Lee GrantFilmography

Going Shopping

Actors: Victoria Foyt, Rob Morrow, Lee Grant

Synopsis: Director Henry Jaglom once again casts his quirky gaze on a common female obsession in this comedy drama. Holly (Victoria Foyt) owns a small and upscale boutique in Santa Monica, and has just learned that her accountant and significant other, Adam (Bruce Davison), has betrayed her -- even worse Read More

A Father... A Son... Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: The rich legacy of cinema legend Kirk Douglas is explored in Academy Award-winning actress and documentary-filmmaker Lee Grant's illuminating look at the personal side of a Hollywood royalty. With roles in such indisputable Hollywood classics as Spartacus, Kirk Douglas achieved the kind of Read More

The John Garfield Story

Actors: Julie Garfield

Synopsis: According to this made-for-cable documentary, stage and film star John Garfield set the standard for naturalistic acting that blazed the trail for such future "method" types as Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro. Lovingly narrated by Garfield's actress daughter, Julie Garfield, the film details the Read More

Mulholland Dr.

Actors: Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, Laura Elena Harring, Ann Miller, Dan Hedaya

Synopsis: David Lynch wrote and directed this look at two women who find themselves walking a fine line between truth and deception in the beautiful but dangerous netherworld of Hollywood. A beautiful woman (Laura Elena Harring) riding in a limousine along Los Angeles' Mulholland Drive is targeted by a Read More

The Amati Girls

Actors: Mercedes Ruehl, Paul Sorvino, Cloris Leachman, Sean Young, Dinah Manoff

Synopsis: This family drama by actress and first-time director Anne DeSalvo centers around four adult sisters who are forced to re-evaluate their situations after tragedy strikes. The oldest of the clan, Grace (Mercedes Ruehl), is called upon to be the tower of strength, even though she is widely perceived Read More

Intimate Portrait: Lee Grant

The Omen Legacy

Actors: Harvey Bernhard, Richard Donner, David Seltzer

Synopsis: From the makers of The Alien Saga comes The Omen Legacy, an AMC documentary covering all four films in the thrilling series on the coming of the antichrist. The special follows the filmmakers as they break box-office figures with the first film, only to see each one after become more commercially Read More

Dr. T & The Women

Actors: Richard Gere, Helen Hunt, Farrah Fawcett, Laura Dern, Shelley Long

Synopsis: Director Robert Altman reteams with Cookie's Fortune scribe Anne Rapp for this tale of a Dallas gynecologist and the parade of anxious patients, haggard family members, and potential love interests who come his way. Richard Gere plays the titular role of Dr. Sullivan Travis, a calm, successful Read More

Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Sydney Poitier's talent and sheer magnetism in such films as In the Heat of the Night and Raisin in the Sun broke color barriers during the height of segregation and permanently rearranged racial politics in America. This PBS documentary charts Poitier's life and career from his humble origins as Read More

Say It, Fight It, Cure It

Crew: Director

Actors: Rosie O'Donnell

Synopsis: Directed by actress Lee Grant, this powerful 90-minute documentary focuses on various breast-cancer survivors in the United States. Among the people represented herein are a mother and two daughters, all suffering from cancer. But the film's most poignant moment belongs to host-narrator Rosie Read More

The Substance of Fire

Actors: Ron Rifkin, Sarah Jessica Parker, Tony Goldwyn, Timothy Hutton, Ronny Graham

Synopsis: In this adaptation of a stage play by Jon Robin Baitz, a successful head of a New York publishing firm unravels after the death of his wife. Isaac Geldhart (Ron Rifkin) is a German Jewish survivor of the Holocaust who has been emotionally scarred by the traumas of his childhood, during which he Read More

It's My Party

Actors: Eric Roberts, Gregory Harrison, Lee Grant, Marlee Matlin, Paul Regina

Synopsis: In this bittersweet comedy drama, a man nearing the end of his life seeks closure with his family and friends, and he confronts the issues of the right to die. Nick Stark (Eric Roberts) is a successful architect who is openly gay. He was involved in a committed relationship with Brandon Theis (Gregory Harrison Read More

The Young Kennedy Women

Synopsis: The Young Kennedy Women is a biographical portrait of the women of one of America's most well-known political families. With family photographs, interviews, and home movies, the documentary chronicles the public and private lives of the "next generation" of Kennedy women. Caroline Kennedy, Maria Shriver Read More

Following Her Heart

Crew: Director

Actors: Ann-Margret, George Segal, Brenda Vaccaro, Alexandra Powers, Sandra Reaves-Phillips

Synopsis: Ann-Margret stars as a recently widowed woman who pursues her dream of becoming a country singer by heading to Nashville on a bus tour. ~ Carly Wray, All Movie Guide Read More

Under Heat

Actors: Lee Grant, Robert Knepper, Omar Rodriguez, David Conrad, Dan Desmond

Synopsis: This gay melodrama is based on a novel by Michael David Brown and is centered around AIDS of which the filmmaker Peter Reed died. Dean is 36 and recently diagnosed as HIV positive. He has come home to tell his mother and his older brother Milo. Dean's father committed suicide 20 years earlier; his Read More

Seasons of the Heart

Crew: Director

Actors: Carol Burnett, George Segal, Malcolm McDowell, Eric Lloyd, Jill Teed

Synopsis: After her own daughter abandons her child, an ambitious and orderly publisher has little choice but to raise the grandchild as her own. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Reunion

Crew: Director

Actors: Marlo Thomas, Peter Strauss, Frances Sternhagen, Courtney Chase, Matthew Kelly, Leelee Sobieski

The Wild West [TV Documentary Series]

Synopsis: A ten-part series of some 3500 photos, sketches, and paintings of myths of the American West between the end of the Civil War to 1900. Includes first-person narratives, anecdotes, newspaper accounts, journals, and letters covering Buffalo Bill Cody, Calamity Jane, Wild Bill Hickok, Bat Masterson Read More

Earth and the American Dream

Actors: Mel Gibson, E.G. Marshall

Synopsis: This exhaustive treatment of the roots of environmental destruction in the modern world has come in for scathing criticism from those spearheading the "environmental backlash" movement, which is composed largely of rabidly pro-corporate thinkers and those who take "pure" capitalism as their Read More

Something to Live For: The Alison Gertz Story

Actors: Molly Ringwald

Synopsis: Something to Live For: The Alison Gertz Story was one of a myriad of early 1990s TV movies centering around the AIDS issue. Molly Ringwald stars as Alison Gertz, an upscale Manhattanite who thinks she knows her way around. Still, Alison conducts an "unprotected" one-night affair, which results in Read More

In My Daughter's Name

Actors: Donna Mills, Lee Grant, John Rubinstein, Adam Storke, John Getz

Synopsis: Following an temporary insanity acquittal of her daughter's rapist and murderer, a mother goes after the criminal. ~ All Movie Guide 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

Defending Your Life

Actors: Albert Brooks, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn, Lee Grant, Buck Henry

Synopsis: Albert Brooks wrote, directed, and stars in this philosophical comedy about a man having a hard time making a case for himself in the afterlife. When advertising executive Daniel Miller (Albert Brooks) finds himself in a fatal car crash minutes after taking delivery on a new BMW, he's whisked away Read More

Cindy Eller

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This is a modern-day retelling of the Cinderella fairy tale. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

She Said No

Actors: Veronica Hamel, Judd Hirsch, Lee Grant

Synopsis: The acting of its stars saves She Said No from the "lurid dreck" category. Judd Hirsch is a successful but utterly amoral attorney who rapes Veronica Hamel. She sues, but he uses his legal expertise to walk free. Then Hirsch turns around and sues Hamel for slander (or for libel, depending on Read More

Staying Together

Crew: Director

Actors: Sean Astin, Stockard Channing, Melinda Dillon, Jim Haynie, Levon Helm

Synopsis: After winning an Academy Award for their documentary Down and Out in America (1986), actress-director Lee Grant and her producer-husband Joseph Feury filmed this comedy-drama based on an original script by playwright Monte Merrick. In a small Southern town, the McDermott family has owned and Read More

No Place Like Home

Crew: Director

Actors: Christine Lahti, Jeff Daniels, Kathy Bates, Anne Pitoniak, Scott Marlowe

Synopsis: Written with heartbreaking attention to detail by Ara Watson and Sam Blackwell, No Place Like Home was one of the first TV movies to direct itself to the plight of the homeless. Jeff Daniels plays a Pittsburgh apartment superintendent and aspiring electrician who loses his job--and his home--when Read More

The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro

Synopsis: In this crime drama, based on the true story of Leon and Marilyn Klinghoffer, from 1985, terrorists attempt to hijack a luxury cruise ship in the Mediterranean. The attempt resulted in the death of a handicapped passenger. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Big Town

Actors: Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, Tommy Lee Jones, Bruce Dern, Lee Grant

Synopsis: The Big Town is Chicago, circa 1957. Matt Dillon stars as a small-town crapshooter who heads to the Windy City to seek his fortune. There he becomes the pawn of two high-rolling professional gamblers, played by Lee Grant and Bruce Dern. He later gets mixed up in a revenge scheme cooked up by Diane Lane Read More

Arriving Tuesday

Actors: Judy McIntosh, Peter Hayden, Rawiri Paratene, Heather Bolton, Lee Grant

Synopsis: In a drama from New Zealand that addresses prejudices against its Maori population, Monica (Judy McIntosh) comes home to her live-in boyfriend Nick (Peter Hayden) after a long absence in Europe. The two have a hard time getting along, so she talks Nick into taking a vacation on the beach and the Read More

Nobody's Child

Crew: Director

Actors: Ray Baker, Marlo Thomas

Synopsis: Marlo Thomas fully justifies her star status in the made-for-television Nobody's Child. Ms. Thomas portrays the real-life Marie Balter, a Massachusetts woman consigned to a mental hospital after a suicide attempt at age 16. For the next 20 years, Marie is and out of the institution, mostly under Read More

Down and Out in America

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Actress and director Lee Grant returns to documentary filmmaking with this award-winning look at a cross-section of luckless Americans and the societal factors that contributed to their impoverishment. During an hour of diverse footage, narrated by Grant, Down and Out in America examines a group Read More

What Sex Am I?

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this informative documentary (an unusual approach to looking at the nature of sexual identity), director Lee Grant interviews several Americans who have undergone sex-change operations. As of 1985, about 2500 Americans a month undergo operations that transform them from male to female, or Read More

Mussolini: The Untold Story

Actors: George C. Scott, Lee Grant, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Virginia Madsen, Raul Julia

Synopsis: The story in this two-part TV biopic was probably "untold" mainly because it was untrue. According to the revisionist script by Stirling Silliphant, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini (overplayed by George C. Scott) may have been a fascist, a tyrant, a mass murderer and an intimate of Adolf Hitler Read More

Cindy Eller: A Modern Fairy Tale

Crew: Director

Actors: Kyra Sedgwick, Pearl Bailey, Melanie Mayron, Kelly Wolf, Jennifer Grey

Synopsis: This updated version of Cinderella is set in the New York of the 1980s. A very young Kyra Sedgwick stars as Cindy Eller, a shy and awkward teenager burdened with a seemingly insensitive stepmother and two attractive, trendy, and overbearing stepsisters (one of whom is played by Jennifer Grey!). Read More

Billions for Boris

Synopsis: While glued to his TV, Boris (Scott Tiler) discovers that his set is dispensing news bulletins from the future. Armed with foreknowledge, he begins betting heavily on all sorts of games of chance, from horse races to lotteries. Naturally, this is far too good to last. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Read More

A Matter of Sex

Crew: Director

Actors: John W. Carroll, Peter Dvorsky

Synopsis: A Matter of Sex is the calculatedly misleading title of a based-on-fact TV movie, which originally bore the more suitable title Women of Willmar. In 1976, the women working in a bank in Willmar, Minnesota become incensed because less-qualified men are being promoted over them. Head teller Jean Stapleton Read More

Trial Run

Actors: Judith Gibson, Christopher Brown, Stephen Tozer

Synopsis: In this slow-paced (until the end), low-budget thriller with an excellent cast, Rosemary (Annie Whittle) is a normal mother involved in cross-country racing, who decides to leave her husband and two older children for six months to live in a remote section of the New Zealand coast, photographing Read More

Teachers

Actors: Nick Nolte, JoBeth Williams, Judd Hirsch, Ralph Macchio, Lee Grant

Synopsis: Arthur Hiller directed this satiric look at contemporary urban high schools, examining disillusioned teachers who try to regain their idealism. Nick Nolte stars as Alex, a teacher at John Fitzgerald Kennedy High School, who was once an idealistic teacher but whose main concern now is sobering up Read More

Constance

Actors: Donough Rees, Shane Briant, Judie Douglass, Martin Vaughan, Donald MacDonald

Synopsis: In this drama from New Zealand, Donough Rees plays Constance, a school teacher bored with routine of her daily life. Constance loves movies and sometimes escapes into a rich fantasy life where she's a world-famous screen star. Constance begins trying to bring a bit of the glamour and excitement of Read More

Will There Really Be a Morning?

Synopsis: Based on the autobiography of actress Frances Farmer, Will There Really Be a Morning? was originally telecast on February 22, 1983 -- only a few months after the "rival" Farmer biopic Frances hit movie-theatre screens. Whether Susan Blakely is superior to Frances' Jessica Lange is open to debate. Read More

Visiting Hours

Actors: Michael Ironside, Lee Grant, Linda Purl, William Shatner, Harvey Atkin

Synopsis: A crazed, women-hating killer (Michael Ironside) rapes and brutalizes journalist Deborah Ballin (Lee Grant). When he discovers that his attack didn't kill Deborah, he comes to the hospital to finish what he started. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Bare Essence

Actors: Bruce Boxleitner, Linda Evans, Genie Francis, Lee Grant, Joel Higgins

Synopsis: The perfume business is dramatized in this soap opera-like made-for-television movie. Based on the novel by Meredith Rich, Genie Francis (who played the infamous Laura on General Hospital) stars as Tiger Hayes, a woman who decides to start her own fragrance company. Typical soap dramas abound in Read More

Thou Shalt Not Kill

Synopsis: In this drama, an attorney tries to prove that his incarcerated client is indeed innocent of murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Million Dollar Face

Actors: Gayle Hunnicutt, Lee Grant

Synopsis: The expensive face of the title belongs to Sylvia Kristel, who actually levies a price of $2.5 million upon the fictional cosmetics firm of Glamour Inc. Ms. Kristel's story is but one of the many intrigues within the hallowed halls of Glamour. Tony Curtis stars as the company's CEO, beset with Read More

The Willmar 8

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Director Lee Grant has put together an incisive and clear documentary on eight women who went out on strike against their employer - a bank in Willmar, Minnesota. The women were not only passed over for managerial positions, they were required to train the all-male managerial staff who would be Read More

For Ladies Only

Actors: Gregory Harrison, Lee Grant

Synopsis: Gregory Harrison breathes some humanity into his two-dimensional character in For Ladies Only. Harrison plays an unsuccessful actor who decides to bank on his awesome physique to survive. He becomes a $100-per-night exotic dancer at a ladies-only nightclub. For those female fans who can get past Read More

Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen

Actors: Peter Ustinov, Lee Grant, Angie Dickinson, Richard Hatch, Brian Keith

Synopsis: Peter Ustinov plays the talented detective in San Francisco who attempts, with help/hindrance from his clumsy grandson (Richard Hatch), to solve a murder case in this mystery/comedy. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Tell Me a Riddle

Crew: Director

Actors: Melvyn Douglas, Lila Kedrova, Brooke Adams, Lili Valenty, Dolores Dorn

Synopsis: Featuring Lila Kedrova and Melvyn Douglas as elderly couple Eva and David who, after forty years of a less-than-satisfying marriage, find the lost love they once had for each other as they travel to San Francisco to visit their grandchildren. Actress Lee Grant's first directorial feature, this Read More

Little Miss Marker

Actors: Walter Matthau, Julie Andrews, Tony Curtis, Bob Newhart

Synopsis: Screenwriter Walter Bernstein made his directorial debut with Little Miss Marker, a re-make of the Damon Runyon story that has been filmed many times before (most notably as Little Miss Marker with Shirley Temple, Sorrowful Jones starring Bob Hope, and the Tony Curtis vehicle 40 Pounds of Read More

Backstairs at the White House

Actors: Leslie Uggams, Olivia Cole, Louis Gossett, Jr., Robert Hooks, Leslie Nielsen

Synopsis: Based on the best-selling memoirs of Lillian Rogers Parks, the NBC miniseries Backstairs at the White House traces over five decades of American political history as witnessed from the vantage point of the servants' quarters. Played by Tania Johnson as a teenager and by Leslie Uggams as an adult, Lillian Rogers Parks Read More

When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?

Actors: Candy Clark, Marjoe Gortner, Stephanie Faracy, Lee Grant, Hal Linden

Synopsis: When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? has been presented often as a stage play by amateur theatrical groups. Evangelist-turned-actor Marjoe Gortner plays Teddy, a cracked Vietnam vet who holds the denizens of a Texas roadside diner hostage at gunpoint. Candy Clark plays Cheryl, his zoned-out hippie Read More

You Can't Go Home Again

Damien: Omen II

Actors: William Holden, Lee Grant, Jonathan Scott-Taylor, Robert Foxworth, Lew Ayres, Lucas Donat

Synopsis: Satan's son comes of age in this horror sequel. Shortly after the events of The Omen, a pair of anthropologists uncovers an ancient crypt that depicts the face of the Antichrist -- that of Damien Thorn (Jonathan Scott-Taylor), recently orphaned scion of a wealthy industrialist. Before they can Read More

The Mafu Cage

Actors: Lee Grant, Carol Kane, Will Geer, James Olson

Synopsis: In this combination of domestic melodrama and offbeat suspense flick, an astronomer must shoulder the burden of caring for and sleeping with her mentally ill sister after their anthropologist father dies in Africa. Ellen (Lee Grant) and Cissy (Carol Kane) share a possibly incestuous relationship Read More

The Swarm

Actors: Michael Caine, Katharine Ross, Richard Widmark, Richard Chamberlain, Olivia de Havilland

Synopsis: Killer bees migrate to the United States from Africa via South America in this disaster film produced and directed by the genre's chief architect, Irwin Allen, and written by Stirling Silliphant, scribe of The Poseidon Adventure. Haughty entomologist Brad Crane (Michael Caine) shows up at a secret Read More

The Good Doctor

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Marsha Mason, Ed Asner

Synopsis: Jack O'Brien directed this 1978 televised production of Neil Simon's The Good Doctor. Adapted by Simon from a collection of stories by Russian author and playwright Anton Chekhov, the play features several characters all portrayed by the same six actors. The performers are Edward Asner, Bob Dishy Read More

Airport '77

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Lee Grant, Brenda Vaccaro, Joseph Cotten, Olivia de Havilland

Synopsis: Stretching the Airport concept as far as it will go, this third film in the series sticks a jet full of old actors 50 feet underwater in the Bermuda Triangle. Oxygen (and credibility) grows short, and Jimmy Stewart plays an art collector targeted for a heist. Jack Lemmon is the unfortunate pilot Read More

The Spell

Synopsis: This made-for-television thriller centers on a fat teenage girl who gets gruesome revenge upon her tormentors after she discovers that she has a special ability to cause terrible accidents with her mind. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Voyage of the Damned

Actors: Faye Dunaway, Max von Sydow, Oskar Werner, Malcolm McDowell, Orson Welles

Synopsis: Often described as "Ship of Fools with a conscience," Voyage of the Damned is based on a true story. In 1939, the Nazis ostentatiously loaded a luxury liner with hundred of Jewish refugees from all walks of life. The ship then tried to drop anchor in Havana, Cuba-only to have its passengers Read More

Perilous Voyage

Synopsis: In this actioner, a rebel leader hijacks a boat and holds the passengers hostage in the hopes of beginning a coup. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Shampoo

Actors: Howard Hesseman, Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn, Lee Grant, Jack Warden, Carrie Fisher

Synopsis: A frankly adult comedy about the sex lives of the aimless and the rich, Shampoo is also a pointed commentary on the demise of 1960s idealism at the dawn of the Nixon era. It is Election Day, 1968, and randy Beverly Hills hairdresser George Roundy (Warren Beatty) is too worried about attending to Read More

Man Trouble

Synopsis: Man Trouble is comprised of four episodes from the 1975 TV series Fay. Lee Grant plays Fay, a middle-aged divorcee determined to make it on her own--and never mind the remonstrations of ex-husband Joe Silver and her prudish daughter Margaret Willock. Fay astounds her family by announcing she's Read More

The Internecine Project

Actors: Ralph Ball, Geoffrey Burridge, Ray Callaghan, Carrie Kirstein, Judy Robinson, Brian Tully

Synopsis: James Coburn stars as Robert Eliot, an opportunistic entrepreneur destined to become a key Presidential advisor -- if his murky past isn't brought to light first. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

What Are Best Friends For?

Synopsis: In this comedy, a jealous wife tosses her husband out of the house after he spends the night at the home of a friend. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Partners in Crime

Synopsis: Partners in Crime was the second attempt by Richard Levinson and William Link to create a TV series featuring a female ex-judge and male ex-con: the first was 1971's The Judge and Jake Wyler. This time, Lee Grant is the former jurist turned sleuth, while Lou Antonio is the onetime prisoner turned Read More

Lieutenant Schuster's Wife

Actors: Eartha Kitt

Synopsis: Lee Grant plays Mrs. Schuster, wife of a recently murdered Manhattan cop. Lt. Schuster died under a cloud, with intimations that the killing was orchestrated by criminals with whom the Lieutenant was chummy. Mrs. Schuster is forced to vindicate her husband, and to try to emotionally reassemble 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

For the Use of the Hall

Crew: Director

Actors: Susan Anspach, Barbara Barrie, George Furth, David Hedison, Aline MacMahon

The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker

Actors: Richard Benjamin, Joanna Shimkus, Elizabeth Ashley, Adam West, Patricia Barry

Synopsis: A man who can't stop looking at other women finds that it might cost him his marriage in this farcical comedy. William and Lisa Alren (Richard Benjamin and Joanna Shimkus) are a young married couple whose relationship has begun to go stale. Bored and looking for diversion, William begins spying Read More

Columbo: Ransom for a Dead Man

Actors: Peter Falk, Lee Grant

Synopsis: Peter Falk revived his Lieutenant Columbo characterization, first seen in 1967's Prescription: Murder, for the made-for-TV Ransom for a Dead Man. Lee Grant plays a wily lawyer who murders her husband, then arranges to make it appear that he's been kidnapped. The plan is to allow the body to be Read More

Plaza Suite

Actors: Walter Matthau, Maureen Stapleton, Barbara Harris, Lee Grant, Louise Sorel

Synopsis: It is not uncommon for actors to double and triple in roles while appearing in the "omnibus" plays of Neil Simon. Plaza Suite was the first film version of a Simon play to carry over the multiple-role device to the screen. Walter Matthau appears in all three one-act playlets comprising Plaza Read More

The Landlord

Actors: Beau Bridges, Lee Grant, Diana Sands, Marki Bey, Pearl Bailey, Louis Gossett, Jr.

Synopsis: Wealthy, insensitive young Beau Bridges buys an inner-city tenement, planning to evict the present occupants and construct a luxury home for himself. But once he ventures into the tenement, he grows quite fond of the low-income ethnic types who dwell within. He even kicks over the traces of his Read More

Night Slaves

Synopsis: James Franciscus and his wife Lee Grant take a vacation in a faraway, fogbound village. Before we get a chance to ask "Why not go to the beach?" Franciscus awakens suddenly in the middle of the night to see several of the villagers compliantly boarding trucks; among these glassy-eyed passengers is Read More

There Was a Crooked Man

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, Hume Cronyn, Warren Oates, Burgess Meredith

Synopsis: An offbeat 1970s black-comic Western with an all-star cast, this Joseph L. Mankiewicz film is set in 1883 in Arizona. Paris Pitman, Jr. (Kirk Douglas) is the leader of a band of outlaws that steals $500,000 from a wealthy businessman named Lomax (Arthur O'Connell). The other gang members die in a Read More

A Love to Remember

Synopsis: The results of a vicious practical jokes emerge during college. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

The Neon Ceiling

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Neon Ceiling top-bills Gig Young as a disenfranchised gentlemen who operates a remote desert gas station/diner. Enter Lee Grant, who has driven into the desert with daughter Denise Nickerson in hopes of escaping a bad marriage. Young resents their presence and is as rude as Read More

Marooned

Actors: Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen, James Franciscus, Gene Hackman, Lee Grant

Synopsis: In this tense and suspenseful science fiction thriller, Charles Keith (Gregory Peck) is the ground commander in Houston who monitors the space mission of three astronauts. Buzz (Gene Hackman), Jim (Richard Crenna) and Clayton (James Franciscus) have their lives put in jeopardy when the oxygen Read More

The Big Bounce

Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Leigh Taylor-Young, Van Heflin, Lee Grant, James Daly

Synopsis: Jack Ryan (Ryan O'Neal) is a cucumber picker who is fired after a fight with a Mexican-American (Victor Paul) co-worker. He finds work on a ranch owned by Ray Ritchie (James Daly). Soon his private secretary Nancy (Leigh Taylor-Young) is after Jack. She spends her free time in pursuit of hedonism Read More

Mission: Impossible: The Diplomat

Actors: Peter Graves, Barbara Bain, Martin Landau, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

Synopsis: Unable to recover valuable documents concerning America's missile system, the IMF must resort to a contingency plan. In order to convince enemy agents that the documents are worthless, Phelps and his cohorts work hand in glove with Susan Buchanan (Lee Grant), the wife of an American diplomat. Mrs. Read More

Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Shelley Winters, Phil Silvers, Peter Lawford, Telly Savalas

Synopsis: Gina Lollobrigida delivers a bright comic turn in Melvin Frank's farce concerning Carla, an Italian woman who, during World War II, had affairs with three American soldiers who served in the U.S. Army Air Force -- Phil Newman (Phil Silvers), Justin Young (Peter Lawford), and Walter Braddock (Telly Savalas Read More

In the Heat of the Night

Actors: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant, James Patterson, Scott Wilson

Synopsis: The winner of the 1967 Oscar for Best Picture (as well as four other Oscars), In the Heat of the Night is set in a small Mississippi town where an unusual murder has been committed. Rod Steiger plays sheriff Bill Gillespie, a good lawman despite his racial prejudices. When Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier Read More

Deadlock

Synopsis: This 60-minute drama was originally telecast May 17, 1967 on The Bob Hope Chrysler Theatre. Lee Grant plays Virginia Cloyd, the widow of notorious criminal. Early one morning, Virginia calmly walks into a police precinct office--armed with a pistol and vial of nitroglycerine. In a measured voice Read More

Ironside: Eat, Drink and Be Buried

Synopsis: Advice columnist Francesca Kirby (Lee Grant) is being plagued by death threats and attempts on her life, prompting Francesca's old friend Ironside (Raymond Burr) to offer his protection. It turns out that there are several people in San Francisco who'd probably prefer to see Francesca dead, among Read More

Divorce American Style

Actors: Dick Van Dyke, Debbie Reynolds, Jason Robards, Jr., Jean Simmons, Van Johnson

Synopsis: An unhappy couple discover breaking up really is hard to do in this satiric comedy. Richard Harmon (Dick Van Dyke) and his wife, Barbara (Debbie Reynolds), are a typical married couple in American Suburbia -- which is to say they're not very happy with each other. After 15 years together, Richard Read More

Valley of the Dolls

Actors: Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, Paul Burke, Sharon Tate, Tony Scotti

Synopsis: A cinematic take on a 1960s best-seller, Valley of the Dolls traces the ups and downs of three young women as fame, booze, pills, and men consume their lives. Well-bred, small-town Anne Welles (Peyton Place star Barbara Parkins) arrives in New York eager for fame but settles for a job assisting Read More

An Affair of the Skin

Synopsis: This episodic drama is set in New York and chronicles the sexual lives and difficulties of three people as they describe their romantic woes. One is an aging fashion model who clings to her young lover because she knows that she will never have another. Two others are married, unhappy, and totally Read More

Pie in the Sky

Actors: Lee Grant, Richard Bray, Michael Higgins

Synopsis: In this modern parable of middle-American values, a nine-year-old boy leaves behind the family farm for a few very instructive days in New York. A disagreement with his father sends Brill (Richard Bray) hitching to New York City to seek his fortune. After arriving in Manhattan, he falls in with a Read More

The Fugitive: Taps for a Dead War

Synopsis: He may be calling himself Bob Davies, but Richard Kimble (David Janssen) is recognized as fugitive from justice by a fellow Korean war veteran, Joe Hallop (Tim O'Connor). Unbeknonst to Kimble. Hallop had saved his life during the war--only to be crippled and disfigured in the process. Out of Read More

The Balcony

Actors: Shelley Winters, Peter Falk, Lee Grant, Peter Brocco, Jeff Corey

Synopsis: The denizens of a sordid brothel become embroiled in a bloody coup in this arty political satire adapted from the Jean Genet play. Shelley Winters stars as the cathouse's madam, a stern woman who supervises the fantasy role-playing of her beautiful employees and their well-heeled customers Read More

Middle of the Night

Actors: Kim Novak, Fredric March, Glenda Farrell, Albert Dekker, Martin Balsam

Synopsis: Scripter Paddy Chayevsky altered his successful stageplay for this routine cinematic version of Middle of the Night, emphasizing the self-centered interests of the relatives and friends who surround Jerry Kingsley (Fredric March). Jerry is a widower, a lonely but successful clothing manufacturer Read More

Storm Fear

Actors: Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Dan Duryea, Lee Grant, David Stollery

Synopsis: Much of this gripping crime drama takes place in a remote New England farm house owned by the brother of a bank robber. The crook is mortally wounded during his last heist and suddenly shows up seeking shelter. The brother reluctantly harbors the fugitive and his henchmen. Time passes and the Read More

Detective Story

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Lee Grant, Bert Freed, George Macready, Cathy O'Donnell

Synopsis: Sidney Kingsley's Broadway play Detective Story was praised for its realistic view of an event-filled day in a single police precinct station. The film, directed by meticulous taskmaster William Wyler, manages to retain this realism, even allowing for the star-turn performance of Kirk Douglas. A Read More

When Women Kill

Crew: Director

Synopsis: When Women Kill is a poignant documentary exploring the shocking violence that seven women fell victim to at the hands of men. The program profiles the battered women who speak frankly about the cruel abuse, threats, and fears, and the overassertive men who led them down a one-way path to death Read More