Dee Wallace Filmography

Grey's Anatomy: Time After Time

Synopsis: The revelation that Izzie (Katherine Heigl) once gave up a daughter for adoption is a challenge which George (T. R. Knight) is willing to face, or so he thinks. Down in the dumps over her vacillating relationship with Derek (Patrick Dempsey), Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) must also contend with her Read More

Bone Dry

Actors: Lance Henriksen, Luke Goss, Dee Wallace, Tom "Tiny" Lister, Jr., Carl Buffington, Jennifer Siebel

Synopsis: Luke Goss and Lance Henrikson star in first time writer/producer/director Brett A. Hart's unforgiving tale of a vengeance pitting a mysterious man with a dark past against a sadistic tormentor intent on pushing his prey to the limits of human endurance. Eddie (Goss) is a family man who had just Read More

Kalamazoo?

Actors: Mayim Bialik, Josie Davis, Joanna Clare Scott, Claire Bloom, Chita Rivera

Synopsis: A trio of lifelong friends returns to their hometown of Kalamazoo, MI, for their ten-year high-school reunion, only to discover that their graduation time capsule contains embarrassingly unmet goals for all of them in director David P. O'Malley's affectionate comedy. For Carol Cavanaugh (Josie Davis Read More

The Lost

Actors: Marc Senter, Shay Astar, Alex Frost, Megan Henning, Robin Sydney

Synopsis: A charismatic psycho suspected of killing two innocent campers in a cold-blooded double homicide grows increasingly unstable as his suburban empire starts to crack at the foundations in director Chris Sivertson's adaptation of author Jack Ketchum's chilling take on the 1960s-era Charles Schmid Read More

Sons & Daughters [TV Series]

Actors: Fred Goss, Gillian Vigman, Alison Quinn, Jerry Lambert, Amanda Walsh

Synopsis: Debuting with two back-to-back episodes on March 8, 2006, the half-hour ABC sitcom Sons & Daughters was clearly influenced by Fox's Arrested Development in its depiction of a large, extended, and extremely dysfunctional American family. Series co-creator Fred Goss headed the cast as Read More

Headspace

Actors: Christopher Denham

Synopsis: A twenty-five year old man whose chance encounter with a mysterious stranger has found his intellect rapidly expanding finds himself at the center of a gruesome murder case in an award-winning horror thriller starring Olivia Hussey, Sean Young, Dee Wallace Stone, and Udo Kier. Alex Borden is Read More

American Blend

Actors: Anupam Kher, Dee Wallace, David Oyelowo

Boo

Actors: Trish Coren, M. Steven Felty, Jilon Ghai, Dee Wallace, Nicole Rayburn

Synopsis: A haunted hospital harbors a deadly secret, and when a group of college students check in for a cheap Halloween thrill they're in for the fright of their life in this seasonal shocker starring genre veteran Dee Wallace Stone and directed by Anthony C. Ferrante. For years rumors of ghosts stalking Read More

The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story

Actors: Tommy Vignatti, Dean Cain, Sarah Joy Brown, David Denman, Dee Wallace, G.W. Bailey

Synopsis: On December 24, 2002, a woman named Laci Peterson, eight months pregnant at the time, was reported missing to police in a suburban California community. Laci's husband, Scott Peterson, initially joined police in their investigation of his wife's disappearance, which was soon presumed to be the Read More

Out of the Black

Actors: Tyler Christopher, Sally Kirkland, Dee Wallace, Jack Conley, Jacqueline Aries

Synopsis: A family faces new crises while trying to resolve an old one in this drama. After the death of Cal Malby (Miles O'Keefe), a miner who died in an accident that eventually leveled the economy of a small Pennsylvania community, his sons Patrick (Jason Widener) and Cole (Tyler Christopher) have been Read More

Killer Instinct

Actors: Corbin Bernsen, Dee Wallace

Synopsis: Perrysburg, PA, is just a dot on the map, but the town's major employer, a somewhat profitable factory run by a board of directors headed by Jennings Wilhite (Corbin Bernsen), is ripe for sale. The representative of a prospective suitor, Sarah Fairchild (Dee Wallace Stone), is denied an Read More

Pirates of the Plain

Actors: Tim Curry, Dee Wallace, Seth Adkins

Synopsis: A young boy with a habit of daydreaming discovers that reality has caught up with his imagination -- with a vengence -- in this comedy-adventure for the whole family. Bobby (Seth Adkins) is an eight-year-old boy growing up on a remote community in the rural Midwest with his mother (Dee Wallace Stone Read More

Ally McBeal: Buried Pleasures

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol, Lucy Liu, Portia de Rossi

Invisible Mom 2

Synopsis: A young orphan is adopted into a somewhat bizarre family, primarily due to the fact that his new mom has a tendency to vanish from sight. When the child's cousins show up to get a bit of the youngster's fortune, his new mom saves the day. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Bad As I Wanna Be: The Dennis Rodman Story

Actors: Dwayne Adway, John Terry, Dee Wallace, Heidi Mark, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Dennis Rodman

Synopsis: Dwayne Adway portrays Dennis Rodman in this biographical drama that begins with Rodman as a Dallas teen, follows him to college where he confronts racism, and then traces his NBA ascendancy (Detroit Pistons to San Antonio Spurs), ending with his 1995 leap to the Chicago Bulls. Rodman himself is Read More

Skeletons

Actors: Ron Silver, Christopher Plummer, James Coburn, Dee Wallace, Dennis Christopher

Synopsis: In this grim and suspenseful thriller, a news journalist and his family exchange life in grimy, hectic New York for that in a peaceful Maine village. Unfortunately, the burg they chose is ruled by a harsh, ultraconservative preacher who hates all outsiders. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Perfect Mother

Actors: Tyne Daly, Ione Skye, Justin Louis, Dee Wallace

Synopsis: A mother-in-law's propensity for meddling goes to extremes when she decides to murder her son's wife so she can have custody of her grandson. This made-for-TV drama is based on a true story. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Mutual Needs

Actors: Charlotte Lewis, Rochelle Swanson, Richard Grieco, Christopher Atkins, Dee Wallace

Synopsis: An ambitious prostitute displays a keen grasp on the concept of supply and demand when she helps a low-level office guy win a high paying job, so he'll become a regular customer. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

Black Circle Boys

Actors: Scott Bairstow, Eric Mabius, Donnie Wahlberg, John Doe, Lisa Loeb

Synopsis: In this teen-oriented horror movie, Kyle (Scott Bairstow) is a high school swimming champion who sinks into a depression after the accidental death of his best friend. When his parents, Ken (Bruce Burkhartsmeier) and Barbara (Dee Wallace-Stone), move the family from California to Washington State Read More

Nevada

Actors: Kirstie Alley, Angus MacFadyen, Kathy Najimy, James Wilder, Bridgette Wilson, Amy Brenneman, Saffron Burrows

Synopsis: A woman fleeing the man in her life discovers a city of women in this revisionist western. Chrysty (Amy Brenneman) is passing through the Nevada desert when she happens upon the small town of Silver, currently populated entirely by women and children, while the men in the community are gone Read More

The Frighteners

Actors: Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson, John Astin, Jeffrey Combs

Synopsis: Charlatan Frank Bannister (Michael J. Fox) has genuine psychic powers, but he doesn't use them to help people. Rather, he generates cases for his supernatural private-eye firm by harassing a group of hapless ghosts (including a dearly departed Wild West outlaw and an undead judge played by John Read More

Women First & Foremost: Remember the Ladies

Women First & Foremost: Touching the Clouds with Pen and Plane

Women First & Foremost: A Lady In the Spotlight

Skateboard Kid 2

Synopsis: Twelve-year-old Sammy is the new kid in town. He desperately wants to fit in with the others, but no one seems terribly interested in befriending him until he devises a magical skateboard. With his new sidewalk surfboard, Sammy can literally fly. He soon finds himself and his invention scouted by Read More

Best of the Best 3: No Turning Back

Actors: Phillip Rhee, Gina Gershon, Christopher McDonald, Dee Wallace, Cristina Anzu Lawson

Synopsis: In this martial arts actioner, a straight-arrow, Midwestern small-town sheriff teams up with a martial arts master and kicks the stuffing out of a band of white supremacists. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Invisible Mom

Actors: Dee Wallace, Barry Livingston, Trenton Knight, Russ Tamblyn, Christopher Stone

Synopsis: A family's life is thrown into comical chaos after mom accidentally drinks her inventor husband's latest concoction -- an invisibility potion. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Witness to the Execution

Actors: Sean Young, Tim Daly, Len Cariou, George Newbern, Dee Wallace

Synopsis: Like the feature film Network (1976), this made-for-television drama scathingly satirizes an amoral, avaricious media. The story is set in 1999, a time the pay-per-view television industry is in a tailspin. It seems with over 500 available channels, audiences have become jaded with movies and Read More

Discretion Assured

Actors: Michael York, Jennifer O'Neill

Synopsis: Infidelity, murder, and white-collar crime walk hand in hand in this sophisticated thriller. Trevor McCabe (Michael York) is a British businessman who oversees the Brazilian branch of a successful multinational corporation with his partners Austin (Grainger Hines) and Frank (Will Kepper). While Read More

Vanishing Son 4

Runaway Daughters

Actors: Paul Rudd, Julie Bowen, Dee Wallace, Jenny Lewis, Holly Fields

Synopsis: Some teen girls take to the road in this made-for-cable remake of the 1956 original. Set in 1957, three guy-crazy friends take to the road in a stolen car, trying to track down one of their ex-lovers before he goes off into the Navy. The film is part of Showtime's "Rebel Highways" series of Read More

Moment of Truth: Cradle of Conspiracy

Actors: Danica McKellar, Dee Wallace, Carmen Argenziano, Merle Kennedy

Synopsis: In this drama, worried parents fight to find their pregnant runaway daughter and prevent her from selling her unborn baby to sleazy baby brokers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Search and Rescue

Actors: Robert Conrad, Dee Wallace, Chad McQueen

Synopsis: Robert Conrad and Dee Wallace-Stone star in this made-for-TV movie about a California civilian rescue squad led by former leatherneck Tooter Campbell (Conrad). Search and Rescue served as the pilot for the subsequent series High Sierra Search and Rescue. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

Rescue Me

Actors: Michael Dudikoff, Stephen Dorff, Ami Dolenz, Peter DeLuise, William Lucking

Synopsis: Rescue Me is an agreeably daffy spoof of adventure films. Nerdy high school camera aficionado (Stephen Dorff) worships teen queen (Ami Dolenz) from afar. He fantasizes about performing some sort of noble act to impress her. But when she's kidnapped before his very eyes, he's too busy taking Read More

Huck and the King of Hearts

Actors: John Astin, Graham Greene, Chauncey Leopardi, Joe Piscopo

Synopsis: So many screenwriters have surreptitiously updated the works of Mark Twain with contemporary jargon and "political correctness", without saying they've done as much, that it's a bit refreshing to see an admitted, all-out updating of Twain. Scenarist Chrstopher Sturgeon has transplanted the Read More

Lightning in a Bottle

Actors: Lynda Carter, Dee Wallace, Martin Kove, Matt McCoy, Stuart Whitman

Synopsis: Following a terrible auto wreck, a woman reawakens but can remember nothing about herself or the events leading up to the tragedy. This makes it all the more painful when she discovers that a man and his little boy were killed in the crash, one that she may have caused. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Tainted Lady

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) comes to the aid of Ellen Woer (Dee Wallace Stone), whom she'd previously helped to beat a murder rap. In the interim, Ellen has become owner of a diner, in which three patrons died of arsenic poisoning. While Jessica labors to find out what really happened, several Read More

I'm Dangerous Tonight

Actors: Mädchen Amick, Anthony Perkins

Synopsis: A made-for-TV effort from horror director Tobe Hooper (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), this supernatural thriller is ostensibly based on the novella of the same name by Cornell Woolrich -- but the title is pretty much where the similarity ends. The plot involves a possessed Aztec ceremonial cloak Read More

Alligator 2: The Mutation

Actors: Richard Lynch, Steve Railsback, Joseph Bologna, Woody Brown

Synopsis: Not so much a sequel to the John Sayles-scripted Alligator as a shoddy remake, this sophomoric low-budget effort plays like a bad TV movie about a swamp-dwelling alligator mutated to monstrous size by toxic waste, munching on the screaming residents of a lakefront community. The naughty polluter Read More

Popcorn

Actors: Jill Schoelen, Tom Villard, Derek Rydall, Malcom Danare

Synopsis: In this off-beat horror outing, a band of film students decide to scare up some cash by holding a film festival celebrating horror films from the '50s. Its all great fun until they discover that the projectionist is a homicidal maniac. Gory violence ensues as audience members begin dying in Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Fire Burn, Cauldron Bubble

Synopsis: The citizens of Cabot Cove are terrified by the arrival of young Irene Terhune (Julian Donald), an apparent practitioner of black magic. Rumors are rife that Irene is actually the ghost of Annie Gorman, a local witch who had supposedly died centuries ago. Inevitably, murder rears it ugly head and Read More

Stranger on My Land

Synopsis: In this drama, a Vietnam vet takes a stand when government agents attempt to take his ranch so they can build a missile base there. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Shepherd

Synopsis: In this religious drama, two Vietnam veteran pilots find themselves unable to escape the horrors of the war until they accept the teachings of Christ and find personal salvation. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Addicted to His Love - Sisterhood

Actors: Barry Bostwick, Linda Purl

Synopsis: When this seriocomic TV film first aired March 28, 1988, it was titled Addicted to His Love. Evidently to pacify certain feminist factions, the film was rechristened Sisterhood for syndication. Either way, this is the story of a smooth lothario, played by Barry Bostwick. In the course of 97 Read More

Miracle Down Under

Actors: Dee Wallace, John Waters, Bill Kerr, Charles "Bud" Tingwell, Nadine Garner

Synopsis: Christmas Visitor is an American/Australian coproduction geared for exposure on the Disney Channel pay-cable service. The scene is the Australian outback in the 1890s, where a drought threatens to wipe out a farming community. Holding out for a miracle, the farmers face a bleak Yuletide, until an Read More

Shadow Play

Actors: Cloris Leachman, Ron Kuhlman, Barry Laws, Al Strobel

Synopsis: An author is haunted by the spirit of her dead husband in this routine supernatural thriller by Susan Shadburne. Morgan Hanna (Dee Wallace Stone) returns to the island where her husband died several years earlier in hops of breaking through her writer's block. She stays with her late husband's Read More

Critters

Actors: Dee Wallace, M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Green Bush, Scott Grimes, Nadine Van Der Velde

Synopsis: Critters, an amusing horror comedy directed byStephen Herek, is the story of a family menaced by eight basketball sized creatures from outer space who arrive at their Kansas farm in search of food. Helen Brown (Dee Wallace Stone) and Brad (Scott Grimes), owners of the farm find themselves held Read More

Sin of Innocence

Actors: Megan Follows, Bill Bixby

Synopsis: While we're tempted to label the TV-movie Sin of Innocence as Brady Bunch: The Lost Episode, the film transcends all kidding with its intelligent, tasteful approach to its story material. Dermot Mulroney plays a teenager whose widowed father (Bill Bixby) marries a divorcee (Dee Wallace Read More

Secret Admirer

Actors: C. Thomas Howell, Lori Loughlin, Fred Ward, Kelly Preston, Dee Wallace, Cliff De Young

Synopsis: Produced at the height of the teen sex comedy cinema craze in the mid-1980s, Secret Admirer (1985) was the directorial debut of David Greenwalt, who would later move from screwball comedy to horror with the television series The X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. C. Thomas Howell stars Read More

King of the City

Actors: Tony Curtis, Bleu MacKenzie

Synopsis: King of the City died on the vine when it was released under its original title in 1985; conditions hardly improved when it was reissued a year later as Club Life. Merely a recycling of the disco films of the 1970s, King of the City is lots of sound and fury, signifying nothing: one prominent TV Read More

Bialy Smok

Synopsis: An expedition into the fictional land of Karistan brings a geologist (Christopher Lloyd) and his son into contact with the "witch," a white horse with the power to transform into a dragon. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Hostage Flight

Synopsis: Made for television, Hostage Flight fomented a well-publicized controversy when first aired by NBC on November 17, 1985. On a domestic flight headed for Detroit, 65 passengers are held hostage by four international terrorists. The demands of the hijackers are simple: Release their imprisoned Read More

Cujo

Actors: Dee Wallace, Danny Pintauro, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Christopher Stone, Ed Lauter

Synopsis: Based on a Stephen King novel, Cujo is not as menacing or as frightening as other film adaptations of King's popular stories and especially cannot compare to the 1976 Carrie. Cujo is a happy St. Bernard until he is bitten on the nose by a rabid bat and slowly begins manifesting the symptoms of his Read More

The Sky's No Limit

Synopsis: This drama chronicles the experiences of three women as they endure the rigors of NASA training and compete with each other to become the first female astronaut in US history. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Wait Till Your Mother Gets Home!

Actors: Paul Michael Glaser, Dee Wallace

Synopsis: When his wife becomes the new family breadwinner, a football coach must learn the ins and outs of child care and housecleaning. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Happy

Actors: Jack Gilford

Synopsis: Roger Hanover (Dom DeLuise) once enjoyed TV stardom as "Happy the Clown." Now, however, Roger is a has-been, reduced to private parties and store openings. Even so, he remains a hero in the eyes of his adoring son Roger Jr. (played, appropriately enough, by David DeLuise). To prove his true worth Read More

I Take These Men

Synopsis: I Take These Men is a variation on the 1941 Ginger Rogers theatrical feature Tom, Dick, and Harry. While being feted at a surprise 15th wedding anniversary party, Carol Sherwood (Susan St. James) startles the well-wishers by asking her dull dentist husband, Stuart (James Sherwood), for a divorce. Read More

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

Actors: Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore, Debra Winger

Synopsis: Both a classic movie for kids and a remarkable portrait of childhood, E.T. is a sci-fi adventure that captures that strange moment in youth when the world is a place of mysterious possibilities (some wonderful, some awful), and the universe seems somehow separate from the one inhabited by Read More

Skeezer

Synopsis: Skeezer is an irresistible dog with a special affinity towards handicapped children. Nurse/therapist Karen Valentine uses Skeezer to brighten the lives of the emotionally disturbed and mentally handicapped kids in her charge. The authorities aren't keen on Skeezer's presence, but rest assured Read More

Jimmy the Kid

Actors: Gary Coleman, Paul Le Mat, Dee Wallace, Don Adams, Walter Olkewicz

Synopsis: Gary Coleman stars as the title character, the bratty son of wealthy parents, who is kidnapped by a pair of bumbling crooks. The experience winds up teaching the pampered boy the realities of childhood. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Five of Me

Synopsis: Historically, most multiple-personality cases have been women. Based on the autobiographical book by Henry Hawksworth, The Five of Me centers on a rare male victim of this bizarre syndrome. David Birney plays Hawksworth, who for his first 36 years lived with four separate personalities. When a Read More

The Child Bride of Short Creek

Synopsis: Originally made for television and based on a true story from the '50s, this film concerns a rural Arizona town that deals in polygamy. Specifically, a boy is shocked that his father (Christopher Atkins), a veteran of the Korean War, wishes to take a 15-year-old girl for another wife. ~ John Bush Read More

A Whale for the Killing

Synopsis: Based on the book by Farley Mowat, this made-for-TV movie follows the struggle of a New York ecologist (Peter Strauss) to stop the whale killing taking place off the coast of Newfoundland. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Howling

Actors: Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan, Christopher Stone, Belinda Balaski

Synopsis: This groundbreaking, darkly-comic horror film from director Joe Dante changed the look and feel of werewolf movies in ways light-years distant from Universal's horror classic The Wolf Man. The story begins with television reporter/anchor Karen White (Dee Wallace) taking part in a dangerous police Read More

Run, Don't Walk

Actors: Toni Kalem, Dee Wallace, Scott Baio, Hal Williams, Jim McKrell

Synopsis: Toni Kalem, best known to contemporary audiences for her role as Angie Bompensiero on The Sopranos, stars in this ABC Afterschool Special as the teenaged victim of a crippling accident. Helping the girl overcome her handicap -- and her resentment over her situation -- are a concerned teacher (Dee Wallace Read More

The Secret War of Jackie's Girls

Synopsis: In this WW II adventure, a team of female pilots perform dangerous missions on both sides of enemy lines. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide