Gordon ClappFilmography

The Game Plan

Actors: The Rock, Madison Pettis, Kyra Sedgwick, Roselyn Sanchez, Morris Chestnut

Synopsis: Gridiron Gang star Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson picks up the pigskin once again for this sports-themed family comedy concerning a football superstar who abandons the gridiron to answer the call of fatherhood. Joe Kingman (Johnson) was a star quarterback destined for greatness; not only is the Read More

Flags of Our Fathers

Actors: Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, John Benjamin Hickey, John Slattery

Synopsis: Clint Eastwood's adaptation of the non-fiction book Flags of Our Fathers concerns the lives of the men in the famous picture of soldiers raising the American flag over Iwo Jima during that historic WWII battle. Battle scenes are intercut with footage of three of the soldiers - played by Ryan Read More

Monk: Mr. Monk Gets a New Shrink

Synopsis: Feeling personally responsible when one of his patients is charged with the murder of a cleaning lady, Monk's psychiatrist Dr. Kroger (Stanley Kamel) retires from practice. This of course sends Monk (Tony Shalhoub) into a tailspin: Not only has he been "abandoned" by Kroger, but he now must endure Read More

Deadwood: Boy the Earth Talks To

Synopsis: George Hearst (Gerald McRaney) arrives in camp. Wu (Keone Young) escapes from Al's (Ian McShane) confinement, and goes at Lee (Philip Moon) before he's recaptured by the slow-thinking Johnny (Sean Bridgers), making Al's involvement in the feud uncomfortably public. While Alma (Molly Parker) Read More

Moonlight Mile

Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Susan Sarandon, Ellen Pompeo, Holly Hunter

Synopsis: Frequent television director Brad Silberling directs the romantic drama Moonlight Mile. Set in a Massachusetts town in the early '70s, Joe Nast (Jake Gyllenhaal) is distraught after the death of his fiancée. He moves in with her parents, Ben (Dustin Hoffman) and JoJo (Susan Sarandon), while trying Read More

Sunshine State

Actors: Edie Falco, Angela Bassett, Jane Alexander, Ralph Waite, James McDaniel, Timothy Hutton, Mary Steenburgen, Gordon Clapp, Miguel Ferrer

Synopsis: Writer and director John Sayles returns with another multi-layered look at an American community, subtly exploring how race, class, economics, and both national and regional history come together to shape people's lives. Plantation Island is a community on the coast of Florida; the island was once Read More

Return of the Secaucus 7

Actors: Bruce MacDonald, Maggie Renzi, Adam Le Fevre, Maggie Cousineau, Gordon Clapp, Jean Passanante, Karen Trott, Mark Arnott

Synopsis: College friends reunite for a New England summer weekend in this low-budget first feature by accomplished independent filmmaker John Sayles. A predecessor of the well-paced, character-driven films in Sayles' future, Secaucus Seven also looks ahead to the 1980s ensemble movies that it Read More

NYPD Blue: Season 10

Actors: Dennis Franz, Henry Simmons, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Gordon Clapp, Esai Morales

Synopsis: As NYPD Blue entered its tenth season, there was a perception that the series had become flat and predictable, and that the leading characters were merely going through the motions. But the series had confounded its critics the previous season by retaining its popularity despite a change to an Read More

Sinners Need Company

Actors: Gail O'Grady, James Eckhouse, Jennifer Morrison, Will Wallace, Daniel Roebuck

Synopsis: Attractive widow Molly Bowser (Gail O'Grady) finds herself unable to get a job because of the jealous wives of her potential male employers. Determined to get money in a hurry by any means possible, Molly arranges for her sexy daughter Lily (Jennifer Morrison) to "accidentally" meet wealthy young Read More

NYPD Blue: Season 09

Actors: Dennis Franz, Henry Simmons, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Gordon Clapp, Esai Morales

Synopsis: At the end of NYPD Blue's eighth season, Danny Sorenson (Rick Schroder), the troubled young partner of the 15th precinct's Detective Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz), had disappeared under sinister circumstances after a botched undercover operation. It was not until season nine got under way that Read More

NYPD Blue: Season 08

Synopsis: Season eight of NYPD Blue began minus the services of longtime executive producer David Milch, who left to develop a project of his own. Steven Bochco, who'd co-created the series with Milch, took full charge of the series. This was far from the only eighth-season personnel change. Andrea Thompson Read More

Skeletons in the Closet

Actors: Gordon Clapp, Schuyler Fisk, Treat Williams, Linda Hamilton, Jonathan Jackson

Synopsis: Single father Will Reed (Treat Williams) and his teenaged son Seth (Jonathan Jackson) have increasingly uncomfortable conflicts that go beyond the usual coming-of-age difficulties. Seth has grown reclusive and mysterious as his father does his best to communicate with him. Seth's binge drinking Read More

NYPD Blue: Season 07

Synopsis: Although the seventh season of NYPD Blue was supposed to begin on November 9, 1999, a variety of backstage intrigues involving the ABC network and the series' producers (some of these revolving around NYPD's temporary Tuesday-night "replacement" Once and Again) pushed the debut date forward to the Read More

The Rage: Carrie 2

Actors: Emily Bergl, Jason London, Dylan Bruno, J. Smith-Cameron, Amy Irving

Synopsis: The Rage: Carrie 2 is set in a small town high school, where the members of the football team set the social order. Emulating the "Spur Posse" from Lakewood, California, the boys on the team compete to see who can seduce the most girls, rating them on a point system, and then discarding them as Read More

NYPD Blue: Season 06

Synopsis: The big news attending NYPD Blue's sixth season was the imminent departure of series star Jimmy Smits, who played Det. Bobby Simone, the new husband of Det. Diane Russell (Kim Delaney). While the particulars of Simone's exit were kept secret from the public, it became obvious from the season Read More

Badge of Betrayal

Synopsis: Crimes of Passion: Badge of Betrayal is the cable-TV and home-video title of an "@ABC} World Premiere Movie" that originally aired January 6, 1997 as simply Badge of Betrayal. Newly arrived from the Big City, professional cop and single mom Annie Walter (Michele Greene) joins the small-town Read More

NYPD Blue: Season 05

Synopsis: As expected, the opening episode of NYPD Blue's fifth season resolved the cliffhanger established at the end of season four, with 15th precinct detective Bobby Simone (Jimmy Smits) returning to active duty after being cleared of all charges relating to the murder of late, unlamented mobster Jimmy Read More

The Morrison Murders

Actors: John Corbett, Gordon Clapp, Jonathan Scarfe

Synopsis: An older brother is faced with a wrenching decision after his investigation of his parents' murder implicates his younger brother, who curiously was named sole benefactor in the will. Based on a true story. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

NYPD Blue: Season 04

Synopsis: The fourth season of NYPD Blue saw the introduction of two important new cast members: Andrea Thompson as Detective Jill Kirkendall, fearless crime-fighter, single mother, and potential threat to the burgeoning romance between Det. Bobby Simone (Jimmy Smits) and Det. Diane Russell (Kim Delaney); Read More

Abandoned and Deceived

Actors: Lori Loughlin, Brian Kerwin, Farrah Forke, Gordon Clapp

Synopsis: When the state of Ohio refuses to help a poor single mother get her child's father to pay support, she launches a statewide campaign to enact newer, better child-support laws. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

NYPD Blue: Season 03

Synopsis: Like all good Steven Bochco projects, NYPD Blue continued to grow, evolve, and push the envelope throughout its third season. The year was a mixed one for the 15th precinct's most mercurial detective, Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz). Though he had found a measure of domestic tranquility with his new Read More

Her Hidden Truth

Actors: Kellie Martin

Synopsis: Kellie Martin stars as a teen wrongly accused of setting a deadly arson fire in this made-for-television drama. Martin plays Billie Calhoun, a girl who has been held in a juvenile detention facility since being accused of killing her mother and sister in a fire. Up for a possible early release on Read More

NYPD Blue: Season 02

Synopsis: The second season of NYPD Blue was transitional in every sense of the word, with a number of major cast changes and the deepening of characterizations within the people who remained. The big news during the 1994-1995 season was the defection of David Caruso as Detective John Kelly, the sensitive Read More

NYPD Blue: Tempest in a C-Cup

Synopsis: Hoping to trap a suspected murderer, Kelly (David Caruso) tries to get the suspect to confess to a recent string of cab robberies. A topless dancer (Ginger Lynn Allen) helps Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) nail one of the Mob's top moneymen. Laura (Sherry Stringfield) is saddled with an unethical law Read More

NYPD Blue: Ice Follies

Synopsis: Janice Licalsi (Amy Breneman) is blackmailed into cooperating with the Mob. Feeling that Martinez (Nicholas Turturro) didn't do enough to prevent the drug-overdose death of his brother, Martinez' father (Luis Guzman) takes the law into his own hands. And the very married Detective Medavoy (Gordon Clapp Read More

NYPD Blue: Emission Accomplished

Synopsis: Visiting his drug-addicted brother Roberto (Mark Adair-Rios), detective Martinez (Nicholas Turturro) finds out that Roberto's landlord is a crooked cop who is shaking down his tenants on behalf of the Mob. After one of the tenants is murdered, Martinez wants to take action against the bad cop, but Read More

NYPD Blue: Personal Foul

Synopsis: Kelly (David Caruso) investigates when one of his friends is killed and another arrested after a fracas during a pickup basketball game. Still prosecuting the Giardella case, Laura (Sherry Stringfield) senses that she is somehow being set up. Sipowicz suspects that a man whose wife was murdered is Read More

NYPD Blue: Rockin' Robin

Synopsis: In the final episode of NYPD Blue's first season, Kelly (David Caruso) offers to stand by Janice (Amy Brenneman) as she goes to trial. Later on, Robin (Debrah Farentino) and Kelly have a romantic rendezvous. Meanwhile, Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) unearths evidence pertaining to a nearly cold case at Read More

Family of Strangers

Actors: Melissa Gilbert

Synopsis: This made-for-television drama is based on the true story of a woman's search for her birth parents. Melissa Gilbert-Boxleitner stars as Julie, a woman about to undergo surgery. Confronted with questions about her medical history, Julie learns for the first time that she in fact was adopted as an Read More

NYPD Blue: Oscar, Meyer, Weiner

Synopsis: Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) draws what seems to be the easiest duty of the week: tracking down the Academy Award statuette stolen from a veteran screenwriter. Meanwhile, Sipowicz's colleagues investigate the brutal slaying of a wealthy family, and Janice (Amy Brenneman) is again ordered to infiltrate Read More

NYPD Blue: From Hare to Eternity

Synopsis: Christmas may be a little late for Lt. Fancy (James McDaniel), who faces the wrath of Borough Commander Haverill (James Handy) -- until Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) unexpectedly come to the rescue. Elsewhere, the Yuletide season is rudely interrupted by the kidnapping of a wealthy young girl, and by Read More

When a Stranger Calls Back

Crew: Set Dresser

Actors: Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Jill Schoelen, Gene Lythgow, Karen Austin

Synopsis: Another psychopath haunts another baby sitter in this made-for-TV sequel to the 1979 feature When a Stranger Calls. When prim schoolgirl Julia (Jill Schoelen) accepts a last-minute baby-sitting assignment from a doctor and his wife (Kevin McNulty and Cheryl Wilson), she follows all the rules: She Read More

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Vortex

Synopsis: Just when it seemed as if the first season of Deep Space Nine had degenerated into reruns, along came this first-run episode on April 17, 1993. The focus of the episode is Odo, the crew's resident shape shifter. Odo is tempted to forsake his responsibilities by alien criminal Croden (Cliff DeYoung Read More

Cheers: Look Before You Sleep

Actors: Frances Sternhagen

Synopsis: While his apartment is being fumigated, Sam (Ted Danson) makes arrangements to sleep over at the home of a lady friend. Alas, the lady cancels and Sam locks himself out of Cheers, his second choice for a nocturnal resting place. One thing leads to another, culminating with him bunking at the home Read More

Kiss of a Killer

Actors: Annette O'Toole, Eva Marie Saint, Brian Wimmer, Gregg Henry, Vic Polizos

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV thriller, Annette O'Toole stars as a woman whose secret life forces her to flee from a killer. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

NYPD Blue: Brown Appetit

Synopsis: Facing corruption charges because of past Mob ties, the father of officer Janice Licalsi (Amy Brenneman) takes drastic action. Confined to a desk while recovering from his wounds, Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) demands that Fancy (James McDaniel) return him to street duty. While helping Martinez (Nicholas Turturro Read More

In the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco

Actors: Tim Daly, Dan Lauria, William O'Leary, Neal McDonough, Lewis Smith

Synopsis: This made-for-television drama first aired on NBC and was made shortly after the tragic stand-off in Waco, Texas when a conflict between the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and a group of cultist led by charismatic leader and self-proclaimed messiah David Koresh turned into a Read More

Wings: Bye-Bye, Bunny

Synopsis: After much foot-dragging, Lowell (Thomas Haden Church) concludes that the time has come to finalize his divorce from his wife Bunny (Laura Innes). However, within 24 hours the couple has landed back in the sack and are comporting themselves like giggling newlyweds. Alas, Bunny is still as Read More

Bonds of Love

Actors: Hal Holbrook, Grace Zabriskie, Steve Railsback

Synopsis: The Bonds of Love in this made-for-TV drama are those forged between divorcee Kelly McGillis and mentally disabled Treat Williams. What begins as a friendship between two lost souls blossoms into a deep and genuine romance. Their wedding plans are challenged by his mother (Grace Zabriskie) and Read More

Mission of the Shark

Synopsis: When a top secret naval mission leads to the torpedoing of the U.S.S. Indianapolis at the end of WWII, it began one of the most scandalous court-martials in the history of the military. For five days the surviving crew members were left in the shark-infested waters, with only half of them Read More

Kurt Vonnegut's Monkey House

Synopsis: This made-for-cable-TV anthology is comprised of four provocative tales from one of America's most famous idealistic cynics, Kurt Vonnegut. The stories are "All The King's Horses," "Next Door," "The Euphio Question," and "Fortitude." ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Showdown at Williams Creek

Crew: Set Designer

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Showdown at Williams Creek is about a British soldier named John Brown (Tom Burlinson), who moves to America's Wild West, settling in the Montana territory with the hopes of making a fortune. However, things don't go entirely as planned in America, as he has to survive not Read More

The Private Capital

Family of Spies: The Walker Spy Ring, Part 1

Actors: Powers Boothe, Lesley Ann Warren

Synopsis: The true story of American turncoat John Walker, Jr. is related blow-by-blow in this made-for-TV movie. Powers Boothe stars as Walker, a Navy petty officer who spends half of his career selling secrets to the Soviets. At first the soul of discretion, the hard-drinking, philandering Walker Read More

Night Court: I Said Dance!

Synopsis: Bull (Richard Moll) borrows Roz' gun, only to accidentally shoot himself in the foot. This minor discomfort escalates into a major crisis when Bull's lawyer cousin Ralph talks him into filing suit against Roz (Marsha Warfield). Future NYPD Blue regular Gordon Clapp is seen as the ambulance-chasing Read More

Blind Faith

Actors: Joanna Kerns, Robert Urich

Synopsis: Originally telecast in two parts, Blind Faith was adapted from a fact-based book by investigative author Joe McGinniss. The scene is Toms River, New Jersey; the year is 1984. Insurance salesman Rob Marshall (Robert Urich) informs the authorities that his wife Maria (Joanna Kerns) has been murdered Read More

The Secret Life of Archie's Wife

Actors: Ray Wise

Synopsis: LA Law's husband-and-wife costars Michael Tucker and Jill Eikenberry are top-billed in this TV movie tailored to their talents. Tucker is a minor league crook who can't seem to do anything right. Eikenberry is a bored housewife who is inadvertently kidnapped by Tucker during a bank robbery. Read More

Gross Anatomy

Actors: Matthew Modine, Daphne Zuniga, Christine Lahti, Todd Field, John Scott Clough

Synopsis: Gross Anatomy is to medical school what Paper Chase was to law school, with perhaps a little less sobriety. Mathew Modine plays a blue-collar kid attending a posh school of medicine, where everyone--teacher and student alike--seems to be well above Modine's social strata. Perhaps as a reaction to Read More

Small Sacrifices

Actors: Farrah Fawcett, Ryan O'Neal, John Shea

Synopsis: Based on the factual book by Ann Rule, Small Sacrifices was original telecast in two parts. Farrah Fawcett continues to successfully obliterate the Charlie's Angels onus in the role of real-life US postal worker Diane Downs. Part One of the film was set in Willamete Valley, Oregon, in 1983. Mrs. Read More

Termini Station

Actors: Colleen Dewhurst, Megan Follows, Gordon Clapp, Norma dell'Agnese, Debra McGrath

Synopsis: Colleen Dewhurst plays Molly Dushane, the widowed matriarch of a small-town family. A tragedy occurred years earlier when her late husband committed suicide after threatening their daughter with a gun, and the family has fumbled with their difficult lives since. Though she often escapes reality by Read More

Eight Men Out

Actors: John Cusack, Clifton James, David Strathairn, Christopher Lloyd, John Mahoney, D.B. Sweeney, Michael Lerner

Synopsis: Writer/director John Sayles' dramatization of the most infamous episode in professional sports -- the fix of the 1919 World Series -- is considered by many to be among his best films and arguably the best baseball movie ever made. This adaptation of Eliot Asinof's definitive study of the scandal Read More

Breaking All the Rules

Synopsis: Breaking All the Rules is a likable Canadian "raunchy teenager" flick in the tradition of Porky's. Few of the kids involved are budding Brandos, though Carolyn Dunn is hilarious as an inept aspiring "punker". The scene is a tacky amusement park, where a cash-prize contest is to be held. After Read More

Matewan

Actors: Chris Cooper, Will Oldham, Mary McDonnell, Bob Gunton, James Earl Jones

Synopsis: Independent filmmaker John Sayles creates one of his more artistic works with this period feature about a volatile 1920s labor dispute in the town of Matewan, West Virginia. Matewan is a coal town where the local miners' lives are controlled by the powerful Stone Mountain Coal Company. The company Read More

Hands of a Stranger

Actors: Armand Assante, Blair Brown, Beverly D'Angelo, Arliss Howard

Synopsis: Hands of a Stranger was adapted by playwright Arthur Kopit from the best-selling novel by Robert Daley. Armand Assante plays a New York City narcotics officer who aids DA Blair Brown in her investigation of a rape case in which drugs were involved. In the subsequent days, Assante becomes something Read More

The Right of the People

Synopsis: The Second Amendment of the Constitution forms the basis of this drama that follows the crusade of a lawyer to allow citizens to carry handguns. He launched his fight after his wife and daughter were killed during a robbery. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Evergreen

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Belva Plain, the three-part NBC miniseries Evergreen covered a time span from 1909 to 1959. The story begins in New York's Lower East Side with the arrival of Polish-Jewish immigrant Anna (Lesley Ann Warren). At first employed as a humble seamstress, Anna is whisked into a Read More

Running

Actors: Michael Douglas, Susan Anspach, Larry Dane, Chuck Shamata, Eugene Levy

Synopsis: Despite the promise of his early career, the life of former world-class runner Michael Andropolis has been a crashing failure. The icing on his life's bitter cake was his divorce from the woman he still loves. Wanting to win back both his wife and his self-respect, Andropolis decides to start Read More