Joe Mantegna Filmography

Witless Protection

Actors: Larry the Cable Guy, Ivana Milicevic, Yaphet Kotto, Peter Stormare, Eric Roberts

Synopsis: When a small-town sheriff (Larry the Cable Guy) witnesses what he believes to be an attempted kidnapping, his effort to save the beautiful damsel in distress sets him down a wild path of comic mishap. Eric Roberts, Yaphet Kotto, Peter Stormare, and Joe Mantegna co-star in a comedy from Red Water Read More

The House That Jack Built

Actors: Joe Mantegna, Jeremy London, Hal Sparks

Lonely Street

Actors: Jay Mohr, Robert Patrick, Joe Mantegna, Mike Starr

Synopsis: A notoriously gullible detective becomes the number one suspect in the murder of a tabloid reporter after accepting the task of protecting a once-famous celebrity who faked his death to escape the public eye in director Peter Ettinger's quirky adaptation of Steve Brewer's popular series of novels. Read More

Memories Are Made of This

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: The life story of famed Rat Packer Dean Martin comes to the screen in this adaptation of his daughter Deana's best-selling memoir of the same name. Producer Joe Mantegna had previously portrayed Martin in the HBO feature The Rat Pack. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Simpsons Movie

Actors: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Yeardley Smith, Nancy Cartwright

Synopsis: They've kept television viewers laughing for nearly 20 years, and now the most popular animated family on the small screen makes the leap into theaters as Homer, Marge, Lisa, Bart, ad Maggie embark on their first-ever feature-length adventure. Directed by David Silverman and written by a whole Read More

Elvis & Anabelle

Actors: Max Minghella, Blake Lively, Joe Mantegna, Mary Steenburgen, Keith Carradine

Synopsis: A small-town beauty queen and an unlicensed mortician set out across the Texas plains on a journey of self-discovery in director Will Geiger's meditative road movie. Annabelle has never known what life is like outside the fiercely competitive world of beauty pageants; her mother's constant demands Read More

Cougar Club

Actors: Jason Jurman, Warren Kole

Synopsis: Two recent college graduates hatch an ingenuous scheme to increase their income while having a bit of naughty fun on the side in this sexy comedy that proves just how wild lonely housewives can be when left unattended. For Spence and Hogan, the carefree days of college come crashing to an end when Read More

Hank and Mike

Actors: Thomas Michael, Paolo Mancini, Chris Klein, Joe Mantegna

Synopsis: Chris Klein, Joe Montegna, Thomas Michael, and Paolo Mancini star in director Matthiew Klinck's holiday-themed comedy concerning two downsized Easter bunnies whose friendship starts to suffer when the multi-national corporation that owns all holidays decides to make some serious cutbacks. Hank and Read More

The Last Hit Man

Actors: Joe Mantegna, Elizabeth Whitmere, Romano Orzari, Michael Majeski, Victoria Snow

The Starter Wife

Actors: Debra Messing, Joe Mantegna, Judy Davis, Miranda Otto, Anika Noni Rose, Peter Jacobson

Synopsis: Based on the 2005 bestselling novel by Gigi Levangie Grazer, the six-part miniseries The Starter Wife starred former Will & Grace leading lady Debra Messing as Molly Kagan, an archetypal "Hollywood wife" who for ten years had enjoyed the perks and privileges of being married to powerful studio Read More

Criminal Minds: Season 03

Actors: Joe Mantegna, Thomas Gibson, Paget Brewster, Matthew Gray Gubler, A.J. Cook, Shemar Moore, Kirsten Vangsness, Meredith Monroe

Edmond

Actors: William H. Macy, Joe Mantegna, Julia Stiles, Rebecca Pidgeon, Bai Ling

Synopsis: David Mamet wrote the screenplay for this adaptation of his play about a man who suddenly stumbles into a new and dangerous life. Edmond Burke (William H. Macy) is on his way home from work one evening when he impulsively stops to have his fortune read by a woman who informs him, "You are not Read More

The Book of Joe

Actors: Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands

The Kid & I

Actors: Tom Arnold, Eric Gores, Linda Hamilton, Henry Winkler

Synopsis: A washed-up actor finds an unlikely path back to the big screen in this offbeat family comedy. Bill Williams (Tom Arnold) is an actor whose career has gone into a severe tailspin ever since his brief fling with fame -- a supporting role in the Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle True Lies. Sinking into Read More

Nine Lives

Actors: Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman, Elpidia Carrillo, Glenn Close, Stephen Dillane

Synopsis: Filmmaker Rodrigo García takes an unusual look into the lives of nine different women in this episodic drama. Each of the film's nine sequences has been staged as a single shot, using the Steadicam system to allow the camera to follow the action fluidly and without cuts. In these short episodes Read More

Uncle Nino

Actors: Joe Mantegna, Anne Archer, Pierrino Mascarino, Trevor Morgan, Gina Mantegna

Synopsis: A visit from a distant relative teaches a modern family about old-fashioned values in this family drama. Robert Micelli (Joe Mantegna) and his wife Marie (Anne Archer) are a couple living in Chicago with their two children, 15-year-old Bobby (Trevor Morgan) and 12-year-old Gina (Gina Mantegna). Read More

Stateside

Actors: Rachael Leigh Cook, Jonathan Tucker, Agnes Bruckner, Val Kilmer, Joe Mantegna

Synopsis: Directed by Reverge Anselmo, Stateside revolves around the unique love story of two very different teens -- namely, the rich but lonely Mark Deloach (Jonathan Tucker) and Dori Lawrence (Rachael Leigh Cook), a schizophrenic singer and actress -- whose lives spiral out of control in separate but Read More

This Old Cub

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Joe Mantegna

Synopsis: On a baseball team not often cited for its great players, Ron Santo was a hero and a legend. As a third baseman for the Chicago Cubs, Santo played 14 seasons (1960 through 1974), made the All-Star team nine times, earned five Gold Gloves, and in 1965 became the team's youngest ever captain. While Read More

Pontormo- un Amore Eretico

Crew: Production Designer

Actors: Joe Mantegna, Galatea Ranzi, Toni Bertorelli, Laurent Terzieff, Sandro Lombardi

Joan of Arcadia: Season 02

Actors: Joe Mantegna, Mary Steenburgen, Amber Tamblyn, Jason Ritter, Michael Welch

A Very Married Christmas

Synopsis: Having lived a respectable and rather dull existence for most of his time on earth, database designer Frank Griffin (Joe Mantegna) is rudely awakened from his ennui when his wife Ellen (Jean Smart) announces that she is having an affair and wants a divorce. Although the couple agrees to stay Read More

Joan of Arcadia: Season 01

Actors: Amber Tamblyn, Joe Mantegna, Mary Steenburgen, Jason Ritter, Mike Welch

Synopsis: Being "the chosen one" isn't exactly a barrel of laughs for teenager Joan Girardi (Amber Tamblyn) during the first season of the critically acclaimed CBS drama series Joan of Arcadia. For one thing, poor Joan never knows when God will choose to have one of his many conversations with her -- nor is Read More

Women vs. Men

Actors: Christine Lahti, Joe Mantegna, Paul Reiser

Synopsis: After his wife Dana (Christine Lahti) walks out on him, Michael (Joe Mantegna) is visited by his friend, Bruce (Paul Reiser). The two discuss the logistics of the fight, and the state of things between men and women in general. Michael had just given Dana a new Cadillac, and Bruce tells him that Read More

First Monday [TV Series]

Synopsis: Hoping to utilize the Supreme Court in the same dramatic manner that West Wing utilized the White House, the weekly, 60-minute CBS series First Monday focused on the nine Justices who laid down the law for the United States. Joe Mantegna headed the cast as Joseph Novelli, the newest member of the Read More

Lakeboat

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Charles Durning, Robert Forster, J.J. Johnston, Denis Leary

Synopsis: Renowned character actor Joe Mantegna makes his directorial debut with this film adaptation of one of David Mamet's first plays, boasting such onscreen talent as Peter Falk, Charles Durning, and Robert Forster. Based on Mamet's experiences of working on Great Lake freighters while a grad student Read More

Walking Shadow: A Spenser Mystery

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Joe Mantegna, Ernie Hudson, Marcia Gay Harden, Eric Roberts, Christina Moore

Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal

Actors: Gabrielle Anwar, Craig Sheffer, Joe Mantegna

Synopsis: The third time's the charm for terror in the sky in this action-packed drama. Rock superstar Slade Craven has decided to hang up his rock & roll shoes and has planned something very special for his final show -- instead of a typical concert in some sports arena, he'll play a set aboard a 747 jumbo Read More

Hotel Laguna

Actors: Henry Cavill, Joe Mantegna, Emmanuelle Seigner

Off Key

Synopsis: Three famous vocalists find their lives don't harmonize well off-stage in this farcical comedy. Armand Dupres (George Hamilton), Ricardo Palacios (Joe Mantegna), and Fabrizio Bernini (Danny Aiello) are three well-respected opera singers who have risen to superstardom thanks to a successful series Read More

The Directors: Barry Levinson

Synopsis: One of Hollywood's most acclaimed directors, Barry Levinson has brought such hits as Diner, Good Morning Vietnam, and Liberty Heights to screens everywhere. This video profile highlights his career, featuring interviews with Annette Bening, Dustin Hoffman, and Kevin Pollak. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Read More

Trumpet of the Swan

Actors: Jason Alexander, Mary Steenburgen, Reese Witherspoon, Seth Green, Carol Burnett

Synopsis: E.B. White's children's story of a swan searching for his voice comes to life in this animated adventure. When young Louie the Swan is hatched, it's soon discovered that he isn't able to make a sound, which is a matter of no small annoyance to his boastful father (voice of Jason Alexander) and Read More

Thin Air: A Spenser Mystery

Actors: Joe Mantegna, Marcia Gay Harden, Yancy Butler, Luis Guzman, Jon Seda

Synopsis: Robert Mantegna stars as tough Boston private eye Spencer in this made-for-cable adaptation of the Robert B. Parker novel Thin Air. It all begins when Lila St. Claire (Yancy Butler, the new bride of police detective Frank Belson (David Ferry), is kidnapped by Latino ganglord Luis DeLeon (Jon Read More

More Dogs Than Bones

Synopsis: The crime comedy More Dogs Than Bones starts with female gangster Victoria Galetti hiding one million dollars in cash in the bags of Raj Lukla -- a foreigner flying into town in order to visit his nephew Andy. Victoria's underlings are assigned to retrieve the cash, but learn that the task is far 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

The Runner

Actors: Ron Eldard, Courteney Cox Arquette, Joe Mantegna, Bokeem Woodbine, John Goodman

Synopsis: A young man with an addiction to gambling (played by Ron Eldard) has managed to get himself into serious debt. In an effort to pay off the bookies, his uncle (Joe Mantegna) pulls a few strings and gets him a job working for a gangster (John Goodman) who needs a "runner" to place bets with various Read More

Small Vices: A Spenser Mystery

Actors: Joe Mantegna, Marcia Gay Harden, Shiek Mahmud-Bey

Synopsis: Joe Mantegna stars as Spenser, Robert B. Parker's tough and intelligent private eye, in this made-for-cable mystery thriller. When Ellis Alves (Wood Harris) is accused of the murder of a well-to-do college student, no one seems terribly surprised; Alves has a long criminal record and has served Read More

My Little Assassin

Actors: Joe Mantegna, Robert Davi, Gabrielle Anwar, Scott Paulin, Tony Plana

Synopsis: This made-for-TV drama was based on the true story of Marita Lorenz (Gabrielle Anwar), an idealistic American of Latin descent who, in 1959, became fascinated with Fidel Castro (Joe Mantegna), the revolutionary leader who had recently seized control of Cuba. Against the wishes of her mother Alice (Jill Clayburgh Read More

Celebrity

Actors: Kenneth Branagh, Judy Davis, Famke Janssen, Joe Mantegna, Melanie Griffith

Synopsis: Black-and-white Sven Nykvist cinematography highlights this Woody Allen comedy about fame and obscurity among Manhattan celebs. Journalist Lee Simon (Kenneth Branagh), makes a play for actress Nicole Oliver (Melanie Griffith), subject of his current story. Lee is separated from his wife Robin (Judy Davis Read More

Boy Meets Girl

Actors: Joe Mantegna, Sean Astin, Emily Hampshire

Synopsis: Set in Toronto's Little Italy, Boy Meets Girl stars Sean Astin as Mike, a cynical writer who pens copy for a romance magazine, and Emily Hampshire as Angelina, who has just arrived in Canada from Italy to marry a man she unfortunately doesn't care for. Mike's next door neighbor is an eccentric Read More

Hoods

Actors: Joe Mantegna, Kevin Pollak, Joe Pantoliano

Synopsis: Joe Mantegna and Kevin Pollak star in this drama about Angelo, the son of a powerful crime boss. One day, Angelo and five other low-level gangsters are given an assignment -- they are to murder the son of one of his rivals, who blew up a building he owns. However, Angelo and his crew are more than Read More

The Rat Pack

Actors: Ray Liotta, Joe Mantegna, Don Cheadle, Angus MacFadyen, William L. Petersen

Synopsis: Shot in 33 days, this $9.6 million biographical drama of behind-the-scenes interactions within the Rat Pack group of Frank Sinatra (Ray Liotta), Dean Martin (Joe Mantegna), and Sammy Davis Jr. (Don Cheadle) is set against the political backdrop of the '60s, establishing links of singers Read More

The Last Don II

Actors: Jason Gedrick, Patsy Kensit, Kirstie Alley, David Marciano, James Wilder

Synopsis: This four-hour miniseries is a sequel to 1997's top-rated miniseries, The Last Don,based on the novel by Mario Puzo of The Godfather fame, but several critics noted that The Last Don II is unintentionally funny. After Don Clericuzio (Danny Aiello, the pivotal figure in the first series) dies from Read More

Error in Judgment

Actors: Joe Mantegna, Joanna Pacula, Kate Jackson

Synopsis: Joanna Pacula stars in this thriller as Liz, an analyst who introduces her husband, the owner of an art gallery, to an attractive female artist suffering from severe depression and thoughts of suicide. Before long, she begins to suspect that her husband may be having an affair with the painter Read More

Vietnam, Long Time Coming

Actors: Greg LaMonde, John Kerry, Joe Mantegna

Synopsis: As a determined collective of American and Vietnamese veterans collaborate for a sixteen day, 1,200 mile bicycle expedition across the very same landscape where they once vowed to kill each other or die trying, emotional scars cut deeper than any physical wounds. Nearly a quarter century after the Read More

Jerry and Tom

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Joe Mantegna, Sam Rockwell, Maury Chaykin, Ted Danson, Charles Durning

Synopsis: Actor Saul Rubinek made his directorial debut with this crime comedy adapted by Rick Cleveland and from his own 1994 one-act play. Hit man Tom (Joe Mantegna) and his apprentice Jerry (Sam Rockwell), wait in a deserted Chicago bar for the phone-call command to execute the hooded Stanley (Peter Riegert Read More

Body and Soul

Actors: Rod Steiger, Jennifer Beals, Michael Chiklis, Tahnee Welch, Ray Mancini

Synopsis: Former boxing great Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini brings years of experience in the ring to his role in this drama. Charlie (Mancini) is an up-and-coming boxer who decides he needs to move to the big city if he wants to be a contender. With his best friend and manager Tiny (Michael Chiklis) in tow Read More

The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit

Actors: Joe Mantegna, Esai Morales, Edward James Olmos, Clifton Gonzalez Gonzalez, Gregory Sierra

Synopsis: Fantasist Ray Bradbury wrote the screenplay for this adaptation of his 1957 Saturday Evening Post short story, "The Magic White Suit," previously adapted as a TV drama, a stage musical, and a play. Middle-aged Gomez (Joe Mantegna) hopes to own the beautiful white suit he spots in a store window. Read More

Airspeed

Actors: Joe Mantegna, Charles Powell, Elisha Cuthbert

Synopsis: Joe Mantegna stars in this action drama in which a wealthy businessman sends his private jet to pick up his 13-year-old daughter and two of his most trusted employees for an important banquet at which he will speak. In transit, the jet is caught in a serious electrical storm that kills the pilot Read More

A Call to Remember

Actors: Blythe Danner, Joe Mantegna, David Lascher, Kevin Zegers, Rita Zohar

Synopsis: Nearly 20 years after the Holocaust, a survivor's new life in America is torn asunder when she learns that the son she thought a casualty of war is alive and anxious to see her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Last Don

Actors: Danny Aiello, Joe Mantegna, Daryl Hannah, Jason Gedrick, Penelope Ann Miller

Synopsis: This crime drama, based on the best-selling novel by Mario Puzo, follows 20 years in the long reign of powerful Mafia kingpin Don Domenico Clericuzio (Danny Aiello). For years, the Clericuzios have been warring with a rival crime family, the Santadios, which is not helped when Domenico's daughter Read More

For Hire

Actors: Rob Lowe, Joe Mantegna, Bronwen Booth

Synopsis: In this thriller, a Chicago cabbie diagnosed with terminal cancer reconsiders a popular author's offer to pay him a fortune in exchange for murdering a drug dealer. Taxi driver Mitch Lawrence's (Rob Lowe) main reason for performing the hit is to ensure that his beloved pregnant wife does not Read More

Face Down

Actors: Kelli Maroney, Joe Mantegna, Adam Ant

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a world-weary gumshoe succumbs to the machinations of a schizophrenic seductress. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

For Better or Worse

Actors: Jason Alexander, Lolita Davidovich, James Woods, Joe Mantegna, Jay Mohr

Synopsis: This made-for-cable comedy centers on the romantic travails of Michael Makeshift (Jason Alexander), a schnook who just can't get over the fact that his girlfriend dumped him. To make matters worse, his gross and sloppy landlord is bugging him for long-overdue rent. Things for Michael's brother Read More

Thinner

Actors: Robert John Burke, Joe Mantegna, Michael Constantine, Lucinda Jenney, Kari Wuhrer

Synopsis: The plot of Thinner concerns massively overweight lawyer Billy Halleck (Robert John Burke), who is receiving an oral gift from his wife (Lucinda Jenney) while driving down the street one night, when he becomes so carried away that he runs over an old Gypsy woman (Irma St. Paule), killing her. Read More

Underworld

Actors: Denis Leary, Joe Mantegna, Annabella Sciorra, Larry Bishop, Abe Vigoda

Synopsis: In this Quentin Tarantino-style blood-drenched pseudo-film noir, Denis Leary plays a hood named Johnny who, after getting out of prison, dedicates himself to exacting revenge on mobsters who brutally injured his father. Ned Lynch (Larry Bishop, who wrote the screenplay) attacked Johnny's father Read More

Up Close & Personal

Actors: Daniel Zacapa, Robert Redford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Stockard Channing, Joe Mantegna, Kate Nelligan

Synopsis: A story about a career television journalist who eclipses her mentor, this drama's plot resembles that of A Star Is Born, and it shares the same screenwriters as those who penned the 1976 version of that film, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion. It's based loosely on the real-life story of Read More

Albino Alligator

Actors: Matt Dillon, Faye Dunaway, Gary Sinise, William Fichtner, Joe Mantegna, Viggo Mortensen

Synopsis: Actor Kevin Spacey made his directorial debut with this thriller. Dova (Matt Dillon), Milo (Gary Sinise), and Law (William Fichtner) are three small-time crooks on the run after a botched robbery of a New Orleans warehouse led to a car chase, causing the death of two cops. Needing a place to hide Read More

Persons Unknown

Actors: Joe Mantegna, Kelly Lynch, Jon Favreau, J.T. Walsh, Naomi Watts

Synopsis: This tightly woven, fast-paced thriller begins when Amanda (Kelly Lynch), a sexy gal on in-line skates, trips because alcoholic ex-cop/security expert Jim Holland (Joe Mantegna) bumps into her. Something between the two clicks and they spend the night together. Jim has no idea that he has just Read More

National Lampoon's Favorite Deadly Sins

Synopsis: Caustic chain-smoking comedian Denis Leary helms this boffo comedy about lust, greed, and anger. Low-brow poster boy Andrew Dice Clay stars as The Thing That Wouldn't Die. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

Demolition Day

Actors: Martin Sheen, Kate Mulgrew, Joe Mantegna, Joanna Pacula, Joe Piscopo