has been arrested and jailed for raping a woman. Though he tends to Read More

Cheryl Ladd: Fascinated

Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones

Actors: Powers Boothe, Veronica Cartwright, Rosalind Cash, Brad Dourif, Randy Quaid

Synopsis: This two-part TV movie was, of course, sparked by the November 1978 mass suicide of 913 people at the South American religious "colony" of Jonestown. The catalyst for this tragedy was cult-leader Reverend Jim Jones (played by Powers Boothe, who won an Emmy for his performance), head of the Read More

Willa

Actors: Deborah Raffin

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV drama, a spunky waitress (Deborah Raffin) is left to support herself, her two small children, and her unborn baby when her no-good husband runs off. Determined not to spend her life in a dead-end job, the woman quits waitressing and sets out to become a truck driver. ~ Iotis Read More

When She Was Bad

Synopsis: A businessman finds that denial is his only coping mechanism when faced with his wife's constant physical abuse of their daughter. His idea of a solution is to move them to a new town. When that fails, he finds himself faced with painful choices. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Muppet Show: Cheryl Ladd

Actors: Cheryl Ladd

Synopsis: Guest star Cheryl Ladd joins Timmy Monster and the Clodhoppers for a rousing rendition of "South Rampart Street Parade"; later on Miss Piggy joins Ladd for a duet performance of "I Enjoy Being a Girl". Meanwhile, Fozzie reads a self-help book. ~ Tracie Cooper, All Movie Guide Read More

Thaddeus Rose and Eddie

Actors: Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Bo Hopkins

Synopsis: Johnny and June Carter Cash star in the made-for-TV Thaddeus Rose and Eddie. But they don't necessarily play the title characters: true, Cash essays the role of indigent Texas Thaddeus Rose, but his buddy Eddie is played by Bo Hopkins. June is seen as T.R.'s girlfriend Crystal, while Eddie's Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: Blockade

Synopsis: With only fragmentary evidence at their disposal, Stone (Karl Malden) and Keller (Michael Douglas) search for the person who raped and murdered a young waitress. Meanwhile, the killer (Don Stroud) and his reluctant accomplice (Charles Martin Smith) are holed up in the home of two innocent Read More

The Treasure of Jamaica Reef

Actors: Stephen Boyd, Cheryl Ladd

Synopsis: Released under a variety of titles, Evil in the Deep is set in Jamaica. Scuba diver Hugo Graham (Stephen Boyd) searches for sunken treasure in the waters of the Caribbean. Ah, but there's a fly in the ointment: a very big, grey fly, known as a killer shark. Made before Jaws, Evil in the Deep went Read More

Satan's School for Girls

Actors: Roy Thinnes, Kate Jackson, Pamela Franklin

Synopsis: One of the most memorable made-for-TV horror films of the 1970s, Satan's School for Girls is set an exclusive institution of learning in Salem, MA, where students have been committing suicide at an alarming rate. A young woman named Elizabeth Sayres (Pamela Franklin) enrolls at the all-girl's Read More

The Partridge Family: Double Trouble

Synopsis: How will Keith (David Cassidy) wriggle out of taking two girls out on the same night? Well, he could follow the advice of his sister Laurie (Susan Dey) and tell both girls the truth about the situation--or he could use the old "I've got a terrible cold" routine on one of the ladies. So guess which Read More

Ironside: A Game of Showdown

Synopsis: While on a fishing trip, Ironside (Raymond Burr) and Ed (Don Galloway) make a quick stopover at a roadside inn. It soon becomes obvious that the establish is the front for an illegal gambling house, run by a sinister professional speculator named Lou Hogan (Robert Webber), who may also have the Read More

The Devil's Daughter

Actors: Belinda Montgomery, Shelley Winters, Robert Foxworth, Joseph Cotten, Jonathan Frid

Synopsis: Jeannot Szwarc, the director responsible for so many episodes (both good and bad) of the Night Gallery TV series, was the helmsman of The Devil's Daughter. This small-screen Rosemary's Baby clone stars Belinda Montgomery as a young woman targeted by a group of Satanists. It seems that Belinda's Read More