Jack BlessingFilmography

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Actor
  • Bee Movie

    Crew: ADR Loop Group

    Actors: Jerry Seinfeld, Renée Zellweger, Matthew Broderick, Patrick Warburton, John Goodman

    Synopsis: Barry B. Benson (voice of Jerry Seinfeld) is your average honeybee. Despite having recently received his diploma from bee college and being virtually guaranteed a bright future in honey, Barry feels he has the skills to pursue a number of different career paths and resents the fact that his Read More

    11/2/07
  • Shrek the Third

    Crew: ADR Loop Group

    Actors: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Antonio Banderas, Julie Andrews

    Synopsis: Shrek and Fiona's (Mike Myers and Cameron Diaz, respectively) fairy-tale wedding has gone off without a hitch, yet just as the beaming newlyweds prepare to enjoy their blissful "happily ever after," the sudden death of King Harold (John Cleese) finds everyone's favorite ornery ogre being Read More

    5/18/07
  • Borat

    Crew: ADR Loop Group

    Actors: Sacha Baron Cohen, Ken Davitian, Jane Sanguinetti Luenell, Pamela Anderson

    Synopsis: Master of disguise Sacha Baron Cohen hits the road to explore America as the crude Kazakstani reporter Borat in a feature mockumentary that brings one of the Da Ali G Show star's most popular characters to life on the big screen. Sent by the Kazakh Ministry of Information to gain a better Read More

    11/3/06
  • Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

    Actors: Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Sacha Baron Cohen, Gary Cole, Michael Clarke Duncan

    Synopsis: When America's number one NASCAR speed-demon is issued a direct challenge from a gay, French Formula One racer with a hunger for the top spot and a mean talent for tight-cornering, the race is on to become the number one man in all of NASCAR in a full throttle comedy starring Will Ferrell and Read More

    8/4/06
  • The Chronicles of Riddick

    Crew: Action Director

    Actors: Vin Diesel, Colm Feore, Thandie Newton, Judi Dench, Karl Urban, Alexa Davalos

    Synopsis: Vin Diesel returns as the nocturnally gifted antihero Riddick in this sequel to the 2000 cult item Pitch Black. Riddick, on the run from the law and evading mercenaries eager to claim the price on his head, seeks refuge on the planet of Helion, only to discover he's walked into a world in chaos. Read More

    6/11/04
  • Touched by an Angel: My Brother's Keeper

    Synopsis: Monica (Roma Downey) shows up as a reporter at the World Cup Qualifier Ski Race in Park City, Utah. The "highlight" of the event promises to be a grudge match between two competitive skiiers, Jett (David Lascher) and Will (Sean Murray). Though they are lifelong friends, a certain amount of Read More

    1999
  • Murder at 75 Birch

    Actors: Gregory Harrison, Wendel Meldrum, Melissa Gilbert, Vyto Ruginis

    Synopsis: Suggested by a real-life homicide case which occurred in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania in 1986, the made-for-TV Murder at 75 Birch gets underway when the wife of dentist Rick Todson (Gregory Harrison) is killed. According to Rick, his late spouse Pat (Wendel Meldrum) had been murdered by a burglar, a Read More

    1999
  • NYPD Blue: Brother's Keeper

    Synopsis: The mutilated body of a woman is found, and the principal suspects are her two sons. Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) tries to figure out if the guilty party is the son who shows no remorse or the one lost in a haze of drugs and alcohol. When one of the suspects kills himself, Andy wonders if the dead Read More

    1998
  • NYPD Blue: Hearts and Souls

    Synopsis: One of the most intensely dramatic episodes in the history of NYPD Blue begins as the ex-wife (Debra Monk) of Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) prepares to defend herself against a DWI charge. As this plot strand plays itself out (with indications that the story is far from over), Bobby Simone (Jimmy Smits Read More

    1998
  • ER: Post Mortem

    Synopsis: The death of Gant causes a major blowup between Carter (Noah Wyle) and Benton (Eriq La Salle). Ross (George Clooney) uncovers some facts about battered homeless teen Charlie (Kirsten Dunst). HIV-positive Jeanie (Gloria Reuben) dates Greg Fischer (Harry J. Lennix), a specialist in infectious Read More

    1997
  • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Trials and Tribble-ations

    Synopsis: First telecast November 4, 1996, this Deep Space Nine episode was a harkback to the classic 1967 Star Trek installment "The Trouble with Tribbles." Charlie Brill, a holdover from the original episode, reprises his role as renegade Klingon agent Arne Darvin, who sets the plot in motion by Read More

    1996
  • The Larry Sanders Show: The Mr. Sharon Stone Show

    Synopsis: Soon after announcing the cancellation of her engagement, actress Sharon Stone appears on The Larry Sanders Show, and an elated Larry (Garry Shandling) proposes that the two go on a date. Despite the fact that all seems to be going well during their first date, Artie (Rip Torn) warns Larry that he Read More

    1994
  • Miss America: Behind the Crown

    Actors: Carolyn Sapp

    Synopsis: Based on the true story of Carolyn Sapp, a Miss America pageant winner, this is a behind-the-scenes look not only at the goings-on of the pageant but also at the abusive relationship between Ms. Sapp and her boyfriend which led her to request police protection from him. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Read More

    1992
  • The Last of His Tribe

    Actors: Graham Greene, Jon Voight, Anne Archer, David Ogden Stiers

    Synopsis: Graham Greene stars as Ishi, the lone survivor of the Yahi Indian tribe, who is discovered and cared for by anthropologist Albert Kroeber (Jon Voight) in this made-for-cable docudrama. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

    1992
  • Samantha

    Actors: Martha Plimpton, Dermot Mulroney, Hector Elizondo, Mary Kay Place, Ione Skye

    Synopsis: When an adopted 21-year-old finds that she was adopted, she forsakes her adopted parents and goes on a crazed hunt to discover her real parents. When at last she finds them, she is disappointed to discover that they are very empty and shallow people; her adoptive parents earn a new respect in her Read More

    1992
  • Face Value

    Actors: Cheryl Pollak, Dale Midkiff, Kirk Baltz

    Synopsis: This suspenseful drama tells the chilling true story of up-and-coming model Marla Hanson who was viciously attacked by a make-up man after she rejected his advances. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1991
  • Roseanne: Communicable Theater

    Synopsis: Everyone needs Roseanne's time in this episode. Jackie needs her help to practice her lines for a community play. Dan is sick with the flu and wants her to wait on him. Also, Roseanne has to take D.J. to a Scouts ceremony and show a little enthusiasm through her usual sarcasm in honor of his new Read More

    1991
  • The Spirit of '76

    Actors: David Cassidy, Olivia D'Abo, Geoff Hoyle, Steve McDonald

    Synopsis: Making great fun of the '70s, this lively sci-fi comedy centers on a trio of time travellers who go into the past in hopes of retrieving the Constitution to celebrate America's 300th birthday. Unfortunately, the travelers end up in 1976 not 1776. The trouble is, they don't realize it. ~ Sandra Read More

    10/12/90
  • Joshua's Heart

    Synopsis: The crush felt by a young boy for his father's girlfriend creates heartbreak when the adults call the relationship off. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

    1990
  • Uncle Buck

    Actors: John Candy, Amy Madigan, Jean Louisa Kelly, Gaby Hoffmann, Macaulay Culkin

    Synopsis: In this cheerful, lightweight comedy, excruciatingly clumsy, disorganized, and messy Uncle Buck Russell (John Candy) becomes the screens most unlikely babysitter since Clifton Webb in Sitting Pretty. While their parents are away, eight-year old Miles (Macaulay Culkin), six-year old Maizy (Gaby Read More

    8/16/89
  • Moonlighting: I See England, I See France, I See Maddie's Netherworld

    Synopsis: A strange man who had come to Blue Moon hoping to hire a bodyguard abruptly drops dead in the office. Subsequently, David (Bruce Willis) and Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) find themselves "babysitting" their would-be client's corpse. The plot may be wrapped around a missing lottery ticket and a strange Read More

    1989
  • Moonlighting: Perfetc

    Synopsis: A dying burglar hires Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) and David (Bruce Willis) to investigate a heist committed 25 years ago. No, the old man doesn't want to clear his name; instead, he wants to prove to the cops that he has committed the "perfect crime." Maddie wants no part of this, but David is Read More

    1989
  • Moonlighting: Shirts and Skins

    Synopsis: In an episode reminiscent of the Tracy Hepburn film Adam's Rib, the Blue Moon office finds itself sharply divided along gender lines (to the musical accompaniment of "Dueling Banjos" as the result of a sexual harassment case. The problem: Is Robin Fuller (Jayne Atkinson) justified in shooting a Read More

    1989
  • Moonlighting: Take My Wife, For Example

    Synopsis: Colleen Dewhurst guest stars as Betty Russell, a famous divorce lawyer better known as "The Barracuda." Exhibiting a hitherto well-hidden conscience, Russell hires Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) and David (Bruce Willis) to reunite Lydia and Nathan Kraft (Jane Hallaren, Lawrence Pressman), whose union Read More

    1989
  • Mothers, Daughters and Lovers

    Actors: Perrey Reeves, Helen Shaver, Marcianne Warman

    Synopsis: Evil land developers, those most ubiquitous of 1980s movie villains, are the chief antagonists in the made-for-TV Mothers, Daughters and Lovers. Helen Shaver plays a truckstop/motel owner in the rural Northwest. She manages her business with the help of her two budding teenaged daughters--one Read More

    1989
  • Moonlighting: Eine Kleine Nacht Murder

    Synopsis: In the second episode of a two-part story arc (originally networkcast out of sequence), David (Bruce Willis) is still ga-ga over Maddie's cousin Annie (Virginia Madsen), even though she already has a husband. Meanwhile, Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) is placed in round-the-clock police protection after Read More

    1989
  • Moonlighting: Lunar Eclipse

    Synopsis: This final episode of Moonlighting finds Bert (Curtis Armstrong) and Agnes (Allyce Beasley) getting married, just as David (Bruce Willis) is breaking up with Annie (Virginia Madsen), the cousin of his partner and former lover Maddie (Cybill Shepherd). At the same time, the Blue Moon Detective Read More

    1989
  • Moonlighting: Between a Yuk and a Hard Place

    Synopsis: Still grieving over her miscarriage, Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) buries herself in her work, while David (Bruce Willis) ponders the option of leaving town. Among Maddie's many cases involves Joan Spring (Cristina Raines-Crowe), who is worried that she will lose her husband to his ex-wife. Once again Read More

    1988
  • Moonlighting: A Womb With a View

    Synopsis: Its first episode delayed by a lengthy writers' strike, the fifth and final season of Moonlighting begins with one of the series' most famous--and controversial--installments. Star Bruce Willis shows up wearing bonnet and diapers in the role of "Baby Hayes", the as-yet-unborn offspring of David Read More

    1988
  • Moonlighting: Maddie Hayes Got Married

    Synopsis: David (Bruce Willis) finally meets Walter (Dennis Dugan), the man whom Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) has impulsively married. Rather than get angry or exhibit jealousy, David generously offers to throw a bachelor party for Walter. That David might have an ulterior motive is evidenced when the stripper Read More

    1988
  • Moonlighting: Here's Living With You, Kid

    Synopsis: This is the only Moonlighting episode in which neither Cybill Shepherd nor Bruce Willis appear. Instead, the focus is on nerdish detective Bert Viola (Curtis Armstrong), who has gone into a deep blue funk over an imagined slight from Blue Moon secretary Agnes Dipesto (Allyce Beasley). In the Read More

    1988
  • Moonlighting: The Color of Maddie

    Synopsis: The Blue Moon's latest client is Nora Cooper (Karen Landry), who is looking for the husband to whom she was married for only five days--and who has been missing for ten years. Searching for the absent hubby, David (Bruce Willis) and Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) enter the rarefied world of poolrooms Read More

    1988
  • Summer School

    Actors: Mark Harmon, Kirstie Alley, Robin Thomas, Patrick Laborteaux, Courtney Thorne-Smith

    Synopsis: On the eve of his Hawaiian vacation, irresponsible high school teacher Mark Harmon is forced into teaching a summer school class. His students are all malcontents and layabouts with the standard repertoire of teenaged hangups and hostilities (two of the kids, who can't see enough slasher movies to Read More

    7/22/87
  • Strange Voices

    Actors: Valerie Harper, Stephen Macht

    Synopsis: College girl Nancy McKeon, up until recently the picture of normality, suddenly displays signs of schizophrenia. She hears voices, commits sudden acts of violence, and switches moods without warning. McKeon's parents Valerie Harper and Stephen Macht are at a loss to contend with the sudden change Read More

    1987
  • Tonight's the Night

    Synopsis: It's a slow night at the local single's bar, so three guys end up sitting around sharing their widely-differing viewpoints on finding romance. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1987
  • Moonlighting: Father Knows Last

    Synopsis: Now that he knows Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) is pregnant, David (Bruce Willis) is pressured to do the "right thing" by Maddie's overprotective father Alexander (Robert Webber). Meanwhile, our harried hero must also deal with the increasingly disgruntled employees of the Blue Moon Detective Agency. Read More

    1987
  • Moonlighting: Take a Left at the Altar

    Synopsis: It's been two weeks since David (Bruce Willis) has seen Maddie (Cybill Shepherd), his partner at the Blue Moon Detective Agency--and his lover, or so he'd been led to believe. With no one else around, David teams with the obsequious Bert Viola (Curtis Armstrong) for his latest case, involving Read More

    1987
  • Moonlighting: Tale of Two Cities

    Synopsis: Three weeks have gone by since David (Bruce Willis) and Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) have seen each other. Having retreated to her parents' house in Chicago, Maddie is more depressed than ever, prompting her mom (Eva Marie Saint) and dad (Robert Webber) to throw her a cheer-up party. Meanwhile, back Read More

    1987
  • Moonlighting: Cool Hand Dave, Part 2

    Synopsis: In this conclusion of a two-part story, David (Bruce Willis) attempts to escape from a chain gang in order to be reunited with his pregnant sweetheart Maddie (Cybill Shepherd, who is represented only by her voice in this episode). It looks like David's only hope for freedom is to follow the Read More

    1987
  • Children of a Lesser God

    Actors: William Hurt, Marlee Matlin, Piper Laurie, Philip Bosco, Allison Gompf

    Synopsis: Children of a Lesser God is a love story about a speech teacher who falls for a beautiful yet distant deaf girl in a small New England school for the deaf, and the obstacles that they face due to their differences. William Hurt plays James Leeds, a renegade teacher with an unconventional approach Read More

    10/3/86
  • LBJ: The Early Years

    Actors: Patti LuPone, Randy Quaid, Charles Frank

    Synopsis: Randy Quaid avoids caricature and cliché in his multifaceted portrayal of Lyndon Baines Johnson in LBJ: The Early Years. This made-for-TV film chronicles the years 1934 through 1963, tracing the beginnings of Johnson's public career, chronicling his reputation for down-and-dirty politicking, and Read More

    1986
  • Hamburger... The Motion Picture

    Actors: Leigh McCloskey, Dick Butkus, Randi Brooks, Chuck McCann, Jack Blessing

    Synopsis: In addition to sexual encounters and nudity, toilet humor is on a roll in this story about some teens trying to finish a 12-week course in fast-food service -- yes, 12 weeks to study how to make and sell a hamburger. As their final exam, the teens have to run a burger place. ~ Eleanor Mannikka Read More

    1986
  • Moonlighting: It's a Wonderful Job

    Synopsis: There must be an inviolate law on the TV statute books demanding that every series turn out at least one takeoff of the 1946 film classic It's a Wonderful Life. Moonlighting's contribution to this ongong Yuletide tradtion finds a disgruntled Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) wondering what her life would Read More

    1986
  • Moonlighting: The Man Who Cried Wife

    Synopsis: A nervous gentleman named James Bower (Stephen Godwin) hires David (Bruce Willis) and Maddie (Cybill Shepherd) to solve a mystery involving his late wife. It seems that Bower has of late been receiving telephone calls and gifts from his missus, who is supposed to be dead. And if anyone should know Read More

    1986
  • Blind Justice

    Actors: Tim Matheson, Mimi Kuzyk, Philip Charles MacKenzie, Tom Atkins, Lisa Eichhorn

    Synopsis: Blind Justice is a fact-based TV movie starring Tim Matheson, here made to look "normal" with glasses and mustache. The innocent Matheson is fingered by witnesses as an armed robber/kidnapper/rapist. For the next 14 months, his life is hell. Too much circumstantial evidence surrounds the case, and Read More

    1986
  • Amos

    Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery, Kirk Douglas

    Synopsis: Stars Kirk Douglas and Elizabeth Montgomery manage to rise above the melodramatic trappings of Amos. Douglas plays the title character, a fiercely independent senior-citizen baseball coach, forced to live in a retirement home after an auto accident. During his stay, Amos conducts a battle of wills Read More

    1985
  • Quincy, M.E.: Slow Boat to Madness, Part 2

    Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Quincy (Jack Klugman) races against time to locate and neutralize the mysterious neurological disease that has already claimed three lives on a luxury liner. Though some of the pasengers have managed to escape to shore, the ship is now quarantined and Read More

    1981
  • Quincy, M.E.: Slow Boat to Madness, Part 1

    Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Quincy (Jack Klugman) and his lady friend Janet (Diana Muldaur) are enjoying a luxury cruise to Tahiti, when tragedy strikes. One man suddenly jumps overboard and drown, while another is murdered--and the murderer subsequently dies himself. It turns out Read More

    1981
  • Galaxy of Terror

    Actors: Edward Albert, Erin Moran, Ray Walston, Bernard Behrens, Zalman King

    Synopsis: Also known as Planet of Horrors, this film follows a group of astronauts as they travel into space to retrieve the survivors of a spaceship crash. When they arrive on the planet, the crew runs into some hostile aliens who attempt to gorily wipe them out. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

    1981
  • M*A*S*H: Snappier Judgment, Part 2

    Synopsis: In the concluding episode of a two-part story, Klinger (Jamie Farr) has been arrested on the suspicion that he is responsible for the crime wave that has spread through the 4077th. Though Klinger was apparently caught red-handed, Charles (David Ogden Stiers) agrees to act as his defense consul at Read More

    1981
  • Miracle on Ice

    Synopsis: Underpublicized and underappreciated, the US ice hockey team heads for the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York. Driven a manner than can be described as merciless by coach Herb Brooks (Karl Malden), the team has learned how to swallow months of defeat and disappointment press on to Read More

    1981
  • Heaven's Gate

    Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, Isabelle Huppert, Sam Waterston, John Hurt, Brad Dourif

    Synopsis: A notorious artistic and financial failure, Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate was blamed for critically wounding the movie Western and definitively ushering out the 1970s Hollywood New Wave of young, brash, independent filmmakers. Taking a revisionist, post-Vietnam view of American imperialism Read More

    1981

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