John SheaFilmography

A Broken Sole

Actors: Danny Aiello, Judith Light, Laila Robins, Bob Dishy, Margaret Colin, John Shea

Synopsis: Six people become three couples in the wake of the emotional chaos of 9/11 in this three-part drama adapted from the off-Broadway play by Susan Charlotte. Hilary (Judith Light) is a fifty-something movie buff who teaches film studies. On the afternoon of September 11, she discovers there's a hole Read More

The Insurgents

Actors: Mary Stuart Masterson, Henry Simmons, Juliette Marquis, John Shea, Michael Mosley

Synopsis: A dejected ex-GI, a former prostitute, and a small time thief hatch a plan to detonate a powerful truck bomb in the heart of New York City after having their rage exploited by a charismatic left-wing radical in this topical terrorism drama from first-time feature filmmaker Scott Dacko. Read More

Heartbreak Hospital

Synopsis: Neely (Chelsea Altman) is a struggling actress living in New York. Her Mexican boyfriend, Tonio (Demian Bechir), is a cook who's trying to sell his own line of pasta sauces. Lottie (Patricia Clarkson), her eccentric neighbor, is obsessed with a soap opera, "Heartbreak Hospital." Frustrated with Read More

Mutant X: Season 02

Actors: John Shea, Victoria Pratt, Victor Webster, Lauren Lee Smith, Forbes March

Synopsis: There's a bit of good news for Adam Kane (John Shea) and his genetically enhanced mutant comrades-in-arms as Mutant X launches its second season. Mason Eckhart (Tom McCamus), the megalomaniacal madman who, as supervisor of the top-secret Genomex company, created a race of mutant superhumans, has Read More

Mutant X: Season 01

Actors: John Shea, Victoria Pratt, Victor Webster, Lauren Lee Smith, Forbes March

Synopsis: The premise of Mutant X is firmly established in the series' two-part season one opener "The Shock of the New." Breaking away from the sinister government research organization Genomex, a scientist named Adam (John Shea) vows to shatter the megalomaniacal dreams of his former boss Mason Eckhart (Tom McCamus Read More

Southie

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Donnie Wahlberg, Rose McGowan, Anne Meara, James Cummings, Amanda Peet

Synopsis: "Southie" is common usage in Massachusetts for a resident of South Boston. John Shea directed and co-scripted (with James Cummings and Dave McLaughlin) this low-budget crime drama which won the American Independent Award at the 1998 Seattle Film Festival. Out of money and out of luck, Danny Quinn (Donnie Wahlberg Read More

Nowhere To Go

Actors: Tricia Vessey, John Shea, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Carroll Baker, Jacob Smith

Synopsis: Rebellious teen Niki (Tricia Vessy) has nowhere to go. She doesn't get along with her widowed father (John Shea) or her selfish boyfriend (Scott Caan), and she's about to be kicked out of high school. The school's principal (Zeljko Ivanek) suggests she work counseling troubled children, but she Read More

Getting Personal

Actors: Michael Landes, Hedy Burress, Dina Spybey, Lane Smith, Geoffrey Blake

Synopsis: Ron Burrus directed this low-budget romantic comedy, set in Boston. The lead role of Bostonian Christopher DiMarco is portrayed by Michael Landes (Jimmy Olson on Lois & Clark). After a blackout, the tux-clad Chris regains consciousness on the porch of a beachfront summer cottage, where he Read More

A Will of Their Own

Actors: Lea Thompson, Ellen Burstyn, Thomas Gibson, John Shea, Charlotte Ross

Synopsis: Originally a two-part, five-hour NBC miniseries, this turn-of-the-20th-century tale follows the adventures of a headstrong American woman who sets forth to fulfill her dreams of becoming a professional photographer. Along the way, she makes many sacrifices. The story also chronicles the lives of Read More

Fatherhood USA: Juggling Family and Work

Actors: Bill Bradley, John Shea

The Adventures of Sebastian Cole

Actors: Adrian Grenier, Clark Gregg, Aleksa Palladino, Margaret Colin, John Shea

Synopsis: Tod Williams made his feature directorial debut with this teen comedy-drama set in 1983. High school senior and writer wannabe Sebastian Cole (Adrian Grenier) survives a car accident in a remote Southwestern area near the trailer home of a Spanish-speaking woman. As she dresses his wounds Read More

The Apocalypse Watch

Actors: Patrick Bergin, John Shea, Virginia Madsen

Synopsis: A cunning and ruthless neo-Nazi politician rises to power in England by conducting a terror campaign against his own organization, making it seem the established government is attacking his followers. Dashing American agent Harry Latham (John Shea) lends assistance to the Brits in their Read More

Forgotten Sins

Synopsis: The perils and pitfalls of the so-called "repressed memory syndrome" are brought home in a chilling fashion in this fact-based TV movie. After attending a Christian retreat, young Rebecca Bradshaw (Lisa Dean Ryan) returns home to accuse her deputy sheriff father Matthew (John Shea) of sexually Read More

A Weekend in the Country

Actors: Faith Ford, Christine Lahti, Jack Lemmon, Richard Lewis, Dudley Moore

Synopsis: Rita Rudner was both co-writer and co-star of this multi-plotted romantic comedy, set in a bed and breakfast in the middle of Southern California's wine country. In the course of the film's 90 minutes, a number of curiously matched couples will find true romance -- and sometimes even true Read More

See Jane Run

Actors: Joanna Kerns, John Shea, Katy Boyer, Lee Garlington

Synopsis: In this drama, a woman is found wandering the Boston streets in a blood-covered housedress and $10,000 in her pocket. The trouble is neither she (Joanna Kerns), nor the authorities know who she is or what happened to her. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Justice in a Small Town

Actors: Kate Jackson, John Shea, Dean Stockwell, Rand Courtney, Terry O'Quinn

Synopsis: Caring more about justice than her own safety, a courageous Georgian civil service employee agrees to testify about the corruption rampant in the highest levels of her agency. Unfortunately, her testimony will also endanger the lives of her family. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Backstreet Justice

Actors: Linda Kozlowski, Paul Sorvino, John Shea, Hector Elizondo, Viveca Lindfors

Synopsis: In this complexly-plotted action-packed police drama, Pittsburgh policewoman Keri Finnegan (Linda Kozlowski) returns to her home turf to clean up crime and clear the ruined name of her father, a cop who was wrongfully disgraced and fired from the force. McKees Rocks is one Steeltown's roughest Read More

Lois & Clark: Season 01

Actors: Teri Hatcher, Dean Cain, Lane Smith, Michael Landes, Tracy Scoggins, John Shea

Synopsis: The first season of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman borrows just enough from its comic-book source material to satisfy dyed-in-the-wool Superman buffs while adding several novel and surprising twists of its own. Fresh from the rural community of Smallville, handsome country bumpkin Read More

Honey, I Blew Up the Kid

Actors: Rick Moranis, Marcia Strassman, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Oliveri, Daniel Shalikar, Joshua Shalikar

Synopsis: In the sequel to Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, a bumbling but brilliant scientist (Rick Moranis) accidentally makes his two-year-old son into a giant who becomes larger every time he comes in contact with electricity. Though he and his wife try to control their son, the child inevitably escapes and Read More

Freejack

Actors: Emilio Estevez, Mick Jagger, Anthony Hopkins, Rene Russo, Jonathan Banks, David Johansen

Synopsis: Geoff Murphy directed this time-travel chase movie. Emilio Estevez stars as Alex Furlong, a racecar driver from 1991, who is just about to experience a deadly crash in his Formula Atlantic. But at the last moment Alex finds himself transported to the streets of New York in 2009. He is saved from Read More

Notorious

Actors: John Shea, Jenny Robertson, Marisa Berenson, Jean-Pierre Cassel

Synopsis: In this adaptation of Hitchcock's 1946 classic, a CIA agent's cover is endangered by her sister-in-law who begins to suspect her true identity. This could be fatal as the agent married an arms-dealer to get information from him. ~ 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

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

Ladykiller

Actors: Mimi Rogers

Synopsis: In this made-for-cable thriller, Mimi Rogers portrays a cop who, burned out by her work, transfers to the forensics staff as an evidence photographer. While investigating a string of killings, the trail of evidence leads to the married man with whom she's having an affair. ~ Jason Ankeny, All 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

Magic Moments

Synopsis: A sly American magician manipulates a London television producer in this drama. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Small Sacrifices

Actors: Farrah Fawcett, Ryan O'Neal, John Shea

Synopsis: Based on the factual book by Ann Rule, Small Sacrifices was original telecast in two parts. Farrah Fawcett continues to successfully obliterate the Charlie's Angels onus in the role of real-life US postal worker Diane Downs. Part One of the film was set in Willamete Valley, Oregon, in 1983. Mrs. Read More

Do You Know the Muffin Man?

Actors: John Shea

Synopsis: Do You Know the Muffin Man? was the first of a brace of TV movies about day-care abuse (see also Unspeakable Acts). Pam Dawber and John Shea play the parents of a preschool child who comes home one day with horrible stories about the staff of his day care center. The owners of the center are two Read More

Stealing Home

Actors: Mark Harmon, Blair Brown, Jodie Foster, Jonathan Silverman, Harold Ramis

Synopsis: The storytelling device of the flashback gets an intense workout in this tragic coming of age drama. Mark Harmon stars as washed-up baseball player Billy Wyatt, who is shocked when he receives news that his childhood sweetheart and friend Katie Chandler (Jodie Foster) has committed suicide and Read More

A New Life

Actors: Alan Alda, Ann-Margret, Hal Linden, Veronica Hamel, John Shea

Synopsis: After 20 years of marriage, Steve Giardino (Alan Alda) and his wife Jackie (Ann-Margret) agree to a divorce in this situation comedy. The focus is on both of them as they suffer through matchmaking, blind dates, and their new life as eligible singles. Donna (Mary Kay Place) is Jackie's friend Read More

Light Years

Synopsis: Isaac Asimov wrote the English translation for this animated sci-fi tale about the prince of the planet Gandahar, who is sent to the future in order to avenge an attack on his home world. The film is re-edited from the original French version (Ghandahar (1987), created and directed by Rene Read More

Baby M

Actors: John Shea, Robin Strasser, JoBeth Williams

Synopsis: Baby M is a two-part TV movie predicated on a headline-making true event. In 1985, Mary Beth Whitehead accepted $10,000 to bear a child, which then would be adopted by William and Elizabeth Stern. But after the baby's birth in March of 1986, Whitehead reneged on the agreement. The subsequent Read More

The Impossible Spy

Actors: John Shea, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: The British/US co-production The Impossible Spy is based on the life and career of Israeli undercover agent Elie Cohen. The story begins in 1959, with the Egyptian-born Cohen (John Shea) being recruited by the Israeli Mossad. Cohen, a mild-mannered Jewish accountant, wants no part of espionage Read More

Unsettled Land

Actors: Kelly McGillis, John Shea, Christine Boisson, Arnon Zadok

Synopsis: In this tumultuous post- WW I drama, a Viennese doctor and her lover migrate, with many other European Jews, to Israel where they dream of setting up a peaceful egalitarian society. Their dreams are soon shattered by the violent Bedouins who forcefully object to their presence. ~ Sandra Brennan Read More

Dreamers

Actors: Kelly McGillis, John Shea, Christine Boisson, Arnon Zadok

The Dining Room

Synopsis: One room, several dinners, and a multitude of characters figure into the A.R. Gurney Jr. play The Dining Room. Several lives and relationships are built up and destroyed in consistently amusing fashion. The film consists of wall-to-wall vignettes, some lasting a mere few minutes. The charm and Read More

A Case of Deadly Force

Synopsis: This gripping made-for-TV courtroom drama centers on a pair of hard-working lawyers who become obsessed with proving that the tactical division of the Boston Police Force made a fatal mistake when they shot the wrong man following a robbery. The plot is based on a true story. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Angel River

Actors: Lynn-Holly Johnson, Salvador Sanchez, Janet Sunderland, Peter Matthey

Synopsis: It's love on the old frontier in this western adventure set in Arizona in the 1870s. It centers on a beautiful, young blonde girl whose peaceful life on her parents' isolated ranch is permanently disrupted when she is abducted and raped by a drunken Mexican bandit. Later, she finds herself drawn Read More

Coast to Coast

Actors: Lenny Henry, John Shea, George Baker, Peter Vaughan

Synopsis: This comedy concerns two buddies trying to make a go of it. Ritchie Lee (Lenny Henry) is the owner of an ice cream van that serves as a place to store his disco equipment, used to play music for parties and other events. John Carloff (John Shea) is an American soldier who is AWOL from a U.S. Read More

Hunter: Death Machine

Synopsis: Underworld fence Lucky Lacy (Ron Karabatsos) is robbed of $12 million in gems by a gang of young hoodlums. Hiring a huge, psychotic punker named Lincoln--played by John Matuszak, former gridiron rival of Hunter star Fred Dryer--to kill the thieves and retrieve the merchandise, Lacy launches a Read More

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

Actors: John Shea, Bill Nighy, Tony Randall, José Ferrer, Lucy Gutteridge

Synopsis: The two-part TV movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil crystallizes that evil by concentrating on two Berlin brothers. In 1931, Helmut Hoffman (Bill Nighy) a brilliant student and self-styled opportunist, joins Hitler's SS. At the same time, his younger brother Karl (John Shea), a top athlete and Read More

Lune De Miel

Actors: Nathalie Baye, John Shea, Richard Berry, Maria Lukovsky, Michel Beaune

Synopsis: In a standard psycho-killer thriller, Cecile (Nathalie Baye) goes from her home in Canada to New York after her boyfriend is thrown in the slammer there for drug-running -- she still wants to be near him. Unable to stay past her visa's limits, Cecile literally contracts a legal marriage to an Read More

Windy City

Actors: John Shea, Kate Capshaw, Josh Mostel, Jim Borrelli, Jeffrey DeMunn

Synopsis: In this film, Danny Morgan's (John Shea) life comes crashing down around him when he discovers that the two most important people in his life, Emily (Kate Capshaw) and his Sol (Josh Mostel), are about to fade out of it. Emily, his former girlfriend, is about to be married, and Sol, his close 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

Kennedy: The Presidential Years

Kennedy

Actors: Martin Sheen, Blair Brown, Vincent Gardenia

Synopsis: The 1,000-day presidency of John Fitzgerald Kennedy in the early '60s is depicted from the glorious beginning to the tragic ending. Kennedy (Martin Sheen) faces down the Soviets, the Cubans, his military leaders (over the war in Vietnam), FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover (Vincent Gardenia), and Jackie Read More

Missing

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, John Shea, Charles Cioffi

Synopsis: Costa-Gavras's tense political drama opens in an unspecified South American country (though clearly intended to be Chile) in the throes of a military coup. American activist Charles Horman (John Shea), who has been a thorn in the side of the country's military ever since his arrival, suddenly Read More

Family Reunion

Actors: Bette Davis, J. Ashley Hyman

Synopsis: Written for television by Allan Sloane, Family Reunion stars Bette Davis as an ageing New England schoolteacher who is given an "unlimited" bus ticket as a retirement present. She uses this gift to visit the farthest-flung members of her long-estranged family. In her absence, Davis' small town Read More

Hussy

Actors: Helen Mirren, John Shea, Jenny Runacre, Murray Salem, Paul Angelis

Synopsis: Matthew Chapman wrote and directed this hackneyed love story with Helen Mirren as Beaty, a nightclub hostess who turns tricks. Emory (John Shea) is an expatriate American who works the lights at Beaty's nightclub and is in love with her. But Beaty cannot deal in flowery sentiment, especially since Read More

The Nativity

Actors: Julie Garfield

Synopsis: The Nativity is just what it says it is. This low-key retelling of the Biblical story of the birth of Christ stars Madeline Stowe as Mary and John V. Shea as Joseph. The network publicists assured the viewers that there would be as much emphasis on the "human love story" as the Birth itself. Also Read More