Grant HeslovFilmography

Occupation:: Actor, Co-producer, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

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The Challenge

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: The legal case of Osama bin Laden's driver is delved into with this George Clooney-produced/Aaron Sorkin-scripted drama from Warner Bros. The plot will focus on the plight of two lawyers against the United States government in a case of constitutional rights rule-breaking. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Read More

1/1/11
The American

Crew: Producer

Actors: George Clooney, Bruce Altman, Thekla Reuten, Paolo Bonacelli, Violante Placido

Synopsis: George Clooney stars in this adaptation of Martin Booth's suspense novel A Very Private Gentleman, with director Anton Corbijn (Control) heading up the production for Focus Features. Rowan Joffe's script details the downtime of an American assassin (Clooney) in Italy after his latest job has gone Read More

1/1/10
The Men Who Stare at Goats

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey, Stephen Lang

Synopsis: A reporter (Ewan McGregor) delves into the world of experimental psychic U.S. military units during the Iraq War in this adaptation of the Jon Ronson book The Men Who Stare at Goats. George Clooney, Kevin Spacey, and Jeff Bridges star in the Smoke House/BBC Films production. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Read More

11/6/09
Leatherheads

Crew: Producer

Actors: George Clooney, Renée Zellweger, John Krasinski, Jonathan Pryce, Peter Gerety

Synopsis: Good Night, and Good Luck director George Clooney pulls double duty once again in this sports-oriented romantic comedy set against the formation of professional football in the 1920s. Dodge Connelly (Clooney) is a brash and handsome gridiron giant who is equally comfortable leading his team in a Read More

4/4/08
Good Night, and Good Luck.

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: David Strathairn, George Clooney, Robert Downey, Jr., Patricia Clarkson, Frank Langella

Synopsis: George Clooney pays homage to one of the icons of American broadcast journalism, Edward R. Murrow, in this fact-based drama, which was Clooney's second feature film as a director. In 1953, Edward R. Murrow (played by David Strathairn) was one of the best-known newsmen on television as host of both Read More

10/7/05
Sleeper Cell: Season 01

Actors: Michael Ealy, Oded Fehr, Blake Shields, Alex Nesic, Henri Lubatti

2005
Intolerable Cruelty

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Geoffrey Rush, Cedric the Entertainer, Edward Herrmann

Synopsis: Joel and Ethan Coen take on the classic battle-of-the-sexes screwball comedy with Intolerable Cruelty. George Clooney plays Miles Massey, a high-powered Los Angeles divorce lawyer nearing a midlife crisis . While representing wealthy client Rex Rexroth (Edward Herrmann), Miles meets his match in Read More

10/10/03
K Street [TV Series]

Crew: Co-Executive Producer

Actors: James Carville, Mary Matalin, Mary McCormack, Michael K. Deaver, John Slattery, Roger Guenveur Smith

Synopsis: Co-created by actor George Clooney and director Steve Soderbergh, the ten-part HBO series K Street was a docudrama about a political consulting firm in Washington. Each episode was based on a late-breaking political story, and each was edited just before telecast for the sake of topicality. It was Read More

2003
The Scorpion King

Actors: The Rock, Steven Brand, Michael Clarke Duncan, Kelly Hu, Bernard Hill

Synopsis: The Rock has his first starring role in this prequel to The Mummy films, which was developed while The Mummy Returns was still in production. The film takes place in ancient times, when a mighty swordsman, Memnon (Steven Brand, making his film debut) ruled over nearly all the known world. Memnon Read More

4/19/02
Bug

Actors: Brian Cox, Michael Hitchcock, Jamie Kennedy, Jane Adams

Synopsis: Various lives intersect to curious results in this sometimes surreal tale of life in Silverlake, from the duo who scripted crazy/beautiful and The Tuxedo. As Chinese-food restaurant and donut shop owner Cyr's (Brian Cox) obsessive-compulsive leanings begin to get the best of him, his workers' Read More

2002
Fail Safe

Actors: George Clooney, Noah Wyle, Richard Dreyfuss, Hank Azaria, Brian Dennehy

Synopsis: A seemingly-minor electronic error sets the world on the verge of nuclear annihilation in this made-for-TV adaptation of the novel by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler (which was previously filmed in 1964). Due to the burn-out of a piece of circuitry, a computer orders a U.S. Air Force jet on a Read More

2000
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Pledging Mr. Johnson

Synopsis: A college fraternity pledging ends in tragedy when a rejected student apparently commits suicide. Nick (George Eads) and Sara (Jorja Fox) discover that the case is not as open-and-shut as it seems. And while looking into the discovery of a woman's body -- with one leg missing -- Grissom (William L. Petersen Read More

2000
Dante's Peak

Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Linda Hamilton, Charles Hallahan, Grant Heslov, Elizabeth Hoffman

Synopsis: Old Smokey develops a bad temper in this volcanic disaster spectacle. Harry Dalton (Pierce Brosnan) is a volcano expert whose interest became more than academic after he lost the woman he loved in a volcanic emergency. When he is sent to investigate unusual seismic activity in the quiet Pacific Read More

1997
Dead by Midnight

Synopsis: John Larkin (Timothy Hutton would seem to have the ideal life: A great job, a beautiful home, a happy marriage. Nonetheless, John has always been nagged by the feeling that "something is missing." The truth of this suspicion is violently driven home when John is inexplicably kidnapped from his Read More

1997
Touched By an Angel: The One That Got Away

Synopsis: A law-school study group reunites at the wedding of one of its members, Mark Monfort (David Newsome), who is about to tie the knot with Susan Duplain (Susan Diol), a former girlfriend with whom he has just reconnected. Casting a pall over the proceedings is the negativity of Lisa Magdaleno (Tracy Read More

1996
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - Monster Child in a Promised Land

Actors: Kevin Sorbo, Michael Hurst, Glenn Shadix, Bridget Hoffman, Grant Heslov

Synopsis: Happily reunited by Hercules (Kevin Sorbo) in a previous episode, gentle giant Typhon (Glenn Shadix) and his wife Echnida (Bridget Hoffman) (aka "The Mother of All Monsters")are now the proud parents of a bouncing baby, the squid-like Obie. Alas, the tiny tot is kidnapped by sneaky thief Klepto (Grant Heslov Read More

1996
Black Sheep

Actors: Chris Farley, David Spade, Tim Matheson

Synopsis: Handsome, smooth-talking Al Donnelly (Tim Matheson) has everything going for him. A politician, he is engaged in a heated gubernatorial race with the feisty Governor Tracy (Christine Ebersole), a tough old bird who doesn't hesitate to play hardball with opponents. Unfortunately for her, things are Read More

1996
The Birdcage

Actors: Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane, Dianne Wiest, Hank Azaria, Dan Futterman, Calista Flockhart

Synopsis: Director Mike Nichols teams up with his former partner/screenwriter Elaine May for the first time in many years and for the first time together in films to create this sophisticated, remake of the phenomenally popular French musical farce La Cage aux Folles that stars Robin Williams, Nathan Lane Read More

1996
Congo

Actors: Dylan Walsh, Laura Linney, Ernie Hudson, Tim Curry, Grant Heslov

Synopsis: Good gorillas meet bad gorillas while human beings search for treasure in this jungle advnture saga. R.B. Travis (Joe Don Baker) is the ruthless head of Travi-Com, a telecommunications firm on the cusp of a major breakthrough in laser communications technology. However, Travis needs diamonds to Read More

1995
True Lies

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold, Bill Paxton, Tia Carrere

Synopsis: Borrowing liberally from the French film La Totale, this is an action picture, domestic comedy, and political thriller rolled into a crowd-pleasing ball of entertainment. Producer James Cameron wrote and directed the film. Henry Tasker (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a workaholic computer salesman Read More

1994
M.A.N.T.I.S.

Actors: Gina Torres

Synopsis: Carl Lumbly stars as an unlikely super-hero in this made-for-television sci-fi movie. Lumbly stars as Dr. Miles Hawkins, a wheel-chair bound scientist who concocts a device that not only liberates him from his chair, but turns him into a crime-fighting super hero. The idea was later developed into Read More

1994
Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation

Actors: Robert Carradine, Ted McGinley, Gregg Binkley, Curtis Armstrong, Morton Downey, Jr.

Synopsis: In this third version of the Nerds theme, the next generation of Nerd boys have by now taken control of Adams College and one of the college trustees is sick of seeing the geeky nerds running everything so he schemes a plan devoted to the return of jock power. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1992
Vital Signs

Actors: Adrian Pasdar, Diane Lane, Jimmy Smits, Norma Aleandro, Jack Gwaltney

Synopsis: Marisa Silver helmed this tightly directed hospital drama reminiscent of David Swift's 1962 The Interns. Jimmy Smits plays Dr. David Redding, who guides seven student doctors through their third year of residency at Los Angeles Central's medical school. The cast includes Laura San Giacomo as Read More

3/16/90
Catch Me If You Can

Actors: Matt Lattanzi, Loryn Locklin, Grant Heslov, Billy Morrissette, Geoffrey Lewis

Synopsis: The class president depends upon illegal race-car betting to save her high school from financial ruin. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

1989
Murder, She Wrote: Class Act

Synopsis: The emphasis in this episode is not on Jessica (Angela Lansbury) but on her old friend, indefatigable LA homicide detective Jake Ballinger (Barry Newman). Refusing to give up his own personal investigation of a "closed" murder case, Jake is forcibly relocated to a small college town, there to Read More

1989
License to Drive

Actors: Corey Haim, Corey Feldman, Carol Kane, Richard Masur, Heather Graham

Synopsis: Les (Corey Haim) is embarrassed when he fails his driving test in this routine teen comedy. His buddies are depending on him to provide the wheels for the weekend, but Les is more interested in his Saturday date with Mercedes (Heather Graham). Les secretly steals his grandfather's immaculate 1972 Read More

7/6/88
Sunset

Actors: Bruce Willis, James Garner, Malcolm McDowell, Mariel Hemingway, Kathleen Quinlan, Dermot Mulroney

Synopsis: Director Blake Edwards departed from his customary sex farces to direct an unusual satirical Western comedy-thriller. In 1927, legendary lawman Wyatt Earp (James Garner) comes to Hollywood to serve as an advisor to a film studio making a movie about Earp's life. He meets silent screen cowboy star Tom Mix Read More

4/29/88
Dangerous Curves

Actors: Tate Donovan, Danielle von Zerneck, Grant Heslov, Valeri Breiman, Robert Stack

Synopsis: This direct to video, youth-oriented comedy is about Chuck (Tate Donovan) and Wally (Grant Heslov), friends in their senior year at college. Graduation is fast approaching. A wealthy industrialist (Robert Stack) offfers them jobs after graduation if they'll do him a favor and deliver a car to the Read More

1988
Legal Eagles

Actors: Robert Redford, Debra Winger, Daryl Hannah, Brian Dennehy, Terence Stamp

Synopsis: Ivan Reitman directed this film, starring Robert Redford, Debra Winger, and Daryl Hannah, that is an amalgam of a thriller, courtroom drama, mystery and Tracy-Hepburn romantic comedy, with a little Mark Rothko-type scandal thrown in. The film revolves around troubled Chelsea Deardon (Daryl Hannah) Read More

6/18/86
The Boys Next Door

Actors: Maxwell Caulfield, Charlie Sheen, Christopher McDonald, Hank Garrett, Patti D'Arbanville

Synopsis: The "boys next door" are Roy Alston (Maxwell Caulfield) and Bo Richards (Charlie Sheen), typical California teens freshly graduated from high school. Daunted by the prospect of the real world, the boys decide to go on one last fling in L.A. But it's not all clean, wholesome fun; in fact, Caulfield Read More

1985
The Journey of Natty Gann

Actors: Meredith Salenger, John Cusack, Ray Wise, Scatman Crothers, Barry Miller

Synopsis: Disney's The Journey of Natty Gann stars Meredith Salenger in the title role. During the Depression, Natty's father (Ray Wise) takes a job in a Northwestern lumber camp, leaving his daughter behind in Chicago with the promise that he'll send for her when he's put together enough money. Unwilling Read More

1985