Kevin ConwayFilmography

Ken Burns' The War [TV Documentary Series]

Actors: Glenn Frazier, Sam Hynes, Quentin Aanenson, Jim Sherman, Earl Burke

Synopsis: Ken Burns continues his exploration of massive, sweeping subjects with his 15-hour documentary The War; in this case, the conflict in question is World War II. Yet within the scope of that gargantuan subject, Burns and co-director Lynn Novick narrow their scale of emphasis, honing in on four Read More

Trainwreck: My Life as an Idiot

Actors: Seann William Scott, Gretchen Mol, Jeff Garlin, Deirdre O'Connell, Denis O'Hare

Synopsis: A man attempts to deal with a truly remarkable variety of personal and emotional problems in this comedy drama based on the real-life experiences of comedian and author Jeff Nichols. Jeff (Seann William Scott) is a man edging into his thirties who has a serious drinking problem along with Read More

Invincible

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Greg Kinnear, Elizabeth Banks, Kevin Conway, Michael Rispoli

Synopsis: From the producers of The Rookie and Remember the Titans comes an inspirational sports drama detailing the true story of a down-on-his-luck football fan whose dreams of standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the best of the gridiron became a once-in-a-lifetime reality when he took part in an open Read More

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

Synopsis: Experience legendary boxer Jack Johnson's remarkable struggle both in and out of the ring in documentary filmmaker Ken Burns' two-part look at the career of one of the sports world's most remarkable athletes. From his childhood in Galveston, TX, as the son of former slaves to his triumph as the Read More

Gods and Generals

Actors: Kevin Conway, Robert Duvall, Stephen Lang, Jeff Daniels, Mira Sorvino, Bruce Boxleitner

Synopsis: Director Ron Maxwell and producer Ted Turner return to the glory and tragedy of the Civil War in this historical drama, a prequel to Gettysburg, which examines the early days of the conflict through the experiences of three men. Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (Jeff Daniels) left behind a quiet Read More

Black Knight

Actors: Martin Lawrence, Tom Wilkinson, Marsha Thomason, Vincent Regan, Kevin Conway

Synopsis: Screenwriter Darryl Quarles follows up his smash hit Big Momma's House (2000) with another raucous Martin Lawrence collaboration. Lawrence stars as Jamal Walker, an employee at a medieval-themed mini-golf course who wakes up in 14th century England after a blow to the head. Jamal has soon allied Read More

Dark Angel: Designate This

Synopsis: Back for a second season (and moving to a new night and time slot), Dark Angel picks up where the season one cliffhanger left off. Recaptured by Manticore, the sinister organization which created her, genetically engineered Max Guevara (Jessica Alba) valiantly resists being reprogrammed as a Read More

Ken Burns' Mark Twain, Part 2

Synopsis: The newest project from the master of documentaries deals with the life of author Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), one of America's most beloved writers and historical characters from the 19th century. Ken Burns worked for nearly three years and drew from 100 hours of filmed material and hundreds of Read More

Ken Burns' Mark Twain, Part 1

Actors: Kevin Conway

Synopsis: The newest project from the master of documentaries deals with the life of author Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), one of America's most beloved writers and historical characters from the 19th century. Ken Burns worked for nearly three years and drew from 100 hours of filmed material and hundreds of Read More

Ken Burns' Mark Twain [TV Documentary Series]

Actors: Kevin Conway, Keith David

Synopsis: In the tradition of his previous "living histories" The Civil War and Baseball, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns assembled this fascinating two-part miniseries devoted to the life and career of legendary American humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), better known as Mark Twain. The first Read More

The Outer Limits: Season 07

Actors: Kevin Conway

Synopsis: The world may have been utterly obliterated at the end of the sixth season of Showtime's The Outer Limits, but this didn't mean that the venerable science fiction-fantasy anthology was out of business. No sooner had the series left the Showtime schedule than it was picked up by a rival cable Read More

Thirteen Days

Actors: Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, Steven Culp, Dylan Baker, Michael Fairman

Synopsis: Director Roger Donaldson teams up with star Kevin Costner for another political thriller (after their 1987 pairing, No Way Out), only this time with a film based on the actual events surrounding the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, taking place during the titular thirteen days wherein the U.S. and Read More

Two Family House

Actors: Michael Rispoli, Kelly MacDonald, Kathrine Narducci, Kevin Conway, Matt Servitto

Synopsis: Raymond De Felitta directs this warm, colorful tale about a blue collar dreamer who gets more than he bargained for after buying a two-family house. Set during the 1950s in Staten Island, the film charts the financial failures of Buddy (Michael Rispoli), a nice-guy entrepreneur who has perpetual Read More

The Outer Limits: Season 06

Actors: Kevin Conway

Synopsis: Showtime's admirable revival of the classic science fiction-fantasy anthology The Outer Limits launches its sixth season with the episode "Judgement Day," starring comic actor Chris Elliott in a rare serious role. Elliott is but one of the many major guest stars showing up this season: others Read More

Sally Hemings: An American Scandal

Actors: Sam Neill, Carmen Ejogo, Diahann Carroll, Mare Winningham, Mario Van Peebles

Synopsis: This miniseries details the complex real-life relationship between Thomas Jefferson (Sam Neill), author of the Declaration of Independence and his slave Sally Hemings (Carmen Ejogo). Fuelled by recent DNA evidence of the Hemings-Jefferson relationship, the miniseries sidesteps much of Jefferson's Read More

The Unknown Civil War: Gettysburg - Irish Soldiers

Actors: Kevin Conway

Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony

Actors: Sally Kellerman, Ronnie Gilbert, Julie Harris, Amy Madigan, Adam Arkin

Synopsis: Upon finding a written biography of pioneering women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, film producers Paul Barnes and Ken Burns (director of "The Civil War") were shocked and outraged that her story -- which is also that of Stanton's longtime friend and political partner Susan B. Anthony Read More

The Outer Limits: Season 05

Actors: Kevin Conway

Synopsis: If sheer longevity is any indication, Showtime's full-color revival of the classic '60s sci-fi-fantasy anthology The Outer Limits was infinitely more popular than its predecessor. Whereas the original series expired after a mere season and a half, the new version was still going strong as it Read More

Mercury Rising

Actors: Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin, Miko Hughes, Chi McBride, Kim Dickens

Synopsis: In this action-suspense thriller, orphaned nine-year-old autistic savant Simon (Miko Hughes) deciphers a government code hidden in a puzzle magazine. Calling for his prize, Simon triggers an alarm at the National Security Agency: NSA chief Nicholas Kudrow (Alec Baldwin), who says the code protects Read More

Stargate SG-1: Message in a Bottle

Synopsis: Arriving on a dead planet, the SG-1 team finds an ancient artifact, which emits strange elecromagnetic signals. The team brings the artifact back to earth through Stargate, only to discover that they are transporting a self-destructive alien virus, one that grows more powerful and dangerous with Read More

The Outer Limits: Season 04

Actors: Kevin Conway

Synopsis: Gary Cole tops the cast in "Criminal Nature," the opening volley of The Outer Limits' fourth season on the Showtime cable network. Other guest stars of note appearing this season include Doug Savant (Desperate Housewives) in "The Hunt," Melissa Gilbert in "Relativity Theory," Lou Diamond Phillips Read More

The Outer Limits: Season 03

Actors: Kevin Conway

Synopsis: It was during the third season of Showtime's revival of The Outer Limits that the new series surpassed its '60s namesake in longevity. Whereas the original Outer Limits lasted only 49 episodes, the new version reached episode number 50 with "Dark Rain" -- and there were still 104 episodes to come! Read More

Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery

Actors: Adam Arkins, Murphy Guyer, Sam Waterston, Matthew Broderick, Kevin Conway

Synopsis: This Ken Burns documentary, narrated by Hal Holbrook, chronologically traces the well-documented 1804-06 military expedition of Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) and Lt. William Clark (1770-1838) to survey newly acquired lands and seek a Northwest Passage. Ordered by Thomas Jefferson (who labeled it Read More

Lawnmower Man 2: Jobe's War

Actors: Patrick Bergin, Matt Frewer, Austin O'Brien, Ely Pouget, Kevin Conway

Synopsis: A young boy and a brilliant scientist attempt to thwart an evil cyber-villain's attempts to take over the world in this inferior sequel to the 1992 sci-fi adventure The Lawnmower Man. Former Max Headroom star Matt Frewer replaces Jeff Fahey in the title role of Jobe, the mentally challenged Read More

The Outer Limits: Season 02

Actors: Kevin Conway

Synopsis: The second season of Showtime's revival of the classic paranormal anthology The Outer Limits is ushered in with the episode "A Stitch in Time," starring Amanda Plummer in the tale of a time-hopping scientist who utilizes futuristic technology to capture contemporary criminals. Subsequent season Read More

Law & Order: Corruption

Synopsis: Kevin Conway guest stars as police lieutenant John Flynn who, while on a stakeout with Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Curtis (Benjamin Bratt), kills a suspected drug dealer. The subsequent Internal Affairs investigation results in friction at the NYPD when Curtis refuses to testify that the dead man Read More

Calm at Sunset

Actors: Michael Moriarty, Peter Facinelli, Kevin Conway, Kate Nelligan, Christopher Orr

Synopsis: Filmed on location in Nova Scotia, the made-for-TV Calm at Sunset is a "generation-gap" story with an unusual twist. Instead of causing his family heartbreak by refusing to follow in his dad's footsteps, the protagonist disappoints his family by insisting on being just like his dad. Fisherman Read More

The Outer Limits: Season 01

Actors: Kevin Conway

Synopsis: The first season of Showtime's revival of the vintage sci-fi-fantasy anthology The Outer Limits kicks off with the two-part "The Sandkings," co-starring Beau Bridges and his father Lloyd Bridges in the story of a foolhardy scientist who smuggles Martian embryos into his home. Other prominent guest Read More

Homicide: Life on the Street: Heartbeat

Actors: Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Reed Diamond, Isabella Hoffman, Clark Johnson

Synopsis: The sudden exhumation of the remains of a person who was obviously walled up alive reopens a ten-year-old unsolved crime. Howard (Melissa Leo) and Munch (Richard Belzer) follow the trail of clues to a fanatical devotee of Edgar Allan Poe (this is, after all, in Baltimore). Elsewhere, the entire Read More

Net Worth

Actors: Aidan Devine, Al Waxman, Kevin Conway

Synopsis: This inspirational sports drama tells how Detroit Red Wings star Ted Lindsay stood up to the National Hockey League to prevent them from further exploiting the players. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Streets of Laredo

Actors: James Garner, Alexis Cruz, Sam Shepard, Sissy Spacek

Synopsis: This miniseries follows the original Lonesome Dove miniseries, and both are based on the characters created by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry. Although much of the cast has changed from the original, the compelling saga is as satisfying as ever. The Western tale continues with the Read More

The Quick and the Dead

Actors: Roberts Blossom, Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobin Bell

Synopsis: Director Sam Raimi brings his trademark comic book-influenced visual panache to this post-modern Western. Sharon Stone stars as Ellen, a mysterious female gunslinger who arrives in the frontier hamlet of Redemption for a contest pitting quick-draw artists against each other. The event is the Read More

The Outer Limits [TV Series]

Actors: Kevin Conway

Synopsis: Thirty years after the cancellation of the landmark science fiction-fantasy anthology The Outer Limits, the property was revived in a full-color, state-of-the-art version by cable's Showtime network. Debuting March 26, 1995, the new Outer Limits emulated the old by utilizing a narrator known only Read More

The Man Upstairs

Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Ryan O'Neal

Synopsis: Produced for television, George Schaefer's comedy-drama casts Katharine Hepburn as Victoria Brown, a sharp-tongued spinster who discovers petty thief Moony Polaski (Ryan O'Neal) hiding out in her attic. Instead of calling the police, Victoria befriends her guest, even as the manhunt for him Read More

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Rightful Heir

Synopsis: Guest star Kevin Conway is cast as Kahless, a legendary, godlike Klingon warrior who has apparently returned from the dead. Making up for lost time, Kahless declares his intention of defying the Federation and restoring the Klingon empire. Caught in the middle is Lt. Worf, who must now choose Read More

Gettysburg

Actors: Martin Sheen, Jeff Daniels, Tom Berenger, Stephen Lang, Richard Jordan

Synopsis: The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara becomes this sprawling historical epic. As in Shaara's novel, director Ronald Maxwell focuses on a handful of major players to dramatize the events of July 1863, when the armies of the Union and Confederacy clash at the small Read More

Jennifer Eight

Actors: Andy Garcia, Uma Thurman, Lance Henriksen, Kathy Baker, Graham Beckel, Kevin Conway

Synopsis: Stressed out LA detective John Berlin gets too near the edge following the destruction of his marriage and decides to leave the violence an un-ending hub-bub of the big city and take a job in the supposedly quiet northern tow of Eureka. Unfortunately, he isn't there long before he finds himself Read More

Breaking the Silence

Actors: Stephanie Zimbalist, Chris Young

Synopsis: Frequent TV-movie costars Stephanie Zimbalist and Gregory Harrison are teamed once more in Breaking the Silence. Harrison plays a lawyer defending a teenager (Chris Young) accused of murdering his father. As the boy details a lengthy history of abuse at the hands of his father, Harrison flashes Read More

Rambling Rose

Actors: Laura Dern, Robert Duvall, Diane Ladd, Lukas Haas, John Heard

Synopsis: Rambling Rose is the most part a flashback, related by grown-up Southerner Buddy Hillyer (John Heard). The bulk of the film takes place in 1935, when rambunctious backwoods housekeeper Rose (Laura Dern) virtually invades the Hillyer household. Daddy Hillyer (Robert Duvall), a bed-rock Southern Read More

One Good Cop

Actors: Michael Keaton, Rene Russo, Anthony LaPaglia, Kevin Conway, Rachel Ticotin

Synopsis: An honest man struggles to do the right thing, even if it means breaking the law, in this drama. Artie Lewis (Michael Keaton) is a scrupulously ethical cop who believes in his work, loves his wife Rita (Rene Russo), and stands by his partner Stevie Diroma (Anthony LaPaglia). Stevie is a single 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

Homeboy

Actors: Mickey Rourke, Christopher Walken, Debra Feuer, Thomas Quinn, Kevin Conway

Synopsis: Johnny Walker (Mickey Rourke) is a punch-drunk and alcoholic cowboy pugilist who gives boxing one last shot in Asbury Park, New Jersey. He meets Wesley Pendergrass (Christopher Walken), the smooth-talking hood who tries to talk Johnny into helping in the heist of a jewelry store. Johnny considers Read More

Jesse

Actors: Lee Remick, Scott Wilson, Kevin Conway, Leon Rippy, Priscilla Lopez

Synopsis: This fact-based TV movie is an account of a small-town nurse who is arrested for caring for her desert neighbors without a medical license. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Saint-Gaudens: Masque of the Golden Bowl

Synopsis: Augustus Saint Gaudens was a celebrated sculptor of the American Renaissance. Assembling quotes and letters from the artist's contemporaries and Saint Gaudens himself, Saint Gaudens: Masque of the Golden Bowl profiles the artist's life and body of work. Shot in Boston, New Hampshire, and New York Read More

Thomas Eakins: A Motion Portrait

The Sun and the Moon

Crew: Director

Actors: Mila Burnette, Joaquim de Almeida, José Ferrer, Maria Norman, Kevin Conway

Synopsis: This independently-produced feature concerns a New York woman (Mila Burnette) who's fed up with her marriage and her life. Leaving her comfortable mid-town environs, she takes up residence in the far less attractive South Bronx. Here she falls in love with a Puerto Rican attorney (Joaquim de Almeida Read More

Attack on Fear

Synopsis: Attack on Fear was based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning series of newspaper articles by Dave and Cathy Mitchell. Paul Michael Glaser and Linda Kelsey play the Michaels, who labor away at a tiny California daily. Upon hearing of iniquities at the famed Santa Monica drug-rehab center Synanon, the Read More

Something About Amelia

Actors: Ted Danson, Glenn Close, Roxana Zal

Synopsis: First offered as an ABC Theatre presentation on January 9, 1984, Something About Amelia stars Ted Danson in an "against type" role to end them all. Danson is the well-to-do, loving husband of Glenn Close, and the doting father of teenager Roxanne Zal. Zal's mother can't understand why the girl has Read More

Flashpoint

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Treat Williams, Rip Torn, Kevin Conway, Kurtwood Smith, Tess Harper

Synopsis: Bob Logan (Kris Kristofferson) and Ernie Wyatt (Treat Williams) are freewheeling U.S. border patrol officers in a tiny Texas town. Though they're "oil and water" in terms of personality, they're a dynamite team on the job. Coming across a million dollars in stolen money, their relationship Read More

Rage of Angels

Synopsis: Another two-part TV movie from the pen of novelist Sidney Sheldon, Rage of Angels stars Jaclyn Smith as attractive lawyer Jennifer Parker. While working as assistant D.A., Parker is targeted for persecution by organized crime, but she perseveres and emerges as one of the most successful defense Read More

The Elephant Man

Synopsis: This TV adaptation of Bernard Pomerance's play The Elephant Man differs radically from the 1980 theatrical film of the same name. Both are based upon the same true story: that of John Merrick (1863-1890), an unfortunate citizen of Victorian England who suffered from neurofibromatosis, a hideously Read More

The Funhouse

Actors: Elizabeth Berridge, Cooper Huckabee, Miles Chapin, Largo Woodruff, Sylvia Miles

Synopsis: This low-budget horror film about teenagers trapped in a carnival funhouse with a freakish monster is pretty standard stuff. Director Tobe Hooper manages a few shocks and includes some typically peculiar supporting characters, but this film is less entertaining than either of his previous Read More

The Lathe of Heaven

Actors: Kevin Conway

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Ursula K. LeGuin, The Lathe of Heaven is a special-effects lover's smorgasbord. Set in futuristic Portland, Oregon, the film stars Bruce Davidson as a man prone to fantastic dreams. When these dreams start coming true, only Davidson at first is aware of it: "my dreams changed Read More

The Scarlet Letter

Actors: Meg Foster

Synopsis: This production closely follows Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter. In Boston, shortly after its founding in 1630, the Puritan citizenry order Hester Prynne (Meg Foster), a beautiful young woman, to wear a scarlet letter "A" (signifying "adulteress") on her dress for life after Read More

F.I.S.T.

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Rod Steiger, Peter Boyle, Melinda Dillon, David Huffman

Synopsis: F.I.S.T. is author Norman Jewison's chronicle of an innocent and idealistic young man corrupted by power and success as seen through the rise of the United States labor movement. Sylvester Stallone plays a Jimmy Hoffa-inspired figure who rises through the union ranks during turbulent labor times. Read More

Paradise Alley

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Kevin Conway, Anne Archer, Armand Assante, Joe Spinell, Lee Canalito

Synopsis: Film auteur Sylvester Stallone wrote, directed, and stars in this re-working of Rocky to fit an old-fashioned Hollywood formula, depicting three brothers from New York's Hell's Kitchen of the 1940s who want to claw their way out of poverty. Lee Canalito is the muscle-brained iceman Victor, and Armand Assante Read More

Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye

Synopsis: Made for television, Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye is based on the bestseller by Kenneth P. O'Donnell, David F. Powers and Joe McCarthy. The film is set in 1946: Paul Rudd plays 29-year-old John F. Kennedy, fresh out of the Navy and preparing for his first campaign for public office in Boston. He Read More

The Deadliest Season

Synopsis: The title of the made-for-TV The Deadliest Season obscures the fact that this is a film about hockey. Michael Moriarty stars as a popular defenseman whose take-no-prisoners approach to the game results in the serious--and ultimately fatal--injury of another player. Moriarty is outwardly blase Read More

Shamus

Actors: John Glover, Tony Amato Jr., Jimmy Kelly, Lou Martell, Burt Reynolds, Dyan Cannon, John Ryan, Joe Santos, Georgio Tozzi

Synopsis: This detective-themed action-adventure film spoofs The Big Sleep, which was based on the novel by Raymond Chandler. Burt Reynolds plays McCoy, a hard-nosed private detective. The story has more tangles than a bowl of spaghetti, but it begins when McCoy is called to the house of Hume (Ron Weyand) Read More

Slaughterhouse-Five

Actors: Michael Sacks, Ron Leibman, Eugene Roche, Sharon Gans, Valerie Perrine

Synopsis: "Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time." These opening words of Kurt Vonnegut's famous novel make an effective and short summary of a haunting, funny film. For the screen, director George Roy Hill faithfully renders Vonnegut's black anti-war comedy about Pilgrim (well played in a low key by Michael Sacks Read More

Portnoy's Complaint

Actors: Richard Benjamin, Karen Black, Lee Grant, Jack Somack, Jeannie Berlin

Synopsis: Screenwriter Ernest Lehman, whose credits include the screenplays for North by Northwest, Sabrina, West Side Story, and The Sweet Smell of Success, made a less than distinguished debut as a director with this adaptation of Philip Roth's controversial novel about Alexander Portnoy (Richard 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