James Belushi Filmography

Born:: June 15, 1954 in Chicago, IL
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: It took versatile actor James Belushi several years to slowly come into his own, which wasn't an easy task following in the fiery footsteps of his flamboyant, self-destructive brother, the late comic John Belushi. Despite that obstacle, the easy-going actor with the crooked smile still managed to...Read More

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The Catch

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: James Belushi

Synopsis: Based on a true story, James Belushi acts and directs the story of a 42-year-old family man who heads back to college to fulfill a pledge to his father and ends up making the football team. The Lionsgate film is scripted by David Murray, whose work in the sports film arena has flourished since Read More

1/1/08
Underdog

Actors: James Belushi, Peter Dinklage, Patrick Warburton, Alex Neuberger, Taylor Momsen

Synopsis: Bestowed with superpowers when a lab experiment goes unexpectedly awry, an average beagle becomes the savior of Capitol City as everyone's favorite canine do-gooder embarks on his first-ever live-action adventure. The maniacal Dr. Simon Barsinister (Peter Dinklage) was on the verge of a Read More

8/3/07
Farce of the Penguins

Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Bob Saget, Lewis Black, Christina Applegate, Mo'nique

Synopsis: Animal Planet aesthetics get infused with blush-inducing blue-humor sensibilities as director Bob Saget teams with an all-star cast of comics including Lewis Black, Tracy Morgan, Jason Alexander, Dane Cook, and Whoopi Goldberg to prove that sometimes penguins aren't as sweet as they appear to be Read More

2007
Easy Six

Actors: Julian Sands, Katharine Towne, John Savage

Synopsis: A burnt out college professor finds his quest for vitality leading him into the arms of disaster in this seriocomic tale of love and desperation starring Julian Sands, John Savage, Katherine Towne, and Jim Belushi. Packard Schmidt (Sands) is having a mid-life crisis. Unfulfilled by his job as an Read More

2003
Joe Somebody

Actors: Tim Allen, Julie Bowen, Kelly Lynch, Hayden Panettiere, James Belushi

Synopsis: Following their television series Home Improvement and the features The Santa Clause (1994) and Jungle 2 Jungle (1997), the actor/director team of Tim Allen and John Pasquin collaborate once again on this high-concept comedy. Allen stars as Joe Scheffer, a nice guy video specialist for a Read More

12/21/01
According to Jim: Season 01

Actors: James Belushi, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Kimberly Payne Williams, Larry Joe Campbell, Taylor Atelian

2001
Return to Me

Actors: David Duchovny, Minnie Driver, James Belushi, Chris Barnes, David Alan Grier, Carroll O'Connor

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a man loses the love of his life, only to find her heart beating in the body of someone new. Architect Bob Rueland (David Duchovny) is happily married until his wife Elizabeth (Joely Richardson), a zoologist, dies in an auto accident. A year later, Bob is still dealing Read More

4/7/00
Unanswered Questions

Actors: James Belushi

2000
Echo of Murder

Actors: James Belushi, Gregory Hines

Synopsis: Between 1979 and 1981, 29 African-American children were murdered in Atlanta, GA, leading to a statewide manhunt to find the killer and a considerable outcry from a frightened public. Authorities eventually pinned the child killings on one Wayne Williams, who had been charged with two related Read More

2000
The Florentine

Actors: Michael Madsen, Chris Penn, Jeremy Davies, Tom Sizemore, Luke Perry

Synopsis: The regulars at a shot-and-a-beer bar in a decaying working-class town are the focus of Nick Stagliano's drama The Florentine. Michael Madsen plays Whitey, who owns a bar called The Florentine where most of the guys he knows hang out. His sister Molly (Virginia Madsen, Michael's real life sister) Read More

1999
Angel's Dance

Actors: James Belushi, Sheryl Lee, Kyle Chandler, Frank John Hughes, Ned Bellamy

Synopsis: Love blooms for a would-be hired killer in Angel's Dance, which blends elements of a crime thriller with black comedy. Tony (Kyle Chandler) is offered a job with a powerful Mafia family after he saves the life of the capo's nephew, even though Tony isn't sure he's really interested in a life of Read More

1999
The Nuttiest Nutcracker

Actors: Phyllis Diller, James Belushi, Cheech Marin

Synopsis: In this computer-animated update of the classic Christmas tale The Nutcracker, a girl in her early teens gets the bad news that she won't be able to see her parents for the holidays. Depressed by the news, she goes to sleep with her favorite toy, a nutcracker that resembles a toy soldier. When she Read More

1999
Made Men

Actors: James Belushi, Michael Beach, Timothy Dalton, Steve Railsback

Synopsis: A man under federal protection finds himself on the run from a gang of angry mobsters and a cop gone bad after his successful execution of a multimillion dollar heist. This studio film is not to be confused with the 1997 indie melodrama, starring Cara Buono of The Sopranos and directed by Don Read More

1999
Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire

Actors: Robbie Williams, James Woods, Ardal O'Hanlon, Ben Stiller, Brad Garrett, Paul Whitehouse, Jane Horrocks, Britney Spears, Steve Coogan, Hugh Grant

Synopsis: Already a holiday favorite in Britain, Robbie the Reindeer: Hooves of Fire features the voice of comedian Ardal O'Hanlon as a plucky reindeer eager to become one of Santa's chosen sleigh-pullers. To achieve his goals, however, he has to overcome the slings and arrows of Blitzen, who feels Read More

1999
K-911

Actors: James Belushi, Christine Tucci, Wade Williams

Synopsis: In this sequel to the action comedy K-9, police detective Dooly (James Belushi) has been teamed up with Jerry Lee (Mac), a German Shepherd police dog, for nearly ten years, but Jerry Lee isn't as young as he once was, and Dooly's superiors suggests that maybe it's time that the dog was retired Read More

1999
Backlash

Actors: Patrich Ersgard, Charles Durning, Tracey Needham, James Belushi, JoBeth Williams, Tony Plana

Synopsis: Gina Gallagher (Tracey Needham) is a federal prosecutor who sends a major drug dealer to prison only to find herself the target of his partners in crime. Their reprisals become too close for comfort when Gina's partner is killed, but she begins to suspect that the drug lords have gained some Read More

1998
Gang Related

Actors: James Belushi, Tupac Shakur, Lela Rochon, Dennis Quaid, James Earl Jones

Synopsis: A pair of corrupt police officers discover the hard way that crime really doesn't pay in this action drama. Divinci (James Belushi) and Rodriguez (Tupac Shakur) are two New York undercover cops with serious money problems: Rodriguez owes a huge gambling debt, while Divinci wants to retire to Read More

1997
Retroactive

Actors: James Belushi, Kylie Travis, Shannon Whirry, Frank Whaley, M. Emmet Walsh

Synopsis: Science fiction crime thriller from Louis Morneau, genre director and graduate of the Roger Corman school of filmmaking. Kylie Travis stars as Karen, a psychiatrist and former hostage negotiator with the Chicago Police Department. After a negotiation gone lethally wrong, Karen has quit and Read More

1997
Gold in the Streets

Actors: Jared Harris, Ian Hart, James Belushi, Louise Lombard, Karl Geary, Andrea Irvine, Aidan Gillen

Synopsis: An illegal immigrant who imagined America to be the land of opportunity finds that good fortune does not come as easily as he thought in this drama. Liam (Karl Geary) is a man from Ireland who has grown tired of the poverty and limited opportunities of his homeland, so he smuggles himself into the Read More

1997
Living in Peril

Actors: Rob Lowe, James Belushi, Dean Stockwell

Synopsis: An architect in search of a place to work in peace finds his attention continually diverted by his eccentric neighbors and a menacing stalker in this made-for-television psychological thriller starring James Belushi and Rob Lowe. Walter Woods (Lowe) has rented an apartment in a run-down Los Read More

1997
Babes in Toyland

Actors: Charles Nelson Reilly, Lacey Chabert, Joseph Ashton, Raphael Sbarge, Cathy Cavadini, Christopher Plummer

Synopsis: This highly acclaimed animated version of the classic children's holiday tale features the voices of several stars, notably Christopher Plummer, James Belushi and Bronson Pinchot. The story is set in mythical Toyland two days before Christmas and centers on the attempts of young Jack and Jill to Read More

1997
Race the Sun

Actors: Steve Zahn, Halle Berry, James Belushi, Casey Affleck, Eliza Dushku, Kevin Tighe

Synopsis: Loosely based on a true account, this family drama centers on a group of aimless Hawaiian teens who with the support of two inspirational teachers turn their lives around by building a solar powered car and racing it across the Australian outback during the World Solar Challenge. ~ Sandra Brennan Read More

1996
Jingle All the Way

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sinbad, Phil Hartman, Rita Wilson, Robert Conrad

Synopsis: The true meaning of Christmas -- desperate last-minute shopping -- is the subject of this holiday-themed comedy. Howard Langston (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a mattress salesman with a bad habit of putting his work ahead of his family. His son Jamie (Jake Lloyd), who wishes Dad would pay more Read More

1996
Overnight Delivery

Actors: Paul Rudd, Reese Witherspoon, James Belushi, Larry Drake, Christine Taylor

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a college student's heart breaks when he thinks his beloved has been untrue and so writes her a harsh letter to end their affair. Unfortunately for him, he doesn't learn the truth until after he sends the damning missive to where she lives. Fortunately, she lives on the Read More

1996
Destiny Turns on the Radio

Actors: Dylan McDermott, Nancy Travis, James Belushi, James LeGros, Quentin Tarantino

Synopsis: In this quirky drama, Julian Goddard is stranded in the desert and dying of thirst when suddenly Johnny Destiny drives up and gives him a ride to the ramshackle Marilyn Motel near Las Vegas. There they meet the owner, Harry Thoreau, with whom Julian attempted to rob a bank three years before. It Read More

1995
The Pebble and the Penguin

Actors: Martin Short, Annie Golden, Tim Curry

Synopsis: This heartwarming animated tale--reportedly inspired by a National Geographic documentary--follows the exploits of a shy penguin, Hubie, who is hopelessly enamored with Marina, but must compete with the ultra macho, puffed up Drake, who wants her to be his life mate. In order to win her, one of Read More

1995
Sahara

Synopsis: This desert war adventure is set during WWII and is a remake of Zoltan Korda's 1943 version. The tale chronicles the courage of an American sergeant and his few men who attempt to escape approaching German forces in their tank. As they cruise southward, they pick up a stranded British medical Read More

1995
Separate Lives

Actors: James Belushi, Linda Hamilton, Vera Miles, Elisabeth Moss, Drew Snyder

Synopsis: This psychological thriller was cowritten by Steven Pressfield, who went on to become a successful novelist with The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) and historical fiction such as Gates of Fire and Tides of War. Linda Hamilton stars as Lauren Porter, a well-regarded professor of psychology who fears Read More

1995
Royce

Actors: James Belushi

1994
Canadian Bacon

Actors: Alan Alda, John Candy, Rhea Perlman, Kevin Pollak, Rip Torn

Synopsis: In Michael Moore's political satire, the U.S. president (Alan Alda) decides to wage a cold war against Canada in an attempt to reverse his slipping popularity, and, as a result, he drives a small group of incensed Canadians to take matters into their own hands. Alda is the first president in years Read More

1994
Parallel Lives

Synopsis: Directed by Linda Yellen, this made-for-cable movie originally aired on the Showtime network and featured a star-studded cast including Dudley Moore, Liza Minelli, and James Belushi. The plot centers around several fraternity and sorority graduates who have decided to regroup at their alma mater. Read More

1994
Wild Palms

Synopsis: Just after the turn of the 21st century in L.A., Harry (Belushi) works for a television station that uses a revolutionary technology, virtual reality projected for at-home viewers with 3-D holographic programs. A sinister group known as the Fathers, headed by Senator Kreutzer (Loggia), has a Read More

1993
Traces of Red

Actors: James Belushi, Lorraine Bracco, Tony Goldwyn, William Russ, Faye Grant

Synopsis: Jack Dobson (James Belushi) is lying down, bleeding and dead, in a deserted clearing in the woods: "Yeah, that's me. No wife, no kid. Just one 9-millimeter bullet lodged in my chest." The voice from the corpse then introduces the audience to the area of his demise --Palm Beach, a town where Read More

11/11/92
Once Upon a Crime

Actors: John Candy, Cybill Shepherd, James Belushi, Giancarlo Giannini, Sean Young, Richard Lewis

Synopsis: The murder of a millionaire has unexpectedly humorous results in this farcical comedy. When Phoebe (Sean Young) and Julian (Richard Lewis), two Americans on a tour of Europe, discover a lost dachshund, they learn that a $5,000 reward has been posted for the dog's return. Phoebe and Julian head to Read More

3/6/92
Curly Sue

Actors: James Belushi, Kelly Lynch, Alisan Porter, John Getz, Fred Dalton Thompson

Synopsis: John Hughes dishes out the sentiment by the ladle-full in Curly Sue. The film stars James Belushi as Bill Dancer, a down-on-his-luck drifter who lives by his wits on the highways and byways of the United States, stealing free meals, slipping into movie theaters, and sleeping in welfare hotels. Read More

10/25/91
Only the Lonely

Actors: John Candy, Maureen O'Hara, Ally Sheedy, Kevin Dunn, Milo O'Shea

Synopsis: Writer-director Chris Columbus mines Paddy Chaveysky's Marty for this bittersweet comedy about a lonely 38-year old Chicago cop dominated by his harridan mother. Danny Muldoon (John Candy), in spite of being well known and well liked in his neighborhood, still lives at home with his mother Rose (Maureen O'Hara Read More

5/24/91
Diary of a Hit Man

Actors: Forest Whitaker, Sherilyn Fenn, Sharon Stone, Seymour Cassel, James Belushi

Synopsis: Kenneth Pressman adapted his play Insider's Price for this turgid and morally-bankrupt motion picture entertainment. Forest Whitaker stars as Dekker, a hit man fed up with his profession and ready to quit -- right after one last job. This last job proves to be the looniest and most gruesome one of Read More

1991
Mr. Destiny

Actors: James Belushi, Michael Caine, Linda Hamilton, Jon Lovitz, Hart Bochner

Synopsis: Businessman Larry Burrows (James Belushi) has a wife who ignores him, a screwball friend who won't leave him alone, and a car that continually breaks down. All that and more is enough to give him a mid-life crisis. After his car stalls once more, he enters a bar looking for help and encounters a Read More

10/5/90
Taking Care of Business

Actors: James Belushi, Charles Grodin, Anne de Salvo, Loryn Locklin, Stephen Elliott, Veronica Hamel

Synopsis: James Belushi and Charles Grodin team up for this variation on the Prince and the Pauper. Belushi plays Jimmy Dworski, a convicted car thief, serving time in a minimum security prison. But when Jimmy wins a pair of tickets to the World Series from a radio call-in show, he can't resist walking out Read More

8/17/90
Masters of Menace

Actors: James Belushi, David Rasche, Catherine Bach, Lance Kinsey, Teri Copley, Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, George Wendt

Synopsis: The Second City comedy ensemble reunites for this camp story of a motorcycle gang trying to take home the body of a dead member (James Belushi). Problem is, they must also outrun a pesky lawyer (Ray Baker) who is trying to bring the group to justice for breaking their probation. John Candy, Dan Aykroyd Read More

8/8/90
Wedding Band

Actors: William Katt, Joyce Hyser, Tino Insana, Lance Kinsey, David Bowe

Synopsis: In this comedy, the members of the Shakers, an aspiring rock band, perform at a series of weird and wacky weddings. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

3/2/90
Abraxas: Guardian of the Universe

Actors: James Belushi, Marjorie Bransfeld, Sven Ole Thorsen

Synopsis: This average Canadian sci-fi actioner concerns the exploits of an intergalactic policeman named Abraxas (Jesse "The Body" Ventura). The space cop comes to Earth to track a rogue alien, Secundus (Sven-Ole Thorsen), who is looking for a woman to bear his child -- a "Comator" with the power to Read More

1990
Homer and Eddie

Actors: James Belushi, Whoopi Goldberg, Karen Black, John Waters, Beah Richards, Robert Glaudini

Synopsis: Director Andrei Konchalovsky comes a cropper with this mawkish road movie starring Whoopi Goldberg and James Belushi. Goldberg plays Edwina, an escaped mental patient with a brain tumor and only a month to live. Belushi is Homer, a retarded man abandoned by his parents when he was a child after a Read More

12/25/89
K-9

Actors: James Belushi, Mel Harris, Kevin Tighe, Ed O'Neill, Jerry Lee

Synopsis: James Belushi stars in this cop actioner about a loner narcotics officer who has to break in a new partner. The twist here is that the new partner is barely housebroken, but he's still sharp and keeps his nose close to the ground. Dooley (Belushi), who works on the San Diego narc squad, is an Read More

4/28/89
Who's Harry Crumb?

Actors: John Candy, Jeffrey Jones, Annie Potts, Tim Thomerson, Barry Corbin

Synopsis: John Candy's popularity from his appearances on the Canadian television series Second City TV did not translate into film success until he made the John Hughes comedy Uncle Buck. Who's Harry Crumb? was released just before the more well-known film, and some SCTV regulars make cameo appearances. In Read More

2/3/89
Dimenticare Palermo

Actors: James Belushi, Mimi Rogers, Joss Ackland, Philippe Noiret, Carolina Rosi

Synopsis: This political drama chronicles the corruption of a mayoral candidate for New York City. His ordeal begins when he launches a campaign for the legalization of heretofore illegal narcotics. Alarmed by the support it gets, Mafiosos frame the candidate for a crime he did not commit and force him to Read More

1989
Red Heat

Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Belushi, Peter Boyle, Ed O'Ross, Laurence Fishburne

Synopsis: Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a taciturn law-enforcement officer from Russia. James Belushi co-stars as a wise-lipped Chicago cop. Though they go together like caviar and White Castles, they are forced to team up to collar the Soviet Union's most notorious drug lord. Thus does director Walter Hill Read More

6/17/88
Real Men

Actors: James Belushi, John Ritter, Barbara Barrie, Bill Morey, Iva Andersen

Synopsis: A CIA agent recruits a meek family man for a secret mission involving interstellar communication and copious violence in this tongue-in-cheek buddy flick from the writer/producer of The Golden Child. Insurance salesman Bob Wilson (John Ritter) is the kind of guy who stands by while suburban punks Read More

9/25/87
The Principal

Actors: James Belushi, Louis Gossett, Jr., Rae Dawn Chong, Michael Wright, J.J. Cohen, Esai Morales

Synopsis: An impulsive but determined white principal brings order and respect to a predominantly African-American and Latino high school in this comedy-drama from the director of Young Guns and That Was Then, This Is Now. Rick Latimer (James Belushi), a high-school teacher, is in the process of a divorce Read More

9/18/87
Number One with a Bullet

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Carradine, Billy Dee Williams, Valerie Bertinelli, Peter Graves, Doris Roberts

Synopsis: Detective Berzak (Robert Carradine) and his suave partner Hazeltine (Billy Dee Williams) combine forces to track down a notorious drug lord in this routine action feature. Captain Ferris (Peter Graves) monitors the progress of the decidedly different detectives. The trail leads to Dacosta (Barry Sattels Read More

2/27/87
Little Shop of Horrors

Actors: Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Vincent Gardenia, Steve Martin, Levi Stubbs

Synopsis: It started as a 1960 Roger Corman horror comedy, filmed in two days; it then inspired a lavish 1982 Broadway musical with music and lyrics by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman. Finally in 1986, Little Shop of Horrors (1960) graduated into a multimillion-dollar, all-star film musical. Rick Moranis Read More

12/19/86
Jumpin' Jack Flash

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Stephen Collins, Jonathan Pryce, James Belushi, John Wood, Carol Kane, Annie Potts

Synopsis: Penny Marshall in her feature film directing debut, four screenwriters, and a ebullient Whoopi Goldberg join forces to make Jumpin' Jack Flash, a modern espionage comedy. Goldberg plays Terry Doolittle, a computer operator in a large New York City bank who picks up a cry of help on her computer. Read More

10/10/86
About Last Night...

Actors: Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, James Belushi, Elizabeth Perkins, George DiCenzo

Synopsis: David Mamet's play Sexual Perversity in Chicago was adapted for the big screen by fellow Chicago citizen Tim Kazurinsky and became About Last Night... The film stars Rob Lowe as Danny and Demi Moore as Debbie. The pair meet and engage in a torrid sexual relationship, but then slowly negotiate if Read More

7/1/86
Salvador

Actors: James Woods, James Belushi, Michael Murphy, John Savage, Elpidia Carrillo

Synopsis: While Salvador wasn't Oliver Stone's first film (a pair of offbeat horror stories preceded it), it defined his style of fiercely dramatic, politically oriented filmmaking, staked out his territory as one of the major directors of the 1980s and 1990s, and remains one of his strongest works to date. Read More

3/5/86
The Birthday Boy

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: James Belushi, king of the direct-to-video film, stars in Birthday Boy. Actually, the film first appeared on cable TV, but it was consigned to video shortly thereafter. This time around, Belushi plays an inept salesman who undergoes an epiphany upon reaching his 30th birthday. The catalyst for his Read More

1985
The Man with One Red Shoe

Actors: Tom Hanks, Lori Singer, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning, Carrie Fisher

Synopsis: In this rather routine adaptation of the French hit, The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe, Richard (Tom Hanks) is a bicycling violinist who is innocently drawn into a nasty struggle for control of the CIA. Cooper (Dabney Coleman) is the unscrupulous current head honcho of the notorious U.S. Read More

1985
The Best Legs in the 8th Grade

Synopsis: This made-for-television movie stars Tim Matheson as a good-looking attorney who runs into the girl of his childhood dreams who, way back when, didn't even notice him. Now she does. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

1984
Trading Places

Actors: Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Denholm Elliott, Jamie Lee Curtis

Synopsis: The "nature-nurture" theory that motivated so many Three Stooges comedies is the basis of John Landis's hit comedy. The fabulously wealthy but morally bankrupt Duke brothers (Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche) make a one-dollar bet over heredity vs. environment. Curious as to what might happen if Read More

1983
Laverne & Shirley: Of Mice and Men

Synopsis: A young Jim Belushi appears as Wheezer, the new man in Laverne's life. Unfortunately for his ego, Wheezer exhibits a cowardly streak when Laverne (Penny Marshall) and Carmine