Ed Lauter Filmography

Seraphim Falls

Actors: Liam Neeson, Pierce Brosnan, Anjelica Huston, Michael Wincott, Robert Baker

Synopsis: Frequent television director David Von Ancken (Oz and The Shield) offers a thrilling meditation on the true nature of revenge with this post-Civil War era tale of a one man's quest to put his nemesis in the ground, and another man's struggle to survive at any cost. Deep in the snowy mountains of Read More

Camille

Actors: David Carradine, Ed Lauter, James Franco, Scott Glenn, Sienna Miller

Synopsis: Sienna Miller and James Franco star in first-time producer/director Gregory Mackenzie's twisted romance about a honeymooning couple who discovers that sometimes love is stronger than death. Recent parolee Silas (Franco) has just been blackmailed into marrying the beautiful Camille (Miller), and Read More

The Prince and the Pauper: The Movie

Actors: Cole Sprouse, Dylan Sprouse, Kay Panabaker, Vincent Spano, DeDee Pfeiffer

Synopsis: A poor boy who spends most his spare time playing stickball in the streets suddenly finds himself returning volleys to his butler in this contemporary take on the classic Mark Twain tale starring Cole and Dylan Sprouse. Running away to the east side in his chauffer-driven limousine, thirteen year 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

Purple Heart

Actors: William Sadler, Demetrius Navarro, Mel Harris, Ed Lauter

Synopsis: William Sadler and Ed Lauter star in this war drama about a Marine sniper who is captured by the Iraqi government while on a covert mission to assassinate Saddam Hussein, and the threat he faces from his own superiors after he returns to the United States and escapes the psychiatric hospital where Read More

Into the Fire

Actors: Sean Patrick Flanery, Melina Kanakaredes, JoBeth Williams, Ed Lauter

Synopsis: A man who has spent much of his life dealing with grief finally has more than he knows what to do with in this independent drama. Walter Hartwig Jr. (Sean Patrick Flanery) is a New York City cop who is haunted by the death of his sister, who drowned at Coney Island when he was a boy. Hartwig saw Read More

The Longest Yard

Actors: Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Burt Reynolds, Nelly, James Cromwell

Synopsis: One of the toughest and best-remembered sports movies of the 1970s gets a humorous makeover in this comedy. Paul "Wrecking" Crewe (Adam Sandler) was once a famous professional football player, but after several years out of the limelight and an alcohol problem have taken their toll, Crewe is Read More

Brothers in Arms

Actors: David Carradine, Gabriel Casseus, Antwon Tanner, Kurupt, Raymond Cruz

Synopsis: Principled gangsters take on a corrupt moneyman in this period Western. Robert Driscol (David Carradine) is a ruthless and power-hungry man who owns a small New Mexico town lock, stock, and barrel, and isn't shy about dealing with anyone who gets in his way. Linc Malone (Gabriel Casseus) and his Read More

Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation

Actors: Richard Burgi, Lawrence Monoson, Colleen Porch, Ed Lauter, Brenda Strong, Kelly Carlson, Sandrine Holt, Ed Quinn

Synopsis: Humanity's war against the bugs continues in this sequel to Paul Verhoeven's sci-fi soap opera epic, Starship Troopers. This time, when a squad of troopers is stranded on a bug-infested planet, their only hope for survival lies in an abandoned outpost, where things take a turn for the worse. A Read More

Seabiscuit

Actors: Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges, Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Banks, Gary Stevens

Synopsis: For his sophomore effort, director Gary Ross re-teams with Tobey Maguire and William H. Macy, stars of his directorial debut Pleasantville, for this depression-era sports drama about the legendary racehorse, Seabiscuit. Unlike 1949's fictionalized The Story of Seabiscuit starring Shirley Temple Read More

Nobody Knows Anything

Actors: Alanna Ubach, Michael Lerner

Synopsis: An aspiring filmmaker learns that success in Hollywood doesn't come as easy as she suspected as she attempts to discover the formula to success in this satirical comedy from director William Tannen. When the guidance of her helpful has-been uncle (Michael Lerner) fails to pave the way, Sarah Read More

ER: A River in Egypt

Synopsis: Lopez (Lisa Vidal) tries to force Weaver (Laura Innes) out of the closet with a startling public display of affection. Romano (Paul McCrane) rehires Chen (Ming-Na), who has a long memory when it comes to getting even with Weaver. Abby (Maura Tierney) offers help to her new neighbor Joyce (Christina Hendricks Read More

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Cats in the Cradle...

Synopsis: An octogenarian woman, living in squalor surrounded by cats, is found stabbed to death in her decaying house. Grissom (Gil Gerard) and Catherine (Marg Helgenberger) have quite an aromatic time investigating this particular homicide. Meanwhile, two other CSI members, Nick (George Eads) and Sara (Jorja Fox Read More

Go For Broke

Actors: Pras, Michael A. Goorjian, LisaRaye, Bobby Brown, Jean-Claude LaMarre

Synopsis: Jean Claude La Marre directs the urban comedy Go for Broke. Two guys win the New York lottery, then get held up by a robber at a cafe. The woman robbing the place gets caught, taking their winning lottery ticket with her to prison. In order to get the stolen ticket back, the two guys dress in drag Read More

The Gentleman Bandit

Actors: Ed Lauter, Peter Greene, Justine Miceli, Charlie Mattera, Kristina Malota

Synopsis: Jordan Alan directs this B-movie about a thief wanting to go straight. Nick (Charlie Mattera) and Manny (Peter Greene) are partners in crime, but only Nick winds up in prison after a setup. Eight years later, he gets released and goes to Los Angeles to reunite with his ex-girlfriend, Maria (Justine Miceli Read More

Not Another Teen Movie

Actors: Chyler Leigh, Chris Evans, Jaime Pressly, Eric Christian Olsen, Mia Kirshner, Eric Jungmann, Randy Quaid, Molly Ringwald

Synopsis: Former MTV executive Joel Gallen makes his feature directorial debut with this broad spoof of the popular teen comedy genre, lampooning dozens of movies including American Pie (1999), American Beauty (1999), Bring It On (2000), Clueless (1995), She's All That (1999), Road Trip (2000), Can't Hardly Read More

ER: Survival of the Fittest

Synopsis: April Fool's Day brings a combination of the silly and the serious to the ER, with emphasis on the latter. A police officer shoots an elderly patient with dementia, but full blame for the incident may actually rest with two of the ER staffers. Several teenagers are injured while trying to "huff" Read More

Thirteen Days

Actors: Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, Steven Culp, Dylan Baker, Michael Fairman

Synopsis: Director Roger Donaldson teams up with star Kevin Costner for another political thriller (after their 1987 pairing, No Way Out), only this time with a film based on the actual events surrounding the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, taking place during the titular thirteen days wherein the U.S. and Read More

ER: Rescue Me

Synopsis: Abby (Maura Tierney) and her bipolar mom, Maggie (Sally Field), have a tense confrontation just before Thanksgiving. In a less serious but similar vein, Chen (Ming-Na) uses a family Thanksgiving party as an opportunity to reveal her pregnancy to her mother (Nancy Kwan). Back at the ER, Abby barely Read More

Law & Order: Entitled

Synopsis: In this concluding episode of a two-part "crossover" story which began on Law & Order's sister series Law & Order: SVU, the D.A.'s office endeavors to connect the murder of a salesman with the politically influential Mulroney family. Despite pressure brought to bear by powerful matriarch Regina Read More

ER: The Storm, Part 1

Synopsis: In this first episode of a two-part story, Ross' (George Clooney) maverick behavior catches up with him when his unauthorized treatment of ALD patient Ricky Abbott (Kyle Chambers) has fatal consequences. This tragedy has long-reaching consequences for others in the ER, beginning with the closing Read More

ER: The Storm, Part 2

Synopsis: In this Emmy-winning concluding episode of a two-part story, Ross (George Clooney) suffers the consequences for his part in the death of ALD patient Ricky Abbott. Also detrimentally affected are Carol (Julianna Margulies) , who assisted Ross in treating Ricky, and his superiors Greene (Anthony Edwards Read More

A Bright Shining Lie

Actors: Bill Paxton, Amy Madigan, Vivian Wu, Donal Logue, Eric Bogosian

Synopsis: Adapted from Neil Sheehan's 1988 Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller, this $14-million TV docudrama, re-creating the Vietnam War with convincing combat footage, was the most expensive two-hour movie ever produced by HBO Pictures. Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann (Bill Paxton) spends ten years Read More

A Dollar for the Dead

Actors: Emilio Estevez, William Forsythe, Howie Long, Joaquim de Almeida, Jonathan Banks

Synopsis: With this western saga, the TNT network pays tribute to the Spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone. Featuring the original crew responsible for the Italian helmer's most famous genre entries A Fistful of Dollars and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, the film was primarily shot in Spain. The tale is set Read More

ER: Exodus

Synopsis: A toxic benzine spill in the ER waiting room forces the evacuation of all the patients. With Weaver (Laura Innes) suffering the ill effects of the spill, Carter is placed in charge of the "exodus." Meanwhile, Corday (Alex Kingston) goes on an EMT ridealong, ultimately risking her life to treat Leo Read More

Married to a Stranger

Actors: Jaclyn Smith, Robert Clohessy, Kim Coates, Louise Fletcher, Ed Lauter

Synopsis: In this made-for-television drama, a wife and mother completely loses her memory. Now it is up to her husband to court her and try to get her to fall in love with him again so he can bring his family back together. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Mercenary

Actors: Olivier Gruner, John Ritter, Robert Culp, Ed Lauter, Martin Kove

Synopsis: When kidnappers murder his wife, business tycoon Jonas Ambler vows to get revenge. He then hires a soldier-of-fortune to find them. Trouble brews when he insists on going with them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Under Wraps

Actors: Adam Wylie, Mario Yedidia

Synopsis: Set during Halloween, this youth-oriented adventure centers on the efforts of three kids to save an ancient mummy from a criminal. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Allie & Me

Actors: Lyndie Benson, Joanne Baron, James Wilder, Steven Chester Prince, Ed Lauter

Synopsis: Getting home early, Beverly Hills wife Michelle Halaburton (Lyndie Benson) catches her husband Dustin (Harry Hamlin) in bed with her best friend Allie (Joanne Baron), who works at Michelle's favorite beauty salon. Not long after this, Michelle and Allie embark on a life of crime. At the beauty Read More

Childhood Sweetheart?

Synopsis: Greg Davis (Michael Reilly Burke) was 12 years old when his childhood sweetheart Karen Carlson disappeared while en route to his home. 17 years later, Greg, now a schoolteacher, is astonished by the sudden appearance of an enigmatic young woman (Melissa Gilbert) who claims to be the long-missing Read More

Rattled

Actors: William Katt, Shanna Reed, Michael Galeota, Monica Creel, Ian Abercrombie

Synopsis: It would seem that the producers of the made-for-cable chiller Rattled had not only used Joseph Gilmore's novel Rattlers as their inspiration, but had also supped full of such horror movies as Poltergeist and Arachnophobia. The scene is Eden Valley, a luxurious housing development carved from a Read More

Mulholland Falls

Actors: Nick Nolte, Melanie Griffith, Chazz Palminteri, Michael Madsen, Chris Penn

Synopsis: Four men just barely on the right side of the law step into a web of danger and corruption in this drama. In the early 1950s, Max Hoover (Nick Nolte) is a detective with the Los Angeles Police Department who leads what's been dubbed "the hat squad," a group of sharp-dressed cops who are ordered to Read More

Raven Hawk

Actors: Rachel McLish, William Atherton, John Enos, Ed Lauter, Matt Clark

Synopsis: A vengeful Native American woman hunts for the business tycoon who destroyed her life when she was only 12. Her ordeal began when he had her parents killed and then made it look as if she did it. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Sweeper

Actors: C. Thomas Howell, Ed Lauter, Kristen Dalton, Janet Gunn, Cynda Williams

Synopsis: In this actioner, a secret group of citizens who want to take the law into their own hands do their best to convince an L.A. cop to join them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Leaving Las Vegas

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands, Richard Lewis, Valeria Golino

Synopsis: Mike Figgis' grim drama documents a romantic triangle of sorts involving prostitute Sera (Elisabeth Shue), failed Hollywood screenwriter Ben (Oscar-winner Nicolas Cage), and the constant flow of booze which he loves more dearly than life itself. Arriving in Las Vegas with the intention of drinking Read More

Crash

Actors: Michael Biehn, Matt Craven, Leilani Sarelle

Synopsis: In this actioner, a petty crook attempts to deliver a computer disk to his boss. Unfortunately, the information upon that disk is of particular interest to corrupt G-men and the ruthless members of a drug cartel. Finding himself in the midst of this deadly struggle, the crook receives help from a Read More

Digital Man

Synopsis: Cyberpunk schlockmeister Phillip Roth directs this sci-fi action flick about cool explosions and bad cyborgs. When the army's latest brand of killer robots start killing the wrong people, a band of nubile coed soldiers get sent in to kick a little android keister. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

The Tuskegee Airmen

Actors: Laurence Fishburne

Synopsis: Based on a true story, The Tuskegee Airmen chronicles the experiences of the first African-American fighter pilots in the U.S. Army Air Corps. Using Hannibal Lee (Laurence Fishburne) as a focal point, the movie follows the airmen from their initial training at Tuskegee, Alabama, through their Read More

Trial by Jury

Actors: Joanne Whalley, Armand Assante, Gabriel Byrne, William Hurt, Kathleen Quinlan

Synopsis: Joanne Whalley-Kilmer stars as a woman corrupted by the criminal justice system in this courtroom suspense thriller. She plays a civil servant named Valerie Alston, a single mother living in New York City, who gets placed on a jury trying the case of mob boss Rusty Pirone (Armand Assante). A Read More

Secret Sins of the Father

Actors: Lee Purcell, Lloyd Bridges, Beau Bridges

Synopsis: Real-life father and son Lloyd and Beau Bridges star in the tense modern melodrama Secret Sins of the Father. Nebraska farmer Louis Thielman (Lloyd) is charged with murder of his wife. Making the charge is Louis's son Tom (Beau), the town sheriff. Though the evidence points to Louis, there are Read More

Girl in the Cadillac

Actors: Erika Eleniak, William McNamara, Michael Lerner, Bud Cort, Valerie Perrine

Synopsis: Erika Eleniak and William McNamara star as a couple of young lovers on the run in this breezy road movie, based on James M. Cain's novella The Enchanted Isle. Mandy Baker (Erika Eleniak) is a bored 17-year-old looking for adventure outside of her small hometown of Paint Rock, Texas. She finds it Read More

Wagons East!

Actors: John Candy, Richard Lewis, John C. McGinley, Ellen Greene, Robert Picardo

Synopsis: Comedian John Candy, who died during the making of this poorly received comic western, plays James Harlow, a 19th century wagon master who is heading back east with a wagon train full of oddball characters who have had their fill of Western life. They include ex-doctor Phil Taylor (Richard Lewis) Read More

Highlander: Bless the Child

Actors: Adrian Paul, Stan Kirsch, Jim Byrnes, Philip Akin, Michelle Thrush

Synopsis: Paul, Adrian~Duncan MacLeod Kirsch, Stan~Richie Ryan Byrnes, Jim~Joe Dawson Akin, Philip~Charlie DeSalvo Thrush, Michelle~Sara Lightfoot Lauter, Ed~Avery Hoskins Cuthbert, Jon~Billy Hoskins Dunn, Carolyn~Nora Fontaine Abrahams, Doug~Luke Hoskins Wray, Dean~J.J. Wright, Johnna~Margaret ~ Hal 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

Goodbye, Miss 4th of July

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Disney's made-for-television film Goodbye, Miss 4th of July is about the daughter of Greek immigrants in pre-World War II West Virginia. The girl and her family befriend an elderly, ailing former boxer, who happens to be African-American. The boxer and the family are forced Read More

Extreme Justice

Actors: Lou Diamond Phillips, Scott Glenn, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: Filmed just before the Rodney King incident, Extreme Justice is a violent tale of "police procedure" gone bonkers. Troublesome LAPD cop Jeff Powers (Lou Diamond Phillips) is assigned to an elite squad headed by his old friend Dan Vaughn (Scott Glenn). Ostensibly organized to collar violent repeat Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street - And the Rockets Dead Glare

Actors: Daniel Baldwin, Ned Beatty, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: Lewis (Clark Johnson) and Crosetti (Jon Polito) run afoul of the Feds while investigating the murder of a Chinese student, who turns out to have been one of the leaders of the Tiananmen Square protest. Elsewhere, Munch (Richard Belzer) and Bolander (Ned Beatty) investigate when a body is found in Read More

Under Investigation

Actors: Harry Hamlin, Joanna Pacula, Ed Lauter, Richard Beymer, Lydie Denier

Synopsis: Harry Hamlin plays a cop on the trail of a psychotic killer who just may be his lover, in Under Investigation. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

School Ties

Actors: Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Chris O'Donnell, Randall Batinkoff, Andrew Lowery

Synopsis: An assemblage of young Hollywood actors poised for stardom marked this tale of anti-Semitism at a 1950s prep school. Brendan Fraser stars as David Greene, a working-class Jewish quarterback from Scranton, Pennsylvania, who is offered a senior year scholarship to a prestigious New England academy. Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: The First Duty

Synopsis: On the eve of his graduation from Starfleet Academy, Wesley Crusher is involved in a fatal in-flight accident. Though he knows the truth behind the tragedy, Wesley is reluctant to tell all for fear of hurting his friends in the Academy. As his fate is determined during a hearing, the crew of the Read More

Calendar Girl, Cop, Killer? The Bambi Bembenek Story

Synopsis: This fact-based drama follows the flight of a Milwaukee woman wrongly convicted for murdering her husband's ex-wife. Hoping to have a chance for a re-trial she escapes from prison and heads for Canada. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Rocketeer

Actors: Bill Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Alan Arkin, Timothy Dalton, Paul Sorvino

Synopsis: After getting his start as a visual effects artist on the original Star Wars trilogy, Spielberg protege Joe Johnston found success as a director with his debut film, the blockbuster family adventure Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. For his sophomore outing, Johnston helmed this action-adventurer, set in Read More

Golden Years

Actors: Keith Szarabajka

Synopsis: This made-for-TV mini-series from the notorious horror writer centers upon a hapless old janitor who begins undergoing incredible physical changes after he is accidentally covered with experimental chemicals following a laboratory mishap. Now the government will stop at nothing to get him back. Read More

My Blue Heaven

Actors: Jesse Bradford, Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, Joan Cusack, Melanie Mayron, Carol Kane

Synopsis: Herbert Ross directed this Nora Ephron-scripted buddy comedy starring Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, and Joan Cusack. Steve Martin plays Vinnie Antonelli, a street smart mobster who agrees to turn state's evidence and is forced to move to Fryburg, California as part of the witness relocation program. Rick Moranis Read More

Born on the Fourth of July

Actors: Tom Cruise, Raymond J. Barry, Caroline Kava, Kyra Sedgwick, Brian Larkin, Willem Dafoe

Synopsis: The second of three films by co-writer/director Oliver Stone to explore the effects of the Vietnam War (Platoon and Heaven and Earth are the others), Born On The Fourth Of July tells the true story of Ron Kovic (Tom Cruise), a patriotic, All-American small town athlete who shocks his family by Read More

Fat Man & Little Boy

Actors: Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia, John Cusack, Laura Dern

Synopsis: "Fat Man" and "Little Boy" were the nicknames given the atomic bombs that were dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the waning days of World War II. This elaborately assembled film is the story of the events leading up to the dawn of the atomic age. Paul Newman plays General Leslie Groves, a Read More

Gleaming the Cube

Actors: Christian Slater, Steven Bauer, Min Luong, Art Chudabala, Le Tuan

Synopsis: Gleaming the Cube does for skateboarding what Over the Top did for arm wrestling -- i.e. not a hell of a lot. Christian Slater is the skateboarding star, playing Brian Kelly, a sneering and laconic teen outcast. He feels left out and envious of his adopted Vietnamese brother Vinh's (Art Chudabala) Read More

Tennessee Nights

Actors: Julian Sands, Stacey Dash, Ed Lauter, Ned Beatty, Denise Crosby

Synopsis: The ideas that non-Southerners have about the American south don't bear thinking about for too long. It seems that just about everyone in the world has seen Deliverance or one of the Smokey and the Bandit films one time too often. In this film by a Swiss director, all the fears generated by these Read More

Chief Zabu

Actors: Allen Garfield, Zack Norman, Allan Arbus, Manu Tupou, Lucianne Buchanan

Synopsis: Two aspiring real estate moguls try to convince the Polynesian chief Zabu (Manu Topou) into going along with their harebrained scheme in this uneven comedy. Ben (Allen Garfield) and his partner Sammy (Zack Norman) offer Zabu lucrative concessions in exchange for bribes that will get the island Read More

Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise

Actors: Robert Carradine, Curtis Armstrong, Larry B. Scott, Timothy Busfield

Synopsis: In this follow-up to Revenge of the Nerds the nerdy frat boys from Lambda Lambda Lambda go to Ft. Lauderdale to a national frat conference where they again must outwit the thick-tongued jock frat-boys who are also at the conference. This they can do. ~ All Movie Guide Read More