Jeff Beal Filmography

Appaloosa

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ed Harris, Viggo Mortensen, Renée Zellweger, Jeremy Irons, Timothy Spall, Lance Henriksen

Synopsis: Upon drifting into a troubled Western outpost and discovering that the helpless locals are being terrorized by a ruthless rancher and his brutish hired hands, two rugged, straight-shooting peacemakers decide to stick around and put things right in this Western adapted from the novel by Robert B. Read More

Ping Pong Playa

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jimmy Tsai, Smith Cho, Khary Payton, Roger Fan, Peter Paige, Jim Lau, Elizabeth Sung

Synopsis: An aimless young Chinese-American finds his hoop dreams unexpectedly sidelined when his parents are injured in an accident and he is forced to give ping-pong lessons in the fiction feature debut of acclaimed documentary filmmaker Jessica Yu (In the Realms of the Unreal). Christopher "C-dub" Wang (Jimmy Tsai Read More

Spirit of the Marathon

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Dick Beardsley, Sara Mae Berman, Paula Radcliffe, Bill Rodgers, Frank Shorter

Synopsis: Jon Dunham and Mark Jonathan Harris strive to create the definitive feature-length marathon film by focusing on the unique stories of five runners competing in the famed Chicago Marathon. Filmed on four continents, the documentary focuses on the remarkable perseverance and personal triumphs Read More

Protagonist

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Hans Joachim-Klein, Mark Pierpont, Joe Loya, Mark Salzman

Synopsis: Academy-award winning filmmaker Jessica Yu offers an unusual look at the simultaneous diversity and commonality of four very different men in this documentary. In Protagonist, Yu recalls the structural format of the ancient Greek playwright Euripides -- whose stories were often marked by human Read More

The Situation

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Connie Nielsen, Damian Lewis, Mido Hamada, John Stattery, Tom McCarthy

Synopsis: The war in Iraq provides the backdrop for this story of personal and political chaos from British filmmaker Philip Haas. Anna (Connie Nielsen) is an American journalist covering the fighting in Iraq in 2003. American forces have removed Saddam Hussein from power, but violence remains widespread on Read More

The Valley of Light

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Chris Klein, Gretchen Mol, Zach Mills, Jay O. Sanders, Jeff Perry

Synopsis: Though filmed in Oregon, this Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation is set in the American South, several months after the end of WW2. Decorated war hero Noah (Chris Klein) returns home to find his parents dead, his brother Travis (Jackson Rathbone) in prison, and his family farm in the hands of Read More

The Pixar Story

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Brad Bird, Loren Carpenter, Ed Catmull, Diane Disney Miller, Roy Edward Disney

Synopsis: Famed cartoonist Ub Iwerks's granddaughter Leslie turns the camera lens on the artists and storytellers behind some of the most widely hailed animated films of the modern era in the in-depth documentary The Pixar Story. Featuring such key members as John Lasseter, Steve Jobs, and George Lucas, the Read More

The Water Is Wide

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jeff Hephner, Frank Langella, Alfre Woodard, Julianne Nicholson, James Murtaugh

Synopsis: This made-for-TV movie is a remake of the theatrical feature Conrack, using the original title of the source novel by Pat Conroy. Set in 1969, The Water Is Wide stars Jeff Hephner as Conroy, an idealistic young teacher whose first assignment is at a run-down school located on Yamacraw Island in Read More

Ugly Betty [TV Series]

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: One of the few bona fide hits of the 2006-2007 TV season, the hour-long serialized dramedy Ugly Betty was based on the internationally popular Colombian telenovela Yo Soy Betty, la Fea ("I Am Betty, the Ugly"), with a few dashes of the recent theatrical film The Devil Wears Prada. Decked out in Read More

Jesse Stone: Night Passage

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Tom Selleck

Synopsis: Tom Selleck returns to the role of small-town police chief Jesse Stone in this prequel to the CBS TV movie Stone Cold. Having been booted from the LAPD for drunkenness (brought on by his grief over his wife's death), Stone heads to tiny Paradise, Massachussetts, where through the auspices of local Read More

He Was a Quiet Man

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Christian Slater, Elisha Cuthbert, William H. Macy

Synopsis: A man at the end of his emotional rope finally explodes, but not in a way anyone would have expected in this offbeat independent drama. Bob Maconel (Christian Slater) is a middle-aged nebbish working in an office building where few people know who he is and fewer still care. Bob has developed a Read More

Pinochet's Last Stand

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Derek Jacobi, Peter Capaldi, Phyllida Law, Jessica Stevenson

Emmanuel's Gift

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Emmanuel Ofusu Yeboah

Synopsis: While being born with physical handicaps presents challenges no matter where you're born or under what economic circumstances, in many respects it's even more difficult when you're raised in Ghana, a Third World nation where much of the country's population lives in severe poverty and conventional Read More

Medium [TV Series]

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: A suburban mom bestowed with the gift of second sight works as a part-time consultant to the district attorney's office in this series starring Emmy Award-winning actress Patricia Arquette and inspired by the true-life story of research medium Allison DuBois. Allison (Arquette) can speak with the Read More

The Engagement Ring

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Patricia Heaton, Lainie Kazan, Tony Lo Bianco, Chuck Shamata, David Hunt, Vincent Spano

Synopsis: Originally titled Echoes, this made-for-cable drama is set in Napa Valley wine country, sometime in the 1980s. Patricia Heaton (who also produced the film) stars as Sara, the daughter of strong-willed vineyard owner Alicia Anselmi (Lainie Kazan). Hoping to arrange a merger between Alicia and rival Read More

Monk: Season 04

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Tony Shalhoub, Traylor Howard, Ted Levine, Jason Gray-Stanford

Synopsis: Season Four of Monk offers 16 new episodes (and a bonus) delineating the adventures of obsessive-compulsive detective Adrian Monk (Tony Shalhoub). Functioning as Monk's erstwhile caregiver and assistant this season is Traylor Howard as Valerie Teeger, who had taken over from our hero's previous Read More

In the Realms of the Unreal

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Larry Pine, Dakota Fanning

Synopsis: Award-winning short filmmaker Jessica Yu makes her feature-length debut with In the Realms of the Unreal, a documentary about outsider artist Henry Darger. Born in 1892, Darger lived in Chicago and worked as a janitor for most of his life. When he died in 1972, his landlord found his life's work Read More

The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: M. Night Shyamalan

Synopsis: Everyone has a skeleton or two in his or her closet, but what about the director behind some of the most successful thrillers ever to hit the silver screen? Could M. Night Shyamalan be hiding a deep, dark secret that drives his macabre cinematic vision? Now viewers will be able to find out Read More

Ike: Countdown to D-Day

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Timothy Bottoms, Gerald McRaney, James Remar, Tom Selleck

Synopsis: Tom Selleck stars as General Dwight D. Eisenhower in the television film Ike: Countdown to D-Day. The film follows the General in the three months leading up to the decisive invasion that would turn the tide of World War II toward the Allied powers. The film opens with Winston Churchill (Ian Mune) Read More

Back When We Were Grownups

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Blythe Danner, Faye Dunaway, Peter Fonda, Jack Palance

Synopsis: Adapted from the novel by Anne Tyler, the made-for-TV "Hallmark Hall of Fame" presentation Back When We Were Grownups stars Blythe Danner as 53-year-old Baltimore widow Rebecca Davitch. Having long since given up her dreams of college to get married and raise a family, and also having abandoned Read More

It Must Be Love

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: The made-for-TV It Must be Love is based on "Rediscovered Love", a chapter in Meant to Be, a book by marital-advice columnists Barry Vissell and Joyce Vissell. Both film and chapter were inspired by the true story of Nancy and Leo Whitmore, a divorce-bound couple who learned the hard way how to Read More

The Wool Cap

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: William H. Macy, Keke Palmer, Don Rickles, Ned Beatty, Catherine O'Hara

Synopsis: Created for the TNT television network, The Wool Cap is a remake of the 1962 film Gigot, which was written by and starred the legendary Jackie Gleason. This time around, it's Academy Award-nominee and Emmy winner William H. Macy (Fargo) handling the lead role, as well as teleplay and producer Read More

Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Martin Sheen

Synopsis: Shortly after graduating from the University of California at Santa Barbara, filmmaker Tom Peosay and his wife Sue (an Asian Studies major) set out on a tour of Asia that culminated in an extended stay in the Chinese-occupied nation of Tibet. With that formative visit, the Peosays became actively Read More

No Good Deed

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Milla Jovovich, Stellan Skarsgård, Doug Hutchison, Joss Ackland, Grace Zabriskie

Synopsis: Based on a story of the same name by Dashiell Hammett, the crime thriller The House on Turk Street was directed by veteran filmmaker Bob Rafelson. Cello-playing cop Jack Friar (Samuel L. Jackson) searches for a teenage runaway on Turk Street and ends up in the home of an elderly couple (Joss Read More

12 Mile Road

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Tom Selleck, Maggie Grace, Wendy Crewson, Anna Gunn, Tegan Moss

Synopsis: After several rocky years, divorced farmer Stephen Landis (Tom Selleck) seems to have gotten his life together: His business is thriving, and his personal life has found stability and support in the form of his current girlfriend, Leah (Anna Gunn), and her teenaged daughter, Roxanne (Tegan Moss). Read More

Carnivàle [TV Series]

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: This calculatedly bizarre 12-episode cable drama series incorporated elements from Something Wicked This Way Comes, the Tod Browning film Freaks, and the entire David Lynch oeuvre. Set in America's Dust Bowl in 1934, the series chronicled the fortunes of a seedy carnival/burlesque troupe as it Read More

Joe and Max

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Leonard Roberts, Til Schweiger, Peta Wilson, John Toles-Bey

Synopsis: In the 1930s and '40s, the rivalry between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling was one of the greatest in the history of professional boxing. Louis was one of the first African-Americans to win the Heavyweight championship, and he was a great symbol of hope and achievement for blacks before the advent of Read More

Secret Life of Zoey

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Mia Farrow, Cliff De Young, Julia Whelan, Andrew McCarthy, Caroline Aaron

Synopsis: Originally titled On the Edge, this Lifetime cable network feature film is the story of Zoey Carter (Julia Whelan), the superachieving "perfect" daughter of professional couple Marcia and Larry Carter (Mia Farrow and Cliff De Young). Traumatized by her parents' divorce, Zoey begins experimenting Read More

Door to Door

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Door to Door is the inspirational true story of a man who refused to let severe physical debilitation get in the way of his life's goal. William H. Macy (who also co-wrote the script) stars as Bill Porter, a Portland, OR, native born with cerebral palsy. Despite his spastic walk and oddly shaped Read More

No Distance Too Far

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Conviction

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Omar Epps

Synopsis: Conviction is a biopic about Carl Upchurch, a hardcore felon who managed to educate himself and developed a spiritual awakening during one of his numerous stints inside prison. He began to spread his message to other inmates, and soon he was asked to help mediate problems between some of the most Read More

A Gentleman's Game

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Mason Gamble, Gary Sinise, Philip Baker Hall, Dylan Baker, Henry Simmons

Synopsis: A boy learns more than he expects when he tries to improve his golf game in this drama. Timmy Price (Mason Gamble) is a 12-year-old boy who has begun to display a precocious talent for golf. Hoping to hone his son's interest in the game, Timmy's father, Mr. Price (Dylan Baker), arranges for his Read More

Pollock

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Amy Madigan, Jennifer Connelly, Jeffrey Tambor

Synopsis: Artist Jackson Pollock revolutionized American painting in the 1940's with his exciting abstract canvases that used dripped and splattered paint in a manner at once excitingly physical and structurally intelligent. While Pollock became a heroic figure in the art world, his private life was nothing Read More

The Passion of Ayn Rand

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Helen Mirren, Eric Stoltz, Julie Delpy, Peter Fonda, Tom McCamus

Synopsis: The private life of celebrated author and philosopher Ayn Rand takes center stage in this film produced for the Showtime cable network. In 1951, Ayn Rand (Helen Mirren) is a best-selling author and celebrated thinker when she meets Nathaniel Branden (Eric Stoltz) and his friend Barbara (Julie Delpy Read More

Family Law [TV Series]

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Kathleen Quinlan, Julie Warner, Christopher McDonald, Dixie Carter

Mambo Café

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Danny Aiello, Paul Rodriguez, Rosanna de Soto, Thalia

Synopsis: In this comedy, Nydia (Thalia) was born in New York City to a family of Puerto Rican immigrants who run a restaurant. Nydia is on summer vacation after her freshman year at Boston University, and comes home to discover things are not well with the family business; customers have not been coming Read More

L.A. Doctors [TV Series]

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ken Olin, Matt Craven, Rick Roberts, Sheryl Lee, Joseph Ashton

Synopsis: This TV medical drama examines egos and ethics as a trio of doctors enter private practice. Doctors Roger Cattan (Ken Olin), Tim Lonner (Matt Craven), and Evan Newman (Rick Roberts) recruit Dr. Sarah Church (Sheryl Lee) to join their team, and they're in business -- occupying a posh office with Read More

From the Earth to the Moon, Part 9: For Miles and Miles

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: President John F. Kennedy issued the challenge to America in a speech to Congress in 1961: Land a man on the moon within the decade. This HBO mini-series, produced by Tom Hanks, chronicles the story of NASA's efforts to carry out the vision. Episode nine focuses on astronaut Alan Shephard. After Read More

Lies He Told

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Gary Cole, Karen Sillas, Ron Lea, Nigel Bennett, Linda Sorenson

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Lies He Told is based on one of those true stories that most producers would reject outright as ludicrous and impossible were it offered as fiction. Feeling confined by his marriage to wife Cindy (Teddi Siddall) and his family and military responsibilities, USAF Sgt. Major Davis Read More

Undue Influence

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Brian Dennehy, Patricia Richardson, Jean Smart, Alan Rosenberg, Joe Grifasi

Synopsis: Just in case the title didn't spill the beans, this made-for-TV nail-biter was based on a novel by Steve Martini. In the midst of a bitter child-custody battle with her former husband, Jack (Richard Masur), Laurel Vega (Patricia Richardson) is accused of murdering Jack's new, pregnant wife Read More

Power 98

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

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

Love Is All There Is

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Lainie Kazan, Joseph Bologna, Barbara Carrera, Paul Sorvino, Renée Taylor, Angelina Jolie, Nathaniel Marston

Synopsis: Romeo and Juliet gets updated -- and played for laughs -- in this romantic comedy set in the City Island section of the Bronx. Mike and Sadie Cappamezza (Joseph Bologna and Lainie Kazan) are a hard-working couple who have run a family-style Italian restaurant for years. The Cappamezzas' fiercest Read More

Guy

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Vincent D'Onofrio, Hope Davis, Kimber Riddle, Diane Salinger, Richard Portnow

Synopsis: Simply switch on the nightly news and you will see that the media has become increasingly intrusive into the lives of people involved in extraordinary circumstances. What is the true impact of the omnipresent camera upon those circumstances? How does it change the existence of those living beneath Read More

Ring of Steel

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Robert Chapin, Carol Alt, Joe Don Baker, Gary Kasper, Darlene Vogel

Synopsis: The "Ring of Steel" is a bizarre nightclub where nightly gladiatorial contests are held. The patrons are the rich and decadent, people who have become bored with the usual sports lineup and have developed a taste for blood. An Olympic fencer, banned from the sport after accidentally killing a man Read More

The Fence

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Billy Wirth, Erica Gimpel, Marc Alaimo, Paul Benjamin, Lorenzo Clemons

Synopsis: This drama quietly comments upon urban American life while depicting the sad life of a young man gone astray who tries to reclaim his life and fails. Terry Griff has just been released from prison after serving 13 years for stabbing his abusive father in self-defense and subsequently stabbing a Read More

Showdown

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Matt LeBlanc

Synopsis: Fans of the Friends television series' co-star Matt LeBlanc may be particularly interested in this film, one of the amiable hunk's first cinematic efforts. In the story, he plays the nephew of Vinny Pallazzo (Jay Acovone), a man who has retired from the mob and changed coasts, from New York to Read More

Cheap Shots

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Louis Zorich, David Patrick Kelly, Mary Louise Wilson, Michael Twaine, Clarke Gordon

Synopsis: The owner of a sleazy hotel, along with his friend, decides to videotape a room that is rented by a sexually active couple. Inadvertently recording their murders, the men are soon faced with a dilemma as the killers come looking for the tape. This unrated feature includes profanity, sexual Read More