Jason BernardFilmography

Sophie and the Moonhanger

Actors: Patricia Richardson, Lynn Whitfield, Jason Bernard

Synopsis: Originally made for and aired on the Lifetime cable network this 1955-set drama centers on a loving, white Southern housewife (Patricia Richardson) whose comfortable life is thrown into turmoil when she learns that her close friend and housekeeper Sophie (Lynn Whitfield) has been targeted by the Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Death Goes Double Platinum

Synopsis: Through the invention of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury), a Latin instrumental band fronted by a blind musician cuts a demo record at Manhattan University. Before long, the band is being offered a prestigious contract by a record company--but a mobster makes a count-offer that would be Read More

Suddenly

Actors: Kirstie Alley, Jason Beghe, Colleen Camp, Jason Bernard, Nancy Cartwright

Synopsis: Barely recognizable under a blonde wig and several layers of garish makeup, Kirstie Alley stars in this made-for-TV drama as Marty, a freewheeling waitress who compensates for the emptiness in her life with jokes and wisecracks. On the verge of finding emotional fulfillment with a new romance Read More

While You Were Sleeping

Actors: Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman, Peter Gallagher, Peter Boyle, Jack Warden

Synopsis: This latter-day romantic screwball comedy stars Sandra Bullock as a love-starved subway toll booth operator, Lucy. Lucy pines for regular customer Peter Callaghan (Peter Gallagher), but the self-absorbed attorney pays her no heed. One day, Peter is beaten by a gang of thugs and tossed onto the Read More

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes

Actors: Kirk Cameron, Larry Miller, Jason Bernard, Anne Marie Tremko, Dan Castellaneta

Synopsis: Kirk Cameron stars in this made-for-television remake of the 1970 movie. Cameron stars as Dexter Riley, an under-average college student whose brain gets filled with the information from a super computer. He uses his newly found wisdom to sweep some college quiz tournaments, much to the chagrin of Read More

Down, Out & Dangerous

Actors: Richard Thomas, Bruce Davison, Cynthia Ettinger, George DiCenzo, Jason Bernard

Synopsis: In this drama, an opportunistic and dangerous ex-convict uses the untimely death of a neighbor to help him get close to the kindly businessman he hopes to destroy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Paint It Black

Actors: Rick Rossovich, Sally Kirkland, Julie Carmen, Martin Landau, Doug Savant

Synopsis: In this Hitchcockian thriller, a wealthy and naive young sculptor learns that people are not always nice and helpful. His first mistake is to fall for the seductress who runs the gallery that has an exclusive on his work. He then hooks up with an insane art collector who gets jealous of the Read More

Original Sin

Synopsis: In this drama, a distraught Mid-Western housewife is positive that her husband's father, a crime lord, kidnapped her son. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Bird

Actors: Forest Whitaker, Diane Venora, Michael Zelniker, Sam Wright, Keith David

Synopsis: Forest Whitaker stars as the brilliant jazz saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker in this elegiac biopic. Director Clint Eastwood pays full homage to Parker's musical genius, but also devotes ample time to the musician's twin demons--drugs and alcohol-which accelerated his death at the age of 34. In Read More

Police Story: Gladiator School

Synopsis: Robert Conrad stars in this 2-hour Police Story TV special, directed by another veteran of 1960s series television, James Darren. Conrad plays an unpopular cop who is being sued for harassment by a prostitute. His mob enemies murder the hooker and frame Conrad for the killing. This results in Conrad Read More

No Way Out

Actors: Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Sean Young, Will Patton, Howard Duff

Synopsis: No Way Out is told in flashback as Naval officer Tom Farrell (Kevin Costner) is grilled by his superiors regarding a recent "unpleasantness." While at a Washington party, Tom meets Susan Atwel (Sean Young), and they're soon sharing a steamy love scene in the back of a limo (marvelously parodied in Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running mystery series, Perry Mason begins representing a friend of Della's after he is accused of murdering an old madam who is also his wife. As the intrepid attorney investigates, he soon exposes a multi-million dollar banking fraud. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Cosby Show: War Stories

Synopsis: Cliff (Bill Cosby) resigns himself to another humiliating defeat when he plays pinochle with his dad Russell (Earl Hyman), Russell's cohort Homer (Bill Gunn), and the two old guys' Army buddy Sgt. Stokes (Jason Bernard), a notorious card cheat. Even worse, Cliff is unable to keep apace of the Read More

The Children of Times Square

Actors: Joanna Cassidy, Brandon Douglas, Danny Nucci

Synopsis: The Children of Times Square are alienated and disenfranchised kids from all over the country. With nowhere to go and no real purpose in life, they converge on the streets of New York, totally vulnerable despite their outward toughness. Howard Rollins plays a ruthless cocaine dealer who, in the Read More

Deadly Justice

Actors: Richard Crenna

Synopsis: Made for television, Broken Badge originally aired as The Rape of Richard Beck. Richard Crenna plays Beck, a hard-bitten cop who has little patience for female rape victims. Then he himself is sexually assaulted by two assailants. Crenna's excellent performance notwithstanding, the teleplay by James G. Hirsch Read More

Night Court: Harry on Trial

Synopsis: Thanks to the machinations of his nemesis Judge Willard (Jason Bernard), Harry (Harry Anderson) is summoned before a judicial review board. Led by the decidedly off-base Judge Landis (Ray Walton) the board must decide if Harry's bizarre and flippant courtroom behavior constitutes sufficient Read More

The Dukes of Hazzard: The Dukes in Hollywood

Synopsis: The Duke boys save the life of movie star Brock Curtis (Barry Van Dyke), who narrowly escapes a fatal accident while making a film in Hazzard County. As a reward, the boys are offered parts in a Hollywood movie, obliging Boss (Sorrell Booke) and Roscoe (James Best) to accompany the family to Read More

Hunter: The Hot Grounder

Synopsis: Police Commissioner Larry Crenshaw (William Windom) is the primary suspect when his wife Connie (Rosemary Thomas) is murdered. This places Hunter (Fred Dryer) and McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) in a ticklish situation: they are ordered to investigate the one man who most desires to see them thrown off Read More

Night Court: Once in Love With Harry

Synopsis: Ubiquitous hooker Carla B. (Rita Taggart) has decided that she's in love with Harry (Harry Anderson), even though he hasn't really given her any encouragement. The situation gets out of hand when Carla hides in Harry's chambers wearing nothing more than a towel. Elsewhere, Dan (John Larroquette) Read More

City Killer

Synopsis: Originally made for television, a psychotic blackmails his beloved by demolishing areas of the city until she goes out with him. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

All of Me

Actors: Steve Martin, Lily Tomlin, Victoria Tennant, Madolyn Smith, Richard Libertini

Synopsis: On her deathbed, mean-spirited millionairess Lily Tomlin has her will amended so that her soul will pass into the body of young, healthy Victoria Tennant. Thanks to a mix-up in transmutation, Tomlin winds up instead trapped in the body of upright (and uptight) attorney Steve Martin. The plot Read More

The Jeffersons: Mission: Incredible, Part 2

Actors: Sherman Hemsley, Isabel Sanford, Marla Gibbs, Roxie Roker, Franklin Cover

Synopsis: In the second episode of a two-part episode, an effort by George Jefferson (Sherman Hemsley) to teach his neighbor Tom Willis (Franklin Cover) not to be so gullible backfires when two of George's Navy buddies, Lloyd (Jason Bernard) and Allan (Stefan Gierasch), escape to Los Angeles with 15,000 Read More

The Jeffersons: Mission: Incredible, Part 1

Actors: Sherman Hemsley, Isabel Sanford, Marla Gibbs, Roxie Roker, Franklin Cover

Synopsis: The Jeffersons launched its tenth season with episode one of a three-party story. After George Jefferson (Sherman Hemsley) mocks the gullibility of his neighbor and in-law Tom Willis (Franklin Cover) with his old Navy buddies, the men decide to teach Tom a lesson with an elaborate con job. Sure Read More

WarGames

Actors: Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, John Wood, Ally Sheedy, Barry Corbin

Synopsis: Once more, a wise-guy teenager tries to prove he's smarter than any adult-and nearly destroys the whole world in the process-in WarGames. Computer-game aficionado Matthew Broderick inadverently taps into a hush-hush Pentagon computer, then proceeds to inaugurate his favorite game, "Global Read More

Blue Thunder

Actors: Roy Scheider, Malcolm McDowell, Warren Oates, Candy Clark, Daniel Stern

Synopsis: Ex-Vietnam chopper pilot Roy Scheider is now in charge of Blue Thunder, a high-tech copter designed to quell possible terrorism during the 1984 LA Olympics. His onetime comrade-in-arms Malcolm McDowell, now his bitter enemy, will stop at nothing to neutralize Blue Thunder and expedite an armed Read More

The Star Chamber

Actors: Michael Douglas, Hal Holbrook, Yaphet Kotto, Sharon Gless, James B. Sikking

Synopsis: Fed up with watching vicious criminals walk on technicalities and loopholes, judge Michael Douglas accepts his older colleague Hal Holbrook's invitation to join "The Star Chamber." This sub-rosa organization consists of nine like-minded judges who endeavor to take the law into their own hands. Read More

The Jeffersons: Mission: Incredible, Part 3

Actors: Sherman Hemsley, Isabel Sanford, Marla Gibbs, Roxie Roker, Franklin Cover

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a three-part story, George (Sherman Hemsley) and Jimmy (Garrett Morris) fly to L.A. in hopes of retrieving 15,000 dollars which two con artists inveigled out of George's neighbor Tom (Franklin Cover). Jimmy's electronics-savvy cousin (played by Greg Morris, satirizing his Read More

V

Actors: Jane Badler, Marc Singer, Peter Nelson, Faye Grant

Synopsis: In this sprawling television miniseries, originally aired in May 1983 on NBC, a race of seemingly human-like aliens arrive en masse on Earth. These "Visitors" promise cooperation and friendship -- then launch a clandestine takeover of the planet by accusing the entire scientific and medical Read More

Pray TV

Actors: Ned Beatty, Richard Kiley, John Ritter

Synopsis: The made-for-television Pray TV was the subject for hot debate long before its February 1, 1982 debut. This even-handed exploration of the televangelism business stars Ned Beatty as the Reverend Freddy Stone, whose religious empire nets $3 million annually. John Ritter co-stars as Rev. Tom Read More

M*A*S*H: The Tooth Shall Set You Free

Synopsis: Charles (David Ogden Stiers) is more obnoxious than ever, thanks to an extremely painful toothache. But despite his agony, Charles is terrified at the prospect of seeing a dentist. Elsewhere, the doctors try to find out why the combat-engineer outfit commanded by a certain Major Weems (Tom Atkins) Read More

I Was a Mail Order Bride

Synopsis: Determined to prove that the men who answer advertisements for mail-order brides are nothing more than jerks and lechers, Chicago magazine writer Kate Tosconi (Valerie Bertinelli) places a typical "object matrimony" ad and awaits the inevitable drooling replies. Meanwhile, L.A. lawyer Robert Read More

The Night the City Screamed

Actors: Raymond Burr, Robert Culp, Georg Stanford Brown

Synopsis: A big-city blackout galvanizes the plot of the made-for-TV The Night the City Screamed. Recreating recent events in New York City, the film details a crime spree that runs unchecked throughout the darkened metropolis. Mayor Raymond Burr tries to stem the tide of robberies and rapes, even as he Read More

Uncle Joe Shannon

Actors: Burt Young, Doug McKeon, Madge Sinclair, Jason Bernard, Bert Remsen

Synopsis: In this tearjerker, an impoverished jazz musician falls into a deep depression following the deaths of his wife and child in a terrible fire. Just as the man begins to contemplate suicide, he encounters a handicapped youth. The two become friends and manage to shore each other up through their Read More

A Woman Called Moses

Actors: Orson Welles

Synopsis: The made-for-TV A Woman Called Moses stars Cicely Tyson as real-life escaped slave Harriet Tubman. A the risk of recapture, Tubman helped organize the underground railroad, which enabled hundreds of enslaved African Americans to make their way to the freedom of the Northern states. Adding to the Read More

Wilma

Actors: Shirley Jo Finney, Cicely Tyson

Synopsis: This made-for-TV biographical film chronicles the early life of Olympic gold medalist Wilma Rudolph (Cicely Tyson) as she struggles to overcome a childhood bout of polio and realize her Olympic ambitions. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Car Wash

Actors: Franklyn Ajaye, Sully Boyar, Richard Brestoff, George Carlin, Irwin Corey

Synopsis: Michael Schultz directed this kinetic, hyperventilating comedy (scripted by Joel Schumacher) concerning the crazed events that go on within a single 10-hour period at a Los Angeles car wash. The cast of colorful car-wash employees includes Lonnie (Ivan Dixon), an ex-con; Duane (Bill Duke), a Read More

Thomasine and Bushrod

Actors: Kip Allen, Tedi Altice, Paul Barby, Scott Britt, Max Cisneros, Bud Conlan, Harry Luck, Katy Martin, Leigh Potter, James Sargeant, Brad Woolley

Synopsis: Thomasine and Bushrod was intended as the African American counterpart to Bonnie and Clyde, the difference being that the story in this case is utterly fictional. Vonette McGee plays Thomasine, and Max Julien (who also wrote and coproduced the film) is Bushrod. They are a pair of thieves Read More

Going Home

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Brenda Vaccaro, Jan-Michael Vincent, Jason Bernard, Sally Kirkland

Synopsis: Robert Mitchum delivers a top-notch performance as Harry Graham, a lonely and tender lout of a father who, released from prison after having killed his wife many years ago, has to start anew but must deal with his embittered teenage son Jimmy (Jan-Michael Vincent). Jimmy, seeking vengeance upon Read More