Eriq La SalleFilmography

Born:: July 23, 1962 in Hartford, CT
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Forceful yet smooth actor Eriq La Salle worked on the stage and on television before breaking into films, directing, and producing his own projects. He is perhaps best known for his role of the confident Dr. Peter Benton on the NBC series ER, which has earned him several Emmy nominations. He grew...Read More

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Megafault

Actors: Brittany Murphy, Eriq La Salle, Bruce Davison, Justin Hartley

Synopsis: Brittany Murphy stars as a seismologist who must stop a devastating fault from ripping the Earth apart in this apocalyptic thriller. ~ Carly Wray, All Movie Guide Read More

2009
NOVA: Saving the National Treasures

Synopsis: Saving the National Treasures documents the care and restoration of quintessential American totems as the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution. This episode of the award-winning NOVA series shows how modern science and technology have been used in order to save Read More

2005
Inside Out

Actors: Steven Weber, Eriq La Salle, Nia Peeples, Kate Walsh, Russell Wong, Tyler Posey

Synopsis: A suburban homeowner becomes obsessed with the secretive family next door in this independent drama. Norman (Steven Weber) is an airline pilot who one day discovers he has new neighbors when he hears them moving into a nearby house during the dark of night. While Norman soon learns that Dr. Read More

2005
Johnny Was

Actors: Vinnie Jones, Eriq La Salle, Roger Daltrey, Patrick Bergin, Samantha Mumba

2005
Biker Boyz

Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Derek Luke, Orlando Jones, Djimon Hounsou, Lisa Bonet

Synopsis: Two generations of radical bikers face off in this rubber-burning action drama. Manuel "Smoke" Galloway (Laurence Fishburne) is the leader of the Black Knights, an underground motorcycle club. Smoke, like most of his fellow Knights, is a successful white collar worker who can afford fancy leathers Read More

1/31/03
Crazy as Hell

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Beach, Eriq La Salle, Ronny Cox, John C. McGinley, Tia Texada

Synopsis: A psychiatrist confronts a new client whose problems may not be all in his head in this drama. Dr. Ty Adams (Michael Beach) is a well-known psychiatrist who has earned no small amount of controversy for his blunt and "anti-medicinal" approach to treatment. Adams is also dealing with some emotional Read More

9/27/02
One Hour Photo

Actors: Robin Williams, Connie Nielsen, Michael Vartan, Gary Cole, Dylan Smith

Synopsis: Funnyman Robin Williams steps out of character in this tense, low-key thriller that marked the feature-film directorial debut of music video veteran Mark Romanek. Semour "Sy" Parrish (Williams) runs the photo processing department at a large discount store; Sy is dedicated to his job, and takes Read More

8/21/02
The Salton Sea

Crew: Producer

Actors: Val Kilmer

Synopsis: The feature film debut of producer and TV director D.J. Caruso, this pulpy noir mystery is a dark tale of redemption set among southern California crystal methamphetamine "tweakers." Val Kilmer stars as Danny Parker, a former trumpet player who has become a tattooed speed freak living in a Read More

4/26/02
ER: Season 08

Actors: Noah Wyle, Anthony Edwards, Eriq La Salle, Erik Palladino, Laura Innes, Sherry Stringfield, Alex Kingston, Paul McCrane, Goran Visnjic, Maura Tierney, Ming-Na Wen, Sharif Atkins, Michael Michele

Synopsis: Resolving the cliffhanger ending of season seven, season eight of the award-winning hospital drama ER surveys the damage done when the emergency room of Chicago County was besieged by a gun-wielding lunatic whose son Dr. Greene (Anthony Edwards) had put in foster care. In subsequent episodes, two Read More

2001
ER: Season 07

Actors: Noah Wyle, Anthony Edwards, Eriq La Salle, Erik Palladino, Laura Innes, Alex Kingston, Paul McCrane, Goran Visnjic, Maura Tierney, Ming-Na Wen, Michael Michele

Synopsis: Curiously, there were no major cast defections during the seventh season of the award-winning hospital drama ER. However, two new characters make their first appearances this season: psychiatrist Dr. Kim Legaspi (Elizabeth Mitchell), who coerces ER chief Kerry Weaver (Laura Innes) to admit that Read More

2000
ER: Season 06

Actors: Noah Wyle, Anthony Edwards, Eriq La Salle, Julianna Margulies, Erik Palladino, Laura Innes, Gloria Reuben, Alex Kingston, Paul McCrane, Goran Visnjic, Maura Tierney, Kellie Martin, Michael Michele

Synopsis: The impossibly obstreperous Dr. Robert Romano (Paul McCrane) matriculates from recurring to regular character as the Chicago-based hospital drama ER enters its sixth season. Other incoming cast members include Maura Tierney as OB nurse Abby Lockhart, who is introduced when she delivers the twin Read More

1999
ER: Season 05

Actors: Noah Wyle, Anthony Edwards, Eriq La Salle, Julianna Margulies, George Clooney, Laura Innes, Gloria Reuben, Alex Kingston, Kellie Martin

Synopsis: It's another year of triumph and tragedy in the emergency room of Chicago's County General Hospital as ER enters its fifth season. New to the cast this year is Kellie Martin as inexperienced and somewhat klutzy medical student Lucy Knight, who soon proves to be a major thorn in the side of her Read More

1998
Mind Prey

Actors: Eriq La Salle, Titus Welliver, Sheila Kelley

Synopsis: Lucas Davenport, the wily (and very sexy) computer-programmer detective created by novelist John Sandford, comes to the small screen in the form of actor Eriq LaSalle) in this made-for-TV adaptation of Sandford's best-seller Mind Prey. A nutcase named John Mail (Titus Welliver) escapes from a Read More

1998
The Larry Sanders Show: Beverly's Secret

Synopsis: When word begins to spread that Beverly (Penny Johnson) is pregnant, it doesn't take long for the office to begin a pool to guess the identity of the father. Armed with the knowledge that he is a former guest, speculation begins to fly. Meanwhile, Hank (Jeffrey Tambor) ruins a Wisconsin family's Read More

1998
ER: Season 04

Actors: Noah Wyle, Anthony Edwards, Eriq La Salle, Julianna Margulies, George Clooney, Laura Innes, Gloria Reuben, Alex Kingston, Maria Bello

Synopsis: Season four of ER opens with the famous "live" episode, which was originally telecast in "you are there" documentary fashion (with two separate stagings, one each for the East and West Coasts). This episode serves to introduce a new regular, British doctor Elizabeth Corday (Alex Kingston). Within Read More

1997
ER: Season 03

Actors: Noah Wyle, Anthony Edwards, Eriq La Salle, Julianna Margulies, George Clooney, Laura Innes, Sherry Stringfield, Gloria Reuben

Synopsis: Season three of ER marks the (temporary) exit of Chicago County emergency-room doctor Susan Lewis (Sherry Stringfield), whose ever-increasing emotional problems are exacerbated when her romance with Dr. Greene (Anthony Edwards) fails to take off. It also marks the begining of John Carter's (Noah Wyle Read More

1996
Rebound: The Legend of Earl "The Goat" Manigault

Crew: Director

Actors: Don Cheadle, James Earl Jones, Michael Beach

Synopsis: In this inspirational sports drama, a talented but drug-addicted basketball player cleans up his act and devotes his life to teaching Harlem children to play the game. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1996
ER: Season 02

Actors: Noah Wyle, Anthony Edwards, Eriq La Salle, Julianna Margulies, George Clooney, Laura Innes, Sherry Stringfield, Gloria Reuben

Synopsis: Having all but forced its CBS medical-show competition Chicago Hope off the Thursday-night schedule, NBC's ER reigned supreme as the series entered its second season. Having wrongly assumed that he would leave Chicago County after his third year of med school, John Carter (Noah Wyle) remains on Read More

1995
D.R.O.P. Squad

Actors: Eriq La Salle, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Ving Rhames, Kasi Lemmons, Leonard Thomas

Synopsis: In this politically- and racially-themed satire, Bruford Jackson Jr. (Eriq LaSalle) is an African-American advertising man working for a major agency who has been assigned to campaigns selling Mumblin' Jack Malt Liquor and General Otis' Fried Chicken (complete with the Confederate flag on the Read More

1994
ER: Season 01

Actors: Noah Wyle, Anthony Edwards, Eriq La Salle, Julianna Margulies, George Clooney, Sherry Stringfield

Synopsis: The first season of the prestigious NBC medical drama ER is seen largely through the eyes of new third-year medical student John Carter (Noah Wyle) as he tries to survive his shakedown cruise in the Emergency Room of Chicago's County General Hospital. Carter is swiftly introduced to his Read More

1994
Color of Night

Actors: Bruce Willis, Jane March, Rubén Blades, Lesley Ann Warren, Scott Bakula

Synopsis: When New York psychiatrist Bill Capa (Bruce Willis, in an uncharacteristically un-smirking performance) visits Los Angeles to take over his murdered colleague's therapy group, he finds himself embroiled in the thick of a mystery when he bumps into (literally) Rosa (Jane March) and begins a torrid Read More

1994
Empty Cradle

Actors: Kate Jackson, Lori Loughlin, Eriq La Salle, David Lansbury, Jonah Blechman

Synopsis: This made-for-television thriller tells the story of an unstable woman who goes to bizarre lengths to keep her drifting lover. Kate Jackson stars as Rita Donohue, a nurse who believes that she can re-ignite her disinterested lover's passion by having a child. Unable to have a child of her own Read More

1993
Eyes of a Witness

Actors: Jennifer Grey, Daniel J. Travanti

Synopsis: Eyes of a Witness stars Daniel J. Travanti as a stereotypical "ugly American" at large in Kenya. He has come to Africa to convince his estranged daughter Jennifer Grey, a bush doctor, to abandon her practice and return to America. Through an improbable series of random events, Travanti finds Read More

1991
Jacob's Ladder

Actors: Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Danny Aiello, Matt Craven, Ving Rhames, Pruitt Taylor Vince

Synopsis: A tortured man finds himself caught in a middle-ground between hallucination and reality in this supernatural thriller, scripted by Bruce Joel Rubin of Ghost (1990) and My Life (1993).
Jacob Singer (Tim Robbins) is a soldier stationed in Vietnam who undergoes a traumatic experience on the Read More

11/2/90
A Different World: The Power of the Pen

Synopsis: Whitley (Jasmine Guy) is convinced that she is the inspiration for Dwayne's poem "My First Love." Actually, Dwayne (Kadeem Hardison) wrote the poem as a paean to mathematics--and its true inspiration turns out to be the spirit of William Shakespeare (John H. Francis), in one of his rare TV Read More

1990
When We Were Young

Synopsis: This drama chronicles the relationships between eight Northern California high-school graduates living on the cusp of 1960. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1989
Coming to America

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Arsenio Hall, John Amos, James Earl Jones, Shari Headley

Synopsis: Coming to America casts comedian Eddie Murphy as pampered African prince Akeem, who rebels against an arranged marriage and heads to America to find a new bride. Murphy's regal father (James Earl Jones) agrees to allow the prince 40 days to roam the U.S., sending the prince's faithful retainer Read More

6/29/88
Five Corners

Actors: Jodie Foster, Tim Robbins, Todd Graff, John Turturro, Elizabeth Berridge

Synopsis: Quirky comedy, intense drama, and warm nostalgia are all combined in this eccentric look at one night in 1964 amongst the residents of the Five Corners neighborhood of the Bronx. The bulk of the film concerns Linda (Jodie Foster), a young woman who finds herself stalked by a disturbed rapist fresh Read More

1/22/88
What Price Victory

1988
Vietnam War Story 1

Synopsis: Vietnam War Story is a feature-length "omnibus" film culled from the three-episode TV series of the same name. The film consists of a trio of playlets involving members of the American armed forces during the Nam era. In "The Mine," a soldier (Eriq LaSalle) is unable to accept his best friend's Read More

1988
Where Are the Children?

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Max Gail, Harley Cross, Elisabeth Harnois, Barnard Hughes, Elizabeth Wilson

Synopsis: In this melodrama that emphasizes emotion and a convoluted plot, Nancy Eldridge (Jill Clayburgh) has remarried after her divorce and is trying to recuperate from the tragedy of the deaths of her two children during her previous marriage. That means when her children by current husband Clay (Max Gail Read More

1/24/86
Cut and Run

Actors: Lisa Blount, Leonard Mann, Willie Aames, Richard Lynch, Richard Bright

Synopsis: In this Italian adventure, the deadly drug manufacturing and export operation of a prominent South- American drug czar is discovered by an investigative TV news correspondent and her cameraman who went to the jungle to look into evidence that a notorious, corrupt colonel is still alive. While in Read More

8/8/85
Rappin'

Actors: Edye Byrde, Rony Clanton, Charles Flohe, Eriq La Salle, Leo O'Brien

Synopsis: In Rappin', Mario Van Peebles is John Hood, a con who when released from jail goes back to his neighborhood to find his girl shacked up with a nasty gang-leader named Duane (Charles Flohe). Duane is on the take with a corrupt contractor who plans to tear down Hood's neighborhood and he and his Read More

1985