Elizabeth Ashley Filmography

Broadway: The Golden Age

Actors: Edie Adams, Bea Arthur, Elizabeth Ashley, Alec Baldwin, Kaye Ballard

Synopsis: Directed by Rick McKay, who traveled across five continents during the documentary's production, Broadway: The Golden Age is both a celebration of current Broadway stars and a tribute to Broadway legends past. Through a plethora of interviews and vast amounts of archival footage, McKay presents a Read More

Detour

Actors: Elizabeth Ashley, Aaron Buer, Jill Jacobs, Brent Taylor, Kelsey Wedeen

Synopsis: A group of hard-partying teens falls prey to a family of cannibalistic killers in director S. Lee Taylor's throwback survival horror feature following in the tradition of The Hills Have Eyes and Wrong Turn. Still coming down from the buzz of a desert rave, seven teens make the mistake of their Read More

Home Sweet Hoboken

Synopsis: Japanese filmmaker Yoshifumi Hosoya, who has lived in the States since 1984, follows up on his directorial debut Sleepy Heads -- an offbeat look at Japanese ex-pats living in New York -- with this caper comedy featuring a cast of such indie luminaries as Ben Gazzara and Elizabeth Ashley. The film Read More

Just the Ticket

Actors: Andy Garcia, Andie MacDowell, Richard Bradford, Laura Harris, Andre B. Blake

Synopsis: Gary Starke (Andy Garcia) was an orphan living on the streets at 13 who grew up to preside over a crew of street hustlers as the grand master of ticket scalpers. Charming, savvy, and honorable, Gary seems beloved by everyone until Linda (Andie MacDowell), the love of his life, dumps him. Tired of Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street - Truth Will Out

Actors: Richard Belzer, Giancarlo Esposito, Peter Gerety, Clark Johnson, Yaphet Kotto

Synopsis: All her life, Josephine Pitt (Brooke Smith) has been told that she was responsible for the death of her brother in 1972, when she was only three years old. Now she wants to know for certain -- and to do that, she appeals to Al Giardello (Yaphet Kotto), who handled the original case. Meanwhile Read More

Happiness

Actors: Jane Adams, Dylan Baker, Lara Flynn Boyle, Ben Gazzara, Jared Harris, Philip Seymour Hoffman

Synopsis: After his 1995 breakthrough, Welcome to the Dollhouse, director Todd Solondz was courted by a number of studios to make a big-budget film with top stars. Instead, he chose to make this aggressively dark comedy-drama of perversions and twisted lives. Andy Kornbluth (Jon Lovitz) explodes with anger Read More

Mallrats

Actors: Shannen Doherty, Jeremy London, Jason Lee, Claire Forlani, Michael Rooker

Synopsis: Kevin Smith's follow-up to his unexpected hit Clerks details the pointless story of T.S. (Jeremy London) and Brodie (Jason Lee), two suburban New Jersey slackers who decide to head to the mall in search of solace after being dumped by their girlfriends (Shannon Doherty and Claire Forlani Read More

Touched by an Angel: Angels in the Air

Synopsis: As a ratings gimmick, radio talk host Sandy Latham (Elizabeth Ashley) invites her listeners to volunteer as her daughter Claire's prom date. It is the latest in a long series of public humiliations for Claire (Melissa Joan Hart), who has spent her life as a pawn in her selfish mother's rise to Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Big Easy Murder

Synopsis: While researching a novel, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) pays a return visit to New Orleans. Before long, she is enmeshed in a murder investigation, this one stemming from the death of a local businessman. A tiny doll was left behind at the murder scene, indicating the presence of a strong voodoo Read More

The Buccaneers

Actors: Carla Gugino, Alison Elliott, Mira Sorvino

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Edith Wharton, The Buccaneers follows four wealthy young women -- Nan (Carla Gugino), Virginia St. George (Alison Eliott), Conchita Closson (Mira Sorvino), and Lizzy Elmsworth (Rya Kihlstedt) -- throughout their eventful journey from America to London. Though they set off Read More

Law & Order: Second Opinion

Synopsis: Sam Waterston joins the cast as Executive Assistant D.A. Jack McCoy in Law & Order's fifth-season opener. The case at hand is a "revolutionary" breast-cancer treatment that may have caused a woman's death. The D.A.'s office pursues the woman doctor who developed the treatment -- and who may very Read More

Evening Shade: Season 04

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Marilu Henner, Hal Holbrook, Ossie Davis, Charles Durning, Elizabeth Ashley, Michael Jeter

The Larry Sanders Show: Off Camera

Synopsis: There's certainly no shortage of behind-the-scenes conflict when it comes to television, and this episode of HBO's Emmy award-winning late-night talk show satire exposes the gritty backstage battles that have become the stuff of legend among television fanatics. In addition to Artie's (Rip Torn) Read More

In the Best Interest of the Children

Actors: Sarah Jessica Parker, Sally Struthers, Elizabeth Ashley, Lexi Randall

Synopsis: After being released from an institution, a manic-depressive attempts to get custody of her 5 children and struggles with the opposition of her oldest daughter and the foster parents. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Evening Shade: Season 03

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Marilu Henner, Hal Holbrook, Ossie Davis, Charles Durning, Elizabeth Ashley, Michael Jeter

Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story

Synopsis: This biographical drama, based on the late actress's autobiography, chronicles her attempts to rescue her drug addicted son while simultaneously trying to overcome her life-threatening cancer. ~ Sandra Brennan, 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

Evening Shade: Season 02

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Marilu Henner, Hal Holbrook, Ossie Davis, Charles Durning, Elizabeth Ashley, Michael Jeter

Evening Shade: Season 01

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Marilu Henner, Hal Holbrook, Ossie Davis, Charles Durning, Elizabeth Ashley, Michael Jeter

Blue Bayou

Actors: Mario Van Peebles

Synopsis: Alfre Woodard plays a Los Angeles DA who moves back to her home town of New Orleans. She does this so that her teenaged son (Keith Williams) can be nearer to his estranged dad (Mario van Peebles). No sooner has Woodard arrived in "The Big Easy" than she is swept up in a local sex scandal. While Read More

Vampire's Kiss

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Maria Conchita Alonso, Jennifer Beals, Elizabeth Ashley, Kasi Lemmons

Synopsis: Vampire's Kiss follows the story of yuppie literary agent Peter Loew (Nicolas Cage) as he descends into madness and vampirism. Loew believes he has been bitten by a vampire (Jennifer Beals) and is slowly becoming one himself, despite the contrary opinion of his therapist (Elizabeth Ashley). He Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Truck Stop

Synopsis: This slick and stylish episode is something of a variation of the classic film noir DOA, with overtones of Raymond Chandler. Travelling to Hollywood in the company of elderly writer Walter Murray (Mike Connors), with whom she is slated to collaborate on a movie script, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) Read More

B.L. Stryker: Blues for Buder

A Man of Passion

Actors: Anthony Quinn, R.J. Williams, Maud Adams, Ray Walston, Victoria Vera

Synopsis: Spanish director José Antonio de la Loma helmed this 1988 coming-of-age drama starring Anthony Quinn as an aging retired artist. When Quinn's ambitious daughter leaves her home to seek fame and fortune, she sends her young son to live with his grandfather, who resides on a Mediterranean island. Read More

Hunter: A Girl Named Hunter

Synopsis: After Hunter (Fred Dryer) delivers the baby of runaway teenager Cheryl Donovan (Allison Smith), the grateful girl names her infant daughter after the detective. Shortly afterward, Cheryl turns up murdered--and of course Hunter feels honor-bound to investigate personally. It turns out that the dead Read More

Dangerous Curves

Actors: Tate Donovan, Danielle von Zerneck, Grant Heslov, Valeri Breiman, Robert Stack

Synopsis: This direct to video, youth-oriented comedy is about Chuck (Tate Donovan) and Wally (Grant Heslov), friends in their senior year at college. Graduation is fast approaching. A wealthy industrialist (Robert Stack) offfers them jobs after graduation if they'll do him a favor and deliver a car to the Read More

Dragnet

Actors: Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Christopher Plummer, Harry Morgan, Alexandra Paul

Synopsis: Dan Aykroyd must have practiced for months to perfect his Jack Webb inflections for Dragnet. Screenwriter Tom Mankiewicz's directorial debut (also written by Mankiewicz, along with Aykroyd, and Alan Zweibel) is a gentle spoof of the legendary '50s television police drama -- pitting '50s Read More

Warm Hearts, Cold Feet

Actors: Tim Matheson, Margaret Colin, Elizabeth Ashley, Barry Corbin, George DiCenzo

Synopsis: In this comedy, a journalist and her husband, an editor, present their very different thoughts on her pregnancy in their respective columns and become a big hit with their fans. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Two Mrs. Grenvilles

Actors: Ann-Margret, Claudette Colbert, Stephen Collins

Synopsis: Claudette Colbert made her first screen appearance in 25 years in the 2-part TV movie The Two Mrs. Grenvilles. The story involves social-climbing actress (read: "chorus girl") Ann-Margret, who marries American-aristocrat naval ensign Stephen Collins, the son of Ms. Colbert (the two female stars Read More

Stagecoach

Synopsis: The outlaws of country music--including Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson--team up and head across the Southwestern desert braving Indians, brigands and conflict in this made-for television version of John Ford's classic film. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

He's Fired, She's Hired

Actors: Karen Valentine, Wayne Rogers

Synopsis: This by-the-numbers comedy stars Wayne Rogers and Karen Valentine as Alex and Annabelle Grier. Alex is a well-paid ad executive who is laid off during an economic downswing. In order to continue living in the manner to which she he is accustomed, Alex's wife Annabelle decides to look for work. Read More

Svengali

Actors: Peter O'Toole

Synopsis: Peter O'Toole goes over-the-top as a has-been rocker who mentors a young female singer. This version of the old story was made for cable television. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Saturday Night Live: Elizabeth Ashley

Actors: Elizabeth Ashley, Hall & Oates

Synopsis: This 1982 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Elizabeth Ashley and features musical guest Hall and Oates. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Split Image

Actors: Michael O'Keefe, Karen Allen, Peter Fonda, James Woods, Elizabeth Ashley

Synopsis: Sure to generate conversation, this provocative drama tells the story of how a middle-class family is torn apart when their clean-cut high-achieving son, who has the potential of making it on the Olympic gymnast team, suddenly joins a religious cult. The parents become deeply worried and try to Read More

Paternity

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Beverly D'Angelo, Norman Fell, Paul Dooley, Elizabeth Ashley

Synopsis: The directorial debut of actor and stand-up comedian David Steinberg concerns a single man who decides that he wants to be a dad -- without the complication of a wife. Burt Reynolds stars as Buddy Evans, the manager of Madison Square Garden. A longtime lothario, Buddy has always been very content Read More

Windows

Actors: Talia Shire, Joe Cortese, Elizabeth Ashley, Kay Medford, Michael Gorrin

Synopsis: Slow-moving and dark, this Klute clone stars Talia Shire as Emily Hollander, a retiring, painfully introverted woman with a stutter who advertises her insecurity. She is attacked one day and her anguish recorded on tape by her assailant. It soon becomes apparent that her wacko lesbian neighbor Read More

Coma

Actors: Geneviève Bujold, Michael Douglas, Elizabeth Ashley, Rip Torn, Richard Widmark

Synopsis: A feisty, feminist intern uncovers a medical conspiracy in this icy thriller about mysterious goings-on at Boston Memorial Hospital. When her best friend and aerobics partner, Nancy Greenly (Lois Chiles), emerges in a vegetative state from a routine abortion, Dr. Susan Wheeler (Genevieve Bujold) Read More

A Fire in the Sky

Actors: Elizabeth Ashley, Lloyd Bochner, Andrew Duggan, David Dukes, Joanna Miles, Merlin Olsen, Richard Crenna

Synopsis: The story begins as an astronomer notices that a blazing comet is headed straight for Phoenix Arizona. Unfortunately, no one believes him. They will eventually, but only after most of Phoenix has been reduced to cinders. Emmies went to the special effects (among the best ever seen on TV in those Read More

The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday

Actors: Lee Marvin, Oliver Reed, Robert Culp, Elizabeth Ashley, Strother Martin

Synopsis: In this broad comedy-western set in 1908 Colorado, Lee Marvin and Oliver Reed team up as Sam Longwood and Joe Knox, two con-men who once worked as a team. They reunite in order to get revenge upon their third partner, Jack Colby (Robert Culp), who used the trio's ill-gotten gains to become a high Read More

The War Between the Tates

Synopsis: The War Between the Tates is a diluted but still enjoyable TV-movie adaptation of Alison Lurie's satirical novel. Elizabeth Ashley plays Erica Tate, a middle-aged suburban homemaker. Richard Crenna is her professor husband Brian Tate. When Erica runs across evidence that Brian is conducting an Read More

One of My Wives Is Missing

Actors: Jack Klugman, James Franciscus

Synopsis: Vacationing in a small town (actually Lake Arrowhead, California), a frantic James Franciscus shows up at the local police station, declaring that his wife has disappeared. Franciscus imperiously demands that easygoing police inspector Jack Klugman drop everything and find his missing spouse. Read More

92º in the Shade

Actors: Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Margot Kidder, Burgess Meredith, Harry Dean Stanton

Synopsis: Though set in Key West, Florida, a goodly portion of 92 in the Shade was filmed in England. Peter Fonda plays Tom Skelton, a bum who gets a job as a fishing guide in his old home town. Nobody wants to have anything to do with Skelton, least of all rival guides Nichol Dance and Carter (Warren Oates Read More

Rancho Deluxe

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Sam Waterston, Elizabeth Ashley, Charlene Dallas, Clifton James

Synopsis: In Frank Perry's curious, off-center comedy Western, Jeff Bridges and Sam Waterston play Jack McKee and Cecil Carlson, a couple of cattle rustlers whose special target is taciturn rancher John Brown (Clifton James). Both men are outcasts by choice; McKee can't stand being around his stuck-up Read More

Ironside: Close to the Heart

Synopsis: Elizabeth Ashley guest stars as Laura Keyes, who after suffering a heart attack crashes her car into Ironside's van. Laura is rushed to a hospital, where the doctors discover that the woman had had a bullet lodged near her heart for years. Ironside (Raymond Burr) is amazed to discover that, not Read More

Golden Needles

Actors: Alice Fong, Edgar Justice

Synopsis: This martial arts film has an interesting twist. The conflict is over a mythical 30-inch-tall statue with very special properties. Protruding from the sculpture are seven golden needles. If the needles are inserted into a man's body in the precisely right positions, he will become a sexual Read More

The F.B.I.: Diamond Run

Synopsis: Laurence Luckinbill is cast as novice diamond smuggler James Danzer, who while eluding the FBI searches high and low for a buyer to take some stolen gems off his hands. In the course of events, Danzer kidnaps a blind woman named Claire (Elizabeth Ashley). Unless Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Read More

The Magician

Synopsis: This TV movie stars Bill Bixby as a professional magician who is wrongly accused of a crime and sent to prison. Upon his release, Bixby swears to fight criminals and wrongdoers and to champion the underdog, using his prestidigitory skills to accomplish this. The film proudly states in its prologue Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Question

Actors: Peter Graves, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Gary Lockwood, Elizabeth Ashley

Synopsis: Elizabeth Ashley, whose guest-star turn as a pathetic alcoholic on the sixth-season Mission:Impossible episode "Encounter" won her the praise of critics and viewers alike, again tackles a difficult and demanding role in the seventh-season entry "The Question." This time, Ashley is cast as IMF Read More

Paperback Hero

Actors: Elizabeth Ashley, John Beck, Keir Dullea, Dayle Haddon

Synopsis: A small-time athlete is suddenly confronted by the real world in this thoughtful comedy drama from Canada. Rick (Keir Dullea) is the star player on a semi-pro hockey team in a small town on the Canadian prairie. While Rick has to hold down a job in a hardware store to pay his rent, his skills on Read More

Your Money or Your Wife

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV comedy, the writer for a hit TV show learns that the lead actress is about to marry the show's wealthy sponsor, thus putting him (and the rest of the show's cast and crew) out of a job. To get his revenge, he writes her into a kidnaping scheme -- and then turns it into fact. Read More

Second Chance

Synopsis: Brian Keith plays a wealthy stockbroker who purchases dusty Nevada ghost town. Remembering his own humble roots, Keith sets up the town as a community where life's losers can congregate. Here these unfortunates are afforded a "second chance"-which also happens to be the name of the town. If this Read More

Shattered Silence

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Elizabeth Ashley, Michael Douglas, Karen Pearson, Larry Reynolds

Synopsis: Michael Douglas made his TV-movie debut in When Michael Calls. The film wastes no time in establishing its premise: the possibility that someone long dead may be trying to communicate with the living. Elizabeth Ashley plays Helen Connelly, who is driven to distraction after receiving several phone Read More

The Face of Fear

Actors: Ricardo Montalban, Elizabeth Ashley, Jack Warden, Dane Clark, Roy Poole

Synopsis: Made for TV, The Face of Fear resuscitates a plot gimmick that probably wasn't new when it was used in Doug Fairbanks' 1916 vehicle Flirting With Fate. Elizabeth Ashley plays a Midwestern schoolmarm who is dying of leukemia. Hoping to end the suffering as expeditiously as possible, she hires a mob Read More

Mission: Impossible: Encounter

Actors: Peter Graves, Lynda Day George, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus, Elizabeth Ashley

Synopsis: Elizabeth Ashley shines in an extremely difficult guest-star turn in the Mission:Impossible episode "Encounter." The IMF is assigned to halt the extortionist activities of crooked business executives Frank Brady (Val Avery) and Martin Stoner (Lawrence Dane). The key to the mission's success is the Read More

Harpy

Synopsis: The harpy of the title is Elizabeth Ashley, the greedy, demanding ex-wife of architect Hugh O'Brian. As a means of escaping his former spouse's tirades, O'Brian quietly trains his pet eagle to be a hunter. A confrontation between eagle and "ex" is inevitable, but masterfully handled. Tom Nardini Read More

$ (Dollars)

Actors: Warren Beatty, Goldie Hawn, Gert Fröbe, Robert Webber, Scott Brady

Synopsis: Originally billed as merely $, Dollars stars top box office draws Warren Beatty and Goldie Hawn. Beatty plays a security whiz, employed in Hamburg, Germany. He devises a clever method of robbing the secret bank vaults of notorious criminals, reasoning that the crooks will never turn to the cops. Read More

The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker

Actors: Richard Benjamin, Joanna Shimkus, Elizabeth Ashley, Adam West, Patricia Barry

Synopsis: A man who can't stop looking at other women finds that it might cost him his marriage in this farcical comedy. William and Lisa Alren (Richard Benjamin and Joanna Shimkus) are a young married couple whose relationship has begun to go stale. Bored and looking for diversion, William begins spying Read More

Ship of Fools

Actors: Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, José Ferrer, Lee Marvin, Oskar Werner

Synopsis: The first person the audience sees in Ship of Fools is dwarf Michael Dunn, who speaks to viewers directly and acts as a Greek chorus throughout the film. It begins on the deck of an ocean liner travelling from Vera Cruz to Bremerhaven. The time is the 1930s, so close and yet so far from war. The Read More

The Third Day

Actors: George Peppard, Elizabeth Ashley, Roddy McDowall, Arthur O'Connell, Mona Washbourne

Synopsis: This quirky melodrama opens with an automobile crash. The driver, Steve Mallory (George Peppard), comes out of unconsciousness with amnesia. As his memory slowly returns, he learns that he is a wealthy manufacturer of table china. His wife Alexandria (Elizabeth Ashley) wants to leave him, and his Read More

The Carpetbaggers

Actors: George Peppard, Alan Ladd, Martha Hyer, Elizabeth Ashley, Carroll Baker

Synopsis: Edward Dmytryk brings Harold Robbins' trashy, dirt-dishing Hollywood best-seller to the screen with George Peppard starring as Jonas Cord, a rancidly-sketched portrait of Howard Hughes. In 1925, when his father dies of a stroke, Jonas inherits the Cord Chemical factory, a manufacturer of dynamite Read More