James Pickens, Jr.Filmography

Grey's Anatomy: Season 03

Actors: Ellen Pompeo, Patrick Dempsey, James Pickens, Jr., T.R. Knight, Sandra Oh

Synopsis: Having proven that it could stand on its own two feet without Desperate Housewives as its lead-in, Grey's Anatomy remained in its new Thursday-night slot as the seriocomic medical series entered its third season. In addition to established stars Ellen Pompeo (intern Meredith Grey) Patrick Dempsey Read More

Venom

Synopsis: A good Samaritan becomes the victim of voodoo spells in this horror story produced by Scream screenwriter Kevin Williamson. When an aged Creole woman is caught in a car wreck in a remote section of Louisiana, Ray (Rick Cramer), the owner of a nearby filling station, speeds to the scene of the Read More

Grey's Anatomy: Season 02

Actors: Ellen Pompeo, Patrick Dempsey, James Pickens, Jr., T.R. Knight, Sandra Oh

Synopsis: Following its nine-episode inaugural season, the seriocomic medical series Grey's Anatomy returns with a full complement of episodes for its second year on the air--indeed, five of the unaired installments from Season One are added to the 22-episode manifest of Season Two, with even more to follow Read More

Grey's Anatomy: Season 01

Actors: Ellen Pompeo, Patrick Dempsey, James Pickens, Jr., T.R. Knight, Sandra Oh

Synopsis: Launched as a mid-season replacement on ABC in spring 2005, this sex-soaked medical soap opera quickly became a hit during its nine-episode inaugural run. Creator/executive producer Shonda Rhimes, who wrote the first three episodes herself, wasted no time in setting up the central conflicts at Read More

Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Ski Lift

Synopsis: Richard (Richard Lewis) is low on the kidney transplant list, so he's hoping that Larry (Larry David) will come through for him. Richard wishes he were more famous, like his hero, Mickey Mantle, whose 500th home-run ball he owns. Richard offers to give Larry the valuable ball in exchange for his Read More

Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Smoking Jacket

Synopsis: It's Larry's (Larry David) birthday. Cheryl (Cheryl Hines) has mysterious plans that have yet to come to fruition. Jeff (Jeff Garlin) gets invited to the Playboy Mansion, but Larry doesn't think he can go because Cheryl's already mad at him about something else. Jeff has to explain the "double Read More

Home Room

Actors: Nathan West, Busy Philipps, Erika Christensen, Victor Garber, Holland Taylor, Ken Jenkins, Raphael Sbarge

Synopsis: American independent filmmaker Paul F. Ryan makes his feature debut with the psychological drama Home Room. The students of Valley High School try to get on with their lives in the aftermath of a traumatic school shooting in which nine students were killed. Even though the perpetrator is dead, the Read More

Six Feet Under: Everyone Leaves

Synopsis: As the lives of the Fisher clan drift into isolation, the funeral of Keith's great aunt (Ann Weldon) sets the stage for a major showdown between discontented lovers Keith (Mathew St. Patrick) and David (Michael C. Hall). En route to San Diego for the memorial, the couple quarrel over Keith's Read More

The Lyon's Den [TV Series]

Actors: Rob Lowe, Matt Craven, Kyle Chandler, Frances Fisher, David Krumholtz

Synopsis: Having exited his role on The West Wing in a flurry of largely negative publicity, Rob Lowe quickly resurfaced as the star of the NBC legal drama The Lyon's Den. Lowe was cast as Jack Turner, an idealistic attorney who hoped to make a name for himself separate from that of his prestigious Read More

Philly [TV Series]

Actors: Kim Delaney, Tom Everett Scott, Kyle Secor, Rick Hoffman, Diana-Maria Riva

Synopsis: If not the best new drama series of the 2001-2002 TV season, Philly bade fair to be the loudest and most abrasive. NYPD Blue alumnus Kim Delaney stars as idealistic law school graduate Kathleen Maguire, who, after her divorce from assistant DA Daniel X. Cavanaugh (Kyle Secor), put out her shingle Read More

NYPD Blue: Jackass

Synopsis: During a homicide investigation with disturbing racial overtones, Fancy (James McDaniel) has a confrontation with Lt. Abner (James Pickens Jr.), head of the Bias unit and former boss of Det. Baldwin Jones (Henry Simmons). A homicide victim with a distinct and disgusting aroma is found. And Andy Read More

NYPD Blue: Little Abner

Synopsis: Fancy (James McDaniel) and Jones (Henry Simmons) try to help Jones' former boss Lt. Abner (James Pickens Jr.), who is in a deep depression -- but their efforts are too little, too late. When the partner of nightclub owner Dave Lorenz (Peter Jurasik) is murdered, Lorenz points a finger at a jailed Read More

NYPD Blue: Along Came Jones

Synopsis: Henry Simmons makes his first series appearance as Det. Baldwin Jones, the replacement for recently promoted James Martinez. A former hate-crimes officer, Jones finds that his training comes in handy as he and new partner Medavoy (Gordon Clapp) track down a perpetrator -- while Lt. Fancy (James McDaniel Read More

Liberty Heights

Actors: Adrien Brody, Ben Foster, Orlando Jones, Bebe Neuwirth, Joe Mantegna, Rebekah Johnson

Synopsis: Writer/director Barry Levinson returns to his home town of Baltimore, where he previously set three nostalgic features (Diner, Tin Men, and Avalon) for this story of two brothers growing up in the tumultuous days of 1954, as rock 'n' roll, the atom bomb, and the civil rights movement changed the 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

Little Girl Fly Away

Actors: Mare Winningham, Bruce Davison, CCH Pounder, James Pickens, Jr., Clayton Rohner

Synopsis: Made-for-television and based on a true story, this drama recounts the bizarre case of a mentally unstable woman who believes that someone is trying to kill her. When police hear Catherine's story of how a strange man has threatened her with notes and phone calls they take her seriously and launch Read More

How Stella Got Her Groove Back

Actors: Angela Bassett, Taye Diggs, Regina King, Whoopi Goldberg, Suzzanne Douglas

Synopsis: Terry McMillan and Ron Bass wrote this screenplay based on McMillan's semi-autobiographical best-selling novel (over 2,000,000 copies in print before the release of this film). San Francisco stockbroker Stella (Angela Bassett), a 40-year-old divorcee, has a nice Marin County home and an Read More

Rocketman

Actors: Harland Williams, Jessica Lundy, Bill Sadler, Jeffrey DeMunn, James Pickens, Jr.

Synopsis: During training, a member of the first manned mission to Mars is injured, and NASA chooses a replacement, spaced-out spacecraft designer Fred Z. Randall (Canadian stand-up comic Harland Williams), to team with cocky crew captain William "Wild Bill" Overbeck (William Sadler), efficient mission Read More

Gridlock'd

Actors: Tim Roth, Tupac Shakur, Thandie Newton, Charles Fleischer, Howard Hesseman

Synopsis: In this hard-edged drama with a strong undercurrent of dark comedy, Stretch (Tim Roth) and Spoon (Tupac Shakur) are two friends who share both a passion for music and a dependence on heroin. Stretch and Spoon play in a jazz combo with Cookie (Thandie Newton), and after a New Year's Eve gig, they Read More

Power 98

Actors: Eric Roberts, Jason Gedrick, Jennie Garth, Larry Drake, Stephen Tobolowsky

Synopsis: An LA radio talk show host with a night call-in program finds his rating soar after a psychopathic killer becomes a regular caller in this low-budget thriller. Dee jay Karlin Pickett is known for being a wild and crazy guy. He is first seen working in Phoenix. He picks up a girl in a bar and Read More

Ghosts of Mississippi

Actors: Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg, James Woods, William H. Macy, Craig T. Nelson, Susanna Thompson, Bill Cobbs

Synopsis: This is a long-awaited film telling the story of the trials of Medgar Evers' killer. Medger Evers (James Pickens, Jr.) was a black civil-rights activist in Mississippi who was shot to death in 1963. Despite very persuasive evidence that Byron De La Beckwith (James Woods) was indeed his killer, the Read More

Sleepers

Actors: Kevin Bacon, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Billy Crudup, Bruno Kirby, Jason Patric, Brad Pitt, Vittorio Gassman

Synopsis: Barry Levinson directed this crime drama based on a controversial bestseller. Jason Patrick stars as Lorenzo, a New York reporter more commonly called "Shakes," a nickname courtesy of his three childhood pals from Hell's Kitchen -- Michael (Brad Pitt), John (Ron Eldard), and Tommy (Billy Crudup). Read More

Touched By an Angel: The Driver

Synopsis: Monica (Roma Downey) is now employed at station KQIS as producer for hotshot TV reporter Debra Willis (Vanessa Bell Calloway), who has gained fame with her catchphrase "As my mother always says..." When star high-school athlete Bobby Garcia is seriously injured in a hit-and-run accident, Bobby's Read More

Nixon

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Powers Boothe, Ed Harris, Bob Hoskins

Synopsis: Oliver Stone, the most outspokenly political American filmmaker of the 1980s and '90s, directs this epic-length biography of Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the U.S., who was re-elected by a landslide in 1972, only to resign in disgrace two years later. Taking a non-linear approach, Nixon Read More

Dead Presidents

Actors: Larenz Tate, Keith David, Chris Tucker, N'Bushe Wright, Freddy Rodriguez

Synopsis: Albert Hughes and his brother Allen Hughes followed their striking debut Menace II Society with this ambitious look at the social and political lives of the African-American community in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Anthony Curtis (Larenz Tate) is a young man coming of age in the Bronx in 1968. Read More

Sharon's Secret

Actors: Candace Cameron, Mel Harris, Alex McArthur, Paul Regina, Gregg Henry

Synopsis: In this thriller, only a determined psychiatrist can save a traumatized, catatonic girl from going to prison for the murder of her parents. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

A Child's Cry for Help

Actors: Veronica Hamel, Pam Dawber, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Lisa Jakub, Cynthia Martells

Synopsis: In this drama, a caring doctor investigates a child's home life and deduces that the boy's bizarre infections are psychosomatic and are directly linked to his mother's mental instability. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Lily in Winter

Actors: Natalie Cole

Synopsis: This family-oriented holiday drama takes place in Alabama in 1957 and centers upon the heartwarming relationship between a lonely white boy and his black nanny. When she returns South to be with her family for Christmas, her young charge follows her, creating all kinds of complications. Singer Natalie Cole Read More

Jimmy Hollywood

Actors: Joe Pesci, Christian Slater, Victoria Abril, Jason Beghe, John Cothran, Jr.

Synopsis: Clad in a blonde wig, Joe Pesci stars as the title character, a luckless actor. Unable to make it in the real showbiz world, Jimmy starts fantasizing about fame and fortune. His delusions eventually turn into reality when, through a fluke, Jimmy becomes known to one and all as "Jericho," a Robin Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Survivor

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) is shocked when her computer technician is murdered--and even more so when it turns out that the dead man was actually a rookie cop, working undercover. Investigating the situation, Jessica forms a strong bond with the late cop's veteran partner. At the same time, the Read More

Boiling Point

Actors: Wesley Snipes, Dennis Hopper, Lolita Davidovich, Viggo Mortensen, Dan Hedaya

Synopsis: The boiling point is mighty low in this tepid action programmer. Wesley Snipes plays Jimmy Mercer, a Treasury agent whose sting operation goes bad. Engineered by Ronnie (Viggo Mortensen), a dull-witted but sadistic ex-con, the operation not only fails, but one of Jimmy's colleagues is killed by Read More

NYPD Blue: Personal Foul

Synopsis: Kelly (David Caruso) investigates when one of his friends is killed and another arrested after a fracas during a pickup basketball game. Still prosecuting the Giardella case, Laura (Sherry Stringfield) senses that she is somehow being set up. Sipowicz suspects that a man whose wife was murdered is Read More

Roseanne: Crime and Punishment, Part 1

Synopsis: D.J. gets in trouble at school for bringing a coarse comic book to class, which he got from his sister Darlene. Meanwhile, Dan gets hostile when he finds out that Fisher (Matt Roth) has been physically abusing Jackie. Ed Begley Jr. guest stars as Mr. Alexander. Part one of a two-part episode. Read More

Menace II Society

Actors: Tyrin Turner, Jada Pinkett Smith, Vonte Sweet, Larenz Tate

Synopsis: This debut offering from twin brothers Albert and Allen Hughes was one of the most critically-acclaimed urban crime films to appear in the wake of John Singleton's influential Boyz N the Hood. Set in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, the film is narrated by 18-year-old Caine (Tyrin Turner) Read More

Roseanne: War and Peace, Part 2

Synopsis: In this conclusion of a two-part episode, Roseanne helps Jackie to leave her abusive boyfriend, Fisher (Matt Roth), while Dan spends the night in jail for his actions. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide Read More

Trespass

Actors: Bill Paxton, Ice-T, Bill Sadler, Ice Cube, Art Evans

Synopsis: Maverick director Walter Hill, who had a big hit with 48 Hrs., indulges his customary yen for violent and disturbing scenes in this overlooked action film, which was also released under the name Looters. Set in the economically-depressed town of East St. Louis, IL, the film's release was delayed Read More

Roseanne: The Bowling Show

Synopsis: Dan and Arnie's (Tom Arnold) bowling team is in last place. Meanwhile, Jackie and Nancy (Sandra Bernhard) develop a friendship that excludes Roseanne. First appearance of Mark's (Glenn Quinn) brother, played by Johnny Galecki. Originally named Kevin Healy, his character name was permanently Read More

Roseanne: Stand on Your Man

Synopsis: Roseanne finally opens her restaurant, the Lanford Lunch Box. After getting threatened by one of her first customers, Roseanne is prompted to take a self defense class with Jackie and Nancy (Sandra Bernhard). Meanwhile, Arnie (Tom Arnold) returns to Lanford to try and get back together with Nancy. Read More

Roseanne: Halloween IV

Synopsis: Roseanne stays home while everyone else goes out to a Halloween party. She gets visited by the ghosts of Halloween Past (Lee Arenberg), Halloween Present (Mario Roccuzzo), and Halloween Future (Garry Bullock). Laurie Metcalf's daughter Zoe Perry plays Jackie as a little girl. ~ Andrea LeVasseur Read More

Roseanne: Secrets

Synopsis: Depressed about the break up with Becky, Mark (Glenn Quinn) gets drunk and rowdy at the Lobo Lounge and punches the jukebox. Dan picks him up, promising not to tell Becky or Roseanne about it. However, Roseanne finds out through Jackie and makes Dan pay for keeping a secret from her. ~ Andrea Read More

Roseanne: Trick Me Up, Trick Me Down

Synopsis: In this Halloween episode, Dan and Roseanne play a mean trick on next-door neighbor Kathy Bowman (Meagan Fay) and fear that she will retaliate. Meanwhile, Jackie flirts with a stranger at the Lobo Lounge costume party, who turns out to be her ex-boyfriend Booker (George Clooney in his last Read More

Roseanne: Trick or Treat

Synopsis: On Halloween, Roseanne goes to the Lobo Lounge dressed in drag as a lumberjack. Mistaken for a man, she gets to hang out with some local bar guys. One of the funniest and bravest episodes, the infamous urinal scene in the restroom was cut from most versions that aired in syndication. First Read More

F/X

Actors: Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy, Diane Venora, Cliff De Young, Mason Adams

Synopsis: A man who simulates death for a living finds himself unwittingly tied into the real thing in this New York-based suspense drama. Special effects man Rollie Tyler (Bryan Brown) makes his living simulating gory mayhem and photogenic violence for movies such as "I Dismember Mama." Tyler is given a Read More