Eric Stoltz Filmography

Born:: September 30, 1961 in Whittier, CA
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Eric Stoltz has appeared in a number of major and minor features and on television. While growing up, the pale, slender, and red-haired Stoltz spent time in American Samoa. His interest in acting began in high school where he not only acted in productions, but also occasionally accompanied them on...Read More

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The Lather Effect

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Connie Britton, Sarah Clarke, Tate Donovan, Peter Facinelli

Synopsis: A handful of old friends learn you can go home again, but you'll also have to clear out the damage the next morning in this bittersweet comedy-drama. Valinda (Connie Britton) is a woman in her late thirties who is helping her parents sell the house where she grew up. A few days before the house is Read More

2006
The Honeymooners

Actors: Cedric the Entertainer, Mike Epps, Gabrielle Union, Regina Hall, Eric Stoltz

Synopsis: One of television's most beloved sitcoms gets an overhaul for the big screen in this comedy. Ralph Kramden (Cedric the Entertainer) is a New York City bus driver who has great ambitions and plans to make something of himself one day. However, Ralph's big ideas usually take the form of half-baked Read More

6/10/05
The Triangle

Actors: Eric Stoltz, Sam Neill, Lou Diamond Phillips, Catherine Bell, Bruce Davison, Michael Rodgers

Synopsis: When a series of cargo ships vanish into the open waters of the Bermuda Triangle, a team of determined specialists attempt to uncover the mystery of the planet's most perplexing phenomenon in Storm of the Century and Rose Red director Craig R. Baxley's spooky sci-fi miniseries. Billionaire Eric Read More

2005
Happy Hour

Actors: Anthony LaPaglia, Eric Stoltz, Caroleen Feeney, Robert Vaughn, Sandrine Holt

Synopsis: An alcoholic must choose between love, life, and the bottle in this independent comedy drama. Tulley (Anthony LaPaglia) is a self-described "drinker with a writing problem," who after publishing a handful of well-respected short stories, began work on a novel. The novel, however, turned out to be Read More

10/22/04
The Butterfly Effect

Actors: Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, William Lee Scott, Elden Henson, Melora Walters

Synopsis: Final Destination 2 screenwriters Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber make their directorial debut with the sci-fi thriller The Butterfly Effect. Evan Treborn (Ashton Kutcher with facial hair) wants to free himself from his disturbing childhood memories. As a kid, he often blacked out for long periods Read More

1/23/04
Childstar

Actors: Don McKellar, Mark Rendall

Synopsis: Childstar concerns an egotistical 12-year-old named Taylor who has skyrocketed to fame at that young age. His relationship with his driver, Rick, takes a turn when Taylor confides in him about the problems of celebrity and the fears of his impending teenage years. When Taylor disappears one day Read More

2004
Hello

Actors: Eric Stoltz, Susanna Thompson, Kevin Tighe

2004
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town

Actors: Jonathan Lipnicki, Cody Linley, Sasha Joseph Neulinger, Eric Stoltz

Synopsis: When a one man sideshow rolls into Granger, TX claiming to showcase "the fattest boy in the world," the lives of two small-town teens are changed forever in this touching coming-of-age tale based on the National Book Award-winning novel by Kimberly Willis Holt. Zachary Beaver (Sasha Joseph Neulinger Read More

2003
Out of Order [TV Series]

Actors: Eric Stoltz, Felicity Huffman, Kim Dickens, Justine Bateman, William H. Macy

Synopsis: This limited-run cable series starred Eric Stoltz as screenwriter Mark Colms and Felicity Huffman as his wife and writing partner, Lorna. While working on an inconsequential movie project, Mark began entertaining notions of cheating on his spouse for the first time in their 16-year marriage and Read More

2003
The Rules of Attraction

Actors: James Van Der Beek, Ian Somerhalder, Shannyn Sossamon, Jessica Biel, Kip Pardue

Synopsis: Bret Easton Ellis' controversial novel about the sexual, emotional, and chemical interactions of a group of wealthy and amoral college students is brought to the screen in this adaptation from writer and director Roger Avery. Sean Bateman (James Van Der Beek) is a student at Camden College, a Read More

10/11/02
Harvard Man

Actors: Adrian Grenier, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Joey Lauren Adams, Eric Stoltz, Rebecca Gayheart

Synopsis: Director and screenwriter James Toback used his own experiences as a college student in the 1960s as the basis for this drama about a present-day student athlete who's bitten off more than he can chew. Alan Jensen (Adrian Grenier) is a college sophomore struggling to keep up with an unusually busy Read More

4/12/02
American Experience: War Letters - Stories of Courage, Longing and Sacrifice

Synopsis: One commonality that seems to link every modern war is that soldiers almost invariably write their families and loved ones on a regular basis and their correspondence covers a broad range of human emotions -- funny camp stories, reassurances to worried folks at home, confessions of fear, anxieties Read More

2002
Things Behind the Sun

Actors: Kim Dickens, Gabriel Mann, Don Cheadle, Eric Stoltz, Elizabeth Peña

Synopsis: Writer and director Allison Anders, who used the world of rock & roll as the backdrop for her films Border Radio, Grace of My Heart, and Sugar Mountain, returns to the music scene for this tale of a woman struggling to come to terms with an emotionally devastating past. Sherry McGrale (Kim Read More

10/12/01
My Horrible Year!

Crew: Director

Actors: Allison Mack, Mimi Rogers, Karen Allen, Eric Stoltz, Bret Hart

Synopsis: Produced by actress Mimi Rogers (who shows up on screen in the role of Aunt Marion) and directed by actor Eric Stoltz, the made-for-cable movie My Horrible Year! is the story of Nik Faulkner (Allison Mack), a 16-year-old girl about to undergo a crucial rite of passage: the removal of her braces. Read More

2001
The House of Mirth

Actors: Gillian Anderson, Eric Stoltz, Dan Aykroyd, Eleanor Bron, Terry Kinney, Anthony LaPaglia, Laura Linney, Elizabeth McGovern

Synopsis: Adapted for the screen from Edith Wharton's much-loved novel of the same name, House of Mirth follows the fortunes -- or lack thereof -- of Lily Bart, an ambitious but financially imperiled young woman looking for a rich husband in early 20th century New York. The story opens as Lily (Gillian Read More

12/22/00
One Kill

Actors: Anne Heche, Eric Stoltz, Sam Shepard

Synopsis: Marine Captain Mary Jane O'Malley (Anne Heche), a divorced mother of two small children, shoots and kills her decorated war hero superior officer, Major Nelson Gray (Sam Shepard), after he breaks into her bedroom with the intention of attacking her. At least that's her story. The military Read More

2000
Highball

Actors: Justine Bateman, Rae Dawn Chong, Chris Reed, Eric Stoltz, Peter Bogdanovich

Synopsis: Over the course of one year, a group of friends gathers for three parties (a birthday dinner party, a Halloween costume party, and a New Year's celebration) at the Brooklyn apartment of a young married couple (Chris Reed, Lauren Katz). Friendships and relationships are formed, dissolved, and Read More

2000
Common Ground

Actors: Ed Asner, Beau Bridges, Harvey Fierstein

Synopsis: Harvey Fierstein, Terrence McNally, and Paula Vogel each wrote episodes for this three-part made-for-cable drama which examines changing attitudes and issues facing the gay and lesbian community in the small town of Homer, Connecticut. Opening in the 1950s and leading up to the present day, Common Read More

2000
The Simian Line

Actors: Lynn Redgrave, Jamey Sheridan, Cindy Crawford, Samantha Mathis, Dylan Bruno

Synopsis: Director Linda Yellen spins this study of four couples as they struggle to maintain their relationships. Middle-aged divorcée and landlord Katharine (Lynn Redgrave) is completely smitten with her live-in lover Rick (Harry Connick, Jr.). She loves throwing parties, and on one Halloween she hosts a Read More

2000
The Last Dance

Actors: Maureen O'Hara, Eric Stoltz

Synopsis: The fabulous Maureen O'Hara delivers another stunning performance in this made-for-TV movie, based on Todd F. Cope's short story "The Shift." O'Hara is cast as Helen Parker, the former high school teacher of nurse Todd Cope (Eric Stolz). Like many others in his professional, Todd is having trouble Read More

2000
The Lot

Actors: Jonathan Frakes, Allen Garfield, Linda Cardellini, Stephanie Faracy, Jeffrey Tambor

1999
The Passion of Ayn Rand

Actors: Helen Mirren, Eric Stoltz, Julie Delpy, Peter Fonda, Tom McCamus

Synopsis: The private life of celebrated author and philosopher Ayn Rand takes center stage in this film produced for the Showtime cable network. In 1951, Ayn Rand (Helen Mirren) is a best-selling author and celebrated thinker when she meets Nathaniel Branden (Eric Stoltz) and his friend Barbara (Julie Delpy Read More

1999
Our Guys

Actors: Ally Sheedy, Eric Stoltz, Heather Matarazzo, Scott Vickaryous, Sara Botsford

1999
Mr. Jealousy

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Eric Stoltz, Annabella Sciorra, Christopher Eigeman, Carlos Jacott, Marianne Jean-Baptiste

Synopsis: In this dark comedy, former broadcast journalist and current substitute teacher Lester Grimm (Eric Stoltz) is not especially good at displaying a healthy trust in his relationships. Ever since the age of 15, when Lester's first girlfriend ditched him for a 24-year-old, Lester has displayed an Read More

6/5/98
Hi-Life

Actors: Katrin Cartlidge, Charles Durning, Daryl Hannah, Moira Kelly, Peter Reigert

Synopsis: Roger Hedden wrote and directed this indie romantic comedy about a group of New Yorkers on the Upper West Side as Christmas nears. Unemployed actor Jimmy (Eric Stoltz), who owes $900 to local bookie Fatty (Charles Durning), tells his girlfriend Susan (Moira Kelly) that the money is for an abortion Read More

1998
A Murder of Crows

Actors: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Tom Berenger, Eric Stoltz, Mark Pellegrino

Synopsis: In this suspenseful drama, a disbarred lawyer forgoes the writing of his own book in favor of taking credit for that of a writer who is murdered shortly after giving the attorney his unpublished manuscript to read. A murder-mystery, the book becomes a best-seller and once again the former lawyer Read More

1998
Blackout Effect

Actors: Eric Stoltz, Charles Martin Smith, Leslie Hope

Synopsis: A man is forced to find the truth behind a tragic accident that has effected him personally in this made-for-TV drama. Henry Drake (Charles Martin Smith) is a high-strung and somewhat eccentric air traffic controller who is trying to clear airliners for landing stacked up in a pattern over Read More

1998
Mad About You: Tragedy Plus Time

Actors: Louis Zorich, Cynthia Harris

Synopsis: The title of this episode refers to the comedian's basic definition of comedy -- and also, indirectly, to the unexpected demise of Alan Tofsky (Eric Stoltz), former flame of Jamie Buchman (Helen Hunt). In a videotaped will, Alan leaves all his worldly goods to Jamie -- and, much to the dismay of Read More

1998
Anaconda

Actors: Don La Fontaine, Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Jon Voight, Eric Stoltz, Jonathan Hyde

Synopsis: A group of filmmakers looking for a lost native tribe instead find a man-eating monster in this thriller. Terri Flores (Jennifer Lopez) is a documentary filmmaker on assignment to make a film about the Shirishama Indians of the Amazon, a mysterious tribe known as "the People of the Mists." As Read More

1997
Homicide: Life on the Street - Wu's on First?

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Michelle Forbes, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: Pembleton (Andre Braugher) is impressed by reporter Elizabeth Wu (Joan Chen), who is covering his investigation of a drug-related cop killing. He is, however, less than impressed when the inquisitive Wu proves to be a monumental nuisance. Elsewhere, Kellerman's (Reed Diamond) wild country-boy Read More

1997
Mad About You: The Birth, Part 2

Synopsis: After innumerable false alarms, it looks as though Jamie (Helen Hunt) is going to have her baby. But before this blessed event can take place, Jamie is unexpectedly reunited with old flame Alan (Eric Stoltz), while her husband, Paul (Paul Reiser), is given a guided hospital tour by a very big Read More

1997
Pitch

Synopsis: In this Canadian documentary, two young filmmakers attend the Toronto Film Festival and pitch a film concept to various celebrities. Their film idea, titled The Dawn, concerns a Mafia don who goes for a hernia operation but gets a sex change instead. During the 1996 Toronto fest, they approach Roger Ebert Read More

1997
Grace of My Heart

Actors: Illeana Douglas, Matt Dillon, John Turturro, Eric Stoltz, Bruce Davison, Patsy Kensit

Synopsis: Illeana Douglas delivers a superb performance as Denise Waverly, a fictional singer and songwriter whose life bears more than a passing resemblance to that of real-life pop star Carole King. Edna Buxton, the daughter of a Philadelphia steel tycoon, aspires to a career as a singer, and when against Read More

1996
Jerry Maguire

Actors: Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Renée Zellweger, Kelly Preston, Jay Mohr, Jerry O'Connell, Bonnie Hunt, Jonathan Lipnicki, Regina King

Synopsis: Combining drama, comedy, and romance, Jerry Maguire was a critical and commercial success built on an original script by writer/director Cameron Crowe and an Oscar-nominated performance by Tom Cruise. Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) is an agent with a major sports management firm. He's enthusiastic Read More

1996
Inside

Actors: Eric Stoltz, Nigel Hawthorne, Louis Gossett, Jr., Ian Roberts, Ross Prelier

Synopsis: A solemn look at South African apartheid, Arthur Penn's claustrophobic drama centers on a pair of political interrogations, separated by a decade. The film's first part, set in 1988, centers on the imprisonment of Marty Strydom (Eric Stoltz), an Afrikaaner university professor held as a political Read More

1996
2 Days in the Valley

Actors: Danny Aiello, Greg Cruttwell, James Spader, Jeff Daniels, Teri Hatcher, Glenne Headly, Charlize Theron

Synopsis: A variety of crooks, losers, and working stiffs living in the shadow of Hollywood find their various personal crises overlapping in this intricately woven melodrama. Lee Woods (James Spader) is a cold-blooded hit man and Dosmo Pizzo (Danny Aiello) a soft-at-heart gangster; they've been sent to Read More

1996
Don't Look Back

Actors: Eric Stoltz, John Corbett, Josh Hamilton, Annabeth Gish, Amanda Plummer

Synopsis: A drug addict gets more than a quick fix in this made-for-cable thriller. Eric Stoltz stars as Jesse Parish, a musician and druggie who leads a mobster to his old stomping grounds after stealing a case of cash and going on the lam. Oscar-winner Billy Bob Thorton co-stars and co-wrote the script. Read More

1996
A Dime a Dance

1995
Keys to Tulsa

Actors: Eric Stoltz, James Spader, Cameron Diaz, Randy Graff, Joanna Going, Mary Tyler Moore, Michael Rooker, James Coburn

Synopsis: The black sheep son of a wealthy family sinks deeper into corruption the harder he tries to pull himself out in this drama. Richter Boudreau (Eric Stoltz) is a small-time film critic with a checkered past and some bad debts who decides to return to his old home town of Tulsa in hopes of getting Read More

1995
Mad About You: My Boyfriend's Back!

Synopsis: This is the celebrated "cartoon" episode, with animation provided by Sony Imageworks. Jamie Buchman (Helen Hunt) is nonplussed when she learns that her former boyfriend Alan (Eric Stoltz) has been hired as a graphics artist for her new ad campaign. The result is a special edition of Alan's fabled Read More

1995
Roommates

Actors: Peter Falk, D.B. Sweeney, Julianne Moore, Jan Rubes, Frankie R. Faison

Synopsis: In the film Happy New Year (1987), actor Peter Falk donned old-age makeup to play a senior citizen. Eight years later, he did it again, twice, in the TV movie remake of The Sunshine Boys (1995) and this film, a comedy-drama. Falk stars as Rocky Holzcek, a cantankerous 76-year-old Polish-American Read More

1995
Mad About You: Up in Smoke, Part 2

Synopsis: Looking for the perfect third-anniversary gift causes Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt) to lose confidence in their relationship. In a rare "alternate reality" situation, the Buchmans are permitted to experience what might have happened had they never met. Originally telecast as the Read More

1995
Mad About You: Up in Smoke, Part 1

Synopsis: Looking for the perfect third-anniversary gift causes Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt) to lose confidence in their relationship. In the course of events, Jamie receives a cryptic message: "This note entitles the bearer to one magical night." Truer words were never written. Read More

1995
Fluke

Actors: Matthew Modine, Nancy Travis, Eric Stoltz, Max Pomeranc, Samuel L. Jackson

Synopsis: A man learns to be a better person when he turns into a dog in this thoughtful and surprisingly somber drama for the family. Tom (Matthew Modine), a businessman, is so driven to succeed that he all but ignores his wife Carol (Nancy Travis) and their son Brian (Max Pomeranc). Tom's perspective Read More

1995
The Prophecy

Actors: Christopher Walken, Elias Koteas, Eric Stoltz, Virginia Madsen, Moriah Snyder

Synopsis: The directorial debut from Highlander screenwriter Gregory Widen stars Christopher Walken as the angel Gabriel, who, fed up with God giving all of his attention to humans, decides to stage a sort of coup. With plans of killing all of the good angels, Gabriel decides to enlist the help of a Read More

1995
Kicking and Screaming

Actors: Josh Hamilton, Olivia D'Abo, Carlos Jacott, Christopher Eigeman, Eric Stoltz

Synopsis: Inspired by the advent of Seattle's grunge music sound and popular films such as Slacker (1991) and Singles (1992), the Generation X comedy-drama was born. Typified by characters in their early twenties sharing an abundance of education, a lack of career direction, stunted romantic aspirations and Read More

1995
Rob Roy

Actors: Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange, John Hurt, Tim Roth, Eric Stoltz, Andrew Keir

Synopsis: The 18th century Scottish legend of Robert Roy MacGregor comes to life in this stylish adaptation of the swashbuckling novel by Sir Walter Scott. Liam Neeson stars as the title character, a cattle drover and proud head of a Highlands clan who takes a one thousand pound loan from the royal Marquis Read More

1995
Pulp Fiction

Actors: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Bruce Willis

Synopsis: Outrageously violent, time-twisting, and in love with language, Pulp Fiction was widely considered the most influential American movie of the 1990s. Director and co-screenwriter Quentin Tarantino synthesized such seemingly disparate traditions as the syncopated language of David Mamet; the serious Read More

1994
Mad About You: The Ride Home

Synopsis: As an experiment, Paul (Paul Reiser) and Jamie (Helen Hunt) deliberately ignore one another during Fran's (Leila Kenzle) birthday party. As a result, Jamie is briefly reunited with her former boyfriend Alan Tofsky (Eric Stoltz in his first series appearance). The party quickly degenerates into a Rashomon Read More

1994
Sleep with Me

Crew: Producer

Actors: Eric Stoltz, Meg Tilly, Craig Sheffer, Todd Field, Susan Traylor

Synopsis: Six screenwriters, all real-life friends, each wrote one of the sequences in this romantic comedy-drama that unfolds at a half-dozen parties and celebrations. During a cross-country trip, Joe (Eric Stoltz) proposes to his girlfriend Sarah (Meg Tilly) with his best friend Frank (Craig Sheffer) Read More

1994
Killing Zoe

Actors: Eric Stoltz, Julie Delpy, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Gary Kemp, Bruce Ramsay

Synopsis: An American ex-con gets caught up in a Parisian bank heist that goes wrong in this ultra-violent thriller. Zed (Eric Stoltz), a safe-cracking expert fresh out of prison, travels to France to participate in a robbery planned by his friend Eric (Jean-Hughes Anglade). But first, Zed decides to Read More

1994
Roommates

1994
Little Women

Actors: Winona Ryder, Gabriel Byrne, Trini Alvarado, Samantha Mathis, Susan Sarandon, Kirsten Dunst, Claire Danes, Eric Stoltz, John Neville

Synopsis: Louisa May Alcott's classic novel about a family of women in Civil War-era New England is again brought to the screen in this adaptation. The focus is on the March sisters, four young girls raised by their mother (Susan Sarandon) after their father leaves for battle as part of the Union Army. At Read More

1994
A Woman at War

1994
Frasier: Miracle on Third or Fourth Street

Synopsis: In Frasier's first holiday episode, Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer) makes plans to spend Christmas with his son Frederick (remember him from Cheers?). But when these plans fall through, a disappointed Frasier volunteers to fill in for sports-show host Bulldog at radio station KACL on Christmas Day. Read More

1993
Naked in New York

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Eric Stoltz, Mary-Louise Parker, Ralph Macchio, Jill Clayburgh, Tony Curtis, Kathleen Turner, Timothy Dalton, Whoopi Goldberg

Synopsis: The sponsorship of noted filmmaker Martin Scorsese helped the novice filmmakers making this film get it produced and receive mainstream distribution. In addition, it features a vast number of appearances by well-known performers, who took an interest in the project, taking union minimum pay. In Read More

1993
Bodies, Rest & Motion

Crew: Producer

Actors: Phoebe Cates, Bridget Fonda, Tim Roth, Eric Stoltz

Synopsis: Michael Steinberg, co-director of The Waterdance, made his solo directorial debut with the Gen-X character study Bodies, Rest & Motion. Written by Roger Hedden, based on his own play, the film's title refers to Newton's First Law of Motion, which states essentially that a body at rest or in motion Read More

1993
The Heart of Justice

Actors: Eric Stoltz, Jennifer Connelly, Dermot Mulroney, Dennis Hopper, Vincent Price

Synopsis: In this tense drama a reporter tries to figure out the reason a wealthy young man shot a popular pulp-fiction writer and then shot himself. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1993
Foreign Affairs

Actors: Joanne Woodward, Brian Dennehy, Eric Stoltz, Stephanie Beacham, Ian Richardson

Synopsis: Foreign Affairs was adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alison Lurie. Joanne Woodward plays Vinnie Miner, a college professor on sabbatical in England. While still on the plane, Vinnie makes the acquaintance of hard-hat tourist Chuck Mumpson (Brian Dennehy). Though she isn't too fond Read More

1993
Singles

Actors: Bridget Fonda, Campbell Scott, Kyra Sedgwick, Sheila Kelley, Jim True

Synopsis: Set amidst the burgeoning Seattle alternative music scene of the early '90s, Singles follows a group of twentysomethings as they try to find love and try to come to terms with their passage into adulthood. Arranged as an episodic comedy, the film follows a group of friends who live in the same Read More

9/18/92