Lyle LovettFilmography

Born:: November 1, 1957
Occupation:: Actor, Featured Music
Biography:: With his giraffe-like countenance and unusually tall haircut, American musician/actor Lyle Lovett may look like the archetypal rube, but don't be fooled: he is well educated (he earned journalism and foreign language degrees from Texas A&M), extremely articulate, and highly disciplined. Achieving...Read More

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The Open Road

Actors: Jeff Bridges, Justin Timberlake, Mary Steenburgen, Lyle Lovett, Harry Dean Stanton, Kate Mara

Synopsis: Jeff Bridges, Justin Timberlake, and Mary Steenburgen star in writer/director Michael Meredith's tale of a young man looking to reconnect with his long-lost father -- a famous athlete -- and bring him back to the bedside of his ailing mother. Lyle Lovett, Harry Dean Stanton, and Kate Mara fill out Read More

8/28/09
Remember the Alamo Concert

Synopsis: Produced, staged and directed as a tribute to The Alamo - the famous mission of San Antonio, Texas where a group of militant rebels wrought Texas's independence from Mexico - the music release Remember the Alamo Concert finds such performers as The Gipsy Kings, Lyle Lovett and Los Lobos delivering Read More

2007
Paul Simon and Friends: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song

Actors: Bob Costas, Lyle Lovett, Alison Krauss, Shawn Colvin, Jerry Douglas

Synopsis: Gershwin Prize for Popular Song performer Paul Simon is honored in this concert staged in Washington, D.C. by the Library of Congress, and featuring and unprecedented group of talented musicians. Shot in Dolby TrueHD, this multi-cultural tribute to Simon features appearances by Art Garfunkel Read More

2007
Lyle Lovett: Best of Lyle Lovett Live

Synopsis: He's one of the most respected songwriters in contemporary country music, and now Lyle Lovett performs an unforgettable collection of his best-loved songs before an appreciative live audience. Featured songs include "I've Been to Memphis", "Nobody Knows Me Like My Baby", "Funny How Time Slips Read More

2006
Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt

Crew: Featured Music

Synopsis: The celebrated singer and songwriter Steve Earle once said "Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that." Earle was hardly the only artist of note who loved Van Zandt's poetic, elliptical songs of love and Read More

12/2/05
3 Days of Rain

Actors: Don Meredith, Peter Falk, Merle Kennedy, Erick Avari, Lyle Lovett

Synopsis: Writer/director Michael Meredith's ambitious first feature, Three Days of Rain, weaves together a large number of tales, loosely based on short stories by Anton Chekhov, and set in present-day Cleveland. Thunder (Michael Santoro) is a struggling tile-maker, an artisan whose leaky roof threatens to Read More

9/30/05
Willie Nelson and Friends: Live and Kickin'

Synopsis: The man they call "The Red-Headed Stranger", Willie Nelson performs his several songs along with an eclectic lineup of musical guests in this concert release from Universal Music. Willie Nelson and Friends: Live and Kickin' features "Homeward Bound" with Paul Simon, "Me and Bobby McGee" with Read More

2005
Our Country

Synopsis: Directed by Steve Goldmann, Our Country chronicles the development of country music from its origins in the last century all the way up to modern times. This IMAX feature is packed with footage of country musicians, and includes music ranging from Jimmie Rodgers to Lyle Lovett and Dolly Parton. Read More

2003
Soundstage: Lyle Lovett with Randy Newman & Mark Isham

Actors: Lyle Lovett

Synopsis: For years singer/songwriter Lyle Lovett has been championed as one of modern country & western music's most reliable and sincere stalwarts; now fans who have yet to experience Lovett live and in person can see the next best thing as he brings his memorable act to the Soundstage. Backed by a Read More

2003
Lost Highway: The History of American Country [TV Documentary Series]

Actors: Lyle Lovett

Synopsis: One of British television's biggest hits of the 2002-2003 season, this four-part miniseries closely follows the chronology set down by Colin Escott's bestseller, The Story of Country Music. Episode one, "Down From the Mountain," recounts the emigration of the country sound from the hills of Read More

2003
The New Guy

Actors: D.J. Qualls, Eliza Dushku, Zooey Deschanel, Lyle Lovett, Jerod Mixon, Eddie Griffin

Synopsis: Former Prada model and Road Trip co-star D.J. Qualls makes a bid for leading man status in this nerd-makeover comedy. Qualls stars as Dizzy, a dorky but delinquent high school student who's determined to get expelled from his hellish high school -- but ends up landing in jail instead. There he Read More

5/10/02
Willie Nelson: Still is Still Moving

Actors: Willie Nelson

2002
Dr. T & The Women

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

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

10/13/00
Mad About You: The Final Frontier, Part 1

Actors: Louis Zorich, Cynthia Harris

Synopsis: Part one of Mad About You's series finale is set approximately 22 years in the future. Mabel Buchman (Janeane Garafolo), grown-up daughter of Paul and Jamie Buchman (Paul Reiser, Helen Hunt), follows in her dad's footsteps by producing a documentary film about her family. The starting point is the Read More

1999
Cookie's Fortune

Actors: Glenn Close, Julianne Moore, Liv Tyler, Chris O'Donnell, Charles S. Dutton

Synopsis: Robert Altman directed this bittersweet ensemble piece about an eccentric and entangled group of family and friends living in the Deep South. Jewel Mae "Cookie" Orcutt (Patricia Neal) is the widowed matriarch of a small-town Mississippi family, which includes her nieces Camille (Glenn Close), a Read More

1999
The Opposite of Sex

Actors: Christina Ricci, Martin Donovan, Lisa Kudrow, Lyle Lovett, Johnny Galecki, William Lee Scott, Ivan Sergei

Synopsis: Screenwriter Don Roos made his directorial debut with this oddball sex comedy. The tale is narrated by 16-year-old Louisiana tramp Dedee Truitt (Christina Ricci), who buries her stepfather and then heads for Indiana to visit her homosexual half-brother Bill (Martin Donovan). Recovering from the Read More

1998
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

1998
Bastard out of Carolina

Actors: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ron Eldard, Jena Malone, Glenne Headly, Lyle Lovett

Synopsis: Accomplished actress Anjelica Huston, daughter of John Huston, made her directorial debut with this absorbing, often wrenching story of child abuse in the 1950s American South. Based on a novel by Dorothy Allison, the film (narrated by Laura Dern) tells the tale of Bone (Jena Malone), a poor white Read More

1996
Mad About You: Mad About You, Part 2

Synopsis: This "very special" episode goes back in time to recount the hectic three months leading up to the wedding of Paul (Paul Reiser) and Jamie (Helen Hunt). Last minute complications include a call from Aunt Selma, a tiff over Incan gifts, and a detour to a manhole. And wait till you see who performs Read More

1995
Grammy's Greatest Country Moments

Synopsis: Some of country music's greatest stars are featured on this home video, which collects performances from two decades worth of Grammy Awards telecasts. Performers featured include Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Hank Williams Jr., the Oak Ridge Boys, Crystal Gayle Read More

1994
Prêt-à-Porter

Actors: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Julia Roberts, Tim Robbins, Kim Basinger

Synopsis: This large, sprawling comedy directed by Robert Altman concerns a variety of romantic and personal intrigues that intersect against the backdrop of Paris's annual "Pret-a-Porter" fashion extravaganza. With 31 principal characters and a number of cameos from well known models, designers, actors and Read More

1994
Willie Nelson: The Big Six-0 - An All-Star Birthday Celebration

Synopsis: For his 60th birthday, country legend Willie Nelson decided to throw a party and invite a few of his closest friends to help him celebrate. Among others appearing are Emmylou Harris, Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Neil Young, B.B. King, Paul Simon, and Waylon Jennings -- most joining Nelson on stage for Read More

1993
Short Cuts

Actors: Andie MacDowell, Tim Robbins, Bruce Davison, Chris Penn, Julianne Moore, Matthew Modine, Anne Archer, Fred Ward, Jack Lemmon, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Lili Taylor, Robert Downey, Jr., Madeleine Stowe, Lily Tomlin, Tom Waits, Frances McDormand, Peter Gallagher, Annie Ross, Lori Singer, Lyle Lovett, Buck Henry, Huey Lewis

Synopsis: Based on stories by Raymond Carver, Short Cuts follows 22 Los Angeles residents whose lives intersect over the course of a few days. Ann and Howard Finnegan (Andie MacDowell and Bruce Davison) are preparing for their son Casey's birthday party when the boy is injured in an auto accident and falls Read More

1993
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1993
The Player

Actors: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher

Synopsis: Robert Altman takes a scalpel to Hollywood ethics in the 1990s (or the lack thereof) in his acidic satire The Player, adapted from Michael Tolkin's novel. (Tolkin also wrote the screenplay.) The film concerns a sleek and smooth Hollywood studio executive who starts receiving death threats from a Read More

4/10/92
State of Grace

Crew: Featured Music

Actors: Sean Penn, Ed Harris, Gary Oldman, Robin Wright Penn, John Turturro

Synopsis: This directorial effort from Phil Joanou stars Sean Penn as an Irish-American undercover cop working the Hell's Kitchen beat. Penn is ostensibly on a sentimental journey to his old neighborhood. Actually he's been assigned to infiltrate a criminal gang led by Ed Harris, the brother of Sean's best Read More

9/14/90
Bill: On His Own

Actors: Helen Hunt, Dennis Quaid, Mickey Rooney

Synopsis: Bill: On His Own is the laudable made-for-TV sequel to the Emmy-winning 1981 film Bill. Mickey Rooney once more shines as Bill Sackter, a mentally-retarded adult struggling to survive in the mainstream. The owner of a coffee kiosk at the University of Iowa, Bill becomes disoriented when his friend Read More

1983