Delta BurkeFilmography

The Year Without a Santa Claus

Actors: John Goodman, Chris Kattan, Ethan Suplee, Eddie Griffin, Carol Kane

Synopsis: Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin, Jr.'s 1974 animated classic comes to vivid life for a whole new generation of viewers in this live action holiday adventure starring John Goodman, Chris Kattan, Eddie Griffin, Ethan Suplee, and Carol Kane. When a depressed Santa Claus (Goodman) announces plans to take Read More

Good Boy!

Actors: Molly Shannon, Liam Aiken, Kevin Nealon, Brittany Moldowan, Hunter Elliott

Synopsis: For his debut feature, John Hoffman wrote and directed this effects-heavy family film based on the story Dogs from Outer Space by Zeke Richardson. Produced by Jim Henson Productions, Good Boy! presents the idea that dogs are actually an intelligent alien species sent to earth thousands of years Read More

Going for Broke

Actors: Delta Burke, Gerald McRaney

Synopsis: Laura (Delta Burke), a successful businesswoman with two children, thinks she has it all when she weds Jim Bancroft (Gerald McRaney), likewise a single parent, and moves from Florida to Reno, NV, to launch a fabulous new job as head of fundraising for the Children's Chronic Illness Association. Read More

The Designing Women Reunion

Actors: Meshach Taylor, Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Annie Potts, Jean Smart

Synopsis: The cast and creators of the popular sitcom Designing Women are reassembled in this hour-long special originally telecast on the Lifetime cable channel. Yielding 164 episodes from 1986 to 1993, Designing Women centered around the Atlanta design firm headquartered in the home of loquacious feminist Read More

Hansel & Gretel

Actors: Taylor Momsen, Jacob Smith, Delta Burke, Howie Mandel, Gerald McRaney

Synopsis: One of The Brothers Grimm's best loved fairy tales gets an overhaul using the latest in visual effects technology in this comedy-drama for the whole family. A little girl (Dakota Fanning) has a hard time getting to sleep, so her father (Daniel Roebuck) dusts off a book of children's stories and Read More

Sordid Lives

Actors: Newell Alexander, Rosemary Alexander, Bonnie Bedelia, Beau Bridges

Synopsis: Writer-director Del Shores serves up a heaping helping of Southern-fried comic melodrama in this adaptation of his own play about infidelity, country & western music, and Airstream trailers. When their sister dies, Latrelle (Bonnie Bedelia), LaVonda (Ann Walker), and Sissy (Beth Grant) plan her Read More

Touched By an Angel: Shallow Water, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of Touched by an Angel's two-part Season Seven finale, Monica (Roma Downey) is celebrating her newly acquired ability to see humans "from the inside out." It doesn't take long to find the perfect test for her new skills, as manifested in a famous gospel-singing aggregation Read More

Touched By an Angel: Shallow Water, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of Touched by an Angel's two-part Season Seven finale, angel Monica (Roma Downey) and psychiatrist Rebecca Markham (Faye Dunaway) continue their (extremely separate!) efforts to help Diana Winslow (Delta Burke), a member of a famous gospel-singing family group, come to grips with Read More

Dangerous Child

Actors: Delta Burke, Marc Donato, Jonathan Walker, Ryan Merriman, Vyto Ruginis

Synopsis: Delta Burke takes on a dramatic role for the Lifetime original movie Dangerous Child, based on a story by Karen Stillman. Sally Cambridge (Burke) is a single mother with two sons, Leo (Marc Donato) and Jack (Ryan Merriman). Sixteen-year-old Jack has a lot of emotional problems, which he releases Read More

What Women Want

Actors: Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt, Marisa Tomei, Mark Feuerstein, Lauren Holly, Ashley Johnson

Synopsis: A man finds himself getting an unexpected crash course in the psychology of contemporary women in this romantic comedy. Nick Marshall (Mel Gibson) is a successful advertising executive living in Chicago who has long fancied himself a ladies' man, though he has precious little understanding of Read More

Dag

Actors: David Alan Grier, Delta Burke, David Rasche, Stephen Dunham, Emmy Laybourne

Synopsis: The title of this NBC sitcom refers to its protagonist, Secret Service agent Jerome "Dag" Daggett (by an amazing coincidence, the letters in the title also form the initials of the series' star, David Allen Grier). During an assassination attempt on the president of the United States (David Read More

Intimate Portrait: Delta Burke

Synopsis: Delta Burke has overcome a long history of eating disorders to reach her status as a symbol for large women all over the world. Even when she became famous as Suzanne Sugarbaker on the popular TV series Designing Women, she was told to stand behind a desk so that the audience would not see her Read More

Melanie Darrow

Synopsis: A man accused of murdering his own wife, visits her best friend in hopes of convincing her to represent him in court. Everyone in his family believes him guilty, but the lawyer is convinced of his innocence. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Touched By an Angel: Homecoming, Part 1

Synopsis: In this first episode of a two-part story, Monica (Roma Downey) and Tess (Della Reese) work independently to help down-and-out druggie Julia Fitzgerald (Delta Burke) get back on her feet. After several weeks of rehab, Julia is certain that she is ready to make amends for her past misdeeds. Read More

Maternal Instincts

Actors: Delta Burke, Beth Broderick, Garwin Sanford, Gillian Barber

Synopsis: In this dark made-for-television drama, a distraught would-be mother cannot reconcile herself to the fact that the emergency hysterectomy performed upon her was necessary and so goes off to get revenge upon the medical professionals responsible for her condition. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

A Promise to Carolyn

Actors: Delta Burke, Swoosie Kurtz, Shirley Knight

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV drama based on a true story, two estranged sisters, Debra (Delta Burke) and Kay (Swoosie Kurtz), are brought together when one begins to question if the death of a third sibling when they were children could have been a result of physical abuse from their parents. Using Read More

Dayo

Actors: Delta Burke, Elijah Wood

Synopsis: Day-O is a purified TV-movie variation on the odious theatrical feature Drop Dead Fred. Mother-to-be Delta Burke begins to get those old familiar prebirth blues. Feeling that she's let life pass her by, Delta is enervated by the return of her imaginary childhood playmate, Day-O (Elijah Wood). Read More

Saturday Night Live: Delta Burke

Actors: Delta Burke, Chris Isaak

Synopsis: This 1991 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Delta Burke and features musical guest Chris Isaak. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Love and Curses... And All That Jazz

Actors: Elizabeth Ashley

Synopsis: Love and Curses...And All That Jazz is a made-for-TV effort starring Gerald McRaney (who also directed) and his wife Delta Burke. The stars portray married MDs, who head to New Orleans to renew their vows (true Southerners both, they don't feel that their Northern wedding ceremony "took"). Upon Read More

Designing Women: Season 05

Actors: Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Jean Smart, Annie Potts, Meshach Taylor

Designing Women: Season 04

Actors: Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Jean Smart, Annie Potts, Meshach Taylor

Where the Hell's That Gold?!!?

Synopsis: Two 19th Century outlaws attempt to outrun a variety of pursuers after stealing a large cache of gold in this high-energy caper starring Willie Nelson, Delta Burke, Alfonso Arau, and Jack Elam. It's not easy to outrun pursuing Indians, bandits, and Federal Agents when you're being weighed down by Read More

Designing Women: Season 03

Actors: Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Jean Smart, Annie Potts, Meshach Taylor

Dynamite and Gold

Actors: Jack Elam, Alfonso Arau, Willie Nelson

Synopsis: Dynamite & Gold is the videocassette title of the made-for-TV western comedy Where the Hell's That Gold? Willie Nelson plays a bank robber, Delta Burke his "moll" and Jack Elam and all-around gol-durned sidewinder. The three stars scrounge for a hidden fortune in stolen gold, fending off other Read More

1st & Ten: Season 04

Actors: Delta Burke, Reid Shelton, O.J. Simpson, John Matuszak, Don Gibb

Synopsis: After two "short" seasons of six and four episodes each, the raunchy HBO football sitcom 1st and Ten offers a full complement of 13 half-hour installments as the series enters season four. This year, the series' subtitle is "Going for Broke," indicating not only the game plan of the California Read More

Designing Women: Season 02

Actors: Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Jean Smart, Annie Potts, Meshach Taylor

Designing Women: Season 01

Actors: Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Jean Smart, Annie Potts, Meshach Taylor

1st & Ten: Season 03

Actors: Delta Burke, Reid Shelton, O.J. Simpson, John Matuszak, Don Gibb

Synopsis: Season three of the racy HBO football sitcom 1st & Ten bears the subtitle "The Championship," which may or may not bode well for our heroes on the California Bulls. In addition to returning regulars Delta Burke as the Bulls' sexy owner Diane Barrow, and Reid Shelton, as bombastic team coach Ernie Read More

1st & Ten: Season 02

Actors: Delta Burke, Reid Shelton, O.J. Simpson, John Matuszak, Don Gibb

Synopsis: Delta Burke as glamorous team owner Diane Barrow and Reid Shelton as unglamorous coach Ernie Denardo continue to guide the destinies of the California Bulls pro football team in the second season of HBO's 1st and Ten. Added to the cast this season is O.J. Simpson -- yes, that O.J. Simpson! 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

First and Ten: The Team Scores Again

Synopsis: Premiering December 1, 1984, First and Ten was a raunchy HBO TV series about a third-rate football team. Delta Burke starred as Diane Barrow, who acquired the California Bulls as part of a divorce settlement. The series had quite a cast turnover during its six years on the air; one of the Read More

First and Ten, Vol. 1

Synopsis: Originally telecast from December 2, 1984 to August 30, 1991, the HBO sitcom First and Ten (aka 1st & Ten) was a raunchy slant on the world of pro football. Delta Burke starred in this pilot and the series' first four seasons as Diane Barrow, who as part of a divorce settlement found herself the Read More

1st & Ten: Season 01

Actors: Delta Burke, Reid Shelton, John Matuszak, Don Gibb, John Kassir

Synopsis: Having acquired ownership of the California Bulls pro football team in a divorce settlement (her husband had run off with a lineman!), curvaceous Diane Barrow (Delta Burke) takes charge of the franchise -- and raises the temperatures of all the players in the process -- in the first season of the Read More

Rooster

Synopsis: In this comedy, a suspicious fire brings two disparate detectives together. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Charleston

Actors: Delta Burke, Lynne Moody, Patricia Pearcy, Martha Scott

Synopsis: Charleston is a brazen rip-off of Gone with the Wind which premiered over NBC on January 15, 1979--one month before CBS' planned telecast of Wind. Delta Burke, who was an unknown in 1979, very nearly remained that way in the role of post-Civil War Southern belle Stella. As Stella fiddle-dee-dees Read More

A Last Cry for Help

Actors: Linda Purl

Synopsis: "Sharon cries out for strength...for hope...for love...." So read the ad copy for the made-for-TV A Last Cry For Help Sharon (Linda Purl) is an outwardly happy, normal high schooler: A-student, cheerleader, popular with everyone. So why is she so determined to commit suicide? Director Hal Read More

The Seekers

Synopsis: The Seekers was the third and last TV movie based on John Jakes' Kent Family Chronicles (the others were The Bastard and The Rebels). Heading the huge all-star cast is Randolph Mantooth as Abraham Kent, son of elderly Revolutionary War vet Andrew Kent (played by Martin Milner, replacing the first Read More

Zuma Beach

Actors: Suzanne Somers, Steven Keats, Michael Biehn, Mark Wheeler, Kimberly Beck

Synopsis: A high-school boy's ho-hum summer at the beach turns into a dream-come-true when he is befriended by a beautiful but depressed singer whose career is on the wane. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More