Jonathan Penner Filmography

Occupation:: Actor, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

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Survivor: Season 16

Synopsis: Summing up the 16th season of Survivor, series host Jeff Probst effusively ticked off its highlights and lowlights: "This has been a season of blindsides and dumb moves. We've had a really strong women's alliance for the first time. We've had people out with injuries. A woman lost her mind." Read More

2008
Survivor: Season 13

Actors: Jeff Probst

Synopsis: Season Thirteen of Survivor finds the 20 chosen castaways whisked off to the atoll of Aitutaki in the Cook Islands. In a move that stirred up an enormous (some would say inordinate) amount of controversy when the season first aired in the fall of 2006, four the first time in series history the Read More

2006
The Lone Ranger

Crew: Executive Producer, Teleplay By

Actors: Chad Michael Murray, Nathaniel Arcand, Anita Brown, Fay Masterson, Sebastian Spence

Synopsis: To those who have grown up with the radio and TV versions of the old Lone Ranger series, this retro TV-movie adaptation will appear as if it has just landed from another planet. Gone are such familiar trappings as "The William Tell Overture," the bushwhacking Butch Cavendish Gang, the title Read More

2003
Would I Lie to You?

Actors: Brad Rowe, Susan Ward, Jonathan Penner, Samaire Armstrong

Synopsis: A man who wants a woman who will love him for him looks for ladies while posing as someone else in this comedy. Paul (Brad Rowe) is a millionaire who made a fortune in the technology industry, and now is looking for the woman with whom he can share his life. However, Paul is afraid that lots of Read More

2001
Cleopatra's Second Husband

Actors: Paul Hipp, Boyd Kestner, Bitty Schram, Radha Mitchell, Alexis Arquette

Synopsis: Jon Reiss made his feature directorial debut with this psychological drama. In Los Angeles, Hallie (Bitty Schram) keeps her photographer husband Robert (Paul Hipp) under her thumb, dictating sex on demand. She ignores Robert's weak protests when she allows friends of friends to occupy their house Read More

10/20/00
Grapevine [TV Series]

Actors: Kristy Swanson, George Eads, Steven Eckholdt

Synopsis: After a brief stint in 1992, this series returns to CBS oozing with 21st century irony and youthful neuroses. The series focuses on busybody Susan (Kristy Swanson), who frets that she doesn't have a boyfriend and obsesses over her friends. She also regularly turns to the camera when asking for Read More

2000
Let the Devil Wear Black

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jonathan Penner, Jacqueline Bisset, Mary-Louise Parker, Jamey Sheridan, Philip Baker Hall

Synopsis: Director and screenwriter Stacy Title (best known for the independent feature The Last Supper) obviously knows a good story when she sees one, and proves it with Let The Devil Wear Black, which takes the framework of Shakespeare's Hamlet and recasts it with present-day characters and dialogue. Read More

1999
Rude Awakening

Actors: Sherilyn Fenn, Lynn Redgrave, Jonathan Penner, Rain Pryor, Richard Lewis

Synopsis: This TV comedy series, an attempt to find humor in 1990s self-help, rehab and recovery programs, focuses on hard-drinking, former actress Billie Frank (Sherilyn Fenn), once the teen queen of primetime soaps, who now works for lowlife "B"-movie producer Harve Schwartz (Richard Lewis). Johnny (Michael Rapaport Read More

1998
Seinfeld: The Bookstore

Synopsis: Jerry (Jerry Seinfeld) confronts Uncle Leo (Len Lesser), who claims "senior citizens' rights" when he shoplifts at a bookstore. Meanwhile, George (Jason Alexander) learns the terrible consequences of taking a big book to the store's bathroom. Kramer (Michael Richards) and Newman (Wayne Knight) Read More

1998
Inconceivable

Actors: Corinne Bohrer, Jonathan Penner, Mo Gaffney

Synopsis: In this comedy, Eve Jacobs (Corrine Bohrer) is 39 years old, and her biological clock is threatening to start running down at any moment. Eve wants to have a baby, and has decided the time is now; however, she's not having much luck conceiving, and her husband Adam (Johnathan Penner) has more than Read More

1998
Anarchy TV

Actors: Jonathan Penner, Jessica Hecht, Matt Winston, Albert Hall, Alan Thicke

Synopsis: Jonathan Blank (Sex, Drugs, & Democracy) directed this satirical slap at the media, centered around a reverend (Alan Thicke) who objects to public-access station Channel 69, where his daughter (Jessica Hecht) and other young radicals program such shows as Conspiracy of the Week. The reverend's Read More

1998
Wedding Bell Blues

Actors: Illeana Douglas, Paulina Porizkova, Julie Warner, Debbie Reynolds, John Corbett, Jonathan Penner

Synopsis: Three women who share a house are all about to turn 30. Tentative, mousy Micki (Julie Warner) has just had her fiancée, Jeff (Joseph Urla), break off their wedding plans because she's not passionate enough for him. Beautiful Tanya (Paulina Porizkova) is pregnant and has lost her job as a sales Read More

1996
Down Periscope

Actors: Kelsey Grammer, Lauren Holly, Bruce Dern, Rob Schneider, Rip Torn

Synopsis: Vulgar, slapstick comedy abounds in this feature film debut for television sitcom star Kelsey Grammer. Almost everyone else thinks of Lieutenant Commander Tom Dodge is a class "A" goof who messes up every task he is assigned, but Adm. Dean Winslow thinks otherwise and decides to give Dodge one Read More

1996
Bloodfist VII: Manhunt

Actors: Don "The Dragon" Wilson

Synopsis: Kickboxing champ Don "The Dragon" Wilson stars in this action-drama as Jim Trudell, who, one night, comes to the rescue of a beautiful woman being attacked by a gang of toughs. However, Trudell's benevolent act earns him the enmity of a group of corrupt cops, and he soon finds he's been framed for Read More

1995
The Last Supper

Crew: Associate Producer, Executive Producer

Actors: Nora Dunn, Charles Durning, Mark Harmon, Bill Paxton, Cameron Diaz, Ron Eldard, Annabeth Gish, Jonathan Penner, Courtney Vance, Jason Alexander

Synopsis: If you met Adolph Hitler when he was just a struggling cartoonist, wouldn't you have done the world a big favor by murdering him? That philosophical question provides the linchpin of this black comedy. Jude (Cameron Diaz), Pete (Ron Eldard), Paulie (Annabeth Gish), Marc (Jonathan Penner), and Luke Read More

1995
Down On The Waterfront

Crew: Screenwriter

1993
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story

Actors: Jason Scott Lee, Lauren Holly, Robert Wagner, Michael Learned, Nancy Kwan

Synopsis: The brief but eventful life of actor and martial arts trailblazer Bruce Lee is portrayed in this drama, based on a biography written by his widow Linda Lee Caldwell. Lee is introduced to the study of martial arts as a child living in Hong Kong by his father (Ric Young); the father dreamed that a Read More

1993
Coneheads

Actors: Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Michelle Burke, Michael McKean, Jason Alexander

Synopsis: "The Coneheads" were a sketch on the Saturday Night Live television show of the late '70s which were expanded to feature-length proportions with this film. The story concerns Beldar (Dan Aykroyd) and Prymaat (Jane Curtin), who leave the planet Remulak to prepare for an invasion of Planet Earth. Read More

1993
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday

Actors: John D. LeMay, Kari Keegan, Kane Hodder, Steven Williams, Steven Culp

Synopsis: Chapter nine in the Friday the 13th series finds supernatural psycho Jason Voorhees returning from the dead to possess the body of a medical coroner. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1993
Amityville 1992: It's About Time

Actors: Stephen Macht, Nita Talbot

Synopsis: Eschewing any connection with previous installments of the creatively strip-mined Amityville saga, this film is actually derived from one of a series of novels by John G. Jones and focuses on a mantle clock from the original Long Island horror-house which serves as a vessel of supernatural evil. A Read More

1992
White Palace

Actors: Susan Sarandon, James Spader, Jason Alexander, Kathy Bates, Eileen Brennan

Synopsis: Screenwriters Ted Tally and Alvin Sargent adapted the novel by Glenn Savan into this intelligent comedy-drama about a May-December romance where the woman is the senior partner. James Spader is Max Baron, a 27-year-old St. Louis advertising executive who has completely shut himself off from the Read More

10/19/90
A Fool and His Money

Actors: Jonathan Penner, Gerald Orange, Sandra Bullock, George Plimpton

Synopsis: Religion, Inc. was originally -- and very briefly -- released as A Fool and His Money. While watching TV, ex-adman Morris Codman (Jonathan Penner) receives a message from God. Advised by the Almighty to go into business for himself, Codman inaugurates his own religion, founded on a philosophy of Read More

1989