Frank Perry Filmography

On the Bridge

Actors: Frank Perry

Synopsis: A revealing and highly personal program, this video is an intimate portrait of an artist as a patient. Acclaimed filmmaker Frank Perry (#David & Lisa) was diagnosed in 1990 with inoperable cancer. But what might have been a devastating death sentence was transformed into a personal and Read More

Hello Again

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Shelley Long, Judith Ivey, Gabriel Byrne, Corbin Bernsen, Sela Ward

Synopsis: Writer Susan Isaacs and director Frank Perry of Compromising Positions re-team for this unsuccessful resurrection fantasy comedy. Shelley Long plays Lucy Chadman, the accident-prone wife of plastic surgeon Jason Chadman (Corbin Bernsen). When she chokes to death after eating a South Korean chicken Read More

Compromising Positions

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Susan Sarandon, Raul Julia, Edward Herrmann, Judith Ivey, Mary Beth Hurt

Synopsis: Director Frank Perry brings Susan Issacs' comedic whodunit novel to the screen with Susan Sarandon as a Long Island housewife who tries to escape her deadening suburban life by trying to solve the murder of a philandering local dentist. The dentist, Bruce Fleckstein (Joe Mantegna), is the kind of Read More

The Accident

Synopsis: The innocent routine of small town is disrupted when the combined weight of ice and snow upon a local arena causes the roof to come crashing down--in the middle of a hockey game. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Monsignor

Crew: Director

Actors: Christopher Reeve, Geneviève Bujold, Fernando Rey, Jason Miller, Joe Cortese

Synopsis: An ambitious priest discovers that honoring the Ten Commandments isn't as easy as he imagined in this drama. Father John Flaherty (Christopher Reeve) is a Catholic priest who was ordained during World War II, and soon found himself forced to fight enemy forces while serving as a chaplain in the Read More

Mommie Dearest

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Faye Dunaway, Diana Scarwid, Steve Forrest, Howard Da Silva, Mara Hobel, Rutanya Alda

Synopsis: When her adoptive mother Joan Crawford died in 1977, erstwhile actress/author Christina Crawford and her brother Christopher were left out of Joan Crawford's will, "for reasons which are well known to them." Industryites have suggested that it may have been this posthumous act of rejection rather Read More

Skag

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The short-lived TV series Skag was introduced with a 3-hour premiere on January 6, 1980. Karl Malden stars as Pete "Skag" Skagska, Pittsburgh steel mill foreman and family man. In the pilot, Skag attempts to deal with several family crises: his father's debilitating stroke, his strained Read More

Dummy

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Dummy stars LeVar Burton as Donald Lang, a deaf-mute teenager accused of killing a prostitute. Paul Sorvino co-stars as Lowell Myers, the hearing-impaired public defender who takes Burton's case. The court, deciding that Lang is incompetent to stand trial, orders the boy to Read More

Rancho Deluxe

Crew: Director

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

Man on a Swing

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Dryden

Synopsis: Man on a Swing, purportedly based on a true case, is a puzzling crime thriller concerning a clairvoyant who helps find a murderer. After a murder is committed, supposed clairvoyant Franklin Wills goes to police Chief Lee Tucker (Cliff Robertson) and gives him details of the crime that he has seen Read More

The Arabian Knights

Actors: Carl Banas, Len Birman, Bernard Cowan, Peggy Dixon, Keith Hampshire

Synopsis: Coproduced by Canada's Rankin-Bass and Japan's Mushi Studios, this 30-minute cartoon special is essentially a remake of the classic 1940 film The Thief of Baghdad (which would itself provide inspiration for the 1991 animated feature Aladdin. It's the story of Pindar, a dauntless teenager in love Read More

Alice in Wonderland

Actors: Carl Banas, Len Birman, Bernard Cowan, Peggy Dixon, Keith Hampshire

Synopsis: Animated by the Canadian cartoon firm of Rankin-Bass, this version of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland (with a bit of Through the Looking Glass thrown in) is superficially more faithful to its source than the previous Disney and Hanna-Barbera versions. Once again, Alice tumbles down the rabbit Read More

The Neptune Factor

Actors: Ed McGibbon, Ben Gazzara, Yvette Mimieux, Walter Pidgeon, Ernest Borgnine, Donnelly Rhodes, Chris Wiggens

Synopsis: A research facility becomes a death trap, and only an untested Navy vessel can save the day in this adventure drama. A team of scientists led by Hal Hamilton (Michael J. Reynolds) is studying marine life in an underwater research station called Sealab. Shortly before the Sealab crew are scheduled Read More

Play It As It Lays

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Tuesday Weld, Anthony Perkins

Synopsis: Play It As It Lays offers what is probably the harshest view of Hollywood to be given a major production up to the time of its release; it depicts a world of narcissistic egotists who will do anything to inflate their own sense of importance. Based on the novel by Joan Didion, it tells of the rise Read More

Around the World in 80 Days

Actors: Carl Banas, Len Birman, Bernard Cowan, Peggy Dixon, Keith Hampshire

Synopsis: This two-part cartoon adaptation of Jules Verne's fanciful adventure novel Around the World in 80 Days was a coproduction of Canada's Rankin-Bass and Japan's Mushi Productions. The familiar story of how Phileas Fogg and his manservant Passepartout undertake to circle the globe in 80 days is retold Read More

Doc

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Stacy Keach, Faye Dunaway, Harris Yulin, Mike Witney, Denver John Collins

Synopsis: Most westerns wrap their stories, legends really, with a light clothing of history and period. Any history found in them is usually a mix of legend and fantasy. By way of contrast, in this film, an attempt is made to accurately portray the lives and persons of Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp, and the Read More

Diary of a Mad Housewife

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Richard Benjamin, Frank Langella, Carrie Snodgress, Lorraine Cullen, Frannie Michel

Synopsis: Superstardom was predicted for Carrie Snodgress on the basis of her spectacular film debut in Diary of a Mad Housewife. Snodgress plays the long-suffering wife of pushy, insensitive attorney Richard Benjamin. Unable to withstand being treated as a trophy (and a tarnished one at that), Snodgress Read More

Last Summer

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Barbara Hershey, Richard Thomas, Bruce Davison, Cathy Burns, Ralph Waite

Synopsis: Last Summer is a frank coming-of-age tale that refuses to prettify its young characters or their activities. A group of aimless teens get together for sex, drugs and rock-and-roll on Fire Island. Timid, overweight Rhonda (Catherine Burns) is goaded into aberrant behavior by her peers, especially Read More

Truman Capote's Trilogy

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Mildred Natwick, Susan Dunfee, Carol Gustafson, Robin Ponterio

Synopsis: This trilogy begins with "Miriam" in which the title character (Susan Dunfee) watches as her longtime nanny Miss Miller (Mildred Natwick) slowly sinks into insanity. In "Among The Paths to Eden," Mary (Maureen Stapleton) is a lonely woman searching for a husband among the widowers paying respects Read More

My Side of the Mountain

Actors: Ted Eccles, Theodore Bikel, Tudi Wiggins

Synopsis: Thirteen-year old Teddy Eccles is a devotee of Thoreau, as most everybody else was in 1969. Eccles decides to spend a one-year sabbatical in the Canadian woods. His immediate companion is his pet raccoon; his spiritual companion is idealistic librarian Chris Wiggins, who supplies Eccles with books Read More

Trilogy

Crew: Director

The Swimmer

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Janet Landgard, Janice Rule, Diana Van Der Vlis, Tony Bickley, Kim Hunter

Synopsis: John Cheever's "misery in suburbia" short stories, brief and to the point, have always proven excellent TV fodder. Director Frank Perry's The Swimmer, adapted for the screen by Perry's wife Eleanor, is a rare, and for the most part successful, attempt at offering a Cheever story in feature-length Read More

Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Narrated by the author himself, this heart-warming made-for-television drama takes place in his childhood and recalls the time he helped bake a truckload of fruitcakes for friends and family with his ancient cousin. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Ladybug, Ladybug

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Jane Connell, William Daniels, James Frawley, Richard Hamilton, Kathryn Hays

Synopsis: This thought-provoking and only slightly heavy handed anti-war tract is based on a real incident that occurred during the atomic terror of the Cuban missile crisis. The tragedy begins when a civil defense siren is accidentally tripped while a school is in session. The panic-stricken children are Read More

David and Lisa

Crew: Director

Actors: Keir Dullea, Janet Margolin, Howard Da Silva, Neva Patterson, Clifton James

Synopsis: This stark and spare look at the world of the mentally disturbed was one of the beacons of the new American independent film movement. Keir Dullea and Janet Margolin star as two adolescents who make contact with each other in a home for disturbed youngsters. Dullea is David Clemens, who is placed Read More

Island Women

Crew: Art Director

Synopsis: Set amidst the beauty of the Caribbean, this romance centers upon the captain of a sail boat who falls in love with a tourist. The happy couple encounter rough seas when he tourist's aunt decides she wants the handsome salt for herself. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Bush Pilot

Synopsis: In this drama set in the Canadian wilderness, Red North is a pilot who makes his living flying in and out of the bush country. However, his business gets some competition from an unexpected source -- his half-brother, Paul. The two are soon fighting over the relatively small amount of business the Read More

Rio Rita

Actors: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Kathryn Grayson, John Carroll, Patricia Dane

Synopsis: MGM's Rio Rita is an in-name-only remake of the 1929 RKO Radio musical blockbuster, itself based on the long-running Ziegfeld Broadway extravaganza. Bud Abbott & Lou Costello take over from the original film's Burt Wheeler & Robert Woolsey as the comedy leads, while Kathryn Grayson (in her first Read More