Eric Roberts Filmography

Born:: April 18, 1956 in Biloxi, MS
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Eric Anthony Roberts
Biography:: Eric Roberts is an acquired taste: those watching his movies fall into two distinct camps -- they either love him and consider him one of Hollywood's most intense and underrated actors, or they loathe him and consider him a pretentious, shameless ham. Both viewpoints are not without merit for...Read More

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The Dark Knight

Actors: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman

Synopsis: Christopher Nolan steps back into the director's chair for this sequel to Batman Begins, which finds the titular superhero coming face to face with his greatest nemesis -- the dreaded Joker. Christian Bale returns to the role of Batman, Maggie Gyllenhaal takes over the role of Rachel Dawes (played Read More

7/18/08
Witless Protection

Actors: Larry the Cable Guy, Ivana Milicevic, Yaphet Kotto, Peter Stormare, Eric Roberts

Synopsis: When a small-town sheriff (Larry the Cable Guy) witnesses what he believes to be an attempted kidnapping, his effort to save the beautiful damsel in distress sets him down a wild path of comic mishap. Eric Roberts, Yaphet Kotto, Peter Stormare, and Joe Mantegna co-star in a comedy from Red Water Read More

2/22/08
DOA: Dead or Alive

Actors: Jaime Pressly, Holly Valance, Sarah Carter, Devon Aoki, Kane Kosugi

Synopsis: Legendary Hong Kong action director and choreographer Corey Yuen brings Tecmo's best-selling video-game franchise to the big screen in a martial arts extravaganza featuring an impressive quartet of female fighters including Devon Aoki, Sarah Carter, Jaime Pressly, and Holly Valance. Tina (Read More

6/15/07
Hollywood Dreams

Actors: Tanna Frederick, Justin Kirk, Zack Norman, David Proval, Karen Black

Synopsis: When an aspiring young starlet from Iowa falls in love with a handsome and promising young actor, she finds her dreams of fame slowly fading in a poignant tale of show-business aspirations from director Henry Jaglom. Upon arriving in Los Angeles to seek her fortune on film and stage, an innocent Read More

5/18/07
One Way

Synopsis: An adman who puts career success ahead of ethics has the tables turned on him in this thriller. Eddie Schneider (Til Schweiger) is an ambitious and talented young executive at a top advertising agency. Eddie is on the fast track to the top at his firm, aided by the fact his fiancée Judy (Stefanie Read More

2007
Dark Honeymoon

Actors: Roy Scheider, Tia Carrere, Lindy Booth, Daryl Hannah, Eric Roberts, Nick Cornish

Synopsis: Roy Scheider, Tia Carrere, Daryl Hannah, and Eric Roberts headline writer/director Phillip Leftfield's tense thriller about a newly hitched groom who discovers that you never really know a woman until you marry her. Their courtship was brief, but then again life is short. After exchanging martial Read More

2007
Pandemic

Actors: Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, French Stewart, Faye Dunaway, Vincent Spano, Eric Roberts

Synopsis: Armand Mastroianni, the gifted director of the legendary 1980 horror sleeper He Knows You're Alone, returns to helm the three-hour, all-star medical miniseries Pandemic. The program explores the lethal consequences that can unfurl when a deadly plague, with an unknown cure and an even more Read More

2007
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

Actors: Robert Downey, Jr., Shia LaBeouf, Chazz Palminteri, Dianne Wiest, Channing Tatum

Synopsis: The harsh realities of life on the street merge with the universal themes of youthful pain and exhilaration in director Dito Montiel's telling tale of one boy's struggle to escape the grim fate that awaits his aimless, trouble-minded peers. For most of Montiel's friends, the only means of escaping Read More

9/29/06
Phat Girlz

Actors: Mo'nique, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Godfrey, Kendra C. Johnson, Joyful Drake

Synopsis: A woman makes it her business to convince the world that bigger is better in this comedy. Jazmin Biltmore (Mo'Nique) is a plus-size woman trying to find a place in the skin-and-bones world of high fashion. Jazmin has her heart set on launching her own line of clothes for large ladies, but she Read More

4/7/06
8 of Diamonds

Synopsis: Eric Roberts, Tim Kazurinski, and Heather Prete star in producer/director Scott Prestin's twisting tale of dishonor among thieves. When three career criminals fail in their attempt to steal a flawless diamond, no one can be trusted and temptation lies around every corner. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Read More

2006
Heroes: Season 01

Actors: Masi Oka, Milo Ventimiglia, Hayden Panettiere, Ali Larter, Adrian Pasdar, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Santiago Cabrera, Greg Grunberg

2006
My Date With Drew

Synopsis: For years, Brian Herzlinger has had a crush on a pretty girl. There's nothing so strange about that, or even that the girl in question is the famous actress Drew Barrymore. What is unusual is that Herzlinger decided to do something about it. Herzlinger was flat broke and out of work when he won Read More

8/5/05
Miss Cast Away and the Island Girls

Synopsis: In this frantic satiric comedy, Maximus Powers (Eric Roberts) and Mike Saunders (Charlie Schlatter) are a pair of airline pilots who are flying a chartered jet to Japan, booked for the contestants in the Miss Galaxy Beauty Pageant. Bad luck is following them and the pilots crash-land on a deserted Read More

2005
Comedy Hell

2005
Sledge: The Untold Story

Actors: David Leitch, Holmes Osborne, Nathan Lee Graham, Chris Palermo, Lin Shaye

2005
The Civilization of Maxwell Bright

Actors: Patrick Warburton, Marie Matiko

Synopsis: Fed up with American women and determined to procure a docile Asian wife, an angry L.A. misogynist gets a mail order bride in this romantic re-imagining of Beauty and the Beast starring Patrick Warburton, Marie Matiko, and Jennifer Tilly. Max Bright (Warburton) is fed up with independent Read More

2005
Intoxicating

Actors: Kirk Harris, Eric Roberts, John Savage, Camilla Overbye Roos

Synopsis: A man is forced to examine his headlong dive into chemically induced oblivion when he starts dragging someone else along with him in this independent drama. Dorian (Kirk Harris) is a gifted surgeon who has a severe problem outside the operating room -- he is an alcoholic and cocaine abuser who is Read More

11/5/04
Final Approach

Actors: Jordan Garrett, Larry Miller, Angela Watson, Eric Roberts, Mark Dacascos

Synopsis: A ten-year-old computer flight simulator enthusiast is forced to put his skills to the ultimate test when his cross-country flight is hijacked in screenwriter/director James Becket's high-flying adventure. As young Ricky and his classmates board a commercial airliner to embark on a cross-country Read More

2004
Six: The Mark Unleashed

Actors: Stephen Baldwin, David White, Kevin Downes, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Eric Roberts

Synopsis: It's a battle for humanity in this faith-based thriller from ChristianCinema.com and filmmaker Kevin Downes. In a dystopic future, humankind has been oppressed by a fascist government supported by the Community Police Force (CPF). But when three political prisoners escape from death row and join a Read More

2004
Justice League Unlimited: For the Man Who Has Everything

Actors: Eric Roberts, Dana Delany, Christopher McDonald, Josh Hutcherson, Mike Farrell

Synopsis: Based on a comic-book story by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, "For the Man Who Has Everything" is that rarest of rare Justice League Unlimited episodes, giving center stage to the series' three biggest stars. It's Superman's birthday, so Batman and Wonder Woman head to the Fortress of Solitude to Read More

2004
Spun

Actors: Jason Schwartzman, John Leguizamo, Mena Suvari, Patrick Fugit, Brittany Murphy, Mickey Rourke

Synopsis: A crystal-meth addict struggles to get his next fix as he obsesses over a recent breakup in Spun, a black-comic drug drama from music video director Jonas Akerlund. Rushmore's Jason Schwartzman stars as Ross, a young man who finds his maniacal world crumbling around him over the course of one long Read More

3/14/03
National Security

Actors: Martin Lawrence, Steve Zahn, Colm Feore, Bill Duke, Eric Roberts, Timothy Busfield, Robinne Lee, Joe Flaherty

Synopsis: Adversaries become wary allies in this free-wheeling action comedy. Hank Rafferty (Steve Zahn) is a Los Angeles Police Department officer who finds himself out of a job after he becomes involved in a violent altercation with police academy flunk-out Earl Montgomery (Martin Lawrence), escalating Read More

1/17/03
Justice League: War World, Part 1

Actors: Eric Roberts, William Smith

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Justice League members Superman and Martian Manhunter are rendered unconscious by hydrogen pockets while destroying an asteroid before it can hit the Earth. "Rescued" by an alien ship, the two do-gooders find themselves prisoners of the evil dictator Read More

2003
Justice League: War World, Part 2

Actors: Eric Roberts, William Smith

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Superman and Martian Manhunter remain prisoners of the despotic Mongul, who has pitted the Man of Steel against his best gladiators in mortal combat in the arena of War World. Though Superman manages to win his first bout (and without shedding blood), he is Read More

2003
Break a Leg

Actors: John Cassini, Molly Parker, Rene Rivera, Jennifer Beals, Kevin Corrigan

Synopsis: A talented character actor with an undeniable presence on the screen but an uncanny track record of losing roles to more marketable "name" actors decides to take matters into his own hands after losing out on one too many roles in director Monika Mitchell's blood-soaked showbiz satire. Max Matteo Read More

2003
Wolves of Wall Street

Actors: Elisa Donovan, William Gregory Lee, Michael Bergin

Synopsis: Jeff (William Gregory Lee), fresh out of college, lands a job with an established Wall Street brokerage house run by charismatic Dyson Keller (Eric Roberts), whose employees, all male, make a lot of money by being particularly cutthroat. Jeff buys into the cult only to learn too late Wolfe Read More

2002
Less Than Perfect [TV Series]

Actors: Sara Rue, Sherri Shepherd, Andrea Parker, Zachary Levi, Andy Dick

Synopsis: The charming, pleasantly plump Sara Rue starred on this ABC sitcom as Claudia "Claude" Casey, a "permanent temp" working in various low-level clerical capacities in a TV news department. Claude's amusingly self-deprecating self image was given a boost when she was appointed assistant to Will Read More

2002
The Brotherhood III: Young Demons

Synopsis: A group of devil-may-care teenagers discover they've mistakenly called upon the Prince of Darkness in this flashy horror story. A handful of high school students have been entertaining themselves on weekends by playing an elaborate role-playing game in which they impersonate witches, warlocks, and Read More

2002
Roughing It

Actors: James Garner, Greg Spottiswood, Eric Roberts, Adam Arkin, Ned Beatty

Synopsis: Based on Mark Twain's 1872 autobiographical novel, this made-for-cable film is presented in flashback form, as aged humorist Mark Twain (James Garner) is invited to be keynote speaker at the Bryn Mawr graduation ceremonies of 1891. At first worried that his reputation as a verbal japester will Read More

2002
Breakaway

Actors: Dean Cain, Roman Podhora, Eric Roberts, Richard Yearwood

Synopsis: Charles Robert Carner's action thriller Breakaway stars Dean Cain as a disgraced police officer who must stop thief Jimmy Scalzetti (Eric Roberts) after the baddie hijacks a mall in Chicago. The police officer's wife is being held hostage while Scalzetti is busy trying to crack a vault in the mall Read More

2002
Endangered Species

Synopsis: John Rhys-Davies and Eric Roberts star in this eerie nail-biter about a pair of police detectives who find their murder investigation taking a supernatural twist the digger they deep. Written and directed by Kevin S. Tenney, Endangered Species follows the pair of cops as they search for the killer Read More

2002
Christmas Rush

Synopsis: An upscale shopping mall is targeted by ruthless master thief Scalzetti (Eric Roberts). With a small but well-armed band of henchmen, Scalzetti storms the mall and takes all the Yuletide shoppers hostage. It is up to police lieutenant Cornelius Morgan (Dean Cain), recently suspended from the Read More

2002
Fast Sofa

Actors: Jake Busey, Crispin Glover, Jennifer Tilly, Natasha Lyonne, Adam Goldberg

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Bruce Craven, this road picture follows a dope fiend named Rick (Jake Busey), who believes his goal in life is to track down Ginger (Jennifer Tilly), a famous porn star who is currently staying in her Beverly Hills hideaway. Rick is obsessed with Ginger, watches her movies Read More

2001
Rough Air

Actors: Alexandra Paul, Eric Roberts

Synopsis: Disgraced airline pilot Hogan (Eric Roberts) is emotionally wounded after a crash landing a year earlier. Depressed as he is, he agrees to be the co-pilot for a transatlantic flight from London to the U.S. that otherwise would be cancelled because the actual co-pilot called in sick. Among the Read More

2001
Mind Storm

Actors: Antonio Sabato, Jr., Emmanuelle Vaugier, Eric Roberts

Synopsis: When we first meet beautiful, psychic private investigator Tracy Wellman (Emmanuelle Vaugier), she's confronting a psycho pedophile in a junkyard in a nearly fatal effort to rescue a young boy being held prisoner. Luckily, FBI agent Dan Oliver (Antonio Sabato Jr.) is nearby to help. But he's not Read More

2001
Frozen in Fear

Actors: Eric Roberts, Rod Steiger, Catherine Oxenberg

Synopsis: Frozen in Fear stars Eric Roberts as Sean, a deeply disturbed but talented artist. When an East Coast art dealer (Catherine Oxenberg) becomes intrigued by Sean's work, she travels to his small Montana hometown to meet him. Sean suffered a horrific moment as a child when he witnessed the murder of Read More

2001
Stiletto Dance

Actors: Eric Roberts, Romano Orzari, Shawn Doyle

Synopsis: In this action drama, Eric Roberts and Romano Orzari play a pair of police detectives working the streets of Buffalo, NY, who discover the Russian Mafia has infiltrated their community. The cops make it their priority to put the mobsters behind bars, but it doesn't take long for them to discover Read More

2001
Raptor

Actors: Corbin Bernsen, Eric Roberts, Melissa Brasselle

Synopsis: This direct-to-video variation on Jurassic Park tells the story of small-town sheriff Jim Tanner (Eric Roberts), who must team up with animal expert Dr. Hyde to discover what has been causing a series of mysterious mutilations. When they discover that dinosaurs are alive and well in their town Read More

2001
Con Games

Actors: Eric Roberts, Martin Kove

Synopsis: Man-of-action John Woodrow (Tommy Lee Thomas) makes a deal to get his father out of prison. He reluctantly agrees to be disguised as a prisoner and sent into a violent California prison to investigate the slaying of a senator's grandson. Woodrow finds the place is ruled by Officer Hopkins (Eric Roberts Read More

2001
The Long Ride Home

Synopsis: In the New Mexico Territory in 1866, Jack Fowler (Randy Travis) survived the Civil War but barely escapes the drunken rage of a gun-toting idiot who mistakes him for the gunslinger Jack Cole. Compelled to defend himself, Fowler shoots the man dead. Now a posse lead by Lucas Moat (Ernest Borgnine) Read More

2001
Wrong Number

Actors: Eric Roberts, David Lipper

Synopsis: In the opening sequence, Internet millionaire Josh (Eric Roberts) -- worth 150 million dollars -- falls to his death from the balcony to the lobby of his building after being shot in his office. As the life force drains from his 150-million-dollar body, he wonders how his life changed so Read More

2001
Walking Shadow: A Spenser Mystery

Actors: Joe Mantegna, Ernie Hudson, Marcia Gay Harden, Eric Roberts, Christina Moore

2001
Mercy Streets

Actors: Eric Roberts, David White, Cynthia M. Watros, Shiek Mahmud-Bey, Stacy Keach, Lawrence Taylor, Robert La Sardo

Synopsis: Two brothers who've taken divergent paths in life are thrown into a crisis that forces both of them to examine their lives in this drama. John (David White) is a small-time criminal who, upon his release from prison, is met by his former partner, Rome (Eric Roberts). Rome wants John to join him in Read More

10/6/00
Cecil B. Demented

Actors: Melanie Griffith, Stephen Dorff, Alicia Witt, Lawrence Gilliard, Jr., Maggie Gyllenhaal

Synopsis: Iconoclastic satirist John Waters bites the hand that (periodically) feeds him in this humorous look at the underside of the film industry. Self-styled guerrilla filmmaker Cecil (Stephen Dorff) leads a Baltimore movie-making collective/street gang called the Sprocket Holes, which includes Cecil's Read More

8/11/00
Race Against Time

Actors: Eric Roberts, Cas Anvar, Cary Elwes, Diane Venora, Chris Sarandon

Synopsis: In this futuristic blend of sci-fi and action, a Supreme Court ruling has overturned laws against suicide, and a firm called Lifecorps has sprung up to take advantage of a new loophole in the law. Lifecorps will pay healthy people large sums of money for the right to harvest their organs after Read More

2000
Wildflowers

Actors: Clea Duvall, Daryl Hannah, Tomas Arana, Eric Roberts

Synopsis: Eric Roberts appears in this coming-of-age drama about a young lass coming to terms with her parents' radical past. Raised without a mom, Cally (Clea DuVall just happens to stumble across Sabine (Daryl Hannah), a hippy-dippy artist with a passion for gauzy fabrics, driftwood sculptures, and potent Read More

2000
Sanctimony

Actors: David Millbern, Catherine Oxenberg, Michael Paré, Eric Roberts

Synopsis: Eric Roberts is at it again in this serial killer thriller from Uwe Boll, a director best known for his 1991 film German Fried Movie. In an anonymous American town (actually Vancouver) a serial nutcase is taking the proverb "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil," a little too seriously Read More

2000
The King's Guard

Actors: Eric Roberts, Ron Perlman, Lesley-Anne Down, Trevor St. John, Ashley Jones

Synopsis: In medieval times, dashing Captain Reynolds (Trevor St. John), the commander of the king's elite guardsmen, is ordered by the queen (Lesley-Anne Down) to go undercover to protect Princess Gwendolyn (Ashley Jones) who is traveling through territory made dangerous by irate renegade subjects. It's Read More

2000
Strange Frequency

Synopsis: The Twilight Zone goes rock & roll in VH1's creepy anthology series Strange Frequency. In "Disco Inferno," metalheads Buck (Erik Palladino) and Randy (Danny Masterson) wander into a strange nightclub while looking for roadside assistance following a late-night car accident. "My Generation" finds a Read More

2000
TripFall

Synopsis: In a sterling example of heeding your mother's warning about not talking to strangers, soft-bellied yuppie Tom Williams (John Ritter), his striking wife Gina (Rachel Hunter), and their kids are abducted while on vacation at a Southern California amusement park by the unctuous Mr. Eddie (Eric Read More

2000
La Cucaracha

Actors: Eric Roberts, Joaquim de Almeida, Victor Rivers, Jim McManus, Tara Crespo

Synopsis: Jack Perez directed this thriller about New Jersey office worker Walter (Eric Roberts) who quits his job and heads to Santiago, Mexico, to become a writer but instead is thrust into the role of hitman by Jose Guerra (Joaquim De Almeida). However, he finds he can't kill the falsely accused Humberto Read More

4/23/99
Hitman's Run

Actors: Eric Roberts

Synopsis: A mafia triggerman turns on the family and is placed into protective custody, via the FBI Witness Protection Program. He begins to realize, however, that his new guardians are just as deadly as his foes. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1999
No Alibi

Actors: Dean Cain, Eric Roberts, Lexa Doig

Synopsis: A case of mistaken identity has dangerous consequences in this crime thriller. Bob Lessing (Dean Cain) is a successful businessman who finds himself on the wrong side of Vic Haddock (Eric Roberts), a vicious crime boss who thinks that Bob is actually his brother Phil (Peter Stebbings). Phil owes Read More

1999
Bittersweet

Actors: Angie Everhart, James Russo, Eric Roberts

Synopsis: A young co-ed who previously spent time in prison for a crime she didn't commit plots revenge against her former boyfriend, who is the real culprit, with the help of a policeman. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1999
Agent of Death

Actors: Eric Roberts, Bryan Genesse, Ice-T, Michael Madsen

Synopsis: In this suspense thriller, President Fallbrook (John Beck) is doing poorly in the polls a week before he's up for re-election. To boost his popularity, one of his advisors comes up with a plan -- stage a kidnapping, and when the chief executive is released under seemingly heroic circumstances Read More

1999
Heaven's Fire

Actors: Eric Roberts, Jürgen Prochnow, Cali Timmins

Synopsis: Former federal agent Dean McConnell (Eric Roberts) and his teenaged son, Jeremy (Kag-Erik Eriksen), stop by the high-rise building in Seattle where Dean used to work to pick up his girlfriend, Fiona (Cali Timmins), and her daughter, Aimee (Lisa Marie Caruk), to go to a basketball game. Their Read More

1999
Restraining Order

Actors: Eric Roberts, Hannes Jaenicke, Tatjana Patitz, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: A lawyer is involved in a criminal proceeding he can't argue his way out of in this action-packed drama. Robert Woodfield (Eric Roberts) is a lawyer who grew up walking a tightrope between both sides of the law; after the death of his parents, he was raised by Charlie Mason (Dean Stockwell), a Read More

1999
Touched by an Angel: Made in the U.S.A.

Synopsis: Embittered Vietnam veteran Nick Stratton (Nick Stratton) owns an appareal factory where his underpaid workers, mostly Vietnamese refugees, labor under sweatshop conditions. Monica (Roma Downey) shows up to teach lessons in American citizenship to Nick's long-suffering employees, including a girl Read More

1999
Purgatory

Actors: Randy Quaid, Eric Roberts, Sam Shepard

Synopsis: In this fantasy set in the Old West, Blackjack Britton (Eric Roberts) is an outlaw on the run from police after a bank robbery. Britton and his gang wind up in a small town called Refuge, where things are rather unusual -- outlaws are warmly welcomed and offered free food and lodging but warned Read More

1999
Lansky

Actors: Richard Dreyfuss, Eric Roberts, Beverly D'Angelo

Synopsis: Scripted by David Mamet, this made-for-HBO outing dramatizes the brutal life and career of Meyer Lansky (Richard Dreyfuss), one of the key figures in American organized crime. The tale begins with Lansky's youth, when he was just another Jewish immigrant, and chronicles his rise from petty gambler Read More

1999
Facade

Actors: Damian Chapa, Patricia Velasquez, Camilla Overbye Roos, Jeannie Millar, Roger Guenveur Smith, Joe Viterelli, Daniela Elle, Brad Garrett, Angus MacFadyen, Dawn Radenbaugh, Eric Roberts

Synopsis: A real estate developer (Eric Roberts) sells out his partner/buddy in order to clear the path for the construction of a major hotel. The wife of his buddy, who was a former lover of his, discovers the body of her husband (with the body of a woman he was having an affair with) and becomes aware his Read More

1999
Two Shades of Blue

Actors: Gary Busey, Marlee Matlin, Eric Roberts

Synopsis: Supermodel Rachel Hunter stars in this suspense story as Susan Price, a successful author whose latest novel has just hi