Joseph BolognaFilmography

Jane Doe: 'til Death Do Us Part

Synopsis: Jane Doe:'Til Death Do Us Part is one of several Hallmark Channel TV-movies starring Lea Thompson as suburban housewife and mom Kathy Davis (Lea Thompson), who unbeknownst to her family occasionally moonlights as an undercover special agent and "problem solver" for the NSA. This time around Read More

Returning Mickey Stern

Crew: Producer

Actors: Joseph Bologna, Tom Bosley, Kylie Delre, Joshua Fishbein, Michael Oberlander

Synopsis: Mickey Stern (Joseph Bologna) is living in the past. When he was still in high school, Mickey (played as a young man by Joshua Fishbein) was a baseball phenom, signed by his beloved Yankees. He was on his way to Korea, proud to fight for his country. Then, visiting Fire Island with his best Read More

Big Daddy

Actors: Adam Sandler, Joey Lauren Adams, Jon Stewart, Cole Sprouse, Dylan Sprouse, Josh Mostel, Leslie Mann

Synopsis: Prospective parents everywhere, meet the world's least likely paternal role model: Adam Sandler! In Big Daddy, Sandler plays 30-year-old bachelor Sonny Koufax, a carefree slob who has never much taken to adult responsibilities; he works one day a week as a tollbooth collector, and spends the Read More

Baby Huey's Great Easter Adventure

Synopsis: In this live-action musical comedy, Baby Huey, the lovable seven foot tall duckling, is taken in by a caring little boy named Nick and his kind but surprised family. A sinister scientist and a mean Las Vegas producer want Baby Huey for themselves, but they don't know what a little boy, a caring Read More

Heaven Before I Die

Actors: Joanna Pacula, Omar Sharif, Giancarlo Giannini, Andy Velasquez

Synopsis: In this eccentric comedy, Jacob (Andy Velasquez) is a young man from Israel whose father has long regarded him as a test presented to him by God. Jacob's mind runs on a path all his own, and he has a mild handicap -- his feet stick out at right angles from his legs, giving him a very curious walk. Read More

National Lampoon's The Don's Analyst

Actors: Joseph Bologna, Robert Loggia, Kevin Pollak

Synopsis: After his large family's turmoil nearly drives a Mafia don over the edge, he decides to visit a psychoanalyst. As this is a National Lampoon production, it doesn't take long for things to comically go from bad to worse for the poor crook. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Batman Superman Movie

Actors: Kevin Conroy, Tim Daly, Clancy Brown, Dana Delany, Mark Hamill

Synopsis: If given the chance, would Batman have the hots for Lois Lane? Would Lex Luthor get along well with The Joker? And what, if anything, would be left for Robin to do? All these questions and more are answered in this conflation of two of the most venerable comic book legends, The Batman Superman Read More

Love Is All There Is

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

Revenge of the Nerds 4: Nerds in Love

Actors: Curtis Armstrong

Synopsis: The silly spirit of Revenge of the Nerds lives on in this made-for-television sequel. Curtis Armstrong returns as Booger, and this time around the nerds are gathering for his wedding to a wealthy upper-class girl. As the nerds plan a wild bachelor party, the girl's father is busy hiring an Read More

Jersey Girl

Actors: Jami Gertz, Dylan McDermott, Sheryl Lee, Joseph Mazzello, Joseph Bologna, Aida Turturro, Star Jasper

Synopsis: A pre-Twister Jami Gertz heads the cast in the independently produced Jersey Girl. Born and bred in the Garden State, Gertz is overwhelmed by a desire to taste life in the Big City across the river. Once she lands in New York City, Gertz instantly meets Dylan McDermott, the man of her Read More

Citizen Cohn

Actors: James Woods, Joe Don Baker, Lee Grant, Joseph Bologna, Ed Flanders

Synopsis: Frank Pierson's made-for-cable adaptation of Nicholas VonHoffman's biography, Citizen Cohn stars James Woods as the controversial lawyer Roy Cohn. The film is structured as a series of flashbacks while Cohn lies in a New York hospital dying of AIDS. In the 1940s and early '50s, Cohn became one of Read More

Deadly Rivals

Synopsis: In this thriller, an introverted laser-research scientist journeys to Miami to attend a weapons conference and finds himself romantically entangled with a gorgeous model. A confirmed bookworm, the scientist is puzzled and flattered by her interest. He becomes more puzzled when FBI agents contact Read More

Danger of Love

Actors: Joe Penny, Jenny Robertson, Joseph Bologna, Richard Lewis, Fairuza Balk

Synopsis: In this drama, based on a true story, a New York educator has an affair with a manipulative peer and subsequently finds himself implicated in his wife's murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Mole

Synopsis: Arriving at Kennedy International Airport, a confused Jessica (Angela Lansbury) is kidnapped by the minions of respected philanthropist Maxwell Hagen (Ken Howard). After being released, Jessica complains to the authorities, who refuse to believe her story, or at least act as if they don't believe Read More

An Inconvenient Woman, Part 1

Synopsis: Dominick Dunne's best-seller An Inconvenient Woman had enough plots, subplots and peripheral characters to fill 10 TV movies; this adaptation manages to pack all the essentials into a mere four hours. Dunne's beloved American Aristocracy is put under the microscope in this rambling tale of Read More

An Inconvenient Woman, Part 2

Synopsis: In Part One of the TV-movie adaptation of Dominick Dunne's An Inconvenient Woman, we saw how billionaire businessman Jason Robards compromised his marriage and reputation by falling for poverty-stricken waitress Rebecca DeMornay. In Part Two, Ms. DeMornay is confronted by Robards' outwardly Read More

An Inconvenient Woman

Synopsis: An Inconvenient Woman, an excellent television mini-series based on the novel by Dominick Dunne, which is loosely based on the Alfred Bloomingdale scandal, tells the story of the mistress of a famous man who he has murdered when she threatens his security. Jules Mendelson (Jason Robards) and his Read More

Married... With Children: Top of the Heap

Synopsis: Ed O'Neill (Al Bundy) is the only Married. . .With Children regular to appear in the series' 100th episode, which serves as the pilot for the spinoff series Top of the Heap. The focus is on Al Bundy's lifelong buddy Charlie Verducci (Joseph Bologna), Charlie's dimwitted son Vinnie (a pre-Friends Read More

Married... With Children: Oldies But Young 'Uns

Synopsis: Al (Ed O'Neill) nearly goes out of his mind when he is unable to identify a song that he heard on the radio and has been humming ever since. In the midst of his strenuous efforts to pinpoint the song's title, Al manages to find time to berate his daughter Kelly's latest boyfriend, Vinnie Verducci Read More

Coupe De Ville

Actors: Patrick Dempsey, Arye Gross, Daniel Stern, Annabeth Gish, Rita Taggart

Synopsis: Three rebellious bickersome brothers reunite to drive their father's title car from their Detroit homes to Florida. The auto is to be a gift to celebrate their mother's birthday party. Along the way, their adventures are punctuated by pop tunes from 1963 that include "Louie, Louie," a song that Read More

Alligator 2: The Mutation

Actors: Richard Lynch, Steve Railsback, Joseph Bologna, Woody Brown

Synopsis: Not so much a sequel to the John Sayles-scripted Alligator as a shoddy remake, this sophomoric low-budget effort plays like a bad TV movie about a swamp-dwelling alligator mutated to monstrous size by toxic waste, munching on the screaming residents of a lakefront community. The naughty polluter Read More

It Had to Be You

Crew: Director

Actors: Renée Taylor, Joseph Bologna, William Hickey, Eileen Brennan, Donna Dixon

Synopsis: Actress Theda Blau is well on the wrong side of forty, but she's gamely pretending to be thirty. Though it's hard to believe, she nonetheless manages enough of the ancient siren's song to get a middle-aged producer of TV commercials to come back to her apartment with her. She gets him to stay by Read More

Prime Target

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a NYPD detective looks into the deaths of several policewomen and discovers that she is to be the killer's next victim. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Thanksgiving Day

Synopsis: In this black comedy, a wealthy but flaky family tries to deal with their lives after their bizarre father suffers a fatal heart-attack on Thanksgiving and falls face first into the turkey. Now the family must somehow get their act together enough to pay bills and make funeral arrangements. Read More

Not Quite Human

Synopsis: A malevolent toy tycoon threatens the happiness of a teen android and his inventor. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Rags to Riches

Synopsis: In this TV pilot, millionaire Nick Foley adopts six little orphan girls who prove to be much more of a challenge than he bargained for. This stars Joseph Bologna as Foley. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

A Time to Triumph

Synopsis: This drama is based on the true story of a housewife who becomes a helicopter pilot for the US Army after her husband suffers a massive coronary. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Transylvania 6-5000

Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Ed Begley, Jr., Joseph Bologna, Carol Kane, John Byner, Jeffrey Jones

Synopsis: In a plot that combines Mary Shelley's mad Dr. Frankenstein and Bram Stoker's Count Dracula, two yellow journalism reporters, Jack and Gil (Jeff Goldblum and Ed Begley, Jr.) head off to a castle in Transylvania. The intrepid duo is out to hunt down a story that proves Frankenstein's "monster" is Read More

Copacabana

Synopsis: This campy drama, set in the 1940s, was inspired by a hit song by Barry Manilow. It tells the tale of an aspiring songwriter, Lola, a showgirl, and the sleazy owner of the Copa. Tragedy ensues as the two men duel over Lola's love. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Joe Piscopo Special

Synopsis: This HBO TV special presents a live performance of the popular improvisational comedian who does some of his most popular improves from Saturday Night Live. He also does impressions of Frank Sinatra singing in a heavy-metal band, and a parody of Michael Jackson's Thriller in which the undead Read More

Blame It on Rio

Actors: Michael Caine, Joseph Bologna, Valerie Harper, Michelle Johnson, Jose Lewgoy

Synopsis: This attempt to remake the clever 1977 French farce Un Moment d'Egarement stars 50-film-a-year man Michael Caine as an executive named Matthew Hollis, who, together with friend Victor Lyons (Joseph Bologna), travels to Rio de Janeiro on business. Victor sets out on the town in search of a lambada Read More

The Woman in Red

Actors: Gene Wilder, Charles Grodin, Joseph Bologna, Judith Ivey, Michael Huddleston

Synopsis: Gene Wilder's remake of this 1976 French comedy is a Hollywood version of what happens when Theodore (Wilder), an ordinary ad agency executive, is captivated by a gorgeous woman (Kelly Le Brock). The woman just happens to be standing on a grate when her skirt blows up over her waist (a scene first Read More

One Cooks, the Other Doesn't

Synopsis: In this lightweight made-for-television domestic comedy, a beautiful divorcee, who got the house and the kids, finds herself allowing her husband and his ditzy young fiancee to stay with them after he gets into financial dire straits. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

My Favorite Year

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Mark Linn-Baker, Jessica Harper, Joseph Bologna, Bill Macy

Synopsis: Richard Benjamin's directorial debut is an engaging slice of nostalgia, purportedly based on an incident in life of Mel Brooks. Mark Linn-Baker stars as Benjy Stone, junior writer on the popular 1950s TV comedy/variety series The King Kaiser Show. Kaiser (Joseph Bologna)'s guest star this week is Read More

A Cry for Love

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Jill Robinson's Bed-Time-Story, inspired by actual events, was the source for the made-for-TV A Cry for Love. Divorcee Susan Blakely, with no alimony and two kids to support, begins turning to amphetamines. While at her lowest ebb, she meets Powers Boothe, an alcoholic and three-time loser in Read More

Chapter Two

Actors: James Caan, Marsha Mason, Joseph Bologna, Valerie Harper, Judy Farrell

Synopsis: Neil Simon's bright, autobiographical romantic comedy, a big Broadway success, has been adapted to the screen in a screenplay by Simon, directed by Robert Moore, that subtly shifts the emphasis from the play. In the stage version, recently widowed writer George Schneider (James Caan) and his Read More

Torn Between Two Lovers

Actors: Andrea Martin, Lee Remick

Synopsis: Lee Remick is Torn Between Two Lovers in this made-for-TV romantic drama. Happily married to Joseph Bologna, Remick becomes involved with handsome architect George Peppard after a chance meeting in Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. Halfway down the cast list is Second City TV regular Andrea Martin Read More

The Big Bus

Actors: Joseph Bologna, Stockard Channing, John Beck, René Auberjonois, Ned Beatty

Synopsis: The Big Bus is set aboard a nonstop, nuclear-powered luxury bus commandeered by Joseph Bologna. Naturally, Bologna is a tortured hero with a deep dark secret (he keeps insisting he didn't eat all those passengers on his last disastrous drive). Stockard Channing and Harold Gould play the designers Read More

Woman of the Year

Synopsis: Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna cowrote as well as starred in this 1976 TV remake of the 1941 Tracy-Hepburn vehicle Woman of the Year. Except for a handful of updated details, the storyline is substantially the same in both versions: A down-to-earth male sportswriter (Bologna, in the Spencer Tracy Read More

Mixed Company

Actors: Bob G. Anthony, Darell L. Garretson, Stephen Honanie, Rodney Hundley, Ron McIlwain, Charles J. Samsill, Jina Tan

Synopsis: In this sentimental comedy, the coach of the struggling Phoenix Suns basketball team finds his already heavy load increased when his wife decides to adopt three more children, a Vietnamese, a black and a Native American. They already have three kids of their own. Now in addition to trying to Read More

Honor Thy Father

Actors: Brenda Vaccaro, Joseph Bologna, Raf Vallone, Richard S. Castellano, Joe de Santis

Synopsis: Gay Talese's bestseller Honor Thy Father is given a superb, albeit slightly expurgated, treatment in this made-for-TV movie. Joseph Bologna plays Bill Bonanno, the son of New York City Mafia-don Joe "Bananas" Bonanno (Raf Vallone). When his father disappears in 1964, Bill is compelled to take over Read More

Cops and Robbers

Actors: Jacob Weiner, Cliff Gorman, Joseph Bologna

Synopsis: In this comedy from director Aram Avakian, New York police officers Cliff Gorman and Joe Bologna turn crooked. Their plan is to steal $10 million worth of investment certificates, using a Manhattan parade as their "cover". Gorman and Bologna display an amazing degree of dexterity and Read More

Made for Each Other

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Joseph Bologna

Synopsis: In this semi-autobiographical romantic comedy starring Joseph Bologna and Renee Taylor (who also wrote the script together) two lonely hearts find each other in group therapy. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Lovers and Other Strangers

Crew: Play Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Bea Arthur, Bonnie Bedelia, Michael Brandon, Richard S. Castellano

Synopsis: Lovers and Other Strangers became a "sleeper" hit, based on a play by Renée Taylor and Joseph Bologna. The story is essentially a series of vignettes and anecdotes, unified by an impending marriage. Father of the bride Hal (Gig Young) has problems with his long-suffering mistress, Cathy (Anne Jackson Read More