Katherine HelmondFilmography

Cars

Actors: Owen Wilson, Paul Newman, Bonnie Hunt, Larry the Cable Guy, Cheech Marin

Synopsis: A pedal-to-the-metal race car determined to prove his worth on the tracks discovers that life isn't always about crossing the finish line first in Toy Story director John Lasseter's mechanically minded tale of friendship and loyalty. Lightning McQueen (voice of Owen Wilson) may be just a rookie Read More

Mr. St. Nick

Actors: Kelsey Grammer

Synopsis: Kelsey Grammer stars as Nick St. Nicholas, a Miami-based playboy philanthropist who is about to make his life complete by wedding the girl of his dreams, gorgeous TV weathercaster Heidi Gardelle (Elaine Hendrix). Not known to the general public is that the profligate St. Nicholas is really the son Read More

How to Marry a Billionaire: A Christmas Tale

Actors: John Stamos, Joshua Malina, Shemar Moore, Gabrielle Anwar, Dorie Barton

Synopsis: This Yuletide-season TV movie reverses the standard "three girls on the make" formula of many an old 20th Century Fox movie, of which How to Marry a Millionaire is a choice example. This time out, a trio of enterprising young men decide to go on the prowl for rich wives, after first consulting a Read More

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Actors: Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, Craig Bierko, Ellen Barkin, Gary Busey

Synopsis: Terry Gilliam (Brazil, Twelve Monkeys, The Fisher King) directed this colorful, stylized, pseudo-psychedelic $21-million adaptation of the 1971 Hunter S. Thompson classic, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey into the Heart of the American Dream, about stoned sportswriter Raoul Duke, Thompson Read More

Ms. Scrooge

Actors: Cicely Tyson, Katherine Helmond, Michael Beach, John Bourgeois, Rae'Ven Larrymore-Kelly

Synopsis: In 1974, Cicely Tyson and director John Korty (The Ewok Adventure) worked together on the acclaimed The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (winner of nine Emmys), and they reteamed for this updating of Charles Dickens' 1843 classic, A Christmas Carol. When miserly banker Ebenita Scrooge (Tyson) is Read More

Liz: the Elizabeth Taylor Story

Actors: Sherilyn Fenn

Synopsis: The life of Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor is told in this made-for-television drama. Sherilyn Fenn stars as Oscar-winning actress Liz Taylor, whose career began when her mother pushed her into acting as a child in the 1940s. Her tumultuous career ups and downs, and her turbulent personal life Read More

The Spy Within

Synopsis: Alex (Theresa Russell is a government agent who trades sex for state secrets. Will (Scott Glenn) is a taciturn demolition expert troubled by a violent past. When the two find themselves being pursued by the same nefarious spy ring, bullets start flying and bedsprings start creaking. ~ Jonathan Read More

Best of Soap: Who Killed Peter

Synopsis: This collection of highlights from the satiric sitcom Soap follows the strange life and far stranger death of tennis pro and Lothario Peter Campbell (Robert Urich). Jessica Tate (Katherine Helmond), who was having an affair with Peter, is arrested after he's murdered, and she and her Read More

Best of Soap: Jessica's Wonderful Life

Synopsis: Soap, a late-'70s sitcom, ruthlessly imitates the overdramatic vices of daytime drama by creating absurd twists in plot and breaking the logic-enforced rules of dramatic writing only previously skirted by the very soap operas it parodies. Featuring famous comedic performers like Billy Crystal Read More

Inside Monkey Zetterland

Actors: Steve Antin, Patricia Arquette, Sandra Bernhard, Sofia Coppola, Bo Hopkins, Tate Donovan, Katherine Helmond

Synopsis: Actor Steven Antin wrote the screenplay, and U.S.C. film professor Jefery Levy directed this self-absorbed trifle about a self-absorbed screenwriter and his nutty family and friends. Antin plays Monkey Zetterland, an innocuous young man who is trying to work on his screenplay -- something having Read More

Amore!

Actors: Jack Scalia, Kathy Ireland, George Hamilton, Norm Crosby, Elliott Gould

Synopsis: Investment banker Jack Scalia would give anything to escape his wealthy but empty existence. He fantasizes about becoming an Italian movie star, like his idol George Hamilton. Shedding himself of his wife and job, Scalia heads to Tinseltown to realize his dream, changing his name and adopting a Read More

Grass Roots

Actors: Corbin Bernsen, Mel Harris, Reginald VelJohnson, John Glover, Katherine Helmond

Synopsis: A made for TV, two-part series, this is the story of a Southern attorney who suddenly finds himself embroiled in politics, a particularly controversial murder trial and a public battle with a vindictive journalist -- all at the same time. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Deception: A Mother's Secret

Actors: Steven Weber, Katherine Helmond, Robert Hy Gorman, Mary Page Keller, Maryann Plunkett

Synopsis: Deception: A Mother's Secret premiered as a made-for-TV effort during Thanksgiving week, 1991. There's little reason for leading man Steven Weber to offer thanks for the events which transpire in this heavy-going soap opera. Upon the death of his wife, Weber discovers that his entire marital Read More

The Perfect Tribute

Actors: Lukas Haas, Campbell Scott

Synopsis: Jason Robards, who portrayed Abraham Lincoln in a 1964 Hallmark Hall of Fame production of Abe Lincoln in Illinois, reprised the role 27 years later in the made-for-TV The Perfect Tribute. The film intertwines two separate plot threads. In one, Lincoln, plagued by the war and the conduct of his Read More

When Will I Be Loved?

Synopsis: In this comedy drama, three women meet each other in a divorce attorney's waiting room and soon become fast friends as they try to help each other through the pain of their crumbling marriages. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Lady in White

Actors: Lukas Haas, Len Cariou, Alex Rocco, Katherine Helmond, Jason Presson

Synopsis: In this supernatural nostalgia piece, a young boy tracks down a murderer with help from the ghosts of a slain little girl and her mother. In a voice-over, grown-up writer Frankie Scarlatti describes the disturbing events that intruded on his idyllic small-town boyhood. Locked in the school Read More

Save the Dog!

Synopsis: In this Disney comedy, an unemployed, destitute actress tries to save her dog after it eats too much junk food during a shoot for a dog-food commercial. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Overboard

Actors: Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Edward Herrmann, Katherine Helmond, Michael Hagerty

Synopsis: This screwball comedy casts real-life couple Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn in a film that finds the latter returning to her roots in a role reminiscent of Private Benjamin (1980). Hawn stars as Joanna Stayton, a snooty heiress who summons carpenter Dean Proffitt (Russell) to her lavish yacht, where Read More

Shadey

Actors: Antony Sher, Billie Whitelaw, Patrick Macnee, Leslie Ash, Bernard Hepton

Synopsis: This surreal British black comedy tells the tale of poor Oliver Shadey, a mechanic who longs to become a woman but lacks the money for the operation. Oliver is a talented lad and has the rare ability to read the minds of people and put their thought on film. He has the best of intentions when he Read More

Brazil

Actors: Jonathan Pryce, Michael Palin, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond

Synopsis: Brazil constitutes Terry Gilliam's enormously ambitious follow-up to his 1981 Time Bandits. It also represents the second installment in a trilogy of Gilliam films on imagination versus reality, that began with Bandits and ended in 1989 with The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. To create this wild Read More

Who's the Boss?: Season 01

Actors: Tony Danza, Judith Light, Katherine Helmond, Alyssa Milano, Danny Pintauro

Jack and the Beanstalk

Synopsis: This is one of many versions of the fairy tale about a boy who trades his family cow for magical beans and soon finds himself on an adventure in a magical land. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

World War III

Actors: Rock Hudson

Synopsis: World War III is an ambitious if unnecessarily protracted speculative TV movie. Set in a "future December," the film prophesies an American grain embargo levied on Russia. US President Rock Hudson is entreated by the Soviet higher-ups to drop the ban; meanwhile, a group of renegade Russian Read More

Rosie: The Rosemary Clooney Story

Synopsis: This for Remembrance, the autobiography of popular singer Rosemary Clooney (1928-2002), was the source for this made-for-TV biopic. Played herein by Sondra Locke, the Kentucky-born Clooney begins her career as one-half of a musical act with her sister Betty (Penelope Milford), performing at the Read More

Faerie Tale Theatre: Jack and the Beanstalk

Synopsis: An impressive cast drives this early episode of Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre. Dennis Christopher -- best known from the 1979 sleeper hit Breaking Away -- is Jack, a boy who acquires a handful of magic beans in exchange for his poor family's cow. His mother, Soap's Katherine Helmond, is Read More

For Lovers Only

Actors: Katherine Helmond, Gordon Jump, Tracy Pollan, Gary Sandy

Synopsis: The made-for-TV For Lovers Only was the pilot film for a potential series titled Honeymoon Hotel. Set in the Poconos, the story takes place in a fancy honeymoon resort managed by Vernon Bliss (Andy Griffith). Belying his name and professional, Bliss is far from Blissful, especially when bickering Read More

Time Bandits

Actors: John Cleese, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm

Synopsis: A young boy joins a group of renegade dwarves on an unpredictable journey through time in this humorous fantasy. Monty Python animator Terry Gilliam mostly achieves a tricky balancing act in his second feature as sole director, creating a dark, irreverent comedy disguised as a family adventure. Read More

Soap: Season 04

Actors: Robert Mandan, Katherine Helmond, Jennifer Salt, Jimmy Baio, Arthur Peterson

Synopsis: The death of Jessica Tate (Katherine Helmond) was the big shocker at the end of Soap's third season. So imagine everyone's surprise when, as the series launched season four, Jessica was brought back to life -- following a brief stopover in Heaven to commiserate with all her ex-lovers! In another Read More

Scout's Honor

Synopsis: In this children's movie, a single executive enjoys her life on the fast track, but when she is talked into becoming a den mother to a rambunctious pack of Cub Scouts, her life is temporarily derailed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Soap: Season 03

Actors: Robert Mandan, Katherine Helmond, Diana Canova, Jennifer Salt, Jimmy Baio

Synopsis: When Soap arrived at its cliffhanging season-two finale, Jessica Tate (Katherine Helmond) was trying to choose between her husband Chester (Robert Mandan) and a detective named Donahue; Jessica's son Billy (Jimmy Baio) was in the clutches of a religious cult called the "Sunnies"; and Jodie's Read More

Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker

Synopsis: The first "new" ABC network TV movie of the 1979-80 season, this one was advertised under the slightly more lurid title Diary of a Teenage Hitchhiker. Filmed in quasidocumentary fashion, the story chronicles the melancholy tale of rebellious, 17-year-old Trish Thurston (Katy Kurtzman), who, in Read More

Soap: Season 02

Synopsis: The cliffhanger that brought season one of Soap to a climax is resolved in season two when Jessica Tate (Katherine Helmond) is cleared of the murder of her lover (and step-nephew!) Peter Campbell. Jessica's husband, Chester (Robert Mandan), confesses to the crime whereupon he is convicted and sent Read More

Pearl

Actors: Angie Dickinson, Robert Wagner, Dennis Weaver, Lesley Ann Warren, Gregg Henry

Synopsis: Adapted by Oscar-winning screenwriter Stirling Silliphant from his own novel, the three-part, six-hour miniseries Pearl inevitably invoked memories of the strikingly similar From Here to Eternity. The focus was on three military couples living in Honolulu in and around the time of Japan's attack Read More

Getting Married

Actors: Richard Thomas, Bess Armstrong, Dena Dietrich, Fabian, Mark Harmon

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a news anchorwoman's prenuptial jitters increase dramatically when another man, a songwriter, falls deeply in love with her and decides that he would do anything to be her husband. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Soap: Season 01

Synopsis: The endless intrigues (sexual and otherwise) involving the Campbells and the Tates are already up and running as the satirical sitcom Soap launches its first season. By the time episode one has faded from view, the audience is aware that blowhard businessman Chester Tate (Robert Mandan) is Read More

Little Ladies of the Night

Actors: Linda Purl

Synopsis: Also known as Little Ladies of the Night, the story focuses on a teenager who runs away from home and finds herself in the sordid world of street-life prostitution. She gains help from a police officer, who is still connected to the underground since he formerly worked as a pimp. ~ John Bush, All Read More

Family Plot

Actors: Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, William Devane, Ed Lauter

Synopsis: Alfred Hitchcock's final film was adapted from Victor Canning's novel The Rainbird Pattern by Ernest Lehman, who previously wrote the screenplay for Hitchcock's North by Northwest. Barbara Harris plays Blanche, a phony psychic, hired by wealthy Julia Rainbird (Cathleen Nesbitt) to trace the Read More

Wanted: The Sundance Woman

Synopsis: Katherine Ross, who played Etta Place in 1969's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, reprises the role for the made-for-TV Mrs. Sundance Rides Again. History doesn't record what exactly happened to former schoolteacher Etta after Butch and Sundance were shot full of holes in Bolivia, but it isn't Read More

Baby Blue Marine

Actors: Jan-Michael Vincent, Glynnis O'Connor, Katherine Helmond, Dana Elcar, Bert Remsen

Synopsis:
In this WWII-era drama, Jan-Michael Vincent plays Marion Hedgepeth, a young Marine who fails out of a boot camp in 1943 and gets sent home wearing a baby blue suit to symbolize shame and dishonor. In Los Angeles, he runs into a veteran who -- eager to be discharged -- k.o.'s him and switches Read More

The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant

Synopsis: Conceived as the pilot for a TV series, The First 36 Hours of Dr. Durant stars Scott Hylands as the title character. The film follows the super-idealistic Durant as he assumes his residency in a big-city hospital. The young doctor clashes with practically everyone in authority, but by film's end Read More

The Family Nobody Wanted

Synopsis: Based on a true story, The Family Nobody Wanted was one of the better ABC Movie of the Week entries of the 1970s. James Olson plays a minister whose main concern is society's outcasts, particularly the youngsters. With the loving help and support of his wife (Shirley Jones), the reverend takes in Read More

James Dean: A Legend in His Own Time

Synopsis: This made-for-TV biography, based on the memoirs of onetime James Dean roommate William Bast, stars Stephen McHattie in the title role of the Hollywood rebel. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Cage Without a Key

Synopsis: Susan Dey inaugurated her long and successful campaign to shuck her Partridge Family image in the made-for-TV Cage Without a Key. Dey plays a teenager mistakenly convicted for murder (some mistake!) She is sentenced to a grim woman's penal institution straight out of a Linda Blair movie. As she Read More

The Legend of Lizzie Borden

Actors: Elizabeth Montgomery

Synopsis: "Lizzie Borden took an axe/And gave her mother forty whacks/When she saw what she had done/She gave her father forty-one". New England spinster Lizzie Borden was acquitted of the charge of murdering her father and stepmother in 1892, but this made-for-TV movie, like most recreations of the murders Read More

The Hindenburg

Actors: George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, William Atherton, Roy Thinnes, Gig Young

Synopsis: "The German Air Force is not at all what it used to be," says Anne Bancroft's Countess, about 16 minutes into The Hindenburg, pausing and then adding, "But then, nothing is these days." That seems to sum up the ponderous, irony-laden script and plot of Robert Wise's movie, which is posited -- in Read More

Locusts

Actors: Ron Howard

Synopsis: This TV-movie spin on "Lenningen vs. the Ants" not only features predatory locusts, but grasshoppers as well. The insect invasion threatens the harvest of a small rural community. Ben Johnson plays the father of one of the imperiled farm families. Ron Howard plays Johnson's son, who is considered Read More

Larry

Synopsis: The title of the book, written by Dr. Robert McQueen, upon which this TV movie was based is the tragically on-target Larry: Case History of a Mistake. Frederic Forrest stars as Larry, who for 26 years was wrongly confined in a mental institution. Diagnosed as retarded, Larry is actually possessed Read More

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Actors: Cicely Tyson, Barbara Chaney, Richard Dysart, Katherine Helmond, Michael Murphy

Synopsis: Cicely Tyson ages from 19 to 110 in the role of Jane Pittman, a fictional African-American woman whose life began in slavery and ended at the inception of the Civil Rights Movement. Northern journalist Quentin Lerner (Michael Murphy) travels to the racially polarized south of 1962 to interview Ms. Read More

The Other Woman

Synopsis: The Other Woman is Liz Cunningham (Katherine Helmond), a thirtyish librarian entangled in an affair with a married man (Joel Sabiani). When she becomes pregnant, Liz desperately wants to keep the baby. She insists upon this course of action despite the potential embarrassment for herself and her Read More

Dr. Max

Actors: Lee J. Cobb

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Dr. Max is cut from the same cloth as The Last Angry Man. Lee J. Cobb stars as a taciturn elderly doctor who chooses to work in a dingy Baltimore neighborhood and minister to those far less fortunate than themselves. His refusal to succumb to the creature comforts of a more Read More

The Bob Newhart Show: I'm Okay, You're Okay, So What's Wrong?

Actors: Bob Newhart, Suzanne Pleshette, Bill Daily, Peter Bonerz, Marcia Wallace

Synopsis: Feeling that her life and her marriage are both in a rut, Emily suggests that she and Bob go to a marriage counselor. The resistance Bob puts up toward the notion is nothing compared to his stammering hostility during the counseling session itself. Future Soap and Who's the Boss regular Katherine Helmond Read More

The F.B.I.: The Jug Marker

Synopsis: William Windom guest stars as Elias Devon, a criminal mastermind whose activities have aroused the attention of the FBI. Thanks to some clever subversion by the Feds, Devon begins to lose control of his gang members. Inspector Erskine (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) hopes that he can sow enough seeds of Read More

Believe in Me

Actors: Elizabeth Brown, Suzannah Norstrand, Barbara Thurston, Larry Weber

Synopsis: A drug addict seduces his lover into sharing his chemical joys and together they begin a wrenching downward spiral into destruction in this unflinching, well-wrought drama. Before getting hooked on speed, the woman had a successful career. But, despite the efforts of those who would help her, the Read More

The Hospital

Actors: Rehn Scofield, George C. Scott, Diana Rigg, Barnard Hughes, Nancy Marchand, Stephen Elliott

Synopsis: Directed by Arthur Hiller from the second of three Academy Award-winning screenplays by Paddy Chayefsky, The Hospital is a black comedy centering on Dr. Herbert Bock (George C. Scott), a bitter, suicidal surgeon. While patients at the hospital die left and right due to the extreme carelessness and Read More