Jill ClayburghFilmography

Dirty Sexy Money: Season 02

Actors: Peter Krause, Donald Sutherland, William Baldwin, Natalie Zea, Glenn Fitzgerald

Dirty Sexy Money: Season 01

Actors: Peter Krause, Donald Sutherland, William Baldwin, Natalie Zea, Glenn Fitzgerald

Running With Scissors

Actors: Annette Bening, Brian Cox, Joseph Fiennes, Evan Rachel Wood, Alec Baldwin

Synopsis: Screen newcomer Joseph Cross portrays Augusten Burroughs in director Ryan Murphy's film adaptation of author Burroughs' best-selling personal memoir of the same name. A child of the 1970s whose alcoholic father, Norman (Alec Baldwin), and delusional, unpublished poet mother, Deirdre (Annette Bening Read More

Nip/Tuck: Naomi Gaines

Phenomenon II

Synopsis: Made for television, Phenomenon II is not so much as sequel to the theatrical feature Phenomenon as it is a remake--and as such, it is rather obvious that the film is the pilot for a proposed TV series. Christopher Shyer stars as California mechanic George Malley, who after being literally struck Read More

Never Again

Actors: Jeffrey Tambor, Jill Clayburgh, Michael McKean, Caroline Aaron, Sandy Duncan

Synopsis: Two singles in their early fifties who are convinced love has passed them by find each other -- and then try to figure out what to do next -- in this romantic comedy. Grace Minor (Jill Clayburgh) is a social worker whose personal life has hit the skids. Prompted by her friends Natasha (Sandy Duncan Read More

Ally McBeal: The Wedding

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Peter MacNicol, Greg Germann, Lucy Liu, Portia de Rossi, Jane Krakowski, Lisa Nicole Carson, Vonda Shepard, Robert Downey, Jr., James LeGros

Ally McBeal: Home Again

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Peter MacNicol, Greg Germann, Lucy Liu, Portia de Rossi, Jane Krakowski, Lisa Nicole Carson, Vonda Shepard, Robert Downey, Jr., James LeGros

Falling

Actors: Lee Williams, Angela Bettis, Koen de Bouw, Jill Clayburgh, Alice Krige

Ally McBeal: Troubled Water

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

Everything's Relative

Actors: Jeffrey Tambor, Jill Clayburgh, Kevin Rahm, Eric Schaeffer, Maureen Cassidy

Frasier: The Perfect Guy

Synopsis: Bill Campbell guest stars as Dr. Clint Webber, a new "call-in" radio personality hired by station KACL. Dr. Webber's slick, smooth delivery and flawless dispensation of advice pleases everyone at the station -- everyone, of course, but rival radio shrink Dr. Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammer), who Read More

Trinity

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, John Spencer, Tate Donovan, Justin Louis, Sam Trammell

Synopsis: In this TV family drama series set in NYC's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, Eileen McCallister (Jill Clayburgh) is the matriarch who oversees the working-class Irish-Catholic McCallister clan, along with her husband Simon McCallister (John Spencer). The focus is on their five grown children -- priest Read More

Law & Order: Divorce

Synopsis: Investigating the stabbing death of a psychologist, the detectives find themselves in the middle of a bitter domestic dispute between a man and wife, Catholics both. The key to the investigation is the fact that the victim worked closely with the Archdiocese to arrange annulments. Once all the Read More

Sins of the Mind

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

Going All the Way

Actors: Ben Affleck, Jill Clayburgh, Amy Locane, Rose McGowan, Lesley Ann Warren, Jeremy Davies, Rachel Weisz

Synopsis: Two men return home from the Army to find that their attitudes on life, love, and the town where they grew up have changed in this bittersweet coming-of-age drama. Sonny Burns (Jeremy Davies) and Gunner Casselman (Ben Affleck) are two guys from Indianapolis who were drafted during the Korean War. Read More

Fools Rush In

Actors: Matthew Perry, Salma Hayek, Jon Tenney, Carlos Gomez, Siobhan Fallon

Synopsis: Two relative strangers try to turn a one night stand into a marriage in this romantic comedy. Alex Whitman (Matthew Perry) is a designer from New York City who is sent to Las Vegas to supervise the construction of a nightclub that his firm has been hired to build. Alex is a straight-laced WASP-ish Read More

Crowned and Dangerous

Synopsis: At times it is hard to tell whether this made-for-TV movie is supposed to be taken seriously or if it is nothing more than a John Waters-style spoof. Yasmine Bleeth and Jill Clayburgh are respectively cast as ambitious beauty contestant Danielle Stevens and her even more ambitious mother Cathy. It Read More

When Innocence Is Lost

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Keri Russell, Roberta Maxwell, Charlotte Sullivan

Synopsis: In this socially-conscious drama, a single mother attempts to go to school. Because she places her daughter in daycare she finds herself in a legal custody battle. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Face on the Milk Carton

Actors: Kellie Martin, Jill Clayburgh, Edward Herrmann, Sharon Lawrence, Richard Masur

Synopsis: Director Waris Hussein delivers another made-for-television drama, this one based on the popular young-adult book by Caroline B. Cooney. The movie stars Kellie Martin as Janie, a teen who one day sees her own face on the back of a milk carton in an ad for missing children. The movie follows Janie Read More

Honor Thy Father and Mother: The True Story of the Menendez Murders

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, James Farentino, Billy Warlock, David Beron, Susan Blakely

Synopsis: For a couple of years during the mid '90s, the Menendez Brothers, Lyle and Erik, held the country's interest after they stood trial for cold-bloodedly killing their parents. The murders took place in L.A., where both victims had successful Hollywood careers. What shocked the nation was that the Read More

For the Love of Nancy

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, William Devane, Tracey Gold

Synopsis: Real-life recovering anorexic Tracey Gold stars in this emotional drama, which is more than your average disease-of-the-week fare. Based on the true story of college-student Nancy Walsh, this above-average TV-movie focuses on the family dynamic issues often found at the core of the eating disorder Read More

Firestorm: 72 Hours in Oakland

Actors: LeVar Burton, Jill Clayburgh, Michael Gross, Keith Coulouris, Galyn Gorg

Synopsis: In 1991, Oakland, California was ravaged by brush fires. This made-for-television feature tells some of the harrowing and heroic stories of those that fought and survived the blaze. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Naked in New York

Actors: Calista Flockhart, Eric Stoltz, Mary-Louise Parker, Ralph Macchio, Jill Clayburgh, Tony Curtis, Kathleen Turner, Timothy Dalton, Whoopi Goldberg

Synopsis: The sponsorship of noted filmmaker Martin Scorsese helped the novice filmmakers making this film get it produced and receive mainstream distribution. In addition, it features a vast number of appearances by well-known performers, who took an interest in the project, taking union minimum pay. In Read More

Rich in Love

Actors: Albert Finney, Jill Clayburgh, Kathryn Erbe, Kyle MacLachlan, Piper Laurie

Synopsis: The final installment of what might be called Bruce Beresford's southern trilogy (the other films being Crimes of the Heart and Driving Miss Daisy) examines a disintegrating Southern family. The Odom family live in an elegant mansion, where Warren (Albert Finney) is retired and spends the days Read More

Whispers in the Dark

Actors: Annabella Sciorra, Jamey Sheridan, Anthony LaPaglia, Jill Clayburgh, John Leguizamo, Deborah Kara Unger

Synopsis: When the sadomasochistic sexual fantasies of a Manhattan psychiatrist's disturbed patient begin leaking into the troubled doctor's subconscious, a heated love affair leads to a series of shocking murders in this erotic thriller from Off Limits director Christopher Crowe. The confessions of a Read More

Trial: The Price of Passion, Part 1

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Beverly D'Angelo, Peter Strauss

Synopsis: Based on Clifford Irving's novel Trial, this 2-part TV movie is set amongst the Texas elite. Peter Strauss plays Warren Blackburn, a brilliant but discredited trial lawyer. His career seems due for redemption when judge Louise Parker (Jill Clayburgh), formerly Blackburn's bitterest foe, appoints Read More

Trial: The Price of Passion, Part 2

Synopsis: A young lawyer finds himself in control during two major murder cases after his co-counsel suddenly dies in this drama. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Lincoln: I Want to Finish This Job, 1864

Synopsis: By the third year of the Civil War, personal and national tragedy had worn down President Lincoln. However, he focused on his job tenaciously, having a strong sense of history. This is the third of four programs in the Lincoln series, which originally aired on PBS. Produced and directed by Peter Read More

Lincoln: The Pivotal Year, 1863

Synopsis: President Abraham Lincoln leads the Union in the fight to end the awful bloodshed of the Civil War. The year is 1863. The president had a continuous struggle with the commanders of his army, and the bloodshed from the fighting at Antietam and Fredericksburg distressed him greatly. 1863 was the Read More

Lincoln: The Making of a President, 1860-1862

Synopsis: A shrewd politician, Abraham Lincoln had the intelligence, ambition, and principles to grow into his job as president. This is the first of four videos in the Lincoln series, which originally aired on PBS. Produced and directed by Peter W. Kunhardt, this program is narrated by renowned actor James Read More

Le Grand Pardon II

Actors: Roger Hanin, Richard Berry, Gérard Darmon, Christopher Walken, Jill Clayburgh

Synopsis: The war for control of a lucrative international drug trade provides the focus of this drama. The trouble begins when a kingpin is released after serving a ten year prison sentence and discovers that his relatives are engaging in a bloody battle for control. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Lincoln: Now He Belongs to the Ages, 1865

Synopsis: This video is the fourth installment of the Lincoln series, originally aired on PBS. This volume focuses on the last days and hours of Abraham Lincoln's life. Viewers watch as Lincoln's enemies plot their final revenge on the man they believed had dishonored their heritage. The video also reveals Read More

Reason for Living: The Jill Ireland Story

Synopsis: This biographical drama, based on the late actress's autobiography, chronicles her attempts to rescue her drug addicted son while simultaneously trying to overcome her life-threatening cancer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Unspeakable Acts

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Brad Davis, Bess Meyer, Gregory Sierra

Synopsis: Unspeakable Acts is the all-too-true story of a 1984 Dade County (Florida) sexual abuse case. Frank and Ilana Fuster (Gregory Sierra and Bess Meyer), who operate an upper-class day care center in a Florida suburb, are accused of committing appalling acts upon their young charges. The prosecution's Read More

Beyond the Ocean

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Treat Williams, Peter Riegert, Jill Clayburgh, Rebecca Glenn

Synopsis: As nearly as anyone can figure, this first-time directorial effort by the American actor Ben Gazzara was never released in the United States. It was produced in Italy, shot in England, and uses a large cast of big-name American actors. However, reviewers have said that its style owed a bit too Read More

Fear Stalk

Actors: Jill Clayburgh

Synopsis: Alexandra Maynard's (Jill Clayburgh) nightmare begins when her wallet is stolen by a psycho. In possession of Alexandra's identification and credit cards, her tormentor is able to follow her all over town, anticipating her every move. Adding to Alexandra's agony are those mocking phone calls from Read More

Who Gets the Friends?

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, James Farentino

Synopsis: Artist Jill Clayburgh is divorced by her doctor husband James Farentino. Despite the obvious fact that Farentino is a louse, the loyalties of the couple's friends are divided. Left with precious little money, Clayburgh tries to make a go of it as a single mother, but finds that many of her Read More

Shy People

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Barbara Hershey, Martha Plimpton, Merritt Butrick, John Philbin

Synopsis: Writer Jill Clayburgh wants to remove her coke-addicted daughter Martha Plimpton from the corruptive environs of Manhattan. When assigned to write an article about family trees, Clayburgh, with daughter in tow, heads to the bayous of Louisiana, there to seek out an elusive great-uncle--and, it is Read More

The Best of Chevy Chase

Synopsis: "Good evening, I'm Chevy Chase-and you're not!" Maybe no one would want to be Mr. Chase these days (not with his recent string of box-office flops), but in 1975 and 1976, the world was Chevy's oyster. Those are the years that he rose to stardom on NBC's Saturday Night Live, and these are the years Read More

Where Are the Children?

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Max Gail, Harley Cross, Elisabeth Harnois, Barnard Hughes, Elizabeth Wilson

Synopsis: In this melodrama that emphasizes emotion and a convoluted plot, Nancy Eldridge (Jill Clayburgh) has remarried after her divorce and is trying to recuperate from the tragedy of the deaths of her two children during her previous marriage. That means when her children by current husband Clay (Max Gail Read More

In Our Hands

Actors: Meryl Streep, Dr. Helen Caldicott, Benjamin Spock

Synopsis: This compilation documentary covers the massive anti-nuclear peace march held in New York City on June 12, 1982, including the preparations that led up to the march and interviews with concerned and knowledgeable people on the issue of peace, as well as Japanese survivors of the atomic bomb Read More

Miles to Go

Actors: Jill Clayburgh

Synopsis: Jill Clayburgh stars in Miles to Go as a loving wife and mother. She discovers that she has terminal cancer, and struggles to come to grips with this appalling information. Resigned to her fate, she decides she has to leave "something more than a memory" for her husband (Tom Skerritt) and her Read More

Hanna K.

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Jean Yanne, Gabriel Byrne, Mohammad Bakri, David Clennon

Synopsis: In this political drama, Hannah Kaufman, a Jewish-American attorney, must defend Selim Bakri, a young Palestinian suing Israel for the right to live on his Left Bank ancestral land. The government's lawyer, a cocky Israeli attorney, is Hannah's lover and the father of her unborn child. Conflict Read More

I'm Dancing As Fast As I Can

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Nicol Williamson, Dianne Wiest, Joe Pesci, Geraldine Page

Synopsis: Jill Clayburgh plays, as one character calls her, "a pill-popping dingbat" in this film adaptation of television producer Barbara Gordon's autobiographical account of her addiction to prescription drugs. Clayburgh plays Gordon in the film as a successful television documentary filmmaker whose Read More

First Monday in October

Actors: Walter Matthau, Jill Clayburgh, Barnard Hughes, Jan Sterling, James Stephens

Synopsis: The election of Sandra Day O'Connor to the Supreme Court rendered the premise of First Monday in October anachronistic before the picture was even released; ignoring this, however, the film is supremely entertaining (no pun intended). Jill Clayburgh stars as Ruth Loomis, the first lady justice Read More

It's My Turn

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Michael Douglas, Charles Grodin, Beverly Garland, Steven Hill

Synopsis: Claudia Weill's second feature is a romantic look at the humorous and tragic sides of love, starring Jill Clayburgh as Kate Gunzinger, a mathematics professor who lives with perpetually sunny architect Homer (Charles Grodin) in Chicago. But during a trip to New York City, Kate becomes romantically Read More

Luna

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Matthew Barry, Renato Salvatori, Tomas Milian, Fred Gwynne

Synopsis: Bernardo Bertolucci's controversial drama explores the troubled life of a young man and his troubling relationship with his parents. Joe (Matthew Barry) is the son of famous opera singer Caterina Silveri (Jill Clayburgh); while Joe believes that Caterina's husband Douglas Winter (Fred Gwynne) is Read More

Starting Over

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh, Candice Bergen, Charles Durning, Frances Sternhagen

Synopsis: Scripted by James L. Brooks from Dan Wakefield's novel, Alan J. Pakula's romantic comedy follows the tribulations of a freshly divorced man as he looks for love with a wary single woman. Phil Potter (Burt Reynolds sans mustache) can't quite believe it when his aspiring songbird wife Jessica (Candice Bergen Read More

Saturday Night Live: Jill Clayburgh [2]

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Eddie Money

Synopsis: This 1978 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Jill Clayburgh and features musical guest Eddie Money. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

An Unmarried Woman

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates, Michael Murphy, Cliff Gorman, Pat Quinn

Synopsis: A New York wife learns about the satisfactions of single life in this landmark 1970s "woman's film." Unlike her dysfunctional friends, vibrant Erica (Jill Clayburgh) seems to have it all: a nice Upper East Side home, a well-adjusted teenage daughter (Lisa Lucas), a job at a Soho art gallery, and a Read More

Semi-Tough

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, Jill Clayburgh, Robert Preston, Bert Convy

Synopsis: Burt Reynolds and Kris Kristofferson star as two pro-football pals who both fall for the team-owner's very rich daughter. Kind of goofy, kind of funny, and somewhat endearing--those are the qualities that surface in this light-hearted comedy built upon an extremely predictable scenario. ~ All Read More

Gable and Lombard

Actors: James Brolin, Jill Clayburgh, Allen Garfield, Red Buttons, Melanie Mayron

Synopsis: The love affair between two of Hollywood's greatest stars of the 1930s and '40s is recounted in this biopic. Clark Gable (James Brolin), the tough but quick-witted leading man often called "the King of Hollywood," meets tart-tongued comic actress Carole Lombard (Jill Clayburgh) at a party, and Read More

Saturday Night Live: Jill Clayburgh [1]

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Andy Kaufman

Synopsis: This 1976 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Jill Clayburgh and features musical guest Andy Kaufman. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Silver Streak

Actors: Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor, Patrick McGoohan, Ned Beatty

Synopsis: While taking a train trip from L.A. to Chicago, mild-mannered George Caldwell (Gene Wilder) makes the acquaintance of Hilly Burns (Jill Clayburgh). As they indulge in a brief bit of spooning, Hilly tells George that her boss is on the verge of exposing a group of vicious art forgers. Later that Read More

Griffin and Phoenix: A Love Story

Actors: Peter Falk, Jill Clayburgh

Synopsis: Jeff Griffin (Peter Falk) is dying of cancer. Sarah Phoenix (Jill Clayburgh) is suffering from terminal leukemia. Ignored or reviled by their respective families, Griffin and Phoenix turn to each other for emotional support. Deciding to live their last months to the fullest, they indulge in Read More

The Art of Crime

Synopsis: Originally produced as the pilot for a prospective TV series and based on a novel entitled Gypsy in Amber, this is the story of a detective, who also happens to be a gypsy, who becomes involved in a homicide case when one of his friends, a fellow antique dealer, is charged with the murder. Read More

Roman Grey: The Art of Crime

Synopsis: This TV movie was originally telecast under the simpler title The Art of Crime; it was planned as the pilot for a series to be called Roman Grey. Ron Liebman essays the title role, an "assimilated" gypsy who runs a fashionable antique dealership. When he's not busy bargaining or wooing his Read More

Hustling

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Lee Remick

Synopsis: Hustling is a made-for-television film about a New York reporter (Lee Remick) who investigates the dangerous world of prostitution and becomes friends with a tough, abused hooker (Jill Clayburgh). ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

The Rockford Files: The Big Ripoff

Synopsis: This episode offers the viewer a glimpse of two stars in the making: Jill Clayburgh and Suzanne Somers). Clayburgh plays Marilyn Polanski, a model whom Jim Rockford (James Garner) meets while working for Ginny Nelson (Somers), the "widow" of a man (Fred Beir) reported killed in a plane crash. It Read More

The Terminal Man

Actors: George Segal

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Michael Crichton, Terminal Man is a sci-fi thriller about a scientist who decides to be the lab rat in an experimental surgery to control his violent tendencies. During the surgical procedure, a miniature computer is implanted in his head. Unfortunately, the mechanism Read More

The Thief Who Came to Dinner

Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Jacqueline Bisset, Warren Oates, Jill Clayburgh, Charles Cioffi

Synopsis: Bud Yorkin directed this middling comedy, written by Walter Hill from a novel by Terrence Lore Smith. Ryan O'Neal plays a computer expert named Webster, who alleviates on-the-job doldrums by moonlighting as a successful jewel thief. Webster invites himself to upscale soirees, where he cases out Read More

Shock-A-Bye, Baby

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a famous writer must come up with a million dollars to save the life of his baby son who was recently kidnapped. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Snoop Sisters - Female Instinct

Actors: Paulette Goddard, Helen Hayes, Mildred Natwick

Synopsis: First telecast December 16, 1972, The Snoop Sisters was the pilot for a Richard Levinson/William Link detective series. Helen Hayes and Mildred Natwick play a couple of mystery writers who happen to be siblings. With the help of their pragmatic chauffeur (Art Carney), the Snoop Sisters take it Read More

Portnoy's Complaint

Actors: Richard Benjamin, Karen Black, Lee Grant, Jack Somack, Jeannie Berlin

Synopsis: Screenwriter Ernest Lehman, whose credits include the screenplays for North by Northwest, Sabrina, West Side Story, and The Sweet Smell of Success, made a less than distinguished debut as a director with this adaptation of Philip Roth's controversial novel about Alexander Portnoy (Richard Read More

The Telephone Book

Actors: Ultra Violet

Synopsis: In this film that seeks to make a comedy about obscene telephone callers, several callers and their victims are shown. Most of the film is about one of the callers who is so beguiling that before long, many of his victims are hoping that he will call them back. Indeed, one of his victims is so Read More

The Wedding Party

Actors: Jill Clayburgh, Charles Pfluger, Raymond McNally, Robert De Niro, John Braswell

Synopsis: This dark comedy finds Charlie (Charles Pfulger) traveling to stay at the house of his fiancee's parents two days before his wedding to Josephine (Jill Clayburgh). With his two friends, he discusses Vietnam, the sexual revolution, black power, and compares bachelor life to that of a married man. Read More