James Frawley Filmography

The Book of Daniel [TV Series]

Crew: Director

Actors: Aidan Quinn, Susanna Thompson, Christian Campbell, Ivan Shaw, Alison Pill

Synopsis: The most controversial -- and one of the shortest-lived -- series of the 2005-2006 network season, The Book of Daniel concerned the troubled family of an Episcopalian priest. Aidan Quinn starred as Reverend Daniel Webster, who dealt with most crises by popping prescription pills and brooding over Read More

Related [TV Series]

Crew: Director

Actors: Jennifer Esposito, Kiele Sanchez, Lizzy Caplan, Laura Breckenridge, Callum Blue

Synopsis: Set in New York, the weekly, hour-long dramedy Related was another of the WB network's bids to replicate the popularity of their earlier Gilmore Girls. Upon the announcement by their widowed father (Tom Irwin) that he was about to marry his longtime fiancée (Christine Ebersole), the four "couldn't Read More

Nancy Drew

Crew: Director, Executive Producer

Synopsis: Previously portrayed in films and on TV by the likes of Bonita Granville, Janet Julian, Pamela Sue Martin, and Tracy Ryan, author Carolyn Keene's intrepid, teenaged sleuth Nancy Drew is again brought to life in the person of Maggie Lawson. Now enrolled at River Heights University with her longtime Read More

Smallville: X-Ray

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Clark Kent (Tom Welling) has begun to be aware of his inherent x-ray vision -- a power that proves to be literally a headache to him. Even worse, Clark is unable to control this power, which comes and goes at the most inopportune moments. But our hero's vision problems turn out to be a blessing Read More

Thieves [TV Series]

Crew: Director, Executive Producer

Actors: John Stamos, Melissa George, Robert Knepper, Tone-Loc, Max Perlich

Synopsis: This tongue-in-cheek ABC adventure series used the basic premise of the old Robert Wagner starrer It Takes a Thief, but with an attractive addition to the formula. John Stamos and Melissa George starred as Johnny and Rita, a brace of good-looking professional cat burglars (in an amusing twist, he Read More

The Division: Season 01

Crew: Director

Actors: Bonnie Bedelia, Nancy McKeon, Tracey Needham, Lisa Vidal

Ed [TV Series]

Crew: Director

Actors: Tom Cavanagh, Julie Bowen, Josh Randall, Jana Marie Hupp, Lesley Boone

Synopsis: After making a career in the Big Apple, a lawyer returns to the small Ohio town of his birth in this comedy-drama series from Worldwide Pants Productions, the company headed up by David Letterman. Ed Stevens (Tom Cavanagh) thought his career as an attorney in New York City was going well -- until Read More

The Three Stooges

Crew: Director

Actors: Paul Ben-Victor, Rachael Blake, Brandon Burke, Peter Callan, Michael Chiklis

Synopsis: The comedy team that made the phrase "nyuk nyuk nyuk" part of the American vocabulary gets the full biographical treatment in this made-for-TV feature. The Three Stooges opens in 1959, as a TV executive tries to persuade Moe Howard (Paul Ben-Victor) to reunite with his former onscreen partners to Read More

Ally McBeal: The Blame Game

Crew: Director

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol

Ally McBeal: The Inmates

Crew: Director

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol

Mr. Headmistress

Crew: Director

Actors: Harland Williams, Katey Sagal, Shawna Waldron, Joel Brooks, Lori Hallier

Synopsis: Harland Williams stars in this comedy as a confidence man who is trying to outrun the bill collectors. Posing as a woman, he gets a job as the headmistress at an exclusive private girl's school, but now he has a whole new set of problems -- namely, fooling everyone into thinking he's a woman for Read More

Ally McBeal: Body Language

Crew: Director

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol

Ally McBeal: Happy Birthday, Baby

Crew: Director

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol

Ally McBeal: Forbidden Fruits

Crew: Director

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol

Vengeance Unlimited [TV Series]

Crew: Director, Executive Producer

Actors: Michael Madsen, Kathleen York, Gregg Henry, Allen Cutler, Daniel Roebuck

Synopsis: In this TV drama series, the somewhat sinister anti-hero Mr. Chapel (Michael Madsen) is "Mr. Right for those who've been wronged." Working outside the system, Chapel delivers his own brand of justice. When a criminal gets away with it and is declared not guilty, friends and loved ones of victims Read More

Ally McBeal: Once in a Lifetime

Crew: Director

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol

Ally McBeal: Being There

Crew: Director

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol

Ally McBeal: Alone Again

Crew: Director

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol

Ally McBeal: These Are the Days

Crew: Director

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol

Ally McBeal: Theme of Life

Crew: Director

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol

Ally McBeal: Pilot

Crew: Director

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski

Ally McBeal: Silver Bells

Crew: Director

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol

Ally McBeal: Cro-Magnon

Crew: Director

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol

Ally McBeal: The Attitude

Crew: Director

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol

Ally McBeal: The Playing Field

Crew: Director

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol

Ally McBeal: The Kiss

Crew: Director

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol

Ally McBeal: The Affair

Crew: Director

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol

Ally McBeal: One Hundred Tears Away

Crew: Director

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol

Ally McBeal: Season 01

Crew: Director

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski

Synopsis: The first season of Ally McBeal centers around Ally's (Calista Flockhart) introduction to a law firm as full of eccentric characters as it is legal files. Not only must Ally adjust to her former high-school sweetheart's choice to marry another, but she also has to learn how to cope with having Read More

Ally McBeal: Compromising Positions

Crew: Director

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol

On the 2nd Day of Christmas

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Christmas Eve is just like any other work day for pickpocket Trish Tracy (Mary Stuart Masterson) and her niece Patsy (Lauren Suzanne Pratt). With a store full of suckers ripe for plucking, Trish and Patsy work the crowd, amassing quite a fortune before they're caught by sharp-eyed (and Read More

Ally McBeal: Boy to the World

Crew: Director

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol

Sins of the Mind

Crew: Director

Actors: Missy Crider, Mike Farrell, Jill Clayburgh, Cyia Batten, Michael Mantell

Synopsis: A once loving, devoted mother changes dramatically after suffering major head trauma during an auto accident. This made-for-television drama is based on a true story and follows the family as they try to cope with their mother's drastic transformation -- caused by severe damage to the area of the Read More

Ally McBeal: The Dirty Joke

Crew: Director

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol

Ally McBeal: The Promise

Crew: Director

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol

Ally McBeal: Drawing the Lines

Crew: Director

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Gil Bellows, Greg Germann, Lisa Nicole Carson, Jane Krakowski, Peter MacNicol

Harrison: Cry of the City

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Edward Woodward of The Equalizer fame stars in this TV movie as Edward "Teddy" Harrison, a retired Scotland Yard detective currently visiting his daughter Cecilia (Elizabeth Hurley) in New York City. At the request of a prominent lawyer, Harrison takes on the challenge of proving that an Read More

Another Midnight Run

Crew: Director

Law & Order: Sweeps

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this fourth-season opener of Law & Order, Robert Klein guest stars as controversial, confrontational TV talk show host Rick Mason. During one of Mason's broadcasts, a guest is murdered on the air (and this show was telecast long before the Jenny Jones affair). The DA's office endeavors to prove Read More

Law & Order: Right to Counsel

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A wealthy older woman is found murdered in her apartment. By the time the police and the D.A.'s office catch up with the likeliest suspect -- the woman's much-younger lover, Steven Gregg (Richard Cox) -- he is fully prepared to accept a plea bargain. But the case proves to be far from Read More

Law & Order: Cradle to Grave

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The frozen body of a baby is found, whereupon the child's mother falls under suspicion for causing the infant's death. The woman insists that the real villain is slumlord Iris Colman (Karen Lynn Gorney), who cites the "rent laws" as her excuse to deny proper heating to her tenants. But another Read More

Law & Order: Severance

Crew: Director

Synopsis: It is no coincidence when a woman disappears shortly before the slaying of two ad-agency employees: All three had been witnesses to a mob execution. Assistant D.A. Stone (Michael Moriarty) attempts to prove that the kidnapping and murders had been ordered from within prison walls. But to do this Read More

Law & Order: Helpless

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This episode is a showcase for actress Carolyn McCormick in the recurring Law & Order role of NYPD psychologist Dr. Elizabeth Olivet. Paul Hecht is cast as prominent gynecologist Dr. Alex Merritt, whom Olivet accuses of molesting her. Further investigation reveals that the high-profile Merritt may Read More

Spies, Lies and Naked Thighs

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this lively made-for-TV espionage comedy, an off-the-wall CIA agent involves an interpreter in his hunt for a professional hit man assigned to murder the President. The real craziness begins when they discover that the killer is one of their ex-wives and that she is living next door. ~ Sandra Read More

The Secret Life of Archie's Wife

Crew: Director

Actors: Ray Wise

Synopsis: LA Law's husband-and-wife costars Michael Tucker and Jill Eikenberry are top-billed in this TV movie tailored to their talents. Tucker is a minor league crook who can't seem to do anything right. Eikenberry is a bored housewife who is inadvertently kidnapped by Tucker during a bank robbery. Read More

Columbo: Sex and the Married Detective

Crew: Director

Actors: Peter Falk, Lindsay Crouse

Synopsis: It's an alluring title, to be sure, but faithful Lt. Columbo (Peter Falk) does not stray from his never-seen wife in Columbo: Sex and the Married Detective. Lindsay Crouse guest stars as Dr. Joan Allenby, a radio personality billed as "Sex Therapist of the Airwaves". The doctor finds she must Read More

Columbo: Murder, A Self Portrait

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Columbo: Murder, A Self Portrait stars Patrick Bauchau as an artist hounded by a contentious ex-wife (Fionulla Flanagan). He murders his former spouse on the beach at Malibu, but arranges things to make it seem he was far away in his art studio at the time of the killing. Lt. Columbo (Peter Falk) Read More

Warm Hearts, Cold Feet

Crew: Director

Actors: Tim Matheson, Margaret Colin, Elizabeth Ashley, Barry Corbin, George DiCenzo

Synopsis: In this comedy, a journalist and her husband, an editor, present their very different thoughts on her pregnancy in their respective columns and become a big hit with their fans. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Assault and Matrimony

Crew: Director

Actors: Jill Eikenberry, Michael Tucker

Synopsis: One can only hope that the real-life marriage of actors Michael Tucker and Jill Eikenberry is more harmonious than the one depicted in the made-for-TV Assault and Matrimony. Tucker plays a meek New England accountant and Eikenberry portrays his nitpicking wife-who becomes even nitpickier when the Read More

Fraternity Vacation

Crew: Director

Actors: Stephen Geoffreys, Sheree J. Wilson, Cameron Dye, Leigh McCloskey, Tim Robbins, John Vernon

Synopsis: Delivering no more and no less than what its title suggests, this teen movie is about three frat brothers chasing down sex and women in Palm Springs for a long weekend escape from blizzard conditions at Iowa State. Wendall (Stephen Geoffreys) is the requisite nerd of the group whose heart throbs Read More

Faerie Tale Theatre: Hansel and Gretel

Crew: Director

Actors: Rick Schroder, Bridgette Andersen, Joan Collins, Paul Dooley

Synopsis: The Grimms' grim tale of two crafty children who cross paths with an evil, gingerbread cottage-dwelling crone is the subject of this episode from the made-for-TV series Faerie Tale Theatre. Abandoned in the forest by their penniless father (well-known character actor Paul Dooley) and his new wife Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Rembrandt's Girl

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Carol Burnett guest stars as bank teller Susan Johnson, who hires Magnum (Tom Selleck) to track down her recently paroled father Herbie Norton. Herbie is better known as "Rembrandt" because of his skills as a forger, and Susan is worried that her dad is back in the counterfeit-money business. Read More

The Outlaws

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this rather blatant "all-white" derivation of the Gene Wilder-Richard Pryor starrer Stir Crazy, Christopher Lemmon and Charles Rocket are cast as pair of dimwitted innocents who suddenly find themselves on the wrong side of the law. While promoting a zany get-rich-quick scheme, uptight Read More

Magnum, P.I.: The Arrow That is Not Aimed

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A valuable Kenzan ceramic plate purchased in Japan by Robin Masters is stolen in transit from its guardian, a grim-visaged Samurai warrior named Tozan (played by the great Asian character actor Mako). Magnum (Tom Selleck) finds it hard to believe Tozan's story that the thief was a Ninja warrior Read More

Magnum, P.I.: The Eighth Part of the Village

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Following the advice of a fortune cookie which reads "A Man of Good Fortune Repays His Reward", Magnum (Tom Selleck) heads to the docks to pick up a crate of books as a favor to a friend. Instead he winds up with a pretty Japanese stowaway named Mioshi (Kim Miyori), who claims to be escaping from Read More

The Great American Traffic Jam

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV farce, the urban phenomenon of the traffic jam and the effect it has on the lives of the participants is examined. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Muppet Movie

Crew: Director

Actors: Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Charles Durning, Dave Goelz

Synopsis: Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear, from of the large crew of loveably fuzzy characters created by puppetmaster Jim Henson, have embarked on a quest for stardom. They take a trip to Hollywood, riding in or on a wide variety of vehicles along the way. They begin their journey on a bicycle pedalled by Read More

Columbo: Make Me a Perfect Murder

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Trish Van Devere plays a television executive (evidently inspired by Faye Dunaway in Network) in the made-for-TV Make Me a Perfect Murder. Denied a promotion, Ms. Van Devere retaliates by "cancelling" her boss--permanently. Utilizing her knowledge of TV mysteries, she manages to misdirect the Read More

Columbo: How to Dial a Murder

Crew: Director

Synopsis: At first glance, How to Dial a Murder would seem to be a TV remake of Orson Welles' Citizen Kane. But no, it's a 90-minute installment in the Columbo series, as we soon discover. Nicol Williamson guest stars as a wealthy psychologist and movie buff. He has already murdered his wife, and now he Read More

The Big Bus

Crew: Director

Actors: Joseph Bologna, Stockard Channing, John Beck, René Auberjonois, Ned Beatty

Synopsis: The Big Bus is set aboard a nonstop, nuclear-powered luxury bus commandeered by Joseph Bologna. Naturally, Bologna is a tortured hero with a deep dark secret (he keeps insisting he didn't eat all those passengers on his last disastrous drive). Stockard Channing and Harold Gould play the designers Read More

Delancey Street: The Crisis Within

Crew: Director

Actors: Walter McGinn

Synopsis: San Francisco's Delancey Street is the locale of a halfway house for ex-convicts, former drug users, and other society castaways. The founder of this operation is himself a paroled convict (Walter McGinn), who hopes to help others get back on their feet as he has. His touchiest assignment is the Read More

Kid Blue

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this western set at the turn-of-the-century, an outlaw finds himself at one of life's crossroads as he must decide whether to go straight or continue a life of crime. After bungling a train robbery he decides he should go straight and settle down. He chooses the town of Dime Box, Texas. There Read More

The Christian Licorice Store

Crew: Director

Actors: Dawn Cleary, Louis DeFarra, Rusty Durrell, Bruce Graziano, Dido Renoir, Gary Rose

Synopsis: In this comedy a golden-boy tennis player in search of Life's meaning is corrupted by Hollywood, too much praise, and the temptation to sell out. His life therefore, becomes a metaphor for the morals of Hollywood society. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Monkees: The Devil and Peter Tork

Crew: Director

Actors: Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Peter Tork, Michael Nesmith

Synopsis: In the best of his many Monkees' guest appearances, Monte Landis is cast as the devilish Mr. Zero. When he sees a lovely harp for sale, Peter wishes that he had the talent to play the instrument. Suddenly, Mr. Zero appears, offering to grant Peter the ability to play the harp in exchange for his Read More

The Monkees: Monkees Race Again

Crew: Director

Actors: Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Peter Tork, Michael Nesmith

Synopsis: The Monkees climb into their trusty Monkeemobile in hopes of helping racing driver T. N. Crumpets (William Glover). On the eve of an important race, Crumpets' car is sabotaged by his principal rival, The Baron (David Hurst), and his henchman Wolfgang (Stubby Kaye). Incidentally, the Monkeemobile Read More

The Monkees: Monkees Paw

Crew: Director

Actors: Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Peter Tork, Michael Nesmith

Synopsis: When The Monkees are hired to perform at a swank nightclub, seedy magician Mendrek (Hans Conried) is fired. Short on funds, Mendrek sells Micky a monkey's paw, explaining that the object has the power to grant three wishes. What the magician fails to reveal is that the paw is cursed -- which the Read More

The Monkees: Monstrous Monkee Mash

Crew: Director

Actors: Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Peter Tork

Synopsis: Davy makes a monstrous mistake when he falls in love with a bewitching beauty named Lorelei (Arlene Martel. Before long, Davy and the other Monkees (minus Mike) are in the clutches of a Dracula-like count (Ron Masak) and at the mercy of a bargain-basement Wolfman (David Pearl). Originally Read More

The Monkees: Monkees Blow Their Minds

Actors: Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Peter Tork, Michael Nesmith

Synopsis: Suffering from writers' block, Peter visits a nightclub hypnotist, The Great Oracullo (Monte Landis). But instead of curing Peter, Oracullo drugs the poor Monkee and places him under his evil spell. The other Monkees try to rescue Peter by pretending to succumb to Oracullo's hypnotic powers -- but