Cotter Smith Filmography

Night Stalker [TV Series]

Actors: Stuart Townsend, Gabrielle Union, Eric Jungmann, Cotter Smith, Sarah LaFleur

Synopsis: The ABC sci-fi/horror/thriller series Night Stalker was not so much a remake of the cult 1974 series Kolchak: The Night Stalker as it was a "reimagining" of the earlier show -- at least according to the series' producer, X-Files alumnus Frank Spotnitz. Stuart Townsend stepped into the old Darren McGavin Read More

Reeseville

Actors: Brad Hunt, Majandra Delfino, Brian Wimmer, Missy Crider, Mark Hamill

Synopsis: Christian Otjen's small-town drama Reeseville begins with David Meyer (Brad Hunt) returning to the title town for the first time in many years. That same morning, his father is found hanged to death in the family house. The local coroner (Mark Hamill) suspects that the death was not a suicide, and Read More

X2: X-Men United

Actors: Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Halle Berry

Synopsis: When a failed assassination attempt occurs on the President's (Cotter Smith) life by the teleporting mutant Nightcrawler (Alan Cumming), it's Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and his School for Gifted Youngsters who are targeted for the crime. While Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) and Storm (Halle Berry Read More

Run the Wild Fields

Actors: Cotter Smith, Joanne Whalley, Sean Patrick Flanery, Alexa Vega

Synopsis: Joanne Whalley stars in this drama set during WWII about three people on the home front whose lives have been changed by events overseas. Ruby (Whalley) is a housewife who is trying to raise her daughter and mind the family farm on her own, as her husband has been declared Missing In Action while Read More

Law & Order: Ritual

Synopsis: The victim of a probable mugging dies, whereupon the detectives launch a homicide investigation. The trail of clues leads to the planned circumcision of Alison Martin (Emmy Rossun), the daughter of an American father (Cotter Smith) and an Egyptian mother (Ava Haddad). The outcome of the story is Read More

Lifeform

Actors: Cotter Smith, Deirdre O'Connell, Robert Wisdom, Ryan Phillippe, Leland Orser

Synopsis: The jubilation experienced when a Martian probe finally returns from its mission is short-lived when it is discovered that one of the finds is very much alive and is only a small part of a huge invasive force planning to take over the earth. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Mary Higgins Clark's Remember Me

Actors: Kelly McGillis, Cotter Smith, Shanna Reed

Synopsis: Still recovering from a breakdown caused by the death of her son two years earlier, Menly Nichols (Kelly McGillis) convalesces in the old mansion where her husband Adam (Cotter Smith) grew up. The emotionally fragile Menly is having difficulty enough adjusting to her somewhat dank surrounding when Read More

Armed and Innocent

Actors: Gerald McRaney, Kate Jackson, Andrew Starnes, Cotter Smith, Jim Haynie

Synopsis: A young boy is forced to learn some adult lessons about violence in this made-for-television movie based on a true story. Kate Jackson and Gerald McRainey star as parents of an 11 year-old boy who shoots and kills some intruders who break into his home. The film shows how the boy and his family Read More

With Hostile Intent

Actors: Mel Harris, Melissa Gilbert, Peter Onorati, Cotter Smith, Holland Taylor

Synopsis: Melissa Gilbert-Boxleitner and Mel Harris star as two female police officers fighting the police force in this made-for-TV movie about sexual harassment in the workplace. After Miranda Berkley (Harris) breaks up with her boyfriend/superior officer, she and her partner find themselves on-the-job Read More

Desperate Journey: The Allison Wilcox Story

Actors: Mel Harris, John Schneider, Dana Ashbrook, Cotter Smith

Synopsis: When Hurricane Bob roars over a sailboat and the boat capsizes, a pregnant women and a few hostile survivors are set adrift, and they must somehow work together until they are rescued. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Midnight's Child

Actors: Olivia D'Abo, Marcy Walker, Cotter Smith, Elisabeth Moss, Jim Norton

Synopsis: A woman involved in a satanic cult (Olivia D'Abo) is looking for the devil's new bride. She takes a job as a nanny to find the victim. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

A Message from Holly

Actors: Molly Orr

Synopsis: Free-spirited artist Lindsay Wagner learns that she's dying from cancer. She can handle that, but she worries about the future of her 6-year-old daughter Molly Orr. Enter high-powered executive Shelley Long, Lindsay's oldest friend. Despite the fact that they obviously move in different circles Read More

The Last Prostitute

Actors: Sonia Braga

Synopsis: When a pair of teen-aged boys break away from their summer camp to lose their virginity to an infamous hooker (Sonia Braga), they discover that she's since gone straight to become a rancher. After hiring on as stable boys, they learn about the real meaning of love and sex. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Read More

Equal Justice

K-9

Actors: James Belushi, Mel Harris, Kevin Tighe, Ed O'Neill, Jerry Lee

Synopsis: James Belushi stars in this cop actioner about a loner narcotics officer who has to break in a new partner. The twist here is that the new partner is barely housebroken, but he's still sharp and keeps his nose close to the ground. Dooley (Belushi), who works on the San Diego narc squad, is an Read More

Cameron's Closet

Actors: Cotter Smith, Mel Harris, Scott Curtis, Chuck McCann, Leigh McCloskey

Synopsis: Director Armand Mastroianni's last horror feature before building a more solid reputation as a director of TV movies and series, Cameron's Closet tells the tale of a bright young boy with innate telekinetic powers whose gifts were exploited by his father (Tab Hunter) in a series of controlled Read More

Lady Beware

Actors: Diane Lane, Michael Woods, Cotter Smith, Peter Nevargic, Edward Penn

Synopsis: In this sexy thriller, Katya (Diane Lane) is a window dresser who specializes in displays with sexy, slightly kinky themes. Surrounded by the equipment of her trade -- mannequins and lingerie -- Katya lives in a loft apartment in downtown Pittsburgh. She spends her evenings taking baths by Read More

Murder, She Wrote: One Good Bid Deserves a Murder

Synopsis: Jerry Orbach returns as hard-boiled Boston private eye Harry McGraw, who once again teams up with Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) to solve a murder. This time the victim is a popular actor, who had agreed to serve as one of the auctioneers accepting bids for a torrid diary written by a onetime Read More

Moonlighting: Read the Mind, See the Movie

Synopsis: No sooner have David (Bruce Willis) and Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) been hired to handle security at SRT Industries than they're fired by Brian and Vivian Baker (Cotter Smith, Lenore Kasdorf), the brother-sister team who run the firm on behalf of their father Carl (Bill Morey). The reason for the Read More

Deadly Justice

Actors: Richard Crenna

Synopsis: Made for television, Broken Badge originally aired as The Rape of Richard Beck. Richard Crenna plays Beck, a hard-bitten cop who has little patience for female rape victims. Then he himself is sexually assaulted by two assailants. Crenna's excellent performance notwithstanding, the teleplay by James G. Hirsch Read More

Nickel Mountain

Actors: Michael Cole, Heather Langenkamp, Patrick Cassidy, Brian Kerwin, Grace Zabriskie

Synopsis: Teen-aged waitress Heather Langekamp is impregnated by college student Patrick Cassidy. Heather's kindly "loser" boss Michael Cole provides aid and comfort for the lonely, confused girl. Her father Ed Lauter wants to finance an abortion, but Cole insists upon taking responsibility. He marries Read More

A Bunny's Tale

Actors: Lela Rochon

Synopsis: A Bunny's Tale is a TV-movie adaptation of Gloria Steinem's experiences as a Playboy bunny. Engaged by a magazine to write an investigative article on publisher Hugh Hefner's nightclub chain, Ms. Steinem (Kirstie Alley) poses as a young girl named "Marie" and enters the Bunny training program at Read More

Blood Feud

Actors: Robert Blake, Cotter Smith, Danny Aiello, Edward Albert, Brian Dennehy

Synopsis: Blood Feud was a two-part TV drama, originally presented as an "Operation Prime Time" special. Robert Blake is disturbingly convincing as labor leader Jimmy Hoffa, engaged in a decade-long war of words with attorney (and later attorney general) Robert F. Kennedy. Cotter Smith makes his TV debut as Read More