David Nutter Filmography

Entourage: The Resurrection

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Drama does his best to avoid the reviews of his new television series "Five Towns" as Vince and Eric hatch a plan to buy the "Medellin" script and Turtle falls for the beautiful daughter of a gruff auto shop owner. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Traveler [TV Series]

Crew: Director

Actors: Matthew Bomer, Logan Marshall-Green, Aaron Stanford, Pascale Hutton, Viola Davis

Synopsis: Another of the many serialized adventure shows created in the wake of such similar efforts as 24 and Lost, ABC's Traveler starred Matthew Bomerand and Logan Marshall-Green as Jay Burchell and Tyler Fog, a freewheeling pair of graduate students who have fallen under the spell of an inveterate--and Read More

Entourage: The Prince's Bride

Crew: Director

Synopsis: As Vince negotiates an indecent proposal with a shady prince interested in financing the production of "Medellin," Drama rides the wave of his recent television success straight to Brett Ratner's backyard pool and Turtle's date with dream girl Kelly turns into a nightmare thanks to the beauty's Read More

The Sopranos: Join the Club

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Following his shooting at the hands of Uncle Junior, Tony finds himself in a comatose dream state. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide Read More

Entourage: My Maserati Does 185

Crew: Director

Supernatural [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: A joint effort of filmmakers McG, Eric Kripke, and Robert Singer, the weekly, hour-long series Supernatural starred Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki as Dean and Sam Winchester, the sons of a dogged and determined "spook hunter." Since the death of his wife at the hands of malevolent poltergeists Read More

Supernatural: Pilot

Crew: Director

Nip/Tuck: Sal Perri

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In the aftermath of a tragic airplane crash in Miami, Julia attempts to find out if her mother was onboard as Christian, Sean, Julia, and Liz tend to the traumatized survivors. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Jack & Bobby [TV Series]

Crew: Director

Actors: Christine Lahti, Matt Long, Logan Lerman, Jessica Paré, Edwin Hodge

Dr. Vegas [TV Series]

Crew: Director

Actors: Rob Lowe, Joe Pantoliano, Tom Sizemore, Sarah Lancaster, Amy Adams

Tarzan [TV Series]

Crew: Director

Actors: Travis Fimmel, Sarah Wayne Callies, Mitch Pileggi, Lucy Lawless, Miguel A. Nuñez, Johnny Messner

Synopsis: The third live-action TV series based on Edgar Rice Burroughs' immortal "King of the Jungle" (there had also been a few cartoon series and innumerable theatrical features), the WB network's Tarzan offered a few new up-to-date spins on the classic canon. Orphaned in the jungle as an infant, John Read More

ER: Hindsight

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Told in reverse chronology, this episode details the 24 hours leading to the disastrous misdiagnosis that may spell the end of Kovac's (Goran Visnjic) medical career. The whole story stems from a Christmas party at the home of Dr. Susan Lewis (Sherry Stringfield), where an apparently inebriated Read More

Without a Trace [TV Series]

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: Produced by the same team responsible for C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation, the CBS series Without a Trace focused on the activities of the FBI's Missing Persons Squad. Each episode revealed the methodical, minute-by-minute, clue-by-clue procedure used by the Squad in their efforts to locate Read More

The West Wing: 100,000 Airplanes

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: On the night that President Bartlet (Martin Sheen) is to deliver the State of the Union Address, the staff wrestles with the problem of Bartlet's (Martin Sheen) congressional censure. Also at issue is the anti-cancer initiative which the president may or may not include in his speech. Before the Read More

Smallville [TV Series]

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Superficially, the much-anticipated weekly adventure fantasy series Smallville resembled the many cartoon and live-action adaptations of DC's old Superboy comic books, themselves spin-offs of the indomitable Siegel and Schuster creation, Superman. However, this new hour-long WB series went off on Read More

Band of Brothers: Replacements

Crew: Director

Synopsis: "Replacements," the fourth installment of HBO's docudrama miniseries, Band of Brothers, focuses on the new members of Easy Company who arrive as the unit becomes involved in the ill-fated Operation Market Garden. Some of the old-timers who jumped into Normandy with Easy are more accepting than Read More

Smallville: Pilot

Crew: Director

Synopsis: It has been 12 years since the meteor shower which all but devastated the rural Kansas community of Smallville in 1989. On that fateful evening, the parents of little Lana Lang were killed; Lex Luthor, son of billionaire business mogul Lionel Luthor (John Glover), was rendered totally bald; and on Read More

ER: Partly Cloudy, Chance of Rain

Crew: Director

Synopsis: An unusually heavy rainstorm brings a inordinate amount of "traffic" into the ER. Outside the doors of the hospital, Weaver (Laura Innes) and a nervous, inexperienced Gallant (Sharif Atkins) risk electrocution from downed power lines to save a pregnant woman and her unborn baby. Inside, Greene (Anthony Edwards Read More

ER: Piece of Mind

Crew: Director

Synopsis: New Year's Eve brings its share of crises for everyone on the ER staff. In New York, Dr. Burke (Chris Sarandon) performs a risky experimental operation on Greene's (Anthony Edwards) brain tumor. And back in Chicago, the staffers must deal with Dan Harris (Jim Belushi) and his son Paul (Jared Padalecki Read More

Dark Angel: Pilot

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Dark Angel begins its two-season run with a feature-length episode establishing both characters and premise. Back in the year 2009, young Max Guevara (Geneva Locke) escaped from Manticore, a sinister laboratory creating human prototypes with heavy doses of animal DNA. A lab creation herself, Max Read More

Roswell [TV Series]

Crew: Director, Executive Producer

Disturbing Behavior

Crew: Director

Actors: James Marsden, Katie Holmes, Nick Stahl, Steve Railsback, Bruce Greenwood

Synopsis: David Nutter made his directorial debut with this fantasy thriller, attempting a switch on The Stepford Wives premise. The Clark family moves from Chicago to Cradle Bay, and Steve Clark (James Marsden) is cautioned by Gavin Strick (Nick Stahl) about the separating factions at the local high Read More

ER: Stuck on You

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Carter (Noah Wyle) is forced to shave off his precious beard when he gets carpenter's glue stuck in it. He also seeks out a new residence, ending up with a surprising landlord. Elsewhere, Ross (George Clooney) risks life and limb to rescue gay teenager Kevin Dulaney (Chad E. Donella), who has been Read More

Sleepwalkers

Crew: Director, Executive Producer

Actors: Abraham Benrubi, Bruce Greenwood, Kathrin Nicholson, Jeffrey D. Sams, Naomi Watts

ER: No Brain, No Gain

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Benton (Eriq La Salle) tries to save the life of a 13-year-old gang member who's already been declared dead, thereby creating even more friction amongst the ER staffers. Meanwhile, "floating" nurse Rhonda (Jill O'Hara) continues to make disastrous mistakes. And on the domestic front, Greene (Anthony Edwards Read More

Trancers 5: Sudden Deth

Crew: Director

Actors: Tim Thomerson, Stacie Randall, Ty Miller, Terri Ivens, Mark Arnold

Synopsis: When the nefarious Lord Caliban and his wicked henchman start acting up again, its up to future cop Jack Deth and his intrepid Tunnel Rats to try to stop him. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The X-Files: 2shy

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This X-Files episode was one of the first network-TV examples of the now-familiar plot device of "murder by Internet." This time around, Mulder and Scully are put on the trail of a serial killer who preys on heavyset women (à la The Silence of the Lambs). Once the agents determine that the Read More

The X-Files: Revelations

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Several people claiming to be stigmatics have been murdered by an unknown but apparently fanatically religious assassin. Investigating, Mulder and Scully provide protection for a little Ohio boy named Kevin Kryder (Kevin Zegers), who may be next on the killer's list. While Scully finds her own Read More

The X-Files: Irresistible

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Having suppressed the memories of her abduction, Agent Scully suddenly experiences an onrush of unpleasant and disturbing images from her ordeal. This coincides with Scully and Mulder's search for a serial killer with a hair fetish. On this occasion, it is Mulder and not Scully who doubts that Read More

The X-Files: Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This classic X-Files episode stars Peter Boyle as the titular Clyde Bruckman, a man "blessed" with the ability to predict how other people die. Mulder and Scully enlist Bruckman's assistance in solving the murders of several fortune tellers. Bruckman comes to regret his cooperation when he Read More

The X-Files: Lazarus

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Declared clinically dead, Jack Willis (Christopher Allport), Scully's former boyfriend and a fellow FBI agent, is revived on the operating table. While in a state of limbo, Willis' consciousness was taken over by the bank robber whom he has just killed in a shoot-out. As is often the case, Scully Read More

The X-Files: Beyond the Sea

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Grieving over her father's sudden death, Scully nonetheless begins investigating a series of abductions and killings. Each murder is predicted by Luther Lee Boggs (Brad Dourif), a Death Row inmate. As Mulder hastens to rescue a kidnapped couple by following the clues provided by Boggs, Scully Read More

The X-Files: Shapes

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Mulder and Scully travel to a Montana Indian reservation to investigate the shooting death of a Native American. The killer is a local rancher, who insists that he was shooting at a wolf-like creature that was attacking his son. While Scully conducts a traditional investigation, Mulder seeks out a Read More

The X-Files: Blood

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Mulder is summoned to a small suburban community in Pennsylvania, where an inexplicable murder spree has occurred. The killers are all local residents, otherwise peaceful individuals who have been whipped into a frenzy by subliminal electronic messages. Joined in his investigations by Scully Read More

The X-Files: 3

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Wasting no time once the X-Files are opened again, Mulder immediately tackles the case of a serial killer. When captured, the killer claims that he is one of three vampires who have roamed the earth for centuries. This time, surprisingly, it is Mulder who is skeptical -- until his prisoner dies Read More

The X-Files: Firewalker

Crew: Director

Synopsis: After missing several X-Files episodes due to her pregnancy, Gillian Anderson returned to her familiar role of Agent Scully in the November 18, 1994, episode "Firewalker." Re-teamed with agent Mulder, Scully investigates the death of a scientist who was researching volcanic activity in Oregon. At Read More

The X-Files: Little Green Men

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Season two of The X-Files opened September 16, 1994, on a somber note, as Mulder and Scully were forced to deal with the disbandment of the X-Files Unit. Assigned to mundane FBI investigations, the two agents are bored out of their minds. But things begin to pick up when, tipped off by Senator Read More

The X-Files: Tooms

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Mulder is dismayed when serial killer Eugene Tooms (Doug Hutchison), whom he'd sent to prison, is released on parole. It is Mulder's contention that not only will Tooms kill again, but that the ex-convict is a mutant who has been committing murders for nearly 100 years. Against the orders of his Read More

The X-Files: Roland

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A pair of top aeronautical scientists, both working on a revolutionary high-speed fuel engine, are murdered in a grotesque fashion. Suspicion falls upon Roland Fuller (Zeljko Ivanek), a mentally retarded janitor at the scientists' think tank. Refusing to jump to conclusions, Mulder and Scully Read More

Trancers 4: Jack of Swords

Crew: Director

Actors: Tim Thomerson, Stacie Randall, Ty Miller, Terri Ivens, Mark Arnold

Synopsis: Trancers 4: Jack of Swords follows the time-traveling policeman Jack Deth into another dimension, where aliens called the Trancers are keeping the natives as food. Deth's mission is to save the population from the Trancers. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The X-Files: Ice

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Mulder and Scully journey to Alaska to find out why a group of scientists at an Arctic research station has apparently cut off all communication with the outside world. For this assignment, the two agents are teamed with a geologist, a toxicologist, and a physician. Upon their arrival, Mulder Read More

Cease Fire

Crew: Director, Editor

Actors: Don Johnson, Lisa Blount, Robert F. Lyons, Richard Chaves, Rick Richards

Synopsis: In a thought-provoking treatment of the deep-rooted turmoil of war veterans, debut director (David Nutter) has fashioned a fast-paced story about Vietnam vet Tim Murphy (Don Johnson) and his struggle to regain both self-respect and emotional equilibrium. Tim suffers from nightmares, and there is Read More