Daphne AshbrookFilmography

The O.C.: Premiere

Synopsis: The initial seven-week "test run" of The O.C. starts with a bang in this debut episode. The main focus is on Ryan Atwood (Ben McKenzie), a tough, trouble-prone teen who has been arrested for stealing a car and thrown out of his Chino home, seemingly headed inexorably toward a life of crime. Read More

Dumbarton Bridge

Actors: Tom Wright, Esperanza Catubig, Daphne Ashbrook, Leo Burmeister, Art Desuyo

Synopsis: A father and daughter confront their problems with both family and race issues in the independent drama Dumbarton Bridge. John Shed (Tom Wright) is a Vietnam veteran who scrapes together a living working at the salt ponds in a small town south of San Francisco. Though John is black, he has few Read More

Doctor Who

Actors: Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, Daphne Ashbrook, Eric Roberts

Synopsis: Coproduced by the BBC and America's Fox Network, the two-hour movie Doctor Who was an attempt to revive the phenomenally popular science-fiction series which orginally ran from 1963 to 1989. Sylvester McCoy, the last of seven actors to play the Doctor, here repeats his familiar role--albeit Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Nailed

Synopsis: Murder, She Wrote's 241st episode largely takes place in a trendy Fifth Avenue beauty salon. A powerful financier has been found murdered in the establishment, and a hairdresser who has been passing along "trade secrets" is among those suspected. It is possible, however, that a burglar may be the Read More

Automatic

Actors: Olivier Gruner, John Glover, Daphne Ashbrook

Synopsis: A kickboxing cyborg security agent accidentally kills a corporate officer who was trying to rape a blonde employee in this sci-fi copy of Die Hard. The head of the corporation orders his security teams to kill both the cyborg and the employee to prevent word of the attempted rape from getting out. Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Dear Deadly

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) installs herself in the offices of a San Francisco paper, there to concentrate on serializing one of her novels. At the same time, the paper's advice columnist has become the target of a campaign of harassment. Jessica warns the columnist to take the situation seriously Read More

Dead Man's Revenge

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Melora

Synopsis: Daphne Ashbrook guest stars as Ensign Melora Pazlar, a DS9 cartographer from a low-gravity world who requires a wheelchair to move about in normal gravity. Falling in love with Melora, Bashir tries to find a cure for her affliction. On a less lofty plateau, the redoubtable Quark is targetted for Read More

The Air up There

Actors: Kevin Bacon, Winston Ntshona

Synopsis: It's off to Africa for a former B-ball player who'd like to find a top-notch basketball recruit to help him become a successful coach. Kevin Bacon has the lead in this Paul Glaser-directed film. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Murder So Sweet

Actors: Harry Hamlin, Helen Shaver, Eileen Brennan, Terence Knox, Faith Ford

Synopsis: Made for video, the Canadian Murder So Sweet stars Harry Hamlin as a ladies' man with a smooth line and a cool approach. Trouble arises only whenever one of Hamlin's girlfriends starts insisting upon a committment. That's when he settles the argument with murder. Helen Shaver, who suspects that Read More

Intruders

Actors: Richard Crenna, Mare Winningham, Daphne Ashbrook, Susan Blakely, Ben Vereen

Synopsis: Hypnotic regression prompts a pair of sisters to recognize that they've been abducted by aliens. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Sunset Heat

Synopsis: In this exciting and violent crime drama, a drug dealer turned photojournalist returns to his old stomping grounds in L.A. and ends up entangled in a new drug scheme by his former pal. After stealing a fortune in drugs from a ruthless crime lord, the photographer must flee for his life. ~ Sandra Read More

Intruders, Part 2

Synopsis: Two patients, one with flashbacks and another who remembers the crash of a UFO, lead a well-known Los Angeles psychiatrist into an investigation of UFO abductions in order to help them. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Intruders, Part 1

Synopsis: Two patients, one with flashbacks and another who remembers the crash of a UFO, lead a well-known Los Angeles psychiatrist into an investigation of UFO abductions in order to help them. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Daughters of Privilege

Synopsis: In this drama a Florida newspaper owner's daughter gets involved with her daddy's biggest competitor who uses her to help destroy her father's business. Trouble ensues. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Ballad for a Blue Lady

Synopsis: While visiting a friend in Nashville, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) comes face to face with Bobby Diamond (Jimmy Dean), a popular country singer with more than a few of the requisite skeletons in his closet. A maelstrom of greed and philandering yields a murder, whereupon Jessica tries to find out who Read More

Rock Hudson

Actors: Thomas Ian Griffith, William R. Moses, Andrew Robinson, Diane Ladd, Daphne Ashbrook

Synopsis: Rock Hudson is a TV-biopic oversimplification of the life and career of the durable screen idol. Most of the background material is based on the book by Phyllis Gates, who was briefly married to Hudson in the 1950s. The film recounts (in fan-magazine fashion) Hudson's rise from truck driver to Read More

14 Going on 30

Actors: Daphne Ashbrook, Adam Carl, Rick Rossovich

Synopsis: 14 Going on 30 starts out like Candida and ends up like Back to the Future. 14-year-old Danny O'Neill (Gabey Olds), carrying a torch for his teacher, Peggy Noble (Daphne Ashbrook), can only suffer in silence as Peggy plans to marry brutish gym instructor "Jackjaw" Kelton (Rick Rossovich). With the Read More

Longarm

Synopsis: A showdown is staged between a U.S. deputy marshal and the outlaw gang that raised him in the New Mexico Territory of 1887. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Carly's Web

Actors: Daphne Ashbrook, Cyril O'Reilly, Vincent Baggetta, Peter Billingsley, Bert Rosario

Synopsis: In this drama a missing truckfull of soybeans leads investigators from the Justice Department to reveal questionable government practices. The clerk who does the work uses a variety of interesting techniques to solve the mystery. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason begins representing a friend of Della's after he is accused of murdering an old madam who is also his wife. As the intrepid attorney investigates, he soon exposes a multi-million dollar banking fraud. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Quiet Cool

Actors: James Remar, Adam Coleman Howard, Daphne Ashbrook, Jared Martin, Nick Cassavetes

Synopsis: This actioner is set in a remote, heavily forested area in Northern California where marijuana growers raise their illegal crops and run whole communities with their terrorist tactics and wealth. The tale centers on the efforts of a fearless New York cop to free one such community from the tyranny Read More

That Secret Sunday

Actors: James Farentino

Synopsis: The word for That Secret Sunday would seem to be "irresponsible." Two party girls are horribly murdered, and the police handle the investigation irresponsibly. The reason is that the four investigating cops are guilty of the murder, which stemmed from their own irresponsible behavior. Read More

The A-Team: Road Games

Synopsis: Chronic gambler Jim Sullivan (Frank Marth) is in danger of losing the foster home that owns to gambling-ring kingpin Johnny Royce (Edward Winter). The A-Team agrees to help Sullivan, with Face (Dirk Benedict) posing as a notorious New Jersey hoodlum in order to infiltrate Royce's operation. Read More

Brothers-In-Law

Synopsis: In this Stephen Cannell-produced pilot for a potential TV detective series, Mac Davis plays an ex-highway patrolman and Joseph Cortese an ex-trucker, related by marriage. Their wives were twin sisters--were, because in addition to all the other "ex" qualifications in their lives, Davis and Cortese Read More

Our Family Honor

Synopsis: The 1985 TV series Our Family Honor opened to excellent reviews, but the ratings were tepid and the project lasted a mere three months. The series spotlighted two rival New York families: The McKays, three generations of law enforcement officers, and the Danzigs, who are organized-crime Read More

Gimme an 'F'

Actors: Stephen Shellen, Mark Keyloun, Jennifer C. Cooke, Daphne Ashbrook

Synopsis: This predictable teen movie combines cheerleading and dancing but does not add a viable storyline or characterization to carry the entertainment past those activities. The plot centers on a competition between high-school cheerleading squads -- and one squad in particular, the Moline Ducks, is Read More