Ian Abercrombie Filmography

Inland Empire

Actors: Laura Dern, Jeremy Irons, Harry Dean Stanton, Justin Theroux, Terryn Westbrook

Synopsis: Cinema of the surreal icon David Lynch follows up the success of his critically acclaimed 2001 feature Mulholland Drive with this dark mystery, shot on a handheld Sony PD150 digital video recorder. It is the tale of an actress whose personality becomes increasingly fragmented as she delves ever Read More

Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties

Actors: Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Billy Connolly, Ian Abercrombie, Lucy Davis

Synopsis: The laziest cat in America swaps places with the richest feline in England in director Tim Hill's lasagna-laden sequel to the 2004 theatrical hit Garfield. Jon Arbuckle (Breckin Meyer) is on his way to London to propose to his veterinarian girlfriend, Liz Wilson (Jennifer Love Hewitt), and his Read More

Charmed: Charmed on Trial

Actors: Brian Krause, Dorian Gregory, Drew Fuller, Gildart Jackson, Billy Drago

Synopsis: The Cleaners, whose job it is to erase all evidence of mortal contact with witches, try to cover up videotaped proof of Phoebe's (Alyssa Milano) and Paige's (Rose McGowan) witchcraft by framing Inspector Daryl Morris (Dorian Gregory) for murder. When the Charmed Ones try to help Daryl, they end up Read More

Star Trek: Voyager: Spirit Folk

Actors: Roxann Dawson

Synopsis: In this follow-up to the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Fair Haven," a computer glitch causes the citizens of Fair Haven, an 18th century Irish village created in the Holoprogram, to cross over into the "real" Voyager. Observing the crew playing holographic games, the "fabricated" villagers assume Read More

Star Trek: Voyager: Someone to Watch Over Me

Actors: Roxann Dawson

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Homecoming

Synopsis: It's Homecoming at Sunnydale High and Cordelia (Charisma Carpenter) is determined to be crowned Homecoming Queen. As Angel (David Boreanaz) is still chained up in his mansion, Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar) accepts Scott's (Fab Filippo) invitation to the dance. Cordelia's self-involved behavior Read More

Seinfeld: The Finale, Part 2

Synopsis: In the concluding half of Seinfeld's controversial series finale, Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld), George (Jason Alexander), Kramer (Michael Richards), and Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) find themselves stranded in Latham, MA -- and even worse, they are facing arrest for violating the town's new Good Read More

Touched By an Angel: Inherit the Wind

Synopsis: Granted one hour by Andrew (John Dye) to set his affairs in order before his death, wealthy old Edward Greeley (John McMartin) uses the time he has left to straighten out his spoiled-rotten son Kevin (Charlie Schlatter). After Edward shuffles off his mortal coil, Kevin is shocked to learn that his Read More

Rattled

Actors: William Katt, Shanna Reed, Michael Galeota, Monica Creel, Ian Abercrombie

Synopsis: It would seem that the producers of the made-for-cable chiller Rattled had not only used Joseph Gilmore's novel Rattlers as their inspiration, but had also supped full of such horror movies as Poltergeist and Arachnophobia. The scene is Eden Valley, a luxurious housing development carved from a Read More

Babylon 5: Acts of Sacrifice

Actors: Bruce Boxleitner, Claudia Christian, Jerry Doyle, Mira Furlan, Andreas Katsulas

Synopsis: The ongoing war between the Narn and Centauri threatens to escalate throughout the universe. G'Kar implores Sheridan to fight on the side of the Narns. Elsewhere, Ivanova must negotiate with the Lumati, a hostile alien species, and Londo begins to allow his newly acquired power to supercede his Read More

Grief

Actors: Craig Chester, Jackie Beat, Illeana Douglas, Alexis Arquette, Carlton Wilborn

Synopsis: Richard Glatzer's bittersweet comedy concerns the production of a sleazy tabloid television program called "The Love Judge" and the problems that arise when the Divine-esque producer Jo (Kent Fuher) announces that he/she is leaving to become a Hungarian housewife. Mark (Craig Chester), the head Read More

Clean Slate

Actors: Dana Carvey, Valeria Golino, James Earl Jones, Kevin Pollak, Michael Gambon

Synopsis: Dana Carvey plays a private detective who forgets everything when he goes to sleep at night, waking up each morning with a "clean slate," in this hit-and-miss comedy that plays like a companion piece to the much funnier Groundhog Day. Pogue (Carvey) is afflicted with his unique form of amnesia Read More

Murphy Brown: The Deal of the Art

Synopsis: Murphy (Candice Bergen) appears on PBS to defend her negative views of modern art before a panel of pompous art critics. Upset at the critics' patronizing attitudes, Murphy gets even by arranging for them to analyze a painting by a "new, untried" artist--namely, her infant son Avery. Featured in Read More

Addams Family Values

Actors: Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, Joan Cusack, Christina Ricci

Synopsis: The ghoulish cartoon family created by Charles Addams returns for a second big-screen outing darker and nastier than the first. When Morticia Addams (Anjelica Huston) gives birth to new baby boy Pubert, the other Addams children, Pugsley (Jimmy Workman) and Wednesday (Christina Ricci), devise any Read More

Test Tube Teens from the Year 2000

Actors: Morgan Fairchild, Ian Abercrombie, Brian Bremer, Christopher Wolf, Michele Matheson

Synopsis: Born into a futuristic world in which procreation is merely a mixing of biochemicals and sex is banned, a group of teenagers tire of repressing their desires and time-travel to the past in hopes of preventing the sex-hating woman from enacting her frosty schemes. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Public Eye

Actors: Joe Pesci, Barbara Hershey, Stanley Tucci, Jerry Adler, Jared Harris

Synopsis: Howard Franklin wrote and directed this film noir character study based on the famed New York Daily News photographer Weegee. Joe Pesci plays a character named Bernstein, a freelance photographer for the New York City tabloids of the 1940s. His life is dedicated to his work; with a police radio Read More

Army of Darkness

Actors: Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert, Ian Abercrombie, Richard Grove

Synopsis: The third in director Sam Raimi's stylish, comic book-like horror trilogy that began with The Evil Dead (1982), this tongue-in-cheek sequel offers equal parts sword-and-sorcery-style action, gore, and comedy. Bruce Campbell returns as the one-armed Ash, now a supermarket employee ("Shop Read More

Warlock

Actors: Richard E. Grant, Julian Sands, Lori Singer, Kevin O'Brien

Synopsis: Julian Sands oozes maleficence as a warlock of the 1600s cast forth to 1980s Los Angeles, where he continues to work his deviltry. The story begins in 1691 Boston when a warlock is condemned to die. Calling for Satan's help, the warlock is sent forward in time to contemporary Los Angeles, where he Read More

Puppet Master 3: Toulon's Revenge

Actors: Guy Rolfe, Sarah Douglas, Richard Lynch, Ian Abercrombie, Walter Gotell

Synopsis: This entry in the horror thriller series shows how the mad French puppeteer Toulon created his supernaturally animated demonic marionettes. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Zandalee

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Judge Reinhold, Erika Anderson, Viveca Lindfors, Joe Pantoliano

Synopsis: In this thriller, poet Thierry Martin (Judge Reinhold) takes over the family business, abandoning both his art and his sex life, much to the dismay of his wife, Zandalee (Erika Anderson). However, when Thierry's painter friend Johnny Collins (Nicolas Cage) comes to town, his fling with Zandalee Read More

Hunter: The Black Dahlia

Synopsis: A pile of human bones found at a construction site reopens one of Los Angeles' most notorious unsolved murders: the "Black Dahlia" case of 1947. Veteran movie tough guy Lawrence Tierney) is cast as Doyle, the original investigating detective on the case. Once Doyle has come out of retirement to Read More

Catacombs

Actors: Timothy Van Patten, Laura Schaefer, Jeremy West, Ian Abercrombie

Synopsis: Despite the tendency of the Curse films to bear absolutely no relation to each other, this is perhaps the only film in that series to involve an actual curse. It's also one of the better installments. The curse in question is leveled upon the 16th-century monks of San Pietro by a Read More

Moonlighting: Poltergeist III, Dipesto Nothing

Synopsis: With Moonlighting stars Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd off-screen for most of this episode, it is up to supporting actress Allyce Beasley--a.k.a. ditzy, poetry-spouting secretary Agnes Dipesto--to carry the ball. Once again, Ms. Dipesto is tired of merely answering the phones at the Blue Moon Read More

Murder, She Wrote: It Runs in the Family

Synopsis: Angela Lansbury once again essays the dual role of Maine-based mystery writer Jessica Fletcher and her colorful cousin, British music-hall headliner Emma MacGill. This time around, Emma is suspected of murder when her fiancé, Viscount Geoffrey Constable (Richard Johnson) expires after consuming Read More

Firewalker

Actors: Chuck Norris, Louis Gossett, Jr., Melody Anderson, Will Sampson, Sonny Landham

Synopsis: Firewalker stars Chuck Norris as Max Donigan, an ex-Marine, and Louis Gossett, Jr. as his buddy, Leo Porter. Both set out to help Patricia Goodwyn (Melody Anderson) find a lost Aztec city and a temple filled with gold. After a few misadventures, their nemesis "El Coyote" (Sonny Landham) comes into Read More

The Last Resort

Actors: Charles Grodin, Robin Pearson Rose, John Ashton, Ellen Blake, Megan Mullally

Synopsis: George Lollar (Charles Grodin) overrides his wife's judgment and takes his family for a vacation on a sunny Caribbean island that just happens to be on the verge of a revolution. Their hotel is not the usual Hilton on the beach but a pick-up joint for singles where the main activities are sex Read More

Hostage Flight

Synopsis: Made for television, Hostage Flight fomented a well-publicized controversy when first aired by NBC on November 17, 1985. On a domestic flight headed for Detroit, 65 passengers are held hostage by four international terrorists. The demands of the hijackers are simple: Release their imprisoned Read More

Kicks

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV effort, a pair of thrillseekers become lovers with a penchant for high-risk erotic games. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Ice Pirates

Actors: Robert Urich, Mary Crosby, Michael D. Roberts, Anjelica Huston, John Matuszak

Synopsis: In this undistinguished parody of the sci fi genre, Robert Urich is Jason who leads a band of pirates in redistributing the wealth of the few to the coffers of the needy. He also joins up with Princess Karina Mary Crosby in searching for her father and a possible source of water in the next Read More

Journey's End

Synopsis: A WWI film made more as an anti-war protest than as a glorification of the joys of war, this film sees an officer during WWI crack up because of the responsibilities of leading soldiers into war and possible death. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Marian Rose White

Actors: Nancy Cartwright

Synopsis: By the admission of its own producers, the made-for-TV Marian Rose White was "extremely loosely based" on a true story. The real Marian Rose White was a 1930s teenager who suffered from a congenital visual defect. This led to her being misdiagnosed as "feebleminded," and locked away in a Sonoma Read More

Quincy, M.E.: By Their Faith

Synopsis: Virtually overnight, the remote Mexican village of San Remos has become a religious shrine thanks to the "sacred relics" unearthed by a young woman named Jacinta (Eugenia Wright). People from all over the world are crowding into the tiny community, hoping to be cured of catastrophic illnesses by Read More

Blood Beach

Actors: David Huffman, Marianna Hill, John Saxon, Otis Young, Stefan Gierasch

Synopsis: Sun-worshiping Californians are disappearing by the droves at a popular beach hangout, and a pair of extremely gruff detectives (John Saxon and Burt Young) grumble their way through the case until the real culprit is discovered... it seems a giant burrowing sand-monster with a taste for Read More

The Prisoner of Zenda

Actors: Peter Sellers, Lynne Frederick, Lionel Jeffries, Elke Sommer, Gregory Sierra

Synopsis: The beloved novel by Anthony Hope is shown here in its sixth film adaptation. In this story, Peter Sellers is Rudolf IV, the reigning monarch of the tiny nation of Ruritania. One day, while flying in a hot air balloon, a champagne cork sends him plummeting to his death. The rightful heir, who is Read More

Battlestar Galactica: The Long Patrol

Actors: Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herbert Jefferson, Jr., John Colicos

Synopsis: When a long-range recon mission in a new, computer-equipped Viper goes awry, Starbuck (Dirk Benedict) is captured and shipped off to a forgotten prison planet. Starbuck's fellow inmates are all descendants of the planet's original criminal population, condemned to a lifetime of blind obedience to Read More

Sextette

Actors: Mae West, Timothy Dalton, Dom DeLuise, Tony Curtis, Ringo Starr

Synopsis: Mae West (1892-1980) was perhaps the original comic sex goddess of American cinema. Originally a vaudeville performer, she became a national sensation following her 1926 Broadway show Sex, which she wrote, produced, directed and starred in. She continued to outrage the sensibilities of her time on Read More

Fantasy Island

Actors: Ricardo Montalban, Herve Villechaize, Dick Sargent

Synopsis: The long-running Aaron Spelling TV series Fantasy Island was launched with a two-hour pilot film, which originally aired January 14, 1977. Ricardo Montalban stars as the enigmatic, sartorially splendiferous Mr. Roarke, who welcomes those willing to pony up the $50,000 to spend a weekend on Read More

Star Wars: The Clone Wars [TV Series]

Actors: Matt Lanter, Ashley Eckstein, James Arnold Taylor, Tom Kane, Dee Bradley Baker