Harry Hamlin Filmography

Dancing With the Stars: Season 03

The Untold Secrets of Television's Greatest Hits

Synopsis: The Untold Secrets of Television's Greatest Hits offers stories about the productions of eight famous programs. Among the shows discussed are Cheers, L.A. Law, Hill Street Blues, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Bob Newhart Show, he Addams Family, The Munsters, and I Love Lucy. ~ Perry Seibert, All Read More

Disappearance

Synopsis: This eerie cable-TV movie begins as married couple Jim and Patty (played by one-time L.A. Law costars Harry Hamlin and Susan Dey), accompanied by their children, drive through the Nevada desert in their SUV. Through an unfortunate set of circumstances, the family finds itself marooned in a Read More

Sex, Lies and Obsession

Actors: Harry Hamlin, Lisa Rinna, Kevin Zegers, Rebecca Jenkins, Karl Pruner

Roads to Riches

Actors: Robert Forster, Rose McGowan, Kip Pardue

Synopsis: A pair of mismatched, down-and-out L.A. misfits find that their luck is about to change -- thanks to a charismatic, oblivious young buck from the Lone Star state -- in this psychological drama. Robert Forster plays Jack Waters, a con man whose best days are behind him when Henry (Kip Pardue) steps Read More

Perfume

Actors: Joanne Baron, Angela Bettis, Sonia Braga, D.W. Brown, Coolio

Synopsis: As a number of luminaries on the international fashion scene converge for a major show, their personal and professional crises come to a head in this comedy-drama. Lorenzo Mancini (Paul Sorvino) is an internationally famous designer who has learned he has only a short time to live. As Mancini Read More

Touched by an Angel: Winners, Losers & Leftovers

Synopsis: Kindhearted technology-firm executive Liam Cadegan (Harry Hamlin) is worried about his professional future--to say nothing about the welfare of his family--when his company is taken over by a conglomerate known for its ruthless weeding out of "weaklings." As the company's new vice-president of Read More

Shoot or Be Shot

Actors: William Shatner, Harry Hamlin, Scott Rinker

Synopsis: Star Fleet commander-turned-kitsch icon William Shatner stars in this satirical comedy that takes aim at the Dogme 95 filmmaking movement. Shatner plays Harvey Wilkes, an escaped mental patient who also happens to be an aspiring screenwriter. Armed with a pistol, Harvey hijacks a film crew Read More

Frogs For Snakes

Actors: Barbara Hershey, Robbie Coltrane, Harry Hamlin, Ian Hart, John Leguizamo

Synopsis: This "neo-noir comic thriller" from director Amos Poe focuses on struggling actress Eva (Barbara Hershey), a waitress who moonlights by making collections for her ex-husband, loan shark Al (Robbie Coltrane). Her day job is at a Lower Manhattan diner owned by Quint (Ian Hart). Others on the scene Read More

Silent Predators

Actors: Harry Hamlin, Shannon Sturges, Jack Scalia

Synopsis: Harry Hamlin (L.A. Law, Clash of the Titans), Shannon Sturges, and Jack Scalia head the cast of this horror film. Noel Nosseck's Silent Predators concerns the sudden attacks of mutant rattlesnakes who have been breeding unnoticed for 20 years just outside of booming San Vicente, CA. The film Read More

Stranger in Town

Actors: Harry Hamlin, Graham Greene, Rebecca Jenkins

Synopsis: Wanting to protect her son from the sometimes harsh realities of urban life, a single mother moves to a small town. Unfortunately, her boy becomes friends with a mysterious and sinister stranger. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Hunted

Actors: Harry Hamlin, Mädchen Amick, Hannes Jaenicke

Synopsis: In this suspenseful outdoor thriller, a killer flees into the Canadian wilds hotly pursued by a determined insurance claims adjuster. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Like Father, Like Santa

Actors: Harry Hamlin, Megan Gallagher, Curtis Blanck, William Hootkins, Gary Frank

Synopsis: Having been burned by a traumatic childhood experience, greedy toy tycoon Tyler Madison (Harry Hamlin) is contemptuous of his fellow man, ruthlessly nasty in his business dealings, and callously neglectful of his wife Elyse (Megan Gallegher) and son Danny (Curtis Blanck). Just before Christmas Read More

Night Sins

Synopsis: Reminiscent of the "best" of David Lynch, the two-part TV movie Night Sins uses a mysterious abduction as catalyst for a progressively bizarre and disturbing expose of small-town corruption, hypocrisy and perversion. When the 8-year-old son of a doctor is kidnapped from his home in the rural Read More

Allie & Me

Actors: Lyndie Benson, Joanne Baron, James Wilder, Steven Chester Prince, Ed Lauter

Synopsis: Getting home early, Beverly Hills wife Michelle Halaburton (Lyndie Benson) catches her husband Dustin (Harry Hamlin) in bed with her best friend Allie (Joanne Baron), who works at Michelle's favorite beauty salon. Not long after this, Michelle and Allie embark on a life of crime. At the beauty Read More

Time to Say Goodbye?

Synopsis: The tragedy of Alzheimer's Disease is at the core of this heart-tugging made-for-cable drama, starring veteran actors Richard Kiley and Eva Marie Saint. Diagnosed with Alzheimers, the brilliant doctor Gerald Klooster (Richard Kiley) would sooner die immediately than endure the agony of a 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

Tom Clancy's 'OP Center'

Actors: Harry Hamlin, Deidre Hall, Carl Weathers, Rod Steiger, John Savage

Synopsis: Another Tom Clancy political thriller is put to film with this made-for-television movie. Harry Hamlin stars as Paul Hood, the new director of an obsolete government crisis management center. Hood is assigned to downsize the center, but during first day on the job some nuclear warheads are Read More

Her Deadly Rival

Actors: Harry Hamlin, Annie Potts, Lisa Zane, Robert C. Treveiler, Tommy Hinkley

Synopsis: In this made-for-television drama, a man's life falls completely to pieces when an obsessed woman begins to stalk him. Even his marriage crumbles from the strain. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Celluloid Closet

Actors: Antonio Banderas, Whoopi Goldberg, Susan Sarandon, Sharon Stone, Tony Curtis, Harvey Fierstein, Tom Hanks, Lily Tomlin, Gore Vidal

Synopsis: Based on Vito Russo's groundbreaking 1981 work of film history, The Celluloid Closet gathers clips from dozens of mainstream Hollywood films to illustrate how the movies have dealt explicitly -- and more importantly, implicitly -- with gay and lesbian themes. Layered between the clips are Read More

In the Best of Families

Actors: Kelly McGillis, Keith Carradine, Harry Hamlin, Holland Taylor, Jayne Brook

Synopsis: The full title of this made-for-TV film was In the Best of Families: Pride and Madness. Based on a true story, the film details the bitter divorce between overly idealistic Keith Carradine and emotionally disturbed Kelly McGillis. Caught in the middle are the couple's sons, played by Erik Von Detten Read More

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Save Me

Synopsis: Three stalwarts of made-for-TV productions -- Harry Hamlin, Michael Ironside, and Steve Railsback -- team up for this erotic thriller. Hamlin plays a mild-mannered accountant who takes up with an intriguing stranger (Lysette Anthony), who happens to harbor multiple personalities: seductress Read More

Murder So Sweet

Actors: Harry Hamlin, Helen Shaver, Eileen Brennan, Terence Knox, Faith Ford

Synopsis: Made for video, the Canadian Murder So Sweet stars Harry Hamlin as a ladies' man with a smooth line and a cool approach. Trouble arises only whenever one of Hamlin's girlfriends starts insisting upon a committment. That's when he settles the argument with murder. Helen Shaver, who suspects that Read More

Under Investigation

Actors: Harry Hamlin, Joanna Pacula, Ed Lauter, Richard Beymer, Lydie Denier

Synopsis: Harry Hamlin plays a cop on the trail of a psychotic killer who just may be his lover, in Under Investigation. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Take Down

Actors: Harry Hamlin, Teri Garr, Terry O'Quinn, Gary Frank, Jocelyn O'Brien

Synopsis: This made-for-TV film was based on a real-life, nail-biting hostage situation. The incident began when a deranged gunman, disgruntled for a variety of reasons, burst into the maternity ward at the Alta View Hospital in Sandy, Utah. Holding mothers, babies and nurses captive, the gunman clearly Read More

Deadly Intentions... Again?

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a sequel to "Deadly Intentions," the protagonist, Dr. Charles Raynor, who was convicted of attempted murder, has been paroled. He goes home to his second wife. He is determined to get revenge upon those who had him convicted for trying to kill his first wife. ~ Sandra Brennan Read More

Deceptions

Actors: Harry Hamlin, Nicollette Sheridan, Robert Davi, Marshall Colt, Kevin King

Synopsis: Deceptions, a made-for-cable below-average erotic thriller, tells the familiar story of a homicide cop who falls for a beautiful suspect. When wealthy socialite Adrienne (Nicollette Sheridan) kills her husband Douglas (Marshall Colt), she claims self-defense. Nick Gentry (Harry Hamlin), the cop Read More

American Red Cross Emergency Test

Synopsis: This medical instructional video is produced by the American Red Cross. Taking the viewer first through a twenty-question test on proper procedures for life-threatening medical emergencies, with an included test score card, the video then shows the recommended medical procedures for each depicted Read More

Dinner at Eight

Actors: Lauren Bacall, Harry Hamlin, Marsha Mason, Ellen Greene

Synopsis: Dinner at Eight is a TV remake of the 1933 MGM film of the same name; both films were adapted from the play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber. While the basic plot point of a social-climbing woman (Marsha Mason) throwing a "best people" dinner party has not dated all that much, other elements Read More

Laguna Heat

Actors: Harry Hamlin

Synopsis: Harry Hamlin stars in this made-for-cable thriller as a private eye who returns to his boyhood home only to find himself on the trail of a serial killer. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Target: Favorite Son

Synopsis: Target: Favorite Son is the 115-minute abridgement of the three-part TV miniseries Favorite Son. Adapted by Steve Sohmer from his own novel, the film stars Harry Hamlin as a freshman senator from Texas who has "greatness thrust upon him" when he is accidentally shot during the assassination of a Read More

L.A. Law [TV Series]

Synopsis: Though the series proper debuted on Friday, October 3, 1986, L.A. Law was heralded by a two-hour TV movie, which aired Monday, September 15. The Steven Bochco production gets off to a good start, with no fewer than three cases resolved within the first installment. We first meet law-firm partner Read More

James A. Michener's Space

Actors: James Garner, Harry Hamlin, Beau Bridges, David Dukes, Michael York, Bruce Dern

Synopsis: This mammoth five-part, 13-hour CBS miniseries was based on the best-selling novel by James A. Michener. Covering the U.S.-Soviet "space race" from the end of WWII to the landing on the moon, the program stars James Garner as Norman Grant, a former war hero turned senator who tirelessly promotes Read More

Maxie

Actors: Glenn Close, Mandy Patinkin, Ruth Gordon, Barnard Hughes, Valerie Curtin

Synopsis: In this comedy, an ordinary woman finds herself sharing both her home and her body with a ghost who has a pronounced wild streak. Jan (Glenn Close) and Nick (Mandy Patinkin) are a couple moving into an apartment in an old Victorian house in San Francisco. Jan is a straight-laced secretary working Read More

Hitchhiker, Vol. 1

Synopsis: Page Fletcher stars as the title character in this 1983-1988 made-for-cable suspense anthology. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Master of the Game

Actors: Dyan Cannon, Harry Hamlin, Ian Charleson, Cliff De Young, Fernando Allende

Synopsis:

Another of the many Sidney Sheldon novels given the TV-miniseries treatment in the 1970s and '80s, Master of the Game yielded a three-part, nine-hour extravaganza, with enough corporate and romantic intrigue to fill an entire television season. Covering nearly 100 years, the story (which Read More

The Hitchhiker [TV Series]

Synopsis: Among the first original anthology series to be produced for cable television, The Hitchhiker was a collection of tales of the supernatural and bizarre. The title character, played during the first season by Nicholas Campbell and thereafter by Page Fletcher, was an unnamed drifter who wandered Read More

Blue Skies Again

Actors: Harry Hamlin, Mimi Rogers, Kenneth McMillan, Dana Elcar, Robyn Barto

Synopsis: This is a baseball comedy with a twist. This time, the young player striving to make it big in the major leagues is a plucky, talented young woman who attends spring training camp. The team's wealthy owner is a male-chauvinist bachelor who finds himself attracted to the young second baseperson's Read More

Making Love

Actors: Michael Ontkean, Kate Jackson, Harry Hamlin, Wendy Hiller, Arthur Hill

Synopsis: Arthur Hiller directed this drama exploring the disintegration of an ideal marriage after the husband discovers he is gay. Kate Jackson is Claire, a successful television producer, and Michael Ontkean is her husband Zack, an equally successful doctor. They enjoy eight years of married bliss until Read More

King of the Mountain

Actors: Harry Hamlin, Joseph Bottoms, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Richard Cox, Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: Harry Hamlin stars as the self-styled "King of Mulholland Drive," the leader of a group of men who get drunk and then race their cars at high-speed along a perilous Los Angeles roadway. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Clash of the Titans

Actors: Laurence Olivier, Harry Hamlin, Claire Bloom, Judi Bowker, Maggie Smith

Synopsis: The eschewing of modern optical effects techniques in favor of the classic stop-motion animation work of special effects legend Ray Harryhausen was a delightful highlight of this action adventure that attempted to give Greek mythology the Star Wars (1977) treatment. Harry Hamlin stars as Perseus Read More

Studs Lonigan

Synopsis: Adapted from the once-notorious trilogy of novels by James T. Farrell, the three-part miniseres Studs Lonigan isn't quite as earthy and explicit as its source, but is lot more faithful to the original than the 1960 film version. Set in Chicago and covering the years from 1916 to 1931, this is the Read More

Movie, Movie

Actors: George C. Scott, Barbara Harris, Eli Wallach, Trish VanDevere, Red Buttons

Synopsis: This spoof of a "typical" double-feature bill of the 1930s is introduced by George Burns, who explains that we're about to see two classic films produced by the legendary Warren Brothers. The first, "Dynamite Fists," is a black-and-white takeoff of such boxing dramas as Golden Boy. Harry Hamlin Read More