Jean Simmons Filmography

Death of Two Sons

Actors: Kadiatou Diallo, Mamadou Korka Diallo, Rick Thyne, Modi Oury Diallo, Alpha Omar Diallo

Synopsis: Part of HBO's Life Through Your Lens series, this documentary from director Micah Schaffer juxtaposes the stories of Guinean Amadou Diallo and American Jesse Thyne, two men who seem unrelated, but whose lives were surprisingly intertwined. Diallo was the victim of an infamous fatal shooting by New Read More

Thru the Moebius Strip

Actors: Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Mark Hamill, Jean Simmons, Michael Dorn, Peri Gilpen

Howl's Moving Castle

Actors: Chieko Baisho, Emily Mortimer, Christian Bale, Takuya Kimura, Akihiro Miwa, Lauren Bacall, Tatsuya Gasyuin, Billy Crystal, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Josh Hutcherson, Jean Simmons

Synopsis: Hayao Miyazaki, the Japanese animation director who wowed audiences worldwide with his award-winning film Spirited Away, brings another visually spectacular tale of imagination to the screen. Sophie is an 18-year-old girl who toils in the hat shop opened years ago by her late father. Often Read More

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

Actors: Ming-Na Wen, Alec Baldwin, Ving Rhames, Steve Buscemi, Peri Gilpin, Donald Sutherland, James Woods

Synopsis: The first feature-length motion picture to use computer-generated imagery to create not only effects, props, and environments but also the human cast members themselves, this lavish science-fiction adventure follows closely on the heels of another video game-based film, Tomb Raider (2001). Ming-Na Read More

On Cukor

Synopsis: Film director George Cukor (1899-1983) gets the American Masters treatment in this documentary from the acclaimed PBS series. Few directors from Hollywood's Golden Age can match the list of Cukor's achievements, which included What Price Hollywood, David Copperfield, Camille, Holiday, The Read More

A Secret Affair

Actors: Janine Turner, Paudge Behan, Fionnula Flanagan, Robert Mailhouse, Gia Carides

Synopsis: Vanessa Stewart (Janine Turner) has the soul of an artist, but her business tycoon father insists that she follow in his footsteps. As a result, Vanessa convinces herself that she wants to be a globetrotting executive, and also that she truly loves the man to whom she is engaged. But while in Read More

Her Own Rules

Actors: Melissa Gilbert, Jean Simmons, Jeremy Sheffield, Britta Smith

Synopsis: Though she has realized a measure of success in her career, Meredith Sanders (Melissa Gilbert) has never found true happiness. Haunted by fragmentary memories of her childhood, she returns to England, the first time she has set foot in native country since being adopted and brought to the United Read More

Mysteries of the Bible: Heaven & Hell

Synopsis: Mysteries of the Bible: Heaven and Hell investigates what the Bible says about Heaven and Hell and the afterlife. This information is then analyzed to reveal what people believe about sin, punishment, and redemption. The viewpoints of some leading historians and philosophers are included. Viewers Read More

Mysteries of the Bible: The Last Supper

Synopsis: This 50-minute video features top Biblical scholars and historians debating the significance of Jesus' last symposium with his disciples. Hosted by Richard Kiley and Jean Simmons, and filmed and dramatized at authentic locations throughout the Holy Land and the Middle East, this video investigates Read More

How to Make an American Quilt

Actors: Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Maya Angelou, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Nelligan, Jean Simmons

Synopsis: A young woman at a crossroads in her life finds herself receiving plenty of advice from her older and wiser counterparts in this drama. Finn Dodd (Winona Ryder) is a graduate student trying to finish up her doctoral thesis on women's folk art while deciding if she should marry her fiancé Sam (Dermot Mulroney Read More

Mysteries of the Bible: The Bible's Greatest Secrets

Synopsis: This video is part of a series on Bible stories that originally appeared on A&E television. The program focuses on the meaning of the stories and their relevance to modern-day Christianity. This episode looks at the work of archeologists in the Holy Land, as they look for physical artifacts and Read More

Daisies in December

Actors: Joss Ackland, Jean Simmons

Synopsis: An unlikely romance blossoms at a seaside home in this British made-for-television movie. Joss Ackland stars as Gerald Carmody, an irascible stockbroker who doesn't expect much from his rest at a senior citizen-populated hotel. When he meets Katherine Palmer (Jean Simmons) though, his spirits pick Read More

Mysteries of the Bible: Joseph - Master of Dreams

Synopsis: Joseph: Master of Dreams tells the Old Testament story of Joseph, who receives from his father Jacob a coat of many colors and the title of favorite son. The video follows the arduous journey of this prophetic young man sold into slavery by his own brothers, who are jealous and frightened of his Read More

The Execution of Jesus

Synopsis: From the Mysteries of the Bible series comes this documentary about the events leading up to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. You will hear from historians, both secular and religious, and archaeologists who give a detailed account of the last days of Christ, from His entrance into the Temple to Read More

Mysteries of the Bible: Jesus - Holy Child

Synopsis: This program is part of a series that investigates some of the mysteries of the Bible. In this episode, narrated by Richard Kiley and Jean Simmons, the investigation turns to the nativity of the Christ child. The program inquires into the particulars, including the actual date and place of the Read More

Mysteries of the Bible: Abraham - One Man, One God

Synopsis: This 50-minute video tells all about the life and enduring faith of Abraham. Learn why Christians, Jews and others revere the purity of Abraham's belief that God is always loving and would always stand by him. Scholars are interviewed who have spent their professional lives searching for proof Read More

Mysteries of the Bible: King David - Poet Warrior

Ancient Mysteries: Who Wrote The Bible?, Part 1 - The Old Testament

Ancient Mysteries: Who Wrote The Bible?, Part 2 - The New Testament

Mysteries of the Bible: The Apocalypse - The Puzzle of Revelation

Synopsis: Revelations is one of the most cryptic and powerfully written books of the Bible. It foretells that the world will end violently. Scholars, mystics, and laymen study this final book of the Bible and try to interpret the series of numbers, beasts, and warnings. A&E presents this documentary, filmed Read More

Mysteries of the Bible: The Bible's Greatest Heroes

Synopsis: This video is part of a series that investigates some of the best-known stories in the Bible. Are the mythical stories also factual? Archeologists and scholars have gathered a wealth of information which they share with the viewer. This program looks at the lives of four important Bible heroes Read More

Dark Shadows the Revival Series, Episode 06

Dark Shadows the Revival Series, Episode 05

Dark Shadows the Revival Series, Episode 04

Dark Shadows the Revival Series, Episode 02

Dark Shadows the Revival Series [TV Series]

Actors: Ben Cross, Joanna Going

Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Drumhead

Synopsis: The McCarthy era lives again when a Klingon spy is discovered on board the Enterprise. Suspecting that a sinister conspiracy is afoot, visiting Federation Admiral Norah Satie (Jean Simmons) embarks upon a witch hunt, turning everyone against each other. Things reach the hysteria stage when Read More

Dark Shadows the Revival Series, Episode 03

Dark Shadows the Revival Series, Episode 07

Dark Shadows the Revival Series, Episode 01

Dark Shadows the Revival Series, Episode 10

Dark Shadows the Revival Series, Episode 11

Dark Shadows the Revival Series, Episode 12

Dark Shadows the Revival Series, Episode 09

Dark Shadows the Revival Series, Episode 08

Laker Girls

Actors: Alexandra Paul, Shari Shattuck, Jean Simmons, Tina Yothers

Synopsis: Laker Girls adheres slavishly to the formula established by those "Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders" TV movies of a decade or so ago. We follow the progress of three aspirants (Tina Yothers, Paris Vaughn and Alexandra Paul) for the cheerleading squad of the Los Angeles Lakers. There's the standard "den Read More

People Like Us

Actors: Dennis Farina, Ben Gazzara, Eva Marie Saint

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Dominick Dunne (who virtually disowned the project the minute it hit the small screen), People Like Us is a 2-part, 4-hour TV movie. Ben Gazzara plays a writer whose daughter has been murdered (much like Dunne himself). Upset that the killer's sentence is all too short, Gazzara Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall, Part One

Synopsis: In the first episode of Murder She Wrote's two-part Season Five finale, Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) crosses swords with rival mystery writer Eudora McVeigh Shipton (Jean Simmons). Envious that Jessica's star has risen while hers has fallen, Eudora publicly declares that she intends to Read More

The Dawning

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Rebecca Pidgeon, Jean Simmons, Trevor Howard, Tara Mac Gowran

Synopsis: A young woman in her late teens is caught up in the political unrest of Southern Ireland in the 1920s in this drama that features an excellent cast. Nancy (Rebecca Pidgeon) befriends the pistol packing stranger she dubs Cassius (Anthony Hopkins) while he hides in a beach hut. He talks the naive Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall, Part Two

Synopsis: In the conclusion of Murder She Wrote's two-part Season Five finale, Jessica (Angela Lansbury) is still contending with her witchy rival mystery writer Eudora McVeigh Shipton (Jean Simmons). Although the duplicitous Eudora confesses that she has stolen the notes for Jessica's latest novel, she Read More

Great Expectations

Actors: Anthony Calf

Synopsis: Produced for British television, this multipart adaptation of Dickens' Great Expectations stars Anthony Hopkins as the mysterious convict Magwich, who secretly finances the education and entree into society of young Pip. With 6 hours at its disposal, this version is able to cover the length and Read More

Going Undercover

Actors: Chris Lemmon, Jean Simmons, Lea Thompson, Nancy Cartwright, Mills Watson

Synopsis: A bungling gumshoe tries hard to affect a hard-boiled demeanor, despite the fact that his latest assignment is to protect the bratty young heiress to a fortune in this lively spoof of detective movies. Henry Brilliant, Private Eye, is no stranger to the ways of the wealthy as he too comes from a Read More

Inherit the Wind

Synopsis: This courtroom drama was inspired by the notorious Scopes trial of 1925 concerning the teaching of Darwinism in public schools. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Undercover

A Friendship in Vienna

Synopsis: Set in Vienna during the German occupation, this made-for-cable television drama centers on the friendship between a Jewish girl and the young Christian who helps her escape. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love

Actors: Gene Barry, Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Katt, Jean Simmons

Synopsis: The Case of the Lost Love was the fourth of the Perry Mason TV movies of the 1980s. Raymond Burr plays Mason (you're surprised?), who while out of town at a lawyer's conference is reunited with Jean Simmons, his lady friend of 30 years past. Simmons has come up in the world, and is about to be Read More

North and South, Book II

Actors: Kirstie Alley

Synopsis: This six-part, 12-hour miniseries was a sequel to the 1985 "mini" North and South, and like its predecessor it was based on a novel by John Jakes (Love and War). In the tradition of The Birth of a Nation (but without the negative racist content), North and South, Book III followed the fortunes of Read More

Yellow Pages

Actors: Chris Lemmon, Jean Simmons, Lea Thompson, Viveca Lindfors

Synopsis: In this comic thriller, wealthy Maxine de la Hunt (Jean Simmons) is worried about what might happen to her step-daughter Marigold (Lea Thompson) as she goes on vacation in Denmark. So Maxine hires private detective Henry Brilliant (Chris Lemmon) to watch over Marigold. However, Brilliant hardly Read More

North and South

Actors: Kirstie Alley

Synopsis: The expensively mounted miniseries North and South was originally telecast in six two-hour installments between November 3 and 10, 1985. Four screenwriters--Douglas Heyes, Paul F. Edwards, Kathleen A. Shelley, Patricia Green--were called upon to fashion a workable script from John Jakes' sprawling Read More

Midas Valley

Actors: James Read, Shanna Reed

Synopsis: Midas Valley might just as well have been titled Falcon Crest Goes to Silicon Valley. The heroes are a pair of handsome young computer executives, played by James Read and Brent Cullen. The boys' most formidable rival is their onetime mentor, electronics mogul Robert Stack. Relationships between Read More

A Moment in Time

Synopsis: As they become deeply involved in a romance, a couple learn that love takes time and patience. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

The Thorn Birds

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Barbara Stanwyck, Christopher Plummer, Bryan Brown

Synopsis: This mammoth TV miniseries, based on the best-selling novel by Colleen McCullough, proved to be a ratings bonanza; indeed, its viewership was surpassed only by the 1978 blockbuster Roots. Set in Australia, the story covers 42 years in the life of Ralph de Bricassart (Richard Chamberlain), a Roman Read More

Golden Gate

Actors: Richard Kiley

Synopsis: Golden Gate revolves around a San Francisco-based newspaper empire run by a family named Kingsley (it could just as well have been "Kane," since the family was based on you-know-what Frisco-based publishing dynasty). Richard Kiley, the cold and commanding Kingsley patriarch, suffers a heart Read More

A Small Killing

Synopsis: A policeman masquerades as a homeless alcoholic and teams up with a bag lady, who is really a college professor, to bring a drug lord's assassin to justice in this memorable made-for-television drama. Along the way, the two disparate partners find themselves falling in love. The story is based Read More

Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls

Synopsis: This is the made-for-TV version of the romantic drama that chronicles the exploits of a group of glamorous women caught up in the entertainment industry. This version contains material author Jacqueline Susann omitted from her original novel. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Beggarman, Thief

Actors: Jean Simmons, Glenn Ford, Lynn Redgrave, Tovah Feldshuh, Andrew Stevens

Synopsis: Beggarman, Thief is the 4-hour sequel to the ratings-busting miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man; both productions were based on the works of novelist Irwin Shaw. For the purposes of the sequel, a new member of the Jordache clan is introduced: filmmaker Gretchen Jordache Burke, played by Jean Simmons. Read More

Dominique Is Dead

Actors: Cliff Robertson, Jean Simmons, Simon Ward, Jenny Agutter, Ron Moody

Synopsis: The wife of a greedy Yankee entrepreneur comes back to haunt him after he scares her to death in this thriller. He is after her fortune and must try several times before he succeeds. Because she is mentally exhausted from being frightened all the time, she commits suicide. The dastardly husband Read More

The Dain Curse

Synopsis: Dashiell Hammett's money-grubbing detective Hamilton Nash is on the case in this mystery set in 1928. This time he is looking into the suspicious suicide of a prominent millionaire and trying to recover purloined diamonds that are reportedly cursed. This version of the tale was released as Read More

Mr. Sycamore

Actors: Jason Robards, Jr., Sandy Dennis, Jean Simmons, Robert Easton, Mark Miller

Synopsis: A meek and mild mailman decides that the only way to escape the constant nagging of his battle-ax of a wife is to turn himself into the title tree in this off-beat fantasy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Say Hello to Yesterday

Actors: Jean Simmons, Leonard Whiting

Synopsis: Jean Simmons is a housewife on a brief shopping trip to London. A young, unemployed lout (Leonard Whiting) who, seeing her on the inbound train, sets his sights on her, and tries to get a response from her as he chases her all over town. At one point desperate, he steals her purse so that he will Read More

The Happy Ending

Actors: Jean Simmons, John Forsythe, Lloyd Bridges, Teresa Wright, Dick Shawn

Synopsis: Suburban housewives console themselves with pills and alcohol to tolerate their spouses' infidelities in The Happy Ending. Mary Wilson (Jean Simmons) is married to Fred (John Forsythe) and she prepares for their 16th wedding-anniversary party with tranquilizers and booze. The guests are clients of Read More

Heidi

Actors: Maximilian Schell, Jean Simmons

Synopsis: Made-for-television adaptation of Johanna Spyri's classic children's tale about an orphaned girl who goes to live with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps. ~ Nicole Gagne, All Movie Guide Read More

Rough Night in Jericho

Actors: Dean Martin, George Peppard, Jean Simmons, John McIntire, Slim Pickens

Synopsis: This typical western tale of beleaguered townsfolk mustering up the courage to fight the villain that controls their town with an iron fist features atypically bloody violence. Supposedly the top peacekeeper in the frontier town of Jericho, Sheriff Alex Flood (Dean Martin) is actually a ruthless Read More

Divorce American Style

Actors: Dick Van Dyke, Debbie Reynolds, Jason Robards, Jr., Jean Simmons, Van Johnson

Synopsis: An unhappy couple discover breaking up really is hard to do in this satiric comedy. Richard Harmon (Dick Van Dyke) and his wife, Barbara (Debbie Reynolds), are a typical married couple in American Suburbia -- which is to say they're not very happy with each other. After 15 years together, Richard Read More

Soldier in Love

Synopsis: This 17th-century British costume drama is taken from the life of the first Duke of Marlborough, John Churchill. Originally he and his wife Sarah were held in high esteem by Queen Anne. But when they involved themselves in political intrigue, they were socially and financially ruined. ~ Sandra Read More

Mister Buddwing

Actors: James Garner, Jean Simmons, Suzanne Pleshette, Katharine Ross, Angela Lansbury

Synopsis: James Garner plays a man who awakens in Central Park with no memories at all. This drama chronicles his search for his identity. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Life at the Top

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Jean Simmons, Honor Blackman, Michael Craig, Donald Wolfit

Synopsis: Life at the Top is a belated sequel to Room at the Top, John Blaine's "angry young man" British novel that was made into a film in 1959. Laurence Harvey is back as Joe Lampton, the man-on-the-rise protagonist who in Room had given up true love in favor of a career-boosting (and antiseptic) Read More

Crazier Than Cotton

Synopsis: This 60-minute TV drama stars Bradford Dillman as Matt, a 34-year-old sculptor. Spectacularly unsuccessful, Matt knows he's hit rock bottom when he has to borrow money from his girlfriend in order to attend his father's funeral. As he stands at graveside, Matt vows to do something "worthwhile" Read More

All the Way Home

Actors: Jean Simmons, Robert Preston, Pat Hingle, Aline MacMahon, Thomas Chalmers

Synopsis: A seven year old and his mother cope with his father's death in an auto accident. His grieving mother is in denial, and the rush of well-meaning relatives fails to help the situation. The boy observes the reaction of adults to the death of his father, taking refuge in the world and games of Read More

The Grass Is Greener

Actors: Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Moray Watson

Synopsis: A rousing chorus of Noël Coward's "Stately Homes of England" is heard as the opening titles of The Grass Is Greener fade into several stock shots of those stately homes. One of these mansions is owned by British earl Victor Rhyall (Cary Grant), who opens his home to American tourists in order to Read More

Spartacus

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov

Synopsis: Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) is a rebellious slave purchased by Lentulus Batiatus (Peter Ustinov), owner of a school for gladiators. For the entertainment of corrupt Roman senator Marcus Licinius Crassus (Laurence Olivier), Batiatus' gladiators are to stage a fight to the death. On the night before Read More

Elmer Gantry

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Dean Jagger, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley Jones

Synopsis: Elmer Gantry (Burt Lancaster), a drunken, dishonest street preacher allegedly patterned on Billy Sunday, wrangles a job with the travelling tent ministry conducted by Sister Sharon Falconer (Jean Simmons). Thanks to Gantry's enthusiastic hellfire-and-brimstone sermons, Siste