Chris IsaakFilmography

Born:: June 26, 1956
Occupation:: Actor, Songwriter
Biography:: In another era, Chris Isaak's steely good looks and affable, unaffected screen presence would have made him an overnight leading man. Whether by choice or fate, however, Isaak seems to be content with his status as a part-time character actor and full-time rockabilly-influenced crooner. Born in...Read More

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The Informers

Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Winona Ryder, Jon Foster, Amber Heard, Mickey Rourke

Synopsis: A collection of Bret Easton Ellis' short stories are adapted for the screen by Ellis and Nicholas Jarecki and helmed by Gregor Jordan in The Informers, a Senator Entertainment ensemble film featuring Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, and Winona Ryder. The film observes the goings-on during a week Read More

4/24/09
The Chris Isaak Hour [TV Series]

Actors: Chris Isaak

Synopsis: Singer-songwriter Chris Isaac hosts this one-hour, in-depth interview program, talking one-on-one with a variety of musicians about their art, inspiration, and careers. Digging for answers with inside knowledge of what it's like to be a musical artist, Isaac offers funny, irreverent perspective Read More

2009
Jerry Lee Lewis: Last Man Standing - Live

Actors: Jerry Lee Lewis

Synopsis: On the heels of his 2006 release {^Last Man Standing}, seventy-something rock-and-roll piano man Jerry Lee Lewis stages a rollicking series of concerts featuring special guest appearances by such musical superstars as Tom Jones, Merle Haggard, Kid Rock, John Fogerty, Kris Kristofferson, Chris Read More

2007
Soundstage: Chris Isaak

Actors: Chris Isaak

Synopsis: Chris Isaak offers up his biggest hits in this Soundstage presentation, including sultry renditions of "Wicked Game" and "Baby Did a Bad, Bad Thing." Well-loved for his sexy croon (not to mention his chiseled jaw), Isaak is equally adept at playing rowdy, electric rockabilly and intimate, acoustic Read More

2005
A Dirty Shame

Actors: Tracey Ullman, Johnny Knoxville, Selma Blair, Chris Isaak, Suzanne Shepherd

Synopsis: America's leading titan of bad taste, John Waters, returns to X-rated territory (well, actually NC-17-rated territory, but you get the idea) for this wildly over-the-top comedy. Sylvia Stickles (Tracey Ullman) is a wife and mother living in Baltimore who, along with her husband Vaughn (Chris Read More

9/24/04
Soundstage: A Chris Isaak Christmas

Actors: Chris Isaak

Synopsis: The weather outside is delightful, and as the sun blazes down on California, Chris Isaac ducks in to his air-conditioned studio to record the Christmas album he's always wanted to make. Captured live at the Soundstage studios in Chicago, this collection of holiday standards features such jovial Read More

2004
Chris Isaak: Baja Sessions

2004
Soundstage: Chris Isaak and Raul Malo

Synopsis: The PBS music series Soundstage has featured a variety of musical artists. This edition of the show offers Chris Isaak and Raul Malo performing various selections. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

2003
The Chris Isaak Show [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Chris Isaak, Kristin Datillo, Jed Rees

2001
MTV Unplugged: Ballads

Synopsis: The premise of MTV's Unplugged series is to strip away the layering of high-end quality production of a popular song, pare it down to its essential elements, and present an acoustical version of that song. On this video the theme of romanticism defines each video of some of the best love ballads Read More

1999
MTV Unplugged: Classic Moments

Synopsis: The premise of MTV's popular Unplugged series is to strip away the layering of high-end quality production of a popular song, pare it down to its essential elements, and present an acoustical of that song performed by the artist. On this video some of MTV's finest memories are collected for this Read More

1999
Blue Ridge Fall

Actors: Peter Facinelli, Rodney Eastman, Will Estes, Jay R. Ferguson

Synopsis: A teenager finds himself torn between his loyalty to his friends and possibly destroying his own future in this drama. Danny (Peter Facinelli) is a high school senior who has been offered a chance to play football for a college scholarship; while the offer is tempting, at the same time he doesn't Read More

1999
From the Earth to the Moon

Actors: David Andrews, Bryan Cranston, Tim Daly, Al Franken, Tony Goldwyn

Synopsis: Originally aired on HBO and directed by Apollo 13 star and space enthusiast Tom Hanks, among others, From the Earth to the Moon explores the ups and downs of space travel, beginning with President Kennedy's famous speech before Congress on May 25, 1961, and chronicling the journey to putting the Read More

1998
That Thing You Do!

Actors: Tom Everett Scott, Liv Tyler, Charlize Theron, Johnathon Schaech, Steve Zahn, Ethan Embry

Synopsis: Tom Hanks made his directorial debut in this bright comedy set in the mid-1960's about a rock group and their brief fling with fame. Guy Patterson (Tom Everett Scott) works as a salesman at his father's appliance store and plays the drums in his spare time, fancying himself a jazz musician. One Read More

1996
Grace of My Heart

Actors: Illeana Douglas, John Turturro, Matt Dillon, Eric Stoltz, Bruce Davison, Patsy Kensit

Synopsis: Illeana Douglas delivers a superb performance as Denise Waverly, a fictional singer and songwriter whose life bears more than a passing resemblance to that of real-life pop star Carole King. Edna Buxton, the daughter of a Philadelphia steel tycoon, aspires to a career as a singer, and when against Read More

1996
Friends: The One After the Superbowl, Part 1

Synopsis: Ross (David Schwimmer) discovers that Marcel the Monkey has become a popular TV commercial star (next step to superstardom: "Virus II"). Fortune also smiles upon Joey (Matt LeBlanc) during his tenure on Days of Our Lives -- or at least he thinks so until meeting his unbalanced "number one fan." Read More

1996
The Larry Sanders Show: The P.A.

Synopsis: It's a father and child reunion, albeit one with a distinctive showbiz twist, in this episode of HBO's popular late-night talk show satire. Though Artie (Rip Torn) hasn't seen his son Cully (Colin Quinn) for many years, the fatherly producer hires him as a production assistant when he hears that Read More

1995
Little Buddha

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Chris Isaak, Bridget Fonda, Alex Wiesendanger, Ying Ruocheng

Synopsis: Bernardo Bertolucci attempts to mix Buddhist spirituality with childhood fantasy in Little Buddha. When Dean Conrad (Chris Isaak), a Seattle architect, comes home from work one day, he finds two robed Buddhist monks sitting in his living room talking with his wife Lisa (Bridget Fonda). Guided by a Read More

1994
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

Actors: Sheryl Lee, Chris Isaak, Ray Wise, David Bowie, Moira Kelly, Kyle MacLachlan, Harry Dean Stanton

Synopsis: David Lynch's prequel to his cult television series "Twin Peaks" concerns the last seven days in the life of Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee), whose plastic-wrapped corpse, found floating in a river, was the fulcrum for the television series. During the day in the town of Twin Peaks, Laura is a top Read More

8/28/92
The Silence of the Lambs

Actors: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Anthony Heald, Brooke Smith

Synopsis: In this multiple Oscar-winning thriller, Jodie Foster stars as Clarice Starling, a top student at the FBI's training academy whose shrewd analyses of serial killers lands her a special assignment: the FBI is investigating a vicious murderer nicknamed Buffalo Bill, who kills young women and then Read More

2/14/91
Chris Isaak: Wicked Game

Synopsis: Blending movie-star good looks, a moody Roy Orbison-esque vocal style, and a musical approach that mixes a number of vintage rock styles into a refreshing new sound, Chris Isaak became one of the most interesting pop stars to emerge in the late '80s, and this home video release brings together Read More

1991
Saturday Night Live: Delta Burke

Actors: Delta Burke, Chris Isaak

Synopsis: This 1991 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Delta Burke and features musical guest Chris Isaak. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

1991
Married to the Mob

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Modine, Dean Stockwell, Mercedes Ruehl, Alec Baldwin

Synopsis: Michelle Pfeiffer is Married to the Mob in this comedy. The wife of Mafia hitman Alec Baldwin, Pfeiffer regularly chastizes her husband for his underhanded line of work. Baldwin refuses to entertain any thoughts of quitting the mob-and besides, he's got a good thing going with Nancy Travis, the Read More

8/19/88
Let's Get Lost

Actors: Paul Baker, Diane Vavra, Ruth Young, Carol Sue Baker, William Claxton

Synopsis: Let's Get Lost is a penetrating Oscar-nominated documentary on the life of jazz trumpeter Chet Baker (1929-1988). After a generous amount of screen time devoted to Baker's American career, from his days with Charlie "Bird" Parker and Gerry Mulligan to the formation of his own combo, the film Read More

1988
Morgan Stewart's Coming Home

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Jon Cryer, Lynn Redgrave, Nicholas Pryor, Viveka Davis, Paul Gleason

Synopsis: An ambitious father thinks nothing of using his own son to achieve his political goals in this adolescent comedy. The lonely boy has spent the last seven years tucked away and ignored by his parents, Senator Tom Morgan and his social-climbing wife Nancy, in a distant boarding school. As the story Read More

6/4/87