George Dzundza Filmography

Grey's Anatomy: Six Days, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, things are sunny indeed (at least temporarily)for Cristina (Sandra Oh) and Burke (Isaiah Washington), but things don't look so good for George's cancer-patient father (George Dzundza); even so, this medical crisis serves to bring George and Callie closer Read More

Grey's Anatomy: Staring at the Sun

Synopsis: George (T.R. Knight) has trouble explaining to his somewhat thick-eared siblings that their father Harold (George Dzundza) must have heart surgery. When Burke (Isaiah Washington) is chosen to perform the operation, he wonders if he's up to it--and so, after a while, is George. Meredith (Ellen Read More

Grey's Anatomy: Where the Boys Are

Synopsis: The male staffers at Seattle Grace go on a camping trip in the mountains, which culminates in a "slap fight" (so to speak) between George (T.R. Knight) and Alex ({$Justin Chambers]). Addison (Kate Walsh) and Callie (Sara Ramirez) have a lot to talk over as they team up on a medical case. Bailey Read More

Superman: Brainiac Attacks

Actors: Tim Daly, Powers Boothe, Dana Delany, Lance Henriksen

Synopsis: As the Man of Steel prepares to reveal himself to the world and declare his longstanding love for "Daily Planet" reporter Lois Lane, an old nemesis teams with a foe of unlimited power to wreak havoc over Metropolis in this animated adventure that pits Superman against a villain the likes of which Read More

Grey's Anatomy: Don't Stand So Close to Me

Synopsis: Things become more strained than usual between Burke (Isaiah Washington), who has been offered the position of chief surgeon, and Cristina (Sandra Oh), who is still keeping Burke's tremors a secret. Elsewhere, Meredith (Ellen Pompeo) must bite her tongue to keep several secrets from her Read More

Grey's Anatomy: From a Whisper to a Scream

Synopsis: The ER is kept hopping by a spectacular traffic accident, which the wife of the driver blames on an "insane" car. Meanwhile, the burden of keeping Burke's hand tremors a secret is taking its toll on Cristina (Sandra Oh). Also, despite being on probation, Izzie (Katherine Heigl) cannot help but Read More

City by the Sea

Actors: Robert De Niro, Frances McDormand, James Franco, Eliza Dushku

Synopsis: A man struggling to come to terms with the sins of his father makes the terrible discovery that his own son has fallen into a life of crime in a drama based on a true story. Vincent LaMarca (Robert DeNiro) is a dedicated and well-respected New York City police detective who has gone to great Read More

Hack [TV Series]

Actors: David Morse, Matthew Borish, Andre Braugher, George Dzundza, Donna Murphy

Synopsis: Hack was essentially The Equalizer as Cab Driver. The protagonist was divorced, disgraced ex-Philadelphia cop Mike Olshansky (David Morse). At the end of his financial rope, Mike found steady employment as a cabbie, though he was never completely successful in suppressing his strong sense of Read More

Determination of Death

Synopsis: To escape his enormous gambling debts, the highly unlikable Reese Williams (Marc Singer) decides to fake his own death, with the help of his long-suffering wife, Katie (Michele Greene). Once Reese is safely "deceased," Katie will fall heir to a five-million-dollar insurance policy, which will help Read More

Above Suspicion

Actors: Scott Bakula, Annabella Sciorra, George Dzundza, Ed Asner

Synopsis: One man lives two very different lives in this suspense thriller. Lisa (Annabella Sciorra) is a computer science instructor who is happily married to James Stockton (Scott Bakula), a businessman who has enjoyed considerable success as a land developer. Lisa and James are the proud parents of a Read More

Touched by an Angel: The Empty Chair

Synopsis: The popular daytime TV show "Breakfast with the Baxters" has been cancelled, and hosts Betsey and Bud Baxter (Tess Harper, George Dzundza) are out of work. As they sit in their home ruminating over their bad luck, Betsey and Bud are visited by their two biggest fans--who bear a remarkable Read More

Instinct

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Donald Sutherland, Maura Tierney, George Dzundza

Synopsis: A man who leaves humanity behind to live with animals returns to society under unpleasant circumstances, but with valuable lessons about human and animal relationships. Anthony Hopkins stars as Ethan Powell, a noted anthropologist studying the behavior of mountain gorillas in Rwanda. The longer Read More

Species II

Actors: Michael Madsen, Natasha Henstridge, Marg Helgenberger, Mykelti Williamson, George Dzundza

Synopsis: In the science-fiction thriller Species (1995), Natasha Hentsridge appeared as the beautiful but deadly Sil, a human-alien DNA combo. In this sequel, Hentsridge portrays Eve, a government experiment concocted to gain an understanding of how to combat future aliens, while Michael Madsen and Marg Helgenberger Read More

Jesse [TV Series]

Actors: Christina Applegate, Bruno Campos, George Dzundza, David DeLuise, John Lehr

Synopsis: In this TV sitcom, 26-year-old single mom Jesse Warner (Christina Applegate) is a waitress in a Buffalo bar owned by her father, John Warner Sr. (George Dzundza). Jesse's life centers around her ten-year-old son, Little John (Eric Lloyd), her dad, and her eccentric brothers -- nutty John Jr. (John Lehr Read More

The Batman Superman Movie

Actors: Clancy Brown

Synopsis: If given the chance, would Batman have the hots for Lois Lane? Would Lex Luthor get along well with The Joker? And what, if anything, would be left for Robin to do? All these questions and more are answered in this conflation of two of the most venerable comic book legends, The Batman Superman Read More

That Darn Cat

Actors: Christina Ricci, Doug E. Doug, Dean Jones, George Dzundza, Dyan Cannon, Peter Boyle

Synopsis: The original Disney feature film, That Darn Cat, was a feel-good hit in 1965, thanks largely to stars such as Hayley Mills, Roddy McDowall, and William Demarest. This 1996 remake also closely follows the novel Undercover Cat by Mildred Gordon and Gordon Gordon and features Christina Ricci in the Hayley Mills Read More

The Limbic Region

Actors: George Dzundza, Gwynyth Walsh, Edward James Olmos, Roger R. Cross

Synopsis: While a serial killer continues to taunt and terrorize San Francisco residents, police detective Jon Lucca (Edward James Olmos) doggedly follows his tracks. Unlike other members of the department, Lucca does not believe the main suspect -- who was shot over a decade ago in a police gun battle Read More

Crimson Tide

Actors: Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman, George Dzundza, Viggo Mortensen, James Gandolfini

Synopsis: Two leaders with different philosophies about battle and leadership wage war with each other in this tense military thriller. Capt. Frank Ramsey (Gene Hackman) is the commanding officer of a nuclear submarine, the U.S.S. Alabama. Ramsey is a distinguished veteran near the end of his career, and he Read More

Dangerous Minds

Actors: Michelle Pfeiffer, George Dzundza, Courtney Vance, Robin Bartlett, Bruklin Harris

Synopsis: In this drama, a school teacher discovers that it takes more than the ABCs to get through to a class of "uneducatable" kids. When Lou Anne Johnson (Michelle Pfeiffer), a nine-year veteran of the Marine Corps with a degree in education, begins a new job at an inner-city school in California, the Read More

The Enemy Within

Actors: Forest Whitaker, Sam Waterston, Dana Delany, Jason Robards, Jr., Josef Sommer

Synopsis: An attempt to overthrow the President of the United States is the subject of this made-for-cable conspiracy-thriller. Forest Whitaker stars as Colonel Mackenzie Casey, a loyal member of President Foster's (Sam Waterston) inner circle. When Casey discovers a plot by his superior (Jason Robards) to Read More

Seeds of Deception

Actors: Melissa Gilbert, George Dzundza, Shanna Reed, Tom Verica, Michael Charles Roman

Synopsis: $Arlene Sanford's docudrama Seeds of Deception stars Melissa Gilbert as the female half of an infertile couple who seek help conceiving from a doctor who specializes in fertility issues. While by all appearances everything seemed to work well, the couple discovers that they, and many of the Read More

Basic Instinct

Actors: Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Denis Arndt

Synopsis: This cold, stylish erotic-thriller grossed over $100 million at the box-office despite vigorous protests at its depiction of gays and women. The shocking opening sequence features a graphic sexual encounter involving a rock-star bound with a white Hermes scarf by an unidentified blond woman. Read More

What She Doesn't Know

Actors: Valerie Bertinelli, George Dzundza, Peter Dobson, David Marshall Grant, Randle Mell

Synopsis: When a district attorney starts an investigation into corruption that leads her back to her own family--rife with police officers--she finds some decisions hard to make. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

The Butcher's Wife

Actors: Demi Moore, Jeff Daniels, George Dzundza, Mary Steenburgen, Frances McDormand

Synopsis: As a clairvoyant, Demi Moore awaits signs from beyond that her true love, whomever he may be, is waiting for her, somewhere. When New York butcher George Dzundza shows up on the tiny North Carolina island where Demi lives, she is convinced that he is the man predestined to be her husband. After Read More

White Hunter, Black Heart

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Fahey, George Dzundza, Alun Armstrong, Marisa Berenson

Synopsis: Something of a sleeper in its 1990 release, White Hunter, Black Heart is one of Clint Eastwood's most engaging films. It is based on Peter Vietel's novel about the location shoot of John Huston's immortal The African Queen. But the focus is never on Bogie and Hepburn. Egomaniacal director John Read More

Impulse

Actors: Theresa Russell, Jeff Fahey, George Dzundza, Alan Rosenberg, Shawn Elliott, Nicholas Mele

Synopsis: Actress Sondra Locke directed this visceral film noir about undercover cop Lottie Mason (Theresa Russell). A narcotics cop with the LAPD, she works a second shift at night as an undercover vice cop. Lottie works the bars and lures johns into the arms of the law. But her life is in a rut, and she Read More

Law & Order: Season 01

Actors: Richard Brooks, George Dzundza, Dann Florek, Steven Hill, Michael Moriarty, Chris Noth

Synopsis: "In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate, yet equally important, groups: the police, who investigate crime, and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories." With this pithy but all-inclusive prologue, thus began each hour-long Read More

Honor Bound

Cross of Fire

Synopsis: The two-part TV movie Cross of Fire is set in the 1920s, when the Ku Klux Klan was at the height of its political power in Indiana. Part One, originally telecast November 5, 1989, details the resurgence of the Klan (which had been created during the Reconstruction era) under the leadership of Read More

Terror on Highway 91

Synopsis: In this police drama, a rookie cop finds his idealism nearly destroyed when he discovers that most of the officers in his new precinct are corrupt. This is based on a true story. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Beast

Actors: George Dzundza, Jason Patric, Steven Bauer, Stephen Baldwin, Don Harvey

Synopsis: In Kevin Reynolds' The Beast, George Dzundza plays a cruel Russian tank commander who gets lost in the wilderness during the war in Afghanistan. As the enemy closes in, the glazed-eyed Dzundza must rely on his survival training to see him through this crisis. Meanwhile, one of Dzundza's men (Jason Patric Read More

The Ryan White Story

Actors: Lukas Haas, Judith Light, George C. Scott

Synopsis: Ryan White was the teenaged hemophiliac who contacted AIDS through a blood transfusion, then was barred from attending school in Kokomo, Indiana. All but ostracized by the community, Ryan's mother (Judith Light) engages the services of a high-powered attorney (George C. Scott) to win back her Read More

Something is out There

Actors: Joe Cortese, Maryam D'Abo

Synopsis: Something Is Out There is an expensive (and expansive) sci-fi TV movie in the tradition of the miniseries V and the theatrical picture The Hidden (1988). LA cop Joe Cortese finds himself with an unlikely partner--gorgeous extraterrestrial Maryam D'Abo. Both Earthling and alien are on the hunt for Read More

No Way Out

Actors: Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Sean Young, Will Patton, Howard Duff

Synopsis: No Way Out is told in flashback as Naval officer Tom Farrell (Kevin Costner) is grilled by his superiors regarding a recent "unpleasantness." While at a Washington party, Tom meets Susan Atwel (Sean Young), and they're soon sharing a steamy love scene in the back of a limo (marvelously parodied in Read More

Glory Years

Synopsis: When the funds for their 20-year high school reunion is put into the hands of three friends, a gambling trip to Las Vegas could prove to be disastrous. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

No Mercy

Actors: Richard Gere, Kim Basinger, Jeroen Krabbé, George Dzundza, Gary Basaraba

Synopsis: High-powered gangsters move this crime drama along at a fast pace. When two cops, Eddie Jillette (Richard Gere) and Joe Collins (Gary Basaraba), hear about a contract out on local crime boss Losado (Jeroen Krabbe), they go undercover posing as hitmen, and the result is murder. Collins and the man Read More

One Police Plaza

Actors: Robert Conrad

Synopsis: Robert Conrad stars in One Police Plaza as a New York homicide detective. A case on which he's working, involving the murder of a beautiful woman, is ordered closed by Conrad's superiors. Refusing to give up, the detective probes deeper, and unearths a hotbed of crooked cops, dirty "brass" and Read More

The Execution of Raymond Graham

Actors: Jeff Fahey, Philip Sterling, Kate Reid

Synopsis: Jeff Fahey plays Raymond Graham, who for five years has lived on Death Row, awaiting execution for the murder of a store clerk. Having given up on any further legal delays, Graham wearily awaits the fatal injection. Joining the condemned man in his death watch are Graham's family and attorney, a Read More

Deadly Justice

Actors: Richard Crenna

Synopsis: Made for television, Broken Badge originally aired as The Rape of Richard Beck. Richard Crenna plays Beck, a hard-bitten cop who has little patience for female rape victims. Then he himself is sexually assaulted by two assailants. Crenna's excellent performance notwithstanding, the teleplay by James G. Hirsch Read More

Brotherly Love

Actors: Judd Hirsch, Karen Carlson, George Dzundza

Synopsis: The "brothers" in Brotherly Love are twin siblings Ben and Harry Ryder. Both are played by Judd Hirsch, in a change of pace from his Taxi duties. One of the twins is a solid citizen and family man; the other is evil incarnate. The story was adapted from a William D. Blankenship novel by the later Ernest Tidyman Read More

When She Says No

Actors: David Huffman, Kathleen Quinlan, Rip Torn

Synopsis: The made-for-TV When She Says No takes a prismatic, Rashomon approach to its story of sexual assault. Kathleen Quinlan plays an anthropology professor who, during a roisterous campus party, has sex with three of her colleagues (Rip Torn, Jeffrey DeMunn, David Huffman). She takes the matter to Read More

Best Defense

Actors: Dudley Moore, Eddie Murphy, Kate Capshaw, Helen Shaver, George Dzundza

Synopsis: Dudley Moore and Eddie Murphy try but fail to bring this flat comedy to life, while the story itself is hampered by intercutting between the years of 1982 in Los Angeles (Moore) and 1984 in Kuwait (Murphy), with no explanation of how these two disparate people and locations are related. Wylie (Moore Read More

The Face of Rage

Synopsis: Filmed in quasi-documentary fashion, the made-for-TV The Face of Rage is set in a rehabilitation facility. Here a group of rapists are required to confront their victims face-to-face. The film concentrates on the bitter verbal sparring session between assaulter Richard (Graham Bechel) and Read More

Streamers

Actors: Matthew Modine, Michael Wright, Mitchell Lichtenstein, David Alan Grier, Albert Macklin

Synopsis: Based on the virulently antimilitary play by David Rabe, Streamers is set in a basic-training barracks. Matthew Modine is among the raw recruits who alternate between strutting around like bantam cocks to snivelling like frightened children. To test one another's manhood, the recruits indulge in Read More

Faerie Tale Theatre: Sleeping Beauty

Synopsis: Based on the beloved fairy tale, this installment of Shelley Duvall's "Faerie Tale Theatre" tells the well-known tale of a beautiful princess (Bernadette Peters) who is enchanted by an evil fairy and doomed to an eternal sleep unless she receives the kiss of a prince (Christopher Reeve). ~ Iotis Read More

A Long Way Home

Synopsis: A young man searches for his brother and sister many years after the three were sent to separate foster homes in this made-for-TV drama. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Skokie

Actors: Danny Kaye, John Rubinstein

Synopsis: Skokie is the true story of a critical test of Constitutional rights in Illinois. In 1977, a small band of American neo-fascists calling itself the National Socialist Party of America plans to stage a swastika-dominated demonstration and rally. Their intended site is the Chicago suburb of Skokie Read More

Honky Tonk Freeway

Actors: Beau Bridges, Hume Cronyn, Beverly D'Angelo, William Devane, George Dzundza

Synopsis: In this involved send-up of two American icons -- the automobile and the tourist trap -- the tiny Florida town of Ticlaw strives desperately for success after it has been denied the most essential of all tourist amenities -- a freeway exit. The insane, and mostly successful, schemes of the mayor (William Devane Read More

Salem's Lot

Actors: David Soul, James Mason, Lance Kerwin, Reggie Nalder

Synopsis: Novelist David Soul returns to his hometown of Salem, finding that things have changed a bit. More than a bit, in fact: the previously warm and friendly community is downright sinister. Soul suspects that the bizarre behavior of his onetime friends and neighbors is the handiwork of oddball antique Read More

The Deer Hunter

Actors: Robert De Niro, John Cazale, John Savage, Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken

Synopsis: One of several 1978 films dealing with the Vietnam War (including Hal Ashby's Oscar-winning Coming Home), Michael Cimino's epic second feature The Deer Hunter was both renowned for its tough portrayal of the war's effect on American working class steel workers and notorious for its ahistorical use Read More

The Defection of Simas Kudirka

Synopsis: Alan Arkin stars as real-life Lithuanian seaman Simas Kudirka, a radio operator on a Russian vessel. When his ship docks at Martha's Vineyard in early 1970, Kudirka makes a dramatic leap from the deck, landing on the American coast guard cutter Vigilant. He announces that he wishes to Read More

The Streets of San Francisco: The Canine Collar

Synopsis: A ship pulls into San Francisco with a most unsual cargo: a dog collar containing a fortune in diamond. Smuggler Paul Weber (George Dzundza) is determined to get his hands on those diamonds, even if it means committing murder at a high-profile dog show held at San Francisco's Cow Palace. This was Read More

The Happy Hooker

Actors: Lynn Redgrave, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Lovelady Powell, Elizabeth Wilson

Synopsis: Lynn Redgrave stars as New York madam Xaviera Hollander in this romp based on Hollander's rise to the top of the sex-for-hire industry. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Waltons: The Abdication

Synopsis: John-Boy (Richard Thomas) is reunited with professional writer A.J. Covington, who had served as his inspiration in an earlier episode (originally played by David Huddleston, Covington is here enacted by George Dzundza). The author has returned to Walton's Mountain with a Hollywood production Read More