David Duchovny Filmography

Quantum Hoops

Actors: Roy Dow, Jordan Carlson, Chris Yu, Ben Sexon, Robert Grubbs

Synopsis: UCSB alumnus Rick Greenwald documents the final week of the Caltech basketball team's 2006 season. The Caltech team's 240-game conference losing streak has spanned two decades, and this season's lineup includes five valedictorians who never played high-school basketball. David Duchovny narrates as Read More

Funlady

Crew: Producer

Actors: Téa Leoni

Things We Lost in the Fire

Actors: Benicio Del Toro, David Duchovny, Alison Lohman, Omar Benson Miller

Synopsis: A woman who lost her husband in a random act of violence and a heroin addict who was a lifelong friend of the dearly departed discover that the beloved husband and friend's unfortunate passing is actually a blessing in disguise in Open Hearts director Susanne Bier's Dogme-style drama. When Read More

The TV Set

Actors: David Duchovny, Sigourney Weaver, Ioan Gruffudd, Judy Greer, Fran Kranz

Synopsis: Writer/director Jake Kasdan's showbiz comedy The TV Set stars David Duchovny as Mike Klein, a television producer who in the beginning of the film successfully sells a network on a story idea. The film follows Klein as he must actually put the show together, navigate the corporate minefield of the Read More

Californication [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Former X-Files star David Duchovny played for laughs rather than chills in this Hollywood-based Showtime dramedy, which first aired August 13, 2007. Duchovny was cast as writer Hank Moody, whose highly acclaimed best-selling novel "God Hates Us All" had been made into an innocuous romantic comedy Read More

Californication: Season 01

Actors: David Duchovny, Natascha McElhone, Madeleine Martin, Madeline Zima, Damian Young

Trust the Man

Actors: David Duchovny, Julianne Moore, Billy Crudup, Maggie Gyllenhaal, James LeGros

Synopsis: Two couples demonstrate that breaking up can be just as hard as staying together in this romantic comedy drama. Rebecca (Julianne Moore) and Tom (David Duchovny) are a seemingly happy married couple living in New York City -- she's a successful actress, while he stays home with the kids. However Read More

The Secret

Actors: David Duchovny, Lili Taylor, Olivia Thirlby, Brendan Sexton

Synopsis: Inspired by the Japanese drama Himitsu (which was in turn based on the novel by author Keigo Higashino), director Vincent Perez's supernatural drama tells the tale of a mother who discovers some shocking secrets about her teenage daughter after being killed in a tragic car accident and seeing her Read More

Queer Duck: The Movie

Actors: Jim J. Bullock, Jackie Hoffman, Kevin Michael Richardson, Billy West, Estelle Harris

Synopsis: Born as a series of three-minute chucklers on Icebox.com (and aired later on the Showtime pay-cable network), veteran Simpsons-producer Mike Reiss' giddily irreverent tale of a homosexual duck (voiced by Jim J. Bullock) determined to re-define his sexual orientation comes flaming to life on the Read More

House of D

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Anton Yelchin, Téa Leoni, David Duchovny, Robin Williams, Erykah Badu

Synopsis: Actor David Duchovny made his debut as a director and screenwriter with this coming-of-age drama, in which a grown man looks back at his adolescence. It's 1973, and Tommy (Anton Yelchin) is a 13-year-old boy living in New York's Greenwich Village with his mother (Téa Leoni), who is still coming to Read More

Connie and Carla

Actors: Nia Vardalos, Toni Collette, David Duchovny, Stephen Spinella, Alec Mapa

Synopsis: Actress and writer Nia Vardalos, who became an overnight sensation with My Big Fat Greek Wedding, returns to the big screen with this gender-bending comedy. Connie (Vardalos) and Carla (Toni Collette) are best friends who've shared the same dream ever since they were teenagers -- making a name for Read More

Television: The First 50 Years

Full Frontal

Actors: David Duchovny, Nicky Katt, Catherine Keener, Mary McCormack, David Hyde Pierce, Julia Roberts, Blair Underwood

Synopsis: Described as a modern-day Hollywood version of Day for Night, director Steven Soderbergh's first digital video production was also shot employing a modified version of the frills-free Dogma 95 rules set forth by Lars Von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg, allowing a relatively small budget of Read More

The X-Files: William

Crew: Director, Screen Story

Synopsis: William, the infant son of Agent Scully (Gillian Anderson), is attacked by a strange man who injects the baby with a syringe. Rushing William to the hospital, Scully is assured that the child is unharmed -- and yet, there is considerably more iron in William's system than usual. Could all this Read More

Zoolander

Actors: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Will Ferrell, Christine Taylor, Milla Jovovich

Synopsis: Comic actor Ben Stiller co-wrote, directed, and stars in this spoof of the fashion industry that began as a short skit for the 1996 VH1 Fashion Awards. Stiller is Derek Zoolander, an intellectually challenged but bone structure-blessed male model who's despondent after being eclipsed in popularity Read More

Evolution

Actors: David Duchovny, Orlando Jones, Seann William Scott, Julianne Moore, Ted Levine

Synopsis: The spirit of the mega-hit Ghostbusters (1984) is intentionally recalled with this effects-heavy sci-fi comedy from the same director, Ivan Reitman, co-starring Dan Aykroyd and debuting on the 17th anniversary of the earlier film's release. When a meteor bearing single-celled organisms crashes to Read More

Return to Me

Actors: David Duchovny, Minnie Driver, James Belushi, Chris Barnes, David Alan Grier, Carroll O'Connor

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a man loses the love of his life, only to find her heart beating in the body of someone new. Architect Bob Rueland (David Duchovny) is happily married until his wife Elizabeth (Joely Richardson), a zoologist, dies in an auto accident. A year later, Bob is still dealing Read More

The X-Files: Hollywood A.D.

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Having proven that they were not above self-parody with the earlier episode "X-Cops," the folks responsible for The X-Files served up another dose of satire with the April 30, 2000, episode "Hollywood A.D." Agent Mulder is hired as a technical adviser when one of his previous X-Files cases is Read More

The X-Files: Season 08

Actors: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Robert Patrick, Mitch Pileggi

The X-Files: The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Originally broadcast November 14, 1999, The X-Files episode "The Sixth Extinction II: Amor Fati" concluded a three-part story that had begun with the sixth-season cliffhanging finale "Biogenesis." Still in a drug-induced coma, Mulder is placed in a "kind of witness-protection program" because he Read More

The X-Files: Season 07

Actors: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi

Synopsis: The seventh season of The X-Files offered more input from its lead characters than any of its predecessors; Gillian Anderson penned and directed the spiritual "All Things," while David Duchovny did the same for "Hollywood A.D." Aside from the actors' directorial jaunts, however, the series became Read More

The X-Files: The Unnatural

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: While checking out old New Mexico newspaper obituaries, Mulder and Scully come across a 1947 death notice for Josh Exley (Jesse L. Martin), a Negro Baseball League player who boasted a truly incredible batting average. The two agents want to know why the picture accompanying the obit showed Exley Read More

The X-Files

Actors: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Martin Landau, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Blythe Danner

Synopsis: This 60-million-dollar science fiction suspense drama (marketed with an additional 25 million dollars), was adapted from the popular TV series The X-Files -- arriving in theaters while the Emmy-winning series was still being aired, continuing plot threads familiar to many of the series' 25 million Read More

Saturday Night Live: David Duchovny [2]

Actors: David Duchovny, Sean Combs

Synopsis: This 1998 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by David Duchovny and features musical guest Puff Daddy. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

The X-Files: Season 06

Actors: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi

Synopsis: The X-Files: Season Six marked an important moment in the evolution of the series in several ways -- for one, the show's production was moved from Vancouver to Los Angeles, but more importantly, the sixth season followed The X-Files: Fight the Future (i.e. the X-Files feature film). Armed with Read More

The Larry Sanders Show: Flip

Synopsis: Desperate for an A-list guest as his final show draws ever closer, Larry (Garry Shandling) determines that he must overcome his discomfort with affectionate old friend David Duchovny in order to secure an appearance from the X-Files star. Meanwhile, Artie (Rip Torn) struggles to keep the emotional Read More

The X-Files: Season 05

Actors: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi

Synopsis: Now five years into their partnership, FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) have developed a bond deep enough to contend with the conspiracy they're faced with both inside and outside their professional lives. Unfortunately, between Scully's cancer and Mulder's Read More

Playing God

Actors: David Duchovny, Timothy Hutton, Angelina Jolie, Michael Massee, Peter Stormare

Synopsis: After losing his license to work as a surgeon, synthetic-heroin addict Eugene Sands (David Duchovny) is on a downward spiral into the Los Angeles drug scene. One night, someone is shot in a bar, and Sands performs a life-saving medical maneuver on the spot. Word travels fast. A few days later, a Read More

The X-Files: Season 04

Actors: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi

Synopsis: Just when it seemed as though the conspiracy couldn't get any weirder, The X-Files: Season Four brought FBI agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) even more nefarious government escapades with which to contend. In addition to the discovery of the Consortium, an elite Read More

The X-Files: Avatar

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: Mulder and Scully attempt to clear their boss, Assistant Director Skinner (Mitch Pileggi), of a murder charge. It seems that Skinner met a woman (Amanda Tapping) in a singles bar, then woke up beside the woman's dead -- and desecrated -- body. Not surprisingly, Skinner has been set up as a patsy Read More

The X-Files: Talitha Cumi

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: The third season of X-Files came to its traditional cliffhanger conclusion with "Talitha Cumi." Written by Chris Carter, the episode begins with Mulder and Scully investigating still another case of paranormal activity. This time, it's personal: Mulder hopes that by locating Jeremiah Smith (Roy Thinnes Read More

Frasier: Frasier Loves Roz

Synopsis: The eternally unlucky-in-love Roz (Peri Gilpin) begins dating one of Niles' (David Hyde Pierce) patients. Armed with the knowledge that Roz's new beau is a serial womanizer, Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) agonizes over how to break the news to her without violating the standard psychiatrist-patient Read More

The Larry Sanders Show: Everybody Loves Larry

Synopsis: When Larry (Garry Shandling) catches wind that the network reps may be grooming guest host Jon Stewart to fill a more permanent position on the show, an embittered Larry will stop at nothing to see that Stewart's career on The Larry Sanders Show is put on ice. With sabotage on the brain, Larry Read More

The Larry Sanders Show: The Bump

Synopsis: Fed up that he has been bumped from the show nine times in a row, comedian Jeff Cesario is somewhat placated by Larry's (Garry Shandling) promise that he will most certainly be on the next show. Complications arise when Artie (Rip Torn) and Larry discover that not only has the next show been Read More

The X-Files: Colony

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: Part one of a two-part X-Files drama, "Colony" originally aired February 10, 1995. Told in flashback, the episode traces the events leading up to Mulder's reunion with his sister, who was abducted by aliens 20 years earlier. At least, the woman (Megan Leitch) claims to be Mulder's sister Read More

The X-Files: Anasazi

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: Season two of The X-Files came to a pulse-pounding conclusion with the cliffhanger episode "Anasazi." Courtesy of a computer hacker known as The Thinker (Bernie Coulson), Mulder comes into possession of an encrypted diskette which turns out to contain evidence of a wide-ranging official cover-up Read More

Saturday Night Live: David Duchovny [1]

Actors: David Duchovny, Rod Stewart

Synopsis: This 1995 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by David Duchovny and features musical guest Rod Stewart. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

The X-Files: Season 03

Actors: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi

Synopsis: The conspiracy spiraled even further in the third season of The X-Files, which picks up with FBI Agent Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) on a desperate search for her missing partner, Agent Fox Mulder (David Duchovny). Though Mulder was left for dead after having suffered serious bodily harm in a Read More

The X-Files: Season 02

Actors: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi

Synopsis: With Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) firmly established as the believer and the skeptic, respectively, the second season of The X-Files picks up where the first left off -- with the X-Files closed and both agents in FBI-style exile, forced to work on tedious, non-paranormal Read More

The X-Files: Season 01

Actors: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson

Synopsis: Before the black oil, the Cigarette Smoking Man, and the threat of global alien colonization, there was just Fox "Spooky" Mulder (David Duchovny) researching FBI cases with a paranormal bent in his basement office and Scully (Gillian Anderson), the skeptical agent with a degree in medicine and Read More

Kalifornia

Actors: Brad Pitt, Juliette Lewis, David Duchovny, Michelle Forbes, Sierra Pecheur

Synopsis: This debut feature film from music video director Dominic Sena is a romp through the world of serial killing, which in its bleakness and moral bankruptcy looks backwards to Terrence Malick's Badlands and forward to Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers. Michelle Forbes plays hip, Mapplethorpe-esque Read More

Chaplin

Actors: Robert Downey, Jr., Dan Aykroyd, Geraldine Chaplin, Kevin Dunn, Anthony Hopkins

Synopsis: Partly based on Charlie Chaplin's My Autobiography, this humorous and dramatic biopic features an all-star cast including Oscar nominee Robert Downey Jr., Dan Aykroyd, Anthony Hopkins, Kevin Kline, Diane Lane, and Chaplin's real-life daughter, Geraldine Chaplin, who portrays his mentally ill Read More

Venice / Venice

Actors: Nelly Alard, Henry Jaglom, Suzanne Bertish, Daphna Kastner, David Duchovny, Melissa Leo

Synopsis: For sheer abject self-indulgence this side of an Eric Schaeffer movie, one need look no further than the films of Henry Jaglom. Jaglom's vanity productions require an intense Stalin-like loyalty to the filmmaker and his films going in, otherwise a viewer is lost. So when, in Venice/Venice, Henry Jaglom Read More

Beethoven

Actors: Charles Grodin, Bonnie Hunt, Dean Jones, Oliver Platt, Nicholle Tom, Stanley Tucci, Christopher Castile

Synopsis: Feeling that something is lacking in their lives, the family of suburbanite Charles Grodin adopts a stray St. Bernard puppy. The cute lite beast grows up to be the less-than-cute Beethoven, a sloppy, slobbery, oversized and extremely destructive animal. Beethoven also brings with him a lot of Read More

Ruby

Actors: Danny Aiello, Sherilyn Fenn, Arliss Howard, Tobin Bell, David Duchovny

Synopsis: Here's a fictionalized account of Jack Ruby's perspective of the events leading up to his assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald. Danny Aiello appears convincingly as the nightclub-owner Ruby who (according to this telling) points the finger at an FBI conspiracy as the force behind the Kennedy Read More

Baby Snatcher

Actors: Veronica Hamel, Nancy McKeon

Synopsis: Veronica Hamel, who'd previously played a detective on the trail of a kidnapped baby, turns kidnapper herself in the made-for-TV The Baby Snatcher. After suffering a miscarriage, Hamel becomes convinced that she will lose her husband's love. Faking a new pregnancy, Hamel allows nine months to Read More

The Rapture

Actors: Mimi Rogers, David Duchovny, Patrick Bauchau, Carole R. Davis, Will Patton

Synopsis: An audacious film about faith, The Rapture is a contemporary fantasy that keeps its feet unnervingly planted in reality even as reality starts to collapse. Mimi Rogers, in a strikingly accomplished performance, stars as Sharon, a telephone operator who spends her off-hours engaging in casual group Read More

Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead

Actors: Christina Applegate, Joanna Cassidy, John Getz, Josh Charles, Keith Coogan

Synopsis: Christina Applegate stars in this convoluted comedy that comes across as a teen fantasy combination of Home Alone and Working Girl. The premise is all in the title -- when the mother (Concetta Tomei) of a sniveling group of surly kids goes on a much-deserved summer vacation, she leaves her kids Read More

Julia Has Two Lovers

Actors: Daphna Kastner, David Duchovny, David Charles, Tim Ray, Clare Bancroft

Synopsis: Most people hang up on wrong numbers, but a woman finds herself falling in love with one caller in this offbeat independent comedy. Julia (Daphna Kastner) is a writer specializing in books for children who shares an apartment with her boyfriend Jack (David Charles). Jack wants to get married, but Read More

Denial

Actors: Rae Dawn Chong, Jason Patric, Robin Wright Penn

Synopsis: A married woman (Robin Wright) thinks she has repressed her past affair with an artist (Jason Patric), but an accidental meeting with an old friend (Rae Dawn Chong) brings the memories flooding back. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Bad Influence

Actors: Rob Lowe, James Spader, Lisa Zane, Christian Clemenson, Kathleen Wilhoite

Synopsis: Successful LA marketing analyst Michael Boll (James Spader) seemingly has it all-except a sense of self-confidence. Enigmatic drifter Alex (Rob Lowe) enters Michael's life and immediately begins to exert a negative influence. As Michael's self-esteem zooms (aided by generous dollops of sex and Read More

New Year's Day

Actors: Maggie Jakobson, Gwen Welles, Melanie Winter, Henry Jaglom, Milos Forman, David Duchovny

Synopsis: Filmmaker Henry Jaglom plays the leading male role in his characteristically gabby New Year's Day. Jaglom is a writer who insists upon asking disturbing and intrusive questions to the revellers at a New Year's Eve party. His inclusion in the story is explained by having him sublet a California Read More

Working Girl

Actors: Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, Joan Cusack, Alec Baldwin

Synopsis: Unhappy with her job and her loser boyfriend, Melanie Griffith takes a secretarial post at a major Wall Street firm. Her boss is Sigourney Weaver, an outwardly affable yuppie whose grinning visage hides a wicked and larcenous propensity for exploiting the ideas of her employees. While Weaver is Read More