Len CariouFilmography

The Onion Movie

Actors: Len Cariou

Synopsis: America's most popular satirical newspaper makes the leap from the printed page to the silver screen in this political comedy that explores what happens when journalistic integrity is compromised by corporate sensibility. Onion News anchorman Norm Archer (Len Cariou) is s principled journalist, so Read More

Flags of Our Fathers

Actors: Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, John Benjamin Hickey, John Slattery

Synopsis: Clint Eastwood's adaptation of the non-fiction book Flags of Our Fathers concerns the lives of the men in the famous picture of soldiers raising the American flag over Iwo Jima during that historic WWII battle. Battle scenes are intercut with footage of three of the soldiers - played by Ryan Read More

Boynton Beach Club

Actors: Dyan Cannon, Brenda Vaccaro, Sally Kellerman, Joseph Bologna, Len Cariou

Synopsis: A handful of men and women "of a certain age" pick up the pieces of their lives and look for new love after the loss of their mates in this comedy drama from writer-director Susan Seidelman. Jack (Len Cariou) married his high school sweetheart when they were still in their teens, and when she dies Read More

Brotherhood: Season 01

Actors: Jason Clarke, Jason Isaacs, Annabeth Gish, Fionnula Flanagan, Ethan Embry, Kevin Chapman, Stivi Paskoski, Fiona Erickson

The Greatest Game Ever Played

Actors: Shia LaBeouf, Stephen Dillane, Josh Flitter, Peyton List, Elias Koteas

Synopsis: The true story of an upset victory that helped change the sport of golf forever provides the basis for this period drama. Francis Ouimet (played by Shia LaBeouf) was born in 1893 to a working-class family in Massachusetts, and grew up fascinated by golf. However, at that time golf was considered a Read More

Secret Window

Actors: Johnny Depp, John Turturro, Maria Bello, Timothy Hutton, Charles S. Dutton

Synopsis: From writer/director David Koepp (Stir of Echoes) comes this filmed adaptation of Stephen King's novella Secret Window, Secret Garden, one of four stories in the collection Four Past Midnight. Johnny Depp stars as Mort Rainey, a recently divorced author who decides to take some time off at his Read More

About Schmidt

Actors: Jack Nicholson, Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney, Kathy Bates

Synopsis: Jack Nicholson plays retiring insurance actuary Warren Schmidt in Alexander Payne's About Schmidt. Schmidt has settled into a dormant life. He has an unfulfilling marriage to Helen (June Squibb), and conspires to spend as much time away from her as possible. Schmidt's daughter Jeannie (Hope Davis) 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

Nuremberg

Actors: Alec Baldwin, Jill Hennessy, Brian Cox, Michael Ironside, Matt Craven

Synopsis: This TNT miniseries stars Alec Baldwin as Robert Jackson, the Supreme Court justice who served as the head prosecutor for the war crimes tribunal that took place in Nuremberg after the horrors of WWII and the Holocaust. The film follows Jackson from his preparations for the trial to the outcome of Read More

Border Line

Synopsis: Executive-produced by actor Anthony Edwards, the made for TV Border Line is a showcase for Edwards' ER costar Sherry Stringfield, cast as attorney and single mom Allison Westlin. As the representive of the LA-based Fuller Adoption Agency, Allison has never had any reason to question the integrity Read More

Star Trek: Voyager: Coda

Actors: Roxann Dawson

Synopsis: Two members of the crew of the Voyager discover themselves revisiting the past in different ways (but with the same awful results) in this episode of the sci-fi television series Star Trek: Voyager. Capt. Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) and Chakotay (Robert Beltran) are on a shuttle craft which is Read More

Executive Decision

Actors: Kurt Russell, Halle Berry, John Leguizamo, Steven Seagal, Oliver Platt

Synopsis: In this action thriller, a group of Islamic terrorists, led by Nagi Hassan (David Suchet), highjacks a 747 jetliner with 400 passengers aboard, but Lt. Col. Austin Travis (Steven Seagal), a United States intelligence agent, is convinced that this isn't an ordinary case of air piracy. His Read More

Law & Order: Aftershock

Synopsis: Detectives Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Curtis (Benjamin Bratt) and lawyers McCoy (Sam Waterston) and Kincaid (Jill Hennessy) are among the witnesses at an execution. Each witness reacts to the spectacle in a different manner, ranging from the married Curtis' brief tête-à-tête with a graduate Read More

A Brother's Promise: The Dan Jansen Story

Actors: Matt Keeslar, Jayne Brook, Len Cariou

Synopsis: Matthew Keelar stars in this drama based on the true-life story of Dan Jansen, who strives to keep the pledge he made to his sister on her death bed by winning the Olympic gold medal in speed skating. The cast also includes Len Cariou and Jayne Brook. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More

The Man in the Attic

Actors: Anne Archer, Len Cariou

Synopsis: Based on a true story from 1910, this made-for-television movie tells the story of a teen who is hidden in an attic by his older lover. Anne Archer stars as Krista Heldmann, the bored housewife of a factory owner (Len Cariou). After the death of her son, Krista takes comfort by spending time with Read More

Derby

Never Talk to Strangers

Actors: Rebecca De Mornay, Antonio Banderas, Dennis Miller, Len Cariou, Harry Dean Stanton

Synopsis: A beautiful but reserved criminal psychiatrist must deal with the obsessive stalking of a dangerous killer in this erotically charged thriller. The film's central tension emerges from the relationship between Dr. Sarah Taylor (Rebecca DeMornay), a highly professional psychologist, and a handsome Read More

Getting In

Actors: Kristy Swanson, Andrew McCarthy, Stephen Mailer, Dave Chappelle, Matthew Perry

Synopsis: An attempted black comedy, Getting In endeavors to satirize the cut-throat competition surrounding the medical school admissions process -- a struggle that in this case literally turns deadly. Gabriel Higgs is an aspiring medical student, not out of a great dedication to his craft but due to Read More

Witness to the Execution

Actors: Sean Young, Tim Daly, Len Cariou, George Newbern, Dee Wallace

Synopsis: Like the feature film Network (1976), this made-for-television drama scathingly satirizes an amoral, avaricious media. The story is set in 1999, a time the pay-per-view television industry is in a tailspin. It seems with over 500 available channels, audiences have become jaded with movies and Read More

Love on the Run

Law & Order: Conduct Unbecoming

Synopsis: Logan (Chris Noth) and Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) run up against a "wall of brass" when they investigate the death of a female Navy officer, who was last seen alive at a wild party. The detectives' only witness is Ensign Evan Walters (Michael Dolan), who claims that he can remember nothing of the Read More

The Sea Wolf

Actors: Charles Bronson

Synopsis: This is a '90s version of the classic Jack London story about the steel-willed captain of a seal-hunting ship who wrangles with a rough-neck crew. Charles Bronson plays Captain Wolf Larsen. Some of the sea scenes were actually taken from the 1941 version of the tale (with Edward G. Robinson) and Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Sugar & Spice, Malice & Vice

Synopsis: Len Cariou is back as Michael Hagarty, semi-retired British secret agent and longtime friend of Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury). On this occasion, Hagarty is distressed that his estranged daughter (Kim Johnston Ulrich) has become engaged to a young man engaged in questionable business practices Read More

Miracle on I-880

Synopsis: Based on the 1989 earthquake that rocked San Francisco, this is the true story of the rescue workers who at their own peril tried to free the people trapped under a collapsed highway. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Kurt Vonnegut's Monkey House

Synopsis: This made-for-cable-TV anthology is comprised of four provocative tales from one of America's most famous idealistic cynics, Kurt Vonnegut. The stories are "All The King's Horses," "Next Door," "The Euphio Question," and "Fortitude." ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The List of Yuri Lermentov

Synopsis: Len Cariou makes his first series episode in nearly two years in the recurring role of suave and slightly untrustworthy British secret agent Michael Hagarty (formerly "Haggerty", at least according to the TV Guide listings). This time Hagarty is in Washington at the same time that his old friend Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Sicilian Encounter

Synopsis: Season Six of Murder She Wrote closes with an episode centering around the exploits of Jessica Fletcher's (Angela Lansbury) erstwhile friend, suave British secret agent Michael Haggerty (Len Cariou). On assignment in Sicily, Haggerty poses as a monsignor to crack a case involving a caddish fortune Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Appointment in Athens

Synopsis: The sixth-season opener of Murder She Wrote takes place in Athens, where mystery writer Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) is reunited with suave but inherently untrustworthy British secret agent Michael Haggerty (Len Cariou). In order to help Haggerty rescue a kidnapped fellow spy, Jessica 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

Murder, She Wrote: J.B. ...as in Jailbird

Synopsis: In the fifth-season opener of Murder She Wrote, mystery writer and amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury), who has sent so many murderers to prison in the past, finds herself behind bars with a murder rap hanging over her head. Naturally, Jessica is innocent: she merely witnessed the Read More

Killer in the Mirror

Synopsis: In this murder mystery, one twin sister assumes the identity of the other after she is killed in a boating accident. She does not realizes that the dead twin held a fatal secret. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder, She Wrote: One White Rose for Death

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) heads to Washington to attend a special concert performed by an Eastern Bloc orchestra. Before long, Jessica is kidnapped and swept into a maelstrom of intrigue involving a pair of defecting musicians and a murdered British intelligence agent. The man behind Jessica's Read More

There Were Times, Dear

Actors: Shirley Jones, Len Cariou, Cindy Eilbacher, Dana Elcar, Alan Haufrect

Synopsis: This excellent docudrama is an affecting dramatization of the decline of an Alzheimer's victim and the emotional and psychological toll his fatal illness takes on his family. Bob Millard (Len Cariou) is an active outdoorsman, he is strong and healthy and vibrant with life when the symptoms of Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Widow, Weep for Me

Synopsis: The opening episode of Murder She Wrote's second season marks the first occasion in which matronly mystery writer and amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) assumes a different identity in the cause of justice. Summoned to a Caribbean resort by a desperate letter from her old friend Read More

Surviving

Actors: Ellen Burstyn, Len Cariou, Zach Galligan, Marsha Mason

Synopsis: Originally telecast in a three-hour network slot, Surviving is virtually two films in one. In the first 90 minutes, we see the identity crises and outside pressures that propel a "normal" teenaged boy (Zach Galligan) and a "disturbed" teenaged girl (Mollie Ringwald) into committing suicide Read More

Louisiane

Actors: Margot Kidder, Ian Charleson, Victor Lanoux, Andréa Ferréol, Lloyd Bochner

Synopsis: This epic story about a Louisiana plantation owner trying to hold on to her estate before, during, and after the American Civil War, a place ironically called "Bagatelle," rides on the illustrious fame of Tara and its more famous mistress in another Southern state. Virginia Tregan (Margot Kidder) Read More

Madame X

Actors: Tuesday Weld, Edward Anhalt, Jerry Stiller

Synopsis: The 1981 TV version of Madame X was the seventh filmization of the old war-horse play by Alexandre Bisson. This time around, Tuesday Weld (replacing Susan Blakely) plays the poor woman (an airline stewardess in this version) who marries "outside her class" (hubby is a Presidential candidate). She Read More

The Four Seasons

Actors: Alan Alda, Carol Burnett, Len Cariou, Sandy Dennis, Rita Moreno

Synopsis: The Four Seasons follows the trials and tribulations of a group of middle-aged friends during a 12-month period. Alan Alda (who also directed) and Carol Burnett play a married couple who consider themselves paragons of sensitivity and sensibility. Alda and Burnett are the instigators of a series Read More

Who'll Save Our Children?

Synopsis: Based on Rachel Maddux' book The Orchard Children, this still-timely 1978 TV movie stars Shirley Jones and Len Cariou as the foster parents of two "cast-off" children. After several years, Shirley and Len press to legally adopt the kids. But the natural parents (Cassie Yates and David Hayward) Read More

A Little Night Music

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Diana Rigg, Len Cariou, Hermione Gingold, Lesley-Anne Down

Synopsis: Beginning its several incarnations as an Ingmar Bergman film named Smiles of a Summer Night, the story was adapted by composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim into a successful Broadway musical directed by Harold Prince. This film, also directed by Prince, is adapted from the stage musical. In the Read More

One Man

Actors: Len Cariou, August Schellenberg

Synopsis: In this socially conscious drama, a TV journalist begins investigating a large factory that has been threatening the health of the children who live in the town's poorest, most polluted section. Because of his investigation, he and his family are threatened by company thugs. He gets no help from Read More

Drying up the Streets

Synopsis: In this socially conscious Canadian drama, a drug enforcement team battles corruption and violence on the street in hopes of saving women from grim lives of prostitution. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

MLB: 1996 World Series - NY vs. Atlanta

Synopsis: Yankee fans in particular and baseball fans in general will find something to love in this documentary of seven special days in October 1996. The Atlanta Braves and the New York Yankees were more than contenders for the World Series, more than opposing teams: they were the heart and soul of the Read More